Recently-retrieved recordings from 1970 and 1973 reveal classy jazz underpinnings to this cult British Hammond-driven progressive rock trio, whose self-titled release – ‘Quatermass’ – is widely sought- after to this day.
Today’s rock aficionado has much to enjoy in this assured veteran set; taut, crisply-produced and delivered with aplomb by seasoned performers, it never falters.
Traditional folk, cool jazz, singalong soft rock, tundra to conundra - musically, this 2003 release was this celebrated English folk artist’s most varied and ambitious to date.
One year after the release of former Mott the Hoople guitarist Luther Grosvenor’s solo album ‘Another Journey’ comes a welcome follow-up in ‘I Really Don’t Know’.
Released shortly after the former Mott The Hoople/British Lions bassist’s death in 2017, an inventive and diverse solo set of semi-autobiographical compositions pick through Overend Watts’s life for inspiration.
Procol Harum drummer/singer’s subsequent career taking in first own band Freedom in 1968 formed with Procol Harum guitarist Ray Royer, 1973 successor SNAFU, formed with future-Whitesnake guitarist Micky Moody along with Harrison's extensive solo work.
Played exclusively by Steve on synthesizer and flute, 2018’s ‘A Beautiful Mystery’ is conceptually aligned to the main body of his recorded output. “I find my music being an emotional reaction on my part to the sound of the instrument rather than a crafting of melody and harmony,” he relates.
The music business is no stranger to eccentric creatives and British singer-songwriter Lynden Williams fits the bill nicely with this latest rich and exotic brew of pop/rock material.
“I tend to find my ideas as an emotional reaction to the sound of the instrument, rather than a crafting of melody and harmony, which seems to appear while I am improvising.”
Decades after its release, the rock psych debut ‘Volume One’ by Scottish band The Human Beast gets a fresh airing from the man who could have been their lead vocalist.
