ROB HARRISON (UK) Explode My Head

Debut offering from this talented musician, composer, and producer, pretty much a one-man show with a lot of help from various friends, namely Gong’s flutist Ian East. A wide diversity of stimulating influences permeate this work, anywhere from Penguin Café Orchestra,...

MARCO GLÜHMANN (GERMANY) A Fragile Present

Can there by a finer voice currently in the prog scene than Sylvan ‘s lead lung? Besides the impeccable technique, he also is arguably one of the most recognizable vocalists in any genre, with a unique style whereby he ‘squeezes’ out harmonic vowels with a mini delay...

JOHN HOLDEN (UK) Proximity & Chance

Since 2018, this composer and multi-instrumentalist has not only been consistently delivering standout albums that I am proud to possess and review, all very highly rated but also because the recipe ingredients and manpower invited happen to vary from album to album....

RETURNED TO THE EARTH (UK) Stalagmite Steeple

The previous album “Fall of the Watcher” released in 2022 made my heart flutter so deeply that an EKG was not necessary in determining the workings of my arteries. So, what… I fell in love again! That is what romantic progressive ‘pop’ music can do to the melancholic...

OCEANS OF NIGHT (USA) Mindstorm

When discovering rock back in the very early 70s as a teenager, the exploding hormones certainly found a haven within loud and crunchy power riffs, being raised on Deep Purple, Sabbath, and Led Zep, to name only the obvious. Yes, banging heads was fun and more...