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Exposé Online » Issue 35
Date : January 2008
Summary : Larry Coryell, Paul Sears of The Muffins, Rock In Opposition event 2007, Interviews with Murat Ses, Secret Oyster, Tony Harn, John Hackett, Fabio Zuffanti, Ritual, Craig Padilla, Ian Bruce-Douglas
Items found : 220
From Anadolu Pop to Electric Levantine —
The Murat Ses Interview
If you are an aficionado of Turkish progressive music, you will recognize Murat Ses as one of its pioneers. And if you are a long-time Exposé reader, you may recall reading reviews of his solo work. Over the past 12 months, Murat has released two more solo albums of his East meets West fusion: Binfen 2005 Remix and Electric Levantine. We were lucky enough to interview him in 2006 to give a fuller picture of the man and his career. » Read more
(Posted by Henry Schneider 2008-01-01)
Maximal Chainsaw Muffin —
The Paul Sears Interview 2007
Paul Sears is probably best known for his many years and numerous recordings with east coast jazz-rock mainstays The Muffins. But that's just the tip of the proverbial iceberg, as multitasking is a way of life for Sears, and throughout the years he has been involved in numerous different bands and projects in a variety of roles. During the summer of 2007, Exposé had a chance to talk with Paul, and recap some of the highlights of the drummer's long, diverse, and continuing career. » Read more
(Posted by Peter Thelen 2008-01-01)
A.C.T. - Silence
I'm new to this Swedish quintet, but have to say I'm mightily impressed. In a nutshell, these guys have come up with a prog rock take on what Queen were doing in the mid 70s. Other reference points... » Read more
(Posted by Paul Hightower 2008-01-01)
Adachi Kyodai - Xianshi
Sort of like Guitar Craft gone wild, these two exceptional sibling guitarists Source K and Ryusuke that make up Adachi Kyodai offer some high-intensity listening as they intertwine their strings...
AdiB - Spinning Like a Top
AdiB is an Italian quartet (bass, keyboards, guitars, and drums) formerly known as Assolo di Bongo who released their first album in 2001. Their new album, Spinning Like a Top, contains...
Alec K Redfearn and the Eyesores - The Blind Spot
This album can't be called dull — it's intriguing, unpredictable, quirky, sometimes disturbing, and masterful. It starts with industrial sounds reminiscent of walking up stairs,...
(Posted by Pam Thompson 2008-01-01)
Alex Carpani - Waterline
Coming a couple of years after the originally announced release date of July 2005 is Alex Carpani's "progressive rock" album. I put that in quotes because Swiss-born Carpani,...
(Posted by Mac Beaulieu 2008-01-01)
Alison Faith Levy & Mushroom - Yesterday I Saw You Kissing Tiny Flowers
For this limited edition release on the British 4Zero label, San Francisco Bay Area improv-trippers Mushroom have joined forces with the soulful and seductive voice of singer Alison Faith Levy....
Alpha Wave Movement - The Regions Between: Unreleased Tracks 2001-2006
This collection marks 10 years of music from Alpha Wave Movement, aka Greg Kyryluk. With interests shifting more toward ambient and improvised collaborations, it seems fitting to have a retrospective... » Read more
Alquimia - Forever
Alquimia, beginning with her album Coatlique — Goddess of the Earth back in the early 90s established herself as the premier female voice in the ambient/experimental field. A series of... » Read more
Amarok - Sol de Medianoche
Over numerous releases now, Amarok has essentially created their own musical world, somewhere between the Mediterranean-Arabic folk music axis, the medieval sounds that might have been associated...
Amon Düül II - Carnival in Babylon, Wolf City & Vive la Trance
Revisited Records is busy reissuing classic Krautrock albums by Klaus Schulze, Kraan, Guru Guru, Holger Czukay, and Amon Düül II. These latest discs are Amon Düül II's fourth, fifth, and...
Ana Fort - A Long Story
The format for pianists has long been established by the likes of Bill Evans and modernized by international stars such as Lyle Mays and Rainier Bruninghaus. Enter Israeli pianist Anat Fort, who... » Read more
(Posted by Jeff Melton 2008-01-01)
Anekdoten - A Time of Day
Anekdoten's first release in three years finds them on familiar ground. In the 90s they pioneered combining alt rock grunge with the heavy prog of 70s King Crimson. They're back at it here, though... » Read more
Antiklimax - Plus loin vers l'est
Antiklimax is the name given to the keyboard endeavors of Frenchman Vincent Benesy. This CD is the result of five years' work focusing on many Euro film based ideas as impetus to funky compositions... » Read more
Areknames - Love Hate Round Trip
By the very nature of the progressive rock "scene" you run into a lot of groups classified as retro, and by and large by "retro" people mean "sounds like Genesis." This simplification of... » Read more
(Posted by Sean McFee 2008-01-01)
Arti e Mestieri - First Live in Japan
The modern incarnation of Arti e Mestieri has not seen much documentation on CD, so it is nice to see this release covering a recent concert in Japan. The two main components of the group are still...
As Lonely as Dave Bowman - Pod
The genesis of this floating ambient side-project by Sam Rosenthal, founder of Black Tape for a Blue Girl, is an interesting one. It began with Rosenthal's four year old son playing with a...
Ashes Are Nutritious - Frustration +
This oddly named quartet hails from South Amboy, NJ, and brings a number of strong elements to their debut studio release Frustration +, including a powerful vocal presence in frontman Billy... » Read more
Astralis - Bienvenida al interior
Astralis are part of the explosion of new prog rock bands emerging from Latin and South America, Chile to be more specific. The band was formed around guitarist and singer Patricio Vera in 1999 and... » Read more
At War with Self - Acts of God
Guitarist Glenn Snelwar's second release under the At War with Self moniker is a curious turn in direction. By pushing the project in a more personalized course the possibilities for subsequent live... » Read more
Baby Grandmothers - Baby Grandmothers
Baby Grandmothers were a legendary underground Swedish psych trio from the late 60s who performed extensively throughout Scandinavia but only released a single in Finland. The band consisted of...
Baku Llama - Eris
Eris is the debut release by this Southern California based trio, oft given to systematic discoveries in the rockier terrains of what one might call soundtrack music. Their vision is rooted... » Read more
Beggar's Farm - Itullians
I have to admit that when I saw this one I thought, "Not another tribute band." But there was that list of participants on the front cover: Clive Bunker, Mick Abrahams, Bernardo Lanzetti, Jonathan... » Read more
(Posted by Jon Davis 2008-01-01)
Big Big Train - The Difference Machine
Over the years, UK proggers Big Big Train have been migrating their sound from the Genesis-ish fare served up on early records like 1994's Goodbye to the Age of Steam to a more modern...
Big Brother & the Holding Co - Hold Me - Live in Germany
For the better part of forty years the core members of Big Brother (Peter Albin, Dave Getz and Sam Andrew on bass, drums and guitar respectively) have been playing together, and by now are an... » Read more
Bill Holt - Dreamies Program 12
Among many, an early and great of music in opposition to the recent caterwauling of our current government is alms by re: There's also Joy Division's broader and more concise "Atrocity... » Read more
(Posted by K. Leimer 2008-01-01)
Biota - Half a True Day
Colorado Art colony Biota continues to make strides in their first new collaboration in over six years. Since their last recording, the European folk elements have been put in the background in...
Birch Book - Vol. II: Fortune & Folly
Birch Book is in reality singer/songwriter/guitarist Michael B'eirth (also known as B'ee), a rising star in the acid-folk and psych-folk scene. Fortune & Folly breaks down into two... » Read more
Birdsongs of the Mesozoic with Oral Moses - Extreme Spirituals
This album is likely to split Birdsongs fans. Some might consider it a brave creative statement while others may see it as a failed experiment. I'm in the first category and in my opinion...
Black Bonzo - Sound of the Apolcalypse
The Laser's Edge is the label that introduced the world to Landberk and White Willow, and proprietor Ken Golden was instrumental in bringing Änglagård and Anekdoten to the attention of prog... » Read more
Bob Lind - Elusive Butterfly - The Complete 1966 Jack Nitzsche Sessions
In the early sixties at the height of the folk boom, Denver based singer/songwriter Bob Lind was regularly working the coffee houses in the area, and later (as the local folk scene dried up) moved to... » Read more
Born Again Floozies - 7 Deadly Sinners
After last year's five-song debut EP Novelties, Addenda & Ephemera, the release of this Indianapolis band's first full length CD was a highly anticipated event here at Exposé central.... » Read more
Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band - Live at Bickershaw Festival - North West England 1972
The front of the package proclaims "Joe Strummer's favourite concert." Well, I'm sure it was great to be there. The Captain and his crackshot '72 touring lineup (Rockette...
Cathedral & Rum - Surreal Typewriter
Chris Hartford and his cohorts have returned for their third outing, and in a nutshell if you like what was done before you'll probably enjoy this as well. C&R albums have always been...
Causa Sui - Free Ride
The strummy acoustic riff and rough-cut harmonies on the title track give few clues as to what lies beyond the second index on this Danish band's sophomore release. With "Lotus,"...
