Month: October 2018

  • Review – Kalin Tonev – Machine Years – by Progradar

    Review – Kalin Tonev – Machine Years – by Progradar

    I love a powerful instrumental album but they have to work harder than your normal release due to there being no words to elucidate the songwriter’s thoughts and ideas. The best ones are chock full of brilliant instrumental phases and phrases and tend to not let each track follow the same musical path. Hailing from…

  • Review – Jet Black Sea – The Overview Effect – by James R Turner

    Review – Jet Black Sea – The Overview Effect – by James R Turner

    As I am sure you can imagine here at Turner House of Prog in North Somerset, and indeed at Progradar Towers up in Yorkshire, we get a multitude of albums that cross our desks and into our ears. Some from established artists who we know and love, others from bands that I’ve not heard of…

  • AMS Records Announce Release of ALL TRAPS ON EARTH’s debut record “A Drop of Light”.

    AMS Records Announce Release of ALL TRAPS ON EARTH’s debut record “A Drop of Light”.

    AMS Records is proud and excited to announce the forthcoming release of ALL TRAPS ON EARTH’s debut record “A Drop of Light”. All Traps on Earth is a Swedish quartet led by nglag rd‘s Johan Brand, including two other members of the same band, Thomas Johnson and Erik Hammarstr’m, and Johan’s daughter Miranda. “A drop…

  • JO QUAIL SHARES NEW TRACK MANDREL CANTUS’

    JO QUAIL SHARES NEW TRACK  MANDREL CANTUS’

    Internationally acclaimed composer and virtuoso cellist Jo Quail, who is currently on tour across Europe with Mono and A Storm of Light has shared a new track from her upcoming album Exsolve. Recorded with Chris Fielding at Skyhammer Studios (Electric Wizard, Primordial, Witchsorrow, Conan), the album will be released on 2nd November. Listen to the…

  • Review – The Tangent – Proxy – by Progradar

    Review – The Tangent – Proxy – by Progradar

    2018 has been a rather excellent year for new music. It seems like no sooner has one great album come along then another arrives into the inbox at Progradar Towers. Music of all sorts of genres and description but the overriding feeling I have got this year is that there is joy back in music.…

  • ZIO release video for new single X-Ray

    ZIO release video for new single X-Ray

    ZIO, former Karnataka drummer Jimmy Pallagrosi’s new outfit featuring? Hayley Griffiths and Joe Payne on vocals, have released a stunning new music video for first single ‘X-Ray’, directed and produced by Crystal Spotlight and the single is mixed by Marco Casaluce of MARC&CHEESE The full length version of the new single will be released on…

  • Marillion with Friends from the Orchestra Live in 2019

    Marillion with Friends from the Orchestra Live in 2019

    Marillion have announced that they will return to the road in the UK and Europe in 2019 with an extended line up of musicians joining the band. The shows will feature the In Praise of Folly String Quartet plus Sam Morris on French Horn and Emma Halnan on Flute, featured on select numbers throughout the…

  • Review – Oak – False Memory Archive – by Progradar

    Review – Oak – False Memory Archive – by Progradar

    “Music is probably the only real magic I have encountered in my life. There’s not some trick involved with it. It’s pure and it’s real. It moves, it heals, it communicates and does all these incredible things.” A poignant quote from the great Tom Petty and one that surely rings true in today’s troubled times.…

  • PAUL DRAPER ANNOUNCES ATTACK OF THE GREY LANTERN – LIVE AT THE RITZ’

    PAUL DRAPER ANNOUNCES  ATTACK OF THE GREY LANTERN – LIVE AT THE RITZ’

    Paul Draper’s 14-date Spring ’18 tour celebrated the 21st anniversary of one of the most favoured British albums from the late Britpop era: Attack of the Grey Lantern. Recorded live at The Ritz, Manchester on Thursday 1st March 2018, this album captures Draper’s energetic stage presence, his incredible band and classic Mansun tracks such as…

  • Sills & Smith band releases At The End of The Day music video

    Sills & Smith band releases At The End of The Day music video

    A beautiful, powerful music video for ‘At The End of The Day’, produced by Dw. Dunphy of Introverse Media, has just been released by Sills & Smith! ‘At The End of The Day’ is the closing track on the band’s latest studio album ‘Maps – Burned or Lost’. Sills & Smith, a project of singer/songwriters…