Polyphia? Yes? No? Well, some years back now it was suggested I take a listen to Polyphia’s Muse album. Memories of the album – impressive guitar work all wrapped up in a tried and trusted tech-metal formula. Move forward to…
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“It was time to leave Earth. Truth be told, it was time years ago – but we’d held on, waiting for things to get better. They never did, of course. They’d only got worse. “We were always Scanning The Dark…
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Around March 2021 we received an invitation from French ensemble Edenya to review their full-length debut album Silence, released the previous year. Having taken a listen, and liking the album’s multifaceted opener, The Promise, I earmarked the album for an…
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Across the autumn and winter of 2022, Neil Campbell released a trio of impressive albums, concluding with Alive in Prohibition, a live solo performance recorded at Liverpool’s Prohibition Recording Studios on Thursday 5th May 2022. Released at the beginning of…
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With a couple of years gap, Portland (Oregon) based multi-instrumentalist Daniel Crommie reappeared on my radar in 2022 with Two of A Kind, a collaborative album featuring violinist Leslie Gray. Since then Daniel has released five solo and/or collaborative albums…
View More Daniel Crommie – Perihelion Chronicle / Journey to the Aphelion
Featured artists: AVAWAVES | Amanda Chaudhary | Nubdug Ensemble | Downcutting Streams | Exowst || As we transition from 2022 to 2023, TPA’s Bob Mulvey catches up on some of the releases that have somehow slipped under the radar… •…
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Having recently reviewed the debut release from Rafael Pacha & Kimmo Pörsti I find myself back-tracking to The Samurai of Prog’s The Spaghetti Epic 4, released in the summer of this year, a couple of months prior to Pacha &…
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Hailing from Finland, Juha Kujanpää is a keyboard player and composer who, along with his ‘solo’ albums, writes music for movies, documentary films and theatre productions. In 2013 he formed a quartet which acted as the core band for the…
View More Juha Kujanpää – Old Ways, New Ways
The prolific The Samurai of Prog, along with its many offshoots, are certainly on a roll. If, for the moment, we set aside the half-a-dozen albums produced since 2020 by the TSoP collective, we also have six collaborative albums from…
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Hot on the heels of the Berlin Suite & Other Short Stories EP, released in September of this year, Neil Campbell returns with Faldum, the penultimate release for 2022. In many respects the delightful Berlin Suite & Other Short Stories…
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