Prog-Watch: Recent Episodes
Anthony Rowsick
Prog-Watch is a weekly podcast and internet radio program dedicated to bringing the listener contemporary Progressive Rock music, album reviews, and artist interviews and features from around the world!
This week, Prog-Watch launches a brand new occasionally recurring series celebrating the architects behind some of our favorite recordings...the producers. And who better to inaugurate the series than one of the greatest of them all...the legendary Alan Parsons!
This month's 101 Dimensions (curated by Yours Truly) features electronic, ambient and progressive music from Ozric Tentacles, Jon Jenkins, Radio Massacre International, and Can.
This week our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, returns to take a look at a stunning and inspiring album by Dutch artist Dick van der Heijde. A brain stem stroke left Dick unable to move or speak, but thanks to modern AI technology he was able to express his feelings and musical ideas in a moving new record called 'Locked In'. For my part, I'll have new music from Long Earth, Gabriel Zingiber, and Phideaux, and a Beardfish track dedicated to a long time listener and friend of the show.
This week we're catching up on many of the great bands that were featured in PROG Magazine 170 & 171! Plus other great stuff from Refestramus, Gardening Club, & Different Light and new music from Yes, The Paradox Twin, & Built For The Future!
June's 101 Dimensions program features nearly two hours of electronic, ambient, and progressive music from The Art Of Noise, Lunatic Soul, Yukihiro Takahashi, Ashra, and Deborah Martin & Jill Haley.
This week's program is the fourth installment in the Virtuosos series, and looks at drummers! Hear ten defining performances, filled with everything from power, complex groves, and controlled chaos, to subtle nuances and time-changing finesse, from five truly exceptional sticks men!
This week, our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, launches a new recurring series entitled Progressive Resonances. In each installment, Rob will explore a universal human theme through the power and emotional resonance of music. The inaugural episode explores loneliness, drawing on music from artists as diverse as Simon & Garfunkel, Fleetwood Mac, Steven Wilson, and Black Sabbath.
Here's my latest 101 Dimensions program, with nearly 2 hours of great electronic, ambient and progressive music from Tangerine Dream, Ars Nova, Ulrich Schnauss, and Nik Turner & Space Invaders.
The giants of progressive rock never truly disappeared… their influence evolved.
Join me this week for a journey through the musical bloodlines of Yes, Genesis, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, and King Crimson — explored through the music of modern bands who carry the spirit of those Architects forward while forging identities of their own.
This week I have another edition of Epix for you...five expansive progressive suites that cover all sorts of musical and emotion ground, from Renaissance, Wobbler, IQ, Gazpacho, and Sean Filkins! Kick back, relax, and be transported!
Here's last month's 101 Dimensions program curated by Yours Truly. Nearly two hours of electronic, ambient, progressive, and soundtrack music from Hollan Holmes, Morton Subotnik, John Carpenter, Ian Tescee, and DeeperNET.
This week's program is a variety show full of new and recently released music from a wide range of artists. Four of those artists--HamaSaari, Hen Ogledd, Bovidae, and Far Out Telescope--are featured in the latest edition of PROG Magazine. Other great artists included this week: Karmamoi, Anton Roolaart, The Imperfectionist Collective, Bakelit, Magenta, Tale Cue, Polychrome, and Tigermoth Tales.
From genre-defying fusion to instrumental rock, from revitalizing a legendary band to collaborating in a modern prog supergroup, Steve Morse has built a career that refuses to sit still—or fit neatly into any one category. Come along with me this week and explore some of Steve's vast musical world.
The calendar was such that my turn on 101 Dimensions came up twice in March 2026. Here's my second show for March, with nearly two hours of electronic, ambient, and progressive sounds from Trinity Ward, Synergy, Robert Reed, Tangerine Dream, and Terry Riley & Stefano Scodanibbio.
I have another variety show lined up for this week's Prog-Watch, loaded with a whole lotta awesome, contemporary prog for you! Hear music from Big Big Train, Spock's Beard, Smalltape, Magenta, PsychoYogi, Yak, Clive Nolan, Galasphere 347, The Neal Morse Band, Gazpacho, and Rocking Horse Music Club!
This week's Prog-Watch is a variety show, with great, mostly contemporary prog rock from IQ, Trace, Spock's Beard, Big Big Train, and Tenk van Dool & Paul Sears! Plus, we'll heard from four artists featured in the most recent issue of PROG Magazine: School Disco, Temple of Shibboleth, Smalltape, and Maha Sohona!
Here is my 101 Dimensions program for March. Nearly two hours of electronic/ambient/progressive sounds from Steven Wilson, Klaus Schulze, Isao Tomita, and Madhavi Devi.
This week's Prog-Watch is a themed special centered on kids and children, and features music from diverse artists ranging from Arena to Gary Numan, and Steely Dan to the Who! I hope you will come along for a fun ride!
Lots of great contemporary prog rock awaits on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear from Sykofant, PsychoYogi, Holosoil (RV3O), Tavananna, Z Machine and Divided by Design. Plus, our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, returns to take us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with the latest album by Mailman!
My February 101 Dimensions program features more than 90 minutes of great electronic/ambient/progressive music from Bioscope, Ian Boddy & Robert Rich, Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan, Oliver Wakeman with Steve Howe, and Terry Riley!
This week on Prog-Watch I am spinning tracks from a lot of the PROG Magazine artists I missed over the last few months, and from a few other new releases! Hear fabulous music from HFMC, Sister Ray Davies, Mesmerising, Alan Morse, Hällas, Galasphere 347, Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan, Sans Froid, Lorelle Meets The Obsolete, Vower, Confirmation Bias, and Oudeziel!
For your listening enjoyment this week I have Part 2 of my collaboration with The Progressive Aspect on some of the best prog rock of 2025! With great music from Andrew Latimer, EBB, The Flower Kings, echolyn, Gazpacho, Mostly Autumn, Bioscope, Big Big Train, Karmakanic, Tribe3, and Rocking Horse Music Club! And thanks again to all the TPA contributors: Alex Driessen, David Edwards, Rob Fisher, John Giordano, Jane Lee, Magnus Moar, Rick Peuser, Ian Paul Sharp, Graham Thomas, and Leo Trimming!
This month's 101 Dimensions curated by Yours Truly. Nearly two hours of great electronic/ambient/progressive music from Green Isac Orchestra, Ashra, Systems Theory, Tangerine Dream, and Jon Hassel & Brian Eno!
Happy 2026! Join us and start the year off right with some of the best progressive rock produced last year, as we begin our Prog-Watch and The Progressive Aspect collaboration on the Best of 2025! This year's contributors include Alex Driessen, David Edwards, Rob Fisher, John Giordano, Jane Lee, Magnus Moar, Rick Peuser, Ian Paul Sharp, Graham Thomas, and Leo Trimming! In this first part of our collaboration we will hear fabulous music from Rick Wakeman, The Wood Demons, Whispers of Granite, Steven Wilson, IQ, Jethro Tull, Jakko M. Jakszyk, Spriggan Mist, Nick Fletcher, Lunatic Soul, and Dave Bainbridge! Part 2 will follow in two weeks!
My 101 Dimensions program for December features nearly two hours of great electronic/ambient/progressive music from Trace, Grobschnitt, Johannes Schmoelling, Anthony Phillips, and Johan Agebjörn!
On this week's Prog-Watch, Dr. Rob Fisher returns to take an in depth look at War Stories, the fabulous new solo album by Andrew Latimer of Camel fame! Also, new music from Kepler Ten, Yak, and Mostly Autumn!
This week's Prog-Watch is another edition of our Explorations series, this one looking at The Canterbury Scene! Come explore this sub-genre through great music from Caravan, Gong, Hatfield and the North, Steve Hillage, Khan, Supersister, National Health, Egg, and the Soft Machine!
My monthly 101 Dimensions program includes nearly two hours of progressive electronic and ambient music from Sverre Knut Johansen, Edgar Froese, Vangelis, Redshift, and Michael Stearns & Ron Sunsinger!
This week's Prog-Watch is a variety program with a few from artists included in the most recent PROG Magazine! Tune in to hear great contemporary stuff from Jim Griffin, Viper Soup Complex, The Wood Demons, Connor Kaminski, Nad Sylvan, Dave Bainbridge, Mark Bogert, BEAT, and Gentle Giant!
This year's Halloween Special features spooky music from artists including Asia, the Edgar Winter Group, Kansas, Blue Öyster Cult, Rush, Anthony Phillips, and many more!
This week Dr. Rob Fisher returns to expand your musical horizons with a new edition of Progressive Discoveries, featuring the Canadian cellist Raphael Weinroth-Browne! I'll also be pitching some new and different sounds, from Pinn Dropp, Euphoria Station, Dave Bainbridge, Nick Fletcher, Bakelit, and Mihrax!
This week's program is another of my fun, little themed specials! Every song has a form of the word "leave" in the title and I've got stuff from artists ranging from Black Bonzo to Yes! Listen for a few curve balls and hidden gems (as usual)!
This month's 101 Dimensions program (curated by Yours Truly) features nearly two hours of electronic/ambient/progressive music from Hipokamp Projekt, Jim Griffin, Porcupine Tree, Lunatic Soul, and Morton Subotnik!
In this week's program Dr. Rob Fisher returns to expand your horizons with some Spanish Prog from Malabriega! And Big Tony spins contemporary tracks from Jack O'the Clock, Edensong, Mark Trueack, The Hare and Hoofe, the Hipokamp Projekt, and Chester Thompson!
From his early days with Lodgic and World Trade, his first involvements with Yes and Chris Squire (in Conspiracy), through his solo career, many side projects (The Prog Collective, Circa, Yoso, and Arc of Life), and his eventual return to the Yes fold, Billy Sherwood has sure been around the proverbial block! Join me this week for a little tour of his vast Musical World!
This month's 101 Dimensions program (curated by Yours Truly) features nearly two hours of electronic/ambient/progressive music from DeeperNET, Nova Cascade, Church of Hed, Kitaro, and Klaus Schulze!
Lots of great, contemporary progressive sounds await on this week's Prog-Watch! PROG Mag artists Grace Hayhurst, Hiroe, and Huis, plus The Foundation, Jethro Tull, and Steve Hackett! And our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, returns to take us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with the debut album by an exciting new project called Whispers Of Granite!
This week's Prog-Watch is a variety program with great new stuff from Fearful Symmetry, Discipline, and the Kindred Spirit Band; two tributes to music icons we lost recently; and a voyage of Progressive Discovery with Dr. Rob Fisher and the latest album by the Flower Kings!
This month's 101 Dimensions offering includes nearly two hours of electronic/ambient/progressive music by Harmonia, Matt Baber, Silicon Psychosis, Vangelis, and Time Being!
Things conspired to make it impossible for me to complete a "regular" show this week (as if there is such a thing!) and I didn't want to drop another "From The Archives". So I revisited the idea of doing a stream of consciousness program with just a lot of random cool stuff---much of which I might not usually play on the show---with no patter. This time I focused on the 1990s. I hope you enjoy!
This week's Prog-Watch is a variety program with lots of great stuff from Six By Six, Jakko Jakszyk, Cosmic Cathedral, Tears For Fears, Circu5, and Drifting Sun! Plus, Dr. Rob Fisher returns to take us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with the new album by Ukrainian band Obiymy Doschu! This album is at the top of Rob's list for the best of 2025 so far, so don't miss it!
This week's Prog-Watch is another great variety show with music by Ambient Den, The Windmill, Nine Skies, Castle Mountain Moon, King of Sweden, Infringement, and Riverside, plus stuff from four artists featured in the latest PROG Magazine...Faun Fables, Rod Rodrigues, Fifth Daughter, and Törsz!
Lots of great contemporary prog rock awaits on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear from Cosmograf, Glass Island, and the Flower Kings, plus three more artists who are featured in this month's PROG Magazine---The Ash Twin Project, Goodbye Mountain, and Phil Mercy! As if that was not enough, our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, returns to take us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with the latest album by the Japanese band Yuka & Chronoship!
Here's my May 2025 outing for Progzilla Radio's 101 Dimensions program. It features nearly 2 hours of great progressive electronic/ambient music by Hanry, Jean-Michel Jarre, The Orb (featuring David Gilmour), The Fragile Fate, Glass Hammer, and Kitaro!
This week's program is a themed special called "Life Is A Long Song". Every tune played will have the word "Song" in the title. There will be lots of progressive stuff, of course, but also quite a few curve balls! Come along for the ride and see if you can guess some of the tracks that I will be playing!
It's a bit of a mash up on Prog-Watch this week, with picks by a friend of the show named Jim Donak (from Captain Beyond, Chris Vrenna, Wobbler, and Van der Graaf Generator), a couple of new ones (from Pryzme and Daidrum), and another voyage of Progressive Discovery with Dr. Rob Fisher, looking at the latest album by Djabe and Steve Hackett! All in 90 minutes!
This episode of 101 Dimensions features nearly two hours of electronic, ambient, and progressive music from David Helpling & Eric “the” Taylor, Eddie Jobson, Patrick Moraz, Manuel Gottsching, Mannheim Steamroller, and Enya!
