When you take a chance on new music, more often than not you are looking to be wowed. It’s a visceral thrill to hear something life-changing and life-affirming. As 2023 comes to a close, there have been plenty of those…
View More Pacha & Pörsti – Sea of Mirrors
The prolific The Samurai of Prog, along with its many offshoots, are certainly on a roll. If, for the moment, we set aside the half-a-dozen albums produced since 2020 by the TSoP collective, we also have six collaborative albums from…
View More Pacha & Pörsti – Views From the Inner World
Featured artists: Mariana Semkina | Haiku Salut | Tim Chernikoff | The Samurai of Prog | Kimmo Pörsti | Chris Rodler ||: In this ADA (shorter reviews) update TPA’s David Edwards, Bob Mulvey & Kevan Furbank check out recent albums,…
View More A Different Aspect #66
Wayfarer is the second solo album by the Finnish drummer, multi-instrumentalist and producer Kimmo Pörsti, perhaps best known as part of The Samurai of Prog project. So my initial thoughts, glancing through the list of musicians, which also includes bassist…
View More Kimmo Pörsti – Wayfarer
Marco Bernard and Kimmo Pörsti are, respectively, bass player and drummer of The Samurai of Prog, a band formed by Italian-born Marco in Finland as part of a musical project creating prog tribute box sets. Joined by American multi-instrumentalist Steve…
View More Marco Bernard & Kimmo Pörsti – Gulliver