District 97 are a musical cognoscenti collective of polymaths playing in a unique style and are four studio albums in. Each one has built on the previous with last release, Screens, seeing the biggest line-up change yet. New boys Andrew…
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Drummer Gavin Harrison is a seasoned professional, probably most famous for his tenure in Porcupine Tree and then King Crimson. At the moment The Pineapple Thief are the lucky ones to employ this most talented of stickmen. Antoine Fafard is…
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Settlement is Strawbs’ umpteenth album and the follow up to The Ferryman’s Curse which was a superb prog record released in November 2017, but unfortunately associated with the untimely demise of producer Chris Tsangarides a month later. This record too…
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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…
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Released towards the end of this disagreeable year, this album will certainly bring sunshine to the Swedish winter, even when their sun has stoically decided to not bother for a few snow-capped months. Written during what will hopefully be historically…
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2020 COULD have been the title to a Sci-Fi book written, say, in 1968 the year that a certain English beat combo released Shades of Deep Purple, their first album. The plot revolved around a global pandemic virus caught from…
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There was a period in the 1980s when new technology became an integral part of popular music and it was an exciting time. Bands like Duran Duran, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Scritti Politti, and clever chaps like Nik Kershaw became…
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Dennis DeYoung was the voice on much of the talked about Styx back catalogue, which always hinted at progressive rockiness with albums like Pieces of Eight, Equinox, and the all conquering The Grand Illusion where The Angry Young Man sailed…
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Chris Squire’s endorsement of Frost* in issue one of ‘Classic Rock presents Prog’ magazine pointed out that the genre had indeed progressed with such music that their album Milliontown had presented to the world. Not bound by what had gone…
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Veteran Colin Bass, a man who was destined to play his chosen instrument, is best known for his tenure with Camel. His Eastern European chum, keyboardist Daniel Biro, has been known to pen a few tunes over the years and…
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