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New #review today: "#EllingUlvestad is a songwriter from the Planet Earth who leads a band called #Molo. Several years ago, I wrote about the album Earthsongs, and now we have the band’s second album, This Is Earth. The primary feature of the new album is that the quality of the songwriting remains at the same high level — these are just good songs presented with relatively few extraneous frills." #ExposeOnline #ApollonRecords #SingerSongwriter http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/molo-this-is-earth-2.html

#ThrowbackThursday review from 1995: "A Dutch quartet of guitar, bass, drums and woodwinds, this is #Blast's second release (the first being the hopelessly obscure Puristsirup from 1993), and the first for #CuneiformRecords. While their music is ostensibly rock based, they seem to pull more than their share of influence from the more recent proponents of #ChamberRock' the early abstractions of #HenryCow..." #ExposeOnline #AvantProgressive http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/blast-wire-stitched-ears-3.html

#ThrowbackThursday review from 1995: "A Dutch quartet of guitar, bass, drums and woodwinds, this is #Blast's second release (the first being the hopelessly obscure Puristsirup from 1993), and the first for #CuneiformRecords. While their music is ostensibly rock based, they seem to pull more than their share of influence from the more recent proponents of #ChamberRock' the early abstractions of #HenryCow..." #ExposeOnline #AvantProgressive http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/blast-wire-stitched-ears-3.html

#ThrowbackThursday review from 1995: "A Dutch quartet of guitar, bass, drums and woodwinds, this is #Blast's second release (the first being the hopelessly obscure Puristsirup from 1993), and the first for #CuneiformRecords. While their music is ostensibly rock based, they seem to pull more than their share of influence from the more recent proponents of #ChamberRock' the early abstractions of #HenryCow..." #ExposeOnline #AvantProgressive http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/blast-wire-stitched-ears-3.html

#ThrowbackThursday review from 1995: "A Dutch quartet of guitar, bass, drums and woodwinds, this is #Blast's second release (the first being the hopelessly obscure Puristsirup from 1993), and the first for #CuneiformRecords. While their music is ostensibly rock based, they seem to pull more than their share of influence from the more recent proponents of #ChamberRock' the early abstractions of #HenryCow..." #ExposeOnline #AvantProgressive http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/blast-wire-stitched-ears-3.html

#ThrowbackThursday review from 1995: "A Dutch quartet of guitar, bass, drums and woodwinds, this is #Blast's second release (the first being the hopelessly obscure Puristsirup from 1993), and the first for #CuneiformRecords. While their music is ostensibly rock based, they seem to pull more than their share of influence from the more recent proponents of #ChamberRock' the early abstractions of #HenryCow..." #ExposeOnline #AvantProgressive http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/blast-wire-stitched-ears-3.html

New #review today: "#Chafouin (translation: Sly) is a French experimental noise-pop-rock trio (though sometimes a duo and sometimes a quartet), but when the band leader #lAustral decided to expand to an octet, he rechristened the band #ChafouinOrchestra, and this is their self-titled debut. Any listener who dares is in for some kind of wild ride!" #ExposeOnline #AvantProgressive #minimalism http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/chafouin-orchestra-chafouin-orchestra-3.html

New #review today: "#Chafouin (translation: Sly) is a French experimental noise-pop-rock trio (though sometimes a duo and sometimes a quartet), but when the band leader #lAustral decided to expand to an octet, he rechristened the band #ChafouinOrchestra, and this is their self-titled debut. Any listener who dares is in for some kind of wild ride!" #ExposeOnline #AvantProgressive #minimalism http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/chafouin-orchestra-chafouin-orchestra-3.html

New #review today: "#Chafouin (translation: Sly) is a French experimental noise-pop-rock trio (though sometimes a duo and sometimes a quartet), but when the band leader #lAustral decided to expand to an octet, he rechristened the band #ChafouinOrchestra, and this is their self-titled debut. Any listener who dares is in for some kind of wild ride!" #ExposeOnline #AvantProgressive #minimalism http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/chafouin-orchestra-chafouin-orchestra-3.html

New #review today: "#Chafouin (translation: Sly) is a French experimental noise-pop-rock trio (though sometimes a duo and sometimes a quartet), but when the band leader #lAustral decided to expand to an octet, he rechristened the band #ChafouinOrchestra, and this is their self-titled debut. Any listener who dares is in for some kind of wild ride!" #ExposeOnline #AvantProgressive #minimalism http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/chafouin-orchestra-chafouin-orchestra-3.html

