Featured artists: Mariana Semkina | Haiku Salut | Tim Chernikoff | The Samurai of Prog | Kimmo Pörsti | Chris Rodler ||: In this ADA (shorter reviews) update TPA’s David Edwards, Bob Mulvey & Kevan Furbank check out recent albums,…
View More A Different Aspect #66
The new album by Italian prog formation The Watch, The Art of Bleeding, appears to have been preceded by an extremely long writing process of three years. And – a novelty – The Watch has ventured into the world of…
View More The Watch – The Art of Bleeding
This disc has been waiting on a pile of others for quite a while. I ran into the album over a year ago with the idea of dedicating a review to it. However, due to various circumstances, so far it…
View More Gazzara Plays Genesis – Here It Comes Again
“Extraordinary times call for extraordinary music” say Isildurs Bane, Sweden’s leading and most forward thinking chamber rock ensemble, as they return with a new album – and they have certainly delivered. Isildurs Bane have been very successful in attracting quality…
View More Isildurs Bane & Peter Hammill – In Disequilibrium
Rarely will the announcement of a new album have sparked so much anticipation as is the case with Yes’s new studio album, The Quest. At least with yours truly, self-proclaimed fan and, more latterly, critic of the British prog legends.…
View More Yes – The Quest
Fragments is a banquet of music that really doesn’t sit in any genre. There really is such variety, and after a few listens I love it all. There are Fragments of many things, with possibly an overarch of jazz. That…
View More Trifecta – Fragments
One of the delights of music is never ceasing to be amazed by the unexpected. I was introduced to Finnish heavy metal giants Nightwish by the friend I least expected to be into metal. I was then amazed to find…
View More Auri – II: Those We Don’t Speak Of
Are You There is not an easy listen. If you think you can casually fire up your player, press play, sit back and nonchalantly enjoy its delights, think again. This album brings new dimensions to the meaning of brooding and…
View More Michał Łapaj – Are You There
Less than a year after the release of their last album, Carnivorous, Hawkwind return with another collection of new songs. This, their thirty-fourth album, continues the fine tradition of the space rock genre that the band have created and nurtured…
View More Hawkwind – Somnia
Dragging his sorry ass to the laptop, the writer desperately attempts over several whiskies and incantations to summon his muse, long confined in the depths of Purgatory, from whence there seems no escape. The writer has done this in order…
View More Ske – Insolubilia