A mysterious entity in Prog The project called “Fright Pig” is a fellowship of anonymity. The brilliant debut album “Out of Barnyard” was produced in 2013 under funny nicknames such as “Pig Maillion”, “Makon Baykon” etc. This nice digipack has…
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Fractured Despondency is the second release from Edinburgh based multi-instrumentalist Alan Emslie, recording here under the pseudonym – Snow King. He is joined on several tracks by guitarist John Irvine and trumpeter Mark Geelen appears on Strontian. Cards on the table that…
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Knifeworld are a band that leapt out of the shadows fully formed and blew me away at the Summer’s End Festival in 2012. Like many others who there that day the band were a revelation and one of the highlights…
View More Knifeworld – The Unravelling![Mats/Morgan – [Schack Tati]](https://theprogressiveaspect.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/MatsMorgan.jpg)
Schack Tati, a play on words around the Swedish for chess and French film maker Jacques Tati has all the implied impish humour the title suggests, which will be nothing new to fans of this long running Swedish musical partnership.…
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I picked this album to review because although I’ve never bought anything by Umphrey’s McGee I’ve heard a bit of their live stuff from various sources and been quite impressed. They are considered to be one of the top jam-bands…
View More Umphrey’s McGee – Similar Skin
The Borderline, London 11th July 2014 The capital welcomed us to its bustling bosom on a humid but cool enough to be pleasant day. After making a raid on a couple of CD shops, and satisfying our appetites on some…
View More Tim Bowness & Henry Fool featuring Colin Edwin
I’ve always had a bit of a soft spot for the music of Keith Emerson & Co, which began with ELP’s self titled debut, the first album I purchased and followed shortly after by my first ever concert – ELP…
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Nice. “That’s nice”. It isn’t exactly “WOW!” is it? You might as well say “That’s inoffensive yet inconsequential”. Nice. That’s the best that you can say of Heaven & Earth, it is often nice. Inoffensive and inconsequential. Except for Step…
View More Yes – Heaven & Earth
Thirty years ago with the release of Uzed, band leader Daniel Denis, by then the only remaining original member, took Univers Zéro in an entirely new direction. Spurred on by friendly competition with his good buddy and erstwhile bandmate Roger…
View More Univers Zéro – Phosphorescent Dreams
Today seems to be as fitting an occasion as any to upload this review of Rick Wakeman’s 2009 concert from the city of Lugano located in the south of Switzerland. The footage was filmed as part of the Lugano Estival…
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