Followers of the Neal Morse Band will know exactly what is in store when a new live album drops, but if, like me, you are not fully acquainted, An Evening of Innocence & Danger: Live in Hamburg is an excellent…
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North Star is a mini-album of new material from UK neo-prog stalwarts Pendragon – their first release since the highly acclaimed Love Over Fear album back in 2020. Released to coincide with the band’s return to live performance with three…
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Yay! A new Motorpsycho album! And that’s very much a typical reaction if you are a fan of these prolific Norwegian songsters. If you came to this band through their “Gullvåg Trilogy” or the following two albums, Kingdom of Oblivion…
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Some years ago, browsing through CDs at a ROSFest between acts, I heard someone call my name. I turned around to see a colleague from the office who sat just a few desks away from me. Neither of us knew…
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‘Metathesiophobia’ is the persistent, abnormal, and unwarranted fear of change. It’s a common syndrome in music fandom, with a higher than usual propensity in the prog community. Is that down to purism? The age of the average listener? In many…
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A new name to me, this is Ruby Dawn’s debut album, having been together for a few years now. I remembered the name of singer and keyboardist Carola Baer from the TPA review of 2021’s Prog the Forest event, wherein…
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Arjen Lucassen never sleeps. How else do you explain such prolific output? Ayreon, Star One, Guilt Machine, along with several other projects past and present. And now, Supersonic Revolution. When German music magazine Eclipsed asked him to provide a song…
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Welcome to another stream of consciousness masquerading as an album review. Recently I’ve been listening to Hirnkäse by Sproingg. I think Sproingg are having a laugh. Not the cockney pre-brawl “did you spill my pint” type of having a laugh…
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Spanish composer and multi-instrumentalist Rafael Pacha is a name that has increasingly cropped up in the TPA reviews section in recent years. As a regular guest member to The Samurai of Prog, along with its various offshoots, notably with Inner…
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Utilita Arena, Newcastle Tuesday, 6th June 2023 I remember seeing KISS on one of their previous farewell tours (their first took place in 2000), so like many others was pleased (but not wholly surprised) to see their change of heart…
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