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Babal - Spirit In A Meat Suit (2021)
Babal - Dreams For Imaginary Puppet Show On The Radio
Babal - Frank's Lament [EP] (2019)
Babal - The Circle of Confusion of Tongues (2018)
theBABAorchestra - Marigold (2019)
theBABAorchestra – Another Ride on the Elephant Slide
Babyflow - Obvilious (2021)
Baiki – Globalienation (2014)
Gary Bamford - The Year The Wasn't (2021)
Gary Bamford - The Unbinding (2018)
The Gary Bamford Trio – God, Love and Other Myths
Band of Rain – The Dust of Stars
Anton Barbeau - Berliner Grotesk (2019)
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Colin Bass/Daniel Biro - Still (2020)
Kodax Strophes/Martyn Bates - It Doesn't Matter Where It's Solstice When You're In The Room (2020)
Martyn Bates - I Said To Love
Beautiful Bedlam - Beautiful Bedlam (2021)
Beauty Is In The Distance - Romantic Suite (2019)
Beck Hunters - Has It Been Found? (2019)
Adrian Benavides - Same Time Next Life (2012)

Travis Benson - Travis Benson (2019)
Emily Bezar - Out of the Moment (2019)
Big Big Train_Far Skies Deep Time
Big Big Train_English Electric (Part One)

Bing Selfish -  Inside the Head of Steven Saint (2021)
Bing Selfish - In Off-on-a-Tangent Park (2018/2019)
Black Country, New Road - For The First Time (2021)
Blair - Contes centristes de l'éternel déclin (2019/2020)
Bonny Light Horesman - Rolling Golden Holy (2022))
Bonny Light Horseman - same (2020)
Samantha Boshnack's Seismic Belt - Live In Santa Monica
Billy Bottle & The Multiple – Unrecorded Beam
Dewa Budjana & Tohpati - Janapati (2019)
Dewa Budjana - Mahandini (2019)
Burnt Belief - Mutual Isolation (2021)

 

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Salim Ghazi Saeedi - United Ubiquity of Flesh (2017)
Salim Ghazi Saeedi – namoWoman (2012)
Brian Saia - Probability Clouds (2019)
Security Project – Contact (2017)

Mieko Shimizu - I Bloom (2019)
John Shirley & Jerry King - Spaceship Landing in a Cemetery
Shrunken Head Shop – Live in Germany

Mickey Simmonds – The Seven Colours Of Emptiness (2007)
Silver Cloud Express - Postcards From Outerspace [EP] (2019)
Alan Simon - Chouans (2019)
Alan Simon - Excalibur: The Ladies of the Lake
Single Celled Organism – Splinter In The Eye (2017)
Sirkis/Bialas IQ - Our New Earth [2 CD] (2019)
Six-Ring Circus – Six-Ring Circus (2018)

Soft Machine – Hidden Details (2018)
Solju – Odda Aigodat – New Times (2018)

Sonar with David Torn - Tranceportation (Volume 1) (2019)
Sonar – Live at Moods (2018)

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Graham South Quartet - By And By (2020)
Spoke of Shadows – II (2017)

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Sproingg - Clam (2020)
Elizabeth S. - Gather Love (2020)
Staritsa- Klyukva (2021)
Paul Steel – Carousel Kites : April & II (2018)
Sterbus - Solar Barbecue (2022)

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Sterbus - Real Estate/Fake Inverno (2018)
Stratus Luna -  Stratus Luna (2019)
Strawbs - Settlement (2021)
Jenny Sturgeon - The Living Mountain (2020)
Courtney Swain - Between Blood and Ocean (2019)
Al Swainger's Pointless Beautty - Heartts Full of Grace (2022)
Al Swainger’s Pointless Beauty – After & Before (2017)
Sweet Billy Pilgrim - Wapentak (2018)
Syndone – Melapesante (2010)
Syndone – La Bella e La Bestia (Beauty Is The Beast) (2012)
Syrinx Call - MirrorNeuron (2021)
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ACQUA FRAGILE
Moving Fragments
(2023 - Maracash - Italy)


https://maracashrecords.bandcamp.com/album/moving-fragments


  A group who have the uncanny talent of keeping their classic  sound along with staying up tpo date. This amazing return is from 1970's Italian progressive rock outfit, with frontier man lead vocal Bernardo Lanzetti, who made this band and some PFM albums so specifically brilliant. At this decade, to expect more beauty would be a fantasy, yet it is set before your ears, even with the first notes, this masterpiece of Italian, (and not only Italian) progressive rock that certainly grasps the notion of what the genre of "progressive" was always meant to be. ACQUA FRAGILE create another sweetly classic knockout recording, not with even a heavy breath of past to present effort.  In fact, it sounds and feels more authentic than ever.  Bernardo sounds as if he never aged a week, and all muscians present are at full force, not passing up the chance to make another massively classic album.   An album to put Acqua Fragile at the top of the few chosen progressive rock choices of all time. The first song ('Her Shadlows Torture' 05:52 - editors note:  A misspell on the 'Shadows' which is on Bandcamp at this writing - but is correct as 'Her Shadow's Torture' on physical CD)  hug you and give all relief, as to any possible doubts of a long awaited fourth album by this top notch Italian band. I claim it will leave your heart lay bleeding. Grab the spectral energy and enjoy a glimpse of beautiful cocoon birth.

  Not one song is with sacrifice, even a wink of lamb. In fact, some elements are added to further enchance and stun the audience, such as inclusive female vocals by Rossella Volta. The bulk of the outfit is Piero Canavera (drums, percussion, vocals),  Franz Dondi (bass), Bernardo Lanzetti (lead vocals, guitar, Glovox),  Stefano Pantaleoni (keyboards),  Claudio Tuma (guitars), with special aid by (aforementioned vocalist Rosella Voita) ,  Gigi Cavalli Cocchi - drums (1,6),  Sergio Ponti - drums (4,9), Stef Burns- guitar (2),  Brian Belloni - guitar (4),  Davide Piombino - 7 string guitar (5),  and David Jackson - sax & flute (6). Could you ask for more?   After one listen you cannot want more. Thank Maracash label (Italy) for standing behind so many great Italian artists who have done the blood, sweat, and tears in earlier years, and deserve the attention now.
Although the band name translates to 'Fragile Water', it might be better described as Precious Water at this point and time in our decreasingly cared for world. Perhaps even better, Rare Water. The beauty of this entire recording is apparent, true, sincere, and a step forward. Better than one would dream of, past the point of how all old fans could imagine, and  actually done in the upper atmospheres of what anyone could have dreamed of. Everyone is top notch and most of all, Lanzetti is 100% present, making it another masterpiece.  It is my deep recommendartion for all fans of both classic progressive rock and the new fields of progressive music to give this a direct and full attention (no distractions) listen. RECOMMENDED.
  ©Reviewed by Lee Henderson 1 - 19 - 2024


 

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