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Archive tip: The whitest boy alive – Dreams

Today I break with a small tradition. Originally I wanted to post here only music tips that I actually have as a record in my collection. But since I found back to the black groove only a few years ago and could not ... Continue Reading →

RPWL – Tales from outer space

Probably the best progressive rock group from Germany is back. RPWL released their 10th studio album "Tales from outer space" in March. The band around singer Yogi Lang, which originally started as a Pink Floyd cover band, this time thematically deals with... Continue Reading →

Robert Ellis is The Texas Piano Man

Quite brave to choose such an album title. Inevitably, the comparison with Billy Joel's "Piano Man" from 1973 suggests itself. I don't think Robert Ellis wants to compete with Joel with this album. It is rather as a homage to... Continue Reading →

Durand Jones & The Indications – American Love Call

Since the beginning of the year I have subscribed to the German edition of Rolling Stone Magazine and have already become aware of one or the other artist through it, but here I decided after the first listen via AppleMusic directly to buy... Continue Reading →

Dido – Still on my Mind

We have had to wait six years for a new release from Dido. The result is an album with which the now 47-year-old singer has certainly not reinvented herself, but on which she finds her way back to the style that led to her success before the... Continue Reading →

Tim Bowness – Flowers at the Scene

After the success of the 2017 album "Lost in the Ghost Light", among other things winner of the Prog Award, the Briton Tim Bowness comes around the corner with his fifth solo album. Also on board this time is Steven Wilson, with whom Bowness worked from 1987... Continue Reading →

David Gray – Gold in a Brass Age

Raw, mature and radical, David Gray approaches our broken world with songs rooted in folk, country and soul that have the power to overgrow the ubiquitous filth. Kerstin Kratochwill, tonspion.de Over twenty years ago I came across the... Continue Reading →

40th anniversary: Supertramp – Breakfast in America

40 years ago, in March 1979, the sixth studio album of the British pop/rock band Supertramp was released with "Breakfast in America", which - due to the beginning change of style from the rather progressive albums of their early years to more commercial arrangements - also gave them front... Continue Reading →

Michael Kiwanuka – Love & Hate

Okay, the album is already from 2016 but if you don't know it yet, you've definitely missed something. - At least if he liked the soul of Marvin Gaye. Already his debut album from 2012 "Home Again" let friends of the... Continue Reading →

Jonathan Wilson – Rare Birds

Rare Birds - Jonathan Wilson couldn't have titled his 2018 album better, as there are quite a few unusual songs represented on this double LP. He seems to ignore genre boundaries with aplomb, conjuring up a mix of West Coast pop,... Continue Reading →

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