Steve WILSON (UK) The Harmony Codex

Damned if you do and damned if you don’t, whilst contemplating the sad reality of how negative news, comments and opinions seem to garner more favour (as well as likes, subscribers, and revenues) than positive, upbeat feelgood vibes. Nobody is perfect except those who...

KARNATAKA (UK) Requiem for A Dream

Karnataka has evolved from its benign beginnings in 1998 as a classic British female fronted lead vocal, Neo-prog band into a platform of constant progression, with regularly alternating musicians as well as said new lead vocalists. The continuous (since day one)...

PLEDGE OF HEALING (France) One Step Closer

A debut album from the dynamic French duo of multi-instrumentalist Cyrille Delvallez and lead vocalist Claire Sergue, well supported by 2 guest bassists and 2 guest guitarists, proposing a heady mix of progrock, trip-hop and electronics, metal shavings, cinema and a...

NOVA CASCADE (UK) The Navigator

Eric Bouillette of Nine Skies, Solace Supplice, This Winter Machine, Drifting Sun, Imaginaerium, and the Room was, by all accounts, a universally respected as well as deeply loved musician, who passed away, way too young from pancreatic cancer, almost a year ago this...

T.A.P. (MULTI-NATIONAL)- Paradigms

This is quite the progressive project, combining some serious global talent, namely Fearful Symmetry’s guitarist Suzie James from the UK, Canada’s Mike Jobborn on keyboards, Americans Mark Cook on Warr guitar and bass, drummers Paul Sears and Bill Bachman and finally...

Nick FLETCHER (UK) Quadvirium

An unheralded master jazz-rock guitarist from the United Kingdom, who has quietly developed his craft in the relative shadows of fame, Nick Fletcher first appeared in my collection via a collaboration with John Hackett, brother of some Steve guy, reputedly a legendary...