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Interview with Discipline’s Matthew Parmenter (reproduced with kind permission of Jeff Milo)
This is a complete transcript of an article featured in The Ferndale Friends, reproduced with the kind permission of the author, Jeff Milo. All photos are by Graham Stead and Sam Holt. Words by Jeff Milo… There is a distinct relationship between artist and audience, bands and listeners. There is an opportunity to instill inspiration,…
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Review – Geof Whitely Project – Malice In Wonderland – by Emma Roebuck
These guys are prodigious in their output. Most bands produce an album roughly every year, the Geof Whitely Project (GWP) have set themselves the onerous task of releasing 3 albums by the summer of 2016. ‘Malice In Wonderland’ sounds nothing like the other three albums of the same name be it Paice Ashton Lord, Nazareth…
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Review – David Longdon and The Magic Club – Wild River – by Progradar
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Review – N.y.X – The News – by Shawn Dudley
and now for something completely different.? One of the primary criticisms of the modern Prog movement is how few bands are truly experimenting and pushing boundaries and moving the music into uncharted waters. While I don’t personally subscribe to that (very subjective) viewpoint, I can understand how listeners that lean more toward experimental and avant-garde…
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Review – GEPH – self-titled – by Progradar
I’ve seen the Chapman Stick mentioned quite a few times and always wondered what it was so, before we get into the nitty-gritty of the review, here is a description of this musical instrument. The Chapman Stick (The Stick) is an electric musical instrument devised by Emmett Chapman in the early 1970s. A member of…
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Oktopus Press Release – New Line-Up, Album and Live Dates
Midlands based progressive-rock band Oktopus (formerly Progoctopus) have revealed their new, three-piece, line-up along with details of their upcoming exciting debut album and forthcoming live performances. After the recent departure of singer Jane Gillard, the band have decided to forge ahead as a trio with guitarist Alistair Bell taking on lead vocal duties. Samuel C.…
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Review – Vly – I/(Time) – by John Simms
There was a time, many moons ago, when bands spent days, weeks and even months together in a studio sweating over their latest collection of songs, honing the compositions together to produce the best sound they could with the available technology and their collective skills. In more recent years a new phenomenon has arisen of…
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Review – Diatessaron – Monument (Live) – by Sabrina Beever
Calgary boys Diatessaron intend to put prog back on the map, but somehow I don’t think Calgary will get into Prog any time soon, or at all. There have been many great progressive bands reigning from Canada including the mighty Rush, not that I needed to tell you that, but they should be mentioned all…
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Review – Tony Patterson – Equations of Meaning – by Progradar
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Review – Witchcraft – Nucleus – by Shawn Dudley
Meditation is a very slow and painful process.? It is indeed the practice of death yet a celebration of life. – Ronald P. Vincent, 1947 This quote is printed on the inside gatefold of Nucleus and is, essentially, the mission statement singer/guitarist/songwriter Magnus Pelander follows for the fifth Witchcraft album. It’s a heavy, hypnotic, trippy…