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New #review today: "On his previous album, The Changing Tide, #LeonAlvarado paid homage to #PinkFloyd and on The Wicked Forest, he turns his attention to #Yes. And just as The Changing Tide featured guests with connections to Pink Floyd, this album brings in Yes alumni #BillySherwood and #JonDavison." #ExposeOnline #ProgressiveRock http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/leon-alvarado-the-wicked-forest-2.html

New #review today: "Regardless of the instrument #ErikWøllo leads with—piano, keyboard sequences, effected guitar, or other mysterious sounds — one can hear how the stillness and solitude of winter has informed his emotional approach to compositions and arrangements, never to dazzle the listener with chops or a wow factor, but to convey a feeling or spark an idea that blossoms across the duration of the piece." #ExposeOnline #ProjektRecords #ElectronicMusic #AmbientMusic http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/erik-wollo-snow-tides-3.html

New #review today: "The Italian #ProgressiveRock band #SigmundFreud, formed in the summer of 1972, was inspired by the harmonious melodies and enchanted songs by their contemporaries. They recorded for two labels but were never able to get it all together to record an album. Fifty years later, through the encouragement of #BlackWidowRecords, they were able to realize their dream after re-mastering and re-recording the music with a few tweaks here and there." #ExposeOnline http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/sigmund-freud-risveglio-6.html

New #review today: "My last encounter with #JohnGreaves, aside from the recent #HenryNow album, was Life Size back in 2018. Chanson d'Automne carries on from there with fifteen tracks that approach songwriting more in the tradition of chamber music than pop, rock, or folk." #ExposeOnline #ArtMusic #HenryCow http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/john-greaves-chanson-dautomne-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: "I had never heard of #TashiWada before #RVNGIntl. sent me What Is Not Strange? and I still don’t know much. What I can say is that the music on this album is extraordinarily original, and to my mind hits the balance between strangeness and relatability just right." #ExposeOnline #AvantGarde #ExperimentalMusic http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/tashi-wada-what-is-not-strange-2.html

New #review today: "Perhaps one has heard of an album titled Opus: Destroy by a group called #IrminsWay? That was how it was presented when released back in the 90s; it was essentially a bootleg of a recording by a band called #TinPanAlley which had never been officially released. The recording at hand has finally been released in remastered form with the correct band name." #ExposeOnline #GardenOfDelights #ProgressiveRock http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/tin-pan-alley-tin-pan-alley-3.html

New #review today: "#IlBallettoDiBronzo’s flamboyant keyboardist #GianniLeone recorded an album in 1981 under the pseudonym #LeoNero called Monitor, his second album after leaving the band. 44 years later, #BlackWidowRecords has resurrected this gem of Italian #NewWave and reissued it for the first time on vinyl, as well as on CD." #ExposeOnline http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/leonero-monitor-6.html

New #review today: "In the nearly three years in between Solar Barbecue and Black and Gold, the members of #Sterbus have been contributing to others’ albums and working on a set of tunes that expand their sound dramatically. #DominiqueDAvanzo and #EmanueleSterbini turn away from the frantic #Cardiacs-inspired sound of some of their previous releases to a more balanced sound, and the result is a superb album of progressive #ChamberRock." #ExposeOnline #ProgressiveRock http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/sterbus-black-and-gold-2.html

New #review today: "The French composer/turntablist/multi-instrumentalist #FalterBramnk has a long history going back at least a few decades, when he released his album Reflux at the end of the last century; since that time he has released around 16 albums that are all very different; all seem to hover in the explorative #AvantGarde regions outside the mainstream, and his latest offering Vinyland Odyssee certainly upholds that tradition." #ExposeOnline #ExperimentalMusic http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/falter-bramnk-vinyland-odyssee-3.html

