Mike Barnes
Mike Barnes is the author of Captain Beefheart - The Biography (Omnibus Press, 2011) and A New Day Yesterday: UK Progressive Rock & the 1970s (2020). He was a regular contributor to Select magazine and his work regularly appears in Prog, Mojo and Wire. He also plays the drums.
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Not yet ratedTwo evocative pieces of improvised inner space exploration

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Not yet ratedA seductive ambient blend of instruments and field recordings

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Dhani Harrison may have a famous father, but the multi-instrumentalist wants to be respected as a musician and composer in his own right with his solo debut IN///PARALLEL

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Not yet ratedEerie and evocative new songs and reworked material inspired by forests

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Not yet ratedSuffolk brethren Rogerson on piano, Eno on sonic manipulations

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Not yet ratedThe Solaris/Fortitude soundtrack composer’s fifth, recorded with Steve Albini

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Not yet ratedThe minimalist masterpiece tackled by Indian classical musicians

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Not yet ratedFrom Hair to eternity: a double CD overview for Curved Air’s frontwoman

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Not yet ratedA musical journey through a psittacine Arcadia with the former Bonzo sax man

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Not yet ratedTwo-CD/blue vinyl set from Astralasia, the wizards of psychedelic electronica

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Not yet ratedThe great and the good gather to celebrate Keith Emerson's music

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Not yet ratedScottish band Mogwai’s ninth, recorded with Flaming Lips man Dave Fridmann

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Not yet ratedThe original Fairport Convention singer’s return to psychedelia, 21st century style

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Not yet ratedFormer Curved Air man Darryl Way’s Orpheus myth opera. Contains sex drugs and rock’n’roll

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The Anchoress, Jane Weaver, Cate Le Bon, Susanna and Anna von Hausswolff are all fiercely independent, bold and idiosyncratic, and real pioneers in today's progressive music world

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Not yet ratedThe Men Machines live sets collected over myriad formats

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Not yet ratedWest Midlands six-piece The Mothers Earth Experiment invoke Island pink-label mischief

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Not yet ratedFourth album in 10 years by the dazzling Berlin-based 18-piece Andromeda Mega Express Orchestra

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Not yet ratedIrmin Schmidt teams up with London Symphony Orchestra and some very special guests

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Not yet ratedFourth solo album by the former Stereolab/Monade vocalist, inspired by geometric forms

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Not yet ratedFormer Stick Man and drummer’s inaugural collaboration with some special guests

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Not yet ratedSelected releases from Dave Pearce and friends’ 1990s space odyssey.

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Not yet ratedRecord Store Day archive release of Dinger’s attempts to “re-sound” the millennium.
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