Between 1976 and 1979, the Alan Parsons Project were a staple of FM radio here in the States. With the release of The Turn of A Friendly Card in 1980, the band became a hit-making juggernaut. An interesting proposition for…
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Billie Bottle has a story to tell, in which a grieving process for her granny was assisted by caring for a wise old lady in deepest Devon, applying a routine guided by the days of the week, where the metaphysical…
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Yielbongura. That’s the thing that knowledge can’t eat. It’s a word used by the Dagara tribe in Africa to mean anything that defies understanding. You can’t explain it, dissect it, cut it down to size with words – it just…
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Stations is the exciting and intriguing debut album by German progressive rock quintet Cydonia. Hailing from Freiburg im Breisgau, the band date back to 2007. Originally known as Hills of Cydonia, they played instrumental music until 2019, when singer Michael…
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If it doesn’t Rain, it pours… and in their new release, Radio Silence, Rain certainly do pour forth with an eclectic cascade of songs, played with great style and assurance. In their unexpected and celebrated debut album, Singularity, Rain responded…
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Any band which includes members called ‘Bad Dog’ and ‘Kitty Biscuits’ are probably worthy of anyone’s curiosity. Such curiosity is further stimulated by discovering that the fabulously named ‘Kitty Biscuits’ also provides ‘spoken word poetry’ for this new band… but…
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This delightful album was unleashed on the world via Bandcamp last November, but to very little fanfare, perhaps because of its Russian connection. But if that’s the reason, it’s a shame, because it really deserves to be heard. Gleb Kolyadin…
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During their tenure with Island Records, Jade Warrior received critical plaudits while failing to garner album sales. This new box set makes the case for why that might have been. Progressive in the small “p” sense, this was a band…
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At the start of 1976, UFO were a band on the way up. Since acquiring the services of the young guitar maestro Michael Schenker in June 1973, they had recorded two well received albums, Phenomenon and Force It, produced by…
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Japan has been an important part of the worldwide Progressive music scene pretty much since the beginning. You can trace the history back to seminal live albums like Made in Japan by Deep Purple and Live in Japan by Chicago,…
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