Progradar

Month: December 2016

  • Review – Sills & Smith – Echoes In Time – by Progradar

    Review – Sills & Smith – Echoes In Time – by Progradar

    “Douglas Adams got it wrong, ’42’ is not the meaning of life (the universe and everything), no, the meaning of life is music…” – Martin Hutchinson You’ve read my reviews before, most of the time I search for an inspirational quote about music. How music affects me on a personal level or how music can…

  • Review – Les Penning – Belerion – by Kevin Thompson

    Review – Les Penning – Belerion – by Kevin Thompson

    As a boy, for most of us, the way into music at school was by learning the recorder, wooden for the posh lads and plastic for the rest of us, although I did eventually get a wooden one. A class full of fumbling fingers covering various holes on the instrument (keep it clean please), to…

  • Tim Bowness To Release New album, Lost In The Ghost Light, In February

    Tim Bowness To Release New album, Lost In The Ghost Light, In February

    Tim Bowness will release his fourth solo album, ‘Lost In The Ghost Light’, through InsideOut on February 17. A concept album revolving around the onstage and backstage reflections of a fictional classic rock musician in the twilight of his career. Ranging from the hypnotic opener Worlds Of Yesterday to the wistful climax of Distant Summers,…

  • Review – Patchwork Cacophony – Five of Cups – by Progradar

    Review – Patchwork Cacophony – Five of Cups – by Progradar

    There’s been a lot of discussion recently about a loss of ‘value’ to music, in the sense that people seem to think that they should be able to listen to it for free, either via streaming services such as Spotify and Apple Music or by illegally downloading it from the plethora of music sharing websites…