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…
View More A Different Aspect #70Author: David Edwards
Octarine Sky – Close To Nearby
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…
View More Octarine Sky – Close To NearbyDrifting Sun – Forsaken Innocence
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…
View More Drifting Sun – Forsaken InnocenceGlacier – Island In The Sky
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…
View More Glacier – Island In The SkyThis Winter Machine – Kites
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…
View More This Winter Machine – KitesGlass Hammer – Skallagrim: Into the Breach
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…
View More Glass Hammer – Skallagrim: Into the BreachA Different Aspect #66
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,…
View More A Different Aspect #66Karl Groom – Threshold
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…
View More Karl Groom – ThresholdBryan Josh – Mostly Autumn
Just before Mostly Autumn went up on stage at Sheffield’s O2 Academy to close the HRH Prog X festival, I was able to have a quick chat with Bryan Josh, guitarist, vocalist and driving force behind the band, to ask…
View More Bryan Josh – Mostly AutumnMostly Autumn – Graveyard Star
UK melodic prog rock band Mostly Autumn release a powerful and evocative new album, documenting their experience of the pandemic over the last year or so. It has all the ingredients of a classic Mostly Autumn album, but soaked with…
View More Mostly Autumn – Graveyard Star