Together with fellow Quebecers Mystery, Red Sand has carved out quite an extended and illustrious career, releasing stellar albums regularly, firmly entrenched in the quality Neo-Prog genre. Having seen them in concert certainly heightened my interest, as all the...

The duo of guitarist Jon Barry and multi-instrumentalist slash keyboard wizard Mike Hewetson spare little time for niceties by plunging rapidly into a follow-up of their splendid instrumental powerhouse debut, which was met with joyous satisfaction by the prog...

After a quarter of a century of silence, French prog band Raison de Plus resurfaces with an expected 2026 album that really made me smile. 1995 saw the debut Au Bout du Couloir and six years later, Ici Est Ailleurs showed up and was just as well received by the prog...

This talented Roman multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer is back with a second album after the tasty debut Urban Vision that appeared in 2024. The list of musicians are just as impressive as on the first album, starting with John Mitchell, Michael Bearpark and...

Here come the flying prog amigos with their second installment, barely a year after the statuesque debut that rocked the prog world, universally lauded and for good reason! The quintet and guest performers concoct a boiling cauldron of clashing confluence, orderly...

Right on the heels of Pallas’ triumphant “A Song for Tomorrow”, surely one of 2026’s major if not top musical achievements, comes lead singer Alan Reed’s third solo album. This man has also celebrated his retirement from live shows with a September concert in Glasgow...

Second rather duskier chapter for these young Quebec jazz aficionados, a balancing act between a respect for the hallowed fusion tradition as well as daring to venture into differing symphonic tonalities and psychedelic stylistics. Here is the current line-up: Jeffrey...

This talented Swiss band from gorgeous Montreux on the Lake Geneva shoreline have released three widely spaced (pun) albums, beginning with 2007’s “Loneliness”, subsequently followed by “Darker” in 2014, which I have reviewed in glowing terms, though both excellent...