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Tag Archives: Progressive Rock
Album review: THE TIRITH – Tales From The Tower
Convergent Recordings [Release date: 30.09.15] Ah but had this album been released in 1970 – it would have been up there with the finest progressive rock albums of the day and the band lauded by ‘Sounds’ and ‘New Musical Express’ … Continue reading
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Album review: THE LAST EMBRACE – The Winding Path
Longfellow Deeds Records - [Release date: 20.04.15] Is there something in the water in France at present? For years our Gallic brothers have singularly failed to produce any progressive rock of any note, or at least any that registered on … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Anathema, France, Progressive Rock, review, The Last Embrace, The Winding Road
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Album review: RIVERSIDE – Love, Fear And The Time Machine
Inside Out Music [Release date: 04.09.15] From the opening strains of the twelve-minute opus ‘The Same River’ from the fabulous ‘Out Of Myself’ album in 2003, Riverside have been in the vanguard of the 21st century resurgence in progressive rock … Continue reading
Quick plays: TELERGY, TARJA TURUNEN
TARJA TURUNEN – Ave Maria earMusic [Release date 11.09.15] This is a big gamble for both Tarja and her record label, as even they have not released an all classical/crossover album as far as I am aware. On this album … Continue reading
Album review: INNER ODYSSEY – Ascension
Self-released [Release date: 16.06.15] Over the years, Canada has produced relatively few bands that have made any sort of impact on the world of progressive rock. If you put to one side Rush, Saga and, from the very early days, … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Ascension, Canada, Inner Odyssey, prog, Progressive Rock, review
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Album review: RAINBURN – Canvas Of Silence
Self released [Release Date: 31.10.14] Progressive rock music has rarely been in ruder health than it is at present, with exceptional music arriving from all corners of the globe – both to rattle the cage of complacency of western Europe’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Canvas Of Silence, India, Progressive Rock, Rainburn, review
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Album review: SUPERTRAMP – Live In Paris ’79
Eagle Rock [Release date 17.07.15] This definitive Supertramp live set has been a long time coming. Originally recorded as part of the band’s 10 month Breakfast In America tour, and released as a double LP in 1980 it included the … Continue reading
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Tagged album, CD, DVD, Live In Paris '79, pop, prog, Progressive Rock, review, Rick Davies, Roger Hodgson, Supertramp
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Album review: TIM BOWNESS – Stupid Things That Mean The World
Inside Out – Out Now. Musicians are truly unpredictable creatures! Take, for instance, British-born singer/songwriter Tim Bowness. Though a fairly active entity in the Progressive Rock scene, his valuable services provided to top-quality artists such as Robert Fripp, OSI and … Continue reading
Album review: EXOVEX – Radio Silence
Self-released: www.dalesimmons.com [Release date: March 2015] Greenville, South Carolina. Hardly a town known as a creative hub for progressive rock one wouldn’t have thought – but, something is stirring in downtown Greenville and all fans of the genre had better … Continue reading
Album review: NICE BEAVER – The Time It Takes
Oskar Records [Release Date: 20.02.15] Nice Beaver – presumably named from the classic Frank Drebbin line in ‘The Naked Gun’ – are a Dutch four-piece delivering a brand of sparkling progressive rock that many of today’s so-called ‘prog’ bands would … Continue reading
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Tagged Netherlands, Nice Beaver, prog, Progressive Rock, review, The Time It Takes
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Album review: PENDRAGON – Men Who Climb Mountains
Pendragon/Toff Records [Release date: 13.10.14] Ah, Pendragon – time was when their albums didn’t even need reviewing, such was their generic sound and all round cosy familiarity – it was first-rate, melodic progressive rock and everybody knew what to expect. … Continue reading
News: SONJA KRISTINA (Curved Air) interview on Sunday 3 May 2015
Photo: Simon Dunkerley/GRTR! Sonja Kristina Special (Part 1) – 3 May 2015 by Get Ready To Rock! Radio on Mixcloud Curved Air vocalist Sonja Kristina is the latest subject of a two-part special on internet-based Get Ready to ROCK! Radio. … Continue reading
Gig review: RENAISSANCE – The Citadel, St.Helens, 24 April 2015
If this short and sweet tour was bookended by a couple of false starts, it demonstrated the easy charm of the bandleader. “Is there anyone here from Bolton?” she enquired as she marked time. “Is there anyone who went to … Continue reading
