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New #review today: "#Yowie’s follow-up to Synchromysticism is the equally baffling and impressive Taking Umbrage." #ExposeOnline #MathRock #SkinGraftRecords http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/yowie-taking-umbrage-2.html

New #review today: "Different Voices is a remastered collection that contains all of the tracks recorded as #WaxTheatricks, plus the songs from #Earwacks’ second single in 1980. Their sound was a mix of #NewWave pop informed by jazzy and progressive elements, mixing clever hooks, interesting lyrics, with great solos on saxes and guitar and more." #ExposeOnline #ArtRock #ArtPop #DavidUdell http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/wax-theatricks-different-voices-3.html

New #review today: "Norwegian Mellotron junkies #35Tapes are up to their fourth album celebrating the venerable proto-sampler keyboard. Veil on Life presents six tracks of moody melodic music that leans towards #ProgressiveRock without really tipping over into the genre, but the classiness of the writing and arrangements should please listeners looking for a prog fix." #ExposeOnline #ArtRock http://expose.org/.../display/35-tapes-veil-on-life-2.html

New #review today: "Now at their sixth album, #khu_eex further develops their distinctive blend of #funk, #CosmicJazz, soul, and #PsychedelicRock in nine new tracks." #ExposeOnline http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/khueex-red-cedar-in-the-hour-of-chaos-2.html

New #review today: "After the blast of musical energy that was Explode My Head, #RobHarrison gives us Overflow, which goes contrary to expectations by starting out rather quietly. “Tributaries” begins as a gentle tune..." #ExposeOnline #ProgressiveRock #ArtRock http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/rob-harrison-overflow-2.html

New #review today: "Bright Spirit is not just a modern interpretation of the musical ideas underlying the Planet #Gong era, but a translation of those ideas into modern terms, providing fodder both for nostalgia and hopeful innovation." #ExposeOnline #PsychedelicRock #KscopeRecords http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/gong-bright-spirit-2.html

New #review today: "The masters of German #PsychedelicFunk and #JazzRock #fusion are back with a new studio album of original material, the follow up to studio album Zoup a couple years back, and 55 years on from the band’s formation, now in your choice of CD, LP, or download." #Kraan #ExposeOnline #ProgressiveRock #PsychedelicRock http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/kraan-all-in-3.html

New #review today: "#Arpia was formed in Rome in 1984. Festa Grande is a live recording of the band’s 40th anniversary concert at the Teatro Affabulazione on April 13, 2024. An uneven performance, in my opinion, but longtime Arpia fans will find joy." #ExposeOnline #ProgressiveRock #RPI #ItalianProg http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/arpia-festa-grande-6.html

New #review today: "#ToyWeather’s #SveinHovland says that Van der Graaf Generator is a big influence on him, but listening to the music on Feathers in a Strange Wind, that comparison would never come to mind. His voice is more than a little reminiscent of #TimBowness, so anyone familiar with #NoMan will likely have that in their mind, though Toy Weather’s music is not built on electronic instrumentation." #ExposeOnline #ApollonRecords #ProgressiveRock http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/toy-weather-feathers-in-a-strange-wind-2.html

New #review today: "The comparison for #BrassCamel that keeps coming up for me is #CrackTheSky’s Safety in Numbers (1978), with bits of #Queen’s Sheer Heart Attack (1974) and #Sweet’s Level Headed (1977). The uniting factors here are tight rhythm parts, charismatic lead vocals, and elaborate vocal harmonies in a fairly high register." #ExposeOnline #ProgressiveRock http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/brass-camel-brass-camel-brass-camel-2.html

New #review today: "For his third release on #ProjektRecords, Argentine composer #GustavoDenouard makes the outer reaches of the cosmos his home, with five extended tracks of texture-based shimmering dronescapes that bear enough melodic elements to keep the listener engaged for the duration, like the soundtrack to a wondrous dream that carries one far away into the beyond." #ExposeOnline #ElectonicMusic #AmbientMusic http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/gustavo-denouard-echoes-of-the-cosmos-3.html