Cédric Vuille - #804 Center Street
A founding member of the Swiss ensemble Debile Menthol, then of L'Ensemble Rayé, Cédric Vuille is an accomplished multi-instrumentalist. In the liner notes he writes about when, at age 17 and... » Read more
Charlemagne Palestine - A Sweet Quasimodo between Black Vampire Butterflies for Maybeck
In the 30 or so years that Charlemagne Palestine has been around, this writer has never heard any of his music until now. It was inevitable that one of his recordings would reach my ears eventually,... » Read more
Claudia Quintet - For
For their fourth release, John Hollenbeck and company have produced yet another engaging disc of Euro-folk chamber jazz, for lack of a better quick descriptive for their unique and identifiable style.... » Read more
Claudio Cordero - Enlace
One of the best young guitarists anywhere in the Americas, Claudio Cordero delivers the goods on this fantastic first solo effort. The CD is all instrumental, and features exceptional playing from...
Cold Fairyland & Lin Di - Ten Days in Magic Land, Bride in Legend, 2005 Live & Seeds on the Ground
One of the first musical things I discovered after moving to Beijing was this band from Shanghai. Their Chinese name (Lengku Xianjing) is taken from the Chinese title of a book by Japanese writer...
Contrarian - Minor Complexities
While one can't fault this for its flawless execution, outstanding vocals or the excellent and thoughtful lyrics, it certainly doesn't cover any new ground stylistically beyond that well worn path... » Read more
Court - Frost of Watermelon
A recent stateside tour was the first I had heard of this Italian quintet since their two WMMS label releases over a decade ago. What is surprising is how little has changed with their sound in the... » Read more
Crime in Choir - Crime in Choir, The Hoop & Trumpery Metier
This instrumental San Francisco based outfit started out life in 2000 as a guitar / bass / drums / keyboards quartet, adopting a somewhat psychedelic groove-based jamming style mixed with elements...
Cruz de Hierro - Crossroads
Some may recall this Mexican quintet from their performance at Baja Prog many years back; in fact they have come a long way toward finding their own sound since those earlier days. Their stock in... » Read more
D'arcana - Premonitions
The sprawling two-disc set at hand is D'arcana's third release, nearly two hours of ambitious studio recordings squarely in the modern progressive rock vein. This northern California trio is strong on... » Read more
David Gilmour - Remember That Night - Live at the Royal Albert Hall
For those living under a rock, David Gilmour has recently completed a world tour in support of his 2006 solo album, On an Island, which this double DVD set documents and commemorates. Disk... » Read more
David Helpling & Jon Jenkins - Treasure
Both Helpling and Jenkins each have numerous masterful releases to their credit, so in collaboration one could expect only the best, and that's exactly what they have delivered. The cover...
David Sylvian - When Loud Weather Buffeted Naoshima
A commissioned installation that might immediately strike listeners as the soundtrack for a diorama in its startling ability to create the sense of motion and event within a setting of largely... » Read more
David Torn - Presenz
Guitarist David Torn's return to the ECM label is surely a testament to the man's desire to push forward. His long time collaborators (Tim Berne and his Science Friction band of improvisers) provide... » Read more
Deborah Martin / J. Arif Verner - Anno Domini
Both Martin and Verner have been regulars in the pages of Exposé over the years with their respective releases, but Anno Domini marks their first collaboration. Anyone...
Dennis Rea - Live at the Forbidden City
Dennis Rea is a Seattle area guitarist who's worked with Jeff Greinke, Bill Rieflin and may be known to some through his participation with groups Land and Stackpole. Long before he made his...
Dino Brassea - Del Cielo y la Tierra
Dino Brassea is known to many through his long relationship with Mexican prog rockers Cast. His voice and flute playing have been one of Cast's trademark ingredients until recently when he...
Edward Ka-Spel - Dream Logik Part One
EKS has a new solo album and it is probably more out there than Melancholics Anonymous. It is always a treat to hear a new EKS release. Sometimes the new music is like visiting with an old...
Edward Ka-Spel - Melancholics Anonymous
Melancholics Anonymous is a collection of EKS pieces from rare vinyl releases plus one previously unreleased track. Even with reissuing these songs to a wider audience, this CD is a...
Electric Kompany - Electric Kompany
There are plenty of new bands to check out these days, though there haven't been many notable American bands in a while. These guys change all that. Electric Kompany hails from New York and...
Eleni Karaindrou - Elegy of the Uprooting
Karaindrou may be best known for her film scoring work since the early 80s in her native Greece. Elegy is a sprawling two-disc live set recorded at Megaron in Athens in March 2005; it...
Elton Dean / Sophia Domancich - Sea of Infinity & Avant
Two of the late Elton Dean's last sessions as leader and co-leader have been championed by Hux records in the UK. Sea of Infinity captures him again leading an out session careening...
Elton Dean & the Wrong Object - The Unbelievable Truth
It's still hard to believe that Brit jazz giant Elton Dean is no longer with us. Considering how alive his performance from fall 2005 is with Belgian band the Wrong Object, it was clearly a...
Emiliano Sicilia - Devotion Materialize
Now that we are in the era of cut-and-paste music, there are many more possibilities for bizarre juxtaposition of sounds and styles than back in the days of tape editing. Italian guitarist Emiliano... » Read more
Eroc - Eroc 1, 2 & 3
After 30 years Eroc's solo albums are now available on CD and finally finding their way to the US in 2007. Eroc remastered them from the original tapes, added bonus material, and included liner...
Ex-Vagus - Ames Vagabondes
Ex-Vagus is a French prog rock quintet (bass, drums, keyboards, vocals, and guitars) that would fit well in the Musea stable of French artists (Ange, Pulsar, etc.). Ames Vagabondes is their... » Read more
Ezoo - Ezoo
Last time I checked there are not many Mexican bands with an American Stick player and singer who's also a woman, but that's what we have here with Ezoo. Besides Linda Cushma, Ezoo...
Fit & Limo - Astralis
Fit & Limo have been producing some of the finest psychedelic folk music ala the Incredible String Band since the early 80s. Astralis, subtitled New Studies on Strange Folk,...
Five Fifteen - Alcohol
Has it really been eight years since Six Dimensions of the Electric Camembert? That was the last full album by this Finnish hard rock band this writer heard, more or less corresponding to...
Flëur - First Four Albums
Flëur is essentially the Ukrainian duo of Olga Pulatova (piano, vocals) and Elena Voynarovskaya (guitar, vocals) along with a variety of other players on flute, cello, violin, keyboards, bass, and... » Read more
Flower Kings - Instant Delivery
Instant Delivery is a concert video shot in Holland during The Flower Kings' 2006 Paradox Hotel tour. The intent with this 2-DVD set was to present the group's show in...
Flower Kings - The Sum of No Evil
Best I can figure, this is around the twelfth album by Sweden's Flower Kings, and across all those years they have pretty much maintained a course of prog-rock purity that stays the straight...
Focus - Focus 9 / New Skin
After an initial stab at a return to action with 2002's Focus 8, Thijs van Leer is back with an almost totally new lineup that's sounding better than ever. That is, if your tastes...
Forrest Fang & Carl Weingarten - Invisibility
Forrest Fang is best known for his recent works in the area of world music, and Weingarten for his slide and ebow work with resonator guitars (dobro), so initially a collaboration between these two... » Read more
Frogg Café - The Safenzee Diaries
First things first. This is one of the absolute best sounding live albums this writer has heard, made even more surprising because nearly every track across the 2CD set was recorded at a different... » Read more
Fromuz - Audio Diplomacy
Fromuz is short for "From Uzbekistan," the homeland country for this inspired quintet that took Tashkent by storm a few years ago. Guitarist Vitaly Popeloff leads the band in a series of fusion and... » Read more
Genesis - 1976-1982
Even though this box set covers the post-Gabriel years from 1976's A Trick of the Tail through 1981's Abacab, it was actually the first released. As with the other...
Genre Peak - Ends of the Earth
Genre Peak is the trio of Martin Birke (vocals, drum programming, percussion), Daniel Panasenko (Stick, upright bass), and Stephen Sullivan (guitar, guitar synth, backing vocals). I reviewed an album... » Read more
Gift - Awake and Dreaming
The Gift are a fairly new British group targeting the more accessible side of the progressive spectrum. They have lots of analog keys and such, although many songs are just a singer and an acoustic... » Read more
Goad - In the House of the Dark Shining Dreams
During the last decade several Italian bands which hit the big time in the 70s have got back on track. Some examples are Arti & Mestieri, Museo Rosenbach, and Osanna. Others, on the contrary,...
(Posted by Alessandro Michelucci 2008-01-01)
Gösta Berlings Saga - Tid är Ljud
This doesn't come on the scene with threats to take the prog world by storm, but rather insinuates itself subtly, from the gentle cover art through the music itself, which wraps many styles and...
Graham Collier - Hoarded Dreams
On a purely practical level, this release is hard to categorize. It is the first wide appearance of a performance from the Bracknell Jazz Festival in 1983, so it is both a new release and an archival... » Read more
Gravity Tree - Ultimate Backward
Gravity Tree is one of the more interesting progressive bands around, a duo who covers all the instruments of a four piece band, plus vocals; and they do this live too. Guitarist Linc plays a... » Read more
Green Milk from the Planet Orange - You Take Me to the World
Read the credits: "All songs improvised by GMFTPO" and (especially if you're familiar with their other recordings) you know you're in for a trip. A strange and disturbing...
Grosskopf, Baltes, Heilhecker - Sunya Beat - The Jelenia Gora Sessions
Ricochet Dream sponsors an annual gathering of Tangerine Dream fans and bands. In 2004 the Ricochet Gathering occurred in Jelenia Gora, Poland and Sunya Beat's performance is captured on this CD.... » Read more
Guru Guru - Seven Reissues
Guru Guru is one of the better known Krautrock bands from the 70s. In Spring 1973 they released their fourth album Guru Guru, engineered by the legendary Conny Plank, featuring drummer...
