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AV ATAR: FIRE AND ASH MARINERS BRENDAN COWELL AND JEMAINE CLEMENT ON THEIR BRINY RETURN

JON M. CHU ON FOLLOWING UP HIS EMERALD SUCCESS WITH DEEPER, DARKER SEQUEL WICKED: FOR GOOD

John Williams Jaws – Original Motion Picture Score Hollywood Studio Symphony/John Williams Backlot Music (digital) / Mondo (vinyl) 54 mins It’s half a century since audiences were first left terrified

The grand parade of lifeless packaging? Far from it, as this much-delayed blockbuster reissue of one of prog’s most fascinating and frustrating albums finally proves.

Zaytoun Songs by JS Bach, Monteverdi, Purcell and Sayed Darwish et al Haitham Haidar (tenor), Sylvain Bergeron (archlute), Abdul-Wahab Kayyali (oud) et al Athene ATH 23027 51:44 mins In medieval Spain

Green Carnation first spoke about creating a three-album saga in the mid-2000s. Two decades later, the Norwegians are finally releasing the first chapter of their A Dark Poem series: The Shores Of Melancholia . Singer Kjetil Nordhus talks to Prog about the themes and backstory of their long-gestated trilogy.