In the run-up to the official release of The Confidence Trick by UK progressive rock band Hats Off Gentlemen It’s Adequate, TPA’s David Edwards had the opportunity for an extended chat with the band’s Malcolm Galloway. Speaking remotely from his…
View More Malcolm Galloway – Hats Off Gentlemen It’s AdequateMonth: May 2022
Simon Phillips – Protocol V
Simon Phillips, the esteemed and world-renowned drummer, percussionist, producer, and songwriter, has created a worthy successor to the protocol line-up, a lineage that began with the first Protocol album in 1989. Protocol V is a smorgasbord of superbly produced fusion,…
View More Simon Phillips – Protocol VPsychoYogi – Digital Vagrancy
I have reviewed PsychoYogi albums before, most recently their last album, Dangerous Devices. I was delighted to hear that they were issuing their latest album on Bad Elephant, a label who have put out a ton of great music, and…
View More PsychoYogi – Digital VagrancyEcho Rhythm – The Program
I am not a fan of pigeonholing a band by genre, not least because there is often very little definition, distinction or border between them. Genre labels can give the appearance that it is as clear-cut as black and white,…
View More Echo Rhythm – The ProgramRemembering Alan White
We’re in the 2020s now, a half century since progressive rock’s so-called ‘classic era’, which is at least another twenty years since the musicians that occupied it were born. We live in an odd time where many of these bands…
View More Remembering Alan WhiteThe Flower Kings – By Royal Decree
Roine Stolt is obviously one of those prog musicians who doesn’t need to sleep, because he’s been at it again and, despite having made huge contributions to the recent Transatlantic album, has nevertheless found time to compose enough material for…
View More The Flower Kings – By Royal DecreeSalva – Ghost Story
Swedish Progressive rock band Salva have recently released their latest album, Ghost Story, on Rob Reed’s White Knight Records. The band formed in 2003 in Gothenburg and have previously released six albums, the first in 2004 with three since 2018,…
View More Salva – Ghost StorySupersister Projekt
Paard, The Hague, the Netherlands Friday, 6th May 2022 How unfortunate, the announcement Supersister frontman Robert Jan Stips had to make on 19th November 2021 – the day of the Supersister concert at the Hague Paard – that this concert,…
View More Supersister ProjektPorcupine Tree – Closure/Continuation
In an unusual move for TPA, here we offer a selection of views on the forthcoming and fervently anticipated (by many) new album from a reanimated Porcupine Tree, due in one month from… Now. Magnus Moar Porcupine Tree finally return…
View More Porcupine Tree – Closure/ContinuationAvyakta – Somnium Chorus / Desiderium
Why should I introduce Avyakta, when the man himself does such a good job? From Avyakta’s Bandcamp page: “Avyakta is a Sanskrit word meaning ‘devoid of form.’ In other words, something without limits. It is a one-person music project —…
View More Avyakta – Somnium Chorus / Desiderium