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04-09-2024, 10:21 AM
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BIG BIG TRAIN
ABOUT BIG BIG TRAIN ...BIG BIG TRAIN From Official Website Big Big Train – 2023 Biography ‘Big Big Train have revisited the sound world of early Genesis and Yes and have managed to create music with great emotional clout‘ THE TIMES ‘Big Big Train channel the ambitions of 50 years ago but mix in enough of themselves to create work that sounds vivid and fresh. Melancholy has rarely sounded so seductive’ MOJO ‘They make beautiful, pastoral quintessentially English music’ BOB HARRIS, BBC RADIO 2 Big Big Train was founded by songwriter Gregory Spawton in 1990 and went through several line-up changes during the course of five albums. In 2009, with the recruitment of a new lead vocalist, David Longdon, and drummer, Nick D’Virgilio, the band embarked on a fresh start. Since then, Big Big Train have earned significant critical acclaim in both the mainstream and music press, won numerous Progressive Music Awards, played sold out shows and seen their albums reach number 1 in the Official UK rock charts and break into the top 40 in the Official UK album charts. After a lengthy period as a studio band, Big Big Train returned to live performances in 2015. Following successful mini-residencies in London in 2015 and 2017, the band headlined the Night Of The Prog festival in Germany in summer 2018. They toured the UK for the first time in 2019, culminating in a sold out show at London’s Hackney Empire, subsequently released as the critically acclaimed Blu-ray Empire. The band also released two studio albums in 2021 and 2022, Common Ground and Welcome To The Planet. Tragedy struck Big Big Train in November 2021 with the death of David Longdon. After careful consideration, and with the full support of David’s partner, in spring 2022 the band decided to continue and brought Italian vocalist Alberto Bravin on board. Big Big Train played their first live shows in almost three years in September 2022 in the UK and the Netherlands. Joining Spawton, longstanding American drummer Nick D’Virgilio (Genesis, Spock’s Beard, Tears For Fears), Swedish guitarist/keyboardist Rikard Sjöblom (Beardfish, Gungfly) and the Big Big Train brass ensemble, these shows marked the live debuts of Alberto Bravin (PFM), Norwegian keyboardist Oskar Holldorff (Dim Gray) and British violinist Clare Lindley (Stackridge) and guitarist Dave Foster (The Steve Rothery Band, Mr So & So). For their shows in August & September 2023, Italian guitarist Maria Barbieri is deputising for Dave Foster, who has prior commitments with the Steve Rothery Band. In August and September 2023 the band played 17 shows in nine countries over the course of 21 days, with Maria Barbieri deputising for Dave Foster. The band will release their first album featuring Alberto Bravin as lead vocalist on 1st March 2024. This will be the band’s recording debut for the InsideOut/Sony label. The album will be issued as a limited edition media book, featuring Dolby Atmos and 5.1 mixes by The Pineapple Thief’s Bruce Soord as well as the regular stereo mixes by Rob Aubrey and Alberto Bravin, as well as a standard CD and in four different vinyl formats (black, tangerine orange, olive green and sky blue), as a Bandcamp hi res download and via all major streaming platforms. The band has announced a number of live shows for 2024 including four shows in the United States, co-headlining Cruise To The Edge in March and Night Of The Prog in July and performing at Cropredy in August Hi friends 2024 Work in Progress..ive These are my best tracks of 2024 Track Title-Group or Artist-Album Stranger Skies-ELLESMERE-Stranger Skies Quasar-SONIQ THEATER-Solar Winds The End-HUGO TORO-The Journey Searching For Mr. Kite (Expanded Version)-KARFAGEN-Messages From Afar: Second Nature Sky Coaster-SCOTT HENDERSON-KARNEVEL! Ghost Moon and Living Love-STEVE HACKETT-THE CIRCUS AND THE NIGHTWHALE Frailty-DRIFTING SUN-Veil Half Remembered-HEAD SPIN-Refractor Beneath the Masts-BIG BIG TRAIN-The Likes Of Us Beneath the Masts-BIG BIG TRAIN https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFXIp3-ygGY GOOD LISTENING 
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04-09-2024, 12:02 PM
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SAQQARAH
