You know that thing where you’re trawling through end of year “Best of” lists, and listening to samples of things that catch your eye/ear? And how sometimes something new to you will make you sit up and take notice? Inevitably…
View More Fucked Up – Grass Can Move Stones Part 1: On Earth – Year Of The Goat
I do speak with band members either in interviews, at concerts or via chats on Facebook and a regular topic is how they get, or don’t, get people to come to their gigs. Also chatting with fellow prog fans at…
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My wife, Konnie, and I originally encountered Dutch band Textures at our first Be Prog! My Friend festival, when they performed live on 2nd July 2016, at Poble Espanyol in Barcelona. At the time we were convinced by a group…
View More Textures – Genotype
It all started with Tommy Vance and the Friday Rock Show in the late 70’s, and its theme tune Take it off the Top by The Dixie Dregs. It was pretty much the only ‘rock’ music show on UK’s Radio…
View More Steve Morse Band – Triangulation
When Spock’s Beard keysman Ryo Okumoto teamed up with I Am The Manic Whale’s Michael Whiteman for the former’s 2022 solo album, The Myth Of The Mostrophus, it ended up as my favourite album of the year. Three years later,…
View More Spock’s Beard – The Archaeoptimist
It is a wonderful feeling to start a new year with a great progressive rock album release, and Wherever Forever by Spirergy is certainly that. The project is the work of composer and multi-instrumentalist, Dave Allen, of Hoylake, on the…
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Happy New Year! As ever, a host of wonderful releases have floated the TPA team’s boats throughout 2025, underlining the sheer quality of music still emerging from our corner of the Audioverse. It may be a niche realm, but the…
View More Some of The Best of 2025
As 2025 draws to a close, our final review of the year turns to the self‑titled debut from Chercán, a Chilean band offering a fascinating mélange of avant‑garde, genre‑blending styles and influences. It feels fitting, as we reflect on the…
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Every year it seems, Chris Ramsing and his ramshackle bunch of aural provocateurs, otherwise known as PsychoYogi release new music, and this year is no different. The rich well of creativity Chris draws from shows no sign of drying up…
View More PsychoYogi – World Of Danger
Antony Kalugin has to be one of the most prolific composers of progressive rock on the scene, and, released earlier this year, OMNI is one of his finest creations to date. Karfagen, his ever-morphing collective of outstanding musicians and guests,…
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