It’s been ten years since that memorable evening at the Summer’s End festival, when my greatly missed friend and TPA editor Jez Rowden and I first encountered the remarkable Discipline during their evening set. We were both amazed that such…
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Multi-instrumentalist Dave Bainbridge has just released his 5th solo album, On The Edge (of what could be), and it could well be his most accomplished, ambitious and diverse release ever. A co-founder of the much-loved Christian, Celtic progressive rock band,…
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As the core of The Samurai of Prog and innumerable offshoots, Marco Bernard (bass) and Kimmo Pörsti (drums) are responsible for an incredible amount of music. Much of the music has been unavailable as the years pass, hence the Omnibus…
View More The Samurai Of Prog – Omnibus 4: The Bernard & Pörsti Sessions
Rick Miller is a modern-day musical prophet and storyteller. With this, his 17th studio album, this prolific and brilliant Canadian musician turns a discerning eye to our current condition with grace, honesty, wisdom and a wicked wit! Miller has been…
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Gentle Giant is a band that needs no introduction, so I won’t give them one. Instead, I’ll commend them for slowly getting me interested in their latter-day releases, as the series of remasters has caused me to venture beyond my…
View More Gentle Giant – Playing The Fool: The Complete Live Experience
Blues may appear to be an out of place genre to be reviewed on a progressive music site, but here is the thing, Blues and in particular electric Blues is one of the building blocks for modern music as we…
View More Various Artists – Rollin’ And Tumblin’: American Electric Blues 1965-1971 (3CD Boxset)
Featured artists: Doris Brendel & Lee Dunham | Jocelyn Pettit & Ellen Gira | This Winter Machine | Úna Quinn | Raphael Weinroth-Browne Five bite-sized reviews taking a snapshot of just some of the albums and EPs to land at…
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The Seattle-based progressive/psychedelic rock band, Moon Letters, are back with their excellent third album, This Dark Earth. Following on from their last album, 2022’s Thank You From The Future, which I reviewed for The Progressive Aspect at the time, it…
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There’s nothing quite like discovering new music to stop you in your tracks – something with such a distinctive sound and charismatic presence you can’t help but keep listening, enthralled, fascinated. This is exactly what happened to me with Malabriega’s…
View More Malabriega – Frippada Andaluza
2022 was a seminal year for the current version of Tangerine Dream. They released a ‘new’ album, Raum, their second studio album since the death of founding member Edgar Froese in 2015. It was created with access to Froese’s Cubase…
View More Tangerine Dream – From Virgin To Quantum Years: Coventry Cathedral 22