New #review today: "For his third release on #ProjektRecords, Argentine composer #GustavoDenouard makes the outer reaches of the cosmos his home, with five extended tracks of texture-based shimmering dronescapes that bear enough melodic elements to keep the listener engaged for the duration, like the soundtrack to a wondrous dream that carries one far away into the beyond." #ExposeOnline #ElectonicMusic #AmbientMusic http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/gustavo-denouard-echoes-of-the-cosmos-3.html

New #review today: "What we have here from #MorrisKolontyrsky is a sound that could be classified as #IndustrialAmbient, recorded in his home studio using Roland JP-8000, Micromoog, Korg Minilogue, Soma Lyra 8, and of course, electric guitar with a full complement of effects and loops, and #SteveRoach is on hand adding additional drones and further sonic enhancements." #ExposeOnline #ElectronicMusic #AmbientMusic #IndustrialMusic #ExperimentalMusic http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/morris-kolontyrsky-origination-3.html

New #review today: "Can I say that Thirteen sounds like no #SoftMachine album before it, but sounds completely like Soft Machine? It has historically been the case that every Soft Machine album is a transitional one, marking the debut of #AsafSirkis on drums. It’s the second with #FredTBaker on bass, the third with #TheoTravis (I’m only counting studio albums released under the name Soft Machine), and the fourth with #JohnEtheridge." #ExposeOnline #jazz #JazzRock http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/soft-machine-thirteen-2.html

New #review today: "I wasn’t sure what to expect from this trio led by #JérémieTernoy, one of the founding members of #TOC, a group that mostly dwells in the realms of improvisation. Surprisingly, most of the six tracks herein seem fully composed, with a loose enough feel to make them appropriate for the #jazz idiom." #ExposeOnline #AvantJazz http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/jeremie-ternoy-trio-survol-a-basse-altitude-3.html

New #review today: "It’s been quite a few years since the joyful burst of creativity that was #ImmensityCrumb Sings 9 Wedding Favorites, but #ChamberMusic for Sleeping Giants shows that they’ve been far from idle. The core of the group is the duo of Jennifer and Brenden Smith, and for the credits they are simply listed as having written and performed the music; they’re joined by a #StringQuartet and oboe, justifying the album’s title." #ExposeOnline #FolkRock #ArtRock http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/immensity-crumb-chamber-music-for-sleeping-giants-2.html

New# review today: "It is an unfortunate quirk of fate or timing that only now are we covering a release by #KrisDavis under her own name. Her 2019 album Diatom Ribbons is exceptional and should be in the collection of anyone who likes boundary-pushing jazz. Run the Gauntlet sees her leading a trio with #RobertHurst (bass) and #JohnathanBlake (drums), and there is no hint of cocktail #PianoTrio #jazz here." #ExposeOnline #AvantJazz #StringQuartet #LutosławskiQuartet http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/kris-davis-run-the-guantlet-the-solastalgia-suite-2.html

New #review today: "#HolleMangler is a German composer from Bergheim working in #ElectronicMusic for several decades. His recent work has evolved into a form of keyboard based #ProgressiveRock. He also has a project called #FrauHolle that focuses on trance, house and synth-pop styles, but what he releases under his own name has more in common with #JeanMichelJarre, #Vangelis, and other similarly inclined artists in a more symphonic rock style." #ExposeOnline http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/holle-mangler-tales-from-a-fairyworld-part-ii-3.html

New #review today: "#ThinkLikeAKey is digging further back in time for #JimmyCampbell’s earliest recordings with his first band #ThePanthers and then #TheKirkbys for It's a Crime: The Complete Recordings." #ExposeOnline #PsychedelicRock http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/the-kirkbys-its-a-crime-the-complete-recordings-6.html

New #review: "#TOC is a trio we have covered many times here; the name stands for the surnames of the members: keyboardist #JérémieTernoy, drummer #PeterOrins, and guitarist #IvannCruz. The recording at hand is a 33-minute single, and what one will find here is about as free as free gets, constantly shifting in and out of pinnacles of manic chaos, friction, energy, experimentation, and raw freedom with no compromises." #ExposeOnline #JeanLucGuionnet #ImprovisationalMusic http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/toc-jean-luc-guionnet-quelques-idees-dun-vert-incolore-dorment-furieusement-3.html

