Honesty is best. I liked the cover of Magnolia, I didn’t dislike the songs, but the music did not touch the nerve that goes ‘Woo Hoo’! Why not? Shrug! This time however, the spark is there. Okay, it sounds like,…
View More The Pineapple Thief – Your WildernessMonth: October 2016
Jargon – Verbal Delirium
From Greece, Verbal Delirium have recently released their latest album, on Bad Elephant Music. The Imprisoned Words Of Fear is actually a re-recording of their first demo, long unavailable so this is a great opportunity to hear the band in…
View More Jargon – Verbal DeliriumVerbal Delirium – The Imprisoned Words Of Fear
At the Summer’s End Festival in 2014, Verbal Delirium proved to be an unexpected treat. During that show their singer and leader, who goes by the name of Jargon (not sure what his Mum thinks of that), delivered a compelling…
View More Verbal Delirium – The Imprisoned Words Of FearNorth Sea Radio Orchestra – Dronne
Craig Fortnam’s North Sea Radio Orchestra produce music of elegiac beauty, a sound that is both joyous and reverential, and uplifting to the spirit. It comes as no surprise then to learn that a fair proportion of their intermittent gigs…
View More North Sea Radio Orchestra – DronneRichard Williams – Kansas
TPA’s own John Wenlock-Smith spoke to Richard Williams of Kansas shortly before the release of their new album, The Prelude Implicit, which appeared on 23rd September, their first album of new material since Somewhere to Elsewhere in 2000. It also…
View More Richard Williams – KansasKansas – The Prelude Implicit
Remember Dust in the Wind and Carry on My Wayward Son? The million selling, golden songs of a garage band from Topeka, Kansas. They also penned a song called The Wall three years before Pink Floyd took the concept to…
View More Kansas – The Prelude ImplicitMagma
Café OTO, Dalston, London Monday 26th September 2016 The Rhythm of Biz… Arriving at this intimate venue down a side street in Dalston, one is immediately taken by the contrast with last year’s venue, where Magma blew the dust off…
View More MagmaMulti Story – Crimson Stone
Crimson Stone is the latest album by the recently reformed Welsh band Multi Story who originated in the early ’80s, at the same time as the rise of other newer Prog bands, such as Marillion, IQ, Pallas, Pendragon and Twelfth…
View More Multi Story – Crimson StoneFavni – Windswept
Sometimes people assume progressive rock should be ever-changing, always experimental and constantly ground-breaking. But sometimes, when you’re lying in your bed with a book to read and a cup of tea, and when you’re not in the mood for listening…
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