Haakon Ellingsen - Bounty
Many many years ago (in issue #12 to be precise) we reviewed a wonderful and heavily Beatles influenced psychedelic pop album titled Kindergarten by Norwegian trio The Last James. Haakon... » Read more
Hail - Hello Debris
The ongoing collaboration between avant garde multi-instrumentalist Bob Drake and vocalist Susanne Lewis continues to confuse and confound. Drake and Lewis this time pull in more indie rock...
Hectic Watermelon - The Great American Road Trip
Hectic Watermelon is less a band than a solo project built around the talents of guitarist John Czajkowski. For this album he's assembled a capable trio to back him that includes bass (Harley... » Read more
Here Are the Facts You Requested - Felt & Testing Ground Live
Somewhere back in the late 90s, after seeing them open for the Mike Keneally Band, we reviewed this San Jose band's earlier release, Shocks and Struts, which proved them to be a...
Hiromi's Sonicbloom - Time Control
Japanese jazz pianist Hiromi Uehara's previous releases have all borne the name "Hiromi" and basically consisted of her standing trio with bassist Tony Grey and drummer Martin Valihora. Guitarist... » Read more
Horslips - Roll Back
It was a sad day in 1980 when I read in Melody Maker that Horslips were calling it a day. The premier Irish folk-rock band had survived a decade without a single personnel change, gone... » Read more
Hot Tuna - Double Dose
Long unavailable on CD, this full-length live disc (originally a 2LP set) is a superb summary of Hot Tuna's career up to that point; in fact the band split up shortly after the album hit the street in... » Read more
Hoven Droven - Jumping at the Cedar
In the whole Nordic Revival of the last decade (or is it just one record label?), there's traditionalists like Väsen and JPP, and there's dabblers in electronics like Hedningarna and Sorten Muld,... » Read more
Ian Anderson - Plays the Orchestral Jethro Tull
Over the last several years, Ian Anderson has been taking breaks from his regular band work for the occasional solo album and tour. On this occasion, his four-piece backing band is supplemented by a... » Read more
Ilitch - Lena's Life and Other Stories
This is the second disc of all new material in Ilitch's recent batch of activity beginning with Hors Temps in 2004 (last years' Rainy House was mixed with older...
Imogene - Imogene
Certainly one of the ways for a band to achieve a distinctive sound is to feature an unconventional lineup of instruments. Imogene takes this tack by taking a typical b/d/g/k format and...
Iona - Iona DVD & Live in London DVD
Celtic prog band Iona are back in a big way, not only with their recent studio release, The Circling Hour, but also with two new DVDs. This is a great set both for fans and those new to...
Iona - The Circling Hour
It's been six years since Iona's last album, Open Sky, and the good news is that everything the Anglo-Irish band had working so well for them hasn't been forgotten. Some...
Jakko M. Jakszyk - The Bruised Romantic Glee Club
Guitarist Jakko Jakszyk has finally come into his own with his current solo recording. After stints with Level 42, Dizrhythmia, and 21st Century Schizoid Band and numerous guest spots, the...
James Sudakow - Green
The tribal beats and pulsating electronic vibe in the opening minutes of "Black" set the stage for some amazingly incisive electric violin work as the piece slowly builds intensity...
Janet Feder / Fred Frith - Ironic Universe
The word "sonorous" seems meant for this recording. In addition to the inherently warm and pliant voicings of the acoustic guitar and the further extension of those voicings by any...
Jim Cole and Spectral Voices - Innertones
A few years back I reviewed Jim Cole's then-latest release The Way Beyond, a heavily processed drone-like dreamscape sourced exclusively from overtone singing. This latest release offers... » Read more
John Curtis - Short Songs about Affordable Food
An interesting concept — and a successful one too, that certainly lives up to its title. There are 43 songs here, and only a handful break the minute-and-a-half mark. Some are instrumentals, but... » Read more
Josiah - No Time
I can close my eyes and really believe that I'm listening to some long lost British heavy rock classic from 1970 on the Vertigo label. Josiah has that sound down cold. Think Sabbath, Motorhead, Uriah... » Read more
JPP - Artology
Just when you thought you'd had enough of Nordic fiddles, along comes this little gem from Finland. I like Scandinavian folk music as much as the next guy — probably more, actually — though I'll... » Read more
K Leimer - The Useless Lesson
At first listen, it might seem like The Useless Lesson takes two paths, one of melodic avant-garde chamber explorations, and another of more spacious ambient territory, interleaved...
Ken Field - Under the Skin
We all know saxophonist Field from his many years with Birdsongs of the Mesozoic, and of late, his Revolutionary Snake Ensemble also. His solo albums tend to be lesser known, perhaps because they are... » Read more
Klangwelt - XOIO
XOIO is Gerald Arend's (aka Klangwelt) third CD release. Gerald plays New Agey electronic music. The majority of his music fits within the trance-techno realm making it great for the...
Klaus Schulze - Kontinuum
With great anticipation I waited for the release of Klaus Schulze's 45th solo album Kontinuum and I was not disappointed. Klaus has been reissuing lots of music lately, but it is two...
Klaus Schulze - Moondawn
Moondawn was Klaus' first electronic masterpiece. This was the first recording using Klaus' big "Moog." Beautiful scintillating abstract electronic sounds open the...
Klaus Schulze - Revisited Records Reissues, Part 1
Revisited Records continues its reissue of the Klaus Schulze back catalog with another 12 CDs. I haven't quite figured out their rationale, but they are releasing 12 a year covering the...
Klaus Schulze - Timewind
Next in the Revisited reissue series after Blackdance is Timewind, Klaus' fifth release, the one he considers his breakout album and the one that brought him worldwide...
Kurt Reifler - Kurt Reifler
The first comparison that came to mind when I started on these tunes was Lenny Kravitz, though with more down-to-earth production and less self-important posing. There's also a hint of Living Colour,... » Read more
Kurt Rongey - With Form It Threatens Silence
Quite a few years ago — I think it was after I first heard Echolyn — I devised a new sub-genre of progressive rock, part of my own eccentric system of categorizing music. I called this sub-genre... » Read more
Lady Lake - Unearthed
By one scheme of reckoning, rarities collections come three categories: those that are only of interest to established fans of the artist, those that can serve as an introduction to a newbie, and... » Read more
Lambert and Nuttycombe - At Home
Been waiting a long long time for this gem to arrive on CD. Craig Nuttycombe and the late Denis Lambert got their start as a folk duo in the Los Angeles area after years of playing in a number of... » Read more
Larry Coryell / Victor Bailey / Lenny White - Traffic
These seasoned players need no introduction for any chemistry coaxed from old bottles. The nucleus of this power trio of Larry Coryell (Eleventh House), Victory Bailey (Weather Report), and Lenny...
Lazuli - En Avant Doute
Atendees of either the 2006 or 2007 Baja Prog festivals have been fortunate enough to see Lazuli do their thing live on stage. They truly are one of the most interesting groups among Musea's...
Lindsey Boullt - Composition
Boullt's debut CD Composition is a surprisingly masterful and well-paced collection of guitar-based instrumental pieces that spark the imagination and elevate the spirit electric. He's... » Read more
Little Tragedies - Sixth Sense
I am having a bit of difficulty identifying my issues with Little Tragedies' third release The Sixth Sense and I don't wish to sound negative. I have tried unsuccessfully on several occasions... » Read more
Lo-Fi Chorus - Something in the Air
Lo-Fi Chorus is an indie band from Dallas, TX obviously influenced by Elvis Costello. Something in the Air is their second release and one they hope will bring their music to a wider...
Lolli Zan - Ancient Girl
Well, you never know what might show up in your mailbox when you write for this magazine. This one was a pleasant surprise. It's fairly ambitious independent rock with a flavor of India, and maybe... » Read more
Lucia Micarelli - Music from a Farther Room
So, I've got this record to review. Drop-dead gorgeous raven-haired violin goddess, an obviously classically trained violinist with that Trans-Siberian Orchestra rock twist on your grandparents'... » Read more
(Posted by David Bischoff 2008-01-01)
M.A.S.S. - Mysteria
In the early 70s there was the legendary Krautrock band Mythos, led by multi-instrumentalist Stephan Kaske. Over the decades Kaske remained active as a musician, ultimately becoming a solo...
Mad Juana - Acoustic Voodoo
I was going to say, "Here's one out of left field" but that's unfair. Mad Juana comes from somewhere outside the ballpark entirely, from some dark, candle-lit back-alley...
Magenta - The Singles
Magenta has always had a healthy output of singles alongside their three studio albums. Rather than keep re-releasing singles, Rob Reed (the group's keyboard player, composer and producer)...
Magicfolk - Magicfolk
Like the bright sun burning through the morning fog, Magicfolk come bearing tradition, vision, passion, and mysticism. On this, their debut, the seven-piece is blessed with the beautiful lead voice of... » Read more
Magma - Mythes et Légendes 1
Not to be confused with their 1985 CD with the exact same title, this DVD is the first of four that are being compiled from the shows that took place at Le Triton from May 10th to June 4th 2005....
Mar de Robles - Indígena
This second album from Mar de Robles is both a continuation and a departure from the first. It's an example of a band honing its craft and moving on and up. The five piece features vocals /...
