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  • Review – Your Wilderness – The Pineapple Thief – By Kevin Thompson

    Review – Your Wilderness – The Pineapple Thief – By Kevin Thompson

    About fifteen years ago I was rooting through a ‘bargain’ box of CD’s and came across one called ‘Jet Set Radio’, by Vulgar Unicorn, intrigued by the name and attracted by the price it found a place in my growing collection. Then there was a time I collected my children for an all too rare…

  • BE PROG, MY FRIEND! 2016 part 2 (t-shirt wars) – by Kevin Thompson

    BE PROG, MY FRIEND! 2016 part 2 (t-shirt wars) – by Kevin Thompson

    Day two arose to bright sunshine and we ate an ample breakfast in the hotel before a morning in the wonderful Museum of Art, with so many treasures to see. But enough of that, I am not here to talk about the wonderful historic sites in Barcelona, the colonnades lining the street to the museum,…

  • BE PROG MY FRIEND! Festival 2016 – by Kevin Thompson

    BE PROG MY FRIEND! Festival 2016 – by Kevin Thompson

    We’re English and we should be used to it, but let’s face it, there has been too much rain lately. An excuse, that’s what we needed. And then a poster appeared online for Be Prog, My Friend!, in Spain and the band list was just too tempting. Sun and great music has to be good…

  • 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 – Robert Reed – Sanctuary II – by Kevin Thompson

    Review – Robert Reed – Sanctuary II – by Kevin Thompson

    So let’s get this out of the way, this is not Mike Oldfield! What we have here is the very talented multi-instrumentalist, producer and composer Robert Reed, (of Magenta fame) with his follow up to the excellent ‘Sanctuary’ from 2014, on Tigermoth Records. Produced, mixed and engineered by Rob, and once again joined by the…

  • Review – Downriver Dead Men Go – Tides – by Kevin Thompson

    Review – Downriver Dead Men Go – Tides – by Kevin Thompson

    A Turneresque cover painting gives vague hint to the type of music and the details on the cover give minimum information. A quick bit of research and these Dutch lads describe their music as deeper, mesmerising, atmospheric and melancholy. If you know of David Lynch, director of ‘Blue Velvet’, ‘Mulholland Drive’ and ‘Twin Peaks’, this…

  • Review – Ticket To The Moon – Sense of Life – by Kevin Thompson

    Review – Ticket To The Moon – Sense of Life – by Kevin Thompson

    Hailing from Basel, Switzerland, founded in 2003 by DANIEL GOSTELI (Danny) – drums, vocal and percussion and ANDREA PORTAPIA (Andy) – guitars and vocals, they went through several changes before MATTHIAS ZWICK (Matt) -keyboards and synthesisers and GUILLAUME CARBONNEAU (Gys) – bass completed the current line-up in 2007. 3TM’s sound is a blend of metal…

  • Review – Kristoffer Gildenl?w – The Rain – by Kevin Thompson

    Review – Kristoffer Gildenl?w – The Rain – by Kevin Thompson

    Some musicians have a discernible skill for balancing notes with the nuances and gaps between them to great effect, those who spring to mind readily, the eclectic talents of David Sylvian, Talk Talk and current exponents, the quite wonderful, iamthemorning. They also imbue a sense of melancholy but not misery, which I find are two…

  • Review – Sunpocrisy – Eyegasm, Hallelujah! – by Kevin Thompson

    Review – Sunpocrisy – Eyegasm, Hallelujah! – by Kevin Thompson

    I was told many years ago, to never volunteer for anything. This thought crossed my mind again tonight when I took up the challenge from the wise sage, Mr Hutchinson, to review this without having heard it previously. He sent it to me with a knowing grin, so apprehensively I downloaded and opened the files…

  • Review – Halo Tora – Omni/One – by Kevin Thompson

    Review – Halo Tora – Omni/One – by Kevin Thompson

    I have had this CD floating in and out of various players around the house for a few months seducing me, whilst the glorious cover artwork from Sandy Wilson calls to me like the outstretched siren in the picture, waiting to drag me into it’s depths and hold me in her cold, watery embrace. Coming…