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Tangerine Dream - Raum (2022)

2nd album since the death of Edgar Frosse and while there are no discernible guitar bursts, the band still remain true to the original vision and soundscapes while managing the trick balance of sounding fresh & contemporary and avoiding the "ambient" tag, even though they probably invented it.

seems like it used to be that we didn't get all that many uploads to the Utube from UK concerts. Maybe we did and I just didn't pick up on them, I dunno. But they are all over this Eric Gales tour and it's not just a few people, it's a whole bunch of them

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uGk2KBuCzM

Reuben Gingrich - Secret of the Forest

It's near bed time.  Slow down music.  Gingrich's the drummer in The Main squeeze.

Sounds Snarky Puppyish....

https://youtu.be/alW3hvc3ViY

I know I just posted a Walter Trout not long ago but this is just too damn good. I'm also a big Lance Lopez fan, and with Grossi on the bass and Kenny Aronoff on drums

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gc1z1A3bALQ

Thanks for the heads up, I will be on it like flies on a picnic. Lance has had some problems staying clean the last 2 or 3 years, maybe this is a sign that he is in a better place now

You beat me to the title....
Amazon over here are being a bit vague on the release date, but here's the product description:-

"Voodoo Nation is the band's third studio album and fourth in total following West of Flushing, South of Frisco (2016), Californisoul (2017), live album Road Chronicles: Live (2019).
The album starts with the track "Money", which is about greed. "Greed alone is not the problem, it's greed and the lack of respect for everybody else", producer Fabrizio Grossi explains. The 8-minute "Devil at the Doorstep" features Eric Gales – whose own recent album Crown was a #1 Blues Billboard hit. The song is a studio representation of what happens when they play live with Gales.
SSBM underline problems faced by musicians on "Coming Thru" and "Get It Done" - the latter features Los Angeles based virtuoso Josh Smith. "Do It Again" is another firecracker that rounds off the theme and features Ana Popovic, which is about "the happiness and blessing of being able to do what you love."
Young Harlem blues-sensation King Solomon Hicks takes on lead vocals and guitar on the call to arms "You and Me." The bands trademark soulful blues sound can be heard beautifully on "I Will Let It Go," featuring Kirk Fletcher, and the sumptuous "Is It All" featuring the legendary Joe Louis Walker, which sees him and Kris Barras trade vocals on the stunning soul ballad. The title track locks in the feeling of general discontent in society.
Supersonic Blues Machine reflect how they see the world through their lens and never far is a message of hope and the album closes with the inspirational country blues "All Our Love" featuring Blackberry Smoke's Charlie Starr."

Some big-hitters named dropped....

tickets to TMS are bought. I feel like this will be insanely epic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhyfAFM3Nb0

Ian Gillan Band - Return To The Source (2022)

Basically, an independent compilation from the Talking Elephant label showcasing what Ian Gillan did in the mid 1970s, getting back into the music industry after turning his back on it.

You'd think, at first, that it's a long way from the powerhouse of Purple, but sit back and really listen and what you hear is a band every bit as skilled, but the direction is slightly different. At first described as [the dread] jazz-fusion, but deeper listening reveals driving soul-funk rhythms that cook into a backbeat that wouldn't shame Sly & The Family Stone. There is, interspersed on these tracks, some blistering guitarwork from the oft overlooked Ray Fenwick. Keyboards are handled by Colin Townes, the only member to survive IGB and right to the end of Gillan[Band] in the early 1980s before moving on to a successful career are film, Tv & theatre composer. Drums are handled by ex-Elf Mark Nauseef, who went on to work briefly with Thin Lizzy & Gary Moore. And finally, the late John Gustafson [ex-Roxy Music, amongst others] laying bass lines to die for.

This compilation is culled from the few albums made by the Ian Gillan Band, before Gillan hardened up the bands sound, and not only features studio picks such as Clear Air Turbulence and My Baby Loves but also instrumental backing tapes [from Rockfield Sessions] that really showcase how this band could cook. And while you can't escape the "purple elephant" in the room, there are 3 live numbers hanging over from Ian's [first run] days in Purple, but handled slightly differently; Child In Time featuring flute into for example.

Granted, not the stuff that would make Gillan the internationally famous & fabulously wealthy superstar he is now, but this does show that he was always more than a leather-lunged, tungsten-tonsiled screamer.

Child In Time (1977) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwgeEnv6uDw