Margarita Botello / José Luis Fernández Ledesma - La Paciencia de Job
Based in Mexico City, José Luis Fernández Ledesma's projects appear every year or so quietly with little fanfare; he is definitely one of the most underrated artists around,...
Mark Jenkins - This Island Earth
On the heels of his double CD Live in the USA, Mark Jenkins has released his 14th album This Island Earth. It presents three styles of electronic music: 1) a purely digital... » Read more
Metaphor - The Sparrow
Acclaimed US prog act Metaphor's third album is finally out after two-plus years of refinement, and the finished result is well worth the wait. I was lucky enough to receive a group of rough demos... » Read more
Michael Fahres - The Tubes
This one falls into the "environmental music" category. German artist Michael Fahres "composed" these pieces using sounds found in nature or from sources not originally intended for this purpose. He... » Read more
Michel Sajrawy - Yathrib
The nine tracks presented on Yathrib not only attempt to bridge Arabic traditional composition forms, western jazz idioms and progressive rock, they also bridge the cultural differences... » Read more
Minoke? - Sangaky
This is the follow up to this Japanese quartet's impressive 2003 debut, Taneshina. The jazz approach seen on the debut is carried forward here, though this time even more non-jazz...
Mirror Snake - Mirror Snake
Mirror Snake is an Oakland, CA-based neo-psych band. They play hard-edged post punk fuzzed out psychedelic rock that brings to mind bands like Dead Flowers, Plastic Crimewave Sound, and at times Amon... » Read more
Moby Grape - Moby Grape, Wow, & Grape Jam
One of the very best of the late 60s San Francisco bands (if not the best), Moby Grape's recordings as well as the band's name itself has long been tied up in endless cycles of litigation thanks to...
Mooch - Gaiaspace
Dripping with glissando and staggering from frequent hamsterish workouts on the pitch wheel, Gaiaspace (not Gaia's pace?) is indeed Space Music, all the way from the strained noun-combo of... » Read more
My Sleeping Karma - My Sleeping Karma
My Sleeping Karma are four guys living in the middle of Germany hard at work crafting and playing minimal retro-psychedelic music that can easily stand up to Harmonia's Krautrock masterpieces...
Naoki Ishida - Fazing Redust
Although one's initial reaction to this obviously low-budget recording (the hiss throughout is quite noticeable) of seemingly aimless sonic noodling might be rejection, the seven tracks herein do have... » Read more
Nautilus - What Colours the Sky in Your World?
Nautilus is a UK quartet of guitars, keyboards, drums, and bass. They play excellent instrumental music that is a melodic version of mid-period King Crimson, if you know what I mean. King Crimson can... » Read more
Nels Cline - New Monastery: A View into the Music of Andrew Hill
Nels Cline's affinity for pummeling sound boundaries as well as working within jam bands and standard song structures (e.g. – Wilco) is now further realized within the works of another...
Neo - Broadcast
Prog rock super groups just won't go away. First there was Transatlantic (the rumor is that Neo were going to originally call themselves Non-Pacific as a joke) and now we have this ensemble, founded... » Read more
Nexus - Perpetuum Karma
This Argentine symphonic band made a big splash back around the turn of the decade, fronted by beautiful lead singer with golden voice, Mariela Gonzalez, leading to invitations to Baja and...
Nouvelles Lectures Cosmopolites - Friesengeist Part π - Ascendances
For the third installment of his Friesengeist series, Julien Ash has pared things down, utilizing only four musicians to augment his own keyboards and effects; previous releases featured eight or... » Read more
Novalis - Novalis
Novalis was a Krautrock band from Hamburg, Germany and their self-titled second album is part of Revisited Records' reissuance of the Brain back catalog. This album is an amazing mixture of folk...
NR Hills - Eleven Nails in the Coffin
These pieces originally appeared on English composer and musician N.R. Hill's first three (now deleted) albums: Romeo & the Beast, Nails, and The Triumph of Death. With...
Nurse with Wound - Rock n Roll Station
Somewhere within the seven pieces that comprise Rock 'n' Roll Station a sadly conformist aesthetic emerges, apparently in conformity with its own tradition of non-conformity....
Odin - SWF Session 1973 & Live at the Maxim
Along with the reissue of this quartet's amazing self-titled debut album from '73 (which originally appeared on the Vertigo label), Long Hair has released these two collections of archival...
Oki Hikoki - Krinkle
From some Wright honorable Meddle-era keyboard plonks to pretty much anyone's arpeggiated Telecaster (here noted to be a "Rikencaster"), Brian Packham has been listening...
Os Mundi - 43 Minuten
Os Mundi, Latin for "origin of the world," was a 70s Berlin-based band that released only two albums, Latin Mass and 43 Minuten. Both of these Krautrock classics have been...
Øresund Space Collective - It's All About Delay
The ØSC web site states "totally improvised space rock!" That was quite evident on their debut release reviewed in Issue #34. A lot of "water has passed under the bridge" since then (10...
Panzerballett - Panzerballett
In my mind I picture the dancing of tanks — the cover art helps. But the only dance I can imagine is a slow, clumsy, brutish affair, most unlike the quick, dextrous, sophisticated music I...
Pendragon - Past and Presence
It's funny that Pendragon, who represented the "new wave" of prog rock not that long ago, have now been around long enough to be having commemorative reunion and anniversary...
Periferia del Mondo - Periferia del Mondo (3)
Their third album, my first to hear. There's a good variety of tones and influences here, not really like anything else I can think of. Some of the heavier parts remind me of the heavier...
Peter Hammill - Singularity
Peter Hammill's hardened stare adorns the cover of the songwriter's current recording from his home studio in Wilts, UK. If fans needed any reminder, the singer's stance has always included... » Read more
Phased - Medications
The promo sheet says something about Black Sabbath crossed with Hawkwind, and for once you can take that at face value. Heavy, spaced-out rocking good fun, skeletal imagery notwithstanding. These guys... » Read more
Phideaux - Doomsday Afternoon
This is a very different turn from last year's The Great Leap, but that's what Phideaux does – a different sound with every new release, but one can always count on excellent... » Read more
Pinnacle - Meld
Heck, any band that gives thanks to "the spectacular Eliza Dushku for inspiration" deserves the benefit of the doubt, don't they? This American three-piece treads some familiar ground — the... » Read more
Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet
Not known for uplifting and cheerful music, Porcupine Tree has delivered another dose of downer prog rock. The theme of Fear of a Blank Planet is adolescent angst and the large number of...
Porcupine Tree - Nil Recurring
This mini album consists of four songs (totaling about 30 minutes) that were written and recorded during the Fear of a Blank Planet album session but were held off for a variety of...
Psicotropia - Grog
A few years back this young Spanish trio left its mark on the audience in Mexicali, proving themselves to be competent purveyors of free-wheeling high-energy jamming and tightly composed math-rock....
Puppet Show - The Tale of Woe
Puppet Show's long awaited second studio album has finally made it out the door. Squashing any blatant anticipation, the quintet jumps right to it on the opening cut, "Seasons,"...
Pure Reason Revolution - The Dark Third
Pure Reason Revolution is part of a new breed of British Neo-progressive acts balancing neo-folk vocal phrases with familiar engaging art rock trappings. Led by guitarist Jon Courtney and bassist...
Quodia - The Arrow
Several years in the making, Quodia is the brain child of Warr guitar masters Trey Gunn and Joe Mendelson. Somewhat similar to many of Laurie Anderson's multi-media productions, the Crimson alumnus... » Read more
Ranarim - Morgonstjärna (Morning Star)
This tasty and rousing slice of modern Swedish trad-folk grows on the listener like a nice warm coat on a cold winter morning. This is music full of color, warmth, melody, and rich in tradition,...
Randy California - The Euro-American Years 1979-1983
It merits discussion as to what, in the early 80s context, constituted the difference between a Spirit album and a Randy California album. Because nearly every Spirit composition in those days was...
Rapoon - Time Frost
Glacial movements indeed. On this release (as on many before), Rapoon (a.k.a. Robin Storey) creates atmospheric minimalist musical landscapes that pass the drone test, although on this particular... » Read more
Ritual - The Hemulic Voluntary Band
Is this some long lost Gentle Giant album that I'm hearing? Just insert Patrik Lundström into Derek Shulman's shoes and you get an idea of the sound bursting from the title track...
Riverside - Rapid Eye Movement
Riverside's new one consolidates their position at the forefront of Polish prog bands and convincingly encapsulates what makes this quartet so effective, with few of the hamstrings that can...
Robert Fripp - At the End of Time: Churchscapes Live in England & Estonia, 2006
There is a great volume of music that we can work to comprehend, and there is a more elusive body within the body of music that it is best to apprehend. The first, of course, is a conscious...
Robert Wyatt - Comicopera
Robert Wyatt must truly be the most playful world artist on the planet. His tireless efforts making strong musical statements in pop and jazz format stand up and apart from any other British or US...
Roger Powell - Fossil Poets
Roger Powell is best known as long-time keyboardist for Utopia as well as his early pioneering synthesizer records (Cosmic Furnace and Air Pocket). Fossil Poets is his first... » Read more
Runaway Totem - Esameron
Since their debut in the early 90s, Runaway Totem has always had interesting music to serve up. Their early Black Widow releases were extremely dark and twisted endeavors, while their first for Musea... » Read more
Rush - Snakes and Arrows
When a short audio sample of "Far Cry" was posted on Rush's web site it led to excited and hopeful premonitions of a return to the kind of prog rock the Canadian trio had pioneered on...