New #review today: "When Dave Terry (AKA Elmer Gantry) left #ElmerGantrysVelvetOpera in 1969, remaining band members #JohnFord and #RichardHudson were unhappy with losing their vocalist. So they enlisted #PaulBrett and #JohnnyJoyce, shortened the name to #VelvetOpera, and changed their musical direction, the result being Ride a Hustler’s Dream, a mixed bag of music ranging from #FolkRock to #BluesRock to #RagaRock." #ExposeOnline #PsychedelicRock http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/velvet-opera-ride-a-hustlers-dream-6.html

New #review today: "Out of the multitude of live #SoftMachine albums available, Drop and Floating World Live stand as two of the best, and with these new remasters, they sound even better. Drop dates from the fall of 1971, and represents one of the few documents of the band with neither Robert Wyatt nor John Marshall on drums – Phil Howard takes that role." #ExposeOnline #JazzRock #jazz http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/soft-machine-drop-floating-world-live-2025-remasters-2.html

New #review today: "I first encountered #MathieuTorres and his #MZ project back in 2017 with his album Prisme. He’s released several albums since then, both as M’Z and under other names, but Emancipés du Vide? is the first of those I’ve heard. It consists of nine tracks of excellent #InstrumentalMusic that floats around in between aspects of rock and #jazz." #ExposeOnline #JazzRock http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/mz-Emancipes-du-vide-2.html

New #review today: "#ZioCrocifisso is one of many projects that #PaoloSkeBotto is involved with, and like the others (#Yūgen, #NotAGoodSign), the music is an #AvantProgressive tour-de-force. His collaborators in Zio Crocifisso are also active in Italian rock: #DarioMagri is in #Yokoano and #Sho; and #MatteoSerenelli is a member of #TheAppetizers." #ExposeOnline #ProgressiveRock #PaoloBotto http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/zio-crocifisso-campana-di-legno-trappola-per-topi-2.html

New #review today: "Yes, it’s been more than ten years since #HappyFamily released Minimal Gods, which featured the band regrouping after a sixteen-year hiatus to produce their best work to date. But that renewed activity was short-lived, and the members burned out and split up — given the intensity of their music, it’s easy to see how carrying on could seem like an insurmountable burden." #ExposeOnline #ProgressiveRock #AvantProgressive #AvantProg http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/happy-family-4037-2.html

New #review today: "Yes, it’s been more than ten years since #HappyFamily released Minimal Gods, which featured the band regrouping after a sixteen-year hiatus to produce their best work to date. But that renewed activity was short-lived, and the members burned out and split up — given the intensity of their music, it’s easy to see how carrying on could seem like an insurmountable burden." #ExposeOnline #ProgressiveRock #AvantProgressive #AvantProg http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/happy-family-4037-2.html

New #review today: "Yes, it’s been more than ten years since #HappyFamily released Minimal Gods, which featured the band regrouping after a sixteen-year hiatus to produce their best work to date. But that renewed activity was short-lived, and the members burned out and split up — given the intensity of their music, it’s easy to see how carrying on could seem like an insurmountable burden." #ExposeOnline #ProgressiveRock #AvantProgressive #AvantProg http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/happy-family-4037-2.html

New #review today: "Yes, it’s been more than ten years since #HappyFamily released Minimal Gods, which featured the band regrouping after a sixteen-year hiatus to produce their best work to date. But that renewed activity was short-lived, and the members burned out and split up — given the intensity of their music, it’s easy to see how carrying on could seem like an insurmountable burden." #ExposeOnline #ProgressiveRock #AvantProgressive #AvantProg http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/happy-family-4037-2.html

New #review today: "Yes, it’s been more than ten years since #HappyFamily released Minimal Gods, which featured the band regrouping after a sixteen-year hiatus to produce their best work to date. But that renewed activity was short-lived, and the members burned out and split up — given the intensity of their music, it’s easy to see how carrying on could seem like an insurmountable burden." #ExposeOnline #ProgressiveRock #AvantProgressive #AvantProg http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/happy-family-4037-2.html

