Yielbongura. That’s the thing that knowledge can’t eat. It’s a word used by the Dagara tribe in Africa to mean anything that defies understanding. You can’t explain it, dissect it, cut it down to size with words – it just…
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Andy Tillison has been going through a purple patch of late. Since his mild heart attack back in 2015, the Yorkshire keyboard player has released four albums as The Tangent, three as a solo artist (albeit under a variety of…
View More The Tangent – Songs From the Hard Shoulder
One of the nice things about reviewing for The Progressive Aspect is occasionally discovering wonderful musical acts that were hitherto unknown to me. Here’s one of them: Arnaud Quevedo & Friends, whose mixture of funky jazz fusion mixed with Magma…
View More Arnaud Quevedo & Friends – Roan
In common with most Jethro Tull fans, I was shocked and saddened when Ian Anderson knocked the band on the head nearly 20 years ago. By all accounts, long-time guitarist Martin Barre felt exactly the same. But listening back to…
View More Jethro Tull – The Zealot Gene
Like most rabid Jethro Tull fans, I have dutifully opened my wallet and said “Help yourself” each time a new box set has rolled out of the Steven Wilson remix factory. And, for the most part, I haven’t regretted a…
View More Jethro Tull – Benefit: 50th Anniversary Enhanced Edition
In many ways, James Bond has a lot in common with progressive rock. Both have been around a long time, both have gone in and out of fashion, both try to reinvent themselves while sticking to a tried and tested…
View More Hans Zimmer – No Time to Die
It was 15 years ago, in November 2006, when the entire Gong family came together for a weekend of wonderful music at the Melkweg in Amsterdam. For those of us lucky enough to have been there, the memories still linger…
View More Gong – Live At The Gong Family Unconventional Gathering
BOING! That’s the sound of my jaw hitting the floor. Actually, it’s more of a clunk. But ‘Boing!’ is appropriate because that’s the name of the record label responsible for this jaw-dropping release. If you hear a more astonishing instrumental…
View More The Aristocrats – FREEZE! Live in Europe 2020
‘Live in 2020’ – three words we won’t be reading very often. For most musicians, 2020 was the year from hell, when Covid killed touring, their most lucrative source of income now that CDs no longer make any money. A…
View More Bryan Beller – The Aristocrats
When this album landed it sparked off some juvenile tittering in the TPA cyber-office. “Mediæval Bæbes? I prefer the Jurassic Jezebels! Or the Tudor Teasers! Or even the Big Bang Bimbos!”, said several people who were really old enough to…
View More Mediæval Bæbes – Prayers Of The Rosary