Treehouse is the sixth solo album by Dutch progressive rock band Leap Day. Their first with their new vocalist Hans Kuyper, it delivers some pleasant slabs of ‘old school’ neo-progressive and symphonic rock, with flowing passages of retro keyboards supported…
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To the Far Away is the fourth solo album by multi-instrumentalist Dave Bainbridge, co-founder of Iona and currently a touring and studio member of Lifesigns and Strawbs, amongst other projects and collaborations. It is undoubtedly his finest solo album to…
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Featured artists: Mandoki Soulmates | Elements Of A Dream | Briscon | Shaven Primates | Great North Star ||: In this ADA (shorter reviews) update Bob Mulvey & David Edwards take a look at recent releases from: • Mandoki Soulmates…
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Dyanne Potter Voegtlin and Jan Christiana of Potter’s Daughter have teamed up with Simon Phillips on drums to form a new band, Octarine Sky. Their debut album, Close to Nearby, featuring Guthrie Gowan (of The Aristocrats) and Amit Chatterjee on…
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Every now and then you come across a band that have somehow passed you by over the years, and then you hear an album by them which frankly stops you dead in your tracks and overwhelms you with its musical…
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North-East progressive rock group Glacier release their third album, Island in the Sky, and it’s their most impressive so far. They have successfully built upon their 2001 debut, Monument and 2015’s Ashes for the Monarch to produce a diverse and…
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Kites is the long-awaited third album from Yorkshire’s melodic progressive rock band This Winter Machine. Delayed by both the extended COVID lockdown period and significant line-up changes, arising from the frustrations of not being able to build upon the momentum…
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U.S. proggers Glass Hammer follow up their 2020 Dreaming City album, with Skallagrim: Into the Breach; the second album in a planned trilogy paying homage to the sword and sorcery novels of the ’60s and ’70s, and by inference the…
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Featured artists: Mariana Semkina | Haiku Salut | Tim Chernikoff | The Samurai of Prog | Kimmo Pörsti | Chris Rodler ||: In this ADA (shorter reviews) update TPA’s David Edwards, Bob Mulvey & Kevan Furbank check out recent albums,…
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Karl Groom, lead guitarist and driving force behind the UK’s premier prog-metal band, Threshold, since 1988, spoke to TPA’s David Edwards before the band’s return to live performance at HRH Prog X at Sheffield on September 4th, 2021. Karl, a…
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