Touching Oblivion is the debut album by Philipp Lippman, a promising 23-year old German guitarist from Thuringia, released under the Briscon name. It brings together around five years of instrumental composition, recording, mixing and hard graft – and the current…
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Tarot, the latest album from Norway’s Anders Buaas, is a must for all fans of instrumental guitar-led music, with a range of acoustic and electric guitar styles ranging from delicate, folk-influenced pieces all the way through to full-on electric guitar…
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French progressive rock collective Nine Skies have been weaving their rock, jazz, classical and progressive influences for several years now – combining their acoustic instrumentation with deep, poignant and poetic lyrics. Their well-received 2017 debut Return Home looked at a…
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Mexican progressive rock quartet make an impressive debut release – managing to show their musical influences whilst uniquely combining them in a fresh and approachable way. It really is one of the great joys of life when you suddenly discover…
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The remastered reissues of the two John Mitchell-led It Bites albums is a timely reminder of just how good these releases were when they came out in 2008 and 2012 respectively. Not that I needed reminding – they are amongst…
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When a band as good as Magenta make it through to their 20th anniversary, it is a real cause for celebration amongst the prog rock community. When Robert Reed and Christina Booth talked through the Magenta band concept back in…
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The dark lockdown days of 2020 needed some musical light to shine on our lives and many of the highlights from that time came from unexpected sources. One such album came from Antony Kalugin, the symphonic prog multi-instrumentalist from Ukraine,…
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Sepand Samzadeh (guitars) and Oscar Fuentes Bills (keyboards) met in 2003 and have been making music under the Days Between Stations project name since 2007 (based on the title of Steve Erikson’s debut novel). However, it was only with the…
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