Inhaltsverzeichnis für Issue 164 in Prog

This year, internet-based radio station Progzilla celebrates its 10th anniversary. From humble beginnings, it’s grown to represent a diverse range of artists and musical genres, and broadcasts 24/7, all year round. The station’s international roster of presenters champion a great selection of sounds from up-and-coming musicians who are woefully neglected by the majority of commercial FM radio stations. This issue’s sampler highlights a small selection of the new music played on Progzilla. Turn to p68 to find out more. How to download your free digital MP3 sampler from Progzilla 1. Visit www.bit.ly/progzilla_sampler. Type it straight into your browser – do not type the URL into a search engine. 2. Download the zipped album to your computer. 3. Unzip the file and enjoy your new music! Discover more about Progzilla Radio…

Fifteen years after their last performance with Porcupine Tree, bassist Colin Edwin and former touring guitarist John Wesley are set to revisit the band’s early material under the name Colin Edwin & John Wesley’s Voyage 35. And, as part of those plans, the duo have announced live dates for 2026, including three shows in Holland between September 10 and 12 and an appearance at Italy’s 2Days Prog + 1 Festival, with UK dates also in the works. The set will focus on songs from Porcupine Tree’s Delirium and Snapper-label eras, spanning 1992’s Voyage 34 single to 2000’s Lightbulb Sun album. The performances will feature Porcupine Tree’s original lightshow by Fruit Salad Lights. “There’s a lot of people who never got a chance to see these songs live, because the second…

Released at the end of October 1974, Supertramp’s third album, Crime Of The Century is their absolute masterpiece. Like Rush’s 2112, born out of adversity, it is one of the great make-or-break albums; the thrill of the last roll of the dice, married with the unerring belief of a soon-to-be-manager who recognised the immense potential of a band who had all but been written off. Crime Of The Century was the culmination of six years of work and perseverance by Supertramp co-founder, keyboard player and songwriter Rick Davies, who had been spotted in his previous band, The Joint, by Dutch entrepreneur Stanley August Miesegaes. The millionaire former charter pilot and one-time pianist wanted to invest in a pop group, and saw something in Davies’ quiet, committed drive. Known as ‘Sam’,…

It’s a bright, warm and sunny evening where it feels as if the summer will never end, and Jo Quail’s disposition is matched entirely by the glorious weather. She’s relaxed, smiling and exuding the kind of positive vibes that should be bottled up and dispensed for free from your local pharmacy; it’s impossible not to be swept up in her enthusiasm and joy in creating new music and moving ever forward. “I’m constantly learning,” says Quail from the kitchen of her Sussex bolt-hole. “I think each time I make an album, it’s a snapshot in time of that particular moment. With each release, I have progressed as a composer and as a performer as well, so I learn a lot more. And certainly also in terms of production; I try…

“There are some aspects of this album where people have said that they want to attempt some slightly different styles, and we’ve managed to fit those in. The guys love fusion and now I do, too, because you all forced it on me!”Tree Stewart Even within a genre of music as diverse as prog, The Emerald Dawn are unique. Formed in 2010 by Ally Carter and Tree Stewart, the band have gradually built a following that finds them on the eve of the release of their sixth album and playing to an increasingly devoted audience. When Prog speaks to Carter and Stewart, the duo who remain at the heart of The Emerald Dawn, they are just back from an appearance at the prestigious A New Day festival in Kent. But,…

It’s one of many popular suggestions we hear these days to promote a healthier, more carefree approach to life: dance like no one’s watching. Similarly, the idea of making music like no one is listening is surely an attractive one to any artist who labours under the weight of audience expectation. Arjen Anthony Lucassen’s primary creative vehicle, Ayreon, have built a substantial following over the course of 30 years and 10 studio albums, increasingly on the back of grand overarching concepts, multiple voices and rock opera-style narratives, so it’s little wonder that he relished the idea of taking a break from that self-created arena to make a record with fewer expectations surrounding it. His desire to make a solo album was only heightened by working on a range of different…

