Tempest "Thirty Little Turns"

Country: USA
Genre(s): Prog Folk
Label: Magna Carta Records
Format: CD, digital
Release date: February 23, 2018
Tracklist: 
1. Johnny Cope (4:07)
2. Thirty Little Birds (4:18)
3. Battle of Aughrim (2:51)
4. Trolldans (4:03)
5. Norwegian Wood (3:56)
6. Lahard Chase (3:52)
7. A Toast (4:36)
8. High Germany (4:52)
9. Madeline Jones (4:28)
10. Swarb (7:09)

Total time: 44:12

Line-up: 
Lief Sorbye - lead vocals, mandoguitar, electric and acoustic mandolins, octave mandolas, flute, pennywhistle, bodhran
Ab Menon – electric guitars
Adolfo Lazo - drums
Kathy Buys - fiddle, harmony vocals
Josh Fossgreen - bass, harmony vocals
     With
Robert Berry - Keyboards

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Tempest "Thirty Little Turns"

Country: USA
Genre(s): Prog Folk
Label: Magna Carta Records
Format: CD, digital
Release date: February 23, 2018
Tracklist: 
1. Johnny Cope (4:07)
2. Thirty Little Birds (4:18)
3. Battle of Aughrim (2:51)
4. Trolldans (4:03)
5. Norwegian Wood (3:56)
6. Lahard Chase (3:52)
7. A Toast (4:36)
8. High Germany (4:52)
9. Madeline Jones (4:28)
10. Swarb (7:09)

Total time: 44:12

Line-up: 
Lief Sorbye - lead vocals, mandoguitar, electric and acoustic mandolins, octave mandolas, flute, pennywhistle, bodhran
Ab Menon – electric guitars
Adolfo Lazo - drums
Kathy Buys - fiddle, harmony vocals
Josh Fossgreen - bass, harmony vocals
     With
Robert Berry - Keyboards

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Points North "Points North"

Country: USA
Genre(s): Instrumental Progressive Rock, Fusion
Label: Magna Carta Records
Format: CD, digital
Release date: April 21, 2015
Tracklist: 

1. Ignition - 3:58
2. Northstar - 4:37
3. Child's Play - 5:18
4. Sky Punch - 3:25
5. Rites of Passage - 5:25
6. Colorblind - 3:52
7. Harlequin - 5:08
8. Turning Point (La Villa De Villers) - 7:15
9. Redeye - 4:42
10. Foxes & Cougars - 5:19
11. Killer Pounder - 3:43

Line-up: 
Eric Barnett – guitar
Kevin Aiello – drums
Uriah Duffy - bass

Description/Reviews: 

The trio return with a recording that will grabs you from the first bar and won't let you go 'till it's finished. Points North serve up a bold mix of rock, jazz and rock fusion, carefully balancing fury and serenity in a soundscape of consciousness. The compositions are creative and the playing is energetic. The album opens with, "Ignition" an explosives piece of music that will stimulate your senses to overload. "Northstar"is a great piece as it also features a stunning buildup towards the end. "Child's Play" is simply stunning. For the first time the band serve up a vocal track with the stimulating, "Colorblind". Eric Barnett's guitar playing on "Turning Point (La Villa De Villers)" is out of this world. Lastly, "Killer Pounder", a instant shot of adrenaline that highlights the tight chemistry this trio exhibits and closes the album in the best way. (thededicatedrockersociety.blogspot.com)

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Tempest "The Tracks We Leave"

Country: USA
Genre(s): Prog Folk
Label: Magna Carta Records
Format: CD, digital
Release date: February 24, 2015
Tracklist: 

1. Rantin' Rovin' Robin 
2. The Tracks We Leave
3. Vagabonds
4. September Jig 
5. All Mann Hadde Fota
6. Fog On The Bay 
7. Ganesh
8. The Brown Coffin 
9. Rattlin' Roarin' Willie 
10. The Leitrim Set 
11. Bonus Track: Surfing To Mecca 

Line-up: 
Lief Sorbye - Lead Vocals, MandoGuitar, El. and Acoustic Mandolins, Mandolas, Flute, Harmonica, Bodhran
Adolfo Lazo - Drums
Greg Jones - El. Guitar, Vocals
Kathy Buys - Fiddle, Vocals
Josh Fossgreen - Bass
     With
Robert Berry - Keyboards
David Dilullo - Congas, Doumbek

Description/Reviews: 

New original and traditional songs! Tempest's first studio album in five years draws upon Celtic, Scandinavian and other folk traditions from around the globe, in what may be the band's most exciting work to date. Inspired by a Dakota Sioux proverb: "We will be known forever by the tracks we leave," a reference to the environmental, spiritual and musical tracks we leave upon the world we live in.

