SOLARIS (HUNGARY) Martian Chronicles III – I or A.I.

After Omega, Solaris is most probably the longest on-going Hungarian prog band (with Android not far behind), consistently releasing a long stream of six studio albums that are not only highly rated by the prog fan community but also with critics and reviewers...

ALIANTE (ITALY) Anime Invisibili

My recent trips to Italy have been revelations in a myriad of various ways, a blessed land with so much cultural diversity that the mind truly boggles. My grandfather one stated: “Italy is not a country! It’s a theater”. Musically, they have been talented since the...

Alex CARPANI (SWITZERLAND/ITALY) The Good Man

Its about time to review this interesting musician, after all I own three albums already, but I never got to review any of them until Alex sent me a request to listen to his latest offering. How can I refuse such a kind wish? Born in lovely Montreux, Switzerland and...

NICK FLETCHER (UK) A Longing for Home

Fast on the heels of the universally received and praised 2023 album “Quadrivium”, Sheffield born Nick Fletcher elevates his craft on an immediate follow-up that will keep the prog crowd smiling in rapt delight. Having worked with John Hackett, whose famous brother...

NINE STONES CLOSE (UK) Adventures in Anhedonia

Barely 3 months after the release of their long-awaited return to form “Diurnal” album, Nine Stones Close keeps the prog foot on the prog pedal by launching an immediate follow-up that offers a darker, starker and heartfelt musical view on immortality, death, grief...

TEODICEA (ITALY) Il Mondo Esausto

Attention piano lovers! Début album from the first keyboard player Enrico Filippi from fellow Italian group Aliante (whom I happen to adore), venturing off into a new project by adding an athletic rhythm section composed of Jacopo Morandi on bass as well as drummer...