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  • Review – Orion – Universe XXV

    Review – Orion – Universe XXV

    A new Orion album is always a highlight for me. The progressive metal project of Ben Jones always delivers polished, high quality music with a lot of soul. When Ben contacted me about the new album, I knew it hadn’t had the easiest gestation but I’ll let him tell you… “This is the album that…

  • Progradar’s Best of 2024!

    2024, well the second half, has been a tough year for me and I took my eye off the reviewing ball from August onwards due to changes in my life. It doesn’t mean that I haven’t been listening to amazing music though! As my friend John Wenlock-Smith has already said, 2024 was an amazing year…

  • 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 – Orion – The Lightbringers

    Review – Orion – The Lightbringers

    “Music is an outburst of the soul…” – Frederick Delius So much truth in such a simple statement; whether sad or joyous, music comes from within the soul of its composer. It can be a long and laboured task that is ultimately triumphal and that is the case with ‘The Lightbringers’, the second full album…

  • John Wenlock-Smith’s ‘Best of 2023’

    John Wenlock-Smith’s ‘Best of 2023’

    This is a list of the albums that have made a big impression on me this year. They are not in any order although several marked are my favourites and I will nominate one as my album of the year. Here is the list: 1.Orion– The End Of Suffering – This came out of nowhere…

  • Review – Orion – Passing Through

    Review – Orion – Passing Through

    Orion is the musical project of the hugely talented, and very humble, Ben Jones and John Wenlock-Smith reviewed Orion’s debut release, ‘The End Of Suffering’, earlier this year and was mightily impressed, closing his review with this paragraph; “There is great musicianship and intelligence to this album, all in all? The End of Suffering is…

  • Review – Orion – The End Of Suffering – by John Wenlock-Smith

    I seldom fail to be impressed with folks who take the huge step into the unknown and are prepared to present to the world the music they have created from thoughts or dreams they have held sometimes for many years. I know several who have done this to a great reception and widespread acclaim. Obviously…