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Issue #36 of Exposé is available now!

This is one of our best issues yet, and certainly worth the wait.

Features in this issue include:

GREGG BENDIAN. Gregg Bendian is by no means your average drummer. Over the course of the last few decades, he has refined his craft, from free jazz excursions with the Cline Brothers and Pat Metheny to duo collaborations with Richard Leo Johnson and his acclaimed tribute to the Mahavishnu Orchestra that he has been championing for over five years. Exposé was able to speak with Gregg at home on three occasions, each resulting in this career-mapping dialogue from the heart of a true progressive rock fan. (Interview by Jeff Melton)

SONJA KRISTINA. Most readers will know Sonja Kristina as the leader and vocalist of the classic British progressive band Curved Air, though that barely scratches the surface of her long and multi-faceted career in music, theatre and other endeavors. Beginning in the world of folk music, her interests soon turned to theatre when she joined the London cast of Hair in the late sixties. While progressive rock in the 70s was largely a man's world, Sonja led Curved Air through several important phases and personnel changes, and she continues to lead them to this day. But her story gets even more interesting with the solo projects and other bands Sonja led on the period following Curved Air’s heyday right up to the present, including her current project Mask with Marvin Ayres. We thank Sonja for taking time out of her busy schedule over a period of several months to provide the thoughts and insights that comprise this comprehensive career overview. (Interview by Peter Thelen)

FERN KNIGHT. Lilt an ear spasm strolling through a gauzy woodland forest riverwalk parting itself for the Fern Knight passing through as ye be ensconced within that world of bounteous beauteousness. This conglomeration of individuals presides over pockets of time with music for gently exploded minds; these star-dappled minstrels have come to roost. An adventure in dulcet tones awaits thee if ye be not privy to the scintillating journey in sound that this group be. Taking equal nods from the encampments of folk, progressive, psychedelic, and wyrd, their amalgam has fortitude enough to bind the elements, fusing earthiness, airy qualities, windswept melodies, and fiery delivery in one taut sonic capsule.. (Feature by Cesar Montesano)

JADE WARRIOR. Exposé readers will be familiar with Jade Warrior, a band that has been around in one form or another since around 1970, and one that we have covered extensively in our reviews. The partnership of original members Jon Field (percussion, flute) and Tony Duhig (guitar) even predates that, going back to the late sixties psychedelic band July. But that was then, and this is now, which is also the title of the band’s first new release in fifteen years; the new release is the focus of this interview. Now reunites original members Jon Field and Glyn Havard (vocals) with bassist Dave Sturt from the 1990s trio lineup, seemingly drawing influence from every previous phase of the band’s work while creating something entirely new from it, capturing the essence of what Jade Warrior is all about. (Interview by Peter Thelen)

MIRCAN. Musicians from lesser-known, non-English speaking countries, be they Polynesia, Eastern Europe or Southeast Asia, are seldom thought to be traditional ones. Mircan Kaya is not. This pretty woman from northeastern Turkey is a singer and composer with sound ideas. Mircan’s magical musical tapestries are borne of her close connection with Mingrelian culture. This is her story. (Interview by Alessandro Michelucci)

JACOB FRED JAZZ ODYSSEY. Oklahoma’s Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey was at a crossroads two years ago. Band founders keyboardist Brian Roy Haas and bassist Reed Mathis had covered a lot of ground in over ten years of road work refining their sound and winning a cult fan base from the ground up. So the band was taking time out to formulate a new direction with a new producer / in studio collaborator and drummer as well to flesh out their new direction based on clues given in more recent band performances. Expose caught with Haas and then Mathis just prior to their spring 2008 tour doing final prep work, rehearsing with an expanded line-up and getting mentally ready for a few weeks on the road.. (Interview by Jeff Melton)

BAJA PROG XII, 2008. Baja Prog XIII in 2009 may be a scaled back event, but 2008’s show was one of the great ones to remember. Highlights included two performances by New Trolls (one with an orchestra, one without), Cast, Le Orme, Circa, Djamra, Riverside, Quikion, Alex Carpani, Rocket Scientists, and many more. (Words and Photos by Pam Thompson)

Also included in issue 36: Plenty of reading in the 54 pages of our regular reviews sections -- Roundtables, New Releases, Books, Archives and Reissues. 92 Pages total.

The fact that you're browsing The Artist Shop at all very likely means that you have a love of progressive, avant-garde, and adventurous music. The best way you can find out more about the music you love (well, other than browsing The Artist Shop, of course) is to subscribe to Exposé. Below is a little of the philosophy behind Exposé.

