10 really good Canadian albums!
I’ve mentioned a few times that I’m from Canada, and that I maybe sometimes don’t show the necessary respect for the wealth of musical talent this country contains. Once Canada […]
Category Archives: Progressive
ALL INDIA RADIO – Red Shadow Landing (2012)/The Silent (2011) – Aussie ambient rock
All India Radio is the Australian band/recording project of one Martin Kennedy. He’s found quite a bit of success with it Down Under over the last decade, but I must […]
Spirit of the Age: The genius of ROBERT CALVERT
If you know anything about Robert Calvert, you’re probably a Hawkwind fan, and in that case I’ll be preaching to the choir. However, if you aren’t, you still must read […]
MARILLION – Afraid of Sunlight (1995) The darkness beneath the glow
by Allister Thompson Marillion is a band of long standing associated with progressive rock, or “neo-prog” as eighties and post-eighties progressive rock is often called by people who like to […]
Voice of the outcast: an introduction to KEVIN COYNE
The history of rock is littered with the careers of singer-songwriters possessed of talents too big to be ignored but too distinct to be popular. Think of Nick Drake pre-car […]
THE WATERBOYS – A rock in the weary land (2000) Establishing Mike Scott’s mystical empire of riffs
Mike Scott is one of rock’s most endearingly adventurous figures as well as one of its most talented. Over a long career starting in the early eighties he has constantly […]
HARMONIUM – L’Heptade (1976) Scaling the emotional heights of art-rock
The history of progressive rock is literally littered with super-ambitious albums exploring well beyond the boundaries of the three- to four-minute pop song. Some of these albums fall well short […]
The grandiose late seventies heyday of the all-star CONCEPT ALBUM
The late seventies are remembered primarily as the time when music tastes (at least for the average music consumer) changed drastically, as the pomp of prog, the boogie woogie of […]
A new road: the folk-rock trilogy of JETHRO TULL
Jethro Tull. The name is familiar to millions of rock fans, but the music is probably not as familiar as it should be (“Aqualung” excepted). We’re talking here about a […]
ROBERT FRIPP – Exposure (1979) The birth of music’s future
Robert Fripp is an extremely well-known musician and, it’s fair to say, an uncompromising one, as his entire career reflects. Known as a fleet-fingered (plectrum, please!) guitarist, ambitious composer and […]
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