Back in 2022 I mentioned that it was ‘purely happenstance‘ that I’d stumbled across Lyle Workman’s excellent Uncommon Measures, released the previous year. Given the sheer quality of the music, compositions, arrangements and his fretboard mastery, I also remarked how…
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You can glean a lot from listening to The Gates of Kybagrad, the two minute instrumental introductory track on Qisma. It’s widescreen cinematic style hints at a concept album, and you just know some prog metal power chords and riffage…
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Le Orme (‘the footsteps’) is a seminal Italian progressive rock band founded in mid‑1960s Venice as a beat group. Along with Area, New Trolls, Premiata Forneria Marconi and Banco del Mutuo Soccorso, they represent the most important exponents of Rock…
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One of the greater joys of being a TPA reviewer is discovering bands who might otherwise have flown under the radar. General Purpose, a young band from Greensboro, North Carolina in the US is one such band. One Last Word,…
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On last March’s Cruise To The Edge, one of the buzzier bands performing was Canada’s Crown Lands. Both my friends with whom I travelled were excited to see them, and as a result, so was I. While this was to…
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Dennis Atlas joined Toto in 2024 having made a name for himself as an up-and-coming multi-instrumentalist, debuting in a collaborative album release with Michael Whelan, as Initiator (2019’s Ice Garden), followed by a solo album in 2021, My Magical Wonderland,…
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St. Barbe’s debut EP Shoal deserves a place in the ever expanding wave of creative music coming out of the prog and prog‑adjacent world. For those unfamiliar with this London‑based trio, their Bandcamp tagline captures the music well: “Dissolving the…
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French TV are probably the best thing to come out of Kentucky since the Colonel’s fried chicken. Yet they’ve managed to lurk almost unnoticed under the prog radar since 1983, despite releasing a family bucket of music that is cheerfully…
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Back in 1975, Robin Trower was starting to be big news. His latest studio album, For Earth Below, was doing well on both sides of the Atlantic, and his label, Chrysalis, was looking to capitalise on this success. An opportunity…
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Usually albums arrive, either physically or digitally, and I give them a few plays and a review is fairly easy to do. I either like the music or don’t and, subsequently, I can choose to play it more times, or…
View More Duncan Parsons – Music For Stairlifts (Vol 3): Listening To Subtitles