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  • John Wenlock-Smith’s review of the 2024 musical year

    2024 has been quite a year hasn’t it really? From the vagaries of politics and re-emergence of Donald Trump to again become US President again, the implosion of the Tory party and the triumphant Labour landslide, to the downfall of Assad in Syria, it has all been quite eventful, all in all. Thankfully, musically it…

  • Review – John Holden – Proximity & Chance – by John Wenlock-Smith

    Review – John Holden – Proximity & Chance – by John Wenlock-Smith

    ‘Proximity & Light’ is John Holden’s fifth album in six years, it all started with ‘Capture Light’ in 2018 which was followed by ‘Rise and Fall’ in 2020, ‘Circles in Time’ in 2021 and ‘Kintsugi’ in 2022, all of which contained some remarkable and diverse music from John and his chosen cast of colleagues. Well,…

  • John Wenlock-Smith Interviews John Holden

    John Wenlock-Smith Interviews John Holden

    Ahead of the release of John Holden’s fifth studio album, ‘Proximity & Chance’, John Wenlock-Smith caught up with John to have a chat.. JWS: This album is your fifth, did you ever envisage releasing a fifth album when you released ‘Capture Light’ in 2018? JH: I am not sure I ever set a target. I…

  • 2022 Progradar’s Best Of The Year – John Wenlock-Smith’s Top 20

    Yesterday saw the editor’s top twenty albums of 2022, today we see what made respected contributor John Wenlock-Smith’s list…. John says, “It’s been a great year for music, especially prog, with many fine releases from established and also newer acts. Here are twenty that really struck a chord with me, in no particular order but…

  • Review – John Holden – Kintsugi – by John Wenlock-Smith

    Review – John Holden – Kintsugi – by John Wenlock-Smith

    ‘Kintsugi’ is the brand new album from Cheshire’s John Holden and it is another masterful collection of tracks that together tells eight stories of hope and redemption in our troubled world. Once again, John and his co-writer and wife and partner Elizabeth have created some beautiful  and sublime moments of music ranging from the epics,…

  • Review – Tiger Moth Tales – A Song of Spring

    Review – Tiger Moth Tales – A Song of Spring

    Much loved multi-instrumental progressive musician Peter Jones returns with his best known project, Tiger Moth Tales, to deliver his much anticipated brand new album ‘A Song of Spring’. Peter, who is also keyboard player with Camel and Francis Dunnery’s It Bites tells us: “I’m cautiously excited about this album. Ha-ha. I think I’ve taken some…

  • Review – John Holden – Circles In Time – by John Wenlock-Smith

    Review – John Holden – Circles In Time – by John Wenlock-Smith

    ‘Circles in Time’ is the third, and latest, album from John Holden who has, over a period of just 4 years, written and created three quite different albums that are all rooted in his love of progressive music by the likes of Yes, Genesis and many others. John lives about 5 miles from me, on…

  • Review – John Holden – Rise and Fall – by John Wenlock-Smith

    Review – John Holden – Rise and Fall – by John Wenlock-Smith

    John Holden’s Rise and Fall has been in my possession for a while now and I was very gratified to be given access to this remarkable album some three months prior to its official release. I was also very pleased that I had been thanked  in the album credits, that having been an ambition of…

  • Review – John Holden – Capture Light – by Progradar

    Review – John Holden – Capture Light – by Progradar

    Life never stands still, the world rotates on its axis at around 1000mph (it’s less as you get North but you get my drift!) and day becomes night. The years pass quicker, or so it seems, and the sheer volume of music that is released gets bigger and bigger all the time. Because of this…