The umbrella of progressive music expands far and wide, and there is certainly something for everyone underneath it. The variety of sound and style is almost endless and once in a while, you come across music that just shakes you…
View More Zeitgeber – Fellow Prisoners Of The Splendour And Travail Of The Earth – Part 2
Vox Occulta is a Latin phrase, meaning Hidden Voice. But when it comes to the work of Leprous frontman, and chief architect, Einar Solberg, his voice is very much at the forefront. Who can blame him? He has a truly…
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Well, Franck Carducci and his band are certainly regulars of the gig circuit, and it’s unlikely that anyone reading this hasn’t seen them at least once. Albums though are a little less frequent, and we’ve been waiting since 2019 for…
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The third offering from idiosyncratic Japanese proggers – after 2020’s Tsumibito No Kioku and 2021’s Sazaki Orite Hikari Overflow – is a 90-minute concept album containing all the elements we expect from a band of the Rising Sun: jaw-dropping technical…
View More Project Nayuta – Uniomisty
Italian band Karmamoi return with Eternal Mistake, their first fully original new album since 2021’s Orwellian Room 101. This is an exploration of love and reason, recounting the strange tale of love between a human and a humanoid. This album…
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I first discovered Canadian band Brass Camel a few months ago on the Musora YouTube channel. Musora is a companion channel to Drumeo and the feature that drew me to subscribe to it, was their on-the-spot covers series. That’s where…
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There is a seemingly endless stream of music emerging from the prog and prog‑adjacent world, and it’s all too easy for bands to slip through the net unnoticed and Idiogram could easily have been one of them. Had they not…
View More Idiogram – Reunion Of Broken Parts
There are times when a completely unknown album comes completely out of left field and hits you squarely between the eyes as you just were not expecting it… 2nd Iteration by MoleStar is just one such album. It is very…
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Guitarist and composer Frédéric L’Épée has amassed a varied and far‑reaching catalogue since the mid seventies, yet it wasn’t until the release of 12 Pieces for Solo Electric Guitar in 2023 that I finally had the opportunity to review his…
View More Frédéric L’Épée – Contre Courant
The late seventies and, in particular, the eighties, were heady days for American college radio stations. While most could not broadcast beyond the confines of the campus, there were a healthy number with a broader reach. Even with this limited…
View More Various Artists – This Can’t Be Today: American Psychedelia And The Paisley Underground 1977-1988