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...

There is a sizeable ethnic Hungarian community still ensconced in the deepest core of Transylvania, known as the Székely, whose continued presence is solidly maintained by a resourceful pride in both their language and their culture.  Music is a mainstay, even...

The Suzi James, Mark Cook and Mike Jobborn trio keep their fantastic 2023 debut more than relevant by unleashing “Paradigms Part 2 “ and inviting guest performers (some returning (Bachman and Ellett) and some new players to inspire the arrangements with some dazzling...