Sarcasme - Mirage
Maybe I'm just a little dense, but I'm not sure how a band that's been around for 12 years can be called young and new, even if this is their first release. That being said, I will admit that the... » Read more
Saturnia - Muzak
Saturnia has been around since the late 90s, and Muzak is the latest release from this little known Portuguese psych-prog band. Saturnia is essentially multi-instrumentalist Luis Simões...
Seamus - Zealotry Sterblichen Schizophrenia
Seamus is a French/English band that takes on the monumental task of portraying the horror of the Holocaust. The music is very intense, even abstract at times, as Seamus tries to convey the anguished... » Read more
SimakDialog - Patahan
For their first international release, SimakDialog offers a live set recorded in Jakarta in April 2005. At this juncture, bandleader and keyboardist Riza Arshad is joined by a rhythm section of...
Six Gun Lullaby - Six Gun Lullaby
I'm the last person who would insist on bands adhering to standard instrumentation, but when I listen to this one, I hear a sound that's tinny and kind of wimpy – and wimpy is the...
Spirit - Salvation... The Spirit of '74
One of the heretofore undocumented periods in Spirit's career began shortly after Epic's rejection of Potatoland in '73. Randy California left the group (for the second time)...
Squonk Opera - You Are Here
You Are Here is a companion soundtrack to Squonk Opera's latest stage production, (put your hometown's name here): The Opera and continues a string of theatrical...
SSI - E Pluribus Unum
SSI (Sonic Solutions, Inc.) apparently consists of California brothers Will and John Goff, who combine laptops and MIDI synths along with live and programmed percussion to create sounds reminiscent... » Read more
Stan Whitaker / Frank Wyatt - Pedal Giant Animals
This gem came out quietly toward the end of 2006, a side project by two of the primary composers of Happy the Man needing an outlet for their material, unable to wait for the stars and planets to be... » Read more
Starcastle - Song of Times
The late bassist Gary Strater's dream to create one more Starcastle record was realized in 2006 with help from his long time engineer friend Mark Rubel, along with old band members and friends. Many... » Read more
Steve Hackett - Wild Orchids
For nearly 30 years many have kept on considering him only the man behind the powerful guitar solos of Foxtrot and The Lamb Lies down on Broadway; yet he has proved to be much...
Steve Peters - Occasional Music
My only encounter with Peters' work to date has been his EP length disc From Shelter, released on Cold Blue a few years back, which had a fairly unified concept and approach, fitting...
Steve Roach - Fever Dreams III
For the third in this series, Roach has served up a double dose. Like much of Roach's material, the Fever Dreams series embraces soundworlds of a floating ambient nature, but with a...
Steve Thorne - Part Two: Emotional Creatures
Two years after his debut CD Emotional Creatures – Part One, Steve Thorne has released his second CD Emotional Creatures – Part Two. In some sense it is a continuation...
Stick Man - Mysterious Female
Colorado's Neil Haverstick is now simply "Stick Man." For this writer, there used to be some shock value listening to music played on 19 tone (and even more unusual) scales, but after listening to... » Read more
Strange Days - 9 Parts to the Wind
One of the better British progressive one-offs has finally gotten the CD treatment it has long deserved. Led by guitarist, singer and songwriter Graham Ward, the four-piece was the standard g/k/b/d... » Read more
Stuckey/Murray - Mythical Fornication
If you are easily offended, don't appreciate sophomoric humor, are a sensitive 90s male or a socially conscious feminist, please don't buy this CD. If you enjoy bawdy humor (okay,...
Supay - Confusion
Peru's Supay (named after evil spirits of Quecha-speaking natives) is almost two bands rolled into one. On one side is a rock quartet built around the guitar playing of Luis Proaño, along with... » Read more
Tammen / Harth / Dahlgren / Rosen - Expedition - Live at the Knitting Factory
The artist alone decides what music appears on their ESP Disk, and yet such is the nature of music, marketing, labels, and categorization that you and I can have fair idea what music they are going...
Taproban - Posidonian Fields
I have heard Taproban's previous release Ogni Pensiero Vola and also their contribution to the Spaghetti Epic compilation (reviewed in #32) and was looking forward to...
The Art of All - Morgan
The Art of All is a young band (Peter Aliferis drums and keyboards, Ruben Ruiz vocals and guitar, and Chris Debari bass) based in Massachusetts who characterize themselves as a progressive trance... » Read more
The Bennie Maupin Ensemble - Penumbra
Bennie Maupin is primarily known for his rooting bass clarinet work on Miles Davis' Jack Johnson and Bitches Brew sessions. Later he would cement his legacy with Herbie...
The Jeff Gauthier Goatette - One and the Same
Violinist Jeff Gauthier is probably best known as for having spent time in the LA improv scene working with Alex and Nels Cline (who are prime contributors on this set of seven avant tracks). At times... » Read more
The Mahavishnu Project - Return to the Emerald Beyond
Gregg Bendian and Company are back with another take on classic Mahavishnu material. While previous efforts have dealt entirely with that band's first incarnation, due to (as they say)...
The Mother Hips - Kiss the Crystal Flake
The Mother Hips have been kicking around the Bay Area for at least a decade, having a half-dozen or so releases to date, though this is their first in a few years. Their stock in trade is great... » Read more
The Pineapple Thief - Little Man
UK-based quintet The Pineapple Thief have built a healthy following for their brand of modern, indie-influenced prog rock. Their 2005 release 10 Stories Down sold 5,000 copies and...
The Smell of Incense - Of Ullages and Dottles
The passage of time is not always what it seems. Sometimes it crawls interminably and at others it passes in an instant. In the case of The Smell of Incense it is shocking to me that it has been 10... » Read more
The Source - All Along This Land
The Source is a Los Angeles based four-piece of g/k/b/d with keyboardist and primary composer Aaron Goldich assuming the vocal duties. They are a prog rock band with ambitious aims, as evidenced by... » Read more
The Strato Ensemble - Drawn Straws
Hovering somewhere between jazz-rock fusion and explorative electronic sounds, this group of improvisors is led by keyboardist Dean De Benedictis, who has already received great reviews in our pages... » Read more
The Tear Garden - The Secret Experiment
The Legendary Pink Dots and Skinny Puppy have been recording music on and off as The Tear Garden since 1986. The Secret Experiment is their eighth release, arriving five years after their... » Read more
Tor Lundvall - Empty City
There's Copeland's Quiet City and some years on The Muffins' Open City. And countless preceding and following metaphorical interpretations of the City as a force...
Trees - On the Shore
The Trees was a British folk rock band formed in 1969 that sputtered out in 1972, barely leaving a footnote in musical history. Their two albums The Garden of Jane Delawney and On the...
Trygve Seim - Sangam
If there was ever a time for a new jazz icon, composer and saxophonist Trygve Seim surely fits that bill. His ensemble's well received performance at the 2007 Portland Jazz Festival was a jaw-dropper,... » Read more
Ubi Maior - Nostos
Prog metal is a genre which has grown as many arms as an octopus – or more. Italy especially is famous for many bands in this genre. Not that Ubi Maior is a pure prog metal band – no,...
(Posted by Roel Steverink 2008-01-01)
Upsilon Acrux - Galapagos Momentum
As math rock goes, Galapagos Momentum is like solving linear transformations in n-dimensional vector spaces while spinning around on a gyroscope ride at the carnival. For those of us crazy... » Read more
Uzva - Uoma
One of the best arranged recordings from last year hails from Helsinki, Finland by Uzva, a seven-piece chamber rock act with additional orchestral instrumentation. Comparisons have been drawn to...
Van der Graaf Generator - Real Time
Impossible reunions by not-so-spring chickens are now becoming fashionable. This is due in part to both Cream and Van der Graaf Generator taking the live stage the same week for surprisingly...
Various Artists - A Dark Noël
Christmas is my least favorite holiday of the entire year, a month-long season of unbridled commercialism and indulgent spending, nearly completely stripped of its original meaning as the birthday...
Villebråd - Alla Är Här Utom Jag
For those of you who miss Landberk (I know I do) I urge you to give this album a listen. Villebråd, who hail Uppsala, Sweden, have been together for three years and were formed by brothers...
Waldteufel - Sanguis
Waldteufel is the German duo of Markus Wolff (primarily vocals, drums, and percussion) and Tyrsson Sinclair (other instruments, vocals, etc.) and this is their fourth full-length release. Their...
Walt Ribiero - I.I
Walt Ribeiro is an American composer in his early 20s, influenced both by classical music and modern rock. I.I is probably best described as post-modern classical music. It consists of twelve... » Read more
White Willow - Signal to Noise
Each successive White Willow album finds the band further along their evolutionary path, establishing their own unique sound amid numerous Scandinavian symphonic retro-prog bands. And each new disc...
Whitechapel - Le Masque d'Arlequin
Yes, it's a French band that sings about a jester. To be honest, it's probably just the title track that's about the jester or harlequin in question, but it also has a jester's face on the cover. With... » Read more
Xcross - Kadath - The Dream Quest
This ambitious concept album by Maryland duo Xcross is based on H.P. Lovecraft's "The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath," eleven purely instrumental tracks following a brief spoken...
