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Interview with DAVE KILMINSTER – Part 1
March 2013 To many, Dave Kilminster came to prominence rather recently, when he became a lead guitarist in Roger Waters’ band and started to solo atop The Wall. To this scribe, though, he became an...
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Interview with DAVE KILMINSTER – Part 2
March 2013 In the of our interview with guitarist extraordinaire, Dave Kilminster, we spoke of his solo album, , and some instrumental angles. This part, in its turn, sees us talk Dave’s famous...
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KING CRIMSON on the road to “Red”
Those who thought that the 15-disc edition of KING CRIMSON‘s “Larks Tongues In Aspic” was a mammoth endeavor, should be silenced – or roaring – with the prospect of the forthcoming “Red” reissue which...
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ASIA plumb the depth on “Gravitas”
Almost a year in the making, it’s in March that ASIA’s new record, “Gravitas,” will be out. The first to feature young guitar slinger Sam Coulson, it comprises nine recently-written tracks as well as...
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JOHN WETTON & RICHARD PALMER-JAMES – Jack-Knife / Monkey Business
Polydor 1979 & Blueprint 1999 / Cherry Red 2014 Old friends roll out their archives and rock wild. Given a wide dissipation of ‘s extracurricular works, a full-blown, multi-disc anthology of his...
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John Wetton sings classics
It’s well known that is a fan of classic rock, those songs that made him a part of it all, although he rarely gets to delivering them either live or in a studio, one regular exclusion being Bob...
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DISTRICT 97 & JOHN WETTON – One More Red Night: Live In Chicago
Primary Purpose 2014 Windy city prog quartet and elder statesman explore the song side of CRIMSO canon. In the eight years since their inception, D97 have garnered a lot of accolades without much ado,...
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ASIA Go On Axis
There’s no shortage of concert releases from the latest reunion of original ASIA line-up, although the band have moved on by now and Steve Howe left again, while , and Carl Palmer soldier on. And...
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VARIOUS ARTISTS – Keep Calm And Salute The Beatles
Purple Pyramid 2015 Popular Internet meme’s translation into (mostly) unplugged readings of the Fab Four’s fodder. In no deficit of tributes to Liverpool’s finest it takes some guts for another one to...
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JOHN WETTON and THE LES PAUL TRIO – New York Minute
Cherry Red 2015 Prog-pop protagonist explores the depth of night with pieces which made him what he is. Over the years, went out to the audience as a bass player, a frontman in a band and a sole...
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John Wetton’s Radio Sessions On The Go
Since is starting chemotherapy now, after his recent operation, there’s no plans for a solo project or an ASIA tour as of now, yet that doesn’t mean the veteran’s been spending the downtime doing...
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JOHN WETTON – The Studio Recordings Anthology
Cherry Red 2015 Secret journey of a soul survivor who used to ride the dragon wings and catch the pearls to drop them now. “One more mountain I must climb – I’ve scaled so many in my time,” sings in …...
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JOHN WETTON – Live Via Satellite
Primary Purpose 2015 Globally unplugged, prog veteran distills his back catalogue to essentials to find the pieces’ core emotionality. Acoustic shows have been part of ‘s concert presentation for two...
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UK To Issue Definitive Box Set
UK were one of the most underrated bands that arrived at the tail end of prog rock halcyon days. Taking a strange position between jazz-rock and pop, it was a combination of and Eddie Jobson’s...
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ASIA – Phoenix – Special Edition
Frontiers 2008 / Asia Music 2016 Rising again: four horsemen of “A” reunite to resume their ascent and ascendance. It took this quartet a quarter of a century to pick up where they left off on record,...
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John Wetton, Rest In Peace
It hit hard and personal. I was aware of John Wetton‘s state, and knew this tragic day would come rather sooner than later, so the more surprising seemed his upbeat mood and brave front. John, who has...
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Wetton and Downes’ ICON Release A Live Album
It was ASIA in microcosm, named ICON – the group and started back in 2005 to test waters for their main ensemble’s official reunion. But even after that the duo carried on and issued, all in all,...
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John Wetton And Geoff Downes: From Archival Tapes To A New Music
Since ‘s passing the creative future of ASIA may remain in limbo, although there’s a number of songs he and wrote in preparation for the band’s next record that can be finished to see the light of...
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JOHN WETTON – Akustika / Akustika II
Blueprint 1996 / Primary Purpose 2017 Sanguine and intimate self-portrait of pilgrim trying to forsake pride for the sake of personal progress. Appearing quietly in the wake of the boisterous “Chasing...
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WETTON-DOWNES / ICON – Urban Psalm – Live
Epicon 2017 Some enchanted evening in a church of orient majesty and rock abandon binding new angles to Anglo pop music. “It was much more a vehicle for songwriting, whereas ASIA is much more a band”:...
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