ATOMIC ROOSTER Circle The Sun ESOTERIC First album in 43 years from storied British band. With their heavy blues-rock, psychedelic leanings and eerie digressions, Atomic Rooster were an important influence on British progressive rock in the early 1970s. Their last studio album came out 1983, and guitarist Steve Bolton is the only current member to have played in the band’s numerous 70s and early 80s line-ups. Opener Fly Or Die is a gritty, mid-tempo rocker which pushes dirty guitar and howling Hammond from keyboardist Adrian Gautrey upfront immediately. Fans of resonant organ are well served by the whole album, whether in the early Deep Purple flavours of the title track, in the knowing bluesy rocking lilt of Blow That Mind, or in the darker, more atmospheric cuts like the sludgy,…

Refined veterans return with easygoing epic. It’s 55 years since the Barclay James Harvest debut album and 12 since their most recent, North. That sailed under the flag of John Lees’ Barclay James Harvest, which since 1998 has signified the true carrier of the torch. Lees retired from touring two years ago, but now his quartet prove they’ve plenty left in the tank as Relativity goes big on concepts, scale and length. Its self-produced, sophisticated 78 minutes glide confidently through the gentle, unhurried brand of progressive rock which made the BJH name. There is zero attempt to update their sound: the priorities are carefully crafted songs of piquant melody and soothing, sonorous guitar manoeuvres. While very much a band effort, with vocals shared (as Lees’ own have begun to lose…

Surprisingly powerful sixth album from charismatic folk proggers. Since forming in 2008, pagan folk rock band Spriggan Mist’s line-up has gradually evolved around the husband-and-wife team of Baz and Maxine Cilia (bass and various instruments respectively). In the last few years, they’ve been embraced by the progressive rock community both for their exuberant live performances and their lyrical subject matter, which references British and Irish folklore with just a hint of steampunk. “Each song is given the opportunity to open out and develop.” One of the reasons for their success is down to the recruitment of lead vocalist Fay Brotherhood: it’s a masterstroke that perfectly suits the band’s image. She combines a charismatic stage presence with a taste in bold folklore-influenced stage attire and a distinctive vocal style. Here, on…

Man vs Machine classic, epically and exhaustively collected. A classic album held in high esteem for its ambition, vision and adventurous use of then-contemporary recording technology, 1977’s I Robot was the second release from the Alan Parsons Project. Planned as a concept album based on the robot stories of Isaac Asimov, it became more broadly about issues arising from humanity’s use and development of intelligent machines when legal restrictions prohibited the use of Asimov’s name and story titles. Despite numerous reissues in multiple formats over the years, this edition is the most comprehensive dive into I Robot yet. “The most comprehensive dive into the album yet.” Never really a band as such, the Alan Parsons Project was the songwriting and production duo of Alan Parsons and Eric Woolfson, who would…

VENUE UNION CHAPEL, LONDON DATE 15/09/2025 As the moonlight pierces through the stained glass windows of the Union Chapel with the stage illuminated by lanterns, Johanna Kurkela takes to the stage in a dazzling ballgown, opening the show with Those We Don’t Speak Of before the rest of Auri join her on this autumnal night. Auri spun out of Nightwish members Tuomas Holopainen and Troy Donockley back in 2017 – best known for their keyboards and amalgamation of folk instruments respectively. Teaming up with Finnish singer Kurkela, they released their debut record, which showcased a soundscape of gothic folk with progressive qualities thanks to the dense instrumentation and thematic journeys of each piece. This is their first-ever tour following the release of three albums, so Prog isn’t sure what to…

VENUE THE BEDFORD, LONDON DATE 14/09/2025 We’re off to Balham in south London for the sixth annual A Sunday In September, a ‘boutique’ all-dayer in the delightful music room of The Bedford. First up is the duo of Threshold keyboardist Richard West and vocalist wife Farrah in the guise of League Of Lights. Performing with voice and keyboards but employing extensive backing tracks and synchronised video throughout, they run through a selection of their melodic, often pop-leaning tunes. It’s a slick and enjoyable set with highlights including Forever and the dramatic Kings And Queens. Contrasting with League Of Lights’ reassuring vibe, PerKelt bamboozle, astound and captivate with head-spinning mixtures of European folk, celtic rhythms and outrageous musicianship. Utilising drums, fiddle, recorders and acoustic guitar, their mostly short tunes/explosions of creativity…

