Rob Fisher

Djabe & Steve Hackett – Freya/Arctic Jam

I am thoroughly enjoying 2025. The music I have encountered in these first four months has challenged me to explore and appreciate what it means when we speak about music being an ‘immersive experience’. The journey began with Nicola Lori’s…

Lyrella – Cosmic Lark

Imagination, says Leonard Bernstein, is our ‘greatest treasure.’ With it, we have the ability to bring our dreams to life: we can, every day, dream our lives alive. The continual flow of imagination shapes all that we do and colours…

Nicola Lori – Urban Vision

Urban Vision is a remarkable experience. It’s one of those albums which come into your life and make you instantly wonder how you’ve ever managed to survive without it. Across ten gorgeously sensual musical windows, our senses are enchanted and…

Fleesh – Dreamension

Things don’t feel…‘quite right’. We know it. We sense it. And yet, when we try to articulate that gnawing, festering seam of troubled disquiet lurking beneath our every waking moment, there’s never one clear target at which we can point.…

Long Earth – An Ordinary Life

What has struck me most about a lot of the music I’ve been listening to across 2024 are the truly creative ways in which musicians interpret, react and respond to the world in which we live our daily lives. We…

ESP Project – Silent Waves ~ Astral Dreams

ESP Project – Silver Waves ~ Astral Dreams

Feelings of weariness and fatigue invariably descend on us all. The relentless grind of daily life, the struggle to make ends meet, the constant battle with its seeming injustices, inherent unfairness and bitter disappointments leaves us physically drained and emotionally…

Sloane Square Band – Thoughts

Thoughts are strange things. They come and go. Sometimes, they thrust themselves upon us; at others, they sneak up unnoticed and surprise us. They are always there, even if we are unaware of them. When one thought ends and another…

Andy Nixon – The Waterline

I grew up by the sea, happy, carefree hours spent playing on sandy shorelines, excitedly scrabbling over rocks as the waves noisily threatened frothy sprays of water, and exhilaration from the wind dancing in your hair as you scamper along…

Our Progressive Planet on Prog-Watch: Germany [Audio Feature]

Prog-Watch presents another instalment of Our Progressive Planet in which Rob Fisher and and Big Tony Rowsick take you on a little tour of the vibrant progressive music scene in Germany! With music from Sylvan, Lucifer’s Friend, Subsignal, Panzerballett, Eloy,…

The Paradox Twin

South Street Arts Centre, Reading Thursday 20th June 2024 I can’t believe it was 2018 when I first encountered (and reviewed) the enthralling debut album, The Importance of Mr Bedlam. The scintillating fusion of intense musicianship with captivating storytelling creates…

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Author: Rob Fisher