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Curved Air
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CD Reviews
Air Conditioning
Review by Gary Hill
This new Curved Air remaster release is classy. The first disc has the original album in its remastered glory along with one bonus track.

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Air Cut
Review by Gary Hill
This is a new re-mastered edition of a classic Curved Air disc. The music on this is a great mix of folk prog, psychedelia and more hard driving prog.

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AirWaves - Live At The BBC Remastered / Live At The Paris Theatre
Review by Gary Hill
Curved Air is really a cool band.

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Curved Space & Infinity: The Curved Air Rarities Series Volume 2
Review by Gary Hill
This new release takes two Curved Air spin off albums and puts them out under the Curved Air heading.

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Live Atmosphere
Review by Gary Hill
This new live album from Curved Air is quite strong. In a lot of ways much of this reminds me of a proggier Jefferson Airplane.

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North Star
Review by Gary Hill
The latest album from Curved Air, this album includes several new songs along with some reworkings of several classic Curved Air pieces and a few covers.

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Phantasmagoria
Review by Steve Alspach
Curved Air was an English band with a lot of interesting little quirks. It's where Eddie Jobson and Stewart Copeland both got their starts, and it's the band that came out with the first picture disc (on its debut album, "Air Conditioning" - they should have spent the time and money cleaning up the sound of the album).
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Phantasmagoria: Remastered & Expanded Edition
Review by Gary Hill
This is a great new release. It includes a remastered version of the Phantasmagoria album along with some extra tracks. If that was all you got, it would be worth having.

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Second Album (Expanded and Re-mastered Edition)
Review by Gary Hill
This new reissue from Curved Air is exceptional. First you get the entire second album.

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Tapestry of Propositions: Rarities Series Volume 1
Review by Gary Hill
This is the first of a series of rarities discs that will be coming from Curved Air.

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The Albums 1970-1973
Review by Gary Hill
There have been a number of great re-mastered versions of classic Curved Air albums coming from Esoteric in the last few years.

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The Curved Air Rarities Series Volume 3: The Second British Rock Meeting 1972
Review by Gary Hill
This live disc from Curved Air features some cool performances. There is an extended instrumental piece at the end.

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Concert Reviews
Curved Air - Live at London’s High Voltage Festival, July, 2011
Review by Alison Reijman
On a personal note, this was the first prog band your humble reviewer got into at an incredibly tender age but they are back touring extensively and sound as vibrant and edgy as ever.

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Interviews
Curved Air
Interview by Gary Hill
Interview with Sonja Kristina of Curved Air from 2012

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Curved Air
Interview by Gary Hill

Interview with Sonja Kristina of Curved Air from 2017


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Mask
Review by Gary Hill
Interview with Sonja Kristina of Mask from 2010
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Darryl Way
Review by G. W. Hill

Interview with Darryl Way from 2013


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Various Artists - A Life in Yes: The Chris Squire Tribute
Review by Gary Hill
I grew up as a Yes fanatic from the age of 12. As a bass player myself, Chris Squire was a huge part of my own growth as a musician.
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Neuschwanstein - Alice In Wonderland Featuring Sonja Kristina
Review by Gary Hill
This album was originally released in 1976. That version featured vocals in German.

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Sky - Carillon: The Singles Collection 1979-1987
Review by Gary Hill

A while ago I reviewed a box set of studio albums from Sky. For my money, that might be the best introduction to this act.


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Darryl Way - Children of the Cosmos
Review by G. W. Hill

This is an amazing disc. For my money, it’s better than the previous album that I reviewed from Darryl Way.


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Various Artists - Citizens of Hope and Glory. The Story of Progressive Rock written by Stephen Lambe
Review by Scott Montgomery

This is an enjoyable read that saunters through the chronology and culture of progressive rock.


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Darryl Way - Destinations
Review by Gary Hill

You really can't go wrong with a Darryl Way project. He's one of those musicians who you can count on for quality.


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Darryl Way - Destinations 2
Review by Gary Hill
I like pretty much everything Darryl Way does. He is probably best known for his work in Curved Air, but that's only one piece of the musical picture he presents.

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The Prog Collective - Epilogue
Review by G. W. Hill

This is quite a cool set. The main man behind this is Billy Sherwood, and I always like the stuff he does.


