This is Amy Birks’ second solo album, following on from Beatrix Players and her solo debut, All That I Am and All That I Was. ‘Chamber Progressive Music,’ your grandmother would not have said ‘Turn down that awful racket!’ either.…
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Some may recall that last year I reviewed Howard Boder’s Atlantis. Encouraged by the words, Howard has teamed up with a friend from one of his original groups, taking the works of Erich von Däniken, alien conspirator and interpreter for…
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It’s been an emotional few weeks, and the new album due from Grice, Polarchoral, is the right vessel to draw together those emotions. This is closer to the norms of The Pineapple Thief or Porcupine Tree, both of whose recent…
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Gwenno has been around for a while, twenty years, touring with Elton John and the Manic Street Preachers during that time. Tresor is her second Cornish language album and is influenced by and inspired by powerful female writers and artists,…
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When Progressive Rock, Prog, Progressive Music (or however you may wish to name it) had its birth at the end of the 1960s and early ’70s, the place it was most welcomed was Italy. Genesis recorded chart success there before…
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Do you remember the first time you heard The Dark Side of the Moon? The Contemplative Power of Water by Ali Ferguson is just a bit like that, with much better reference points since we have heard of Pink Floyd,…
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Ben Craven is a cinematic progressive-rock artist from Brisbane, Australia and he likes to make records and for this particular record the cover has been drawn by Freya Dean, daughter of Roger. Talent clearly runs in the family. If Steve…
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A debut album, where does it fit? To my mind, this is art rock with prog undertones. Experimental with an industrial feel at times, like a dark Depeche Mode. The constituent parts are Rakel and Kenneth Rasmus Greve. It is…
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The Acorn, Penzance Saturday, 2nd July 2022 Home. Homeward bound. The comfort zone. Feelings of warmth and familiarity as I get to see two things: firstly, a full set from The Emerald Dawn, and secondly, an encore that would never…
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Abbotsbury Church, Newton Abbot Saturday, 23rd April 2022 A strange venue for a prog gig: strange for me on so many levels. As a church you would expect the acoustics to be good, and they weren’t bad at all. It…
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