Heavy Horses was the first Tull album I bought after seeing their live broadcast from Madison Square Gardens in 1978. Second in the so-called ‘folk-rock trilogy’, it’s darker than Songs From The Wood but not as dark as Stormwatch, in…
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In this update we feature: > Universal Totem Orchestra – Mathematical Mother > Muffx – L’Ora Di Tutti > Il Cerchio D’Oro – Il Fuoco Sotto La Cenere > L’Albero Del Veleno – Tale Of A Dark Fate > Panther…
View More L’aspetto progressivo (A Different Aspect #17): New Italian Prog
John Wenlock-Smith A new live 2CD/DVD set from Steve Hackett, recorded at Birmingham Symphony Hall in May 2017, Steve and his band celebrating 40 years since the release of Genesis’ Wind And Wuthering album, alongside solo material taken from his…
View More Steve Hackett – Wuthering Nights: Live In Birmingham
Life wasn’t good under the old Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Among the many things that were banned were jokes, conducting an orchestra and Beatles moptops. Western music was derided as imperialist and decadent, and a threat to the Soviet…
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They live! They live! Goblin are reborn – hence the name – with the original rhythm section on a fabulous live album that pumps 2,000 volts into the band’s classic instrumentals. Recorded live in Rome in 2010, Alive can be…
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Imagine, if you will, David Bowie crossed with the Electric Light Orchestra and Foreigner, performing songs from a deranged prog-rock version of Phantom Of The Opera. Welcome to the seventeenth and possibly best studio album by Kayak. Entitled, with stunning…
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Female double bassists are few and far between so it’s nice to see someone with XX chromosomes not only composing and playing interesting jazz music but also leading her own quartet. Finnish-born 27-year-old Kaisa Mäensivu has just completed her Masters…
View More Kaisa’s Machine – In The Key Of K
Cadogan Hall, London Friday, 29th September 2017 A quick question about gig etiquette: Is it ever acceptable to stand at the edge of the balcony and shout at the band in mid-song because you can’t hear them properly? That’s what…
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that a prog album recorded in the 1970s must be in want of a Steven Wilson remix. Nowhere is that more true than with the Gentle Giant catalogue, in which complex, challenging compositions and…
View More Gentle Giant – Three Piece Suite (The Steven Wilson Remixes)
ANDY TILLISON GOES OFF ON ONE… We are living in troubled times. Brexit, Trump, terrorism and racism are threatening to tear our world apart – and, inevitably, that is reflected in some of the music our favourite prog artists are…
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