Lots of fantastic contemporary stuff this week from Jethro Tull, Karmakanic, Brass Camel, Brendan Perkins, Red Bazar, Chakra Vimana, IQ, and Magic Pie! Also, I have four more artists featured in the latest edition of PROG Magazine...Clarissa Connelly, Devrev, Leoni Jane Kennedy, and Venamoris!
More great, contemporary progressive sounds await on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear music from Karmakanic, Echolyn, SomewhereOut, and Mostly Autumn! Plus, our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, returns to take us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with the debut album by the Cheryl Stringall and Tony Lowe project Lyrella!
This edition of 101 Dimensions (curated by me) features nearly 2 hours of electronic/ambient/progressive music from AeTopus, Focus, Wendy Carlos, Red Shift, and David Helpling & Jon Jenkins!
This week's Prog-Watch is another edition of EPIX! Just a handful of lengthy tunes will carry us through our time together, and this time they are all contemporary songs! Tune in to hear great music from Echolyn, Southern Empire, Neal Morse, Steven Wilson, and Motorpsycho!
This week's Prog-Watch is a straight-up variety program full of great contemporary progressive rock, some from artists featured in the 158th edition of Prog Magazine! I've got fantastic stuff from Sykofant, Jethro Tull, Red Bazar, Tribe3, The Aurora Project, Tiberius, Godsticks, Seventh Station, Flor de Loto, Imaginaerium, iCobbles, and Dream Theater! I hope you will join me!
This edition of 101 Dimensions (curated by me) features nearly 2 hours of electronic/ambient progressive music from Johan Agebjörn, David Arkenstone, Yak, Ash Ra Tempel, and Ben Cross!
There's no half-way on Prog-Watch this week, as we get ALL OR NOTHING! With tons of tasty, themed tunes from Starcastle, UK, Traffic, Gentle Giant, David Gilmour, Jethro Tull, George Harrison, Unitopia, Steve Howe, Lobate Scarp, The Cars, Rush, Blind Faith, Kevin Gilbert, Arc Of Life, Peter Banks, Mott The Hoople, and The Alan Parsons Project!
More astounding, new progressive sounds await on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear music from PROG Magazine artists Henge, Third Quadrant, Crisalida, and Kanaan & Aevestaden! Plus, our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, will take us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with the debut album Urban Vision by Italian artist Nicola Lori!
This was a fun older show that I thought was worthy of a bit of a facelift. So here it is: the second covers special I did with improved audio quality! It features a lot of interesting stuff from Kevin Gilbert, Robert Berry and friends, Daryl Stuermer, Erik Norlander, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Fish, Rush, 3, Unitopia, Dream Theater, Yes, Echolyn, Steve Howe, and Arjen Lucassen! I hope you enjoy!
Lots of great contemporary prog rock awaits on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear from Overhead The Albatross, Tom Penaguin, Oddleaf, Motorpsycho, and We Are Bodies! Plus, our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, returns to take us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with the latest album by the Brazilan duo Fleesh!
This week on Prog-Watch: Part Two of the big collaboration with The Progressive Aspect on some of the best of 2024! With great music from Meer, Marco Gluhmann, Returned to the Earth, Frost*, Nolan Potter, Kavus Torabi, Amarok, Beardfish, the Barock Project, the ESP Project, and the Pineapple Thief! And thanks again to all the contributors: Anthony Colvill, Alex Driessen, David Edwards, John Giordano, Peter Hilton, Jane Lee, Magnus Moar, Rick Peuser, Pete Rogers, Graham Thomas, Roger Trenwith, and Leo Trimming!
Happy New Year! Join us and start the year off right with some of the best progressive rock produced last year, as we begin our Prog-Watch and The Progressive Aspect collaboration on the Best of 2024! This year's contributors include Anthony Colvill, Alex Driessen, David Edwards, Rob Fisher, John Giordano, Peter Hilton, Jane Lee, Magnus Moar, Rick Peuser, Pete Rogers, Graham Thomas, Roger Trenwith, and Leo Trimming! In this episode we will hear fabulous music from Oddleaf, David Gilmour, Jon Anderson and the Band Geeks, Fleesh, Circuline, Big Big Train, Tim Bowness, Stuckfish, and Neal Morse and the Resonance! Part 2 will follow next week!
For this year's Christmas Special, I dug back deep into the Archives and dusted off the first one, from the very first Season of Prog-Watch back in 2014! On this program I was joined by my youngest (by about a minute) son, Paul, and we chatted and reminisced a little, and played some Christmas favorites from mostly Progressive artists. I updated the tracks to higher quality, and added a few since the show was a little short by today's standards. I hope you enjoy! Happy Holidays...however you celebrate!
This week's program is a variety show with lots of interesting tracks suggested by Guest DJ (and one of my Patrons of the Progressive Arts) Mr. Paul Watson! Plus, another crop from artists featured in this month's PROG Magazine! We'll hear tons of tasty tunes from Pencarrow, 7BZH, Vulgar Unicorn, i Häxa, Demians, Fish On Friday, No Brain Cell, Kalandra, Airbag, Gazpacho, Arabs In Aspic, and Ruby Dawn!
This week our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, flies solo for the first time and presents an entire episode of Prog-Watch on his own! The program is an Our Progressive Planet feature centered on Japan, and includes music from Asturias, Ars Nova, Bi Kyo Ran, Hiromi Uehara, Kitaro, KBB, Cichla Temensis, Yuka & Chronoship, Kumorigahara, Ryo Okumoto, Gerard, and Outer Limits!
Lots of great contemporary prog rock awaits on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear from Frost*, Raven Sad, and PROG Magazine artists Civil Service, Mark Barron, Giant Walker, and Ebony Buckle! Plus, our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, returns to take us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with the latest album by the UK project Long Earth!
This month's excursion into the realm of 101 Dimensions features an eclectic set of music from Church of Hed, Pijn, Vibravoid, Adult Cinema, and Deborah Martin & Cheryl Gallagher.
On 2 November, the great Keith Emerson would have turned 80. To honor this anniversary I have remastered the Keith Emerson Tribute program I did in the aftermath of his tragic death. The program has lots of great Emerson music (with The Nice, ELP, and ELPowell) and also features commentary from some great contemporary keyboard players, including Erik Norlander, Aaron Clift, Dave Kerzner, and Luca Zabbini. I hope you will join me in remembering a legend of the Prog Rock genre, who we lost too soon.
Awesome new progressive sounds await on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear music from Jadis, PRP, Nick Fletcher, Stuckfish, and Adult Cinema! Plus, our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, will take us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with the latest album by Tony Lowe's ESP Project!
My 101 Dimensions offering for this month includes great music from Röyksopp, Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, Sequentia Legenda, and Paul Ellis!
On this week's program we will look at the use of odd time signatures in Progressive Rock (and occasionally in Mainstream Rock). We'll hear from some of the big names like Yes, Genesis, The Flower Kings, Pink Floyd, Rush, King Crimson, Jethro Tull, and more! Plus, a few surprises from the "mainstream"!
Lots of fantastic stuff this week from Kite Parade, Jon Anderson and the Band Geeks, Thrailkill, Airbag, Emerald City Council, Pallas, the ESP Project, and Circuline! As if that was not enough, I will also have a nice crop of music by four artists featured in the current edition of PROG Magazine: Ex-Easter Island Head, We Are Space Horses, Jakub Zytecki, and the Emily Francis Trio!
This month's 101 Dimensions program (curated by your friendly neighborhood Prog-Squatch) features great progressive, electronic, and ambient music from Enigmatic Sound Machines, Bart Hawkins, Frore, Craig Padilla & Marvin Allen, Klaus Schulze, Ashra, and Sverre Knut Johansen!
This week's Prog-Watch is guest-hosted by Dr. Rob Fisher, and is focused on the great Jethro Tull composer, vocalist, and front-man, Ian Anderson! The program was curated by Rob (with assitance from Jamie Robertson, author of Music Measures Memories and a guest on Prog-Watch 1120) and centers on Anderson as a vocalist! Tune in for a lot of great vocal performances from Anderson, and insights from Rob and Jamie!
Lots of astounding progressive sounds await on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear brand new music from Amarok, Nick Magnus, Reliqa, Magic Fig, A Burial At Sea, and Sonus Umbra! Plus, our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, will take us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with the latest release by France's Sloane Square Band!
This month's 101 Dimensions program curated by Your Truly features music from Alber Jupiter, Erik Norlander, Klaus Schulze, and Time Being!
For this week's Prog-Watch I have put together a different kind of program. A death in my family and the need to travel to the funeral left me with no time to put together a proper show, and I didn't want to go with another From the Archives episode. As a compromise, I decided to put together a kind of stream-of-consciousness program full of random stuff from the 1980s. After a brief preamble you will not hear me and my usual patter, just lots of cool tunes. Thanks for your understanding, and I hope you enjoy Whatnot from the 1980s!
Here's the playlist:
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More great, new, astounding progressive sounds await on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear music from Ritual, Alphaline, Jethro Tull, Jon Anderson and the Band Geeks, Circuline, and Long Earth! Plus, our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, will take us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with The Waterline, the debut solo album by Andy Nixon!
This week's Prog-Watch is a straight-up variety program full of great contemporary progressive rock, some from artists featured in the June edition of PROG Magazine! I've got fantastic new stuff from the Barock Project, John Holden, the Legacy Pilots, Hats Off Gentlemen, Nektar, Marjana Semkina, Airbag, and The Slow Light! And from PROG: Teiger, Last Plane Out, Oudeziel, and Candacraig! I hope you will join me!
There are tons of tasty tunes to astound and astonish you on this week's Prog-Watch! Prick up your ears to hear great stuff from Hasse Fröberg and Musical Companion, John Holden, the Barock Project, The Raging Project, Karfagen, Marjana Semkina, Age of Distraction, and Flame Dream! Plus, a little tribute to the late Richard Tandy of ELO.
My 101 Dimensions program for June includes great electronic, ambient, progressive music by Klaus Schulze, Dark Sky Alliance, Yukihiro Takahashi, and Johan Agebjörn & Mikael Ögren!
Join Rob Fisher and Yours Truly this week for a little guided tour of the vibrant progressive rock scene in Norway! With fabulous Nordic prog from Arabs in Aspic, Wobbler, Dim Gray, White Willow, Panzerpappa, Gazpacho, Pymlico, Oak, Airbag, Magic Pie, Motorpsycho, Leprous, and the Hedvig Mollestad Trio!
Get that horny feeling with Prog-Watch this week!! (No, not like that!) But tune in to hear lots of brassy sounds from the likes of Tony Banks, Happy the Man, Thank You Scientist, The Alan Parsons Project, Gentle Giant, Snarky Puppy, Genesis, Caravan, Midnight Oil, Peter Gabriel, King Crimson, Chicago, Yes, Edgar Winter, and Van Morrison!
This week's Prog-Watch is a straight-up variety program with lots of diverse, new progressive rock for your listening enjoyment! Tune in to hear great new stuff from PROG Magazine artists Final Coil, Myrath, Pallbearer, Plantoid, and Lauri Porra, plus lots of other fabulous music from Glass Island, Meat Cafe Vol. 3, Fjieri, Cymbalic Encounters, Hasse Froberg and Musical Companion, Karl Eisenhart, The Forever Moment and Nagual!
More astounding progressive sounds await on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear music from Age of Distraction, Sykofant, Matthew Cunningham, FM, and Airbag! Plus, our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, will take us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with Cloudscapes & Silhouettes by the Norwegian band Mayfire!
This month's 101 Dimensions curated by Yours Truly features music by Nik Turner, Klaus Schulze, Vangelis, and Rudy Adrian!
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This week I am paying tribute to the late, great Mike Pinder -- a man who not only shaped the sound of his own band (the Moody Blues) but also changed the course of rock music and helped define the sound of your favorite sub-genre, prog rock.
This week my special guests are Jamie Robertson, author of a book called Music Measures Memories, and the book's publisher, our friend and resident reviewer, Rob Fisher! (Bet you didn't know Rob was also a publisher!) The book deals with the importance of music in Jamie's life, it's ability to help us heal, and it's ability to intertwine with our memories. Jamie, Rob, and I chat about that, and some of the most meaningful songs in Jamie's life. We hope you will join us to hear some of "The Diaries of a Melomaniac" and lots of great prog rock and classic rock songs!
This week's Prog-Watch is a themed special all about knowing, with tons of tasty tunes by Genesis, Robert Plant, Dave Mason, Fairport Convention, Asia, David Gilmour, Trevor Rabin, Yes, Steve Winwood, Marillion, Matthew Sweet, Kansas, Supertramp, Jon Anderson, Michael Penn, and The Allman Brothers!
My 101 Dimensions program for April includes music from Bergeton, Vinyl Dial, Antony Kalugin, Ashra, and Le Grande Sbam!
This week's Prog-Watch is a straight-up variety program full of great contemporary progressive rock, some from artists featured in the current edition of PROG Magazine! I've got fantastic stuff from Oliver Wakeman, Ozul, Transport Aerian, Karmamoi, Amarok, The Man From Ravcon, and Big Big Train! Also, there will be several artists who are featured in the April 2024 edition of PROG Magazine...Squeaky Feet, The Bardic Depths, Large Plants, Northodoxian, and The Beggs Sisters! I hope you will join me!
