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Progradar’s Review of 2021
I’ve had a little time to digest what was a rather wonderful year of music in 2021. Here is my review of the year with my favourite albums, in no particular order barring my number one! Transatlantic – The Absolute Universe – Forevermore A true return to form for the prog supergroup with melodies, tunes…
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THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY EXPANDED EDITION OF TIM BOWNESS AND GIANCARLO ERRA?S 2011 ALBUM WARM WINTER TO BE RELEASED AS MEMORIES OF MACHINES
An expanded and remixed, 10th Anniversary version of Tim Bowness and Giancarlo Erra s 2011 album Warm Winter (now issued as Memories Of Machines, the original project name) will be released on 25th February through Kscope. Featuring contributions from Robert Fripp, Peter Hammill, Julianne Regan, Jim Matheos, Colin Edwin, Huxflux Nettermalm, Peter Chilvers, Aleksei Saks and members of Nosound and Tim Bowness’s live bands, the album contains 10 sweeping and majestic songs (culminating in…
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Progradar- Reviews Round Up – Part 1
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GIANCARLO ERRA RELEASES NEW SINGLE & VIDEO PREVIOUS TAPE?
Taken from the forthcoming new album Departure Tapes released on Kscope on 2nd July 2021 With his new album Departure Tapes released this Friday, 2nd July, on Kscope,, UK based Italian composer, multi-instrumentalist and visual artist Giancarlo Erra has revealed the 3rd single and video for Previous Tape. He comments, Whatever music I write, whether for a soundtrack…
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GIANCARLO ERRA RELEASES NEW SINGLE & VIDEO ?A BLUES FOR MY FATHER?
Taken from the forthcoming new album Departure Tapes released on Kscope on 2nd July 2021 Having announced his new album Departure Tapes and released the first single Departure Tape, UK based Italian composer, multi-instrumentalist and visual artist Giancarlo Erra has revealed his next single and video, the moving and poignantly titled ?A Blues For My Father. Giancarlo…
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GIANCARLO ERRA RETURNS WITH SPELLBINDING NEW ALBUM DEPARTURE TAPES
TO BE RELEASED ON KSCOPE ON 2ND JULY 2021 First single & video for track Departure Tape premiered Departure Tapes is an album consisting of 6 contemplative recordings, written while travelling between the UK and Italy. The majority of these 6 tracks were improvised in the studio by Erra, so for the most part, are totally…
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Review – Nosound – Allow Yourself – by Progradar
Nosound have come a long way since their humble beginnings as a solo project of main man Giancarlo Erra. Six studio albums along with the odd EP and live CD/DVD have seen them hailed as one of the most interesting up and coming alt/art rock bands in Europe. Nosound inventively combines influences from ’70s psychedelia,…
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NOSOUND ANNOUNCE ALLOW YOURSELF? THE NEW STUDIO ALBUM AND NEW DIRECTION COMING 21st SEPT 2018 – NOSOUND PREMIERE VIDEO FOR FIRST SINGLE “DON’T YOU DARE?
Nosound’s 2018 studio album Allow Yourself finds the band in a new space once more having grown alongside their evolving and borderless label Kscope. The new material is a stripping back of what has come before, and its inspirations are in a different field altogether, based on founder and songwriter Giancarlo Erra’s own shifting interests.…
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NOSOUND PREMIERE NEW VIDEO FOR IN CELEBRATION OF LIFE? FEAT. ANATHEMA?S VINCENT CAVANAGH FROM NEW ALBUM SCINTILLA
With the release of Nosound’s new studio album, Scintilla, the band is pleased to be able to premiere their new video for the song? In Celebration Of Life” featuring guest vocals from Anathema’s Vincent Cavanagh. Giancarlo Erra explains how the song is a collaboration with and tribute to music fan Alec Wildley In Celebration Of…
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Review – Nosound – Scintilla – by Progradar
The power of music, whether joyous or cathartic must steal on one unawares, come spontaneously as a blessing or a grace–? – Oliver Sacks, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain I write reviews and run this website purely for the love of music. I don’t get paid for anything I write or publish and…