11 Jan 2016
Album Review: Gentle Giant — Octopus (Steven Wilson Remix)
Progressive rockers Gentle Giant released Octopus, their fourth album, in December 1972. Allowing that Gentle Giant’s music is nothing if not an acquired taste, Octopus is among their best work. […]
02 Mar 2012
Album Review: Gentle Giant – Octopus
On their third album, 1972’s Octopus, Gentle Giant delivered a collection of songs that ranked among their best. With a sound that synthesized their medieval/renaissance aesthetic wedded to a jazzy […]
19 Oct 2011
Album Review: Gentle Giant – Three Friends
Three Friends finds 70s progressive group Gentle Giant at their most rocking and abrasive, yet the group manages to deliver a set of challenging, progressive numbers in the process. Right […]
15 Feb 2010
Album Review: Gentle Giant – Free Hand (2010 reissue)
Sporting a sound that’s at once highly polished and more accessible than anything the band had done before, Free Hand remains firmly in the progressive rock camp. A challenging listen, […]
10 Feb 2010
Album Review: Gentle Giant – In a Glass House (2010 reissue)
If you’re not expecting it, the smashing glass sounds that open “The Runaway,” the opening salvo of Gentle Giant’s 1973 In a Glass House, they’re a pretty jarring experience. While […]
09 Feb 2010
Album Review: Gentle Giant – The Power and the Glory (2010 reissue)
As “Proclamation” — the opening track on Gentle Giant‘s 1974 album The Power and the Glory, newly remastered and reissued in 2010 — unfolds, it may at first seem that […]
20 Nov 2009
Interview: Gentle Giant on Barrett, bootlegs, Badfinger, Back catalog and the biz
The career of Gentle Giant spanned the whole of the 1970s, and their modest commercial fortunes closely paralleled that of their chosen (or assigned) genre. Beginning with their self-titled debut […]
14 Oct 2009
Ask Gentle Giant! No Kidding!
UK-based Gentle Giant was one of the most consistently fascinating progressive rock groups of the 1970s. Like — but not part of — the Canterbury Scene (Soft Machine, Caravan et. […]
07 Dec 2021
Album Review: Rachel Flowers — Bigger on the Inside
The manner in which I first discovered Rachel Flowers is, I would imagine, similar to the way that many others learned of this remarkable artist. Videos on YouTube showcased her […]
06 Jan 2021
The Chris Brubeck Interview, Part Three
Continued from Part Two. In Part Three of my conversation with Chris Brubeck, we talk about the idea of instrumental works still having subject matter, and the mystical communication that […]