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MERGING CLUSTER- PEAK EPHEMERAL LIGHT (MARACASH RECORDS) (2024)
Merging Cluster play what might be described in modern parlance as Alt-Prog which “intercepts the intensity of e.g. MARILLION, IQ and...
Jun 4, 20241 min read
COLOSSEUM – UPON TOMORROW (Repertoire) (2024) 2 x CD
Colosseum’s sophomore album “Valentyne Suite” has always been essential to me and I was intrigued to hear of a fourth album (projected to...
Jun 4, 20241 min read
MARILLION – AN HOUR BEFORE IT’S DARK – LIVE IN PORT ZELANDE (Racket Records) (2024)
Available in 2 x CD and Blu Ray with extra tracks, this release is a recording of the Saturday night (17th March, 2023) of the...
Jun 4, 20241 min read
REN X – RAIN (Mylodon Records) (2024)
The Chilean Prog and Art Rock label keeps good on its promise of “musica sin limites.” This concept album has been fifteen years in the...
May 29, 20241 min read
HISTERESIS – CARRUSEL (Mylodon Records) (2024)
This single on Bandcamp certainly shakes out the cobwebs! A HEAVY offering from a new (to me anyway!) metal rock prog band that is much...
May 29, 20241 min read
ONIRICO – EX-NIHILO (Mylodon Records) (2024) (Bandcamp)
Wow, this is good! Just two musicians from Argentina: Benjamin Hernandez who is the lead singer, bassist and keyboard player including...
May 29, 20241 min read
INTERVIEW WITH RYAN STEVENSON OF ZOPP (25th May, 2024)
My first question was an obvious one: Why the name ZOPP? It turns out that it doesn’t have any explicit meaning, but seemed a good fit...
May 28, 20243 min read
ZOPP – LIVE IN CONCERT in Bannerman’s Bar, Edinburgh – Saturday, 25th May, 2024
This is a taster for a full article on and interview with up-and-coming progressive band ZOPP. It has always been very important to me to...
May 28, 20243 min read
PALLAS – EYES IN THE NIGHT – THE RECORDINGS 1981-1986 (6 x CD; 1 x Blu Ray) (Release date – 28th June, 2024) (CHERRY RED)
Following my recent’ sneak preview’ in which I gave my reaction to the live “Arrive Alive”, I have now managed to work my way through the...
May 27, 20243 min read
YES – FRAGILE – Super Deluxe Edition with LP + 4 x CDs & Blu Ray due in June. (1971/ 2024)
Burning Shed has announced the release of a special edition of YES’s “Fragile” album on 28th June. This is as good an opportunity as any...
May 27, 20243 min read
ZOPP – LIVE AT THE SUMAC CENTRE, NOTTINGHAM (2023) (Bandcamp) (Flat Circle Records)
Three of the seven pieces played on 4th November, 2023 are presented in 27 minutes worth of music at a very affordable download price....
May 27, 20241 min read
CARMEN – THE ALBUMS 1973- 1975 (Cherry Red/ Esoteric) (2024).
Release date: 31st May, 2024 CARMEN was formed as a septet in Los Angeles by guitarist David Clark Allen and his sister Angela in 1970....
May 27, 20242 min read
STONE PREMONITIONS, POSITIVE VIBRATIONS! + FALLING A RECORDS
Following my review of “The 3rd Eye” by CENSUS OF HALLUCINATIONS, I have received this message from TIM JONES: The Stone Premonitions...
May 23, 20241 min read
CENSUS OF HALLUCINATIONS – THE 3RD EYE (Stone Premonitions/ Bandcamp) (2001/ 2024)
“A world of frantic motion, never knowing if you’re coming or going”, unable to show our emotions ruled over by politicians who “if at...
May 23, 20242 min read
RICK RAY and 25 years of music on the Neurosis label
It’s funny how ideas pop into your head, but I was thinking about the music of Ohio guitarist and songwriter extraordinaire yesterday and...
May 21, 20243 min read
PALLAS – EYES IN THE NIGHT – THE RECORDINGS 1981-1986 (6 x CD; 1 x Blu Ray) (Release date – 28th June, 2024) (CHERRY RED)
A sneak preview of a very important box set in the annals of Progressive Rock history – PALLAS – the COMPLETE recordings, and long...
May 14, 20242 min read
EARLY THRESHOLD ALBUMS TO BE RELEASED ON VINYL AND CD! (expected 5th July)
Exciting news about the release of “Wounded Land”, one of my all-time favourite prog-metal albums which introduced me to the amazing...
May 14, 20241 min read
JETHRO TULL LIVE IN GLASGOW ROYAL CONCERT HALL, 30th April, 2024
SETLIST: My Sunday Feeling, We Used to Know, Heavy Horses, Weathercock, Roots to Branches, Holly Herald, Wolf Unchained, Mine is the...
May 7, 20242 min read
KEVIN ROWLAND – THE PROGRESSIVE UNDERGROUND (Volumes 4 & 5) (Gonzo Books)
Moving further on with Kev’s musicology artifacts from a period when CDs were falling through doors left, right and centre and prog and...
Apr 23, 20242 min read
PHAEDRA - NORN (2024) (Ma Ra Cash Records)
“Norn” is a rock opera based on a piece of Gothic literature written by Claudio Bonvecchio called “The Prisoner”. The word NORN refers to...
Apr 16, 20241 min read
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