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...
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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...
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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...
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Oct 27, 20232 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...
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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’...
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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...
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Oct 9, 20231 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...
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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...
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Oct 9, 20232 min read
TRYO - SURAMÉRICA
Haunting ‘bugle calls’ bookend the album and provide the continuity that permeates “Suramérica”; the catchy title track with its surging...
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Sep 27, 20235 min read
GARY BROOKER MEMORIAL CONCERT
NEWS FROM ROLAND AND JENS: The GARY BROOKER MEMORIAL CONCERT will take place on 4th December, 2023 at G LIVE, GUILDFORD on 4th December,...
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Sep 27, 20231 min read
PETER HAMMILL – IN A FOREIGN TOWN/ OUT OF WATER (2023)
On 24th November, 2023 a CD set combining two albums from 1988 and 1990 respectively that Peter has been reworking/ re-recording will be...
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Sep 27, 20231 min read
JOHN SIMMS’ LIGHT TRAILS – TRIP INTO THE LIGHT FANTASTIC (2023)
Trip into the Light Fantastic is a follow-up to Light Trails positively reviewed first release Chromatology (2022). Leader John Simms was...
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Sep 27, 20231 min read
PINK FLOYD – BREATHE IN THE AIR – LIVE AT THE DOME, BRIGHTON (1972/ 2023)
Released on 13th October, 2023, the second concert at Brighton featured a pre-release performance of “Dark Side of the Moon” with...
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Sep 27, 20231 min read
MARIUSZ DUDA – AFR AI D (2023)
Mariusz, of Riverside and Lunatic Soul fame, releases a solo album on 17th November, 2023. The theme is Artificial Intelligence as a...
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Sep 27, 20231 min read
CLASSIC ALBUMS GET VINYL REISSUES: BRUFORD, FAMILY and Mc.DONALD AND GILES
Versatile and enduring flautist/ saxist Ian McDonald and exceptional drummer Mike Giles were part of KING CRIMSON at the very start and...
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Sep 5, 20231 min read
RE-DISS-COVERY: VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR – A GROUNDING IN NUMBERS (2010)
It’s interesting to return to something after a considerable amount of time and this record sounds better to me than when I first heard...
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Sep 1, 20235 min read
THE RICK RAY BAND – THE GREMLINS ARE LISTENING (2023)
The Rick Ray band just goes from strength to strength. If Rick thought “Under the Sky” was their best yet, this release is right up there...
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Sep 1, 20232 min read
ATON FIVE – ATON FIVE (2023)
Now I must confess I knew absolutely nothing about this Moscow group. I see from their Bandcamp page that this album was (inevitably!)...
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Sep 1, 20231 min read
NEW RELEASES ON BURNING SHED
STEVEN WILSON – THE HARMONY CODEX and XTC – THE BIG EXPRESS; FRANK ZAPPA – OVER-NITE SENSATION (50th anniversary) How he finds the time...
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Sep 1, 20232 min read
KARNATAKA – REQUIEM FOR A DREAM (2023) and why less can be more.
I read David West’s review of Karnataka’s first studio album for eight years in the latest edition of PROG magazine, and just had to...
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