New #review today: "#AlecGoldfarb is a Brooklyn based guitarist and composer and a Hindustani classical musician known for blending elements of #jazz, new music, and #IndianClassicalMusic. Here, on Shadows, he does all of that and more with a ten-piece ensemble of instrumentalists and vocalists, both from North America and Asia." #ExposeOnline http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/alec-goldfarb-shadows-3.html

New #review today: "This recent release from #LShankar sees the violinist revisiting traditional forms in a modern context. Full Moon is much closer to #Shakti than Peter Gabriel or Echo and the Bunnymen, and it shows Shankar’s mastery of his double-necked electric violin." #ExposeOnline #IndianClassicalMusic #ElectricViolin #violin http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/l-shankar-full-moon-2.html

New #review today: "This recent release from #LShankar sees the violinist revisiting traditional forms in a modern context. Full Moon is much closer to #Shakti than Peter Gabriel or Echo and the Bunnymen, and it shows Shankar’s mastery of his double-necked electric violin." #ExposeOnline #IndianClassicalMusic #ElectricViolin #violin http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/l-shankar-full-moon-2.html

New #review today: "This recent release from #LShankar sees the violinist revisiting traditional forms in a modern context. Full Moon is much closer to #Shakti than Peter Gabriel or Echo and the Bunnymen, and it shows Shankar’s mastery of his double-necked electric violin." #ExposeOnline #IndianClassicalMusic #ElectricViolin #violin http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/l-shankar-full-moon-2.html

New #review today: "This recent release from #LShankar sees the violinist revisiting traditional forms in a modern context. Full Moon is much closer to #Shakti than Peter Gabriel or Echo and the Bunnymen, and it shows Shankar’s mastery of his double-necked electric violin." #ExposeOnline #IndianClassicalMusic #ElectricViolin #violin http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/l-shankar-full-moon-2.html

New #review today: "This recent release from #LShankar sees the violinist revisiting traditional forms in a modern context. Full Moon is much closer to #Shakti than Peter Gabriel or Echo and the Bunnymen, and it shows Shankar’s mastery of his double-necked electric violin." #ExposeOnline #IndianClassicalMusic #ElectricViolin #violin http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/l-shankar-full-moon-2.html

New #review today: "#ChakraVimana is a project featuring some musicians we’ve encountered before. The group features #MarkCook (#HerdOfInstinct and #TheForeverMoment), #SanttuLaakso (the main man behind #AstralMagic), and #ShaneBeck, a poet who’s appeared with Astral Magic. As you might guess based on the name, the main thrust of Chakra Vimana is on grooves heavily informed by the sounds and spiritual ideas of India." #ExposeOnline #PsychedelicRock #ProgressiveRock http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/chakra-vimana-feed-my-soul-2.html

New #review today: "#Epidermis is a band with a long history and not a lot of product to show for all that time. The group was founded in Germany in 1971 by members of beat group The Ancestors. But they had higher ambitions, hoping to produce a more complex sound not unlike some of the #ProgressiveRock across the channel in England, with multi-part vocal harmonies and precise instrumental work, inspired by bands like #GentleGiant and #Yes." #ExposeOnline http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/epidermis-june-1975-3.html

New #review today: "#TheFërtilityCült is a Finnish band founded in 2008 which has been compared to #BlackSabbath, #KingCrimson, #WishboneAsh, and #ElectricWizard. Now six years after their fourth album, they have released their fifth, A Song of Anger, and the first on #BlackWidowRecords." #ExposeOnline #ProgressiveRock #FërtilityCült http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/the-fertility-cult-a-song-of-anger-6.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: "In March 1980, #Kraan was the quartet of #PeterWolbrandt (guitar, vocals), #HellmutHattler (bass), #UdoDahmen (drums), and #IngoBischof (keyboards), following the Tournee live album, which was recorded at various dates throughout 1979. Their sound, somewhat uncommon among German bands with a few exceptions, was a powerful funky jazz-rock laced with psychedelia..." #ExposeOnline http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/kraan-aladin-tapes-3.html