ABOUT SAQQARAH ...SAQQARAH From Official Website Saqqarah biography Overlooked French group from Vannes, formed in 1992 by Patrice Mauvieux on guitars, Lou Van Der Cruyssen on vocals, Dominique Renault on drums, Christophe Bastien on keyboards and Herve Juguet on bass. Two years later they recorded a 3-track mini CD (''Peti eref tra su''), but the following year Bastien quit with Mauvieux playing also the keyboards. In 1996 a very good debut is released under the title ''Genese'', but another departure put the group on ice for four years, this time it was Lou Van Der Cruyssen who moved permanently to Egypt in 1998. In 2002 Saqqarah returned with new singer Jack Feys and released another album, ''Awakening'' in 2005. The same year Christophe Bastien rejoined forces with Saqqarah and stayed with the band for another four years, before parting ways again due to many constraints. Since 2009 Saqqarah continued as a quartet, but any further album activity has yet to see the light. Hi friends 2024 Work in Progress..ive These are my best tracks of 2024 Track Title-Group or Artist-Album Stranger Skies-ELLESMERE-Stranger Skies Quasar-SONIQ THEATER-Solar Winds The End-HUGO TORO-The Journey Searching For Mr. Kite (Expanded Version)-KARFAGEN-Messages From Afar: Second Nature Sky Coaster-SCOTT HENDERSON-KARNEVEL! Ghost Moon and Living Love-STEVE HACKETT-THE CIRCUS AND THE NIGHTWHALE Frailty-DRIFTING SUN-Veil Half Remembered-HEAD SPIN-Refractor Beneath the Masts-BIG BIG TRAIN-The Likes Of Us The Watcher-SAQQARAH-THE RUNAWAY The Watcher-SAQQARAH https://saqqarah.bandcamp.com/track/the-watcher GOOD LISTENING
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04-09-2024, 02:53 PM
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LEVIATHAN
ABOUT LEVIATHAN ...LEVIATHAN From progarchives.com Leviathan biography It's very common to find Italian Symphonic bands, but no so much when we are talking about Italian Neo Prog bands. So when I knew I had to write again the LEVIATHAN bio, I placed special interest in them, to see how they blended their traditional and peculiar melodic sense with the strength and modernity of Neo Prog. LEVIATHAN was formed in 1985 by three very young Italian musicians, Alex Brunori (vocals and lyrics), Franco Pezzella (keyboards) and Andrea Moneta, drums. Immediately the band started to work at their first demo "The 7% Solution EP" which saw the light in the same year. This demo has two long tracks, but sadly and because it was a tape and the distribution was limited, there are almost no copies of it today. But the point was made and they caught the attention of the critics due to their particular sound. In 1987 LEVIATHAN recruits Sandro Wlderk (bass) and Rocco Paterna (guitar) and their definitive lineup was complete, with Wlderk credited for all the compositions and Brunori for all the lyrics and the conceptual art direction. Just before recording their first album, Rocco Paterna leaves the band, replaced by Giorgio Carana (recently deceased in 2016). They produced and released their official debut called "Heartquake", which for many is the first Neo Prog Italian release, in 1500 copies, 300 of which in red vinyl limited edition. The band starts a long and successful Italian tour in 1988 to support the album. "Heartquake" presents clear influences of GENESIS, MARILLION and PENDRAGON, but with a clear respect to the lyrical and melodic roots of Italian Symphonic bands like PFM or BANCO DEL MUTUO SOCCORSO. In 1989 Pezzella leaves the band and is replaced by the classically trained keyboardist Andrea Amici and they start the recording sessions of their second album, "Bee Yourself", which was again released independently in 1500 copies, 300 of which in yellow vinyl limited edition. The album was later reprinted on CD by Contempo and on vinyl by the Korean label Jigu Records (in 1991). The album was a great success among critics and fans. It presented a 25 minutes suite, "Bee Yourself", that gave them the chance to perform not only in Italy, but also in France as well as in an epic presentation at the Teatro Olimpico in Roma. In this occasion the Neo Prog tendencies blend with an exquisite Jazzy vibe which makes of "Bee Yourself" a rich and versatile album. In 1993, Musea Records gets interested in the band and releases a CD version of "Heartquake" with a previously unreleased bonus track, but it was the beginning of the end. Giorgio Carana first and Sandro Wlderk later left the band with internal problems culminating with Alex Brunori, singer and lyricist, leaving the band as well. LEVIATHAN remained almost in a sabbatical until 1998, when they released their third album "Volume", which was the first to be sung exclusively in Italian by the new singer, Paolo Antinori (while the previous ones where sung in English). Sadly, according to their fans, "Volume" is also the weakest of the trilogy, but still you can find many wonderful sounds, arrangements and solid guitar performances that make it worth getting. In 2003 the Finnish Prog Conceptual Epic Opera "Kalevala" was released, and