With their fourth studio album, Halcyon Hymns, released today, TPA’s Magnus Moar recently spoke to Chris Braide and Geoff Downes about the making of the new Downes Braide Association release and working under lockdown… Chris Braide Chris, you’ve just moved…
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With going on tour having become an impossibility in the current situation, many artists have instead been working hard in their homes and studios on new albums. No more poignantly can this be seen than in the case of Downes…
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“The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding (in all of the directions it can whizz…)”, sang Eric Idle in his Galaxy Song from Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life, which apparently was how Roine Stolt described the recording of…
View More Transatlantic – The Absolute Universe
I made mention of Nación Progresiva’s nominees for the Latino Progressive Album of 2020 recently, as I realised I had heard of only two of the bands whose albums were up for the award, and had heard only the nominated…
View More The Advent Equation – Remnants Of Oblivion
So let me set the scene for you. It’s a very 2020 sort of story, you know, musicians can’t tour and so whilst locked down, decide to record that solo album they always wanted to make but never had the…
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For much of Italian band Nodo Gordiano’s existence, Andrea de Luca has been the only constant, and after a six year absence, he is back again with a new line-up, and a new album – Sonnar. Of the three Nodo…
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