Al Di Meola, John McLaughlin and Paco de Lucía’s innovative Friday Night in San Francisco was recorded at the Warfield Theater, with the exception of one track, on 5th December 1980. Released in April the following year, the album has…
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The Tiktaalik, discovered in the Canadian Arctic in 2004 by fossil hunters, was a freshwater fish living around 375 million years ago in the Devonian period, but bearing many characteristics found in four-legged land animals that would follow. It is…
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How this group has not gotten my attention before this release is a confounding mystery. After all, I love atmospheric, broody, melody-laden, superbly sung tunes, and this packs all of that in. For transparency (and for those who do not…
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O2 Forum, Kentish Town, London Wednesday, 27th July 2022 I felt a bit Transatlantic myself this time: flying via Schiphol airport in Amsterdam to the United Kingdom over the North Sea, a tributary of the Atlantic Ocean. I took the…
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This is Schnauser’s first release since their highly praised Irritant album, which I reviewed for TPA in 2017. The band first came to my attention when I saw them supporting Knifeworld in a Bristol pub and I was impressed with…
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An Englishman, an Irishman and a Frenchman walk into a pub… Englishers are famously a reserved lot. Some learn to play musical instruments but hide themselves away, worried that someone might hear them before they become competent and smash their…
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Loreley Amphitheatre, St. Goarshausen, Germany 22nd to 24th July 2022 After a three year hiatus, Night of the Prog, number 15, returns at Loreley. FRIDAY After the traditional stop for dinner at the Maxi Grill, we also traditionally missed the…
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Now then… the observant amongst you might notice that it would be something of a stretch to regard Dio’s 1983 debut album Holy Diver as a thing of progression. Fair enough, but I think I would be right in saying…
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One of the wonderful bonuses, for me, of doing the review thing is you can so often find music that throws something different into a particular musical style. It is probably due to this fact that most of us reviewers…
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TPA’s David Edwards recently had the great pleasure to be able to talk to one of his prog rock heroes, Steve Hackett, during one of those rare moments over recent months when he and his wife, Jo, have had some…
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