Once there was music. Simple music. Maybe a nursery rhyme or a simple folk tune sung by a kind and loving voice. Soon your ears met new music, maybe a classical piece or a fragment of a pop song, a comforting melody that played in your mind the whole day through. The simplicity of youth soon gave way to the anxieties of adolescence; pop music, then perhaps rock - began to speak more directly to your spirit in turmoil. As time went by, your musical tastes continued to develop driven by a hunger for new ideas, reaching for new horizons, fusing new styles and idioms, breaking down the existing limits and barriers. Then one day you found yourself alone, ignored completely by a music and radio industry firmly set on maintaining popular music at its lowest common denominator, while your wide ranging taste for eclectic musical styles and experimentation find you increasingly disconnected from the musical mainstream. Is this you ?

This growth and disconnection is what Exposé is all about. Our primary focus is the music that the mainstream ignores; music whose roots seem to have originated somewhere just outside the pop/rock mainstream, but has progressed onwards toward the boundaries of rock, where it meets jazz, classical, folk, avant-garde, electronic and experimental, going well beyond the standard forms into areas of stark and stunning originality. With Exposé, the focus is on the exploration.

Exposé began modestly in the autumn of '93 as a bi-monthly companion newsletter to the Exposure radio show, which focuses on progressive and experimental rock and its periphery. It grew from sixteen to forty pages within one year, and has since settled out as a sixty to eighty page quarterly, packed with information on all the music that matters, and the artists who create it. Our typical issue contains artist profiles, interviews, historical perspectives, and much more. You will find well over eighty reviews of new releases and selected reissues in each issue, and Exposé is the only English language publication that features roundtable reviews of all important new releases - not just one, but three different perspectives on the same release. Our writers are knowledgeable about music and the history of music, many being musicians themselves, and are among the best in the field, having previously written for Gibraltar, Audion, i/e, Eurock, and others.

Some of the artists we have featured and reviewed: Anglagard, Ozric Tentacles, Tony Spada, Ezra Winston, U Totem, King Crimson, Pulsar, SFF, Ange, Minimum Vital, Carl Weingarten, Doctor Nerve, Anyone s Daughter, Mezquita, Finch, Shylock, Saga, Zao, Area, Arena, Magma, Hoelderlin, Frank Zappa, Wittox O Hara, Birdsongs of the Mesozoic, Cast, Landberk, Halloween, Jean-Pascal Boffo, Pekka Pohjola, Versailles, Jadis, Kenso, French TV, Hawkwind, Kit Watkins, Iona, Crucis, Xaal, Eskaton, Carpe Diem, Phish, Mastermind, Klaus Schulze, Terraced Garden, Virgil Moorefield, Discipline, Anekdoten and many others. If this is the kind of music that interests you, then the time to subscribe is now. You will never find so much information at such a modest cost, focused squarely on the music that matters the most.

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Special Sale on Exposé back issues

Take any five issues for the price of a four issue subscription ($22).  This offer is only good for delivery inside the US.  Currently available are issues 11 through 30.  Each of these issues will only be available while current supplies last.   Once depleted they will not be reprinted.  Below is a short description of each issue.

 

Exposé #30, September 2004, 92 Pages (Current Issue)
Les Tritonales Festival, Paris 2004, Matraz, KBB, John Duval, Baja Prog 2004, Trettioariga Kriget, Strawbs feature (Interviews with Dave Cousins & Dave Lambert), Fred Frith interview

Exposé #29, April 2004, 92 Pages
Gentle Giant megafeature, Barry Cleveland, Mark Powell, The Attila & Dave Project, Syzygy, Robert Wyatt interview, Paul Ellis, The Future of Music Downloading

Exposé #28, December 2003, 92 Pages
Edgar Froese, Bob Drake, Lars Hollmer, David & Linda Laflamme, NEARFest 2003, Progman Cometh Festival, Seattle 2003, Progday IX, North Carolina 2003.

Exposé #27, August 2003, 92 Pages
Mujician, Karda Estra interview, Forever Einstein, Steve Tibbetts, Hugh Hopper, Cabezas de Cera Baja Prog 2003, Dave Kerman's final chapter in the continuing story of Josh, Canadian Progressive Rock in the 1970's, Part One.

Exposé #26, February 2003, 92 Pages
Phil Miller, Anglagard, Peter Frohmader, Proto-Kaw interview w/ Kerry Livgren & Lynn Meredith, Seattle "Progman Cometh" festival 2002, NearFest 02, ProgDay 02, Classic Rock Festival, ProgWest 02, Cattle Prog, Dave Kerman: The Further Adventures of Josh.

Exposé #25, September 2002, 92 Pages
Interviews: John Marshall, Kraan, Cyrille Verdeaux/Clearlight, Kromlech, Radio Massacre International, Rick Wakeman, ECM Rarum series, Baja Prog 2002, Dave Kerman: Earth to Josh: Prog Is Dead.