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Peter Hammill, the frontman of Van der Graaf Generator and one of prog’s most original voices, is the subject of a new biography. Rock And Role: The Visionary Songs Of Peter Hammill And Van der Graaf Generator, written by author and Prog writer Joe Banks, is out on November 21 via Kingfisher Publishing. Banks, whose acclaimed Days Of the Underground explored the world of Hawkwind, turns his attention to Hammill with a deep-dive unauthorised biography. “There’s never been a proper English-language biography of Peter before, which is faintly extraordinary,” Banks says. “He’s one of our greatest lyricists, and his music opens up broader cultural and philosophical themes. The book affirms what an incredible body of work he’s produced.” Among the numerous interviews with many of Hammill’s associates, the most revealing…

Dream Theater will release their first live album since Mike Portnoy rejoined the band last November. Quarantième: Live À Paris was captured at the 9,000-capacity Adidas Arena in Paris during the Parasominia tour that marked Portnoy’s first DT shows since 2010. “I think it’s a really important marking in Dream Theater history,” says keyboardist Jordan Rudess. “For those that felt an emotional resonance with Mike through the years, his return caused a burst of amazing energy. We had the greatest European tour together.” Portnoy was a driving force behind the band’s first quarter of a century, and though Rudess says he was a little tentative to not assume too much control at first, he was given free rein to choose the setlist. That included material written without him. “He didn’t want…

Before joining the John Hackett Band in 2017, Nick Fletcher was a classical guitarist. Now, with the recently released Mask Of Sanity, his fifth album in as many years, he continues his prog fusion renaissance, after returning to his “first love” after 25 years in other worlds. Inspired by Carl Jung’s psychology, the concept LP reflects his journey through a turbulent time in his life. “I was having a personal crisis and he wrote like he’d been inside my head,” Fletcher explains. “It made sense to explore his work musically. The opening of the album draws the listener into a sense of coming into the world, and the last track is about finding your way back to that time in your life when you were unencumbered by all the chaos in…

It’s been a long time coming but finally the 50th-anniversary deluxe packages of The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway are here! We have a copy of the vinyl edition to give away to one lucky reader this issue. Spread across five records, the set contains a remastered version of the original double album and the full-show audio of The Lamb live at The Shrine Auditorium in LA, as well as a Blu-ray containing hi-res and Dolby Atmos mixes of the album – the latter of which was overseen by Peter Gabriel and Tony Banks at Real World Studios. There’s also memorabilia, a coffee-table-style book, and a digital download card with access to select demos and outtakes recorded at Headley Grange. To be in with a chance of winning this coveted…

Swindon’s working-class Rick Davies and Portsmouth’s public schoolboy Roger Hodgson were not, on paper, an ideal match – ‘There’s you, and there’s me’ – yet it was the yin and yang chemistry of their writing that defined Supertramp at their most potent. Davies grew up on blues and jazz; Hodgson leaned towards an artier strain of pop. “I think a certain amount of friction is inevitable when you’re involved in a creative process,” Davies said in 1982. “It’s like two people are painting a picture on the same canvas.” Initially supported by a wealthy benefactor, they muddled through two patchy albums before the conceptual classic Crime Of The Century, rich with themes both personal and universal, cracked it. From there they graduated to the sunnier, radio-friendly Breakfast In America, before…

When inspiration struck as Rick Wakeman was composing his new album of piano instrumentals, the venerable maestro of the ivories had a reliable way to indicate whether or not he was onto something. During a phone conversation, Prog’s correspondent notes how, while looking after a handful of dogs at home, playing excerpts from Melancholia seems to have a distinct calming effect on a normally rambunctious pack of hounds. Wakeman, also an animal lover, can believe it. “They’re a really good gauge!” he says. “We’ve got three rescue dogs and two rescue cats, and it’s interesting how the dogs, if I’m playing certain things, will appear from nowhere and sit under the piano. The cats will sit on the piano. And with this album, there were a couple of others –…

By the time this article hits the newsstands, Mariusz Duda will be 50. Understandably, he’s in a reflective mood. The Polish musician and singer hasn’t quite hit his half-century when Prog speaks to him on the phone at a hotel on the Polish-German border, although he’s already celebrating the milestone with some pamper time at a health farm courtesy of his partner. “My wife took me to the spa… yay,” he reveals, somewhat deadpan. “So, I’m just between one massage and another. Yesterday, I had a Thai massage, which means now that all of the parts of my body are in pain, so I’m not so sure if it was a great idea. This is the kind of place where mainly German people over 70 go, so I’m probably preparing…

