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  • Review – Cosmograf – When Age Has Done Its Duty (2018 remix) – by Progradar

    Review – Cosmograf – When Age Has Done Its Duty (2018 remix) – by Progradar

    In the sleeve notes for the comprehensive new package that comes with this remix of Cosmograf’s 2011 critically acclaimed release ‘When Age Has Done Its Duty’, Robin Armstrong writes, “I sometimes think about all the people I once knew that are now gone and I very much struggle to come to terms with their collective…

  • Vinyl Review – Cosmograf – The Hay Man Dreams – by Progradar

    Vinyl Review – Cosmograf – The Hay Man Dreams – by Progradar

    I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God’s business.? – Michael J. Fox Surely every musician strives for perfection on every new record that they are working on but perfection cannot be attainable otherwise what else could they seek to achieve? When you follow an artist…

  • Cosmograf Announce Limited Re-Pressing of ‘The Man Left In Space’ by Progradar

    Cosmograf Announce Limited Re-Pressing of ‘The Man Left In Space’ by Progradar

    Great news for cosmograf fans, the man behind it all, Robin Armstrong, has announced that there will be a limited -re-pressing of the brilliant 2013 release ‘The Man Left In Space’. “As some of you know the 2013 release – ‘The Man Left In Space’ has been out of print on CD for some time.…

  • Progradar’s Best of The Year For 2016 – Editor’s Choice

    Progradar’s Best of The Year For 2016 – Editor’s Choice

    So we have had a wonderful selection of Top 10 picks from some of my great collaborators and now it is my turn. I’m going to stray from the norm because mine is going to be a Top 20 to keep it in line with my TEP selection that I spoke with David Elliott about.…

  • Progradar Best Of 2016 – Leo Trimming’s Top 10

    Progradar Best Of 2016 – Leo Trimming’s Top 10

    Cosmograf – The Unreasonable Silence Simply stunning. Robin Armstrong has imagined a rich narrative of alien incursion (or paranoid breakdown?!) with sonic brilliance. The imaginative story is unnerving, whilst the music is captivating on a human level but cinematic in scope – ranging from crunching Purple riffs, through atmospheric acoustic passages to sweeping Floydian soundscapes.…

  • Progradar – 2016 – Best of the First Six Months

    Progradar – 2016 – Best of the First Six Months

    (Yours truly and Prog Guru himself) Welcome ladies and gentlemen to the first official Progradar Reviewers and Friends ‘Best Of…’ feature. I asked those who wished to contribute to cogitate over what great music they had heard, released 1st January to 30th June, in the first half of 2016 and come up with a list…

  • 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…