LEVIATHAN was invited to contribute to the project, adding the 10 minutes track "Filo di Lama" (Edge of the Blade). The success was so strong that they were invited to participate in a similar project called "Colossus of Rodhes" in 2004, where they contributed with a 26 minutes suite called "Un Pensero e Sempre Libero", which symbolizes their long and solid 24 year career. Still it's not too late to see more from them. Iván Melgar Morey Thanks to Ghost Rider for the translations of the Italian material and to Alex Brunori for the latest (2016) updates. Hi friends 2024 Work in Progress..ive These are my best tracks of 2024 Track Title-Group or Artist-Album Stranger Skies-ELLESMERE-Stranger Skies Quasar-SONIQ THEATER-Solar Winds The End-HUGO TORO-The Journey Searching For Mr. Kite (Expanded Version)-KARFAGEN-Messages From Afar: Second Nature Sky Coaster-SCOTT HENDERSON-KARNEVEL! Ghost Moon and Living Love-STEVE HACKETT-THE CIRCUS AND THE NIGHTWHALE Frailty-DRIFTING SUN-Veil Half Remembered-HEAD SPIN-Refractor Beneath the Masts-BIG BIG TRAIN-The Likes Of Us The Watcher-SAQQARAH-THE RUNAWAY Hellishade of Heavenue-LEVIATHAN-Heartquake_Redux Hellishade of Heavenue-LEVIATHAN https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSCEULVS3rcr Heartquake-LEVIATHAN https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaaB...msHJlc&index=6 GOOD LISTENING Last edited by nicola : 04-09-2024 at 02:57 PM.
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04-10-2024, 08:56 AM
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MONKEY3
ABOUT MONKEY3 ...MONKEY3 From progarchives.com and official website Monkey3 biography Founded in Lausanne, Switzerland in 2001 MONKEY3 are an instrumental psychedelic rock band from Lausanne/Switzerland showing Picasso (bass), Walter (drums), Boris (guitar) and keyboarder Mister M aboard. The music units elements of stoner, post and space rock, all this presented with a rather hypnotic fundament, a repetitive nature. Their self-released debut came out in March 2003. One year later Belgium label Buzzville re-issued this album including a differing artwork. Afterwards they extensively toured Europe alongside bands like Alabama Thunderpussy, Mono, Dozer and Hypnos 69. April 2006 they went to the studio again in order to work on the follower album. February 2007 saw the release of '39 Laps' then. MONKEY3 are currrently preparing for the next album, entitled 'Beyond The Black Sky'. Bands similar in style are The :Egocentrics, 35007, Serpentina Satellite, Los Natas. Following their latest, much-acclaimed album, Sphere(2019), instrumental psych rock frontrunners MONKEY3 will herald 2024 with a true album highlight of the new year: The Lausanne-based four-piece has announced a brand new, cosmic studio offering, entitled Welcome To The Machine, set for release on February 23, 2024 via Napalm Records! Once again, MONKEY3envelops listeners in their unique, cosmic auditory haze. Welcome To The Machine not only marks their seventh and most epic, dark and captivating record to date, but will also clearly prove why they are one of the most exciting instrumental rock bands in the modern stoner and psychedelic rock scene. Welcome To The Machine’s musical themes are inspired by movies such as 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Matrix, Sunshine, Solaris and1984, while unveiling an intense mankind vs. machines story that instantly launches the listener into deep space. Right from its first tones, the album immediately emerges as a perfect soundtrack to a journey into the unknown. Tracks such as "Rackman"perfectly showcase how MONKEY3, who formed in 2001, are one of only a few instrumental bands that know how to tell an enthralling story. Welcome To The Machineexplores as much as it poses questions. It is dark and menacing; evoking melancholic destruction while somehow bursting with hope at the same time, moving between haunting passages and progressive breaks, mesmerizing grooves and colossal riffs. Hi friends 2024 Work in Progress..ive These are my best tracks of 2024 Track Title-Group or Artist-Album Stranger Skies-ELLESMERE-Stranger Skies Quasar-SONIQ THEATER-Solar Winds The End-HUGO TORO-The Journey Searching For Mr. Kite (Expanded Version)-KARFAGEN-Messages From Afar: Second Nature Sky Coaster-SCOTT HENDERSON-KARNEVEL! Ghost Moon and Living Love-STEVE HACKETT-THE CIRCUS AND THE NIGHTWHALE Frailty-DRIFTING SUN-Veil Half Remembered-HEAD SPIN-Refractor Beneath the Masts-BIG BIG TRAIN-The Likes Of Us The Watcher-SAQQARAH-THE RUNAWAY Hellishade of Heavenue-LEVIATHAN-Heartquake_Redux Ignition-MONKEY3- Welcome To The Machine Ignition-MONKEY3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QN4o2C6Fd3Q GOOD LISTENING
