Permission To Fly is the first solo album from Jordan Rudess, the Dream Theater keyboard wizard, since 2019’s Wired For Madness. That album included an extensive cast drawn from across the prog world to help him realise his vision, and…
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Grief is the price of Love, and out of love great art and music can be forged in the white heat of intense emotions and inner turmoil. Sometimes the sources of such feelings can be a surprise, even to the…
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Despite this album’s title, it will indeed be the final utterance from the French ‘Rock In Opposition’ band Present, as it’s creator Roger Trigaux passed away during it’s completion in 2021. The band members carried on to complete the recording,…
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My introduction to The Slambovian Circus Of Dreams came about five years ago through a friend who lived in New York’s Hudson Valley. He sang the praises of a local band out of Sleepy Hollow that I just had to…
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It’s hard to explain what it’s like to struggle with your mental health to someone who hasn’t experienced it themselves. Twice in recent years a musician has managed to express the feelings it is so hard to communicate verbally, through…
View More Leprous – Melodies of Atonement
Northumbrian 4-piece progressive rock band, Unit8, have just released their second album – The Second Arch – and a most enjoyable listen it is too. In fact, it might even have topped their impressive eponymous debut release from late 2022,…
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This new three-hour package, which includes 3CDs and a Blu-ray disc, really is a game of two halves, since it includes the full setlist from the second night of the pair of September 2023 concerts at London’s Cadogan Hall, followed…
View More Big Big Train – A Flare On The Lens (Live)
When Connecticut band Mile Marker Zero took the stage at Progstock 2021, I had read a bit about them without actually having heard them. There was a sneaking suspicion that MMZ were just not going to be my cup of…
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Following Leaving Backstage, Back To Live is Sylvan’s second full live set to make it onto a two-disc package. What prog fans take from this latest release will largely depend on their expectations, particularly from those of us who have…
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Crooked Mouth return with album number four and the follow up to the very enjoyable One Bright Midnight released in 2015, which in turn followed on from their equally enjoyable albums Hold In The Sun (2007), and a personal favourite,…
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