Some years ago, browsing through CDs at a ROSFest between acts, I heard someone call my name. I turned around to see a colleague from the office who sat just a few desks away from me. Neither of us knew…
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Arjen Lucassen’s Supersonic Revolution – Golden Age of Music
Arjen Lucassen never sleeps. How else do you explain such prolific output? Ayreon, Star One, Guilt Machine, along with several other projects past and present. And now, Supersonic Revolution. When German music magazine Eclipsed asked him to provide a song…
View More Arjen Lucassen’s Supersonic Revolution – Golden Age of MusicInner Prospekt – Canvas Three
Inner Prospekt is the solo project of Mad Crayon keyboardist Alessandro Di Benedetti. I first became acquainted with Di Benedetti’s music when Mad Crayon contributed to several Musea Projects, such as The Colossus of Rhodes and Kalevala. Subsequently, Di Benedetti…
View More Inner Prospekt – Canvas ThreeJoe Deninzon & Stratospheerius – Behind the Curtain: Live at ProgStock
As a fan of live music, it’s a particular thrill for me any time an artist releases a live album from a show which I attended. It offers the chance to both savour a memory and hear the detail that…
View More Joe Deninzon & Stratospheerius – Behind the Curtain: Live at ProgStockKitchen Sink – Clandestiny
The first time I heard Erie, Pennsylvania band Kitchen Sink was a couple of months ago when the song Kitchen Suite came on the radio. Right away, I was captivated. When the opportunity to review their debut album, Clandestiny, arose,…
View More Kitchen Sink – ClandestinySad Serenity – The Grand Enigma
Sad Serenity’s The Grand Enigma is another in a long line of Covid lock-down projects that we have seen over the past year. Hatched by multi-instrumentalist Marcell Kaemmerer, this is the first project from the German-born former school teacher (music…
View More Sad Serenity – The Grand EnigmaKinetic Element – Chasing the Lesser Light
Reviewing a band you have followed and enjoyed from the beginning is always a dicey proposition. You can’t help but wonder if this is the one where it all falls apart, or has the band forged ahead to reach new…
View More Kinetic Element – Chasing the Lesser LightAngel – Once Upon A Time
The first, self-titled Angel album, released in 1975, introduced a band that straddled the worlds of prog and glam, leaning heavily on the former musically and the latter in sartorial style. The first two albums (which were produced by Derek…
View More Angel – Once Upon A TimeBlues Image – Next Voyage
One of the very first singles I bought as a music-obsessed child was Blues Image’s Ride Captain Ride in 1970. The song was all over the radio at the time and, as one of the first popular songs to feature…
View More Blues Image – Next VoyageIce Age – Waves Of Loss And Power
Ice Age was formed on Long Island, New York in 1991 by college buddies Josh Pincus (vocals & keys) and Jimmy Pappas (guitars). Originally an instrumental outfit, with the addition of drummer Hal Aponte and bassist Arron DiCesare, the band…
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