One of the highlights and surprise albums to come out of the slow US economic melt of 2011 was Temporal Chaos Project’s (TCP) Fantastic Dreamer which became one of my favourites of that year. It was also a critic’s favourite…
View More Temporal Chaos Project (TCP) – Temporal ChaosMonth: July 2016
Marbin – Aggressive Hippies
Ah, Jazz-Rock, my old friend, so nice to see you alive and well and thriving in Chicago. As a refresher for the uninitiated, Jazz-Rock was one of the countless experimental sub-genres that exploded from the big bang of musical creativity…
View More Marbin – Aggressive HippiesNight of the Prog XI, Loreley, Germany – “As it Happens” Photo Blog
Loreley starts here… Lovely Loreley – sunny and warm, as usual. And here we are! Just in time to see Lion Shepherd – mellow Prog and well received by the growing crowd… Subsignal hit the stage… Subsignal – great musicians…
View More Night of the Prog XI, Loreley, Germany – “As it Happens” Photo BlogPaul Bielatowicz
Paul Bieiatowicz isn’t a house-hold name (yet), but you may well have heard or seen him playing with Neal Morse or Carl Palmer. As it happens, he’s not too bad a guitar player and TPA caught up with him prior…
View More Paul BielatowiczPain of Salvation – Remedy Lane Re:visited (Re:mixed & Re:lived)
Remedy Lane has long been lauded as Pain of Salvation’s finest hour, it’s their Close to the Edge, if you like, and as per the latter, there was often the question asked, “why don’t they do something like it again”.…
View More Pain of Salvation – Remedy Lane Re:visited (Re:mixed & Re:lived)Anthony Phillips – Wise After the Event (Deluxe Edition)
In such strident and turbulent times it perhaps timely to consider this album of gentle pastoral and whimsical calm by one of the founding members of Genesis, Anthony Phillips. Wise After the Event, released in 1978, was Anthony Phillips’ second…
View More Anthony Phillips – Wise After the Event (Deluxe Edition)Panic Room
‘Start the Sound’ Tour Islington Assembly Hall, London Saturday 18th June 2016 A Panic Room gig is always a cause for eager anticipation. Their live performances are, without fail, musically thrilling, emotionally intense and warmly uplifting. At the same time…
View More Panic RoomYugen – Death By Water
An album long anticipated by this particular scribbler, Italian avant-prog band Yugen’s fourth studio album, Death By Water, arrives in a year already blessed by several high quality releases, and it would be in danger of being lost in the…
View More Yugen – Death By WaterKen DeLoria – Quill
Originally founded in the mid ’70s, American symphonic trio Quill have been largely overlooked in the intervening period, but thanks to The Samurai of Prog covering unreleased Quill track The Demise on their latest album, Lost and Found, with contributions…
View More Ken DeLoria – QuillJohanna Elina – Belonging
Johanna Elina sings her stripped-back songs of bared souls and mystery to a soundtrack of sometimes gentle and minimal backing containing electronica and found sounds, alternating with more edgy palettes of modern rhythmic clatter and thrum. Finnish by birth, she…
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