There’s a moment on Liquid Stone where everything stops – just a single piano note stumbling quietly in the background, searching for its place. Trude Eidtang’s voice arrives like a hand reaching through the darkness, not to rescue but to…
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International progsters The Samurai Of Prog are a busy bunch. In addition to the TSOP concern, there are any number of offshoots featuring drummer Kimmo Pörsti and/or bassist Marco Bernard. One of those extracurricular bands is The Guildmaster, featuring the…
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Blood Moon is the new album from Nottinghamshire based rockers Red Bazar, their first since 2022’s Inverted Reality. Red Bazar explore an increasing range of musical styles on Blood Moon. They have often displayed a hard almost ‘prog-metal’ edge to…
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AlphaLine are a dynamic four-piece UK band from Berkshire/Surrey who are increasingly appearing at prog-adjacent events and festivals. As a result, it now seems an appropriate time to revisit their 2024 debut album, Electromagnetic, and highlight their engaging and eclectic…
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Pryzme are a French prog band built around the nucleus of guitarists and singers Dominique Blanchard and David Chollet. Their latest album True Stories…And Other Lies is their first since 2021’s Four Inches, and is a step forward in terms…
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Of all Jimi Hendrix’s spiritual children, Robin Trower is one of the best. Who would have guessed that the guy so underutilized in Procol Harum would blossom into a guitar god who was so much more than imitative of his…
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Jakko M. Jakszyk continues to astound all of us with his exceptional talent and appeal. This multifaceted award-winning musician, singer, composer, poet, producer, engineer, actor, and author generates well deserved attention and acclaim with each project that he is involved…
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In 2014 Esoteric Recordings acquired Anthony Phillips’ back catalogue and this is the latest album scheduled for an updated re-release. Radio Clyde is a rare live recording of performances from 1978. At the time Anthony Phillips was promoting two releases…
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I last came across Gordon Giltrap MBE accompanying Julie Fordham on a track from her 2024 album Earth Mate, some 47 years after first hearing Heartsong his most memorable instrumental guitar-fest. In between, his career has meandered along many and…
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Celeste is a project devised by Ciro Perrino, an Italian musician and composer. The project has a deep backstory, making an impact with their only official album in 1972. That prog rock essential, the mellotron, was a key part of…
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