New #review today: "#Chafouin (translation: Sly) is a French experimental noise-pop-rock trio (though sometimes a duo and sometimes a quartet), but when the band leader #lAustral decided to expand to an octet, he rechristened the band #ChafouinOrchestra, and this is their self-titled debut. Any listener who dares is in for some kind of wild ride!" #ExposeOnline #AvantProgressive #minimalism http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/chafouin-orchestra-chafouin-orchestra-3.html

New #review today: "The new #Pinhdar album, Comfort in the Silence, the third #FruitsDeMerRecords release by the Italian duo, finds Cecilia and Max refining the distinctive sound they have been developing over the past several years. Their blend of #TripHop, #DreamPop, #DarkWave, #NewWave, and electronica feels more assured and cohesive than ever, with rich atmospheric textures providing the foundation for Cecilia's crystal-clear, emotionally resonant vocals." #ExposeOnline #ElectronicMusic http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/pinhdar-comfort-in-the-silence-6.html

New #review today: "Back on their 2012 album A Little Bit of Big Bonanza, #BushmansRevenge covered #SonnySharrock’s “As We Used to Sing,” and that gives us a good idea where they get their idea of jazz from. On Ah, les Vaches! they carry on in the same basic vein they’ve been mining for as long as I’ve been aware of them. At one end of the spectrum, they play loose, noisy #jazz in Sharrock’s idiom, and at the other, they drift off into effects-laden atmospheric haze." #ExposeOnline #AvantJazz #KarismaRecords #IsItJazzRecords http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/bushmans-revenge-ah-les-vaches-2.html

#ThrowbackThursday #reviews from 1998: "For the first time in who knows how long, the Ozrics really surprised me with this one. While still undeniably #OzricTentacles in every way, they have pushed further into territories they have always hinted at before, namely dance, electronica, #JazzFusion, and spacey ambient." #ExposeOnline #SpaceRock #ElectronicMusic http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/ozric-tentacles-curious-corn-2.html

New #review today: "With #HadalSherpa's fourth full-length release Mountains, the Finnish quartet returns to the heavy world-influenced rock that made their second album Void Weaver such a standout, a purely instrumental style that meets somewhere at the crossroads of the ripping heady power jam sound as it crosses from Morocco to Istanbul." #ExposeOnline #ProgressiveRock #SpaceRock http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/hadal-sherpa-mountains-3.html

New review: "#Sarvaega demonstrate that #DoomMetal can still be dark, heavy, and atmospheric without sacrificing dynamics, melody, or emotional impact." #ExposeOnline #GothRock #progressiveRock #ProgressiveMetal http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/sarvaega-postumo-6.html

New #review today: "#Abyssian makes its Exposé debut with Let Me Die under the Stars, a release that arrived accompanied by an intriguing promo sheet describing a world of submerged civilizations, Atlantean mysteries, ancient aliens, and Sumerian mythology." #ExposeOnline #GothRock http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/abyssian-let-me-die-under-the-stars-6.html

New #review today: "As a budding keyboard player in the 70s, I really loved the sound of an overdriven #HammondOrgan I heard in bands like #DeepPurple and #UriahHeep, and it’s obvious that a lot of other people did too — and still do. #Gjenferd is a band from Bergen that’s a shining example of a modern band with that classic sound as their primary influence." #ExposeOnline #PsychedelicRock #ClassicRock #OrganRock http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/gjenferd-black-smoke-rising-2.html

New #review today: "These nine tracks by #DavidHelpling and #ScottReich embrace a gentle, pastoral feel, often soft and dreamy, highlighted by powerful melodies and subtle rhythmic exchanges amid sophisticated harmonic movement, an overall sound that might easily lend itself to ambient soundtrack work, completely instrumental." #ExposeOnline #ElectronicMusic #AmbientMusic #SpottedPeccaryRecords http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/david-helpling-scott-reich-through-the-thought-horizon-3.html

New #review today: "#EdgarFroese, #ChristopherFranke, and #PeterBaumann may not be associated with #TangerineDream any longer, but the current incarnation of the ground convened at The Barbican in London on 7 October 2024 to pay homage to the classic album." #ExposeOnline #ElectronicMusic http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/tangerine-dream-50-years-of-phaedra-at-the-barbican-2.html

New #review today: "With #MikeJohnson’s solo debut, fans of #AvantProgressive rock have a lot to celebrate. Johnson is, of course, the driving force behind all those wonderful #ThinkingPlague albums, and The Gardens of Loss has many qualities in common with those, starting with #ElaineDiFalco’s vocals. Johnson’s compositional sense is entirely intact, only expanded with more diverse instrumentation." #ExposeOnline #CuneiformRecords #ProgressiveRock #ChamberRock http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/mike-johnson-the-gardens-of-loss-2.html

