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  • 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 Best of 2016 – Craig Ellis Bacon’s Top 10

    Progradar Best of 2016 – Craig Ellis Bacon’s Top 10

    Anderson/Stolt – Invention of Knowledge Expansive and spiritual in the vein of Tales From Topographic Oceans, this album–like all things Yes these days–has sharply divided the prog world’s opinions. And everyone’s got an opinion on this thing. Well, I’m firmly in the camp that Jon Anderson, Roine Stolt, and Co. have gifted us with a…

  • Review – Big Big Train – Folklore – by Progradar

    Review – Big Big Train – Folklore – by Progradar

    And I thought about how many people have loved those songs. And how many people got through a lot of bad times because of those songs. And how many people enjoyed good times with those songs. And how much those songs really mean. I think it would be great to have written one of those…