Italy has always had a proud history of providing some great progressive rock bands; PFM, The New Trolls and Le Orme being prime examples from the seventies. It appears that this tradition continues into the twenty-first century with Perspectives of…
View More Perspectives of a Circle – Masks, Faces, Whispers
Are you shopping for some Progressive Rock? In the local music supermarket [EDITOR: I don’t think that’s a thing. I think I’d know if musical supermarkets were a thing that existed] you need to look carefully. You might even have…
View More Paradigm Shift – Becoming Aware
Imagine..a Lennon singing to deep bass grooves from Pink Floyd. That is The Claypool Lennon Delirium in a nutshell. The Beatles meet Pink Floyd. Now I know, if Sean Lennon were to read this, he would be taken aback by…
View More Claypool Lennon Delirium – The Monolith Phobos
“I used to be with it but then they changed what ‘it’ was. Now what I’m with isn’t it and what’s it seems weird and scary to me. It’ll happen to you!” – Abe Simpson You never know what you’re…
View More The Rube Goldberg Machine – Fragile Times
Their album title might give you a clue, but the Hedvig Mollestad Trio are not, despite the look of the band name, a jazz trio, oh no maties. What they are is a yin-yang-yin primal force of ur-rock noise dealing…
View More Hedvig Mollestad Trio – Black Stabat Mater & EVIL in Oslo
There are some items that are grabbed enthusiastically from The Progressive Aspect ‘in box’ and there are some things that hang around waiting to be considered, and hopefully loved. Strangely, despite the long delay in reviewing, this epic release from…
View More Neal Morse – Morsefest 2014
Agam Hamzah is one of a number of extraordinary Indonesian guitarists brought to the attention of the wider world by Leonardo Pavkovic, owner of the determinedly eclectic MoonJune Records, whose travels in that region of the world have resulted in…
View More Ligro – Dictionary 3
In the olden days it was pretty much an imperative that a band had to be in the same place to record an album. Things are different in the Internet Age and for Fractal Mirror this is their third album…
View More Fractal Mirror – Slow Burn 1
Conventional wisdom generally recognises that it is the journey which is important and not necessarily the destination at which we finally arrive. The paths we choose and the tracks we wander along the way do much to shape and colour…
View More Flux – ShadowLines
… It turns out that Exeter University spawned yet another fascinating prog offering: Principal Edwards Magic Theatre. Forming a little earlier than Fuchsia, this band moved to Kettering, Northamptonshire, in their early years. Astonishingly, I have links to Kettering too,…
View More Principal Edwards – Round One