This review is a little overdue after the 2014 release of this third album from the extravagantly named The Samurai of Prog, but it is certainly well worth investigating. Whereas the multinational collective that make up The Samurai have concentrated…
View More The Samurai of Prog – The Imperial HotelMonth: April 2015
We Are Kin – Pandora
This is a mature and well realised album. Pandora is awash with melodic and varied compositions that are multi-layered and complex, plus there is an underlying narrative describing a potential future. You can get lost in it all. Not really…
View More We Are Kin – PandoraZauss – Diafonia Leitmotiv Waves
“It’s a really challenging music, and untrained ears could mistake it for an interference or diaphony. But maybe that is exactly what Zauss wants; giving life to disturbed signals, cascades of harmonic waves, alien noises and atonal distortion where sound…
View More Zauss – Diafonia Leitmotiv WavesStearica – Fertile
Stearica, from Torino, Italy, have been around for about 10 years. This is only their second album so even though I have actually been living in a box for the last decade could I be blamed for never having heard…
View More Stearica – FertileSynaesthesia – Synaesthesia
I’ve been aware of this album for some time now. It keeps popping up in some of the Facebook groups I frequent and yet I’d just never got around to listening to it so it seems a little late in…
View More Synaesthesia – SynaesthesiaSoft Machine – Switzerland 1974
“Always changing, never standing still” is a phrase that as well as tying in nicely with the word “progressive” could easily be applied to Soft Machine, a band linked through markedly different phases, in much the same manner as King…
View More Soft Machine – Switzerland 1974At War With Self – Circadian Rhythm Disorder
Circadian Rhythm Disorder, released by Glenn Snelwar under the band name of At War With Self, is an unconventional concept album. Most progressive acts have a concept and then they fit music to it. Glenn Snelwar is the realiser not…
View More At War With Self – Circadian Rhythm DisorderAlco Frisbass – Alco Frisbass
What a delightful little album! Alco Frisbass, an oddly named duo from Rennes and Paris have come up with an assorted confection of Canterbury goodness that any fan of that particular obscure backwater can only appreciate in ever increasing amounts…
View More Alco Frisbass – Alco FrisbassFish On Friday – Godspeed
Fish on Friday are an international band based in Belgium who recently released Godspeed, their third release and the first to feature bass maestro Nick Beggs as a full band member. Considering Beggs’ excellent progressive rock pedigree, playing with Steve…
View More Fish On Friday – GodspeedSupernal Endgame – Touch The Sky: Volume II
Almost mystical this, I had no idea what to expect, and there are lots of surprises. Imagine, if you will, a band whose influences seem to be Yes, Emerson Lake and Palmer, the rock musicals of Tim Rice and Andrew…
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