Be on the lookout for a plethora of fabulous progressive rock music on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear from Heath, Kavus Torabi, Isildur's Bane with Jinian Wilde, The Tangent, Michael Trew, Amarok, The Slow Light, The Dave Foster Band, Hats Off Gentlemen, It's Adequate, Ozul, and Oliver Wakeman! As Yoda would say, “Miss it not!”
This week I am Shaking The Family Tree of one of the most influential Prog bands of all-time...Genesis! We will be hearing tracks by former members (and a few extended family members) who had solo careers or worked in other bands besides Genesis proper! Plus a couple by the band! Come see what shakes out!
Find more great contemporary progressive sounds on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear music from Karmamoi, Nospun, The Man From Ravcon, and The Tangent! Plus, our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, returns to take us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with the latest album by the Belgian duo Tempus Cucumis!
Tune in for nearly 2 hours of great progressive, ambient, and electronic music from Gary Numan, Klaus Schulze, Paul Ellis, Synergy, and Rudy Adrian!
This week's Prog-Watch is another edition of EPIX! Just a handful of lengthy tunes will carry us through our time together, and I'll try to spread the love across the decades of our favorite genre! Tune in to hear great music from Anekdoten, Kansas, Dec Burke, Ritual, and Focus!
This week I've got a plethora of present-day Prog from Luz de Riada, A Secret River, Isildur's Bane, Steve Hackett, Drifting Sun, Big Big Train, and Karfagen! Plus four bands featured in this month's PROG Magazine: Nospun, Aviations, Psychework, and Harp!
This week's Prog-Watch is another edition of our Explorations series, this one looking at Crossover Prog! In this program we'll explore the crossover sub-genre through great music from The Tea Party, Kevin Gilbert, Supertramp, Peter Gabriel, Phideaux Xavier, Radiohead, Ritual, Lunatic Soul, The Dear Hunter, Dave Bainbridge, Gazpacho, Steven Wilson, and Big Big Train!
Please note that I accidentally announced this show as Explorations, Vol. 6 during the program, but later realized it was actually Vol. 7. To avoid confusion on the website I have corrected the show art and titled it properly as Vol. 7. (Oh the perils of self-producing a weekly internet radio show and podcast! Don't try this at home, kids!)
More great, contemporary progressive sounds await on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear music from Luz de Riada, Karfagen, Steve Hackett, Drifting Sun, Shadows on Mercury, and Big Big Train! Plus, our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, returns to take us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with the debut album by Imperial Measures!
This week on Prog-Watch I'm digging into some of the vast Musical World of Steve Winwood! From his early days in the Spencer Davis Group, Traffic, and Blind Faith, through to his chart topping solo years in the 1980s, Steve has had a long and diverse career! I hope you will join me in exploring some of it!
This month's 101 Dimensions curated by Yours Truly features ambient/electronic/progressive music from Klaus Schulze, Coil, Brian Eno, and Deborah Martin & Erik Wøllo!
Lots of fantastic stuff this week from Venus Loon, The Samurai of Prog, Trevor Rabin, Richard Wileman, A Secret River, Juame Vilaseca, Yobrepus, and Jef Bek! As if that was not enough, we'll also hear music by three artists featured in the current edition of PROG Magazine: Temic, Hands of the Heron, and Petra Hermanova!
This week on Prog-Watch I'm digging through the vaults and doing an entire show of classics from the halcyon days of the 1970s! With music from Manfred Mann's Earth Band, The Alan Parson Project, Pink Floyd, Spring, Jethro Tull, Ambrosia, Genesis, England, 10CC, Nektar, Renaissance, and Kaipa!
Want more classics? Search "Classix" at the homepage of Progwatch.com!
This week get it all in Black and White with Prog-Watch! With great themed tunes from Flash, Thin Lizzy, Marillion, No-Man, Steve Gresswell, Steve Thorne, Sylvan, Uriah Heep, Pete Townshend, Dennis DeYoung, and The Syn!
Lots of great contemporary prog rock awaits on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear music from Magnum, A Secret River, Venus Loon, Animatone, Kristoffer Gildenlöw, and Juame Vilaseca ! Plus, our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, will take us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with the latest album by the UK project Zeelley Moon!
(P.S. I mistakenly announced the Venus Loon song and album title as “Pandora's Box”. It is actually “Pandora's Paradox”. I stand corrected and apologize for the mistake.)
Tons of tasty tunes this week from The David Cross Band, District 97, We Came From Space, Mesmerizing, Kyros, The Flower Kings, Anubis, and Trevor Rabin! Also, I have three more bands featured in the latest edition of Prog Magazine...Tryo, Storm Deva, and Closure in Moscow!
Nearly two hours of great ambient, electronic, progressive music from Hyperion V, Coil, Zanov, Asturias, and Hollan Holmes!
There were so many great albums from 2023 suggested by our friends at The Progressive Aspect that two shows were not enough! So this week's Prog-Watch has More of the Best of 2023, with music from Bruce Soord, Galahad, Nova Cascade, Moon Safari, Solstice, Nick Fletcher, Glass Hammer, and The Flower Kings!
This week's Prog-Watch is all about the STRANGE! With fabulous music from Roger Taylor, the Moody Blues, the Samurai of Prog, Michael Penn, Abel Ganz, Deep Purple, Saga, John Entwistle, ELO, the ESP Project, Guy Manning, Karnataka, Kate Bush, Edison's Children, Ultravox, and the Who! All in 90 minutes!
This week on Prog-Watch it's Part Two of my two-part collaboration with The Progressive Aspect on some of the best albums of 2023! We'll hear music from Damanek, I Am the Manic Whale, Ruby Dawn, District 97, Riverside, The Fierce and the Dead, Southern Empire, Kite Parade, and Steven Wilson; and brief reviews by Rick Peuser, Pete Rogers, Jez Rowden, Graham Thomas, Kevin Thompson, Roger Trenwith, and Leo Trimming!
Happy New Year! Start it with a bang with Part One of a two-part collaboration between Prog-Watch and The Progressive Aspect on some of the best albums of 2023! We'll hear music from Comedy of Errors, This Winter Machine, the ESP Project, Mike Keneally, Unitopia, Aisles, RPWL, and Haken; and brief reviews by Tony Colvill, David Edwards, Rob Fisher, Kevan Furbank, John Giordano, Peter Hilton, and Magnus Moar! (Part Two to follow one week hence.)
This week's Prog-Watch is another edition of our Explorations series, this one looking at Progressive Metal! In this program we'll explore the Prog Metal sub-genre through great music from Dream Theater, Katatonia, Sieges Even, Riverside, Ayreon, Fates Warning, Liquid Tension Experiment, Pain of Salvation, Symphony X, Threshold, and Queensryche! Plus, another Listener Prog Story from longtime friend and supporter of the show, Thaddeus Wert, of Nashville, Tennessee, USA!
Lots of fantastic stuff on Prog-Watch this week, from Cyan, Dandelion Charm, Glass Hammer, Ruby Dawn, Jack o' the Clock, Residuous Mentales, Peter Gabriel, and Moon Safari! As if that was not enough, there will also be new music by three artists featured in the current edition of PROG Magazine: Spurv, Zahn, and Skald! Plus, our first Listener Prog Story from Charles Anderson of York, England!
On this week's program my very special guest is Dave Kerzner! Dave and I chat about his recent history and the making of his latest solo albums, The Traveler and Heart Land Mines, Vol. 1, and of course I spin lots of great music along the way!
This week's Prog-Watch is a themed special all about Windows and Doors, with tons of tasty tunes by Kansas, Magnum, Great Pacific Orchestra, Gardening Club Project, Jakko Jakszyk, Rewiring Genesis, K2, the Moody Blues, Mostly Autumn, World Trade, GPS, Pilot, Tony Lowe and Alison Fleming, Zebra, John Entwistle, Pete Townshend, Steeleye Span, and Panic Room!
This week on Prog-Watch I have a bit of a different interview and feature show on Nick Katona, head of Melodic Revolution Records! I will be chatting with Nick and spinning lots of great new music from his artists, Gayle Ellet & the Electromags, the Gardening Club, Forever Twelve, Days Before Tomorrow, Steve Bonino, Colouratura, the Terry Newman Project, Colin Carter, and T.A.P!
This month's 101 Dimensions curated by Anthony Rowsick features the usual eclectic mixture of stuff, this time from Gargoyles, Zanov, The Forever Moment, Coil, and AeTopus!
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Lots of fabulous, new, astounding progressive sounds await on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear music from Subsignal, This Winter Machine, Francis Dunnery's It Bites, Steve Thorne, Christina, Nick Fletcher, and Psycho Yogi! Plus, our friend and guest reviewer, Magnus Moar, will take us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with the latest album by the Downes-Braide Association!
Lots of fantastic stuff this week from Dave Kerzner, Subsignal, the Kindred Spirit Band, This Winter Machine, Christina Booth, Steven Wilson, Gayle Ellett and the Electromags, Crack the Sky, and Tiger Moth Tales! Also, I have three more bands featured in the latest edition of Prog Magazine...Pomegranate Tiger, Votchi, and The Mystical Hot Chocolate Endeavors!
This week: the Prog-Watch Halloween 2023 Special! With songs concerning things spooky and creepy from White Willow, The Strawbs, Blue Oyster Cult, Asia, Uriah Heep, Pattern-Seeking Animals, Agents Of Mercy, Ken Hensley, The Syn, Atomic Rooster, Jethro Tull, Kansas, Rush, Anthony Phillips, and Spock's Beard! Join me...if you dare!
More great, new, astounding progressive sounds await on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear music from Steven Wilson, Galahad, This Winter Machine, and Fearful Symmetry! Plus, our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, will take us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with the latest album by Everything But The Girl!
This week I have a remaster of an older episode in which I was Shaking the Family Tree of the Alan Parsons Project! Join me to explore the roots and branches of the band through the music of Pilot, Lenny Zakatek, Colin Blunstone, Dave Paton, Chris Rainbow, Keats, and Alan Parsons and Eric Woolfson (together and on their own)!
This week's Prog-Watch explores the connection between classical music and rock and prog rock music! With fabulous music from the Beatles, the Moody Blues, Procol Harum, Jethro Tull, the Nice, ELO, Rick Wakeman, Fireballet, the Alan Parsons Project, the Enid, and Renaissance!
This month's 101 Dimensions features great music from Djam Karet, Head Joint, The Forever Moment, Andy Edwards, and The Chronotope Project!
This week's Prog-Watch is a fantasy concert I am calling Night of the Living PROG 2! All live tracks from a dream line up of artists, including ELP, Pink Floyd, Renaissance, Gentle Giant, Traffic, Utopia, Yes, Tears For Fears, Kansas, Jethro Tull, Rush, and Camel!
This week's Prog-Watch is a straight-up variety program with lots of diverse, brand new progressive rock for your listening enjoyment! Tune in to hear great stuff from PROG Magazine artists Zopp, Flor de Loto, and Infinite Rising! I also have lots of other terrific tunes from Built For The Future, Tiger Moth Tales, Isbjorg, 35 Tapes, Envy of None, Nine Skies, The Geof Whitely Project, Southern Empire, and The Emerald Dawn!
This week on Prog-Watch my very special guests are Mark Cook, Suzi James and Michael Jobborn of T.A.P! Tune in to hear some of my chat with Mark, Suzi and Michael, and lots of great music from T.A.P (plus some of their other projects...The Forever Moment, Fearful Symmetry, and Head Joint)!
This week's Prog-Watch is another edition of EPIX! Just a handful of lengthy tunes will carry us through our time together and I'll spread the love across the decades of our favorite genre! Tune in to hear great music from Porcupine Tree, The Pineapple Thief, Citizen Cain, Jethro Tull, Tinyfish, and The Enid!
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Nearly two hours of great ambient, electonic, progressive music from Null terminator, JeGong, Mong Tong, Klaus Schulze, and Deborah Martin & Jill Haley!
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This week's Prog-Watch is another edition of our Explorations series, this one looking at Heavy Prog! In this program we'll explore the Heavy sub-genre through great music from Porcupine Tree, Rush, Headspace, Karnivool, DeeExpus, Black Bonzo, Uriah Heep, Haken, The Mars Volta, Anekdoten, Atomic Rooster, and Sky Architect!
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More great contemporary prog rock awaits on this week's Prog-Watch! With music from Southern Empire, Eloy, 35 Tapes, Herd of Instinct, Emmett Elvin, I Am The Manic Whale, Steve Thorne, The Anchoret, Hats Off Gentlemen, It's Adequate, and Psychoyogi! I hope you will join me!
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This week's Prog-Watch is a straight-up variety program with lots of diverse, new progressive rock for your listening enjoyment! Tune in to hear great stuff from PROG Magazine artists Ihlo, The Anchoret, and They Watch Us From The Moon! Plus lots of other fabulous music from Jethro Tull, Unitopia, United Progressive Fraternity, Lifesigns, I Am The Manic Whale, Head Spin, and Comedy of Errors!
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This week's Prog-Watch is another band family tree exploration, and this time around the subject is the iconic ELP! Tune in to hear lots of great music from the extensive musical careers of Messrs. Emerson, Lake, and Palmer!