New #review today: "#EblenMacari's Un Producto de los Sesentas was originally released in 1981, and it’s a thoroughly engaging album which richly deserves this reissue on #AzafránMedia. Macari’s guitar work is the star here, sometimes in lovely solo pieces, but also as a component of more elaborate arrangements involving extra guitars, keyboards, strings, and percussion." #ExposeOnline #ProgressiveRock #ChamberRock http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/eblen-macari-un-producto-de-los-sesentas-2.html

New #review today: "#Moonsoon's East of Asteroid is a solidly enjoyable album in the general category of #PinkFloyd inflected modern prog, which means it takes more from Wish You Were Here and Animals than it does from the earlier or later Floyd albums. But #HelgeNyheim and collaborator #DanielHauge also draw from other sources, such as Yes by way of recent bands like Dobbeltgjenger." #ExposeOnline #ProgressiveRock #SpaceRock http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/moonsoon-east-of-asteroid-2.html

New #review today: "About a year ago we reviewed an album Interdwell by the group #DarkSkyAlliance, something of an #ambient supergroup, a quartet with about a half dozen guests, on #SpottedPeccary. The protagonists of the collaboration at hand, #DavidHelpling and #EricTheTaylor comprise one half of the quartet Dark Sky Alliance. Taylor is a synthesist, bassist, and percussionist, and Helpling is a synthesist and guitarist..." #ExposeOnline #ElectronicMusic #AmbientMusic http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/david-helpling-eric-the-taylor-the-precious-dark-3.html

New #review today: "It was a little over a year ago that we reviewed a couple of releases by Mexico’s #GrecoBastián Both of those were available as downloads only, which is how this latest effort started life, though in recent weeks it was picked up for release on CD by the esteemed Mexican label #AzafranMedia, which means it will soon be available through Musea (France), Disk Union (Japan), and other distributors around the globe." #ExposeOnline #AvantRock #AvantProg http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/greco-bastian-with-a-little-hell-from-more-friends-3.html

New #review today for #Hawkestrel: "Regardless of the personnel on any given track, the music is solidly in the expected idiom, with insistent riffs, trippy synths, washes of Mellotron or string synth, and lyrics on futuristic topics. It’s a solid entry in the field, and while it doesn’t break any new ground, it’s consistently entertaining and should please fans of the genre." #ExposeOnline #SpaceRock #AlanDavey #Hawkwind http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/hawkestrel-chaos-rocks-2.html

New #review today for #Hawkestrel: "Regardless of the personnel on any given track, the music is solidly in the expected idiom, with insistent riffs, trippy synths, washes of Mellotron or string synth, and lyrics on futuristic topics. It’s a solid entry in the field, and while it doesn’t break any new ground, it’s consistently entertaining and should please fans of the genre." #ExposeOnline #SpaceRock #AlanDavey #Hawkwind http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/hawkestrel-chaos-rocks-2.html

New #review today for #Hawkestrel: "Regardless of the personnel on any given track, the music is solidly in the expected idiom, with insistent riffs, trippy synths, washes of Mellotron or string synth, and lyrics on futuristic topics. It’s a solid entry in the field, and while it doesn’t break any new ground, it’s consistently entertaining and should please fans of the genre." #ExposeOnline #SpaceRock #AlanDavey #Hawkwind http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/hawkestrel-chaos-rocks-2.html

New #review today for #Hawkestrel: "Regardless of the personnel on any given track, the music is solidly in the expected idiom, with insistent riffs, trippy synths, washes of Mellotron or string synth, and lyrics on futuristic topics. It’s a solid entry in the field, and while it doesn’t break any new ground, it’s consistently entertaining and should please fans of the genre." #ExposeOnline #SpaceRock #AlanDavey #Hawkwind http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/hawkestrel-chaos-rocks-2.html

New #review today for #Hawkestrel: "Regardless of the personnel on any given track, the music is solidly in the expected idiom, with insistent riffs, trippy synths, washes of Mellotron or string synth, and lyrics on futuristic topics. It’s a solid entry in the field, and while it doesn’t break any new ground, it’s consistently entertaining and should please fans of the genre." #ExposeOnline #SpaceRock #AlanDavey #Hawkwind http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/hawkestrel-chaos-rocks-2.html

New #review today: "Drums of Compassion represents a summing-up of sorts for #MichaelShrieve, presenting the veteran drummer along with a host of the other outstanding musicians he’s worked with since his debut in Santana. It is far from a showcase for his own playing, however, handing the spotlight over to #AirtoMoreira, #ZakirHussain, #JeffGreinke, #JackDeJohnette, #BabatundeOlatunji, #Skerik, #PeteLockett, #AmonTobin, #TreyGunn, and many others." #ExposeOnline http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/michael-shrieve-drums-of-compassion-2.html