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05-20-2024, 12:20 PM
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THE TANGENT
ABOUT THE TANGENT ...The TANGENT From progarchives.com The Tangent biography Formed in 2002 in Northern England, UK THE TANGENT is a project originally formed by Andy Tillison, Guy Manning and Sam Baine of PARALLEL OR 90 DEGREES [Po90] as well as half of THE FLOWER KINGS including Jonas Reingold, Zoltan Csorsz and guitar virtuoso and former KAIPA member Roine Stolt. Of course to put further icing on the cake David Jackson of VAN DER GRAFF GENERATOR would lend his legendary sax to the band for their debut album. This started out as a mere project and was actually intended to be a Tillison solo effort before it became a full fledged band as Tillison felt the need to produce something more typically 'prog' than he'd been doing in Po90. Of course it has to be noted that this really is Andy Tillison's affair since over the years the entire roster (spare Tillison and Manning) has been changed due to many different circumstances, which has really not affected the supergroup as many would expect. Often asked about his changing line up, Tillison responds by saying that it's all part of a prog band's life and fans of the genre know all about line-up changes by now. THE TANGENT is quite a dynamic band in terms of line up even now as they recruit several members of BEARDFISH onto their team, having been impressed by them on the "Not As Good As The Book" tour. This does make for a very dynamic sound which leaves the band with a fresh angle for each album. Often touted as a 'retro' band thanks to their old school sound, the band does have a very 'classic' prog feel to them with Tillison's prominent synths. THE TANGENT has often been compared to YES and KING CRIMSON in style because of the mixture of Light and Dark with Stolt and Tillison (respectively) at the helm of the project. Highly melodic and very inclined to write sprawling epics THE TANGENT should satisfy the tastes of any prog listener who wants to go back to the roots of the genre while maintaining a contemporary message and feel. Their music is often cynical as Tillison has often been seen as 'the dark horse' of the modern progressive scene, his lyrics often poking fun at modern music and tendencies as shown in every one of their albums, but especially "The Music That Died Alone" and their newest effort to date, "Not As Good As The Book", which is a largely sarcastic and cynical look at the world that turned out to be not as good as we thought it would be. heir second effort, "The World That We Drive Through" continued the band's approach as on their first one but without the help of David Jackson on the sax. The first two albums can easily be seen to work in connection with each other even in naming conventions and the similar, striking artwork that graces both albums. If there's one thing that the second album did that really made it different from the first was establish that this was more than just a mere project, making cohesive suits (as opposed to split) and even changing their sound slightly (this one often seen as more jazz oriented) while keeping the general tone of the debut. "A Place In The Queue" remains a modern prog essential and proved that Tillison would be able to continue the band without the Flower King (Roine Stolt) on the roster. This band is highly recommended to anyone who is a fan of THE FLOWER KINGS and anyone who wants to hear what's new in the prog scene. This is music by prog fans for prog fans as Tillison himself proves to be just as big as a prog freak as any of us would expect him to be and seems to know just how to quench the progressive thirst. Bio Written by King By-Tor, Canada Hi friends 2024 Work in Progress..ive These are my best tracks of 2024 Track Title-Group or Artist-Album Stranger Skies-ELLESMERE-Stranger Skies Quasar-SONIQ THEATER-Solar Winds The End-HUGO TORO-The Journey Searching For Mr. Kite (Expanded Version)-KARFAGEN-Messages From Afar: Second Nature Sky Coaster-SCOTT HENDERSON-KARNEVEL! Ghost Moon and Living Love-STEVE HACKETT-THE CIRCUS AND THE NIGHTWHALE Frailty-DRIFTING SUN-Veil Half Remembered-HEAD SPIN-Refractor Beneath the Masts-BIG BIG TRAIN-The Likes Of Us The Watcher-SAQQARAH-THE RUNAWAY Hellishade of Heavenue-LEVIATHAN-Heartquake_Redux Ignition-MONKEY3- Welcome To The Machine The North Sky-THE TANGENT-To Follow Polaris Andy Tillison presents the album https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lbqa5QP77L4 Good vision The North Sky - THE TANGENT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuXZSL1Qi3Q GOOD LISTENING Last edited by nicola : 11-04-2024 at 11:56 AM.