Derek Shulman’s new autobiography, Giant Steps: My Improbable Journey From Stage Lights To Executive Heights, details his life as a musician and then his career as a successful record company executive. Having learnt his craft on the pop scene fronting Simon Dupree And The Big Sound while still a teenager, the band scored a hit with a Mellotron-etched cover version of the song Kites in 1967. Though now regarded as a psych-pop classic, Derek and his brothers Phil and Ray wanted to go in a different musical direction. “We were making good money doing what we were doing, but that wasn’t the point for us,” said Derek when he spoke to Prog via Zoom from his US home. “We wanted to progress musically. But we also understood that you can’t…

Long-awaited lysergic final album from the maverick masterminds. Consider the emotions going through the tousled noggin of Kavus Torabi. Seventeen years ago the guitarist was co-navigator of the sixth album by his favourite act, Cardiacs, alongside maverick guitar-songwriter-frontman polymath Tim Smith, his inspiration, bandmate and friend. The album was to be called LSD – Torabi’s suggestion, referencing the pair’s affection for it – but Smith became paralysed and unable to speak after a stroke in 2008, so Cardiacs immobilised also. Smith died suddenly in 2020, and it seemed unlikely that LSD would surface. But in 2018, Craig Fortnam and Torabi had found a way to restart work on the album, gathering feedback from Smith at every stage. After his passing, Jim Smith (Tim’s older brother, Cardiacs bassist and co-founder) took…

Riverside frontman closes the circle with his cinematic solo project. Mariusz Duda might be better known as the vocalist, bassist and sometime guitarist with Riverside, but his solo endeavour Lunatic Soul has co-existed alongside for 17 years now. Even an outfit with tendencies as progressive as Riverside are fettered to some degree by the traditional band format, whereas Lunatic Soul provides Duda with a sense of freedom, allowing the multi-instrumentalist to explore other musical paths. “Almost as sprawling musically as it is thematically.” With Riverside having put their last album, 2023’s ID.Entity, to bed and announced a temporary break from touring, this is the perfect time for Duda to bring back his alter ego. The World Under Unsun is perhaps the most involved of the eight full-length albums he’s released…

A retrospective colossus from prog’s eternal outlier. All-encompassing and assuredly eccentric, Peter Hammill’s solo catalogue is almost too vast to be contained. This expansive and comprehensive box set does a pretty fine job of tackling at least part of it, featuring every record he made as a solo artist between 1971’s Fool’s Mate and 1986’s Virgin Records swansong And Close As This, with a huge amount of bonus material, BBC sessions, freshly remixed versions of two pointedly revolutionary classics, and a gorgeous, 78-page hardback book. “Progressive as hell, of course, but also utterly unique.” While we quietly marvel at how overwhelming this 183-song extravaganza would seem to the uninitiated, this capturing of Hammill’s fascinating musical story unfolds like a sustained series of genre-less revelations and smartly crafted curveballs. It’s as…

VENUE THE BLACK HEART, LONDON DATE 20/09/2025 SUPPORT CEPHID Hot on the heels of the recently released Legacy, Scotland’s Ihlo return to London for a sold-out show celebrating its launch. Their synth-heavy prog rock sound will appeal to Haken, TesseracT and VOLA fans, but first the audience are treated to Cephid, the synth-driven solo project from That Joe Payne live member Moray Macdonald. Macdonald’s performance of material from the album Sparks In The Darkness is a curious affair featuring glove-based costume changes and what might be the first time a laser harp has been played in a pub attic. Payne even makes a guest appearance, too. It’s a sharp contrast to the main act, but one that effectively sets the tone. The heaving prog metal crowd are primed for Ihlo…

Where’s home? I’m near Brighton again. I was in London when VLMV started. What’s your earliest memory of prog? Late nights in my student house in Chichester, sharing music with my housemates/bandmates, discovering this entirely new world of 70s prog – Pink Floyd, Tull, Genesis, Crimson. With some Television, Talking Heads and Joy Division thrown in. What was the first prog album you bought? I got into vinyl when I was around 19. Old vinyl records were everywhere and dirt cheap. I got every Pink Floyd album, and every 1970s Genesis album for 50p each. That was a good day. And the most recent? I Leave You This by Overhead, The Albatross, but that only counts as I’ve just managed to get a copy on vinyl! Your first prog gig?…

