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“HERD” AROUND TOWN: ELEPHANTS OF SCOTLAND
by Paul Watson First a Prog question. What do ‘Elephants’ [large mammals of the family Elephantidae and the order Proboscidea. Two species are traditionally recognised, the African elephant (Loxodonta...
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CIRCULINE: A WELL ROUNDED BAND…
BY PAUL WATSON April 24th sees the debut album ‘RETURN’ by a relatively new US band CIRCULINE. To be honest I was going to write a short bio and other interesting facets about things you may not know...
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NEW ALBUM: ‘THE SYN LIVE ROSFEST’ by Paul Watson
BY PAUL WATSON In hindsight as far as history and recognition goes, there are two major bands that went some way to building Yes, or at least bought some of those parts together where they would in a...
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NEW RELEASE ‘TRUSTWORKS’ BY THE SYN
Good news for not only THE SYN fans but also those who enjoy music by the Swedish Prog Rock band, MOON SAFARI. A collaborative effort by both sees the release this coming week of their new album...
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ROOM ENOUGH IN THE SKY FOR TWO STARS. [INVENTION OF KNOWLEDGE BY ANDERSON /...
Do you remember that scene in the original Star Wars movie where Luke is watching nightfall on Tatooine and we see two suns sinking beyond the horizon… Well, scientists not that long ago in their...
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CIRCULINE RETURN WITH THEIR SECOND ALBUM ‘COUNTERPOINT’
Hi everyone. I’m thrilled to announce one of the newest crop of Progressive Rock bands has released their second album ‘Counterpoint.’Not only that but they’ve also been well deservedly nominated as...
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WAS JON ‘JOHN’ IN ’73? THE SPIRITUAL CONNECTING OF ‘MIND GAMES’ AND ‘TALES...
We know how much The Beatles influenced Yes. But could Yes have influenced one of the Beatles? Paul Watson explores this amazing revelation. Late 1973 saw a couple of amazing musical things happen. One...
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PERFECTLY FLAWED: THE DEBUT ALBUM BY THE COLIN TENCH PROJECT “HAIR IN A...
Hair In A G-String album “In short for me, the new CTP album is one of my all time favorites,”says Prog fan and collector, Robert Len Stallard. “I could go into extreme detail here because as a...
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PERFECTLY FLAWED: THE DEBUT ALBUM BY THE COLIN TENCH PROJECT “HAIR IN A...
Hair In A G-String album “In short for me, the new CTP album is one of my all time favorites,”says Prog fan and collector, Robert Len Stallard. “I could go into extreme detail here because as a...
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ART GRIFFIN’S SOUND CHASER – VISIONS FROM THE PRESENT
“I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language. Pure melody goes outside time.” Carlos Santana Here we are,...
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A BAND WITH NO NAME AND HOW PROG ROCK FANS CAME UP WITH ONE
“Every name is real. That’s the nature of names.” Jerry Spinelli, Name your favourite bands of...
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‘EY UP! WINTER’S COMING! Fair Starved and champion.
Apart from the blatantly stereotypical header above, ‘Game Of Thrones’ isn’t the only strong namedropping connection to Yorkshire at the moment. Hailing from what was once dubbed the County of York, a...
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“Behold Isildur’s Bane!”
Of course Elrond was talking about the one ring, but equally so, he could have been recommending the band with almost the same name’s (give or take an apostrophe) new album titled, “Off the Radar.” If...
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Here’s to 2018 and a year of more PROG!
As one of the contributing writers here at Progarchy I look forward to what this year brings with new and exciting Prog. We have the 50th Anniversary celebrations of Yes and their music which us...
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ENDEAVOURING CONCEPTS: FREDERICK MCKINNON’S AND TIM HUNTER’S TRILOGY ALBUMS...
“Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible for man to go.” JAMES COOK This adventurer and explorer certainly lived up to his...
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“CAPTURE LIGHT” REDUX
Before we start…. You know, and I can’t speak for everyone here, we Prog scribblers strive to find our own voice, to make our mark among the many others who receive the same albums to review or even...
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AN INTERVIEW WITH AUSTRALIAN PROG ARTIST, BEN CRAVEN ON HIS NEW ALBUM “THE...
I’m used to getting referrals to up-and-coming albums from mainly artists or even the rare heads-up from labels (remember those?), and even among my peers here at Progarchy, but it’s a special...
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Even Country gets the Blues… GUS MCKAY’S, “TALISMAN”
The story of Prog is as much the story of The Blues, Jazz, Classical and just about every other musical genre that has been captured into the orbit of this wonderful form of sound. That’s not to say...
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DROWNING IN PLASTIC. BOMBER GOGGLES DIRE WARNING ON THEIR NEW CONCEPT ALBUM,...
Perhaps it is a fortuitous time for this three-piece band hailing from California to be promoting their first album (although released in March of this year) given the news over the past month on...
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