The conservatory at the back of multi award-winning vegetarian restaurant The Waiting Room, nestled in Eaglescliffe (Stockton on Tees), is perhaps a surprising venue for the second date of Jon Gomm’s autumn tour – perhaps not. The restaurant has been…
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One of the great joys of reviewing music for TPA, and previously DPRP, has been discovering music that would almost certainly have passed me by otherwise. Within the comparatively small pond of ‘progressive music’ covered there is a constant stream…
View More L’eveil – Wars Of Abstraction
With the sheer volume of albums arriving at TPA, we are generally unable to cover singles or EPs. However, as Yukimushi / Ame Ni Chiru clocks in at around the half hour mark, and neatly ties in with Gen Jitsu…
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Featured artists: Ancient Future | Riffstone | Teiger (feat. Jo Quail) | Zabrahana In our 100th ADA update we have four bite-sized reviews taking a snapshot of some of the recent and not so recent releases to land at TPA…
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Back in 2022 I mentioned that it was ‘purely happenstance‘ that I’d stumbled across Lyle Workman’s excellent Uncommon Measures, released the previous year. Given the sheer quality of the music, compositions, arrangements and his fretboard mastery, I also remarked how…
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St. Barbe’s debut EP Shoal deserves a place in the ever expanding wave of creative music coming out of the prog and prog‑adjacent world. For those unfamiliar with this London‑based trio, their Bandcamp tagline captures the music well: “Dissolving the…
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There is a seemingly endless stream of music emerging from the prog and prog‑adjacent world, and it’s all too easy for bands to slip through the net unnoticed and Idiogram could easily have been one of them. Had they not…
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Guitarist and composer Frédéric L’Épée has amassed a varied and far‑reaching catalogue since the mid seventies, yet it wasn’t until the release of 12 Pieces for Solo Electric Guitar in 2023 that I finally had the opportunity to review his…
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Following a trilogy of unanimously well received sci-fi themed releases, Scanning the Dark Horizon, The Starships Are Gathering and concluding with last year’s Here Come The Robots!, the John Irvine Band (JIB) continue their space odyssey storytelling with this latest…
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New music from Neil Campbell is always welcomed, and January’s announcement of Diagonals was no exception. This latest release however arrives with an added twist: two separate versions of the album. One is a digital only mini‑album showcasing Neil’s latest…
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