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
It has been 5 years since the London-based band, The Wood Demons, released their acclaimed Angels of Peckham Rye album, and 4 years since I reviewed it for the Progressive Aspect, following a refreshingly vibrant set at the first Prog…
View More The Wood Demons – In Rabbits & Corners
Ever since the Beatles announced “I want to hold your hand”, power pop has had a significant grip on popular music. That influence has waxed and waned throughout the years, but never has it disappeared. The branding may have changed…
View More Various Artists – I Wanna Be A Teen Again: American Power Pop 1980 – 1989
I think that, having been in the music business since 1958, released almost 50 studio albums, 7 live albums, along numerous compilation albums, Sir George Ivan ‘Van’ Morrison knows how to make music. Yet, despite attempts to make collaboration albums…
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