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 ...

Whilst Shaun Geraghty was busy at Buckingham Palace (no kidding!) he usurped his Prog Radio throne for one week with a Special based on Peter Gabriel music at the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Peter Hammill stands, rightly, as a legend within progressive rock circles, yet his stature comfortably extends beyond that world. His appearance at this year’s Proms underlines just how deeply ...

ESP is a project started by eminent producer Tony Lowe in 2015 as a vehicle for his own music. Already a familiar name in the music business, the project has evolved over ten albums released so far, ...

There are few reunions in progressive rock as improbable as this one. While many old groups have been reuniting over the last two decades for a few live dates or possibly even an album here and there, ...

Another Sunday In September rolls around and here we are again in deepest Balham underneath the infamously vicious aircon of The Bedford for another day of eclectic music. The ratio this time for me, ...

John Mitchell’s solo project Lonely Robot first appeared in 2015 with the Please Come Home album, utilising a central ‘Astronaut’ figure as an Observer, in a finely crafted album of accessible rock ...

300 years is a mere drop in the ocean when transcendence inspires you to explore the limits of human creativity. Johann Sebastian Bach yearned to touch the infinite and used counterpoint to try to do ...

The Nostalgia Factory was Voyage 35’s first released song which seems apt as this is a band built on nostalgic memories of former days. Voyage 35 is to Porcupine Tree as A Saucerful of Secrets is to ...