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The theme on this week's Prog-Watch is Show and Tell! With music from Saga, Rush, Rocket Scientists, Kansas, Queen, Asia, Pink Floyd, Tiger Moth Tales, The Pineapple Thief, Alan Parsons Project, Triumph, Brian Eno, Stone Temple Pilots, Zebra, Steely Dan, Kayak, Radiohead, and Genesis!
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July's 101 Dimensions features great ambient/electronic/progressive music from Silicon Psychosis, Richard Barbieri, Johannes Schmoelling, Radio Massacre International, and Harmonia & Eno!
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This week on Prog-Watch I'm pitching another straight-up variety program of great new and recently released stuff! We'll hear from Riverside, Pendragon, Stefano Panunzi, Obscurus Rex, Steve Thorne, Ocean Districts, Lifesigns, The Fierce and the Dead, Mostly Autumn, and Big Big Train!
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This week on Prog-Watch it's all Bonus Tracks! From the likes of Tony Banks, Anekdoten, Pendragon, Asia, Uriah Heep, Brian May, Jethro Tull, Steve Hackett, Conspiracy, ELO, Yes, UFO, Fish, ELP, and the Doors! Come along to hear some lost and hidden gems!
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A mix of great stuff awaits on this week's Prog-Watch, including new music from Riverside, T.A.P, Martin Miller, The Fierce and the Dead, and Comedy of Errors! Plus, our friend and resident reviewer Dr. Rob Fisher returns to take us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with Reverie, the latest release from Tony Lowe's ESP Project!
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My recent road trip/vacation was the experience of a lifetime! So I figured I would tell you a bit about it in words and song. I hope you will join me for my musical travelogue of my trip across America!
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This week's Prog-Watch is a straight-up variety program full of great contemporary progressive rock, some from artists featured in the June edition of Prog Magazine! I've got fantastic stuff from Xavier Boscher, Mystery, Sound of Strangers, The Samuarai of Prog, Ocean's Edge, Elegant Simplicity, Andrew Gold, Polychrome, Sproing, Martin Miller, Ocean District, and Emma Tricca! I hope you will join me!
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Join Rob Fisher, Magnus Moar and Big Tony on Prog-Watch this week for a look at some of the greatest bass players to ever grace our favorite genre! Guess who made the program, based on the episode's cover art! Even if you can guess them all, you won't want to miss this one! It's another belter!
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I lost a good friend a few weeks back. Without him there would probably be no Prog-Watch. So please join me as I pay tribute and celebrate the life of my friend, Steve Luttig.
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This week's Prog-Watch is a straight-up variety program with lots of diverse, brand new progressive rock for your listening enjoyment! Tune in to hear great stuff from PROG Magazine artists The Enigma Division, Covet, and Us and Them! Plus lots of other fabulous music from Aviram Tzur, starfish64, Overhead, 5th Season, Isbjorg, Matt Dorsey, and Spencer Miller!
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This week go Down by the Seaside with Prog-Watch! Hear great sea-themed tunes from Led Zeppelin, Camel, Subsignal, Crack the Sky, Anekdoten, Jethro Tull, John Wetton, The Strawbs, Men at Work, Steve Howe, The Who, Mike McGear, Squackett, and George Harrison!
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This month's 101 Dimensions (curated by Anthony Rowsick) features music from Polinski, Richard Barbieri, Radio Massacre International, Johannes Schmoelling, and Maud the moth & Trajedesaliva!
This week on Prog-Watch it's Part Two of my coverage of Simon Collins and Kelly Nordstrom of eMolecule! Hear a bit more chat with Simon and Kelly and more of their music together, including a healthy dose of their new eMolecule project!
This week's Prog-Watch is a straight-up variety program full of great contemporary progressive rock, some from artists featured in April edition of Prog Magazine! I've got fantastic stuff from Matt Dorsey, Jan Rivera, ifsounds, Karda Estra, Cairo, Hög sjö, Chaos and the Cosmos, Ten Jinn, The Moustrap Factory, Skeptosphere, The Dave Foster Band and Yemrot! I hope you will join me!
This week on Prog-Watch my very special guests are Simon Collins and Kelly Nordstrom of the new eMolecule project! Tune in to hear lots of great music and some of my chat with Simon and Kelly!
More great, new, astounding progressive sounds await on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear music from Kripke's Illusion, Instigations, Kinetic Element, Aisles, Sudler's Row, and the Dave Foster Band! Plus, our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, will take us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with the latest album by Pink! (Yes, I said “Pink” and didn't follow it with “Floyd”! Let's hear the man out!)
This month's 101 Dimensions features the music of Tangerine Dream, Jon Jenkins, Ott, Vangelis, and Madhavi Devi!
I hope you will join me on Prog-Watch this week when I will be paying tribute to a very progressive and iconic guitarist who sadly passed away earlier this year...Jeff Beck. I had so much great music slated that you will hear very little of me after a short preamble. Following that, get ready for nearly two hours of sublime guitar-oriented rock from a true innovator and virtuoso.
This week on Prog-Watch it's Part Two of my coverage of Clive Nolan and Laura Piazzai of Imaginaerium! More chat with Clive and Laura, more of their music together, more Arena, and some of Clive's previous album, Song of the Wildlands!
More great, new, astounding progressive sounds await on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear music from Aisles, Cairo, Aethellis, Yes, Joe DeNinzon & Stratospheerius, Overhead, Ten Jinn, and eMolecule! Plus, our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, will take us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with the latest album by the iconic Polish band, Collage!
This week on Prog-Watch my very special guests are Clive Nolan and Laura Piazzai of Imaginaerium! Tune in to hear lots of great music and some my chat with Clive and Laura!
This month's 101 Dimensions (curated by Anthony Rowsick) features a lot of chilled electronic and ambient stuff from the likes of Mike Oldfield, Chronotope Project, Ben Cox, Craig Padilla, and Dean De Benedictis!
Great sounds abound on this week's Prog-Watch! Tune in to hear fabulous stuff from Envy of None, The Prog Collective, Prog Gnosis, Mystery, Keith McCoy, Great Wide Nothing, EBB, BangTower, Liquid Sound Company and Herd of Instinct, Spriggan Mist, Shell Beach, and Kite Parade!
For more about EBB and Shell Beach, check out the Lime Light and Prog Around the World sections in this month's Prog Magazine!
Classic instrumentals are on tap this week! So get ready for a lot of great music (and just a few vocal-type sounds) from ELO, The Allman Brothers Band, The Alan Parsons Project, ELP, Traffic, Rush, The Edgar Winter Group, Genesis, Jethro Tull, Focus, Pink Floyd, and King Crimson!
(Special thanks to my friend Steve Luttig who suggested the idea for this episode and many of the tracks!)
There are tons of tasty tunes to astound and astonish you on this week's Prog-Watch! Prick up your ears to hear great stuff from Mike Keneally, RPWL, Voda, Prog Gnosis, Leap Day, Half Shell, Davide Ronfetto, David Longdon, Echo Us, and Ghost of the Machine!
This week's Prog-Watch is a themed special to mark the tenth anniversary of the program! Hear great music from John Entwistle, Led Zeppelin, Pilot, The Yardbirds, Roy Harper, Paper Lace, Supertramp, IQ, Landmarq, Spring, XTC, Steve Thorne, Kerry Livgren, The Strawbs, The Jelly Jam, and ZZ Top! All in 90 minutes!
Tune in to this month's 101 Dimensions to hear great music from Craig Padilla & Marvin Allen, The Weever Sands, John Carpenter, Kraftwerk, and Jaymz Dare!
Be on the lookout for a plethora of fabulous progressive rock music on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear from Antimatter, Isbjörg, starfish64, Uriah Heep, RPWL, Aviram Tzur, the Prog Collective, Mike Keneally, Ghost of the Machine, The View Inside, Glass Island, and Anima Morte! Be there or be square!
This week on Prog-Watch it's Part Two of my coverage of Ryo Okumoto! More chat with Ryo, more great solo music, and more great music from his work with Spock's Beard, K2, and GPS!
(With better interview audio this week.)
This week on Prog-Watch my very special guest is Ryo Okumoto of Spock's Beard! Tune in to hear Ryo chatting a bit about his early years in the music biz, and of course, lots of great music from his solo career, the Beard, and some of his other endeavors like K2, GPS, and his own Ryo Okumoto Project!
(Apologies for the audio quality of this week's interview segment. You know how it is...technical difficulties! But I am sure you will be able to get the gist of what Ryo is saying, and I promise the quality will be better for Part Two, next week!)
This week's Prog-Watch is a themed special called It's All Fun and Games Until...! With fabulous music by Triumph, Spock's Beard, Roine Stolt, Mighty Handful, Uriah Heep, Mystery, Alan Parson Project, Wood Demons, Badfinger, Arc of Life, Utopia, Robert Berry, Arena, Nick D'Virgilio, and Grand Tour!
Nearly two hours of great electronic, ambient, and progressive music from Emmett Elvin, Ott, Jean-Michel Jarre, Frank Wyatt and Friends, and Bill Laswell! (RIP, Frank)
On this week's program my very special guest is Aaron Clift of the Aaron Clift Experiment! Aaron and I chat about the band and the making of their new album The Age of Misinformation, and of course I spin lots of great ACE music along the way!
More great, contemporary progressive sounds await on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear music from Anima Morte, Comedy of Errors, Phi Yaan-Zek, Quasar, Rick Wakeman, and Elder! Plus, our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, returns to take us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with the latest album by Arena!
This week's Prog-Watch is another variety program full of fabulous contemporary Progressive Rock...sort of a More of the Best of 2022 show PLUS! With great music from the Von Hertzen Brothers, Alan Parsons, Comedy of Errors, Devin Townsend, Rick Wakeman, Phi Yaan-Zek, Elder, Tim Bowness, Kaipa, and Bjorn Riis!
This week: Part Two of my collaboration with the Progressive Aspect on some of the best of 2022! With great music from Marillion, Ryo Okumoto, Jethro Tull, David Longdon, Stuckfish, Porcupine Tree, the ESP Project, Lobate Scarp, and Tiger Moth Tales! And thanks to all the contributors from this week and last: Alex Driessen. David Edwards, Rob Fisher, John Giordano, Peter Hilton,Magnus Moar, Rick Pueser, Pete Rogers, Jez Rowden, Richard Swan, Graham Thomas, Roger Trenwith, and Leo Trimming!
Happy New Year! Join us and start the year off right with some of the best progressive rock produced last year, as we begin our Prog-Watch and The Progressive Aspect collaboration on the Best of 2022! This year's contributors include Alex Driessen. David Edwards, Rob Fisher, John Giordano, Peter Hilton,Magnus Moar, Rick Pueser, Pete Rogers, Jez Rowden, Richard Swan, Graham Thomas, Roger Trenwith, and Leo Trimming! In this episode we will hear fabulous music from Lonely Robot, Leap Day, Arena, Kaipa, Alan Parsons, the Von Hertzen Brothers, Bjørn Riis, Tim Bowness, and Hedvig Mollestad & the Trondheim Jazz Orchestra! Part 2 will follow next week!
More astounding new progressive sounds await on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear music from Evership, Glass Hammer, Arc of Life, Threshold, The Bedlam Furnaces, Sudler's Row, and Glass Island! Plus, our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, will take us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with the solo debut of a great new band called Alta Forma!
Nearly two hours of great electronic, ambient, progressive music from Royksopp, Tangerine Dream, Jansen Barbieri Takemura, The Fragile Fate, and Brian Eno!
Be on the lookout for a plethora of fabulous progressive rock music on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear lots of great new stuff from Gandalf's Fist, Ologram, Galahad, The Aaron Clift Experiment, Royal Hunt, Solstice, Babal, The Gardening Club, Tribe of Names, Silver Nightmares, and Magenta!
This week's Prog-Watch is another edition of our Explorations series, this one looking at Eclectic Prog! In this program we'll explore the Eclectic sub-genre through great music from King Crimson, SBB, Steve Hackett, Beardfish, Gentle Giant, A.C.T, The Tangent, Van der Graaf Generator, Utopia, Birds and Buildings, and Motorpsycho!
In honor of American Thanksgiving (and all Thanksgiving or harvest festivals around the world) this week's theme is Thanks! With a cornucopia of great music from Abel Ganz, Fantasy, Agents of Mercy, Andrew Gold, Led Zeppelin, Gentle Giant, Paul McCartney, Barclay James Harvest, Francis Dunnery, Mostly Autumn, Solstice, Steven Wilson, John Wesley, Wigwam, Catapilla, and ZZ Top!
This week on Prog-Watch I'm digging through the vaults and doing an entire show of classics from the halcyon days of the 1970s! With music from Armageddon, Happy the Man, Led Zeppelin, Crack the Sky, King Crimson, Van Der Graaf Generator, Deep Purple, Frank Zappa, The Alan Parsons Project, Gentle Giant, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, and David Bowie!
