Tag Archives: prog rock

STORM CHRONICLES – Looking Backward

October 28, 2014

Storm Chronicles 2013 Seattle duo cast a glance inside themselves to ascend beyond the pale. “Your heart is a noble work of art, you’d never be wrong to fall apart,” states “Cast In Faith,” a buzzing centerpiece of this band’s … Continue reading →

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SHABDA – Tummo

October 9, 2014

Argonauta 2014 Awaking the sleeper, Italian drone masters look inside their psyche. Usually, meditative leanings don’t rub shoulders too comfortably with rock but there are exceptions where philosophy goes electric, and with their second offering this trio boldly reach for … Continue reading →

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VANGELIS – Beaubourg

October 6, 2014

RCA 1978 / Esoteric 2013 Pictures of Paris as seen through synthetic oscillations of a singular mind. Abstract or not, Evangelos Papathanassiou has always been a master of melody, yet his dark streak started to loom large as early as … Continue reading →

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SKY ARCHITECT – A Billion Years Of Solitude

October 1, 2014

Galileo 2013 Third flight of fantasy for Dutch visionaries renders their reverie celestial and pulls it down. The sky’s the limit for this quintet who refuse to be restrained by progressive idiom yet work within its frontiers, sometimes pushing the … Continue reading →

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JETHRO TULL’s “WarChild” up for expansion

September 29, 2014

Not the best of JETHRO TULL‘s albums, 1974’s “WarChild” fared much better than its predecessor “A Passion Play” whose expanded version saw the light of day earlier in the year. And now its follow-up, also with a cinematic bend, is … Continue reading →

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