Progradar

Month: March 2016

  • Barock Project to release ‘VIVO’, a double live album on 23rd March 2016 – by Progradar

    Barock Project to release ‘VIVO’, a double live album on 23rd March 2016 – by Progradar

    Starting on?5th April the italian prog-rock band Barock Project launch the pre-sale of a new live-album. Two live cds featuring an unreleased track to celebrate a decade of music writing and four studio albums!! Vivo: ten years in two hours with Barock Project! On May 23rd Barock Project will release ‘VIVO’, their first live album…

  • Review – Fractal Mirror – Slow Burn 1- by Progradar

    Review – Fractal Mirror – Slow Burn 1- by Progradar

    “For fast acting relief, try slowing down.” – Lily Tomlin. Modern life can be likened to being on an express train that only runs between two stations, the one where you board and the one where you alight. The common complaints of ‘not enough hours in the day and too much to do to fill…

  • Review – Haken – Affinity – by Shawn Dudley

    Review – Haken – Affinity – by Shawn Dudley

    I’ve been living with this new Haken album for a couple of weeks now, attempting to wrap my head around it. Each time I think I’ve got it figured out some new detail jumps out at me that requires me to reevaluate. Like the band themselves,? Affinity remains wonderfully elusive and that just makes me…

  • Review – Matthew Parmenter – All Our Yesterdays – by Leo Trimming

    Review – Matthew Parmenter – All Our Yesterdays – by Leo Trimming

    This review is dedicated to Jean Trimming R.I.P Matthew Parmenter, the charismatic front man of Discipline, has released his impressive third solo album, imbued with emotion and narrative skill. This album marks his first release with Bad Elephant Music, following on from their fire alarm meeting outside the Summer’s End Festival in 2015. The dramatic…

  • Review – Halo Tora – Omni/One – by Kevin Thompson

    Review – Halo Tora – Omni/One – by Kevin Thompson

    I have had this CD floating in and out of various players around the house for a few months seducing me, whilst the glorious cover artwork from Sandy Wilson calls to me like the outstretched siren in the picture, waiting to drag me into it’s depths and hold me in her cold, watery embrace. Coming…

  • Review – Section IV – Superhuman – by Progradar

    Review – Section IV – Superhuman – by Progradar

    “With the aim to make progressive music accessible to the masses and not content to follow any musical trends, Section IV fuse melodic hooks, rich soundscapes and musical dexterity to create music that defies genres.” So says the band’s bandcamp page anyway….. To be honest, I’d never heard of Norwich based Section IV until a…

  • Review – Sebas Honing – The Big Shift – by Progradar

    Review – Sebas Honing – The Big Shift – by Progradar

    There are lots of small, independent music labels around this great big planet we live on, I even work with one. It was a pleasure to meet Peter from Freia Records at the recent Bad Elephant evening. This Dutch imprint have been going for quite a long time and have built up a nice roster…

  • Review – Headspace – All That Your Fear Is Gone – by Progradar

    Review – Headspace – All That Your Fear Is Gone – by Progradar

    Crikey, the plethora of excellent new music arriving daily at Progradar Towers is definitely increasing in volume! With this in mind, welcome to the first in an irregular series of shorter, more concise (yes, I know!) reviews to empty your wallet. You can thank me later…. Headspace – All That You Fear Is Gone Damian…

  • Review – Driven Serious – Ballad of Bones EP – by Progradar

    Review – Driven Serious – Ballad of Bones EP – by Progradar

    You may gather from the name of this website that it is aimed at reviewing, and talking about, Progressive Rock and, most of the time, that would be an entirely correct assumption to make. However, I am not just a prog-rock fan, I am a music fan first and foremost and that means any type…

  • Review – Lazuli – Nos mes saoules – by Kevin Thompson

    Review – Lazuli – Nos mes saoules – by Kevin Thompson

    Bonjour mes amis et bienvenue – un examen de la tr’s merveilleuse bande la plus r?cente de lib ration de LAZULI. Il est si bon de vous de prendre le temps de lire cet loge de leur nouvel album ‘Nos mes saoules’. Enough of my schoolboy French, I hope any misinterpretation doesn’t offend. Hello my…