101 Dimensions curated by Anthony Rowsick, November 2022:
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Alberto Rigoni featuring Marco Minnemann – Evorevolution (from the album EvoRevolution, 2018)
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Tangerine Dream – Sensing Elements; and Non-Locality Destination (from the album Quantum Gate + Quantum Key, 2018)
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The Fragile Fate (featuring Rupert Greenall, Jerry Marotta, and Eric Taylor) – Water Field; Float; Sign Waves; Lilliam Ocean; and On Land-Like (from the album Lilliam Ocean, 2015)
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Robert Reed – The Moonsinger Suite, Pts. 1-3 (from the album Sanctuary III, 2018)
More great, new, astounding progressive sounds await on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear music from Tribe of Names, Silver Nightmares, John Holden, The Blackheart Orchestra, Glass Island, Time's Forgotten, Adventure, and Evership! Plus, our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, will take us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with the latest album by the US duo Imaginary Kings!
This week on Prog-Watch it's another variety program full of fabulous, contemporary progressive rock! I've got great stuff from The Steve Bonino Project, Galahad, Dave Kerzner, Babal, The Gardening Club, Gandalf's Fist, Lonely Robot, Todd Rundgren (with Thomas Dolby), Time Horizon, UV Traveler, Glass Island, and Red Bazar!
As a warm-up (or bone-chill) for Samhain or Halloween, this week's Prog-Watch is all about monsters, both inhuman and human! With great music from David Bowie, Jethro Tull, Kyros, Camel, Blue Oyster Cult, Warren Zevon, Alice Cooper, Shineback, Ozzy Osbourne, Talking Heads, Greg Bissonette, Screaming Lord Sutch, The Edgar Winter Group, Dave Edmunds, and Bobby 'Boris' Pickett! Join me for a fun and frightening foray...if you dare!
This week I've got a variety program with a Guest DJ feature! Our guest DJ this time around is Mr. Andy Black of the UK, who has suggested some great stuff by Brand X, Focus, Rush, Fleetwood Mac, Yes, Genesis and Gerry Rafferty! And I'll be mixing in some great contemporary music from Todd Rundgren, Galahad, The Blackheart Orchestra, Arthur Brown, Down River Dead Men Go, and David Longdon!
Nearly 90 minutes of great electronic/ambient/progressive sounds from Church of Hed, Redshift, Wolfgang Bock, Erki Norlander and Malcolm Galloway!
I'm doing another of my band family tree explorations on Prog-Watch this week and my subject is the classic US band Kansas! We'll hear from the band proper and the spin-off, Proto-Kaw, and lots of great stuff from former members, Kerry Livgren, Steve Morse, Robby Steinhardt, and Steve Walsh!
More astounding, new progressive sounds await on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear great music from Ryo Okumoto, Evership, Nemo, Dave Kerzner, Kalin Tonev, and Cosmograf! Plus, our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, will take us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with the latest album by Norway's Pymlico!
Another oldie that I thought deserved a remaster! Anyway, on this program I’m shaking the family tree of the legendary band, the Moody Blues! We’ll hear lots of great stuff from the Moodies, Justin Hayward, John Lodge, Ray Thomas, Mike Pinder, Graeme Edge and more! See what shakes out!
Visit fantastical realms with Prog-Watch this week, where our theme is indeed fantasy! Tune in to hear lots of great sounds from Aldo Nova, The Tangent, Billy Joel, Introitus, The Kinks, Traffic, Patrick Moraz, Black Bonzo, Trevor Rabin, Mike Pinder, Paul Sutin & Steve Howe, Uriah Heep, Triumph, Mediaeval Baebes, and Steve Hackett!
Nearly two hours of great electronic, ambient, and progressive music from Kraftwerk, Synergy, Hawkwind, Mike Oldfield, and Fripp & Eno! See http://progwatch.com/101-dimensions-electronic-music/ for more details.
This week's Prog-Watch is a variety show with a Guest DJ Feature! Our Guest DJ is Brody Peddle of Canada, who has suggested some great stuff from UK, Anekdoten, Nektar, Broken Social Scene, Gosta Berlings Saga, Knifeworld, and Igorrr! For my part I will be mixing in new music from Sudler's Row, John Beagley, Fearful Symmetry, Moon Letters, The Mighty Handful, and Red Bazar! Tune in to hear a real mixed bag!
Lots of fantastic stuff has come across my digital desktop lately, so this week's Prog-Watch is a straight-up variety program full of awesome, mostly contemporary progressive rock! I've got great music from Big Big Train, John Holden, the Intelligent Music Project, Geoff Downes, Cosmograf, Dave Kerzner, Moon Letters, Ryo Okumoto, Armageddon, Fearful Symmetry, and Paul Simon! I hope you will join me!
Another oldie but goodie that I thought could use a little remaster: The Psychedelic Special!
A special feature on a very fascinating time in the history of music. More specifically, the Psychedelic period in the mid-to-late 1960s. This was a very creative and fertile time in which established bands such as the Beatles, the Who, the Moody Blues, and Cream figured prominently. It also saw the arrival of important nascent talents such as Pink Floyd and the young Jeff Lynne, Roy Wood, David Bowie, Steve Howe, and Chris Squire, to name but a few. We’ll hear from all of these and more on the Prog-Watch Psychedelic 60s Special! So come along for a fun ride…it’ll be groovy, baby!
(The bonus tracks:
Pictures of Matchstick Men by Status Quo
Fire by The Crazy World of Arthur Brown
Hurdy Gurdy Man by Donovan)
This week's Prog-Watch is another edition of our Explorations series, this one looking at Progressive Folk! In this program we'll explore the Prog Folk sub-genre through great music from Fairport Convention, Comus, Spirogyra, Jethro Tull, Magna Carta, Jan Dukes de Grey, The Strawbs, Harmonium, Steeleye Span, and Clannad!
101 Dimensions curated by Anthony Rowsick, August 2022:
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Peter Baumann – Strangers In The Night; Metro Man; King Of The Jungle; Be Mine; and Time Machine (from the album Strangers In The Night, 1983)
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Thomas Dolby – She Blinded Me With Science (extended mix); Radio Silence; Airwaves; Flying North; and Weightless (from the album The Golden Age Of Wireless, 1982)
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Hawkwind – It's The Business Of The Future To Be Dangerous; I Am The Eye That Looks Within; and Quark, Strangeness, and Charm (from the album 25 Years On, 1994)
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Erik Norlander – Fanfare For Absent Friends; City Of Living Machines; and New Gotham Prime (from the album Seas Of Orion, 2004)
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Vangelis – The Motion Of The Stars; The Will Of The Wind; Metallic Rain; Elsewhere; Dial Out; and Glorianna (Hymn a la Femme) (from the album Direct, 1988)
This week's Prog-Watch is a themed special called School Days! With fabulous music by The Kinks, Argent, Comedy of Errors, Pete wnshend, Godley & Creme, Big Country, Gentle Giant, Stone Temple Pilots, Frank Zappa, Van Halen, Joe Walsh, Paul Simon, Jon & Vangelis, Jethro Tull, and Rush!
This week's Prog-Watch is another edition of Epix! But this time around I've done something a little different. The songs are all still 10 plus minutes in length, but this time there is more emphasis on the contemporary. Only one track comes from the 70s...the rest are from this century, with one from 2001, one from 2018, and two from this year. Tune in to hear great progressive sounds from Yes, The Watch, Ben Craven, All Traps on Earth, and Athak!
A plethora of fantastic stuff has come across my digital desktop lately, so this week's Prog-Watch is a straight-up variety program full of awesome, mostly contemporary progressive rock! I've got great music from Combinator, Evership, Grombira, The Bedlam Furnaces, Numen, Robert Berry's 3.2, The Samurai of Prog, Lucifer Was, Head Spin, Porcupine Tree, and Glass Island!
I sometimes listen to old shows to see how I've progressed. In listening to this first edition in my “Shaking the Tree” series, I really liked the content, but feel the sound quality leaves a little to be desired. So I decided to remaster it, and in many cases used tracks from remastered versions of the albums. Since I had time, I also included a bonus track at the end. Sonically, the program is far superior to the program (although there was only so much I could do with the voice track).
Anyway, without further ado, I present Shaking the Yes Family Tree (Remastered + Bonus Track), with music from The Buggles, Trevor Rabin, Refugee, Asia, Flash, Esquire, Levin-Torn-White, Badger, Bruford, and Chris Squire!
I hope you will join me on Prog-Watch this week when I will be exploring some of the vast Musical World of the late Jon Lord! We'll hear great music from Deep Purple and his solo career, of course, as well as some of his other work with Tony Ashton, Whitesnake, and George Harrison!
More astounding progressive sounds await on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear music from Bill Bruford, Nick Fletcher, Robert Berry's 3.2, The Prog Collective, Caravaggio, Andrew Ruoti, and Grombira! Plus, our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, will take us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with the latest release by the Finnish band Poets of the Fall!
Join Rob Fisher, Magnus Moar and Big Tony on Prog-Watch this week for a look at some of the greatest keyboard virtuosos to ever grace our favorite genre! Guess who made the program, based on the episode's cover art! Even if you can guess them all, you won't want to miss this one! It's a belter!
This week on Prog-Watch it's Part Two of my coverage of Dave Bainbridge! More chat with Dave, more great solo music, and more great music from his work with the Strawbs, Lifesigns, the Downes Braide Association, and Dave Fitzgerald!
101 Dimensions curated by Anthony Rowsick, June 2022:
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Gary Numan – Resurrection; Big Noise Transmission; Dead Sun Rising; When The Sky Bleeds, He Will Come; and For The Rest of My Life (22:31) (from the album Dead Son Rising, 2011)
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Klaus Schulze – Mindphaser (25:37) (from the album Moondawn, 1976)
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Nik Turner – We Came In Peace; and Interstellar Clouds (20:21) (from the album Space Fusion Odyssey, 2015)
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Vangelis – Chariots of Fire (20:41) (from the album Chariots of Fire, 1982)
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Mike Oldfield – Crises (20:39) (from the album Crises, 1983)
This week on Prog-Watch my very special guest is Dave Bainbridge, multi-instrumentalist and co-founder of Iona, solo artist, and collaborator with many bands and artists including Lifesigns, the Strawbs, the Downes Briade Association, and Sally Minnear! Dave and I had a lot to talk about, so tune in to hear some of that chat, and lots of great music from his diverse career!
This week's Prog-Watch is a variety program with a Guest DJ Feature, which will have lots of great stuff---new and old---for your listening pleasure! For my part I'll be spinning fabulous music from Green Asphalt, 3.2, and Ben Craven! I'll also be mixing in selections from our Guest DJ, Mr. Andrew Dickey of Plainfield, Indiana, USA! Andrew has selected some fantastic stuff from Galahad, Lucifer Was, RPWL, Rush, Rocket Scientists, and King Crimson! Come along for a fun ride!
Wow have I got a lot of diverse, new progressive rock for you on this week's Prog-Watch! Tune in to hear great stuff from Greyfox Agenda, Pattern-Seeking Animals, Pymlico, The Bardic Depths, Lobate Scarp, Checking For Echo Project, Christopher Libertino, Kite Parade, Gordon Giltrap and Oliver Wakeman, Art Griffins Sound Chaser, Stuckfish, Godley and Creme, and Hats Off Gentlemen, It's Adequate! All in 90 minutes!
This week's Prog-Watch is another edition of EPIX! Just a handful of mini modern symphonies will carry us through our time together and I'll spread the love across the decades of our favorite genre! Tune in to hear great music from Transatlantic, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Unitopia, Mystery, and Wobbler!
101 Dimensions curated by Anthony Rowsick, May 2022:
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Nerissa Schwarz – Raised Like a Daughter; My Little Polymath; New Eyes For Laika; Europa Waiting; and Making Plans For Departure (21:56) (from the album New Eyes For Laika, 2022)
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Klaus Schulze - L'affaire Tournesol (19:38) (from the Jubilee Edition box set, 1997)
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Vangelis – Heaven and Hell (21:42) (from the album Heaven and Hell, 1975)
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Redshift – Toll (20:44) (from the album Toll, 2006)
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Klaus Schulze - Fourneau Cosmique (25:35) (from the Historic Edition box set, 1995)
More great, contemporary progressive sounds await on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear music from Lobate Scarp, Pattern-Seeking Animals, Time Dwellers, Spriggan Mist, and Better Strangers! Plus, our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, returns to take us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with the latest album by the ESP Project!
This week on Prog-Watch I'm digging into some of the vast Musical World of Manfred Mann! From his early days in the '60s pop band that bore his name, through the jazz explorations of Manfred Mann Chapter Three, to the more progressive sounds of Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred has had a long and diverse career! I hope you will join me in exploring some of it!
This week on Prog-Watch it's a new type of show—Discovering Progressive Virtuosos! In this series Dr. Rob Fisher and I will look at virtuosos on their chosen instruments and listen to some of their best work! This first edition will feature guitar virtuosos, and we're sure you can probably tell who we will be featuring, based on this episode's cover art!
Be on the lookout for a plethora of fabulous progressive rock music on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear from Luca Di Gennaro, Tiger Moth Tales, Checking For Echo Project, SomeWhereOut, Kaprekar's Constant, Twelfth Night, Yes, The Flower Kings, Christopher Libertino, Ben Craven, and The ESP Project! As Yoda would say, “Miss it not!”
