This is a very different album for me, although I knew of Mr Giltrap and his brilliance on the guitar, somehow I’d never really explored his work much beyond buying the single of Heartsong when it was originally released back…
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What can I say about this rather obscure album that takes one of NASA’s most successful missions as its source material? Charting the 40 plus years of the Voyager programme and the untold wealth of knowledge that it has gained…
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Former Iona founder Dave Bainbridge has been a busy man of late with current live projects including Celestial Fire, Strawbs, his duo with Sally Minnear, Lifesigns and occasional solo concerts. TPA’s John Wenlock-Smith spoke to Dave about his long musical…
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Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham Monday 1st October 2018 Review & Images Geoff Ford “We have a slightly bigger band than normal,” quipped Steve Hackett, “and we’re going to do it properly!” The bigger band included The Heart Of England Orchestra…
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This is the debut album from new U.S. progressive rock outfit Potter’s Daughter, and I have to says it’s a truly delightful album too. It’s also very different to the normal fare that passes for Prog nowadays, this album has…
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This is the new album from New Delhi born but U.S. based Yatin Srivastava and his studio Project. It deals with, as you might expect, the concepts of chaos and despair, and how they affect us all, either in our…
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Earth Is Sleeping is the new album from Judy Dyble, formerly of Fairport Convention and Trader Horne, and this is her first album of new material in several years. Well, some are brand new compositions, some are “old scribblings” that…
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The Playhouse Theatre, Hasland, Chesterfield Saturday, 30th June 2018 This was a bit of an odd gig in all honesty. Eugene Rogers at Progressive Ears asked if I was interested in attending this concert to celebrate the download release of…
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This for me is a very welcome release indeed as I am a big admirer of Jon Lord’s work. One of his songs was very helpful to me at the time of my father’s death, sadly I never got to…
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This is the latest album from Frankfurt-born composer and musician J. Peter Schwalm and the story behind it is a very personal one for Peter, one that involved a major health scare when he was diagnosed with a brain tumour.…
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