XII Alfonso - Claude Monet, Vol. 2 - 1889-1904
Got a friend who only likes jazz or movie soundtrack music or both? Here's a disc to slip into their hands with a wink. It just might turn them into prog-heads. XII Alfonso have fashioned here a... » Read more
Yeti Rain - Discarnate
It doesn't take more than one look at the booklet cover and about 15 seconds of the first piece to know this isn't like anything else that Unicorn has put out before; nor is it like any of the... » Read more
Zaboitzeff & Crew - Missa Furiosa & Voyage au Centre de la Terre
Thierry Zaboitzeff is a name most will recognize from his many years as the bassist/cellist of Art Zoyd, before striking out on his own in the late 90s. At hand are his latest two albums, both dealing... » Read more
Zweistein - Trip – Flip Out – Meditation
According to the liner notes, in 1970 Jacques Dorian, his wife German pop singer Suzanne Doucet, and their children entered the studio and recorded an obscure experimental triple LP under the name... » Read more
A Triggering Myth - Forgiving Eden – For their latest effort, keyboardists Tim Drumheller and Rick Eddy present a single suite divided into eight parts, sometimes with no break between them. Part one starts quietly with a slightly jazzy,... (2003) » Read more
James Johnson - Entering Twilight – This 66 ½-minute, one track CD reveals a style that may be part of the lineage of positive, gentle, cloudy ambient music that one finds on Steve Roach's Quiet Music albums and in early... (2001) » Read more
Abarax - Blue Room – Abarax were a band whose original purpose was to fill the void left by Pink Floyd's absence. Their 2006 debut, Crying of the Whales (now out of print), did reveal a taste for languid and bluesy... (2011) » Read more
Ave Rock - Ave Rock & Espacios – Over the course of their two albums, Ave Rock displayed a heavier approach to progressive rock than their other Argentine counterparts. Organ and guitar dominate the instrumentation on the self-titled... (1997) » Read more
Fläsket Brinner - Fläsket Brinner – This Swedish instrumental five-piece features organ, sax, drums, bass and guitar, and delivers a solid jam based groove with a slight jazz-rock influence, all in a live setting. The bottom end is... (1999) » Read more
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The Space CoasT Authors of Romance (Florida STAR) is proud to announce the winners and placements in the 2009 Launching A Star Contest. Of special note, this year?s finalists received twenty-eight (28) requests for full manuscripts and an additional four (4) requests for partials from some of the top editors(*) and agents (+) in romantic fiction.
Lake Effect, a Single Title entry by Gabrielle Luthy of St. Kilda, Australia.
In addition to receiving a star-shaped paperweight for her first place win in the Single Title category, Gabrielle will have a star named after her through the International Registry of Stars. Congratulations, Gabrielle!
Major congratulations to all the participants, finalists and winners, and special thanks to our wonderful panel of final round judges who requested 28 full manuscripts and 4 partial manuscripts from among the finalist entries in the 2009 Launching A Star contest.


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Marine and citizen scientists take to the seas to help secure a future for Atlantic bluefin tuna in UK waters
A bluefin tuna tagging programme has been launched by the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas) and the University of Exeter to find out more about the migration patterns of these enigmatic predators.
2018 represents the first year when Cefas and the University of Exeter have run a sightings programme, asking members of the public to send in their records of Atlantic bluefin tuna. 2017 was a remarkable year for Atlantic bluefin tuna sightings and 2018 has been even more impressive.
Hannah and Duncan Jones of Marine Discovery Penzance, a local wildlife tour operator, said:
"We've already seen bluefin tuna on 45 occasions this year and our season isn't over yet. Most of those instances have been large shoals with a mix in the size of fish, but recently most fish seen at the surface have been large. We have certainly seen more this year than ever, which has been the case every year now since 2015!"
This year, records have been sent in from the Scilly Isles, Scotland, Wales, England and even the Channel Islands and regularly detailing sightings of shoals of Atlantic bluefin tuna, hundreds of fish strong. During the beginning of the electronic tagging programme, observers have witnessed over 100 separate Atlantic bluefin tuna feeding events. Whilst seeing these predators back in waters of the British Isles is incredibly exciting, it's clearer now more than ever how little is known about the local ecology of these animals.
Cefas and the University of Exeter are conducting a two-year scientific study, supported by the Department for Food, Environment and Rural Affairs (Defra) and the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund, to deploy state of the art animal tracking devices to find out where Atlantic bluefin tuna in UK waters go. Scientists will work with stakeholders including commercial fishers, recreational anglers, wildlife watchers, and NGOs, to share knowledge, and to deploy around 40 state-of-the-art satellite tracking devices. Tagging started in October, and the programme has been designed with the input and help of fishers.
The work will help scientists to understand:
where and when Atlantic bluefin tuna are found in British waters;
long-distance migrations, and where Atlantic bluefin tuna go when they are not in UK coastal waters;
where Atlantic bluefin tuna found in UK waters go to breed; and
interactions between Atlantic bluefin tuna and both commercial and recreational fisheries.
The information will improve knowledge on Atlantic bluefin tuna, ultimately aiding in the conservation of these remarkable animals into the future.
Following a summer in which sightings of bluefin were once again common, Dr David Righton, lead scientist on the project for Cefas said:
"This exciting collaboration will enable us to gather and share knowledge of this incredible species and uncover the role they play in UK waters. Cefas has a long history of investigating the behaviours and migrations of many species of fish, and we're looking forward to using our expertise to address some of the fundamentally important questions that need answering about bluefin tuna".
Dr Matthew Witt, lead scientist on the project for the University of Exeter said:
"This a ground-breaking project for the UK and another important step towards the use of evidence-based approaches for conservation in our coastal seas. These are huge, exciting, top predators, yet with an uncertain future. We've already learned a huge amount about bluefin from talking to wildlife spotters and fishers who are out on the water every day. Our tagging programme will help build an even more detailed understanding at the level of individual fish. The next few years will be challenging, exciting, yet hugely revealing regards their movements and biology".
Atlantic bluefin tuna are known for being amongst the biggest, fastest and most valuable fish in the sea. They were once a common sight in UK waters, ranging throughout the Celtic and North Sea. However, they largely disappeared from British waters in the 1990s, possibly due to overfishing, and are now recognised as an endangered species. In recent years they have been observed more frequently in our coastal waters, particularly during the late summer, autumn and winter as they move into coastal areas to feed on energy rich fish, such as sprats and herring, in waters off the south west of the UK.
Atlantic bluefin tuna can migrate over huge distances, moving over the entire Atlantic Ocean to North America and back again in a single year, crossing both coastal waters and the deep offshore. They are top predators of the seas and are fast, energetic and powerful fish with considerable commercial and conservation interest. However, despite historic evidence, we know little about their movements, for example how long they stay in British waters and where they go once they leave our coastal environment. Improving knowledge on the species is an important first step for securing a positive future for Atlantic bluefin tuna around the UK.
Photo credit: Tom Horton
The European Maritime and Fisheries Fund is managed for England and Wales by the Marine Management Organisation (MMO), and Executive Agency of Defra.
The UK is a member of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) and supports its efforts to ensure the future sustainability of ABFT. The ICCAT area includes the waters around the UK. Management of tuna fishing in UK waters is currently an EU devolved competency.
Atlantic Bluefin tuna are recognised as an endangered species by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Within EU waters, it is prohibited for commercial or recreational vessels to catch or target Bluefin tuna unless authorised to do so by an EU member state. Bluefin tuna is a prohibited species for UK registered commercial fishing vessels, and if caught as bycatch must be returned to the sea, alive and unharmed to the greatest extent possible. Sea anglers must not target Bluefin tuna, and any caught accidentally whilst targeting other species must be released immediately and not landed. Further guidance on Bluefin tuna can be found on the Marine Management Organisation (MMO) website.
More information on the project can be found at https://www.thunnusuk.org/
A blog on the project has also been published today at: https://marinescience.blog.gov.uk/
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Keeping our seas clean and healthy by monitoring and measuring water quality and pollution
Reducing nutrient levels in coastal ecosystems (RaNTrans)
Observing the UK shelf seas
Gaining new insights into marine ecosystems
Big data: an opportunity to do things differently
Biological-based habitat classification and cost-efficient monitoring
Adopting and adapting our microplastic screening technique in Belize
Our microplastics laboratory design and methods are low cost and adaptable to the needs of different countries.
Regional collaboration to achieve sustainable fisheries in the Caribbean
To support our local partners in building their capacity and achieve sustainable levels of fishing, Cefas is leading a three-year project funded by the Darwin Initiative.
Combatting disease outbreaks in aquaculture
Advice for the management of Antarctic fisheries and environments
Since 2012, Cefas have been providing the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) with technical and scientific advice in relation to the Antarctic fisheries managed internationally by the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR).
Nutritious, safe and sustainable seafood for consumers of tomorrow
Cefas is collaborating with seafood producers, processors and recognised research organisations across Europe on the development of solutions for improving the safety and dietary value of seafood.
Remote Piloted Aircraft and the storm surge
The aim of the project was to map the gravel barrier, saline lagoons and fresh water marshes in the Blakeney-Cley region of the North Norfolk coast.
Marine monitoring for Kuwait EPA
Cefas worked in partnership with the Kuwait Environment Public Authority (EPA), between 2013 and 2014, to conduct an extensive monitoring programme to assess the impact of sewage and industrial effluent discharged into Kuwait's marine environment.
Working with industry to test "on-demand" sampling on unmanned technologies
In what is believed to be a world-first in the scientific community, Cefas scientists have utilised near real-time information to develop and test a new selective "on-demand" sampling method for unmanned technologies.