101 Dimensions, April 2022:
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Ott – 382 Seaside; Roflcopter; and A Shower of Sparks (23:06) (from the album Skylon, 2012)
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Anne Dudley – Giant Below # Giant Above # Giant Within (22:51) (from the album Art of Silence Co UK, 1996)
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Altamont – Altamont (17:49) (from the album Prayer for the Soul, 1983)
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Ulrich Schnauss – The Weight of Darkening Skies; Borrowed Time; Ten Years; and A Ritual in Time and Death (24:23) (from the album Now Is A Timeless Present: A Retrospective, 2019)
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Vangelis – Invisible Connections (18:37) (from the album Invisible Connections, 1985)
Take your best shot this week with Prog-Watch! On this little themed special we'll hear from Utopia, Mansun, Anekdoten, Dennis DeYoung, UFO, Pineapple Thief, Rick Wakeman, Yes, Anthony Phillips, Kevin Ayers, Traffic, Saul Blease, Richard & Linda Thompson, Peter Hammill, and Fish! All in 90 minutes!
More great, contemporary progressive sounds await on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear music from Luca Di Gennaro, Karmamoi, the Checking For Echo Project, Anton Johansson, and Kite Parade! Plus, our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, returns to take us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with the latest album by Thomas Thielen (AKA “t”)!
I hope you will join me on Prog-Watch this week when I will be exploring some of the vast Musical World of Robert Fripp! We'll hear great music from King Crimson and his solo career, of course, and from some of his collaborations with Brian Eno, Andy Summers, and David Sylvian. Plus, a few of Robert's interesting guest appearances!
Lots of fantastic stuff this week from Andrew Roussak, Tiger Moth Tales, Modern-Rock Ensemble, Karibow, Cosmograf, D'Virgilio, Morse & Jennings, and Tears For Fears! Plus, I will pay a little tribute to two great musicians who we lost recently...Ian McDonald and Gary Brooker.
101 Dimensions curated by Anthony Rowsick, March 2022:
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The Orb – Earth Orbit One: Little Fluffy Clouds; Earth Orbit Two: Earth (Gaia); and Earth Orbit Three: Supernova at the End of the Universe (26:12) (from the album The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld, 1991)
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John Carpenter – Distant Dream; White Pulse; Persia Rising; Angel's Asylum; and Hofner Dawn (19:24) (from the album Lost Themes II, 2016)
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Anne Dudley – What Dreams May Come; Variations on a Groove; and Crazy Lullaby (24:44) (from the album Seriously Chilled, 2003)
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The Alan Parsons Project – P-K4; P-QB4; Kt-KB3; Kt-QB3; and P-Q4 (19:39) (from the album The Sicilian Defence, 2014)
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Cliff Martinez – Hi Energy Proton Accelerator; Wear Your Seat Belt; Wormhole, and We Don't Have to Think Like That Anymore (21:33) (from the album Solaris OST, 2003)
This week on Prog-Watch: great new music from D'Virgilio, Morse, and Jennings, Tears For Fears, The Flower Kings, Kite Parade, and Marillion! Then, in the second half of the program I will finish up the feature on Chris Ramsing and his band PsychoYogi which I began last week! We'll hear a bit more chat, and a bit more of PsychoYogi's unique brand of “leftfield punk jazz”!
This week's Prog-Watch is a bit of a mixed bag! The first part of the program will be a Guest DJ feature with some music selected by Mr. David Rees of the UK! David's playlist includes great stuff from Meer, Marillion, IQ, Jadis, Asia, Kracked Earth, I Am The Manic Whale and Big Big Train! In the second half of the program I begin a feature on Chris Ramsing and his eclectic band, PsychoYogi, including a bit of chat and selections from the first few PsychoYogi albums!
More astounding progressive sounds await on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear music from Tiger Moth Tales, Lobate Scarp, Silver Nightmares, Black Sabbath (yes, Black Sabbath!) and Yes! Plus, our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, will take us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with Life In Two Dimensions, the latest solo album by Dec Burke!
This week on Prog-Watch it's Part Two of my coverage of Sonja Kristina! More of our chat and more great music from Curved Air, and her solo career and collaborations with Ty-Lor and Friends, Cloud 10, and Mask!
101 Dimensions curated by Anthony Rowsick, February 2022:
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Bo Hansson – Attic Thoughts; Time and Space; Waiting...; Waltz for Interbeings; and Time For Great Achievements ( 21:26) (from the album Attic Thoughts, 1976)
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Michael Hoenig – Hanging Garden Transfer; Voices of Where; and Sun and Moon (21:31) (from the album Departure from the Northern Wasteland, 1978)
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Kraftwerk - The Voice Of Energy; Antenna; Radio Stars; Uranium; Transistor; and Ohm Sweet Ohm (17:30) (from the album Radio-Activity, 1975)
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Ash Ra Tempel – Jenseits (24:13) (from the album Join Inn, 1973)
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Michael Stearns – Sleeping Conches (30:26) (from the album Sustaining Cylinders, 2001)
This week on Prog-Watch I start a great two-part feature on one of prog rock's Grande Dames, Ms. Sonja Kristina of Curved Air! Tune in to hear some of our chat and lots of great music from all across her long and illustrious career!
This week's Prog-Watch is all about lions and tigers and bears! Oh my! Join me for a bevy of beastly tunes from David Bowie Steve Howe, Stick Men, Adrian Belew, Steve Hackett, Zebra, Roy Wood, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Purson, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Steve Thorne, Stone Temple Pilots, Transport Aerian, Golden Earring, Paul Draper, Kate Bush, Dhani Harrison, and Asia! All in 90 minutes! Oh my, indeed!
This week's Prog-Watch is another straight-up variety program, with lots of diverse, mostly contemporary progressive rock for your listening enjoyment! Tune in to hear great stuff from Karibow, Cosmograf, Steve Gresswell, This Winter Machine, Montrose, A Formal Horse, Belling The Tiger, Trettioariga Kriget, Transatlantic, GorMusik, and Andrew Roussak!
Lots of fantastic stuff has come across my digital desktop lately, so this week's Prog-Watch is a straight-up variety program full of awesome, mostly contemporary progressive rock! I've got great music from Pinn Dropp, Dave Bainbridge, A Gardening Club Project, Drive In Movie Band, Starfish64, Temple of Switches, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, The Bedlam Furnaces, Symfinity, Empire, and David Cross and Andrew Keeling! I hope you will join me!
101 Dimensions curated by Anthony Rowsick, late January 2022:
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Spacelords – Cosmic Trip (24:20) (from the album SpaceFlowers, 2020)
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Ott – Jack's Cheese and Bread Snack; and Somersettler (20:23) (from the album Blumenkraft, 2003)
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Trinity Ward – Between the Edges of the Universe; Artifact; Make It Be; and Transmission (Ethereal Mix) (18:41) (from the album Enter the Infinite, 2010)
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Baber / Wileman – Passing Wave; 2009; Day Follows Night; and The Birth of Spring (19:14) (from the album Baber / Wileman, 2022)
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Detieti – Disorienteria; and Reflective Architect (17:57) (from the album Serious IV, 2021)
This week on Prog-Watch it's Part Two of my coverage of Dec Burke! More of our chat and more great music from his solo career, as well as AudioPlastik, Dilemma, Frost*, and Darwin's Radio! Plus, a little bit of interesting news! Tune in to hear it!
This week on Prog-Watch I start a great two-part feature on my very special guest, Dec Burke, solo artist and past member of Frost*, AudioPlastik, Dilemma, and Darwin's Radio! Tune in to hear some of our chat and lots of great music from all across his career!
This week's Prog-Watch is another edition of our Explorations series, this one looking at Neo-Progressive Rock, or Neo-Prog, for short! In this program we'll explore the Neo-Prog sub-genre through great music from Marillion, IQ, Galahad, Pendragon, Arena, Magenta, Comedy of Errors, Collage, Sylvan, and the Barock Project!
This week on Prog-Watch it's Part Two of my two-part collaboration with The Progressive Aspect on some of the best albums of 2021! More great TPA commentary on music from A Formal Horse, 3.2, Trettioariga Kriget, The Holy Family, The Paradox Twin, Steven Wilson, Three Colours Dark, This Winter Machine, Drifting Sun, and Mostly Autumn!
101 Dimensions curated by Anthony Rowsick, January 2022:
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Keith Emerson – And Then January; Pictures at an Exhibition; and Abaddon's Bolero Orchestral (18:58) (from the album Off the Shelf, 2006)
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Richard Barbieri – Nevada; Fear and Trembling; and Light on Glass (17:22) (from the album Things Buried, 2004)
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Jon Lord – Window: 1st Movement – Renga; 2nd Movement – Gemini; and 3rd Movement – Alla Marcia; Allegro (32:15) (from the album Windows, 1974)
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Darkroom – Amor Mundi; The Last Sense to Fade; and A Year On Saturn (37:43) (from the album The Last Sense to Fade, 2021)
Happy New Year! Join us and start the year off right with some of the best progressive rock produced last year, as we begin our Prog-Watch and The Progressive Aspect collaboration on the Best of 2021! We'll hear music from Raven Sad, Sylvan, Lifesigns, Cyan, The Emerald Dawn, Octarine Sky, and Big Big Train! With brief reviews by our TPA contributors, Tony Colvill, David Edwards, Rob Fisher, Magnus Moar, Bob Mulvey, Jez Rowden, Graham Thomas, Roger Trenwith, and Leo Trimming!
This week I've got a new Prog-Watch Christmas special which I hope will help get you into the spirit of the Season! Lot's of great stuff and no talking (well, aside from the preamble...)
This week on Prog-Watch it's another variety program full of fabulous stuff for your listening enjoyment! I've got great music from Porcupine Tree, Kosmodome, Octarine Sky, Al Stewart, Viriditas, Marillion, Burntfield, PsychoYogi, Billy Joel, Ross Jennings, and Transport Aerian!
101 Dimensions curated by Anthony Rowsick, December 2021:
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Ott – 16mm Summer Day; Coursing Batch; and Harwell Dekatron (23:24) (from the album Fairchildren (2015)
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Vangelis Mouettes; Chromatique; Irlande; and Flamants Roses (22:29) (from the album Opera Sauvage, 1979)
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Röyksopp – Silver Cruiser; True To Life; It's What I Want; and Across The Graveyard (17:56) (from the album Junior, 2009)
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John Carpenter – Abyss; Wraith; Purgatory; and Night (18:54) (from the album Lost Themes, 2015)
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Matt Baber – Parts 6 – 10 (22:38) (from the album Suite For Piano and Electronics, 2018)
Get your "Royal Highness" on with Prog-Watch this week, with our theme of Kings and Queens! Tune in to hear lots of regal refrains from The Moody Blues, Jump, Richard Thompson, The Nice, Jethro Tull, Oliver Wakeman and Steve Howe, Bankstatement, Arena, Camel, Al Stewart, The Strawbs, Pendragon, Tony Lowe and Alison Fleming, Ken Hensley, ELO, and Renaissance!
More great, contemporary progressive sounds await on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear music from Moron Police, Glacier, Jethro Tull, A Secret River, and Hasse Fröberg & Musical Companion! Plus, our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, returns to take us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with the latest album by Three Colours Dark!
This week on Prog-Watch I'm digging through the vaults and doing an entire show of Prog Rock classic tracks! I'll be spinning tunes from Steve Hackett, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Spring, Abel Ganz, Badfinger, Marillion, Rick Wakeman, The Alan Parsons Project, Fantasy, 10CC, Kestrel, Ryo Okumoto, and It Bites!
This week's Prog-Watch is a straight-up variety program full of great contemporary progressive rock! I've got fantastic stuff from Leslie Hunt, Fantasy, This Winter Machine, Hangar Nord, Premiata Forneria Marconi, Kosmodome, Cyan, Yes, Red Sand, and Glass Hammer! I hope you will join me!
101 Dimensions curated by Anthony Rowsick, November 2021:
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Vangelis – Atlas's Push; Inside Our Perspectives; Out In Space; Juno's Quiet Determination; and Jupiter's Intuition (20:43) (from the album Juno To Jupiter, 2021)
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Public Service Broadcasting – Lichtspiel I – Opus; Lichtspiel II – Schwarz Weiss Grau; Lichtspiel III – Symphonie Diagonale; and Ich Und Die Stadt (17:39) (from the album Bright Magic, 2021)
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Kosmogon – Somnus (22:57) (from the album Mässan, 2021)
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Edgar Froese – Tropic of Capricorn (20:44) (from the album Ages, 1978)
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David Bedford - Star Clusters, Nebulae & Places In Devon (25:03) (from the album Star Clusters, Nebulae & Places In Devon / The Song Of The White Horse, 1983)
I hope you will join me for nearly 2 hours of electronic, ambient, progressive music!
I'm doing another of my band family tree explorations on Prog-Watch this week and my subject is the classic US band Spock's Beard! We'll hear from the band proper, and many of the major members, past and present! Join me to hear all the great stuff that I shake out of the Spock's Beard Family Tree!
More astounding progressive sounds await on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear music from Fractal Mirror, Alex Pilkevych, Alcantara, Krokofant, Tom Slatter, Choclat Frog, Pentesilea Road, and Premiata Forneria Marconi! Plus, our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, will take us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with the solo debut of Riverside kyeboardist Michal Lapaj!
