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Pain of Salvation – Remedy Lane Re:visited (Re:mixed & Re:lived)

Remedy Lane has long been lauded as Pain of Salvation’s finest hour, it’s their Close to the Edge, if you like, and as per the latter, there was often the question asked, “why don’t they do something like it again”.…

Anthony Phillips – Wise After the Event (Deluxe Edition)

In such strident and turbulent times it perhaps timely to consider this album of gentle pastoral and whimsical calm by one of the founding members of Genesis, Anthony Phillips. Wise After the Event, released in 1978, was Anthony Phillips’ second…

Panic Room

‘Start the Sound’ Tour Islington Assembly Hall, London Saturday 18th June 2016 A Panic Room gig is always a cause for eager anticipation. Their live performances are, without fail, musically thrilling, emotionally intense and warmly uplifting. At the same time…

Yugen – Death By Water

An album long anticipated by this particular scribbler, Italian avant-prog band Yugen’s fourth studio album, Death By Water, arrives in a year already blessed by several high quality releases, and it would be in danger of being lost in the…

Ken DeLoria – Quill

Originally founded in the mid ’70s, American symphonic trio Quill have been largely overlooked in the intervening period, but thanks to The Samurai of Prog covering unreleased Quill track The Demise on their latest album, Lost and Found, with contributions…

Johanna Elina – Belonging

Johanna Elina sings her stripped-back songs of bared souls and mystery to a soundtrack of sometimes gentle and minimal backing containing electronica and found sounds, alternating with more edgy palettes of modern rhythmic clatter and thrum. Finnish by birth, she…

Anderson/Stolt – Invention of Knowledge

The coming together of two greats of progressive music, Jon Anderson and Roine Stolt, for this their album Invention of Knowledge has stirred up a storm of anticipation across the progressive rock fan base. This is supported by social media…

Our Oceans – Our Oceans

‘Melancholy’ seems to be the new trope of prog music; songs of emotional despair and stories of lost lovers have replaced dragons and spaceships as the subject matters of progressive rock in the Millennium. The rising popularity of bands playing…

Panzerpappa – Pestrottedans

Dancing Plague Rats in a Melody Jus… Serves as many as you want it to, a satisfying meal, that akin to the finest arrabiata will be fiery and full of flavour, but subtleties will not be lost in the heat.…

The Ed Palermo Big Band – One Child Left Behind

Continuing my occasional penchant for jazz rock in a “big band” style, viz-a-viz Gavin Harrison’s Cheating The Polygraph and The Nathan Parker Smith Large Ensemble with Not Dark Yet, both fine and fairly recent examples of this seemingly resurgent sub-genre,…