leon alvarado Archive

28 Nov 2016

Hundred-word Reviews for Nov./Dec. 2016, Part 6 of 10

blues, jazz, new release, prog, rawk, review

All through last week, I plowed through my to-be-reviewed CD shelf, covering 50 discs (45 CDs, 5 DVDs) in five days. All of the music was reissues, compilations and/or archival releases. This week the march toward a clean shelf continues, with the focus now on new (as in, released in 2016) CDs. Off we go!

16 Dec 2014

Album Review: Leon Alvarado – Music From an Expanded Universe

By Bill Kopp

ambient, new release, prog, review

The album cover art is an unashamed homage to H.R. Giger, so you might expect something foreboding, or at least challenging. The five-track album (one of which is a “bonus track”) is surprisingly understated, even with such able guests as Trey Gunn (King Crimson), and Jerry Marotta (David Bowie and many others). It’s a gauzy,

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