Having recently reviewed the debut release from Rafael Pacha & Kimmo Pörsti I find myself back-tracking to The Samurai of Prog’s The Spaghetti Epic 4, released in the summer of this year, a couple of months prior to Pacha &…
View More The Samurai Of Prog – The Spaghetti Epic 4
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
The Samurai of Prog machine keeps rolling along, whether it be as Bernard and Pörsti, as it is here, individually in Mr Pörsti’s case, as The Guildmaster or TSoP themselves, with an impressive eleven studio albums released, so far, in…
View More Bernard and Pörsti – Robinson Crusoe
In this ADA Album & EP update we feature: • Mariana Semkina – Disillusioned [EP] • Haiku Salut – The Hill, The Light, The Ghost • Tim Chernikoff – Pieces Of Sanity • The Samurai of Prog – The White…
View More A Different Aspect #66
In this update we feature: • The Samurai of Prog – The Lady and the Lion (And Other Grimm Tales I) • Triangle Singular – Starbreaker • Joe Devine – One Foot Forward [EP] • Anthony Béard – Les contes…
View More A Different Aspect #60
With little or no pomp and ceremony, the core members of The Samurai Of Prog, namely bassist Marco Bernard, drummer Kimmo Pörsti and multi-instrumentalist Steve Unruh, have released seven studio albums since 2011, plus one compilation of their long out…
View More The Samurai Of Prog – Toki No Kaze
In this update we feature: > MetaQuorum – Witchcraft Jazz > Marvin B. Naylor – Bright Blinds > The Samurai of Prog – Archiviarum > Unstoppable Sweeties Show – Bring Kath Her Breamcatcher (The Musical) > Vinyl Dial – Intergalactic…
View More A Different Aspect #28
The fifth album from The Samurai of Prog, On We Sail is full of progressive music and lyrical journeys, this time on wild ocean, rivers and dangerous seas. The core members of The Samurai of Prog are Marco Bernard, Kimmo…
View More The Samurai of Prog – On We Sail
This is my second encounter with The Samurai of Prog, the first being three years ago when I reviewed their second album, Secrets of Disguise, largely a cover album which didn’t bring very much to the songs it covered. Indeed,…
View More The Samurai of Prog – Lost and Found
This review is a little overdue after the 2014 release of this third album from the extravagantly named The Samurai of Prog, but it is certainly well worth investigating. Whereas the multinational collective that make up The Samurai have concentrated…
View More The Samurai of Prog – The Imperial Hotel