Inner Prospekt is the solo project of Mad Crayon keyboardist Alessandro Di Benedetti. I first became acquainted with Di Benedetti’s music when Mad Crayon contributed to several Musea Projects, such as The Colossus of Rhodes and Kalevala. Subsequently, Di Benedetti…
The ability of streaming and download sites such as Bandcamp and others to make the musical endeavours of thousands of bands accessible to listeners remains a double-edged sword. The sheer diversity of choice and freedom of distribution away from major…
‘Ikigai’, in Japanese, means “the reason to wake up in the morning and to live for”. It is also the title of the studio album debut by Italian instrumental progressive rock band Lab X, the band being made up of…
From the shimmering guitars that introduce Particles of Light, you’re immediately on notice that there is something distinctly ‘other’ about this collaboration between the Prince of Gong, Kavus Torabi, and Karda Estra’s uncanny composer and solo artist, Richard Wileman. Heaven’s…
Cards on the table time: I’ve known Gary Brunton for a long time, since university in fact, but I haven’t seen him since 1988, shortly before he decamped to Paris to further his career as a jazz musician. He’s still…
Featured artists: Neil Campbell | Captain Cougar | Hely | Hats Off Gentlemen Its Adequate | Malcolm Galloway ||: In this ADA update of bite-sized reviews we take a look at some of the recent releases albums, EPs and singles…
Featured artists: Virgil & Steve Howe | Adarsh Arjun | Midas Fall | Ancient Future | Exowst Scotland ||: TPA’s Leo Trimming and Bob Mulvey take a look at some of the recent releases in one of our periodic ADA…
‘Everyone’s a VIP Weekend’ – The Platform, Morecambe Saturday 20th May & Sunday 21st May 2023 Pendragon deliver a wealth of classic neo-prog, including the whole of Love Over Fear and Not of This World, over a thoroughly enjoyable and…
Waldbühne, Berlin, Germany Friday 26th May 2023 Well, it has been a while – Peter Gabriel has not significantly toured since the curious Rock, Paper, Scissors tour with Sting in 2016, and that pleasure was confined only to North America.…
The Sunflower Lounge, Birmingham Monday, 22nd May 2023 Don’t you just love it when the stars align? As of last Thursday morning I had not heard of Paranoid Void, a math-rock friendly trio of young ladies from Japan. After this…
Indigo at the O2, London Saturday 22nd & Sunday 23rd April 2023 After a number of editions in Eindhoven, the Prognosis Festival makes it’s debut as a sister event in London, running at the Indigo, within the confines of the…
Cacaofabriek, Helmond, The Netherlands Saturday, 13th May 2022 A special performance by The Flower Kings (TFK), that’s what was announced some time ago. Under the moniker ‘King For A Day’ (reference to Gentle Giant?) a limited number of shows were…
The Arena, Swansea Thursday, 11th May 2023 My regular meat-and-potatoes gigs are generally more angular than this, but when your better-half only owns four CDs, and one of them is by Mike + The Mechanics, and it’s her birthday, and…
The Gryphon, Bristol Tuesday, 9th May 2023 Embedded in the wedgiest end of an upstairs room at the cheese-like Gryphon in Bristol, a performance area can be found. The ‘stage’ is about 10ft at its widest, tapering to around half…
Poppodium Boerderij, Zoetermeer, The Netherlands Sunday, 9th April, 2023 [This review first appeared in Dutch on the Progwereld website. You can read the original HERE, with huge thanks to the original contributors, and to Alex Driessen for the translation.] After…
The Dave Foster Band recently released their Glimmer album and TPA’s Graham Thomas spoke to band leader Dave Foster, guitarist with the Steve Rothery Band and Big Big Train (and formerly Mr. So & So) about how the album came…
With the recent release of a box set including three albums from American band thisOneness, recorded in the ’70s, only one of which has been available previously, TPA’s Basil Francis spoke to keyboardist Gregg Inhofer about the bands short career…
Having released four albums in the 1970s, Northern Irish band Fruupp dissolved and became a footnote of the glory days of prog. But in recent years there has been a resurgence of interest and reissues of their music have helped…
With the surprise release of a new album from classic Italian band Banco del Mutuo Soccorso, Orlando: Le Forme dell’Amore, earlier this year, TPA’s Basil Francis had the opportunity to speak to keyboardist Vittorio Nocenzi, with contributions from the other…
With their latest album, Zenith, just released, self-proclaimed instrumental prog band Poly-Math played a special album launch gig at Signature Brew in Walthamstow, East London. Always keen to attend a gig in a brewery, TPA’s Jez Rowden was on hand…
With the recent release of their Ancient Astronauts album, TPA’s Roger Trenwith spoke to Motorpsycho‘s Bent Sæther about the album, the band’s way of doing things after evolving for so many years and future plans… This summer, the land has…
