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CAMEL – AIR BORN – THE MCA & DECCA YEARS 1973-1984 (due for 2023 release)
It sounds too good to be true- German retailers including Leidenshaft für Musik will be releasing a 27 CD + 5 Blu-Ray set to commemorate...
Jul 12, 20231 min read


PROG ROCK. CO.UK - THE HOME OF PROGRESSIVE ROCK and a great place to shop!
There are many recommended 2023 releases from this well established and well run website. I’ve picked out a few tempting ones: AYREON –...
Jul 8, 20232 min read
RIVERSIDE: ID.ENTITY (2023)
In January the mighty Polish heavy neo-prog group Riverside returned with another tour de force. All the ingredients that make the band...
Jul 8, 20232 min read
COMING SOON: HATS OFF GENTLEMEN, IT’S ADEQUATE: THE LIGHTS OF ANCIENT MISTAKES
Due for release on 9th September, 2023 THE LIGHT OT ANCIENT MISTAKES is the seventh album by HATS OFF GENTLEMENT, IT’S ADEQUATE who are:...
Jul 8, 20231 min read
FAMILY - FEARLESS (1971/ 2023)
Due out on 29th September, “Fearless” has been remastered from the original tapes and comes in a 3 CD clamshell box set with a repro...
Jul 8, 20231 min read
VARIOUS ARTISTS – PROGRESSIVE SOUNDS OF 1974 (1974/2023)
Hey - wasn’t ‘Round and Round’ that number by the Panama Jug Band on the Harvest Picnic sampler way back when? I remember rolling around...
Jul 8, 20231 min read
PoiL UEDA – PoiL Ueda(2023)
You would expect the worlds of JUNKO UEDA, a Japanese medieval story teller and chanter (also player of a satsuma-biwa, a 4 stringed, 4...
Jul 8, 20231 min read
NEIL YOUNG – CHROME DREAMS to be reissued on 11th August, 2023
Due for reissue as a 2 x LP retailing at around £40 with some different tracks on it- no specific details yet, this seminal album, like...
Jul 8, 20231 min read
KEITH EMERSON - VARIATIONS (2023)/ GENTLE GIANT- FRONT ROW CENTRAL (1976-1980)
A 20 CD SET WITH A 48 PAGE BOOK FOR £150 – for those who can afford it or can’t do without it spanning THE NICE, ELP, SOUNDTRACK and SOLO...
Jul 8, 20231 min read
JETHRO TULL – BROADSWORD AND THE BEAST (1983/2023)
Following previous editions of STAND UP and AQUALUNG, coming up on 1st September is a 40th anniversary of the underrated (by some)...
Jul 8, 20231 min read
HAWKWIND: SPACE RITUAL 50th ANNIVERSARY (1973/ 2023)
It can’t be 50 years! Makes me feel really old! I saw them twice in their heyday and a couple of mates of mine went to their infamous...
Jul 8, 20231 min read
HAKEN - FAUNA (2023)
Intriguing lyrics, phantasmagorical musicianship; maybe I yearned for a few more solos such is the intensity of the lyrical and musical...
Jul 8, 20231 min read
WISH YOU WERE (STILL) HERE: EPHEMERAL SUN: LORD OF HOUNDS (2017)
Not the most prolific of bands, Virginia’s Ephemeral Sun has only released three albums: in 2005, 2010 and 2017. Maybe they have reached...
Jul 3, 20231 min read
COMING SOON: HATS OFF GENTLEMEN, IT’S ADEQUATE: THE LIGHTS OF ANCIENT MISTAKES
Due for release on 9th September, 2023 THE LIGHT OT ANCIENT MISTAKES is the seventh album by HATS OFF GENTLEMENT, IT’S ADEQUATE who are:...
Jul 3, 20231 min read


INTERVIEW WITH STEVEN FEIGENBAUM OF CUNEIFORM RECORDS
Cuneiform Records is an independent record label releasing adventurous, boundary-bursting music by artists from around the world....
Jul 3, 20234 min read
ZOPP - DOMINION (2023)
I put out an appeal on PROGRESSIVE EARS for new releases in 2023 that I should be listening to, and a lot of the respondents suggested...
Jun 27, 20231 min read
NEW BOOK ABOUT YES’S TORMATO ALBUM
This is available on the Burning Shed website and is written by Kevin Mulryne who is joint host of the Yes Music Podcast. ‘Tormato’ was...
Jun 27, 20231 min read


HIGH TIDE: THE COMPLETE LIBERTY RECORDINGS to be released on 29th September, 2023
There are three CDs in a box with the usual high quality booklet and a reproduction poster: The albums SEA SHANTIES, HIGH TIDE and a...
Jun 27, 20231 min read
GO GO PENGUIN – EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE OK (2023) Is it Jazz?
Manchester group GO GO PENGUIN’s first album Fanfares came out on trumpeter par excellence Matthew Halsall’s Gondwana label. Next came...
Jun 27, 20232 min read
DISS-CONNECT: JONI MITCHELL: DON JUAN’S RECKLESS DAUGHTER (1977)
INTRO: Picture this: 79 years old Joni Mitchell on stage in a mock-up of her living room in the picturesque setting of the Gorge...
Jun 27, 20232 min read
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