#exposeonline — Public Fediverse posts

New #review today: "For those unfamiliar with #JohnHoward, the British #SingerSongwriter first emerged in the mid-70s with the now highly regarded Kid in a Big World. Although commercial success eluded him at the time, his work has enjoyed a remarkable revival in recent decades, leading to a steady stream of new recordings and reissues. His latest release, Overnight Bags, is a deeply personal collection of eleven songs." #ExposeOnline #ThinkLikeAKeyRecords http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/john-howard-overnight-bags-6.html

New #review today: "For those unfamiliar with #JohnHoward, the British #SingerSongwriter first emerged in the mid-70s with the now highly regarded Kid in a Big World. Although commercial success eluded him at the time, his work has enjoyed a remarkable revival in recent decades, leading to a steady stream of new recordings and reissues. His latest release, Overnight Bags, is a deeply personal collection of eleven songs." #ExposeOnline #ThinkLikeAKeyRecords http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/john-howard-overnight-bags-6.html

New #review today: "For those unfamiliar with #JohnHoward, the British #SingerSongwriter first emerged in the mid-70s with the now highly regarded Kid in a Big World. Although commercial success eluded him at the time, his work has enjoyed a remarkable revival in recent decades, leading to a steady stream of new recordings and reissues. His latest release, Overnight Bags, is a deeply personal collection of eleven songs." #ExposeOnline #ThinkLikeAKeyRecords http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/john-howard-overnight-bags-6.html

New #review today: "For those unfamiliar with #JohnHoward, the British #SingerSongwriter first emerged in the mid-70s with the now highly regarded Kid in a Big World. Although commercial success eluded him at the time, his work has enjoyed a remarkable revival in recent decades, leading to a steady stream of new recordings and reissues. His latest release, Overnight Bags, is a deeply personal collection of eleven songs." #ExposeOnline #ThinkLikeAKeyRecords http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/john-howard-overnight-bags-6.html

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

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

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

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

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: "In the early 70s, #MarianneSegal emerged as the principal songwriter, vocalist, and guitarist for #Jade, one of the more cherished cult names of the British #ProgressiveFolk movement. The Gathering, originally released in 2007, found Segal surrounded by an unlikely but inspired cast that included members of the neo-medieval psych-folk ensemble #Circulus." #ExposeOnline #PsychedelicRock #PsychedelicFolk #SilverJade http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/marianne-segal-featuring-circulus-the-gathering-6.html

New #review today: "I became aware of #EdMacan around 1997, an educator from California’s north coast College of the Redwoods, who’d written a scholarly tome titled Rocking the Classics – English #ProgressiveRock and the Counterculture. Around the same time, his band #HermeticScience released their debut album, a band like no other, featuring Macan on mallet percussion (mostly vibraphone and marimba) and piano, and two students from his music program on bass and drums, forming a trio. At the time there was nothing else quite like them — all of the music was written by Macan, though the influence of his progressive rock interests were always evident." #ExposeOnline JazzFusion #JazzRock #jazz http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/hermetic-science-ed-macans-hermetic-science-30th-anniversary-edition-3.html

New #review today: "Earthman is the first #FruitsDeMerRecords vinyl release by #ManAndMachine, the project of Scottish singer, guitarist, and songwriter #TomRoche. Familiar #PsychedelicRock and #ProgressiveRock reference points appear throughout, but they are arranged at improbable angles..." #ExposeOnline http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/man-machine-earthman-6.html

New #review today: "On their previous album, #AtsukoChiba augmented their sound with strings, brass, and woodwinds, but for their latest they go it on their own. This self-titled release is their fourth full-length album, and it features six tracks of moderate length. While the music exhibits a wide range of sound and influence, there’s a thread of #psychedelia running through it all no matter what the surface trappings may be." #ExposeOnline #PsychedelicRock #krautrock #PostRock http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/atsuko-chiba-atsuko-chiba-2.html

New #review today: "This set, recorded live at Orion Studio in April 1997 is powerful documentation that the instrumental powerhouse #BoudDeun (bassist #MatEiland, drummer #RockyCancelose, violinist #GregHiser, and guitarist #ShawnPersinger), could transcend their studio recordings, which numbered three at the time, and deliver a mindblowing set that could leave an audience speechless." #ExposeOnline #ProgressiveRock #JazzFusion #CuneiformRecords http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/boud-deun-pronounced-booed-dee-un-3.html

