The Lightmaker is the highly anticipated new album by Nine Skies, the French progressive rock project led by Anne-Claire Rallo and Alexandre Lamia. It is an impressive and musically expansive concept album that reflects on the human condition. It tells…
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The Rock ‘n’ Roll Circus is back in town! Franck Carducci and the Fantastic Squad are currently touring with their unique brand of captivating, infectious rock, scintillating playing and entertaining over the top showmanship… so that seems like a really…
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Growing up just outside of New York City, I was bitten by the Broadway bug early on. Musicals – no surprise – were always my favourites, and I saw as many as I could afford to. No matter who the…
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The Light of Ancient Mistakes is the splendid seventh album from the eclectic UK progressive band, Hats Off Gentlemen It’s Adequate (or HOGIA for short). Following on from last year’s The Confidence Trick, it is another diverse collection of idiosyncratic…
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Sparks have been enjoying ‘another’ renaissance recently and this album has many of the hallmarks that you would expect to hear from such an accomplished and long-standing band. It’s full of great ideas, unexpected twists and turns, and of course…
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Soft Machine are best known – or should be – as being one of the originators of electric jazz/rock going back as far as early 1969. They were continually creative within their songwriting and in the live arena, inventive, forward…
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Voivod are one of those bands, a bit like Cardiacs, that bands I love tend to cite as influences, but whom I have never listened to. The Canadian sci-fi metal pioneer’s sixteenth album is a 40-year retrospective, which seemed like…
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We’ve finally made it to the present day, where our motley crew of prog A-listers take a few steps back in time to revisit Meddle, an album that – let’s face it – you probably only listen to for the…
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Ángel Ontalva is one prolific artist, seemingly releasing new music every few months, making it quite hard to keep up at times. The last release which really caught my attention was 2021’s Angel on A Tower which was a superb…
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Released some six months after Still Wish You Were Here, Animals Reimagined follows Pink Floyd’s own chronology; in the mid-’70s it was a miracle that the band managed to find an invigorating new turn after releasing such a landmark album.…
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