02 December 2025: Airbag "Dysphoria"; Analog 2025

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 Airbag - Dysphoria

AIRBAG – Dysphoria (Live in the Netherlands)

• By J.N. 
 
• Posted On  27-10-2025  
Label: Karisma Records
Rating: 5 / 6 

RELEASE YEAR: 2025
BAND URL: https://airbagsound.bandcamp.com/album/airbag-dysphoria-live-in-the-netherlands

A live album by Norwegian prog rock stalwarts Airbag is not something to be taken lightly; it is a huge-sounding representation of some of their most outstanding and inspired epics being performed by a tight, well-oiled machine that knows exactly how to stir the senses and stimulate the mind of the audience. Captured for posterity at the legendary and prog-friendly venue Poppodium Boerderij in Zoetermeer last year and bolstered by a perfectly crisp sound adding heaps of atmospherics to the proceedings, this offering serves as a great reminder of just how emotionally charged these fine compositions truly are and how well they translate to the live format and context.

Compared to their studio counterparts, the eight tracks included here contain a little more vigor and vibrancy, benefitting from being played organically in front of an appreciative audience. The pristine riffs and beautiful melodies steadily work their magic and transport you elsewhere, and although the arrangements differ very little from the studio versions, there is joy to be found in these slightly more muscular and punchy live pieces. Different nuances are highlighted and emphasized, thereby creating an excellent alternative to what it means to immerse oneself in the outfit’s richly textured world of sound. As fabulous are these chaps are in the studio, their Pink Floyd-esque material really comes alive on stage as evidenced by Dysphoria. 

This is a wonderful celebration of a stellar (and ongoing) career and also a stunning display of just how fearfully ambitious and thoroughly timeless Airbag’s song material unarguably is. Old fans will want this, but newbies could potentially begin here also. If you are a fan of Steven Wilson, No-Man, and Porcupine Tree, you cannot allow yourself to miss out on this inspired act’s upcoming opus.

Originally released in 2016 as Analog 2020, this newly remastered edition appears on CD for the first time, featuring three previously unreleased tracks. Reimagined as Analog 2025, it celebrates and reaffirms the enduring spirit of analog electronic music in an era increasingly shaped by digital tools and AI-driven processes. Featuring visionary artists such as Robert Rich, Sonologyst, Simon Balestrazzi, and Pharmakustik, among others, the compilation pays tribute to those who continue to explore the richness and unpredictability of analog machines. These artists reject sterile perfection in favor of the warmth, instability, and tactile expressiveness that only analog gear can deliver.
Nearly a decade after its original release, Analog 2025 stands as both a document and a manifesto — a celebration of a global movement of musicians who view analog synthesis not as a nostalgic indulgence, but as a vital creative choice: an act of resistance and authenticity in a hyper-digitized world.
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released November 13, 2025
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Avant Music News 
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This Is Darkness
New from the Unexplained Sounds Group label is this delightful rerelease of the 2016 album ‘Analog 2020’. This newly remastered edition appears on CD for the first time, and features three previously unreleased tracks. With tracks from 13 musicians, the compilation pays tribute to those who continue to explore the richness and unpredictability of analog machines. The music here is beautiful, heartfelt, and moving. Very highly recommended. Powerful stuff! 
www.thisisdarkness.com/2025/11/29/frozen-in-time-this-is-darkness-playlist-november-2025/

Curated and mastered by Raffaele Pezzella (a.k.a. Sonologyst). 
Photos by Vääristymä. 
Layout by Matteo Mariano. 
Published by Unexplained Sounds Group 
Cat. Num. USG112. 
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10 October 2023: Nektar; Markus Reuter; qorakitobchi

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Remember the Future is the fourth album from English progressive rock band Nektar. Much like their debut album Journey to the Centre of the Eye, it is a concept album which is formally divided into ten tracks but in fact consists of one continuous piece of music.

Release

Remember the Future was first released in 1973 by Bacillus (Bellaphon). 

Side oneNo.    Title    Length
1.    "Remember the Future (Part 1)"

    a. "Images of the Past"
    b. "Wheel of Time"
    c. "Remember the Future"
    d. "Confusion"

    16:40
Side twoNo.    Title    Length
2.    "Remember the Future (Part 2)"

    a. "Returning Light"
    b. "Questions and Answers"
    c. "Tomorrow Never Comes"
    d. "Path of Light"
    e. "Recognition"
    f. "Let It Grow"

    19:00

Hopeless Angels Origins released December 24, 2022

Written and performed by Markus Reuter
Markus Reuter: Touch Guitars S8, Live Looping

Recorded on July 26 2022 by Arno Jordan at
Castle Studios, Röhrsdorf, Germany

Mixed and Mastered by Markus Reuter, December 23, 2022

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qorakitobchi's album "Ruins of Uzbekistan" is a relentless sonic journey that seems to have emerged from the very heart of Central Asia's unforgiving deserts. It resonates as if it were forged in the crucible of nomadic noise musicians, whose sonic expressions are as abrasive as the winds that sweep across the arid expanse. Enveloped by layers of dust, battered by the relentless desert gales, and occasionally swallowed by the shifting sands, qorakitobchi's compositions evoke a powerful and unyielding experience, akin to navigating a monolithic wall of sound amidst the captivating mystique of Central Asia.