New #review today: "#KingOfSweden is a really good #ProgressiveRock band that builds their sound out of the classic building blocks of prog, but does such a good job of it that they don’t sound retro or nostalgic. In the four tracks on Interregnum, which is their second full-length album, they remind me at times of the French band #Atoll, #PeterBanks’ #Flash, and (for current references) #MoonLetters." #ExposeOnline http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/king-of-sweden-interregnum-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 today: "Live at Paradise 1979 captures #TheShirts during a nearly hour-long set at Boston’s Paradise Rock Club on August 27, 1979. This performance has remained unheard for over 45 years, making this release an important document of the band at their peak." #ExposeOnline #AnnieGolden #NewWave #PowerPop http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/the-shirts-live-at-paradise-1979-6.html

New #review today: "Live at Paradise 1979 captures #TheShirts during a nearly hour-long set at Boston’s Paradise Rock Club on August 27, 1979. This performance has remained unheard for over 45 years, making this release an important document of the band at their peak." #ExposeOnline #AnnieGolden #NewWave #PowerPop http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/the-shirts-live-at-paradise-1979-6.html

New #review today: "Live at Paradise 1979 captures #TheShirts during a nearly hour-long set at Boston’s Paradise Rock Club on August 27, 1979. This performance has remained unheard for over 45 years, making this release an important document of the band at their peak." #ExposeOnline #AnnieGolden #NewWave #PowerPop http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/the-shirts-live-at-paradise-1979-6.html

New #review today: "Live at Paradise 1979 captures #TheShirts during a nearly hour-long set at Boston’s Paradise Rock Club on August 27, 1979. This performance has remained unheard for over 45 years, making this release an important document of the band at their peak." #ExposeOnline #AnnieGolden #NewWave #PowerPop http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/the-shirts-live-at-paradise-1979-6.html

New #review today: "Live at Paradise 1979 captures #TheShirts during a nearly hour-long set at Boston’s Paradise Rock Club on August 27, 1979. This performance has remained unheard for over 45 years, making this release an important document of the band at their peak." #ExposeOnline #AnnieGolden #NewWave #PowerPop http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/the-shirts-live-at-paradise-1979-6.html

New #review today: "#Evolución is a Chilean band that has been around since the early 80s, though their recorded output is sparse; Secretos is a live album recorded in 2006-2007 and released in 2021. While I can’t fault the players for their technique, the music is instrumental fusion-oriented rock somewhat on the generic side." #ExposeOnline #MylodonRecords #JazzRock #ProgressiveRock #fusion http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/evolucion-secretos-2.html

New #review today: "#SimonHanes is a fixture on the New York #AvantGarde scene, frequently working with #JohnZorn, #JGThirlwell, and others. Gargantua is a new work composed by Hanes featuring what I refer to as an E.U.I. — Ensemble of Unusual Instrumentation. The ensemble in question features three soprano vocalists, three French horns, three trombones, three electric basses, and three drum sets." #ExposeOnline http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/simon-hanes-gargantua-2.html

New #review today: "#TheShirts was a post punk band in New York City in the late 70s to very early 80s. They performed at CBGBs, and in 1981 they recorded their final album live at Moogy Klingman's studio in the heart of Manhattan in front of an intimate audience, but it has never released until now. The fourteen songs never appeared on any of their studio albums." #ExposeOnline #AnnieGolden #PowerPop #ThinkLikeAKey http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/the-shirts-live-6.html

New #review today: "#TheShirts was a post punk band in New York City in the late 70s to very early 80s. They performed at CBGBs, and in 1981 they recorded their final album live at Moogy Klingman's studio in the heart of Manhattan in front of an intimate audience, but it has never released until now. The fourteen songs never appeared on any of their studio albums." #ExposeOnline #AnnieGolden #PowerPop #ThinkLikeAKey http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/the-shirts-live-6.html

New #review today: "#TheShirts was a post punk band in New York City in the late 70s to very early 80s. They performed at CBGBs, and in 1981 they recorded their final album live at Moogy Klingman's studio in the heart of Manhattan in front of an intimate audience, but it has never released until now. The fourteen songs never appeared on any of their studio albums." #ExposeOnline #AnnieGolden #PowerPop #ThinkLikeAKey http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/the-shirts-live-6.html

