June 2016 – T P A

The Ed Palermo Big Band – One Child Left Behind

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,…

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…

Paradigm 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…

Claypool Lennon Delirium - Monolith Of Phobos

Claypool 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…

The 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…

Hedvig 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…

Frost*

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…

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…

Ligro – 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…

Yes

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…