Progradar

Month: June 2016

  • Review – Anderson/Stolt – Invention of Knowledge – by Gary Morley

    Review – Anderson/Stolt – Invention of Knowledge – by Gary Morley

    This could get messy. I’m tasked with scribbling a few lines about the upcoming journey into the ?Y? Universe undertaken by 2 legends, Prog heroes that 99% of you reading this know more about than me. Yes, it’s part of That band’s DNA, as expected. It shares that ?Y chromosome, with the ?X supplied by…

  • Review – Iron Savior – Titancraft – By Sabrina Beever

    Review – Iron Savior – Titancraft – By Sabrina Beever

    Iron Saviors 9th studio album ‘Titancraft’ is packed with powerful forces of unforgiving riffs but first commences with an introduction that sets the scene for the whole album. Being set rather dramatically with what could be associated with a post-apocalyptic Gotham City as a desperate call for help, is heard in a low raspy voice.…

  • Progradar Big Big Train Feature Part 1 – Review – Stone & Steel – by Progradar

    Progradar Big Big Train Feature Part 1 – Review – Stone & Steel – by Progradar

    There’s a place inside us where we can still be that small child who was in awe of every new experience, every sight and every sound. You know that unfettered feeling of sheer joy when you happen upon a picture book scene that is near perfect. Living in Yorkshire, I get to see and appreciate…

  • Review – Ticket To The Moon – Sense of Life – by Kevin Thompson

    Review – Ticket To The Moon – Sense of Life – by Kevin Thompson

    Hailing from Basel, Switzerland, founded in 2003 by DANIEL GOSTELI (Danny) – drums, vocal and percussion and ANDREA PORTAPIA (Andy) – guitars and vocals, they went through several changes before MATTHIAS ZWICK (Matt) -keyboards and synthesisers and GUILLAUME CARBONNEAU (Gys) – bass completed the current line-up in 2007. 3TM’s sound is a blend of metal…

  • Review – Elaine Samuels & Kindred Spirit -Phoenix Rising by Emma Roebuck

    Review – Elaine Samuels & Kindred Spirit -Phoenix Rising by Emma Roebuck

    I will be honest, Kindred Spirit and Elaine Samuels are new names to my ears so, when this landed into my inbox, I had no expectations or preconceived ideas as to what I was going to hear. I rarely read the promotional material before I hear the music. As ever, the first listening is in…

  • Review – Preacher – Aftermath – by Gary Morley

    Review – Preacher – Aftermath – by Gary Morley

    The wallet emptier complained that I’d not done my homework. Where was my review? Ah… Don’t own a dog so cannot claim that it ate it. Can’t claim I left it on the bus. So , honesty being the best policy, I confessed to not having the time to listen – all these new albums…

  • Review – Cosmograf – The Unreasonable Silence – by Progradar

    Review – Cosmograf – The Unreasonable Silence – by Progradar

    “The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.” The Myth of Sysiphus – Albert Camus Camus introduces his philosophy…

  • Review – Dave Foster – Dreamless – by Progradar

    Review – Dave Foster – Dreamless – by Progradar

    For the virtuoso, musical works are in fact nothing but tragic and moving materializations of his emotions; he is called upon to make them speak, weep, sing and sigh, to recreate them in accordance with his own consciousness. In this way he, like the composer, is a creator, for he must have within himself those…