VIII Strada are a Milan band led by pianist and keyboard maestro Silvano Negrinelli, who wrote all the music and words to Babylon, the group’s second album and a concept work telling the story of a couple describing their “conflicts,…
View More VIII Strada – BabylonMonth: April 2016
Starlight Brigade – Destination Eternity
OK, confession time. I had not previously heard of Starlight Brigade until I listened to some samples from this new album and I was intrigued. Starlight Brigade come from Sweden and appear to be the musical vision of Anders Nilsson,…
View More Starlight Brigade – Destination EternityOpeth – Book of Opeth
Here’s something a little different for TPA. As part of their twenty-fifth anniversary, Opeth embarked on putting together a book, an inside look at the band from the perspective of the people who were there. Now if you’ve followed Opeth…
View More Opeth – Book of OpethPensiero Nomade – Da nessun luogo
Led by guitarist Salvo Lazzara, Roman band Pensiero Nomade (possibly translated as “Free Thinker”) have been in existence since 2007, and Da nessun luogo is their fifth album. A wide range of modern instrumentation and electronic trickery produces an impressionistic…
View More Pensiero Nomade – Da nessun luogoGalahad – When Worlds Collide
“30 years down the line and we’re still hanging on!” is the opening line of Stuart Nicholson’s sleeve notes for this outstanding set encompassing Galahad’s career, summing up their tenacity, commitment and a sense of their own self-deprecating humour. However,…
View More Galahad – When Worlds CollideGandalf’s Fist – The Clockwork Fable
Gandalf’s Fist… …Gandalf’s…Fist. Hmmmm. Right, let’s get something out of the way. Surgens is a rose by any other name. You probably have to be as mashed as they were when they came up with their name to get the…
View More Gandalf’s Fist – The Clockwork FableEmmett Elvin
Today we welcome sharp-eyed and snazzily be-shirted keyboard wizard Emmett Elvin to the TPA Towers Interrogation Unit, specifically to be grilled by Roger Trenwith about his marvellous band Knifeworld’s fab new waxing, Bottled Out Of Eden – out today, which…
View More Emmett ElvinKnifeworld – Bottled Out Of Eden
Although loosely tied in with the prog genre, Knifeworld are a band who make genuinely progressive music, thereby bucking an all too common trend where many musical collectives and their comfy audiences revel in looking backwards at bands who were…
View More Knifeworld – Bottled Out Of EdenSimon McKechnie – From My Head To My Feet
I would guess that most of you have never heard of Simon McKechnie, so allow me a little preamble… Laid low by a nasty neurological illness, compounded by spinal problems, the lingering after effects of which he still suffers, Simon’s…
View More Simon McKechnie – From My Head To My FeetLifewalker – Rx [EP]
I know what I like… but you may not want this in your wardrobe? It’s a curious beast is music and you never quite know what will, or will not appeal. For the most part I don’t really do progressive metal,…
View More Lifewalker – Rx [EP]