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FAT MATTRESS’ Complete Recordings To Be Out
November 8, 2024
FAT MATTRESS had a wonderful launchpad in that this band’s leader, guitarist Noel Redding, used to be a bassist with THE JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE, so why his next enterprise, full of promise and more than able to produce potent music, didn’t become big is anyone’s guess. Some blame their failure on personalities’ clash between Redding and multi-instrumentalist Jim Leverton which caused the former leave before the ensemble laid down their third longplay and the latter – when the collective split soon after, as neither new six-stringer, QUATERMASS associate Steve Hammond, nor keyboard player Mick Weaver couldn’t save the situation – pursue a most spectacular career. The real reason might be their creative imbalance, though, because the group’s legacy stood the test of time, and on January 24th will see the light in its entirety.
Christy Moore Is Terrified By Beauty On Fresh Album
November 6, 2024
From his 1969 debut platter “Paddy On The Road” onwards, Christy Moore has been serving up fresh studio efforts every few years, and now, edging closer to octogenarian age, he doesn’t seem to be slowing down. Lately, the veteran’s audiences were even treated to his new pieces, and some of these appear on “A Terrible Beauty”: the wonderful album that saw the light of day om November 1st to be sold out within several days on many an outlet.
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John Lodge Engages YES Members On Valentine’s Day EP
November 4, 2024
It’s a clear sign of insecurity – or of a desperate attempt to secure wider market – that latest John Lodge records have “THE MOODY BLUES'” incorporated into his logo, but his music doesn’t require such blatant bolstering. And when the veteran needed support for his forthcoming EP, John turned to friends from the band most closely associated with his logo’s designer – his colleagues on “The Royal Affair Tour”: YES. Not the entire band, though.
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NEKTAR Turn Their “Journey” Into A Box Set Travelogue
November 3, 2024
As far as first albums go, NEKTAR‘s 1971 “Journey To The Centre Of The Eye” was exemplary in terms of ambition of a yet-unknown ensemble, but then, being a British band who were working in Germany takes some guts anyway. And there’s a lot of guts in the record that runs as a single, 13-part piece, originally broken in two parts by the turn of a vinyl platter and showing immense depth in the music’s many layers, the layers presently making it almost imperative to remix the album and go for a deluxe treatment of familiar material.
Mark Murdock Pays Homage To Peter Banks On New Set Of Pieces
November 2, 2024
“The halls of faded figures”: this is the first line of the first song on the “Mark V” album by EMPIRE IN RUINS, a new project by Japan-based multi-instrumentalist Mark Murdock who once upon a time was a drummer in Peter Banks’ EMPIRE – and that’s the late guitarist he’s singing about here, on a record dedicated to his former employer. That original ensemble’s run of records is known now as ""Mark I, II & III" with "The Mars Tapes" forming the fourth volume; hence, number V in the title of Murdock’s new offering.