O2 Academy, Islington, London Saturday, 13th September 2018 Back in the day, when prog was young, they used to have showcases. The most memorable of these was Genesis-Lindisfarne-Van der Graaf Generator, all for a couple bob, leaving change for a bag of chips and a pint. By ‘eck! I’ve drunk too much Yorkshire blooming tea [&am […]

One of the many symbolic meanings of ‘θ’ (theta), the eighth letter of the Greek alphabet, is to signify a special function of several complex variables, and this would seem to apply to the rarefied sonic world of spacious improvisational rock group Orchestra Of The Upper Atmosphere, whose fourth album to be preceded with “θ”, [&am […]

In this update we feature: > Sproingg – Sproingg > David Kollar & Arve Henriksen – Illusion Of A Separate World > Tide/Edit – All My Friends > Fervent Send – Hymnals For Visigoths Vol. One; Faithful Morose > Tom Slatter – Three Rows Of Teeth (2016 Expanded Edition) > Tom Slatter – Rubble and [&am […]

Each day will be listed in the order that the bands performed. Cellar Darling (Folk Metal from Switzerland) The first band to perform at ProgPower with a Hurdy-gurdy, I am told. What’s a Hurdy-Gurdy, you ask? Besides being an unfortunately … Continue reading &rarr […]

Since I received a lot of positive feed back for the first Recommendation Roundup, here we go again. I should note that there’s no set number of albums that I will be putting in here. This is all fluid. So … Continue reading &rarr […]

Roads Less Travelled is the superb new album from Martin Barre, best known as the guitarist with prog legends Jethro Tull for 43 years. Now that the Tull Superhighway has come to an end, Barre has been exploring the rich and fruitful alleys that he simply passed by on the prog juggernaut. There is something [&am […]

TPA’s Basil Francis recently put together a review of Grbschnitt’s mammoth 17-disc boxset 79:10 and got in touch with drummer Eroc to discuss the history of the band… I wanted to start by asking you, how would you describe Grobschnitt to somebody who had never heard of the band before? Grobschnitt was a unique German [&am […]

Bush Hall, London Friday, 24th August 2018 I must own over a dozen albums where the ivory tinkler is one Dave Stewart, a man who was synonymous with underground progressive music in the 1970s. Dave’s ubiquitous nature was briefly highlighted in my personal history of progressive rock, which can be found HERE, if you have [&am […]

A while back, MaYaN launched a successful indiegogo campaign to get an orchestra for it this album and this, their third album, is the first to feature one with the City Of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. And it is glorious. I’m a sucker for this … Continue reading &rarr […]

Lazleitt is an eclectic progressive rock project led by Alex Lazcano, from Washington, DC and their debut album is a very good musical work of art, and may well have this band following their album title, On the Brink to stardom. Alex Lazcano is a founding member and guitarist of the now defunct progressive rock band [&am […]