Closing the knowledge gap in water monitoring
Cefas has a long-standing track record and international reputation in the development, testing and application of various passive sampling devices in the aquatic environment.
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Cuirrasse Bientôt Cloutée d'Or © Courtesy of Clara Pacotte
During the opening hours of Kunsthal Gent (11am-6pm), on Saturdays and Sundays.
The LOOPS programme presents three films that were screened and presented during the past OFFoff-season. By re-screening these films, we look back on the programmes they were part of, simultaneously reconfiguring their meaning by showing them together, and pointing forward to Art Cinema OFFoff's future ambitions in Kunsthal Gent.
Our past season dealt with the shared space of cinema, not only by considering the organized space in the films itself, but also by looking at the different ways in which filmmakers, curators, guests and audiences share an actual cinema space. Throughout the season, making films, thinking of cinema and looking at films was interpreted as a way of 'organizing bodies' in space and time. We were not only questioning experimental uses of shared cinema spaces, but also the potential of a 'reparative cinema'. How can films rethink or reconsider the ways bodies are organized in the public sphere? But also: which bodies does a cinema space welcome and how are they hosted?
From this emerged a research and screening programme that was open to different formats and discourses. Programmes such as Circles of Cinema, Reading (with) Abigail Child, 'it is a strange realism, but it is a strange reality', Broadcasting Radio Triton and Disassemblies 9 combined talks, presentations, readings and a live broadcast with more extended film programmes.
LOOPS aims to make these films and their contexts available again, pointing back and forth, re-taking and re-imagining.
Programme by Sven Dehens
In Alliances, Alex Martinis Roe interviews ten committed feminists in the city of Paris. The film is shot in the Centre Pompidou, Université Paris VIII and the surrounding suburb of Saint Denis, analyzing the relation between centre and periphery in the city, and the entanglement of these issues within feminist politics. The interviewees come from different positions, backgrounds and professions. Together, they explore the legacy of the women's liberation movement that began in 1968 in Paris. Each of them has an encounter with a feminist forebear, as her personal link to a strand of feminist history. Through the entwined biographies of these different generations, the dominant narrative used to commemorate the 50th anniversary of 1968 is redressed and connected with decolonial movements. The film points to the necessity to form an alliance – a solidarity-in-difference – between different feminist movements. Martinis Roe investigates how interpersonal relationships and encounters contribute to the development of radical thinking. By examining moments of exchange, joint effort and solidarity, she highlights the power of community, raising the question whether a link exists between various feminist, decolonial and ecological movements.
Alliances was presented during the Circles of Cinema programme, our first programme at Kunsthal Gent, in November 2018. Next to Alex's film, Caroline Godart presented her book The Dimensions of Difference in which she considers film, editing and cinematography as a way to 'organize bodies in space and time'. Drawing from the writings of Luce Irigaray among others, Godart focuses on sexual difference within cinema and film. The re-programming of this particular film sets up a dialogue with Kunsthal Gent and its strategies of collectivity and shared space.
Alex Martinis Roe (°1982) lives and works in Berlin and Canberra. Her work is concerned with the history of feminist groups. She makes connections between various contexts and generations in order to design perspectives of social coexistence. She completes extensive research before making her films, and has developed her own technique for editing stories, making social achievements from the past tangible and activating them in the present.
http://www.alexmartinisroe.com
Alex Martinis Roe, Our Feminist Forebears, film still of Claire Finch's contribution, 2018
Clara Pacotte
Cuirrasse Bientôt Cloutée d'or
In 2074, the narrator of Cuirasse bientôt cloutée d'or discovers the traces of a predominately lesbian subculture of the 2050's and collects the archives of the various movements that preceded her. The film is a prequel to Le parking, Etage 63, a series of independent texts about a fictive community on an abandoned parking taken over by lesbians. The film is also a docu-fiction, supposedly made by the daughter of one of them. It serves as an investigation in the archives of 'wxmxn' (a trans-inclusive spelling of 'woman') who later became parts of the Parking community. It promotes insurrection and action, posing as a documentary about the past of the future.
Cuirasse bientôt cloutée d'or was shown during our programme 'it is a strange realism, but it is a strange reality', co-produced with feeelings, an artist-run project space in Brussels hosted by Anouchka Oler and Camille Gerenton, and Elena Betros Lopez. The programme took place at Projection Room in Brussels. It brought together different works and practices examining 'reparative agency' or how one can cope with imposed narratives on ones body, be it in fiction or in public discourse. The programme had contributions by Emilie Notéris, Les Insoumuses, Kalinda Vary, Elena Betros Lopez and Clara Pacotte.
Clara Pacotte (°1992) experiments with video between fiction and documentary. She's a speculative fiction writer, a field wherein she explores social alternatives questioning gender and community issues. Her book Mnrvwx, on the exploration of a planet with a non-binary civilization, was published in 2017 (ed. Oparo). She is part of The Cheapest University, a Paris based collective workspace. Inside Cheapest, with Charlotte Houette, she co-founded a working group called EAAPES about gender issues and feminisms in science fiction/speculative fiction. The third publication containing EAAPES's research was released in April 2019.
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Kym Ward
Gestations is a video about the correlation between Anglican churches, the colonial history of sugar trade and the glucoses (sugars) that feed our body. Gestations was part of our programme Disassemblies 9: Guts/ Gusts (gestations), co-produced with KIAD.
Disassemblies 9 took place in March 2019 at Kunsthal Gent. The programme consisted of a reading of The Body in the System by Vanessa Agard-Jones, a performance by Toon Fibbe, a sound piece by Katharina Zimmerhackl, a rug contributed by Hana Miletic with Globe Aroma, and films by Sarah Browne, Rory Pilgrim, Karisa Senavitis and Kym Ward. The programme looked at different relations between our internal, biological systems and the global movements of post-colonial capitalism. Disassemblies are a series of disparate events programmed by KIAD. Former events include film screenings, poetry readings, a lecture/tarot reading, a "Hate Party", a publication/symposium, and performances.
'Knowledge is a Does' (KIAD) started as a socially concerned reading group at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Spring 2014. The original members are Alexis Blake, E.C. Feiss, Toon Fibbe, Ilke Gers, Conny Karlsson Lundgren, Hana Miletić, Karisa Senavitis, Kym Ward, and Katharina Zimmerhackl. The group draws its name from an essay of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, the American literary critic and scholar, most well known for her work in forming the discipline of queer theory. Kosofsky Sedgwick's articulation of the concept of 'reparative reading' came to structure what and how KIAD reads. Without naming their practice as such, KIAD undertakes various kinds of 'reparative reading' together, and tries to develop a form of study – of what they read, of the institutional politics around them, and of themselves, that goes beyond a critical deconstruction/paranoid reading. KIAD continues, in new and distant constellations, to come together to make sense of what unfolds today.
Kym Ward (°1982) lives and works in Bidston, Liverpool, UK. She is one of the founding hosts of the Bidston Observatory Artistic Research Centre, a not-for-profit study centre, focused on providing artists, writers, academics, performers etc with a cheap, temporary place to dictate their own working methods. BOARC hosts Domes FM, the online radio station that hosted our programme 'Broadcasting Radio Triton' during the opening of Kunsthal Gent in January 2019.
Gestation © Courtesy of Kym Ward
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FR • 2018 • 46' • colour • digital
GB • 2019 • 5' • colour • digital


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The parish church is dedicated to the Virgin Mary, but is now in ruins.
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After 1834 Thorpe Parva became part of the Depwade Union, and the workhouse was at Pulham St Mary Magdalen (Pulham Market).


Straight across the road from the beach is this comfortable 2 bedroom unit with 1 double and 2 single beds, fully furnished with Colour TV and DVD player, full kitchen with microwave and dishwasher, communal laundry and off street parking for 1 car per unit. This great unit is situated on the ground floor and has no steps.
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How to Understand a Water Quality Report
Richard Gellert | June 12, 2017
Takeaway: Water is everywhere, but, increasingly, it is becoming less fit for consumption for your plants. From pesticides to heavy metals, pollutants can affect how your plants grow. Rich Gellert, president and founder of HydroLogic Purification Systems, explains water quality basics and how to read a water report.
While some cultivators are lucky enough to enjoy a clean and reliable water source that's readily available, that's not the case across the country. According to NASA's recent satellite data, 21 of the world's 35 largest underground aquifers are losing more water than is being replenished, and reliably clean drinking water can no longer be taken for granted.
One of the worst mistakes a cultivator can make is to invest money into a garden, but neglect the issue of the water supply quality, perhaps the most important resource to having a genuinely healthy end-product.
Even if you believe your geographic area has "good" water, not investigating the water quality and irrigating your plants with contaminated water could choke their potential and undermine an otherwise perfectly engineered operation. If you wouldn't drink the water at your house or cultivation facility, why would you give that same water to your high value crops?
Obtaining a water analysis to determine the source water quality helps cultivators decide if using a water treatment system would benefit their operation. Municipalities usually provide free water reports, however, it is up to the individual to test private water sources not supplied by the city. The EPA recommends testing household wells at least once per year, as the water in underground aquifers can fluctuate with the seasons.
Water Quality Basics
The overall water quality is usually based on the amount of total dissolved solids, or TDS, and is measured in parts per million (ppm) or mg/L. Dissolved solids are so small that they remain suspended in molecular, ionized, or micro-granular form and need to be removed at sub-micron levels using nanofiltration, distillation, or reverse osmosis.