Australian prog heavyweights Karnivool release their long-anticipated fourth studio album, In Verses, on February 6 via Cymatic Records/Sony Music – it’s 13 years since their ARIA-winning Asymmetry. The band have shared a new single, Aozora, which, according to vocalist Ian Kenny, explores the themes of escape and finding freedom“amongst the complications of just being human.” Produced by compatriot Forrester Savell, the album is described by the band as being“a culmination of the last decade that have brought Karnivool to this point. The album’s 10 tracks journey collective feelings of frustration, catharsis and a rediscovery of identity.” Karnivool first revealed they working on a follow-up in 2019. A 10th-anniversary tour for Sound Awake, announced in February 2020, was cancelled due to the pandemic, and in 2021, all shows outside of…

Sweden-based prog metallers Soen return with Reliance, their seventh studio album, set for release on January 16 via Silver Lining Music. Led by vocalist Joel Ekelöf and drummer Martin Lopez, Soen promise to probe the depths of the human condition. The first taste of the album, new single Primal, is, say the band, a riff-driven outcry against a fractured world. “It came from a place of frustration with the world that we’re living in,” explains Lopez who originally formed the band back in 2004. “The corruption, the division and the suffocating grip that technology has on all of us. It’s heavy and straight to the point, built on riffs and raw energy, but it also opens up into a chorus that feels hopeful, like a reminder that light can still…

“He was such a great player and such a great person to be with. He meant a lot to me.”John Helliwell “You have to wake up every day and thank your lucky stars,” Rick Davies told a Calgary TV station in 1985. “I find it quite funny when you see rock people throwing tantrums. It doesn’t make any sense. We live a life of privilege, and we should never forget it.” The Supertramp co-founder, lead vocalist, keyboardist and harmonica player, who died from complications of multiple myeloma – a type of blood cancer – at home in New York on September 6, had worked tenaciously for this privilege, and through some acutely tough times that eventually converted to success, taking him from his birthplace of Swindon, Wiltshire, to Europe, to…

“The fact I’m still involved in making this music at 78 seems amazing to me. In my 20s, if you’d told me I’d still be doing this, there’s no way I’d have believed you.” “I’ve got no expectations,” says John Lees of Relativity, the first album by his incarnation of Barclay James Harvest since 2013. “It’s just nice to look back now and think, ‘Wow, we’ve created this.’” He’s talking about the eight-year, pandemic-disrupted process of making the third album as John Lees’ Barclay James Harvest, but he could just as well be referring to the illustrious body of work he played a part in making since the Oldham-formed symphonic prog pioneers made their recording debut back in 1970. “The fact I’m still involved in making this music at 78…

While in the process of putting this album together, Rick Wakeman was also approached by Snapper Music to make a follow-up to The Red Planet, his Mars-themed, 2020 concept album with The English Rock Ensemble. “It’s in total contrast,” he admits cheerfully, of the simple solo piano approach of Melancholia. Although he initially hesitated at the prospect of a sequel, he soon found there was a lot of source material to draw on for the tentatively titled Return To The Red Planet. “There has been a lot happening on Mars since I last visited it. So there is more than enough inspiration for me.” He also reveals that he drew once more on his experience playing with David Bowie back in the pre-Yes days. “When we did Life On Mars?,…

“It’s definitely different. There’s a lot of soul music in there, but it’s just as technical as what I’ve been doing in the prog world.” “David Gilmour recently said that he never labelled Pink Floyd as a progressive band; it was just the music they were writing,” says Luke Machin. “And that’s how I see Soulshine; it’s just good music. I didn’t want to set limitations or boundaries; it just escaped from me like everything does when I’m writing.” The guitarist, who has been an ever-present talent in the progressive rock world over the last 15 years, isn’t beating around the bush when he says his debut solo album is a departure from his usual shtick. Compared to his work in Maschine, Cyan, Karnataka, The Tangent and Francis Dunnery’s iteration…

