In May 2024, as part of my segment on Graham Harfleet’s The Progressive Rock Show, on Progzilla Radio, I highlighted the sumptuous ballad, Hymn to the Ordinary from the brilliant first album, The Wisdom of Simple Things, by the band,…
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Featured artists: Lite | Lari Basilio | Joy Shannon | Steve Blanco Five bite-sized reviews taking a snapshot of just some of the 2025 albums and EPs to land at TPA over the past few months… • Lite – The…
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The second collaboration between Snarky Puppy and Metropole Orkest, Somni (Catalan for “dream”), is an introspective tour de force that leaves the listener breathless. Watch the companion video, and you can see that even the musicians themselves look on in…
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Man on the Shore is a wonderfully intriguing, eclectic and emotionally vibrant album from Ozul – the solo prog-driven project of the Norwegian/Costa Rican documentary filmmaker, Paulo Chavarria. He provides the vocals and plays all the musical instruments – creating…
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You know that thing where you’re trawling through end of year “Best of” lists, and listening to samples of things that catch your eye/ear? And how sometimes something new to you will make you sit up and take notice? Inevitably…
View More Fucked Up – Grass Can Move Stones Part 1: On Earth – Year Of The Goat
My wife, Konnie, and I originally encountered Dutch band Textures at our first Be Prog! My Friend festival, when they performed live on 2nd July 2016, at Poble Espanyol in Barcelona. At the time we were convinced by a group…
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It all started with Tommy Vance and the Friday Rock Show in the late 70’s, and its theme tune Take it off the Top by The Dixie Dregs. It was pretty much the only ‘rock’ music show on UK’s Radio…
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When Spock’s Beard keysman Ryo Okumoto teamed up with I Am The Manic Whale’s Michael Whiteman for the former’s 2022 solo album, The Myth Of The Mostrophus, it ended up as my favourite album of the year. Three years later,…
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It is a wonderful feeling to start a new year with a great progressive rock album release, and Wherever Forever by Spirergy is certainly that. The project is the work of composer and multi-instrumentalist, Dave Allen, of Hoylake, on the…
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Happy New Year! As ever, a host of wonderful releases have floated the TPA team’s boats throughout 2025, underlining the sheer quality of music still emerging from our corner of the Audioverse. It may be a niche realm, but the…
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