Colosseum - The Reunion Concerts 1994 (2020/FLAC)

 

One of the most influential of the early British progressive rock bands, Colosseum fused an adventurous approach to rock with strong jazz and blues influences and classical keyboard accents; they earned a loyal and lasting following though they never scored a major breakthrough hit. On June 24th 1994, Colosseum played their first concert together for 23 years. 

Jon Hiseman said ‘Despite many requests from fans and promoters over the past couple of decades, I never seriously considered reforming the original Colosseum. But the release of all the albums on CD in the early ’90’s was extremely successful and generated a lot of new interest in the band. When Dave, Dick, Clem and Chris ganged up on me in 1993 it became clear there was no escape. A date was set and I found Mark in America and we all met up in my studio on June 17th 1994 and I gave the count in for ‘Those About to Die’. We played as if the band had never been apart’.

01. Those About to Die (Live At Zelt-Musik-Festival Freiburg)
02. Stormy Monday Blues (Live At Zelt-Musik-Festival Freiburg)
03. Those About to Die (Live at the E-Werk, Cologne, Germany)
04. Skellington (Live at the E-Werk, Cologne, Germany)
05. Elegy (Live at the E-Werk, Cologne, Germany)
06. Tanglewood ’63 (Live at the E-Werk, Cologne, Germany)
07. January’s Search (Live at the E-Werk, Cologne, Germany)
08. February’s Valentine (Live at the E-Werk, Cologne, Germany)
09. The Grass is Always Greener (Live at the E-Werk, Cologne, Germany)
10. Rope Ladder to the Moon (Live at the E-Werk, Cologne, Germany)
11. Theme for an Imaginary Western (Live at the E-Werk, Cologne, Germany)
12. The Machine Demands Another Sacrifice (Live at the E-Werk, Cologne, Germany)
13. Solo Colonia (Live at the E-Werk, Cologne, Germany)
14. Lost Angeles (Live at the E-Werk, Cologne, Germany)
15. Stormy Monday Blues (Live at the E-Werk, Cologne, Germany)
16. Walking in the Park (Live at the E-Werk, Cologne, Germany) 

Tempest - Under The Blossom. The Anthology (2 CD, 2005/FLAC)

 Tempest was a British progressive rock band active from 1972 to 1974. Its core members were Jon Hiseman on drums and Mark Clarke on bass. They released two studio albums before breaking up. 

Hiseman and Clarke had played in Colosseum together and formed Tempest at the beginning of 1973. For the band's first, eponymous album (originally called Jon Hiseman's Tempest), the line-up was completed by Allan Holdsworth on guitar and Paul Williams on vocals and keyboards.

Later in Tempest's brief history, they were joined by Ollie Halsall, who had played guitar with progressive rock band Patto. With two guitarists, the group played a number of shows beginning with a June 1973 show at Golders Green Hippodrome, London, which was broadcast by the BBC and later released as a bootleg erroneously entitled Live in London 1974.[ By the time a second album was recorded, 1974's Living in Fear, Tempest was down to a trio, consisting of Hiseman, Clarke, and Halsall; reportedly Holdsworth didn't want to play alongside a second guitarist. The band broke up soon after.

In 2007, a double CD anthology was released entitled Under the Blossom which featured remastered editions of the two studio albums, two previously unreleased studio tracks from the Living in Fear era and the BBC live recording of the June 1973 concert at Golders Green with the two guitar line-up.