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Tagged 24 April 2015, Annie Haslam, prog, Progressive Rock, Renaissance, review, St Helens, symphonic rock. gig, The Citadel
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Album review: Access All Areas – HATFIELD AND THE NORTH, SAD CAFE, RICK WAKEMAN
Edsel [Release date 30.03.15] ‘Access All Areas’ is a new series from Edsel culled from the 1980 ‘Rockstage’ and 1990s ‘Bedrock’ Central TV series. Although many of these live sets have appeared previously, it takes Edsel to produce the definitive … Continue reading
Album review: HASSE FROBERG AND MUSICAL COMPANION – HFMC
Glassville Records [Release date: 16.03.15] Remember your adolescence when you walked everywhere with an LP tucked under your arm to show anyone who was interested just how cool and hip you were? Back then it was ‘The Yes Album’, … Continue reading
Album review: THE TANGENT – A Spark In The Aether
Inside Out [Release date 20.04.15] Progressive Rock experimentalists The Tangent were a totally unknown entity to me prior to 2011, when I reviewed their sensational five track opus “Comm”. My impression of Andy Tillison’s compositional skills and that album’s overall … Continue reading
Album review: KATATONIA – Sanctitude
KScope [Release date: 30 March 2015] Back in the day, it was often espoused by people who didn’t like heavy rock that “it’s easy to make a row – but can they cut it live and acoustic?”. To a … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Bruce Soord, Katatonia, Pineapple Thief, Progressive Rock, review, Sanctitude
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Album review: KARNATAKA – Secrets Of Angels
Immrama [Release date 30.03.15] To be blunt, the first impressions of Secrets Of Angels – played live at Bury Met in February – weren’t great. The band blamed the venue and the lack of an adequate sound check, but as … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Hayley Griffiths, Karnataka, prog, Progressive Rock, review, Secrets Of Angels
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Album review: KARIBOW – Addicted
Rock Werk Records [Release date: 26 October 2014] Hailing from Germany, Karibow is the brainchild – and, as far as I can make out, the sole preserve of – Oliver Rüsing, an exceptional multi-instrumentalist – who, again as far … Continue reading
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Tagged Addicted, Karibow, Oliver Rüsing, Pop/Rock, Progressive Rock, review
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Album review: STEVE ROTHERY – The Ghosts Of Pripyat
Self-released - [Release date 02.02.15] What’s a reviewer supposed to do when confronted by perfection? Our whole raison d’être here at GRTR! is to give an opinion that informs the reader; (a) whether the music being reviewed is worth a … Continue reading
News: Prog Rockers Renaissance return with UK tour in April
Annie Haslam chats to David Randall about Renaissance and the forthcoming tour. This is an un-broadcast extract from a longer interview that will form the basis of an hour special on Sunday 29 March at 22:00 on Get Ready to … Continue reading
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Tagged Annie Haslam, April 2015, classical rock, gigs, prog, Progressive Rock, Renaissance, symphonic rock, Tour, uk
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Album review: STEVE HACKETT – Wolflight
David Randall chatted to Steve Hackett in early March 2015 for Get Ready to ROCK! Radio, about the new album and the new tour ‘Acolyte to Wolflight’ (27:46) Inside Out [Release Date: 30.03.15] Steve Hackett’s star is definitely in the … Continue reading
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Tagged Chris Squire, Genesis, Nick Beggs, Progressive Rock, review, Rob Townsend, Roger King, Steve Hackett, Wolflight
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Album review: CREPUSCULE – Vivv
Self-released – Release Date: 18 July 2014 This is definitely an album of despites. Despite having a name that sounds like a pustulent sore, despite having a cover that Slipknot might well have found too scary and despite the entire … Continue reading
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Album review: ESOSOME – What We Thought Would Save Us
Self-released – [Release Date: 10.07.14] One of the joys of writing reviews is that every so often a little gem appears amid the general ordinariness of new material that arrives (mostly as a result of the joys of self-release … Continue reading
10 Questions: JOHN MITCHELL aka LONELY ROBOT (interview)
We catch-up with John Mitchell (It Bites/Arena/Frost*) whose new album goes out under the Lonely Robot moniker and is entitled ‘Please Come Home’. It is released on Inside Out on 23rd February. It includes guest appearances from Nik Kershaw, Nick … Continue reading
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Tagged Arena, cinema, Frost*, Inside Out, interview, It Bites, John Mitchell, Kino, Lonely Robot, Mike Read, Please Come Home, prog, Progressive Rock, rock
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