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Amazon.com Widgets Music is an art Bjørn Lynne and Mike Oldfield, two names that belong in the same sentence. Not that Lynne sounds like Oldfield. It’s just that he has the same talent for taking you on a long voyage. Based on the novel by the same name of author Allan Cole, Lynne chose for [...]

This album has been in the works for years, originating as the ultimate artistic dream of Magna Carta label head Peter Morticelli.

Amazon.com Widgets When one refers to a time of legends, one usually refers to the Middle Ages or the Greek Antiquity. It takes audacity to refer to our own time as a time of legends. Yet this is what Cairo accomplish. And they accomplish it beautifully! The music is beautiful and takes us on a [...]

Amazon.com Widgets “Baby’s so serene, like a goddamn beauty queen” How someone could not fall in love with this album is beyond me. It’s been a long time since I’ve been this excited about an album. Starfooted is one of the best albums I’ve ever heard. It rates up there with King Crimson’s In the [...]

At the age of 19, after hearing Jimi Hendrix for the very first time, Scott Hold started playing guitar, and soon found the blues. A year later, after seeing legendary bluesman Buddy Guy, his life was forever changed. A friendship developed between Guy and Holt. At 23, Scott joined the Buddy Guy Band. He also [...]

Amazon.com Widgets Nope, that’s not a typo. For the older readers, I’m sure I don’t need to explain who Spooky Tooth are. I’ll just have to explain what they’re doing here… For the younger readers, Spooky Tooth were a sixties band, with strong Blues influences. They featured Gary Wright (later to rise to fame with [...]

Amazon.com Widgets Thanks to the folks at Magna Carta, I was guest-listed for California’s Under the Sun in Montreal. It was a three-band show. The first band was a jazz act, too technique, no feeling to the music. The second band were called Silent Exile. More on them at a later time. Before the show, [...]

Amazon.com Widgets Here’s a band which is a little difficult to describe. Overall, they are a progressive band, yet their influences are all-over the board. The first song, The Lhasa Road (No Surrender), seems like a cross between Saga and Triumph. The drums have that Neil Peart (Rush) sound, but, as it is so well [...]

Amazon.com Widgets A very interesting sound from a very interesting band. The best way to describe the sound of Shadow Gallery is to say that it’s essentially a cross between classical-Genesis and Yngwie Malmsteen. At times, the sound is very melodious, at others, it has a nice, hard edge which reminds one of what Metallica [...]

Geoff Downes, widely known as the keyboard player from Asia, also present on one Yes album (Drama), occasionally gives us an instrumental album. Downes is not known for his keyboard heroics, but rather as keyboard player who does the job and does it well. The World Service is not an album filled with complicated passages [...]

Amazon.com Widgets It’s always a treat to get a new Joe Jackson album. He started back in 1979, doing straight Pop, then he touched Rock, Big Band, Jazz, Swing and Classical. Maybe he hasn’t been in the charts for ten years, but the albums he’s released since then are the best he’s ever made. Night [...]