In the infancy of the internet era there were dial-up / email service providers, including my chosen supplier AOL. What has ...

Kraanerg is the title of a ballet written by Iannis Xenakis in 1969. It is derived from the Greek and translates as ‘accomplished action’. It seems like an apt name for Nat Bergrin’s outfit, as ...

As TPA’s unofficial Samurai of Prog reviewer over the last several years, what has struck me most is the consistency from one album to the next. Especially because the main songwriters and ...

I have never considered myself a devoted Yes fan. I play their music when I’m in the mood, but they are not a band I regularly revisit with the same deep craving or nostalgia as others. However, the ...

“Where words fail, music speaks”: Hans Christian Andersen’s statement perfectly expresses the way music can evoke images, re-ignite memories and speak directly to our emotions with a directness that ...

With an NWOBHM-shaped hole in my life after reviewing Holocaust’s second boxset and interviewing guitarist John Mortimer, I was only too pleased to find out that another British hard rock band from ...

This album, Refractions by Cornelius, aka Keigo Oyamada, the Japanese guitarist and producer, lies at the very edge of the progressive rock world as we know it, and possibly even just outside it.

My favourite Cherry Red compilations are those that cover a scene as opposed to a particular artist. A Strange Light From The East, subtitled Eastern Influenced Western Music 1965-72, is a romp thr… ...

The release of Advent Horizon’s fourth album, Falling Together, finds the band in an introspective mood. If you think that translates to sappy ballads and mordant MOR, you would be wrong. As heavy as ...

In a world of playlists, where around 41% of people in UK haven’t listened to a full album for over a year, it’s easy to forget that sequencing a record is an artform in itself. Genesis always struck ...

Basil Francis: Hello John! Thank you for speaking to the Progressive Aspect. I first heard the term “New Wave of British Heavy Metal” (NWOBHM) whilst reviewing the Holocaust Vol 1 boxset, which was ...

It would be easy to dismiss the new Yes album, Aurora, out of hand: it’s not Yes without Jon Anderson, it’s little more than a cover band, their time has come and gone. You could dismiss it, but that ...