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Rick Wakeman & The English Rock Ensemble – The Red Planet

The Red Planet is Rick Wakeman’s first proper instrumental prog offering of completely original material for quite a number of years. Consciously a return to the styles of his Seventies heyday, the album is also the first collaboration with the…

A Different Aspect #43

In this update we feature: • Coma Wall – Ursa Minor [EP] • An Apparition – An Apparition [EP] • Anthroprophh – Toilet Circuit [EP] • SEIMS – 3 + 3.1 • Tangents – Risk Reaps Rewards • Woomera –…

Richard Wileman – Arcana

After 20 years working as Karda Estra in a largely instrumental zone, Richard Wileman stepped out under his own name in 2018 to follow a more acoustic singer/songwriter path, firstly with his Veil album, followed last year by Cabal of…

Fatal Fusion – Dissonant Minds

The last time I heard anything from Norwegian band Fatal Fusion was 2013’s The Ancient Tale. It was sold to me as Dream Theater with Mellotron. It sounded to me, more like Rush with Alex choosing to play vintage keyboards.…

Lee Abraham – Harmony/Synchronicity

Lee Abraham is clearly on some sort of creative kick right now with a new solo album hot on the heels of his Echo Rain instrumental project EP, Western Skies, and not long after his release of one of the…

Lucynine – Amor Venenat

Sergio Bertani, in his guise of Lucynine, has created what will easily be among my favourite albums of this year. Amor Venenat came from nowhere, for me. I’d never heard of Lucynine before, though this is not the first release…

IZZ – Half Life [EP]

Although having been in existence for more than twenty years, IZZ improved their profile considerably with their last album, the excellent and well received Don’t Panic in 2019. Whilst working on the follow up album, they unearthed an old unrecorded…

Alpha Lighting System – H+

I first became aware of Mexican band, Alplha Lighting System, via Serj Tankian’s 7 Notes challenge, and their winning entry life.exe which encapsulates beautifully the band’s sounds and philosophies in one compact package. That track now takes pride of place…

Galahad – Following Ghosts (Expanded 3 CD Edition)

Galahad have re-released their eclectic 1998 album Following Ghosts in an impressive 3 CD expanded edition. Galahad are rather a conundrum. Born in the ’80s era following the so called ‘neo-prog’ wave of the likes of Marillion, IQ, Twelfth Night…

Kulk – Here Lies Kulk

Though quite local to me, Kulk somehow passed me by, until a friend posted a link to their debut album on his Facebook page. And, wow! This is a band that I’d expect to find on Rocket, and to know…

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