New #review today: "Those who have been following #KevinKastning for any period of time will know that most of his recordings are collaborative efforts featuring other performers. For the releases at hand he goes it alone for a series of tracks performed live in the studio without overdubs playing a number of his low-register double-necked custom made guitars." #ExposeOnline #ExperimentalMusic http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/kevin-kastning-codex-i-codex-ii-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: "#IlSegnoDelComando’s new album, Sublimazione – Live, is a live document recorded during the band’s 2025 winter tour, plus some tracks from a 2022 performance in the Netherlands. Both performances were in front of enthusiastic intimate audiences. It documents the evolution and maturation of the band’s compositions, artistry, and musicianship." #ExposeOnline #ProgressiveRock http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/il-segno-del-comando-sublimazione-live-6.html

New #review today: "#Nektar released Mission to Mars in 2024, and it’s a relatively short album of new studio material. At this point, Derek Moore is the only original member of the band remaining, but the classic Nektar sound remains unchanged, with solid rock beats and strong melodies. They never went in for metal, and they don’t go for the repetitive riffs of #SpaceRock–it’s the lyrical subject matter that gets them that association." #ExposeOnline #ProgressiveRock http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/nektar-mission-to-mars-fortyfied-2.html

New #review today: "Many years ago, the annual #BajaProg festival featured a powerful Chilean band called Entrance, who among many exceptional musicians sported a hot-shot keyboardist of the Emerson or Wakeman. That keyboardist’s name was #JaimeRojas, and Tres Piezas de Rock Progresivo is his third solo album." #ExposeOnline #ProgressiveRock http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/jaime-rosas-tres-piezas-de-rock-progresivo-3.html

New #review today: "#GaryHusband's work with #AllanHoldsworth and #JohnMcLaughlin alone gives him a high profile, and there are so many more artists he’s worked with. But he’s also been working as a leader of his own projects, and Postcards from the Past serves as an entry point to that work. But it doesn’t just feature tracks from his releases — it contains a wealth of material that’s never been available before." #ExposeOnline #jazz #JazzRock http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/gary-husband-postcards-from-the-past-2.html

New #review today: "#Maledictis is a Milwaukee, Wisconsin based #ChamberRock project led by composer, lyricist, and multi-instrumentalist #JohnMarszalkowski involving eight other musicians from near and far, six additional guest players, and seven more singers as part of a choir." #ExposeOnline #ProgressiveRock http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/maledictis-echoes-of-conscience-3.html

New #review today: "Typically of the late 70s, #Vesuvius incorporated elements of #ProgressiveRock, #psychedelia, and hard rock. And of course with the flute, you may be thinking of Ian Anderson and Jethro Tull, but that would not help you appreciate their music." #ExposeOnline #PsychedelicRock http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/vesuvius-twisted-tales-from-warped-minds-6.html

New #review today: "With #MikeJohnson’s solo debut, fans of #AvantProgressive rock have a lot to celebrate. Johnson is, of course, the driving force behind all those wonderful #ThinkingPlague albums, and The Gardens of Loss has many qualities in common with those, starting with #ElaineDiFalco’s vocals. Johnson’s compositional sense is entirely intact, only expanded with more diverse instrumentation." #ExposeOnline #CuneiformRecords #ProgressiveRock #ChamberRock http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/mike-johnson-the-gardens-of-loss-2.html

New #review today: "A long time ago, in Concepción, Chile, in the 80s and 90s, there was a band called #PrimaveraNegra (Black Spring) that had a solid following and recorded a number of their original songs that remained unreleased. Sometime between 2021 and 2023, the band got back together to give it another try, and the result is the 2024 album Tanit." #ExposeOnline #ProgressiveRock http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/primavera-negra-tanit-3.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: "Composer #SeanWilliams (a.k.a. #TheAdelaidean) is also a writer and a poet, and he drew on the foundation of the haiku, something that is short enough to read in a single breath, hence the nine breaths. Each of the nine pieces has a haiku related to it that contains the piece’s title." #ExposeOnline #ProjektRecords #AmbientMusic #ElectronicMusic http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/the-adelaidean-nine-breaths-3.html

New #review today: "Italian singer, guitarist, and composer Pier Niccolò #BambiFossati is noted for his time with the band #Garybaldi and with #Gleemen. He passed away in Genoa on June 7, 2014. This collection was released ten years after his passing, something totally unexpected for his fans, reviving interest in Fossati, one of Italy’s greatest rock guitarists." #ExposeOnline #ProgressiveRock http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/pier-niccolo-bambi-fossati-il-castello-tira-sassi-6.html