New #review today: "#TheShirts was a post punk band in New York City in the late 70s to very early 80s. They performed at CBGBs, and in 1981 they recorded their final album live at Moogy Klingman's studio in the heart of Manhattan in front of an intimate audience, but it has never released until now. The fourteen songs never appeared on any of their studio albums." #ExposeOnline #AnnieGolden #PowerPop #ThinkLikeAKey http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/the-shirts-live-6.html

New #review today: "#TheShirts was a post punk band in New York City in the late 70s to very early 80s. They performed at CBGBs, and in 1981 they recorded their final album live at Moogy Klingman's studio in the heart of Manhattan in front of an intimate audience, but it has never released until now. The fourteen songs never appeared on any of their studio albums." #ExposeOnline #AnnieGolden #PowerPop #ThinkLikeAKey http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/the-shirts-live-6.html

New #review today: "#ChrisBraun’s vocals are very soulful and filled with power, able to match the dynamic changes in the rock based compositions she wrote; some comparisons could be drawn to #MaggieBell (#StoneTheCrows), #LydiaPense (#ColdBlood), #JoanneVent, or #JulieDriscoll, but make no mistake, the power of the band was in her voice, and it was unique." #ExposeOnline #ChrisBraunBand #GardenOfDelightsRecords http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/chris-braun-band-both-sides-3.html

New #review today: "#StarayaDerevnya, or #СтараяДеревня as they were on their earliest recordings, is the name of a British and Israeli aggregation of musicians that numbers anywhere between five and seven... Frankly, this is probably one of the strangest albums I’ve written about in a long time, a combination of music, noise, spoken parts, bizarre sounds, cries, and mysterious electronics." #ExposeOnline #AvantGarde #ExperimentalMusic http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/staraya-derevnya-garden-window-escape-3.html

New #review today: "It was over eleven years ago that we reviewed Cuentos y Fábulas, the debut of #LuzDeRiada, an excellent quartet from Mexico City led by #RamsesLuna, the former saxophonist of #CabezasDeCera. Between then and 2016 the band released two more albums and then went on hiatus, or so it seemed." #ExposeOnline #ProgressiveRock #AvantRock #PatMastelotto http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/luz-de-riada-rizoma-3.html

New #review today: "Retrogradient is a musical hologram. You can sample a few seconds from any of the nine tracks and it sounds like the entire album... what #Deorbit delivers on Retrogradient is a mind-numbing 44 minutes of sludgy distortion..." #ExposeOnline #SludgeRock http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/deorbit-retrogradient-6.html

New #review: "Bright Lights A Joyous Celebration contains sessions from November 2022, featuring five extended #jazz compositions by #PaulDunmall, with drummer #HamidDrake, double bassist #DaveKane, vibraphonist #CoreyMwamba, #SowetoKinchon (alto and tenor sax), and #XhosaCole on tenor sax, with Dunmall covering tenor and C soprano saxes." #ExposeOnline #AvantJazz http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/paul-dunmall-bright-light-a-joyous-celebration-3.html

New #review today: "With their fifth #HuVibrational release, #HamidDrake and #AdamRudolph continue to expand the sound of this percussion-centered ensemble. Drake actually brings his drum kit into five of the tracks (being absent from the other four), while Rudolph adds keyboards, thumb pianos, and flutes (wooden and bamboo) to his massive battery of percussion." #ExposeOnline #jazz http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/hu-vibrational-timeless-2.html

New #review today: "#TheChroniclesOfFatherRobin (TCOFR) emerged from the remains of the band #Fangorn back in 1993-94, mainly inspired by the classic bands and albums of the early 70s progressive music scene, alongside contemporary bands like #Änglagård, #Anekdoten, #WhiteWillow, and #Landberk." #ExposeOnline #ProgRock http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/the-chronicles-of-father-robin-the-songs-tales-of-airoea-book-1-6.html

New #review today: "The Lost Vision of the #ChandooPriest is a new Italian project by two young musicians: Francesca Zanetta and Niccolò Gallani... The resulting ten instrumentals feature majestic guitar melodies, strong organ driven themes, and prog jazz fusion conjuring images of #WishboneAsh, #PinkFloyd, #Anekdoten, and #Änglagård." #ExposeOnline #ProgRock http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/the-lost-vision-of-the-chandoo-priest-the-lost-vision-of-the-chandoo-priest-6.html