The AURORA PROJECT (NETHERLANDS) Evos12

Gazing through our prog telescopes, searching for new frontiers whilst evading a slew of unhealthy contemporary asteroids of formulaic garbage, the perennial focus is on finding new stars that perhaps may inhabit the possibility of life. This Aurora Project did show...

A MULTITUDE OF ONE (UK) A Templar’s Tale

Colin Powell is not the former Chief of Staff of the USA but an extremely gifted musician from Salford in the UK, whom I discovered with Nova Cascade, a band I am particularly fond of. Since childhood, the Prog Rogue has always been a keen devourer of history...

GHOST OF THE MACHINE (UK) Empires Must Fall

On the heels of their devastatingly successful 2022 debut “Scissorgames” which not only blew up my body but also blew my mind (to paraphrase a famous Roxy Ferry lyric about a floating inflatable doll), Ghost of the Machine is back to haunt us once again with a...

BAKULLAMA (USA) Broken Hearts and Troubled Minds

The Azerbaijani alpaca from Walla-Walla, Washington is back for another impulsive foray into their somewhat oblique take on progressive rock, a potent concoction marinated in Zappa-esque zaniness, beyond northern California laid-back hippieness, experimental (forget...