The BARDIC DEPTHS (UK) Some Things Are Worth Remembering

Well, this album certainly pertains to the title, finding beauty and truth in musical form is a luxury that progressive rock can easily provide. Back in 2020 when leader Dave Bandana began this project, he immediately connected with some exemplary musicians, names...

HATS OFF GENTLEMEN, ITS ADEQUATE (UK) Parallel Lives

By now, It must be suitable for me to tip my cap to the Malcolm/Mark pairing, a London project that has kept a prolific and qualitative progression ( that confounded word, again!) and I have been following closely since I purchased the “Nostalgia for Infinity” (2020)...

QUIVIRA (USA) same

Kansas. Toto, Len Dawson, Patrick Mahones and the band that put the Mid-West state on the prog billboards worldwide, wayward sons like dust in the wind. Here is Quivira : Jake Livgren on vocals (does the name ring a bell?), the thrilling Lisa Larue on keyboards, her...

ZAMEN OFF (ITALY) Your New Mind

Bassist extraordinaire Massimiliano Dionigi, whom I previously discovered with Juglans Regia (an album I loved and admiringly reviewed) sent me this lovely little album , an innovative project that should establish this newcomer within the prog community. It’s a short...

Lester GREENHALGH (UK) Mutalasis

Being a robust rebel is fully explained by my Prog Rogue moniker and there is no intention ever to alter that mindset. Receiving music from any hitherto unknown musician often reveals somewhere along the line a few connections, whether in style, in associations or...

KHATSATURJAN (FINLAND) Monologue of Chronos

Nine years after their underwhelming 2025 “Beast, Machine & Man”, this Finnish combo returns with “Monologue of Chronos” with the home of reigniting the rave reviews for their 2006 debut “Armed Forces of Simantipak” as well as the follow-up “Disconcerto Grosso” ,...