Whole Life Times cover art
June/July 2019
I am thrilled to announce that my art has been featured on the cover of the June/July issue of Whole Life Times. It is also featured on an inside spread. Thank you Gina Salvati and Team (Molly, their new graphic designer, who did the beautiful layout!) for the opportunity to share my art.
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Phideaux at Summer’s End
Summer's End
October 5, 2019
Chepstow Drill Hall - Chepstow, (Wales) U.K.
"I have to admit that whilst I am now aware that they have been around for some time, I was not familiar with Phideaux until the run-up to this year’s Summer’s End when I heard some of their material on internet radio, and along with knowing I was going to see them, I took the plunge with their latest album, Infernal, the concluding part of a conceptual trilogy which has been developing for some years.
Their set got off to a rocky start, with technical difficulties with a guitar amp. However, it didn’t take too long, after the sound settled down somewhat, for the band to fully recover from this setback. A fair proportion of Infernal was aired, including most notably for me Hydrogen to Love, one of the more left-field tracks from the album, which particularly impressed. The band draw comparisons to me with avant and chamber prog artistes, such as Thinking Plague and 5 Uus, although with at times the more trad influences, as cited by the band themselves, of Jethro Tull. Overall a highly impressive performance and definitely one of the sets of the weekend for me. I shall be investigating their back catalogue forthwith." (OT) – The Progressive Aspect
https://theprogressiveaspect.net/blog/2019/11/04/summers-end-festival-xv/
Phideaux at Progstock
Progstock
October 11, 2019
UCPAC Theater, Main Stage - Rahway, NJ
“Friday’s festivities began with the best show of the day—and arguably of the entire weekend—in the form of Phideaux. Led by mastermind Phideaux Xavier and encompassing nearly a dozen musicians (including several female vocalists and two keyboardists), the classical/progressive/folk rock troupe spent roughly ninety breathtaking minutes honoring their apocalypse trilogy: 2006’s The Great Leap, 2007’s Doomsday Afternoon, and 2018’s Infernal. At the risk of sounded biased, these are some of the best albums ever released in the genre, so the band’s nearly perfect renditions of tunes such as “Cast Out and Cold,” “We Only Have Eyes for You,” “You and Me Against a World of Pain,” “The Doctrine of Eternal Ice (Part Two),” “From Hydrogen to Love,” and “Microdeath Softstar” were downright awe-inspiring. (They also did a bit of “Snowtorch Pt. I” and “Tempest of Mutiny.”) Behind them, various thematic drawings were displayed; coupled with the changing colored lights, they helped make their set a very fun and enthralling way to start ProgStock 2019.” – The Prog Report
https://progreport.com/progstock-2019-review/
