He looks like Lemmy Kilmister’s unwanted bastard son on the cover of his new album, Episode 6: the resemblance is striking. The album’s first track makes me unsure whether I have entrusted the right disc to my stereo set. His…
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Named after a Rush song, Different Strings is a band put together by Maltese multi-instrumentalist Chris Mallia. The band has released four albums and an EP, with the two parts of The Sounds of Silence from 2012 and 2015 originally…
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With their 2020 tour plans shot to Dénudé pieces by Covid, Lazuli returned to France where they put together an unexpected stripped down album, Dénudé, that revisited songs from earlier phases of their career. This also became a good way…
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French progressive rock outfit Lazuli has very recently released a new, special album entitled Dénudé, meaning ‘stripped’ or ‘naked’, appropriate for these sixteen unplugged versions recorded in 2020, selected from the band’s first eight studio albums. These ‘undressed’ songs, acoustic…
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The eighth edition of the famous Progdreams Festival at the Boerderij in Zoetermeer, Holland, back in 2019 was especially interesting for me because of the performance of the John Hackett Band. This was mainly due to the release of his…
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Joseph Stanley Williams is an American singer, songwriter and film score composer, best known for his work with rock band Toto, as their lead singer from 1986 to 1988, 2010 to 2019 and again from 2020. He is the son…
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After the excellent Transition from 2012, there is now its successor I Found the Sun Again, already the eighth studio album by Steve Lukather, best known as the founder/guitarist/composer/singer of the incredibly successful American band Toto. The album will be…
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During the interview I had with Needlepoint founder/composer/singer/guitarist Bjørn Klakegg in 2018, around the release of The Diary Of Robert Reverie, Klakegg indicated that he had only heard of Caravan and the Canterbury Scene at a late stage. He also…
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Crack the Sky is an American progressive rock band formed in Weirton, West Virginia in the early 1970s. In 1975, Rolling Stone named their first album ‘Debut Album of the Year’, and the 1978 Rolling Stone Record Guide even compared…
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The band Perfect Storm, hailing from the north of Holland, has just released an excellent debut album, entitled No Air. TPA’s Alex Driessen chats with some of the band members about this surprising new album – founder/guitarist Gert-Jan Schurer, keyboardist…
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