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Lazy Fifty: Devil On His Day Off (2024) single
by Kev Rowland | April 1, 2024 | Reviews | 0 Comments
The Witching Tale: What Magic Is This? (2023)
by Kev Rowland | April 1, 2024 | Reviews | 0 Comments
Troy Kingi: Time Wasters. Soundtrack to Current Day Meanderings (2023)
by Kev Rowland | April 1, 2024 | Reviews | 0 Comments
Todd Mosby: Land of Enchantment (2023)
by Kev Rowland | April 1, 2024 | Reviews | 0 Comments
Peter Xifaras: Fusion (2023)
by Kev Rowland | April 1, 2024 | Reviews | 0 Comments
S.C.R.A.M: The Inner City (2023)
by Kev Rowland | April 1, 2024 | Reviews | 0 Comments
October Tide: The Cancer Pledge (2023)
by Kev Rowland | April 1, 2024 | Reviews | 0 Comments
Matt Smith’s World: Into The Light (2023)
by Kev Rowland | April 1, 2024 | Reviews | 0 Comments
Madre Vaca: Knights of the Round Table (2023)
by Kev Rowland | April 1, 2024 | Reviews | 0 Comments
Mac Gollehon & the Hispanic Mechanics: Bite of the Street (2023)
by Kev Rowland | April 1, 2024 | Reviews | 0 Comments
Darrel Treece-Birch’s Atlantea: Choices (2023)
by Kev Rowland | Mar 29, 2024 | Reviews
Back in 2013 I was trawling the web one night and came across an album called ‘Celestial’ by Darrel Treece-Birch which seemed interesting, so I grabbed it and gave it a positive review. What I did not know was that Darrel at the time was not only keyboard player with...
Various Artists: 25 Anniversary of Odium Records (2023)
by Kev Rowland | Mar 29, 2024 | Reviews
Subtitled ‘Devoted to Devils Music’, this free sampler contains fifteen tracks from across the Odium Records roster to provide listeners with some insight into what the label owner likes to play when relaxing. Yes, this is black metal, and of all sub-genres it is one...
Bowmanville: Bowmanville (2022)
by Kev Rowland | Mar 29, 2024 | Reviews
Here we have the debut album from jazz quintet Bowmanville, who comprise Ethan Adelsman (violin), Graham Nelson (vocals, harmonica), Mason Jiller (guitar) and Noah Plotkin (drums) along with bassists Oliver Horton and Ethan Philion who play on different tracks. Any...
Sadistic Force: Midnight Assassin (2023)
by Kev Rowland | Mar 29, 2024 | Reviews
Sadistic Force describe themselves as a blackened speed metal band who hail from Austin, Texas. Formed in 2020 by lead vocalist and guitarist, James Oliver, the band is completed by bassist Blaine Dismukes and drummer Jose Alcaraz. They say combine the subgenres of...
Autopsy: Ashes, Organs, Blood and Crypts (2023)
by Kev Rowland | Mar 29, 2024 | Reviews
Looking over at my music DVDs I can see Autopsy’s ‘Dark Crusades’, a rough and raw set of cuts dating all the way back to 1988. Back when this was released in 2006, Autopsy were a band who had been replaced by Abscess, no-one ever daring to believe that one of the...
Imperial Slave:...Still At Large (2023)
by Kev Rowland | Mar 29, 2024 | Reviews
Imperial Slave was formed by vocalist and former Sinate and 8 Foot Sativa drummer Sam Sheppard in 2020, with local Palmerston North musicians Anthony Hati (guitar), Isaac Lundy (guitar) and Achillies Manley (bass). Sam is well-known in Aotearoa, renowned for his...
Afro-Peruvian New Trends Orchestra: Cosmic Synchronicities (2023)
by Kev Rowland | Mar 29, 2024 | Reviews
One can probably guess all one needs to know about this album just from the band name and the album title. Yes, here we have a jazz big band (10 musicians) who are fusing together different styles of world music into a new form of jazz. There is something about music...
Chromium Hawk Machine -Annunaki 2017
by Geoff Penn | Mar 24, 2024 | Reviews
Double CD Issued By Black Widow Italy British Band www.facebook.com/BlackWidowRecordsItaly/ Rating 75/100 CD1 - 47:30 CD2- 59:01 Review content:Certainly for hard-core fans of “space Rock’ or particularly “Hawkwind” this two CD space rock extravaganza,is a nice...
DRIFTING SUN (UK) Veil
by rogue | Mar 23, 2024 | Latest News
It becomes quite daunting when the entire discography over the years of a band are all major winners, with nary a thought of any weaker one among the lot. Such is the case with my long love affair with Drifting Sun going back to 2015 when I discovered the band’s “Trip...
Phase Of Twilight – EP
by Steve Bonino | Mar 14, 2024 | Reviews
Phase of Twilight is a progressive rock project based in the Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas area. I’m always interested in compositions that evolve over time, taking us on a journey. Phase Of Twilight is s band that does this very well. ‘Moments Pass By’ opens the EP with...
‘Fuse’ A Night At The ‘ Savino Rock Bar’ 2024
by Geoff Penn | Mar 11, 2024 | Reviews
Cypriot Band Rating 90https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TU5nR6CfHB8/100 https://www.facebook.com/fusecyhttps://www.facebook.com/fusecy https://www.facebook.com/savinolivevenue Cyprus as a holiday destination island, gives the overall impressions that the locals have an...
