I’d never heard of Norwegian band Bismarck before. I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect, and was even a little wary based on the cover art. Truth be told, if Oneiromancer were not released on Apollon, I might not have…
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Chris Squire’s endorsement of Frost* in issue one of ‘Classic Rock presents Prog’ magazine pointed out that the genre had indeed progressed with such music that their album Milliontown had presented to the world. Not bound by what had gone…
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Much of the first wave in the late ‘60s of what has come to be known as prog was a fusion of classical and jazz music. Something that sounds like it should be an eclectic mix, perhaps, but only when…
View More Eishan Ensemble – Afternoon Tea At Six
Levelled: Emotional Creatures, Part 3 is the sixth album by Englishman Steve Thorne, the successor to Island of the Imbeciles (2016) and the third part of his trilogy Emotional Creatures. With some imagination you could call Thorne a (prog) singer/songwriter.…
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It’s been a good year for Norwegian record label Apollon. I’ve already enjoyed some wonderful and wonderfully varied releases from the label, including Aadal, The Thank Yous, Bismarck, Weserbergland, The Opium Cartel, Kryptograf, and Professor Tip Top. Now it’s the…
View More Simen Lyngroth – Looking for the Spark like It’s Just Around the Corner
Mattias Olsson’s hunger for new aural vistas has made for an exciting trip over many years now, and his Molesome project is no exception. 2018’s fascinating Dial had me cocking a quizzical and enthralled ear, and with this release’s tantalising…
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Devon based Cosmic troubadours Magic Bus mark their 10th anniversary with their fourth album The Earth Years, their first visit to our planet since 2017’s Phillip The Egg. The line-up has changed a little which has influenced a change in…
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It’s rather wonderful when discovering music for the first time with which many others are familiar. A bit like finding a new path nearby that you’ve not previously noticed before and discovering new vistas and points of interest on your…
View More Sonar with David Torn – Tranceportation (Volume 2)
A Day at the Beach is Airbag’s first new album since Disconnected in 2016. Last year, following Bjørn Riis’ latest excellent album A Storm is Coming in a run of outstanding solo releases and the departure of two original band…
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On 26th January 2019, Pete Jones and his Tiger Moth Tales (TMT) performed at the Boerderij in Zoetermeer for what would become his third solo performance in the Netherlands. Previous performances, on the same stage, during the sixth edition of…
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