2025 Work in Progress..ive

[nicola]

COSMOGRAF











ABOUT

COSMOGRAF

..COSMOGRAF
from progarchives.com

Cosmograf biography
Robin Armstrong - Born in Waterlooville (Portsmouth), England

COSMOGRAF is a progressive rock project lead by the multi instrumentalist Robin Armstrong. The sound is rooted in 70s classic rock with a contemporary and progressive twist.

Robin Armstrong (pictured) plays guitar, keyboards, bass and drums, sings, and records, producing himself and fellow collaborating musicians, in his home studio, 'The Trees', self built at the bottom of the garden. The project is now in it's third incarnation, with a number of talented musicians from the progressive rock community performing and writing on the new album 'When Age has Done it's Duty'.

'Neo prog' is about as close as you can get to a label but the occasional lapse into straight metal or even classical, often dumbfounds a catch all description. I've never been very talented in weaving the genres seamlessly together like 'Yes' would do. It's fairly clear where it's at though, when you listen to it.

I've always enjoyed music that polarizes audiences and demands attention. As a teenager I was captivated by Deep Purple's fusion of Heavy Rock with Baroque intros or lead lines. It's just fun, to throw in something that is completely unexpected but yet just fits.

I much prefer to write music around concepts. Progressive Rock allows you the freedom to span genres, stop and start in different tempos, insert mad sound effects and generally tell a story or simply create a soundscape with no real meaning. This creates a musical freedom far beyond the commerical rules and constraints of a 3min pop song.






















These are my best tracks of 2025


Track Title-Group or Artist-Album

King Kong-AMPLIFIER-Gargantuan

Night Terror-DREAM THEATER-Parasomnia

Panopticon -GHOST OF THE MACHINE-Empires Must Fall

The End of Days Suite: 1. The City Lights at Twilight -THE JOHN IRVINE BAND-HERE COME THE ROBOTS!

Lucifer, Bringer of Light -MOTORSPSYCHO-MOTORSPSYCHO

Marvelous World-CHEAT THE PROPHET-Redemption

The-Shoreline-EYE 2 EYE-Lost Horizon

End of the Road-KARMAKANIC-Transmutation

These Hands That Build-BLACK NARCISSUS-There Lingers One Who's Long Forgotten

Objects Outlive Us-STEVEN WILSON-The Overview

Far From Here-IQ-Dominion

Sleeping on a Cloud-LET SEE THIN-Machine Called Life

Gone-BJØRN RIIS-Fimbulvinter

Deep Water Suite IX-COSMIC CATHEDRAL- Deep Water

Another Holy Grail-PATTERN-SEEKING ANIMALS-Friend Of All Creatures

Demain a l’aube-GERALD MASSOIS- Demain a l’aube

- Considerations-THE FLOWER KINGS-Love

-The Passing-JACOB ROBERGE-The Passing

-Ordinary Gods-KARIBOW-PanTerrania

-. Division Warning-COSMOGRAF-The Orphan Epoch






























Division Warning-COSMOGRAF
https://cosmograf.bandcamp.com/track/division-warning


GOOD LISTENING