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05-21-2024, 08:01 AM
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THE DAME
ABOUT THE DAME ...The DAME From progarchives.com The Dame biography Founded in The Hague, Netherlands in 2016 A Dutch female-fronted rock quintet The DAME have founded by Marian van CHARANTE (voices, guitar), Stephen de RUIJTER (guitars), Michel KREMPEL (bass), Thijs de RUIJTER (keyboards), and Ruben MEIBERGEN (drums), finally coming down to the earth in 2016. Their debut album "Losing Sight Of What You Want" has been released in February, 2018.and their second album in 2024 Hi friends 2024 Work in Progress..ive These are my best tracks of 2024 Track Title-Group or Artist-Album Stranger Skies-ELLESMERE-Stranger Skies Quasar-SONIQ THEATER-Solar Winds The End-HUGO TORO-The Journey Searching For Mr. Kite (Expanded Version)-KARFAGEN-Messages From Afar: Second Nature Sky Coaster-SCOTT HENDERSON-KARNEVEL! Ghost Moon and Living Love-STEVE HACKETT-THE CIRCUS AND THE NIGHTWHALE Frailty-DRIFTING SUN-Veil Half Remembered-HEAD SPIN-Refractor Beneath the Masts-BIG BIG TRAIN-The Likes Of Us The Watcher-SAQQARAH-THE RUNAWAY Hellishade of Heavenue-LEVIATHAN-Heartquake_Redux Ignition-MONKEY3- Welcome To The Machine The North Sky-THE TANGENT-To Follow Polaris into_the_wastelands-THE DAME- II into_the_wastelands-THE DAME https://thedame.bandcamp.com/track/into-the-wastelands GOOD LISTENING
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05-21-2024, 02:48 PM
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GLASS ISLAND
ABOUT GLASS ISLAND ...GLASS ISLAND from an interview by Artur Chachlowski Wojciech Pielużek, independent rock composer from Wrocław, guitarist, singer and, increasingly, music producer, has already written quite a list. In the years 2001-2007, as a very young musician, he was the frontman of the interesting and promising band Lavender. He then had the opportunity to share the stage with, among others, recognized prog-rock companies such as Riverside and RPWL. A few years later, he becomes the driving force behind the Strange Moments project, in which he is responsible for the compositions and parts of all instruments, and the microphone is entrusted to singers Asia Łukaszuk and Marzena Słowik. Pilużek is a very prolific and eclectic creator, a musical researcher who constantly searches for new solutions. Therefore, despite Strange Moments being well developed, he launched another project: Glass Island. The second album under this banner has just been released. An excellent album, harmonious and prog-rock. "The Damage Report" would not fail to win the ranking of the best albums created or co-created by Wojciech Pielużek. Wojciech Pielużek another multi-instrumentalist, this way of creating albums is becoming more and more widespread and the results are always positive, lots of good music as in this case an album to listen to from start to finish, for now I choose a "stay_under_cover" but I could change Hi friends 2024 Work in Progress..ive These are my best tracks of 2024 Track Title-Group or Artist-Album Stranger Skies-ELLESMERE-Stranger Skies Quasar-SONIQ THEATER-Solar Winds The End-HUGO TORO-The Journey Searching For Mr. Kite (Expanded Version)-KARFAGEN-Messages From Afar: Second Nature Sky Coaster-SCOTT HENDERSON-KARNEVEL! Ghost Moon and Living Love-STEVE HACKETT-THE CIRCUS AND THE NIGHTWHALE Frailty-DRIFTING SUN-Veil Half Remembered-HEAD SPIN-Refractor Beneath the Masts-BIG BIG TRAIN-The Likes Of Us The Watcher-SAQQARAH-THE RUNAWAY Hellishade of Heavenue-LEVIATHAN-Heartquake_Redux Ignition-MONKEY3- Welcome To The Machine The North Sky-THE TANGENT-To Follow Polaris into_the_wastelands-THE DAME- II stay_under_cover-GLASS ISLAND- Lost Media stay_under_cover-GLASS ISLAND https://glassislandpoland.bandcamp.c...ay-under-cover almost_human-GLASS ISLAND https://glassislandpoland.bandcamp.c...k/almost-human false_memories-GLASS ISLAND https://glassislandpoland.bandcamp.c...false-memories a_different_kind_of_tomorrow-GLASS ISLAND https://glassislandpoland.bandcamp.c...nd-of-tomorrow GOOD LISTENING Last edited by nicola : 05-21-2024 at 02:54 PM.
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