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released September 21, 2023
Our thanks to Raffaele Pezzella for providing FreeForm with a copy of this release.
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Luminous Dash
luminousdash.be/reviews/qorakitobchi-ruins-of-uzbekistan-unexplained-sounds



qorakitobchi is the brainchild of Anvar Kalandarov, a musician hailing from Uzbekistan. Since its inception in 2012, this project has boldly ventured into uncharted sonic territories. Anvar has crafted a sonic experience that melds the harsh, unyielding essence of industrial, drone, and noise elements from Western origins with the primal and unrefined qualities of traditional Uzbek musical instruments, including the tanbur, the rubab, and the sato.


Published by ©Unexplained Sounds Group.
Curated and mastered by Raffaele Pezzella.
Cat. Num. USG088
Cover Picture: ruins of the medieval walled city Dzhanpik-Kala
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29 June 2021: Laren D'Or; RHaD Metamusic; Bass Communion

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 From Aural Innovations #14 (January 2001)

Laren d'Or is the moniker used by Hungarian musician Attila Héger, who plays keyboard driven music that is the encyclopedia description of symphonic progressive. Héger has been playing music since he started piano lessons at the age of six, and quotes among his influences such luminaries as Vangelis, Tangerine Dream, Mike Oldfield, Pink Floyd, Genesis, Jean-Michel Jarre, Yes, and Solaris. Vangelis and Jarre are probably the best analogies in terms of the music on War Of Angels, and Héger's compositional talents are without question equal to, if not better, than those more famous artists.

War Of Angels is divided into two parts. The first 5 tracks are the "Synthphonia" album and the next 8 are the "Progressive". The Synthphonia tracks are characterized by highly majestic symphonic keyboard works that bring to mind Bach or Wagner gone prog. Bold and intense, the music demands and receives the listener's undivided attention. I kept thinking that he could make a comfortable living doing soundtrack work, and, in fact, the promo material points out that Héger has been the in-house composer for a game developing company for the past eight years. The tracks labeled Progressive start off similar to the earlier tunes but in some cases are rocking out of bit more. The synth patterns have a spacier progressive edge, and are more beat oriented. "Sidestep Walking" is like a heavy symphonic techno piece. Quite a nice set and apparently what I was sent consists of most of the tracks from what is actually a 2-CD set.

In summary, Attila Héger will appeal to fans of heavy keyboard symphonic progressive rock. He also has a more aggressive metallic side which can be heard on his Al Norder project (an anagram of Laren d'Or). 

 

RHaD (Research for Historical Audio Documents) is a side project of Raffaele Pezzella (better known as Sonologyst). What Pezzella brings us here is a concrete example of something of what I have always believed – that ALL sound is music, whatever its source (radio transmissions, telephonic conversations, hi-fi test signals, old and forgotten documentaries, unknown field recordists). More than that, there is something else that goes beyond the simple creation of seemingly random sound collages; there is no doubt that here we have the uncovering of secret worlds and other realities, existences parallel to ours and yet separated by vast temporal and spatial distances. Here we have recordings and found sounds that have been manipulated in such a way as to render their contexts irrelevant and meaningless. Subtle concatenations of sound and substance, mood and context, in some instances creating a sense of otherness, that what we’re hearing are broadcasts from dimensions and realities that are not the one we live in. It’s exactly like trying to tune into a specific station on a vintage radio set but you don’t quite know where it is: as you turn the dial this way and that, you catch glimpses of other lives and other existences playing out just like your own. They are of our world and yet not part of it either. These six “metasonic” messages from seemingly emanate from an unknown Otherwhere and that alone will entice us to listen further and more deeply, in the hope of catching something that will peel back the layers and give us what we’ve yearned for. And that, I think, is where the true beauty lies in this album.

Psymon Marshall 

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released June 18, 2021

Metamusic by RhaD.
Featuring: Amline Thomas, voice; Michael Bonaventure, organ; Stefan Schmidt, classic guitar on track 1.
Daniel Barbiero, double bass; Francesco Arrighi, piano; Mara Lepore, piano, on track 3.
Radio tape recordings from Audiobox transmissions (1997-98).

Edited by ©Unexplained Sounds Group
Mastered by Raffaele Pezzella
Artwork: “Detour”. Collage on forex on cardboard by RhaD. 2020
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Atmospherics is a collection of Bass Communion music released by library music company Bruton Music^[1] and distributed to media companies for use in television and radio programs. Some of the pieces are extracts and remixes of tracks from other Bass Communion albums.^[2]

It was never commercially available.^[3]

Composed by Steven Wilson, except "Aftermath" written by Steven Wilson/Theo Travis
All instruments: Steven Wilson

Executive Producer: Jez Poole.
Recorded & mixed at Battery Studios, London, UK.
Mix Engineer: Steven Wilson.
Mastering: Chris Parmenidis, Battery Studios, London, UK.
Post-production Co-ordinator: Claire Leaver.
Graphic Designer: Jacquie O'Neill, Zomba Design