The idea for Nosound came to Giancarlo Erra in a vision. Now well into their second decade, they have carved a niche for themselves within modern progressive music and are imminently to release their fifth studio album, Scintilla. TPA’s Professor…
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Erik Norlander is one of progressive rock’s most prolific keyboardists. With the loss of Keith Emerson earlier this year, the need for creative keyboardists for the future has increased but Norlander is also a link to the Moog era of…
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The Posies were formed in 1987 in Bellingham, near Seattle in Washington State, by legendary songwriters Jon Auer and Ken Stringfellow. I have been a fan of their music since the 1990s and some of my favorite songs of the…
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Santana is a name known globally; Carlos and his band were at Woodstock in 1969, that performance and the many decades of music since helping to cement his claim to being one of the world’s greatest guitarists. Selling more than…
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Circa return after a five year hiatus with a new studio album, Valley of the Windmill. Since And So On (2011) the band has updated their sound and once again changed the line-up with the ever present Billy Sherwood (lead…
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One of the highlights and surprise albums to come out of the slow US economic melt of 2011 was Temporal Chaos Project’s (TCP) Fantastic Dreamer which became one of my favourites of that year. It was also a critic’s favourite…
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Imagine..a Lennon singing to deep bass grooves from Pink Floyd. That is The Claypool Lennon Delirium in a nutshell. The Beatles meet Pink Floyd. Now I know, if Sean Lennon were to read this, he would be taken aback by…
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Daymoon is back, with a deep, emotional album in Cruz Quebrada, written for you in the hope that you will learn from the tragic experience described and make the most of your life ahead. As lead vocalist Fred Lessing states:…
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