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MoeTar "Entropy Of The Century"

Country: USA
Sub Genre: Symphonic, Art Rock, Pop
Label: Magna Carta
Release date: August 19, 2014
Tracklist: 
1. Dystopian Fiction (2:01)
2. Entropy Of The Century (2:53)
3. Regression To The Mean (3:50)
4. Welcome To The Solar Flares (3:04)
5. Friday Night Dreams (4:06)
6. Letting Go Of Life (4:47)
7. We Machines (4:36)
8. Benefits (3:21)
9. Raze The Maze (2:38)
10. Confectioner’s Curse (3:03)
11. Where The Truth Lies (4:49)
12. The Unknowable (6:26)

Line-up: 
Moorea Dickason - Vocals
Tarik Ragab - Bass
Matt Lebofsky (miRthkon) - Keys
Matthew Heulitt (Zigaboo Modeliste, Narada Michael Walden) - Guitar
David M Flores - Drums
Jonathan Herrera - Keyboards

Description/Reviews: 

Describing MoeTar is no easy feat. In fact, the task is as challenging as the band’s music itself. A simplistic and accurate statementcould be “MoeTar sounds like the Beatles + Frank Zappa + XTC on Acid”. You could also try to peg MoeTar to a list of genres, but who the hell knows what a prog-pop-fusion-avant fusion band sounds like anyway?
MoeTar’s two main protagonists, lead singer Moorea Dickason and bassist/songwriter/lyricist Tarik Ragab, along with a versatile crew of musicians, including guitarist Matthew Charles Heulitt, drummer David Flores and keyboardist Matt Lebofsky, and keyboardist Jonathan Herrera create catchy, yet complex, music that attempts to make sense of our confusing world. The fact is, MoeTar’s music defies categorization and, therein, lies the band’s special appeal. Tricky rhythms and technical pyrotechnics are not in themselves anything special. On Entropy of the Century, MoeTar expands ist palette even further. The band understands the power of pop to deliver a message that sticks, but unlike most pop, uses the full breadth of the musical language to convey that message. Entropy of the Century captures an important new band coming into ist own, harnessing the disparate powers of ist extraordinary musicians for a common purpose. Don’t bother trying to define the band. Just listen. (justforthekicks)

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Pinnick Gales Pridgen "Pinnick Gales Pridgen"

Country: USA
Sub Genre: Hard Rock, Progressive Rock
Label: Magna Carta
Release date: February 12, 2013
Tracklist: 

1. Collateral Damage - 5:09
2. Angels and Aliens - 6:16
3. For Jasmine - 1:18
4. Hang On, Big Brother - 5:08
5. Wishing Well - 5:57
6. Hate Crime - 3:09
7. Lascivious - 5:18
8. Black Jeans - 6:47
9. Sunshine Of Your Love - 6:53
10. Been So High (The Only Place To Go Is Down) - 10:23
11. Me And You - 4:45
12. The Greatest Love - 5:45
13. Frightening - 5:20

Line-up: 
dUg Pinnick - Bass and Vocals (King's X)
Eric Gales - Guitar and Vocals (Eric Gales Band, Lauryn Hill)
Thomas Pridgen - Drums (ex Mars Volta)

Description/Reviews: 

On the band’s debut, each member of PGP infuses the material with his own set of musical influences, transforming his individual instrument into a lead instrument. The absolutely slamming musicianship frames the recognizable melodies of these songs and catapults the music into the realms of psychedelic blues, hard rock, and progressive soul/R&B. Pinnick Gales Pridgen’s debut contains all the stinging bite and all-out sonic boom of King’s X, The Mars Volta and The Eric Gales Band. In addition, fans of artists as far ranging as Jimi Hendrix , Cream, Living Colour, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Tool, The Who, Stevie Wonder and Liquid Tension Experiment might find something meaningful in these meaty, extended tracks. 

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