John HOLDEN (UK) The Great Divide

There is no greater thrill than writing and posting a review from an artist or band that subsequently replies with a comment like “You actually got it!”. There are prog musicians , who, in my eyes, can do no wrong throughout their discography, unless they...

RED SAND(CANADA) The Sound of Silence

Things must not be quiet in the province of Québec lately, what with veteran neo-prog band Red Sand dishing out yet another tasty album, coincidently entitled “The Sound of Silence”, a title eerily similar to Enigmatic Sound Machines latest...

SPRIGGAN MIST (UK) The Glare

Even though this is my third album by this enigmatic pagan folk band, whose occasional deviance into theatrics can throw one for a momentary loop, both “Caught in a Spell” (2009) and “Myths & Legends” (2015) somehow failed to hook me in, and I do not even...

Jacob ROBERGE (CANADA) The Passing

Not only is Quebec a perennial hotbed for progressive rock aficionados, when Montreal in particular became the landing zone for the first and eventual latter waves of what is ubiquitously known within the music world as the “the English Invasion”. From...

OVERTURE (ITALY) A Mezz’aria sul Tempo

An upside-down cover for a topsy-turvy world , how appropriate! A young talented band from lovely Sardinia, who launched their career with a 2018 debut, released on Nick Katona’s respected Melodic Revolution Records label and garnered a fair amount of interest and...