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The Police - Everyone Stares - The Police Inside Out BluRay
Review by Gary Hill

The short form on this is that it is a film that documents the inside track of The Police from the beginning all the way through. That doesn't do this justice, though


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Alan Simon - Excalibur IV: The Dark Age of the Dragon
Review by Gary Hill
This is the newest CD from Alan Simon. Simon is a French artist who has been releasing powerful rock operas like this one for a long time.
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Alan Simon - Excalibur: The Ladies of the Lake
Review by Gary Hill

This is a compilation album featuring the music of French songwriter Alan Simon. There is a theme running to the selections here, in that they all feature female singers.


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Various Artists - Fly Like an Eagle - An All-Star Tribute to Steve Miller Band
Review by G. W. Hill

Cleopatra Records loves doing these tribute albums, typically with Billy Sherwood in charge.


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801 - Live
Review by Gary Hill

What a superstar lineup this one is. Phil Manzanera on guitar. Brian Eno on keyboards.


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Darryl Way - Myths Legends & Tales
Review by G. W. Hill

Darryl Way is best known as a violist. He is also famous as one of the founding members of Curved Air.


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Bruford - One of a Kind - Remastered Vinyl Edition
Review by Gary Hill
This album, the second from Bill Bruford's solo project that went by his last name, is just getting a great remastered vinyl release from his own Winterfold Records.

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Various Artists - Poetry of the Air: A Collection of Love Letters to Music from Musicians written by Gary Hill
Review by Greg Olma
I have known Gary Hill for a while now and the one thing that I can say with complete certainty about him is that he takes his music seriously. 


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Various Artists - Riding the Rock Machine - British Seventies Classic Rock
Review by Gary Hill
I have heard arguments that say that the 1970s were the decade with the best music. Like any decade, they had a lot of garbage music

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Yuka and Chronoship - Ship
Review by Gary Hill

This band is just so cool. They really are rooted in old school progressive rock, but there is folk music and some world sound here, too.


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Sky - Sky
Review by Gary Hill

This was the debut album from Sky. It really set a high bar.


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Sky - Sky 2
Review by Gary Hill

This was originally released as a double LP on vinyl.  It actually almost feels like two different albums.


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Peter Gabriel - So (vinyl)
Review by Gary Hill
While I prefer the previous Peter Gabriel album to this one, there is plenty to like here.

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The Prog Collective - Songs We Were Taught
Review by Gary Hill
The Prog Collective releases compelling progressive rock album after album.

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Sonja Kristina - Sonja Kristina: Anthology
Review by Gary Hill

I've put this under Sonja Kristina solo, but technically speaking, it's part of the Curved Air rarities series. This double disc set has some intriguing stuff.


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Frank Zappa - Studio Tan (vinyl)
Review by Gary Hill
This Frank Zappa disc has some trademark sounds. I think the side long "Greggary Peccary" has quite a bit in common with the "...Yellow Snow..." suite from Apostrophe.  

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Mask - Technopia
Review by Gary Hill
It’s still early and this is possibly the first 2010 disc I’ve heard – in fact, I’m pretty sure it is (since I often get discs weeks before release it's hard to be positive).
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Sky - The Studio Albums: 1979-1987 Box Set
Review by Gary Hill

This is a particularly awesome box set. It's also a great value. You get all seven of Sky's studio albums, and as a bonus there is a live DVD included as the eighth disc.


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Various Artists - The US Generation: 1982 The US Generation BluRay DVD Set
Review by Gary Hill

This is a new documentary about the first US Festival. It features interviews with various people involved, including a lot of the musicians, backstage footage and performance footage.


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UK - UK
Review by Scott Prinzing

Considered by many to be one of the greatest prog albums of all time, it is a shame that the line-up lasted only one album and tour.  


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Darryl Way - Ultra Violins
Review by G. W. Hill

Is this progressive music? Yes. Is it progressive rock? I don’t know.


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Darryl Way - Vivaldi's Four Seasons in Rock
Review by Gary Hill

The very act of combining rock music with classical qualifies music to land in progressive rock in my opinion. Of course, Darryl Way gets classified there at Music Street Journal anyway.


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Various Artists - Wind Of Change – Progressive Sounds Of 1973, 4CD Box Set
Review by Gary Hill
This four-CD set has some great music contained within. We get some of the bigger prog acts in terms of songs from Renaissance, Emerson Lake and Palmer, Electric Light Orchestra, Procol Harum and Yes.

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The Prog Collective - Worlds on Hold
Review by Gary Hill
The Prog Collective always puts out interesting music. It's a project that has Billy Sherwood at its core.

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Various Artists - Yesterday and Today: 50th Anniversary Tribute To Yes
Review by Gary Hill

This new various artists collection, as you would imagine, pays tribute to the music of Yes. It's an intriguing set.


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