As a warm-up (or bone-chill) for Samhain or Halloween, this week's Prog-Watch is all about nightmares and the macabre! With songs concerning things spooky or supernatural from Alice Cooper, Atomic Rooster, King Crimson, Uriah Heep, Kansas, Rush, Anthony Phillips, Spock's Beard, Pink Floyd, Steven Wilson, and Jethro Tull! Join me...if you dare!
On this week's Prog-Watch my special guest is the charming Mariana Semkina of iamthemorning! Tune in to hear some of our chat, as well as lots of great iamthemorning music, and music from her solo career, including a few from her new EP Disillusioned!
101 Dimensions curated by Anthony Rowsick - October 2021:
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Ulrich Schnauss – Melts Into Air; Love Grows Out Of Thin Air; The Magic In You; and Thoughtless Motion (23:03) (from the album Now Is A Timeless Present: A Retrospective, 2019)
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Spacelords – Spaceflowers; and Frau Kuhnkes Kosmos (25:18) (from the album Spaceflowers, 2020)
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Jansen Barbieri Karn – The Shallow Pool; To The Core; Sacrifice; and Cold Light (20:27) (from the album Ism, 1999)
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Ennio Morricone and John Carpenter – Main Title; Main Theme – Desolation; Humanity 2; Despair; and Humanity (20:45) (from the album The Thing (OST), 1982)
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Kosmogon – Mässan (25:00) (from the album Mässan, 2021)
Get ready for another ALL NEW variety program full of great contemporary progressive rock on this week's Prog-Watch! I've got fantastic stuff from The Watch, Cyan, Aisles, Dec Burke, EmT, Three Colours Dark, Shumaun, Ray Wilson, The Paradox Twin, and Hangar Nord! I hope you will join me!
Come take a ride with me on this week's Prog-Watch and we'll drive into a Brave New World! (Well every song will be about some world, anyway...the new world, half the world, the real world, a fantasy world, etc.) Soundtrack provided by Michael Penn, The Moody Blues, Big Big Train, Rush, Conspiracy, The Alan Parsons Project, The Strawbs, Kansas, The Electric Light Orchestra, Black Bonzo, David Bowie, Roger Daltrey, Red Bazar, Be Bop Deluxe, and The Anderson Ponty Band!
On Prog-Watch this week it's another installment of OUR PROGRESSIVE PLANET in which Dr. Rob Fisher and I will take you on a little tour of the vibrant progressive music scene in Germany! With music from Sylvan, Lucifer's Friend, Subsignal, Panzerballett, Eloy, RPWL, Frequency Drift, Vanden Plas, Seven Steps To The Green Door, and Schmid and Arnold! We hope you will join us!
This week's Prog-Watch is a variety program with a Guest DJ Feature, which will have lots of great stuff---new and old---for your listening pleasure! For my part I'll be spinning fabulous music from Yes, Big Big Train, Smalltape, Kristoffer Gildenlöw, Gentle Giant, and Texel! I'll also be mixing in selections from our Guest DJ, Mr. Jean-Marc Bonard of Lausanne, Switzerland! Jean-Marc has selected some fantastic stuff from Airquake, Genesis, Peter Gabriel, Arena, The Who, Marillion, and Caroline Shaw! Come along for a fun ride!
101 Dimensions curated by Anthony Rowsick, September 2021:
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Geoff Downes' New Dance Orchestra – Shine On; Forgiven; Movin' On; Rainbow's End; and Breaking the Spell (21:14) (from the album Electronica, 2010)
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Edgar Froese – Stuntman; It Would Be Like Samoa; and Detroit Snackbar Dreamer (21:37) (from the album Stuntman, 1979)
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Vangelis – Suffocation; and See You Later (19:48) (from the album See You Later, 1980)
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Redshift – Leviathan; Rhode Kill; Panzer; and Different Light (19:27) (from the album Halo, 2002)
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Michael Stearns and Ron Sunsinger – The Little Smoke; The Landing of Inorganic Life; Portal; Between Parallel Lines; and Journey to the Underworld (26:20) (from the album Sorcerer, 2000)
This week on Prog-Watch it's another ALL NEW variety program full of fabulous, contemporary progressive rock! I've got great new stuff from Drifting Sun, Kyros, Ray Wilson, John Wetton, Big Big Train, Tony Kaye, Smalltape, Styx, Shumaun, Dec Burke, Lee Abraham, and Texel!
This week on Prog-Watch it's Part Two of my coverage of Tony Lowe of the ESP Project and 22 Layers! We'll hear more great music and chat, and Cheryl Stringall, Tony's partner at the Sunn Creative label, even drops by! As if this was not enough, Dr. Rob Fisher is also doing a Progressive Discoveries feature on the latest 22 Layers album, Isotope! All this in 90 minutes!
This week on Prog-Watch my very special guest is Tony Lowe of the ESP Project and 22 Layers! Tune in to hear some of our chat and lots of great music from the two projects just mentioned and his collaboration with Alison Fleming!
I hope you will join me on Prog-Watch this week when I will be exploring some of the vast Musical World of David Gilmour! We'll hear great music from Pink Floyd and his solo career, of course, as well as a variety of stuff featuring Dave as producer and guest!
101 Dimensions curated by Anthony Rowsick, August 2021:
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John Carpenter – Alive After Death; Weeping Ghost; Dripping Blood; Dead Eyes; and Vampire's Touch (19:29) (from the album Lost Themes III – Alive After Death, 2021)
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Tangerine Dream – Approaching Snowy Village; Odd Welcome; The Untouchable Castle; and The Apparently Lunatic Hierarchy (25:11) (from the album Franz Kafka – The Castle, 2013)
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David Sylvian and Holger Czukay – Flux (A Big, Bright, Colorful World) (16:57) (from the album Flux + Mutability, 1988)
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Ulrich Schnauss – Brooks Was Here; Sunday Evening in Your Street; and Suddenly the Trees Are Giving Way (20:24) (from the album Now Is A Timeless Present – A Retrospective, 2019)
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Jansen Barbieri Karn – Beginning to Melt; In the Black of Desire; The Insect Tribe; and Prey (26:54) (from the EP Seed, 1994)
I hope you will join me!
This week's Prog-Watch is the first of an occasionally recurring series that will explore different sub-genres of progressive rock! This first installment looks at symphonic prog, and we'll hear great music from Yes, Camel, Renaissance, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Anglagard, Echolyn, Kansas, Focus, and Genesis!
This week on Prog-Watch it's another ALL NEW variety program full of fabulous, contemporary progressive rock! I've got great new stuff from The Cyberiam, Styx, Big Hogg, Steve Hackett, Kayak, Mariusz Duda, The Yuval Ron Trio, Nad Sylvan, Daidrum, Lord Helmet, and Elypsia!
This week's Prog-Watch has a “dream theme”! Every song will be about dreams or dreaming, with marvelous, melodious music provided by The Moody Blues, Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Gary Wright, The Flower Kings, Supertramp, The Electric Light Orchestra, Yes, Asia, John Lennon, The Zombies, O.R.k., Esquire, Jethro Tull, Downes Braide Association, Genesis, King Crimson, and The Allman Brothers Band!
Lots of great sounds abound on this week's Prog-Watch! Tune in to hear fabulous stuff from Bend The Future, Red Bazar, Nine Skies, Kamyki, Crack The Sky, Deep Clear Field, Magenta, Jordsjø, Lord Helmet, and Tom Newman!
101 Dimensions curated by Anthony Rowsick, July 2021:
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Thomas Dolby – I Love You Goodbye; Cruel; Silk Pyjamas; and Eastern Block (Sequel to Europa and the Pirate Twins) (18:05) (from the album Astronauts and Heretics, 1992)
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Jansen Barbieri Karn – Beginning to Melt; The Wilderness; and March of the Innocents (20:53) (from the album Beginning to Melt, 1993)
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Tom Newman – The Woods Of; Fórdin Searchráin; Bean Si; Little Voices of the Tarans; The Fluter; The Seelie Court (Goodish Faeries); and The Spell Breaks (17:37) (from the album Faerie Symphony, 1977)
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Ulrich Schnauss – Knuddelmaus; Between Us and Them; Passing By; and Blumenwiese Neben Autobahn (27:57) (from the album Now is a Timeless Present – A Retrospective, 2019)
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The New Dance Orchestra – Symphonie Electronique; and Urbanology (28:56) (from the album The Light Program, 1987)
I hope you will join me!
This week on Prog-Watch I'm breaking out some fantastic EPIX once again! In this edition we'll hear from Kansas, The Alan Parsons Project, Dream Theater, Magenta, Motorpsycho, and King Crimson!
This week's Prog-Watch is a themed special called Home Sweet Home! With fabulous music by Peter Gabriel, Magenta, Blind Faith, Genesis, Jon & Vangelis, The Alan Parsons Project, Rod Argent & Colin Blunstone, Big Big Train, Boston, Paul & Linda McCartney, The Electric Light Orchestra, Jethro Tull, Kansas, Big Country, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, and Phil Collins!
Be on the lookout for an awesome assemblage of astounding progressive rock music on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear from Frost*, Luca Zabbini, Gentle Giant, Bend The Future, Kayak, Barebone, 22 Layers, Franklin Mint, Paul Cusick, Jon Anderson, Ciccada, and Liquid Tension Experiment! As Yoda would say, “Miss it not!”
This week on Prog-Watch it's Part Two of my coverage of Simon Collins! More chat with Simon, and more great music from his most recent albums, plus a guest appearance on a Genesis re-make by Steve Hackett!
My turn on 101 Dimensions once again and here's our itinerary:
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Tangerine Dream – Timeless; Ride on the Ray (Atlantic Ocean Version); Peddington at Five; and Morning Star (22:40) (from the album Flame, 2009)
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Jean-Michel Jarre – Industrial Revolution: Overture, Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 (16:48) (from the album Revolutions, 1988)
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Jean-Luc Ponty – Life Enigma; Even the Sun Will Die; Love at Last Sight; and And Life Goes On (22:51) (from the album Life Enigma, 2001)
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Mike Oldfield – Misty; No Man's Land; Return to the Origin; Landfall; and Viper (21:32) (from the album Tr3s Lunas, 2002)
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David Cross and Robert Fripp – Starless Starlight Loops; In The Shadow; Shine and Fall (23:49) (from the album Starless Starlight, 2015)
I hope you will join me!
I hope you will join me on Prog-Watch this week when I will be exploring some of the vast Musical World of Ritchie Blackmore! We'll hear great music from Deep Purple, Rainbow, and his latest endeavor, Blackmore's Night!
This week on Prog-Watch my special guest is Simon Collins, eldest son of Phil, singer and multi-instrumentalist, solo artist, and former member of Sound of Contact! Simon and I chat about his illustrious career, and along the way I will of course be spinning lots of great music!
More great, contemporary progressive sounds await on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear music from Frost*, Nad Sylvan, The Checking For Echo Project, and Sylvan! Plus, our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, returns to take us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with the latest album by Raven Sad!
This week on Prog-Watch it's Part Two of my coverage of Oliver Wakeman! More chat with Oliver, and more great music from his time with Yes, his solo career, and his collaborations with Gordon Giltrap and Clive Nolan! From the latter: a nice helping of music from the new Nolan and Wakeman box set Tales By Gaslight!
Here's what's on tap for this month's 101 Dimensions:
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Röyksopp – Go Away; Clean Sweep; Boys; Head; and Looser Now (25:04) (from the album The Understanding, 2005)
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Nik Turner – Adjust The Future; Hypernova, and Spiritual Machines (22:04) (from the album Space Fusion Odyssey, 2015)
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Isao Tomita – Dawn Chorus; Whistle Train; Pegasus; and Vela-X Pulsar (21:11) (from the album Dawn Chorus, 1984)
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John Carpenter – Virtual Survivor; Bela Lugosi; Last Sunrise; Utopian Facade; and Real Xeno (20:08) (from the album Lost Themes II, 2016)
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Vangelis – Alpha; Nucleogenesis, Pt. 1 and 2; and Albedo 0.39 (22:12) (from the album Albedo 0.39, 1976)
I hope you will join me!
This week's Prog-Watch is a straight-up variety program full of great contemporary progressive rock! I've got fantastic stuff from Liquid Tension Experiment, Karmamoi, Jon Anderson, Sylvan, Steven Wilson, Ciccada, Renaissance, Bob Lord, The Franky Valentyn Project, The Man From Ravcon, RPWL, and Raven Sad! I hope you will join me!
This week on Prog-Watch my very special guest is Oliver Wakeman! Tune in to hear some of our chat and lots of great Yes, Strawbs, Nolan and Wakeman and solo Oliver Wakeman music!
Go stargazing with Prog-Watch this week, with our theme of stars and constellations! Tune in to hear lots of stellar sounds from The Alan Parsons Project, Jethro Tull, King's X, Robert Fripp, IQ, Redshift, Mike Oldfield, FM, Steve Hackett, Pallas, Guy Manning, Hawkwind, Billy Sherwood, Enya, and Jon Anderson!
This week on Prog-Watch my special guest is the inimitable Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull fame! Tune in to hear some fun and interesting chat, as well as lots of great Jethro Tull music! 'Nuff said!
