CLEARLIGHT’s Classic Recordings Get Anthologized

January 12, 2026

France is not very famous for its progressive rock, the country’s most prominent offerings on this front being MAGMA and Gallic contingent of GONG – yet one must not forget about Cyrille Verdeaux’s CLEARLIGHT whose recordings featured the members of the latter ensemble as well as David Cross, fresh out of KING CRIMSON fold. First, Verdeaux’s ivories-based albums were created in the company of friends, and then he proceeded to a full band, but after a few platters issued in the ’70s, the project fizzled out only to get reformed in the ’90s and deliver sporadic longplays afterwards, created by Cyrille on his own and with SPIRITS BURNING. It’s about time, then, to remember those forgotten gems.

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Terry Sullivan Of RENAISSANCE Passed Away

January 10, 2026

The great Terry Sullivan, most famous for his drumming with RENAISSANCE died yesterday after a short illness – an immense loss for everyone who knew him. Terry wasn’t a mere drummer – he played an acoustic guitar, too, and he co-wrote the wondrous “Forever Changing” for the ensemble – Sullivan has a huge, warm presence on the scene and beyond.

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GONG Gear Up For Finishing Their Latest Trilogy

January 7, 2026

No strangers to creating sonic triptychs – there was the “Radio Gnome Invisible” hattrick started with “Flying Teapot” and continued with “Angel’s Egg” and “You” back in the ’70s – GONG have been on another conceptual curve in recent years, and now the ensemble are ready to bring their latest tripartite suite to a close. What began in 2019 with “The Universe Also Collapses” and carried forward by “Unending Ascending” in 2023 is going to be wrapped up on March 13th, when “Bright Spirit” will see the light of day.

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Prairie Prince Prepares Personal Debut – With Rundgren And Valory

January 5, 2026

Listing all musicians Prairie Prince worked with is nigh on impossible but mentioning just a few of those in whose company he played over the last five decades – people like Nicky Hopkins, George Harrison and Mick Taylor, to mention just a single session of many the American drummer took part in – may give a measure of his talents. Listing bands Prince was in is an easier task, yet these ensembles – first of all THE TUBES, and then JOURNEY and JEFFERSON STARSHIP – are heavyweights, too. He also created visual arts, including stage sets for Olympics and for Michael Jackson and Billy Joel. What the veteran’s resumé doesn’t have is Prairie’s solo album – and this omission will be remedied on March 13th.

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Keith Christmas Releases A Concert Album

January 3, 2026

The usual salient points of Keith Christmas‘s career – playing acoustic guitar on the “Space Oddity” album and gracing the stage of the inaugural Glastonbury Festival in 1970 – doesn’t do justice to this artist’s talents that shone ever so brightly on his mid-'70s records. What creates a huge gap in the veteran’s discography, though, is the scarcity of concert albums, as there was only one, “Live At The Pump” from 2012, and that’s something which has just been remedied, to an extent.

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