Variety, as the saying goes, is the spice of life, and it’s fuelled Between The Buried And Me’s ever-changing, ever-weird, and perpetually progressive sound for 25 years. Sure, the North Carolina group started life with death metal coursing through their veins, but even then a love for strange and expansive music added different shades to their palette. With each release, the balance between the two has shifted. On their 11th album, The Blue Nowhere, vocalist Tommy Rogers has redefined his approach to concept albums and each musician plays off his counterpart’s polarities with aplomb. “We’ve always had juxtaposition from member to member,” explains bassist Dan Briggs. “Whether that’s writing melodic prog and having Tommy scream over it like we did back in the day, or me bopping over a heavy…

Gazpacho is a ridiculous name, yet the Norwegian band’s music is anything but. Since the late 90s they’ve cultivated progressive vignettes with the imagery and transportive powers of twisted fairy tales, even as they face profoundly human questions. It’s fiercely intelligent music, delivered with the light touch of first-rate songwriters – which they are. By day, singer Jan-Henrik Ohme works for Sony Music Norway, while keyboard player Thomas Andersen is a composer who’s written jingles for major ad campaigns, as well as solo piano records. Perhaps it’s in response to this that they’ve become masters of introspective, conceptual records, devoid of concessions to anything so limiting as commercial potential. Molok (2015) was a head-spinning meditation on conflicts between the emotional and rational mind, via Norwegian folklore with a side of…

Cornish quartet paint soundscapes that demand patience and reflection. Combining light symphonic rock, neo-classical influences and touches of jazz fusion, world music and proggy folk, The Emerald Dawn have made waves with recent releases and consistently well-received live appearances. With their sixth album, the band embark on an ambitious musical journey as the first of a pair of releases designed to ultimately mimic four sides of vinyl. The Land, The Sea, The Air – Vol. I deals with the latter two of the titular elements, creating musical portraits encapsulating the subject matter’s essence while endeavouring to comment on past damage and looming future dangers to our planet. “One of the most poignant albums of the year.” For a band committed to long-form songwriting, putting the shortest track of the four…

Bold third album from unlikely supergroup. As any seasoned psychonaut will attest, no maps exist for the journey to the centre of the mind. While there may be an idea of direction and what sensations await, no two psychedelic experiences are ever the same. “An immersive aural journey into bold, uncharted territories.” So it goes with Doperider, the third album from psychedelia’s most unlikely supergroup, The Utopia Strong. Comprising third-eye man-about-town Kavus Torabi (Gong, Cardiacs), Michael J York (Coil, Current 93, The Witching Tale), and six-time snooker world champion Steve Davis, the trio’s new album is given a further sense incongruence when, of all people, this former master of the baize reasons that if their audience “choose the psychonaut road, then we are delighted to have been of service”. It’s…

Multiple new mixes and complete sessions create ultimate album editions. King Crimson’s second and third LPs, both originally released in 1970, have arguably been undervalued and misunderstood ever since they first came out. In The Wake Of Poseidon was an early example of (very) difficult second album syndrome, given both the epochal impact of KC’s debut and the subsequent collapse of the band. And Lizard, featuring a significantly changed line-up, pushed at the boundaries of traditional ‘rock’ composition in a way that left many listeners decidedly nonplussed. “It leads to a greater appreciation of the source material.” So here’s another opportunity to reassess these albums, presented in what’s described as their most complete editions ever, despite being just two-disc sets. But with one of those discs being a Blu-ray, there’s…

VENUE 13/08/2025 – 16/08/2025 DATE FERNHILL FARM, SOMERSET Named after a mathematical calculation, ArcTanGent is a haven for prog-leaning music fans, and 2025 brings another kaleidoscopic line-up that twists the genre’s tropes through a modern lens. Kicking off on Wednesday afternoon, Kalandra’s melancholic Nordic folk sets the scene as Katrine Stenbekk’s haunting vocals float through swathing keyboards and intricate acoustics before Teeth Of The Sea dial up the weird. They layer throbbing synths with dissonant textures superbly – imagine if Goblin had become infatuated with the rave scene. Meanwhile, Yes fans Wardruna deliver a captivating headline set. Rooted in Pagan traditions, their ritualistic visuals, lyre-led motifs and shamanistic chants make for an otherworldly experience, ensuring sound and vision are equally memorable. Lost In Kiev kick off Thursday’s line-up with a…