RESIDUOS MENTALES (GREECE) A Temporary State of Bliss

Alexandros Mantas reached out to me and asked if I would be interested in taking an ear to their music, and since I had heard their rather odd Spanish language moniker whispered favourably in the community (especially ISKC Rocks), that intrigued me enough to agree...

THE EMERALD DAWN (UK) In Time

The Emerald Dawn are back with their fifth album, on the heels of 2021’s crowning achievement, the highly acclaimed “To Touch the Sky”. The bar is set very high as that was quite a release, especially in view of the fact that it was a Covid baby, created under...

RUBY DAWN (UK) Beyond Tomorrow

It is the prerogative of youth to believe in coincidence. As one grows older and perhaps even wiser through experience, pain, elation, suffering and joy, the very notion of coincidence evaporates like a drop of water in an arid, sun-drenched desert. Case in point: In...

FLAME DROP (SWITZERLAND) Flow

I found this delightful little surprise whilst hunting high and low for some new discovery and it happen to be their videos that got me heading towards the actual acquisition, the band quickly sending me their CD as I was preparing to head off to Italy on vacation....

TOM(USA) The Last Outpost

Well this was quite the discovery , an unexpected surprise from the USA that I found on my main French language prog source Prog Critique, with whom this FB page has a synergy and a parallel in similar tastes that are quite remarkable . Tom is essentially a three-man...

LIFESIGNS (UK) Live in the Netherlands

No disrespect to powerhouses Transatlantic, The Flower Kings and whomever the prog audience deem fit to be called a super group, my choice for a group of super veteran musicians would be Lifesigns, a dazzling outfit that currently has a few insanely talented players,...