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PETER HAMMILL – IN A FOREIGN TOWN/ OUT OF WATER (1988/1990) (2023) (Esoteric Recordings)
How successful has the re-working of often overlooked Peter Hammill albums been? I have been a big fan of Peter Hammill and Van Der Graaf...
Dec 12, 20233 min read
THE BRINGERS OF CHANGE – THE VIEW FROM THE CHEAP SEATS (2023) (Falling A Records)
The brainchild of Mark Dunn with encouragement and assistance from Tim Jones at Stone Premonitions and Barry Lamb at Falling A Records...
Dec 2, 20232 min read
KARISMA RECORDS – HOME OF MAGIC PIE, SEVEN IMPALE, WHITE WILLOW ET AL (PART ONE)
Quite a few of my favourite prog bands reside here. I have reviewed MAGIC PIE in the past. Their last album was “Fragments of the 5th...
Dec 2, 20232 min read
LION MUSIC – PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES OF PROGRESSIVE MUSIC SINCE 1998
I have decided to put the spotlight on some Prog distributors and labels this week and LION MUSIC has developed an incredible concept-...
Dec 2, 20231 min read
PROG MAGAZINE – YES’s 90125 goes under the microscope.
I would never have believed that Progressive Rock as a musical genre would ever have its own magazine during the late 70s and into the...
Dec 2, 20232 min read
RE DISS-COVERY HATFIELD AND THE NORTH (1973)
I’ve always underestimated this album probably because I was obsessed with ‘Fitter Stoke Has A Bath’ which I played regularly on the...
Dec 2, 20232 min read
PROG MAGAZINE – THE DECEMBER ISSUE IS OUT
There are some really interesting stories in the latest PROG including an interview with EDGAR BROUGHTON (I saw them once and am still...
Dec 2, 20231 min read
TORRE DE TIZA – GRABACIONES 2007-2007 (Mylodon Records, 2023)
It’s hard to believe that this music from Mexico’s Torre de Tiza is from the early 21st century for it sounds more a nascent blues and...
Nov 21, 20231 min read
A MUST FOR PINK FLOYD COLLECTORS – ATOM HEART MOTHER!
Following the discovery of a 16 mm film in a fan’s garage a CD/ Blu-ray set will be released on 8th December, 2023. This was PINK FLOYD’s...
Nov 21, 20231 min read
SEPTÉNAIRE – THE WORLD UPRIGHT (2023) (Bandcamp)
Consisting of four pieces, ‘Ladders’ is “about introspective elevation”; ‘Silkworm is about reuniting the living; ‘Consider this as a...
Nov 13, 20231 min read
ESPRESSO- ESPRESSO (2022) (Mylodon Records/ Bandcamp)
First of all, some background information: Espresso’s style develops elements of progressive rock, jazz, electronica and experimentation,...
Nov 6, 20232 min read
PATTERN SEEKING ANIMALS – SPOOKY ACTION AT A DISTANCE (2023) (Inside Out)
Starting with marching drums and surging synths, ’The Man Made of Stone’ reveals PSA as skilled story tellers on their 4th album since...
Nov 6, 20231 min read
35 TAPES – FABRIC OF TIME (2023) (Apollon Records)
This style of prog will be familiar to many: sometimes referred to as neo-prog or melodic prog, easy on the ear well-structured music...
Nov 6, 20231 min read
YES – YES SINGLES (2023) (Rhino)
A curiosity – not really a singles band were they? Well, actually in the US they were. Please note the tracks and stats below: SIDE ONE...
Nov 6, 20231 min read


JAUME DE VIALA- CALIDOSCOPI EMBRUIXAT (2023) (self-released)
Jaume was an original member of Salvador Avià’s Celobert Màgic which played a unique form of Catalan prog ethno-fusion. I enjoyed his...
Oct 27, 20232 min read


KEITH EMERSON RIP PROG MAGAZINE SPECIAL
When I was an aspiring prog rock keyboard player in the seventies I had a poster of Keith, I think it may have been from ‘Sounds’...
Oct 27, 20232 min read
CLAUDIO MILANO’s END FRIENDS MANIFESTAZIONI LIVE 2011-2023 (MP 117) (Edge Music)
I had heard of Claudio Milano before as a multi-lingual vocalist and lyricist in reviewing the music of NichelOdeon and have MARTIN...
Oct 27, 20232 min read
UPCOMING RELEASES: SPOCK’S BEARD, CARAVAN, MARILLION, NEKTAR, GREG LAKE
SPOCK’S BEARD – FEEL EUPHORIA (20th anniversary), the first without Neal Morse; remastered with two bonus gatefold sleeve (24th...
Oct 9, 20231 min read
SIAPIAU -SIAPIAU (2023)
Yet another intriguing release from the Discus label. I thought it was Julie Tippetts vocalising at first, but it turns out it is Maggie...
Oct 9, 20231 min read
TRYO - SURAMÉRICA
Haunting ‘bugle calls’ bookend the album and provide the continuity that permeates “Suramérica”; the catchy title track with its surging...
Oct 9, 20232 min read
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