New #review today: "#KarlBartos was a member of #Kraftwerk starting with Radio Activity in 1975 through Electric Café and departing in 1990... The original orchestra soundtrack for The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari by Giuseppe Becce has been lost to time and in 2005 Bartos conceived of the idea that he would like create an entirely new soundtrack." #ExposeOnline http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/karl-bartos-the-cabinet-of-dr-caligari-6.html

New #review today: "#KarlBartos was a member of #Kraftwerk starting with Radio Activity in 1975 through Electric Café and departing in 1990... The original orchestra soundtrack for The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari by Giuseppe Becce has been lost to time and in 2005 Bartos conceived of the idea that he would like create an entirely new soundtrack." #ExposeOnline http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/karl-bartos-the-cabinet-of-dr-caligari-6.html

New #review today: "#KarlBartos was a member of #Kraftwerk starting with Radio Activity in 1975 through Electric Café and departing in 1990... The original orchestra soundtrack for The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari by Giuseppe Becce has been lost to time and in 2005 Bartos conceived of the idea that he would like create an entirely new soundtrack." #ExposeOnline http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/karl-bartos-the-cabinet-of-dr-caligari-6.html

New #review today: "#KarlBartos was a member of #Kraftwerk starting with Radio Activity in 1975 through Electric Café and departing in 1990... The original orchestra soundtrack for The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari by Giuseppe Becce has been lost to time and in 2005 Bartos conceived of the idea that he would like create an entirely new soundtrack." #ExposeOnline http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/karl-bartos-the-cabinet-of-dr-caligari-6.html

New #review today: "#KarlBartos was a member of #Kraftwerk starting with Radio Activity in 1975 through Electric Café and departing in 1990... The original orchestra soundtrack for The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari by Giuseppe Becce has been lost to time and in 2005 Bartos conceived of the idea that he would like create an entirely new soundtrack." #ExposeOnline http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/karl-bartos-the-cabinet-of-dr-caligari-6.html

New #review today: "New on #SpottedPeccaryMusic, #DarkSkyAlliance is something of an ambient/electronic supergroup. The one musician that one might expect to see here is #DavidHelpling, who has been with Spotted Peccary for close to 30 years; #JerryMarotta should require no introduction either; #RupertGreenall has a long history with The Fixx; and rounding out the quartet is soundscaping synthesist #EricTheTaylor..." #ExposeOnline #AmbientMusic #ElectronicMusic http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/dark-sky-alliance-interdwell-3.html

New #review today: "It has been a long nine years since #ProudPeasant’s debut release Flight, even though band leader #XanderRapstine has been carefully planning and crafting each of the six songs on their second album, Communion, since then." #ExposeOnline #ProgressiveRock http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/proud-peasant-communion-6.html

New #review today: "The second full-length studio album from #ProudPeasant sees the band honing their style and expanding their sound. Full of complex structures and elaborate orchestrations, Communion is clearly #ProgressiveRock, though it is much to the credit of Rapstine and company that it sounds like no other band." #ExposeOnline #ProgRock http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/proud-peasant-communion-2.html

New #review today: "#LocationLocationLocation is a jazzy guitar trio that, for me, hits a sweet spot balancing composition and improvisation on their debut, Damaged Goods. While #AnthonyPirog’s guitar is far more mangled, both electronically and harmonically, than is common in jazz, the group’s music is clearly in the vein previously mined by groups led by #RaoulBjörkenheim, #TerjeRypdal, #SonnySharrock, #NelsCline, and others." #ExposeOnline #jazz #AvantJazz #JazzRock http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/location-location-location-damaged-goods-2.html

New #review today: "#Kurws may be from Poland, but they fit right in with the French bands on #DurEtDoux. The instrumental trio of Dawid Bargenda (drums), Hubert Kostkiewicz (guitar, waterphone, bells, chimes), and Jakub Majchrzak (bass) plays rhythmically complex music that is full of unexpected twists and turns, along the lines of #PoiL or Ni, though with their own sound." #ExposeOnline #AvantRock #MathRock http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/kurws-powiez-fascia-2.html

Today we have a new review for Rerooting by #MarilynMazur's #Shamania. "Throughout, the range of textures and timbres is expansive, with the great variety of #percussion providing constant interest. There are tones produced by metal, wood, and stretched skin, along with shadings between." #ExposeOnline #jazz http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/marilyn-mazurs-shamania-rerooting-2.html