Continuing my occasional penchant for jazz rock in a “big band” style, viz-a-viz Gavin Harrison’s Cheating The Polygraph and The Nathan Parker Smith Large Ensemble with Not Dark Yet, both fine and fairly recent examples of this seemingly resurgent sub-genre,…
View More The Ed Palermo Big Band – One Child Left BehindMonth: June 2016
Perspectives of a Circle – Masks, Faces, Whispers
Italy has always had a proud history of providing some great progressive rock bands; PFM, The New Trolls and Le Orme being prime examples from the seventies. It appears that this tradition continues into the twenty-first century with Perspectives of…
View More Perspectives of a Circle – Masks, Faces, WhispersParadigm Shift – Becoming Aware
Are you shopping for some Progressive Rock? In the local music supermarket [EDITOR: I don’t think that’s a thing. I think I’d know if musical supermarkets were a thing that existed] you need to look carefully. You might even have…
View More Paradigm Shift – Becoming AwareClaypool Lennon Delirium – The Monolith Phobos
Imagine..a Lennon singing to deep bass grooves from Pink Floyd. That is The Claypool Lennon Delirium in a nutshell. The Beatles meet Pink Floyd. Now I know, if Sean Lennon were to read this, he would be taken aback by…
View More Claypool Lennon Delirium – The Monolith PhobosThe Rube Goldberg Machine – Fragile Times
“I used to be with it but then they changed what ‘it’ was. Now what I’m with isn’t it and what’s it seems weird and scary to me. It’ll happen to you!” – Abe Simpson You never know what you’re…
View More The Rube Goldberg Machine – Fragile TimesHedvig Mollestad Trio – Black Stabat Mater & EVIL in Oslo
Their album title might give you a clue, but the Hedvig Mollestad Trio are not, despite the look of the band name, a jazz trio, oh no maties. What they are is a yin-yang-yin primal force of ur-rock noise dealing…
View More Hedvig Mollestad Trio – Black Stabat Mater & EVIL in OsloFrost*
Sub89, Reading Wednesday 15th June 2016 Frost* are in good mood tonight as they take to the stage for their ‘warm up’ gig before heading out on the road for a UK tour supporting the release of their third studio…
View More Frost*Neal Morse – Morsefest 2014
There are some items that are grabbed enthusiastically from The Progressive Aspect ‘in box’ and there are some things that hang around waiting to be considered, and hopefully loved. Strangely, despite the long delay in reviewing, this epic release from…
View More Neal Morse – Morsefest 2014Ligro – Dictionary 3
Agam Hamzah is one of a number of extraordinary Indonesian guitarists brought to the attention of the wider world by Leonardo Pavkovic, owner of the determinedly eclectic MoonJune Records, whose travels in that region of the world have resulted in…
View More Ligro – Dictionary 3Yes
Obihall, Firenze, Italy 31st May 2016 Well, not quite as Close To The Edge as I would have liked to my accommodation, but a 3.7 mile trek from the jungle of buildings that constitute Florence; it is hot, it is…
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