Exposé #24, April 2002, 84 Pages
Maudlin of The Well, Paranoise, Roger Eno, John Etheridge, Sven Grunberg, La Torre Dell'Alchimista, Tunnels & Nuove Musiche, ProgWest 2001, Progressive Projections, CD: BayProg Sampler

Exposé #23, December 2001, 88 Pages.
Estradasphere, Dennis Rea, Prog Day 2001, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, New Sun, Ozrics, Neil Sadler, Robert Carty + Dweller at the Threshold, Indonesian Prog Festival, Rob Ayling (of Voiceprint), King Crimson w/Tool

Exposé #22, July 2001, 84 Pages.
Nearfest 2001, McGill Manring & Stevens, Baja Prog 2001, Riho Sibul, Arti e Mestieri, Gatto Marte, Jeff Greinke Interview, Cartoon & PFS, Gary Parra & Trap + CD: Cuneiform Records 2001

Exposé #21, March 2001, 88 Pages.
ProgDay 2000, Gianni Leone/Il Balletto di Bronzo, Uz Jsme Doma, Azigza, Theo Travis, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Five Fifteen, King Crimson, Spacecraft, Picchio Dal Pozzo, The Tunnel Singer + CD: "What's New in Baltimore"

Exposé #20, October 2000, 92 Pages.
NEARfest 2000, Yes Masterworks Tour, Moe. in Portland, Annbjorg Lien, Amy Denio, Peter Hammill, Rascal Reporters, Vidna Obmana, Thierry Zaboitzeff, Brainworks Label, The Golden Age of Eurock

Exposé #19, May 2000, 88 Pages.
On The Future of Music Distribution, Absolute Zero + Trap, Hypnos Label, Garden of Delights Label, NeBeLNeST, Maximum Indifference, Babylon, Robert Rich, Guy LeBlanc (Nathan Mahl), Discus, Steven Wilson (Porcupine Tree), Richard Barbieri

Exposé #18, November 1999, 80 Pages.
Nearfest '99, The Residents, Richard Pinhas & Maurice Dantec, 5th International Progressive Music Festival - San Francisco 99, Bill Bruford's Earthworks, Iconoclasta, Atavism of Twilight, Michael Stearns, Steve Hahn, Tempano, Architectural Metaphor, Mirage Label,

Exposé #17, April 1999, 84 Pages.
Earthworks, Baja Prog 99, Kopecky, Gordon Haskell, Opposition De Phase, ProjeKCt 4 live, Kilgore Trout, Mike Keneally, Species Being, Cloud Chamber, French Progressive Artifacts, Kevin Ayers, Christian Vander, Felix Jay, Steve Roach, Silver Apples, Thinking Plague

Exposé #16, January 1999, 80 Pages.
Present Live, ProgDay '98, Djam Karet w/New Sun, Strange Days '98, Northside Label Overview, Ten Jinn interview, David Cross, Hugh Hopper interview, A Triggering Myth, Amon Duul Megafeature

Exposé #15, July 1998, 80 Pages.
Baja Prog '98, Yes, Sound Resources Studio, XII Alfonso, Benoit Widemann, Michael Brook, Cloud Chamber, Stan Whitaker on the Happy The Man reunion, Doctor Nerve Interview w/Nick Didkovsky, Mickey Simmonds, Kraftwerk, Patrick Forgas

Exposé #14, February 1998, 80 Pages.
Projekt Fest `97, Idiot Flesh & Buckethead, Bill Frisell Quintet, Marillion & Enchant, Exposé Concert Series, Strange Days `97, ProgDay `97, Providence, Volare, Thijs Van Leer of Focus, Edhels/Marc Ceccotti, Djam Karet, 0.720 Aleacion, Eloy, Present, Zendik

Exposé #13, October 1997, 80 Pages.
Victoriaville 1997, Fifty Foot Hose & Silver Apples, Boud Deun, The Grand Parade, Progfest `97, Prog-Est `97), Exposé Concert Series, Hawkwind - 25 years on, Spirit and Randy California, Cast, Carl Weingarten, Aldo Tagliapietra of Le Orme, Peter Banks, Dave Brock, Simon House

Exposé #12, May 1997, 72 Pages.
Yes, Ash Ra Tempel, Camel, Exposure Concert Series,French TV, Earthlings, moe, Trance Mission, Renaissance Mark 1, Solstice/Andy Glass, Mona Lisa, Bill Forth of Ten Seconds, Martin Barre, Toshio Egawa of Gerard, Doane Perry

Exposé #11, February 1997, 72 Pages.
Prog Day 1996, Eclectic Electric Event, Stockholm Progressive Rock Festival 96, Magma, Dead Can Dance, Michael Ray & The Cosmic Krewe, moe., Yolk, Medeski Martin & Wood, Phish, Shockra, Happy The Man megafeature, Boud Deun, Hiro Kawahara (Heretic), Shub Niggurath, Progressive Rock Worldwide Label, Spotted Peccary update

 

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