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Steven Wilson at Club Soda

by John Kelman
May 4, 2013

Steven WilsonClub SodaMontreal, Canada April 25, 2013 When currently ex-Porcupine Tree founder/front man last played Montreal in November, 2011--touring in support of his second solo recording, Grace for Drowning (Kscope, 2011)--it was clear by the end of the performance that the next time he came to the Canadian city, the ...

Article: Album Review

Soft Machine Legacy: Burden of Proof

Read "Burden of Proof" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
April 29, 2013

Subsequent to its psychedelic late 60s existence, Soft Machine redeployed its musicality into a hybrid form of British prog-rock meets avant-garde jazz and jazz fusion schema. The band invoked a signature sound, partly due to keyboardist Mike Ratlledge's fuzz-toned Lowry organ performances and other prominent factors. A chief proponent of Britain's fabled Canterbury music scene, many ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Soft Machine Legacy: Burden of Proof

by Dave Wayne
April 13, 2013

Over the course of three albums released between 1968 and 1970, the British band Soft Machine transformed from one of the trippiest and mind-bendingly inventive rock bands of the psychedelic era into a raging musical torrent of free jazz, thunderous prog rock, and high- concept minimalist-inspired avant-garde stylings. With the dizzying changes in musical direction came ...

News: Recording

Soft Machine Legacy Releases New Studio Album "Burden Of Proof"

March 16, 2013

Soft Machine Legacy makes their most powerful statement to date, delivering an album of epic proportions and their first studio output since 2007's Steam. Infectious grooves, undeniably hip vibes and sizzling performances dominate the outing, as the veteran progressive music masters continue to break new ground and offer listeners yet more previously-unseen facets of their dynamic ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Steven Wilson: The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories) [Deluxe Edition]

by John Kelman
March 1, 2013

Even though Porcupine Tree began as a solo project for a young Steven Wilson in the late 1980s--and despite the British singer/guitarist/keyboardist remaining its primary composer through to The Incident (Kscope, 2009) and the recent live record from that tour, Octane Twisted (Kscope, 2012)--it's been some time since the group was truly representative of his aspirations, ...

Article: Film Review

Steven Wilson: Get All You Deserve (Limited Deluxe Edition)

by John Kelman
October 1, 2012

Steven Wilson Get All You Deserve (Limited Deluxe Edition) Kscope 2012 When Steven Wilson decided to go solo after fronting the popular progressive/psychedelic group Porcupine Tree for 20 years, it was an opportunity to stretch beyond the confines that he'd ultimately created for himself in a group that also began as ...

Article: Album Review

Travis & Fripp: Follow

by John Kelman
September 12, 2012

The potential of the improvising duo has been tremendously extended thanks to the seemingly limitless possibilities of technology. King Crimson co-founder/guitarist Robert Fripp has always been on the cutting edge of that technology, whether in the context of his now-deserted flagship group, on his groundbreaking duo recordings with Brian Eno or alone, with his series of ...

Album

All I Know: An Anthology

By Theo Travis

Label: 33 Jazz
Released: 2011
Track listing: CD1: Shore Thing; Lulworth Night; 2am; The Ghosts of Whitley Court; Waterlily Boogie; The Purple Sky; Northern Lights; Sand Dance; Marti; Here's That Rainy Day. CD2: Psychogroove; The Crow Road; All I Know; 21st Century Schizoid Man; Things Change; Lovely; Full Moon Rising (Part 2); Barking Dogs and Caravans; The Relegation of Pluto; Anything to Anywhere; And So It Seemed.

Album

The Seven Dreams

By Theo Travis

Label: Butter Problems
Released: 2011
Track listing: 01. Shadow Memory; 02. The Departure; 03. Unraveling; 04. Scratching the Third Eye; 05. Elevation; 06. The Past Is Still Present; 07. Persistence of a Memory.

Album

Live Adventures

By Theo Travis

Label: MoonJune Records
Released: 2011
Track listing: 01. Has Riff II; 02. Grapehound; 03. The Nodder; 04. In The Back Room; 05. Song of Aeolus; 06. The Relegation of Pluto / Transit; 07. Gesolreut; 08. Facelift; 09. The Last Day.