Focus is the second album by Norwegian jazz proggers Soft Ffog, led by acclaimed guitarist and composer Tom Hasslan. He is something of a virtuoso player, hinting at John Etheridge at times, or occasionally Zappa, particularly in the improvised passages.…
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Pryzme are a French prog band built around the nucleus of guitarists and singers Dominique Blanchard and David Chollet. Their latest album True Stories…And Other Lies is their first since 2021’s Four Inches, and is a step forward in terms…
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One of Canada’s finest and most idiosyncratic bands, Half Past Four, are back! If you know them, that’s great news. If you aren’t familiar yet, it’s still great news, because you have vibrant exciting new music to discover on this…
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Islington Assembly Hall, London Saturday, 24th May 2025 As Blue Öyster Cult begin their 2025 European tour, which kicks off at the Palladium, they couldn’t resist the chance to play a low key warm up show at Islington Assembly Hall,…
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Jonas Reingold is so busy touring with Steve Hackett these days, it’s a wonder he ever finds time for his own music, and yet here we have a new Karmakanic album, Transmutation, and my goodness it’s been worth waiting for.…
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Many of us of a certain age will return time and again to the classic bands of the seventies which fired our imagination in our youth, and there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that. But of course, they aren’t going to…
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The Painted River of Light is the third album from Gayle Ellett & The Electromags, and something of a departure from the direction of the first two releases. Up until now, the music was very much a celebration of the…
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One of the best things to come out of the US in recent years surely has to be District 97, and whilst their music has never been in the easy listening section of the prog shelf, their most recent studio…
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Colin Masson may be a familiar name to many prog fans, but he is new to me. It seems he is an artist, designer, composer and musician, and probably possesses other talents too! The Visitor is his most recent album…
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The War Yaks, an odd name for a band, but perhaps suits their idiosyncratic musical personality. They are headed by Nat Rusciani, who sings, plays keyboards and writes the songs, closely aided by saxophonist Anthony Warga. Much of the music…
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