However, the TDS is a generalized point of reference, as some contaminants can exist in even less than one part per million and can cause detrimental problems for your crops. For example, if boron is present in over 0.5 ppm, boron-intolerant plants may become stunted, with drastically decreased yields.
Another key indicator of water quality for plants is the total hardness, expressed as calcium and magnesium in grains per gallon (GPG) or ppm. With too much hardness, nutrient formulas can be thrown out of balance, and plant deficiencies or nutrient lockouts can quickly become a major problem.
Any water source with over 50 ppm of TDS of hardness should be purified. 50 ppm of hardness translates to three grains per gallon and is considered soft water, which few facilities have straight from the tap.
Getting Your Water Tested
The first step to getting your water tested would be to determine if your water source is supplied by the city, a well, or some other source like a pond, spring, river, or rain. Each type of water source presents a different challenge when it comes to choosing the right filtration method.
The type of water filtration system that is ultimately best for well water treatment may not be the same for municipal water users. While most well and spring sources require a sediment filter to remove sediment, city dwellers need carbon to remove chlorine and chloramines.
Cultivators using microorganisms such as beneficial bacteria, fungi, nematodes, mycorrhizae, and trichoderma must have chlorine and chloramine-free water for those beneficial microbes to survive and flourish.
All municipal water contains chlorine and/or chloramines as they are both powerful biocides, meaning they are designed to kill bacteria and sterilize water distribution lines.
Trace heavy metals like lead, copper, or iron from aging city water distribution pipes are becoming more common and even impacting human health like the lead present in Flint, Michigan's municipal water. Additionally, hormones, pharmaceuticals, and all kinds of other toxic materials are increasingly making their way into the national water supply.
Water from well or spring sources are often high in minerals such as calcium, magnesium, sulfur, or iron. Giving water with too high of levels of these minerals to heavy-feeding plants will contribute to nutrient lockout and lead to deficiencies. Wells located in industrial agriculture sectors can become contaminated with high nitrates, pesticides, or herbicides used in modern farming practices.
How to Interpret a Water Quality Report
The following table shows the most common contaminants found in water, their sources, what harmful effects they can have on plants, and the concentrations that would start to affect plant health or facility operations. As one can see, many unknown dissolved minerals in an untreated source water can have the potential to damage high value crops.
Contaminant Water Source Potential Problems Ideal Levels
Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) Well, City Water with high TDS (total dissolved solids) has unknown contaminants that are the key cause of nutrient lockout and deficiencies in plants. < 200 ppm
Chlorine City Biocide that kills beneficial bacteria, fungi, and microorganisms. Any healthy organic garden should be chlorine-free. Cultivators that use or brew compost teas or bioextract solutions should remove chlorine from their source water. 0 ppm
Chloramines City
Biocide that is a combination of chlorine and ammonia and is much more stable than
chlorine. It will not dissipate by bubbling or even by boiling off. It can only be removed by proper carbon filtration. It is toxic to beneficial bacteria, fungi, microorganisms, fish, and amphibians.
Hardness Well, City
Mineral hardness is made up from the calcium and magnesium dissolved in water and is the key cause of water problems in cultivation facilities. High levels of hardness in untreated water locks out key plant nutrients and forms calcium scale on equipment and tubing.
Calcium and magnesium are the most abundant minerals in tap water. However, these minerals are typically in the form of calcium carbonate and magnesium carbonate, which are not in a plant available form and cannot be absorbed efficiently by the roots. It is best to remove these minerals present in city water and add in a chelated, readily absorbable form of calcium and magnesium.
< 50 ppm
Fluoride City A hazardous waste product that is present in all municipal water. It is known as a toxic substance to humans and plants. Thirty-four enzymes in plants are affected by fluoride, so enzyme additives will not do their job properly with fluoride in the water. 0 ppm
Sodium Well, City
Sodium and other dissolved salts can cause toxicity and dry out plant tissues by impairing their ability to take up water. < 25 ppm
Iron/Sulphur Well, City Water containing iron or sulfur may have a metallic taste and an offensive odor. Nutrient lockout, algae growth, and equipment staining can also be results of too much iron in the water. < 0.3 ppm
Bacteria Well Groundwater sources may be affected by animal and human waste and other pathogens. These toxic substances can cause multiple issues in reservoirs and nutrient mixes, be dangerous for human consumption, and contaminate your end-product. 0 ppm
Herbicides Well,City Local agricultural areas may be leaching harmful contaminants into groundwater. These can end up in the water supplied to cultivation facilities and ultimately in plant tissues. 0 ppm
Volatile Organic Compounds City Some VOCs are known or suspected carcinogens. Trace amounts of these can end up in the plant's tissues, flowers, and fruits. 0 ppm
Nitrates City Found in runoff from agriculture, animal yards, etc., these toxic substances contribute to over-nitrification and algae growth. High quantities of nitrates in untreated water can negatively affect the later stages of flowering, when cultivators typically try to limit nitrate levels. < 5 ppm
pH City Water that has either too high or too low pH will not allow nutrients to be absorbed properly and can be corrosive to equipment. Adjusting the pH of nutrient solutions may be difficult due to fluctuations in source water levels. 6.0 - 8.0
Boron Spring High concentrations of boron can cause yellowing or browning of leaves which leads to stunted growth and drastically decreased yields < 0.5 ppm
Using reverse osmosis to filter source water is the single most efficient, economical, and reliable way to ensure the removal of 98 per cent-plus of all contaminants mentioned above.
As reverse osmosis technology continues to advance and new regulations go online, several simplified water filtration solutions for commercial and hobby growers are now available.
These systems ensure consistency and reliability of water input and are critical to the professional grower. Already have access to excellent source water? Consider yourself lucky.
The rest of the country is having to deal with increasingly complex and sometimes dangerous water contamination issues as seen in areas like Flint and Corpus Christi, Texas. Remember, if it's not healthy for humans, it's probably not healthy for plants.
Written by Richard Gellert
Richard Gellert is the president of HydroLogic Purification Systems, which specializes in a wide range of professional quality water purification products designed for use in many applications including gardening and hydroponics, residential, aquarium, and commercial.
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Three out of five women over 75 live alone. I am one. So are five of my close friends – widows, all of us. The world is full of widows; the men go first, I'm afraid. Actually, not so far ahead: life expectancy for women in this country is 82, for men – 78. But in reality, looking around, the gap seems more pronounced.
The ancient term for a widow was "a relict" – her husband's relict. We are not relicts now, thank you very much. We are a new demographic – an element of the whole expanding body of over-75s that is giving pause for thought to the Department for Work and Pensions. We may be cluttering up surgeries and brandishing our Freedom Passes, but we are also a substantial group – and a significant one, I think, veterans of long relationships, learning how to live differently.
Penelope Lively thought she was done with short stories, when to her surprise an idea popped into her head. She had recently completed Ammonites and Leaping Fish, a book about memory and ageing that she refers to as "the view from 80", when she went to an exhibition about Pompeii with her son-in-law.
The pair share an interest in birds, and were going around the British Museum in London spotting them in Roman frescoes. One puzzled them, and a curator was called to identify the large, long-legged wetland fowl as a purple swamphen – the creature that supplies the title for Lively's latest book, The Purple Swamp Hen and Other Stories (Fig Tree).
Years ago, I heard Anthony Burgess speak at the Edinburgh book festival. He was impressive in that he spoke for an hour without a single note, and was fluent and coherent. But of the content of his talk all I remember are his opening words: "For me, death is already sounding its high C." This was around 1980, I think, so he was in his early 60s at the time, and died in 1993. I was in my late 40s, and he seemed to me – not old, exactly, but getting on a bit.
My surgery has been calling in all those over 75 for a special session with their doctor — a sort of old-age MOT. I came out of mine pretty well, I thought: I could remember the name of the Prime Minister, blood pressure excellent, spark plugs need cleaning, windscreen wipers ineffective, bodywork showing signs of wear. But not too bad for 80. Gerontologist Tom Kirkwood, in his book Time of Our Lives, gives a clinical but excellent and entirely comprehensible account of what we should expect, and what can and cannot be done about it.
I have been having my vault done over. Not, as you might think, the family strong room, but the place beneath the pavement — the former coal cellar — pertaining to an early 19th-century London house. The vault opens onto the area — mine is the last generation to know that that is what you call the open sunken space between the basement and the pavement — and has been given the latest damp-proof treatment, plus shelving and smart lighting, so that I can use it for storage. Others use their vault more creatively: a couple next door had theirs excavated several feet and made into a troglodyte bedroom. No, they said, they couldn't hear feet overhead, but wheeled suitcases could be tiresome.


I love your blog Jennifer. I will always hold you in a very special place in my heart. I am so glad we met. I feel such a connection even so far away.
Me, too Sandra. So thankful for all the people Facebook helps me keep in touch with.
Lovely! Thanks for sharing both the painful and the pleasant. I was not gifted with great imagination. I enjoyed a glimpse of Heaven through your thoughts and pictures. That means a lot to me.
I'm so glad you enjoyed Thanksgiving with your kids!
Thank you Jennifer for your great gift of words! I cant even imagine how comforting those postcards are to you. Mostly I just imagine Cole is safe and happy in a general way and that is going to have to be good enough, that is all I have and its a truth I cherish. One day we all will be together again and then the party starts! Praise the Lord! xoxo love ya jennifer and your comforting words once again.