Danny Bonte

Rock On! Wednesday, June 28, 2023 – Steve Hillage, Annexus Quam, Robert Wyatt, Slapp Happy, Hawkwind & Arzachel

Psychedelic, heavy, prog and more innovating sounds spanning the late 60s and the early 70s – Wednesday January 25th. Dan’s pick of the week: Steve Hillage (Fish Rising), Annexus Quam (Osmose), Robert Wyatt (Ruth Is Stranger Than Richard), Slapp Happy (Slapp Happy), Hawkwind (Hall of the Mountain Grill) & Arzachel (Arzachel).

Fish Rising is het debuut soloalbum van de Engelse gitarist Steve Hillage, opgenomen en uitgebracht in 1975. De plaat werd opgenomen vlak voor Hillage’s vertrek uit de band Gong en veel van de spelers op dit album komen uit die band: bassist Mike Howlett , drummer Pierre Moerlen , toetsenist Tim Blake en saxofonist Didier Malherbe .

Prog Archives review: “Fish Rising, the 1975 LP from Hillage, is quite simply a lovely record. Full of beautiful guitar textures, spacey vibes, and thoughtful and spiritual lyrics.… Read more...

Art Rock Show – Departures (Week 25)

Javier Miranda is een progressieve elektronische componist uit Lugo, Spanje. Tot 2021 kon hij in eigen beheer twee albums uitbrengen, waarop hij Berlijnse School en Ambient elektronica mixt met Krautrock en Avantgarde muziek. Daarna ging het snel…

Prog Archives review: “Dense and beautiful album. Following the titles seems like a journey through the life of an ordinary person. Very ambient and atmospheric. “Everything” is exciting as a sample of the birth of life. The second song “In Transit” contains a small rhythmic base that gives it color and has influences from the more ambient themes of Aphex Twin.

“The Descent” is the darkest moment on the album with sounds that seem like a mellotron approaching dark ambient. The final “Resurrection” is absolutely suggestive and epic at times with very curious rhythmic moments and a beautiful final coda.… Read more...

Art Rock Show – Quiet Euphoria (Week 24)

Amoeba Split is een Spaanse band die progressieve rock mixt, met speciale aandacht voor de Canterbury scene, jazz en klassieke muziek. In 2010 verscheen hun eerste album, “Dance of the Goodbyes”, genomineerd door Progawards als “Beste prog debuutalbum van 2010”.

Peter Thelen van Exposé Online : “This is a band that certainly can’t be accused of flooding the market with product — after their debut album, Dance of the Goodbyes (2010) and the follow-up Second Split (2016), I was beginning to wonder if the band was still a going concern. In fact, they have even managed to add a couple new members for Quiet Euphoria, making them now an octet.

If the earlier albums pushed all of the right buttons for you, then one has nothing to worry about, this one is definitely in the same league, with many of the same 60s-70s Euro/Brit jazz-rock references that made their earlier albums so compelling; one can easily hear the strong hints of Supersister, Soft Machine, and Nucleus in their sound and approach, a creative powerhouse of Canterbury styled sounds if there ever was one, spread out across six tracks of varying length — succinct eough to fit on two sides of a long player.… Read more...

Rock On! Wednesday, June 14, 2023 – Tangerine Dream, Edgar Froese, Brian Eno, Klaus Schulze, Cluster & Vangelis

Psychedelic, heavy, prog and more innovating sounds spanning the late 60s and the early 70s – Wednesday January 25th. Dan’s pick of the week: Tangerine Dream (Phaedra), Edgar Froese (Epsilon in Malaysian Pale), Brian Eno (Another Green World), Cluster & Eno (Cluster& Eno), Klaus Schulze (Timewind) & Vangelis (Spiral).

Tangerine Dream is zonder twijfel een van de meest invloedrijke elektronische groepen aller tijden. Hun muziek heeft een grote invloed gehad op ambient, new age, techno, trance en progressieve rock, maar ook op de moderne compositie van filmmuziek. Opgericht als een psychedelische rockgroep in 1967 door Edgar Froese, werd de groep aanvankelijk geassocieerd met de Krautrock scene door vroege abstracte albums abstracte albums zoals Electronic Meditation en Zeit.

Psychedelicsight.com review: “Tangerine Dream veteran Peter Baumann says the German group’s groundbreaker “Phaedra” was a result of “happy accidents” — not hallucinogenics.… Read more...