New #review today: "Sweet. Two discs of vintage #JohnSurman, as the bandleader of a ten-piece ensemble, recorded live in April of ‘69 in Hamburg. Last year, Surman celebrated his 80h birthday, and what a long and varied career he has to show for it, but in 1969 he was just getting started as a bandleader after working as a sideman for the likes of Mike Westbrook, Peter Lemer, Ronnie Scott, John McLaughlin, Chris McGregor, and others." #ExposeOnline #CuneiformRecords #jazz http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/john-surman-flashpoints-and-undercurrents-3.html

New #review today: "Well, as chance would have it, some tapes from the mid-80s turned up in #GeorgeCartwright’s basement, an almost forgotten band he played in briefly called #Angling. Of course, Cartwright was a founding member and saxophonist of #Curlew, at that time in between their first and second albums. Angling played two live gigs and one studio recording session, and that’s it, they were done and off to other projects." #ExposeOnline #AvantJazz #AvantRock http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/angling-was-it-1984-85-3.html

New #review today: "As a fan of all the #Volapük albums I’ve heard, I always wondered about one item on their discography that I was unable to find a copy of. Where Is Tamashii? was a tantalizing mystery, having been released on a small French label without good distribution internationally. Luckily for all of us, whatever licensing issues there were have been resolved, and #CuneiformRecords brings us the missing album in digital form." #ExposeOnline #AvantRock http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/volapuk-where-is-tamashii-2.html

New #review today: "#Donner has composed twelve musical vignettes that chronicle their impressions of various locales in the Grenland area of Southeastern Norway where multi-instrumentalist #JacobHolmLupo (synths, keyboards, guitars, bass, percussion, samples, and loops) resides." #ExposeOnline #ProgressiveRock #ElectronicMusic http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/donner-the-van-gennep-gap-6.html

New #review today: "#JillFraser is a composer and electronic musician with a background in television, films, and commercials using #Moog, #Buchla, and #Serge modular synthesizers, along with standard analog and digital synthesizers. She studied with #MortonSubotnick, #MelPowell, #JohnCage, and #LouHarrison at Cal Arts." #ExposeOnline #ElectronicMusic #ExperimentalMusic http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/jill-fraser-earthly-pleasures-3.html

New #review today: "#JillFraser is a composer and electronic musician with a background in television, films, and commercials using #Moog, #Buchla, and #Serge modular synthesizers, along with standard analog and digital synthesizers. She studied with #MortonSubotnick, #MelPowell, #JohnCage, and #LouHarrison at Cal Arts." #ExposeOnline #ElectronicMusic #ExperimentalMusic http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/jill-fraser-earthly-pleasures-3.html

New #review today: "#JillFraser is a composer and electronic musician with a background in television, films, and commercials using #Moog, #Buchla, and #Serge modular synthesizers, along with standard analog and digital synthesizers. She studied with #MortonSubotnick, #MelPowell, #JohnCage, and #LouHarrison at Cal Arts." #ExposeOnline #ElectronicMusic #ExperimentalMusic http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/jill-fraser-earthly-pleasures-3.html

New #review today: "#JillFraser is a composer and electronic musician with a background in television, films, and commercials using #Moog, #Buchla, and #Serge modular synthesizers, along with standard analog and digital synthesizers. She studied with #MortonSubotnick, #MelPowell, #JohnCage, and #LouHarrison at Cal Arts." #ExposeOnline #ElectronicMusic #ExperimentalMusic http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/jill-fraser-earthly-pleasures-3.html

New #review today: "#JillFraser is a composer and electronic musician with a background in television, films, and commercials using #Moog, #Buchla, and #Serge modular synthesizers, along with standard analog and digital synthesizers. She studied with #MortonSubotnick, #MelPowell, #JohnCage, and #LouHarrison at Cal Arts." #ExposeOnline #ElectronicMusic #ExperimentalMusic http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/jill-fraser-earthly-pleasures-3.html

New #review today: "When presented with a batch of #AstralMagic albums, I have to admit that my first thought has nothing to do with the music. How in the world does #SanttuLaasko manage to record and release an average of an album a month, as he has so far in 2024? For the last couple of decades, most artists average an album every other year, but here’s Laasko pumping them out like there’s no tomorrow." #ExposeOnline #SpaceRock http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/astral-magic-end-of-time-mind-melt-machine-strange-sensation-secret-paths-2.html