New #review today: "#BalloonsForTheDog was a band based in suburban Maryland that was active in the late 70s and early 80s. Their combination of #ArtRock, conceptual theater, humor, and social commentary drew them a cadre of loyal fans but was just too weird for mainstream audiences." #ExposeOnline #CuneiformRecords http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/balloons-for-the-dog-wicked-forms-of-old-snow-2.html

New #review today: "#MichaelBrückner is a German electronic music producer who works in many genres, but generally his emphasis is in the #BerlinSchool, #AmbientMusic, and #SpaceMusic styles, and his latest A Sequence of Colours at different times can claim to be any of the above." #ExposeOnline #ElectronicMusic #CyclicalDreams http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/michael-bruckner-a-sequence-of-colors-3.html

New #review today: "British science fiction / fantasy author #MichaelMoorcock had a close musical partnership with #Hawkwind in the 70s and 80s. Moorcock contributed his work to Hawkwind’s Warrior on the Edge of Time and Space Ritual Tour. In 1975, Moorcock and the Deep Fix recorded The New World’s Fair, a surreal psychedelic ride through decaying fairgrounds, fading utopias, and electric guitars tuned to chaos." #ExposeOnline #PsychedelicRock #SpaceRock #ProgressiveRock http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/michael-moorcock-the-deep-fix-50th-anniversary-edition-the-new-worlds-fair-6.html

New #review today: "For Umwelt, #DenmanMaroney reconvened his quintet about a year after releaseing The Air-Conditioned Nightmare, and it’s another set of fascinating and unconventional tunes that use a #jazz quintet to play music that has more in common with experimental 20th Century composition than the blues or the standard songbook." #ExposeOnline #AvantJazz #ChamberMusic http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/denman-maroney-quintet-umwelt-2.html

New #review today: "#Ubiks is a project that began in 2017, a more electronic oriented offshoot of a much earlier Chilean #SpaceRock band called #PrimaveraNegra, specifically guitarist #ReinhardtSchutz and keyboardist #MarioDelCastillo." #ExposeOnline #ProgressiveRock http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/ubiks-ciudad-sumergida-3.html

New #review today: "Longtime #FruitsDeMerRecords band #SchizoFunAddict will release their first single from their forthcoming album Desolate Ecstasy as a 7-inch turquoise 1-sided lathe cut in March 2026, an extremely fun and addictive West Coast #PsychPop song enhanced by the double female vocals of Jayne and Ilona Virostek, evoking images of Michelle Phillips and Mama Cass." #ExposeOnline #PsychedelicRock http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/schizo-fun-addict-pasteline-dream-6.html

New #review today: "#DrillForAbsentee is a band that’s taken quite a while for me to get a handle on. On the one hand, that means that their music has depth to it that can’t be figured out on casual listening; but on the other hand, it means many listeners will have to spend more time getting acquainted with it." #ExposeOnline #MathRock #PostPunk #ArtPunk http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/drill-for-absentee-strand-of-a-lake-vol-1-and-vol-2-2.html

New #review today: "Sentient: Endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness. That’s a good start for describing this latest release by #SteveRoach — a little bit of a lot of things: sequenced electronics, sweeping melodic beauty, panoramic brilliance, dreamy ambience, and curious sonic scintillations and sparkle." #ExposeOnline #ElectronicMusic #ProjektRecords #AmbientMusic http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/steve-roach-sentient-being-3.html

New #review today: "The Life and Times of Blue Larry and the Huguenot Kid is #PeterDaltrey’s 28th album, spanning a long musical career from Kaleidoscope in the 60s, Fairfield Parlour in 1970, and then a string of solo recordings starting in 1993. Peter will turn 80 in March, and he shows no signs of slowing down. He has not mellowed with age and his creativity continues to amaze." #ExposeOnline #PsychedelicRock #SingerSongwriter #ThinkLikeAKeyRecords http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/peter-daltrey-the-life-and-times-of-blue-larry-and-the-huguenot-kid-6.html