Metal Reviews

After Aura Noir


Unconventional and antiquarian, The Tea Party's much-praised debut. Remastered in '21.

In remembrance of all long gone and absent friends. When times were sweeter and lighter, and when one could feel the nectar of life. Bluesy these days, that is for certain, and the night seems most embracing and comforting.

Music with the greatest joy of spirit and at some of the earliest incarnations of jazz's canonical repetoire. Extraordinary.

First time hearing this. Rather well done, which is an absurdities of sorts, anyhow. The Rolling Stones early charisma certainly sticks very well to yours sincerely. Roots and Blues in its most ideal musical state.

A rather dull cover but the music inside is very much unlike its appearance.

Mr. Morgan's rare virtuosity is unmistakable here and so is Co.

Invaluable.

Only on my second listening to this album, but never too far away from the sheer quality which this recording, so abundantly lays out in such style. Morgan Lee is not a widely-known figure in the general jazz community, if there were any, as we speak about it, as to how many listen to jazz, or quality jazz, at all, but he stands as a towering figure, for what he produced, and his most tragic and ultimately, ending.

This album is truly some of the finest jazz I have ever had the pleasure of hearing. Grand.

Iron Butterfly - In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida



Marillion - Brave (Steve Wilson, Remaster)



Some of the best music I have ever heard.

An excellent live offering.

Time's oldness is ripening again.

If early Pink Floyd were performing harder rock, you would have this album.

When simplicity and hardness meant that your brand of rock was going give you a sound thumping.

I think I have only heard this album once, or twice, around a decade ago. No one sounds like them, they are good, but some recordings by them, other than this, I have found, find a more attentive listener in me, than this particular recording.

A substantial work in progressive and heavy.

And it is the case that the second listening session is much more revelatory, than the first.

How would it have been possible, that the history of jazz, would have had a different history? If these iconic figures, did not exist? It is unimaginable, or rather, a plain absurdity.

Never tires itself out.

Excellent live performance.

Last of the night. Must give this live recording more time. Good night.