Rarely will the announcement of a new album have sparked so much anticipation as is the case with Yes’s new studio album, The Quest. At least with yours truly, self-proclaimed fan and, more latterly, critic of the British prog legends.…
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In the mid-1970s I discovered Emerson, Lake and Palmer, the British supergroup. After listening to all of the Yes albums from front to back and vice versa, I ended up with the famous trio. The phenomenal album Brain Salad Surgery…
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Styx has always been something of an outsider in rock music: successful as an AOR band with symphonic tendencies, producer of mainstream hits and ballads. Active since its foundation in 1972 and extremely successful in the mid-seventies, the fact that…
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Canadian proggers Saga toured a large number of packed venues at the end of 2017 as part of their 40th Anniversary – The Final Chapter tour. The Come-back Kids of prog invariably started said series of farewell concerts with a…
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The name Tom Newman probably rings a bell with some prog fans, based on the association with Mike Oldfield. This man was responsible for (co-)producing a large number of albums by the British genius, including his world-renowned debut album Tubular…
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She has been working in the music industry for over three decades, but is best known for her musical involvement with Steve Hackett. She is also responsible for the fact that the latter also dared to play the wonderful Shadow…
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Good and bad news for TOTO fans: after the simultaneous release of two solo albums earlier this year by guitarist Steve Lukather and singer Joseph Williams, the third album from the American collective has been released in a short time.…
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De Boerderij, Zoetermeer, the Netherlands Wednesday, 17th November 2018 A few months after the release of the new studio album Lies and Butterflies, the successor to the extremely successful Delusion Rain from 2015, the Canadian progressive rock band Mystery returned…
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It has been said before: Mystery and De Boerderij, that is a kind of unity. There can hardly be any other explanation for the fact that the Canadians keep returning to the Dutch rock temple, time and again. And not…
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Spoiler alert: I am a great admirer of the music of Italian multi-instrumentalist Luca Zabbini. Still, first listening to his new solo album, One, was a bit unsettling. I did hear a lot of beautiful music, melodies and harmonies, but…
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