RICK MILLER (CANADA) One of the Many
by rogue | Mar 9, 2024 | Latest News
Here is a consistently focused artist that just keeps on giving every year sterling musical adventures, that pay homage to the early glory years of Progressive rock. Yes, there is an obvious Floyd reference, as well as the Moody Blues and early Alan Parsons Project,...
MANGROVE (NETHERLANDS) Bridge to Fiction
by rogue | Mar 3, 2024 | Latest News
Guitarist, vocalist, and keyboard player Roland Van der Horst is, after 15 long years, back in the prog game with a long-awaited new album, which I happily jumped on as I really enjoyed all their previous recordings. Longtime bassist Pieter Drost and new drummer Lex...
Long Tall J – Solidarity 2024
by Geoff Penn | Feb 29, 2024 | Reviews
CD Solidarity -Private Press 50mins Produced in London by Long Tall J and Co Produced in Delft Netherlands by Emiel Zwaard The album will be released on Bandcamp and all streaming platforms. Physical cd’s will be available via Bandcamp Website. www.longtallj.com ...
The John Irvine Band – 2024 – The Starships Are Gathering
by Olav Martin Bjørnsen | Feb 24, 2024 | Reviews
UK artist John Irvine and his band released the album "The Starships Are Gathering" through fledgling label Head in the Door Records back in January 2024. This is the sixth studio production by Irvine since The John Irvine Band was launched back in 2011, and it is an...
AURORA LUNARE (ITALY) Terzo Luogo
by rogue | Feb 10, 2024 | Latest News
The second album comes a decade later, after the well received and critically acclaimed self titled debut from the Livorno band, proving that patience is definitely a virtue, especially when the end result is so satisfying. They did however put out a covers tribute of...
SHADOWS ON MERCURY (UK) Worlds Apart
by rogue | Feb 4, 2024 | Latest News
Things constantly change in our mad, mad world, often pulled apart by a wide variety of human attributes of the lesser kind, namely jealousy, conflicting egos, falsehoods, mood swings (natural or externally ingested), and of course, the grand daddy of them all...
LOGOS (ITALY) Bokeh
by rogue | Feb 3, 2024 | Latest News
In 2014, I took a chance on a Verona based band Logos and their majestic “L’Enigma della Vita” release, presumably because the title (The Enigma of Life) has always been a source of personal inspiration. The fact that the cover was extremely appealing also contributed...
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- UK Pink Floyd Experienceby Phil Lively on May 2, 2024 at 5:00 pm
Central Theatre, Chatham Friday, 19th April 2024 I don’t often go and see tribute bands. It’s not that I’m some weird purist who disapproves of tribute acts, far from it! If the band that originally created the music is no…
- Cephid – Sparks In The Darknessby James R. Turner (Guest) on May 1, 2024 at 5:00 pm
Cephid will be a new name to us all here at TPA, however this debut album released in February this year is the culmination of years of solo work by talented keyboard player Moray Macdonald, who will be familiar to…
- Poly-Math / Big Lad / Kylie Monologueby Roger Trenwith on April 30, 2024 at 5:00 pm
Signature Brew, Blackhorse Road, London Saturday, 20th April 2024 For once in this Biblically wet year, a dry and even occasionally sunny day precedes another trip to the capital for me, where I meet up with my gig-going companion and…
- Ellesmere – Stranger Skiesby Graham Thomas on April 29, 2024 at 5:00 pm
Ellesmere is a project masterminded by Italian multi-instrumentalist Roberto Vitelli. You may have come across them, as their last album, Wyrd, caused a bit of a stir in prog circles at the end of 2020. Latest release Stranger Skies, in…
- Nektar – Journey To The Other Sideby Basil Francis on April 28, 2024 at 5:00 pm
After being unexpectedly floored by my first listen to Recycled, I seem to have precariously placed myself as the Nektar correspondent at TPA… at least for the time being. Jumping from the band’s heyday straight into the present was probably…
- Wheel – Charismatic Leadersby Phil Lively on April 27, 2024 at 5:00 pm
It was so refreshing to see an album offered for review to TPA with such a pithy name. There’s none of this multisyllabic name nonsense, like Distended Algorithm or Beelzebub’s Hoover, this is the least Proggy name I’ve seen in…
- Oliver Wakeman – Anam Caraby Peter Hilton on April 26, 2024 at 5:00 pm
The culmination of a long period as a highly successful session musician and collaborator sees Oliver Wakeman return to solo pursuits. A window of opportunity has enabled songs that had been in development over the last decade or more to…
- The Tangent (For One) – To Follow Polarisby Kevan Furbank on April 25, 2024 at 5:00 pm
The Tangent have been more of a real band in recent years, with a line-up that has been fairly stable since 2013. But there is no disguising the fact that, like the heavens circling the Pole Star, everything revolves around…
- John Tyler Kent – Familiar Lights In New Placesby Phil Lively on April 24, 2024 at 5:00 pm
John Tyler Kent is a guitarist and Stickist based in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. You may remember Mr. Kent from such reviews as Geph and Apophenia by Geph. I urge you to check these out because they are absolutely fabulous albums.…
- Nautilus – When Time Is Just A Wordby David Edwards on April 23, 2024 at 5:00 pm
When Time Is Just A Word is the 9th album by the German electronic progressive rock band Nautilus and is an atmospheric and flowing album of largely instrumental music that will appeal to listeners who appreciate dreamy, ambient, keyboard-led soundscapes…