There’s a revolution afoot, and you probably didn’t even know it. Coincidentally, I found out about it from two sources almost simultaneously: the album I’m not quite reviewing here, and an article posted by a friend on Facebook. And what…
View More Giorgi Mikadze – Georgian Microjamz
Shock! Horror! On Robert Wyatt’s birthday, 28th January 2020, Kellen Mills and Nic Barnes have announced that they have disbanded Alex’s Hand. I feel somewhat shortchanged as I found the band only after what has turned out to be their…
View More Alex’s Hand – Hungarian Spa
I think we can all admit that there are some albums which speak to us more than others. Last year there were two such, which became favourite releases of 2019, not just because they were amazing works of art (which…
View More Oceanica – OneDark
22 February 2011. A magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck Canterbury, New Zealand, centred around Christchurch (at the time, the second most populous city in the country). There was widespread damage to buildings and infrastructure, already weakened by a magnitude 7.1 earthquake…
View More Art Aids Charity
There are many bands playing the almost oxymoronic styled retro-prog, and few do it in a way that interests me. If the music is too honorific, derivative or comparable with the greats of the past, I can’t really see the…
View More Guranfoe – Sum of Erda
I’m not sure what I was expecting from Mariana Semkina’s first solo outing, but it wasn’t the opening track of Sleepwalking. Dark Matter treads the same neo-classical approach of iamthemorning, though Gleb’s piano is noticeably absent, of course. It’s an…
View More Mariana Semkina – Sleepwalking
The second studio release of Croatian band Doringo, Gužva u Svemiru is described by the band as their first venture into a form of world music they are calling ‘geographical rock’, or geo-rock. It’s an interesting premise, certainly, and apparently…
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I’ve been asked to preface this review with a disclaimer. As the newest writer for The Progressive Aspect, I’m the only one who doesn’t know Phil Lively (who also writes for this site), and so I was designated the perfect…
View More Phil Lively – The Fall
There are seemingly more and more UK festivals catering to audiences who want to explore music outside the mainstream. To name a few as they come to mind, ArcTangent, Fusion, Portals, Radar and TechFest. One which may not come to…
View More Bad Pond Festival, Brighton, 2020
Finnish duo K+K-tactics were introduced to me as drum and bass. Drum and bass, eh? Now, I’m not a great fan of labelling music by genre. For a start, I’m not even entirely sure what makes some music fit in…
View More K+K-tactics – All The Best