I hope you will join me this week for another eclectic and enthralling edition of 101 Dimensions! Here's what's in store:
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The Orb – Codes; Orbisonia; and Let the Music Set You Free (21:02) (from the album The Dream, 2007)
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Klaus Schulze – Constellation Andromeda (23:52) (from the album Dreams, 1986)
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Oliver Wakeman – Muladhara; and Svadisthana (21:19) (from the album Chakras, 2001)
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John Carpenter – Vortex; Obsidian; Fallen; and Domain (24:27) (from the album Lost Themes, 2015)
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Ian Boddy – The Mechanics of a Thought (23:34) (from the album The Mechanics of a Thought, 2007)
There are tons of tasty tunes to astound and astonish you on this week's Prog-Watch! Prick up your ears to hear great stuff from Frost*, District 97, Midlake, The Mighty Handful, Lifesigns, Arc Of Life, Robert Berry's 3.2, The Flying Caravan, Zeh, and UVTraveler!
This week's Prog-Watch is another edition of EPIX! Just a handful of lengthy tunes will carry us through our time together and I'll spread the love across the decades of our favorite genre! Tune in to hear great music from Yes, Pattern-Seeking Animals, Moon Safari, Traffic, and Genesis!
I'm doing another of my band family tree explorations on Prog-Watch this week and my subject is the classic UK band Pink Floyd! We'll hear from the band proper, and all the major members, Syd Barrett, David Gilmour, Nick Mason, Roger Waters, and Rick Wright! Join me to hear all the great stuff that I shake out of the Pink Floyd Family Tree!
This week on Prog-Watch I'm pitching another straight-up variety program of very recently released stuff...in fact, everything we'll be hearing this week has been released in 2021! We'll hear from 3.2, Raven Sad, The Prog Collective, The Flying Caravan, Kostas Sampanis, Astral Bazaar, John Holden and Friends, Garden of Live Flowers, Lifesigns, Arc of Life, and Compile!
I've put together another eclectic mix of stuff for my turn this month on 101 Dimensions! Here's what I've cooked up:
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Duncan Mackay – Visa; Peru Tu; Fistful of Keyboards; and See Sea (17:28) (from the album Visa, 1980)
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Jon & Vangelis – Curious Electric; Each and Every Day; Bird Song; I Hear You Now; and The Road (21:19) (from the album Short Stories, 1980)
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Amon Duul II – Soap Shop Rock – a. Burning Sister; b. Halluzination Guillotine; c. Gulp A Sonata; d. Flesh-Colored Anti-Aircraft Alarm; She Came Through The Chimney; and Archangels Thunderbird (20:23) (from the album Yeti, 1970)
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Pekka Pohjola – Metsonpelia; Virtojen Kiharat; and Armoton Idylli (20:12) (from the album Pihkasilma Kaarnakorva, 1972)
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Redshift – Rise and Shine; Savage Messiah; and Halo (26:36) (from the album Halo, 2002)
I hope you will join me!
More great, contemporary progressive sounds await on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear music from Nad Sylvan, The Franky Valentyn Project, Astral Bazaar, Skeptosphere and Sonus Umbra! Plus, our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, returns to take us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with the latest album by Kepler Ten!
Spring hit the northern hemisphere this weekend so on this edition of Prog-Watch I'm celebrating the sun! I've got a slew of spectacular solar songs from the likes of The Beatles, Asia, Overhead, Panic Room, Genesis, The Anderson-Ponty Band, Utopia, Jethro Tull, ELO, Schicke Fuehrs & Froeling, The Kinks, Badfinger, Traffic, Anekdoten, Ranaissance, In Continuum, and The Strawbs!
This week on Prog-Watch it's another variety program full of fabulous, contemporary progressive rock! I've got great stuff from Steven Wilson, Transatlantic, Asia Minor, District 97, Sonus Umbra, The Bedlam Furnaces, Kyros, Lifesigns, and 35 Tapes!
This week on Prog-Watch my very special guest is Dave Oberle of Gryphon! Tune in to hear some of our chat about the band and the making of their latest album 'Get Out Of My Father's Car'. Along the way I will of course be spinning some great Gryphon music...some classics from the 1970s, and some future classics from their most recent albums, including a few from the new one!
Join me on this month's edition of 101 Dimensions to hear my usual eclectic mix of progressive and electronic sounds! Here's what's in store:
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Hawkwind – The Psychedelic Warlords (Disappear In Smoke); Wind Of Change; D-Rider; and Web Weaver (21:29) (from the album Hall Of The Mountain Grill, 1974)
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Simon McKechnie – The Origin Of Species (20:51) (from the album Retro, 2021)
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Steven Wilson – Slut 1.4; and Apres-Mortes (19:50) (from the album Unreleased Electronic Music, 2006)
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Redshift – Ether (27:29) (from the album Redshift II, 1997)
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Vangelis – Rosetta; Philae's Descent; Mission Accomplished (Rosetta's Waltz); Perihelion; Elegy; and Return To The Void (24:21) (from the album Rosetta, 2016)
This week's Prog-Watch is another straight-up variety program, with lots of diverse, contemporary progressive rock for your listening enjoyment! Tune in to hear great stuff from Steven Wilson, Failover, Simon McKechnie, Lunatic Soul, Steve Hackett, Transatlantic, Mushroom, The Bedlam Furnaces, SomeWhereOut, Bridgend, The Prog Collective, and Null Terminator!
This week on Prog-Watch my special guest is Peter Jones of Tiger Moth Tales, Red Bazar, and Camel! Pete released not one but TWO albums last year, so we have plenty to talk about! Of course I'll also be spinning lots of great music along the way!
This week's Prog-Watch is a BIG themed special! Hear great BIG classics from Peter Gabriel, Ritual, Electric Light Orchestra, Matt Stevens, Yes, Spock's Beard, Genesis, Damanek, Stackridge, Tears For Fears, Simon Collins, Tinyfish, Robert Plant, Fish, and Rush! All in 90 minutes!
This week's Prog-Watch is a straight-up variety program full of great contemporary progressive rock! I've got fantastic stuff from Kyros, Bidi (Luc Desjardins), Lunatic Soul, Downes Braide Association, Kepler Ten, IO Earth, Hats Off Gentlemen It's Adequate, SomeWhereOut, Neal Schon, Gazpacho, Hyco, and John Holden! I hope you will join me!
Another four weeks have come and gone, and I'm back at the helm of 101 Dimensions! I've got some different stuff lined up, which I hope you will enjoy! Here's what I've cooked up for this outing:
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Hawkestrel – Biometrics; Cosmic Divide; Day of the Quake; and Glass Wolves (23:01) (from the album Pioneers of Space, 2020)
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Jim Griffin – The Burden of Knowing; Of Atwood's Machine; Our New World Will Bathe in Ancient Light; and Spiral Staircase (23:53) (from the album The Signal, 2020)
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Porcupine Tree – Phase II (17:30) (from the album Voyage 34, 2000)
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Lunatic Soul – Transition 2 (27:45) (from the album Through Shaded Woods, 2020)
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Citizen – The Construct; First; Less Than; Brightest Eyes; and Equal To (20:50) (from the album Less Than, Equal To, Greater Than, 2020)
I hope you will join me!
I hope you will join me on Prog-Watch this week when I will be exploring some of the vast Musical World of Steven Wilson! We'll hear great music from Porcupine Tree and his solo career, of course, as well as No-Man, Blackfield, and Storm Corrosion! (Plus, I'll have a few surprises!)
I'm pretty sure that no one was unhappy to see 2020 in the rear view, but it was a pretty fine year for music! So this week on Prog-Watch I am once more featuring some of the best of 2020, with a line-up that includes The Flower Kings, Blue Oyster Cult, The Tangent, Lonely Robot, Pendragon, Neal Morse, Nick D'Virgilio, Pattern-Seeking Animals, and Fish!
This week's Prog-Watch is all about humankind's favored pets...cats and dogs! Tune in to hear lots of great progressive sounds from The Rocket Scientists, The Flower Kings, Rush, Porcupine Tree, King Crimson, Pink Floyd, Mike Rutherford, Gentle Giant, The Alan Parsons Project, Stick Men, and more!
This week on Prog-Watch it's Part Two of my two-part collaboration with The Progressive Aspect on some of the best albums of 2020! We'll hear music from Magenta, Pendragon, Mark Vickness, Chris Opperman, Motorpsycho, Abel Ganz, and Fish; and brief reviews by Magnus Moar, Bob Mulvey, Jez Rowden, Graham Thomas, Roger Trenwith, and Leo Trimming!
The first 101 Dimensions of the New Year, and here's what I cooked up for our listening pleasure:
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Mike Oldfield – Sentinel; Dark Star; Clear Light; Blue Saloon; and Sunjammer (21:55) (from the album Tubular Bells II, 1992)
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Focus – Hamburger Concerto (20:20) (from the album Hamburger Concerto, 1974)
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Wendy Carlos – Winter (20:37) (from the album Sonic Seasonings, 1972)
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Red Shift – Tormentor; Nightshift; and Last (31:44) (from the album Last, 2007)
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Malcolm Galloway – Wasp 76b (14:49) (from the album Wasp 76b, 2020)
I hope you will join me!
Here's to a better 2021!
Tony
This week on Prog-Watch I have Part One of a two-part collaboration with The Progressive Aspect on some of the best albums of 2020! We'll hear music from Blue Oyster Cult, Wobbler, Hats Off Gentlemen It's Adequate, Elder, Three Colours Dark, Kansas, Pull Down The Sun, and Haken; and brief reviews by Mel Allen, Anthony Colvill, Shawn Dudley, Rob Fisher, Andrew Halley and Nick Hudson! (Part Two to follow one week hence.)
More great, new, astounding progressive sounds await on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear music from Hyco, The Weever Sands, Jump, Great Wide Nothing, Violent Silence and Antony Kalugin! Plus, our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, will take us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with the latest album by Tony Lowe's ESP Project!
New feature on Prog-Watch this week...OUR PROGRESSIVE PLANET! On this type of program Dr. Rob Fisher and I will take you on a little tour of a particular country with a vibrant progressive music scene! This first edition focuses on Poland, and will feature music from Collage, SBB, Lebowski, Riverside, Indukti, Lizard, Osada Vida, Acute Mind, Quidam, Votum, and Satellite, with a bonus track from Fren! We hope you will join us!
Another month has come and gone so I'm back at the helm of 101 Dimensions once again! I've got another interesting set this time, so I hope you will come along for the ride! Here's what's in store:
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Bergeton – Arabian Nights; Depeche Load; Fort Apache Marina; Lambo; and Miami Murder (20:11) (from the album Miami Murder, 2020)
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Vinyl Dial – Bad Trip (23:08) (from the album Space Wizard, 2019)
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Antony Kalugin – Marshmallow (20:20) (from the album Marshmallow Moondust, 2020)
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Ashra – Mosquito Dance; Tropical Heat; Pretty Papaya; and Nights In Sweat (28:29) (from the album Tropical Heat, 1991)
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Le Grand Sbam – La Trace (18:45) (from the album Furvent, 2020)
I hope you will join me!
Tons of tasty tunes abound on this week's Prog-Watch! Prick up your ears to hear great stuff from Jakko Jakszyk, Anèma, Jim Griffin, Antony Kalugin, Laura Piazzai, IT, Gandalf's Fist, Potter's Daughter, Circu5, Logos, Dyble/Longdon, and Tiger Moth Tales!
On this week's Prog-Watch I'm paying tribute to the late Ken Hensley, with excerpts of my 2018 interview with the man himself and lots of great music from Uriah Heep, his solo career, and side projects. I hope you will join me in remembering this talented musician, brilliant song-writer, and overall genuine person.
I'm doing another of my band family tree explorations on Prog-Watch this week and my subject is one of Sweden's greatest musical exports, the mighty Flower Kings! We'll hear from the band proper, The Tangent, Tomas Bodin, Roine Stolt, Hasse Fröberg & Musical Companion, Kaipa, The Sea Within, Karmakanic, and Agents of Mercy! Join me to hear all the great stuff that I shake out of the Flower Kings' Family Tree!
Be on the lookout for a plethora of fabulous progressive rock music on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear from Days Between Stations, Kansas, Druid, Wobbler, Mesmerising, Vinyl Dial, Kepler Ten, Kaleidoreal, and Harmonium! As Yoda would say, “Miss it not!”
It's my turn on 101 Dimensions once again, and I've lined up some different stuff this time! Here's what's in store:
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Vinyl Dial – Oceanic Electron Harvest (20:50) (from the album Oceanic Electron Harvest, 2020)
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David Arkenstone – Fairy Tales; Hope Springs; Midsommar Stars; Of Mischief and Magic; Oberon Sleeps (20:53) (from the album Fairy Tales, 2020)
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Yak – Vale Of Aeternum (19:25) (from the album Quest For The Stones, 2015)
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Ash Ra Tempel – Reunion (30:40) (from the album Friendship, 2000)
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Queen - “13” (22:33) (from the album Made In Heaven, 1995)
I hope you will join me!
This week's Prog-Watch is a variety program with a Guest DJ Feature, which will have lots of great stuff, new and old, for your listening pleasure! For my part I'll be spinning fabulous new music from Glass Hammer, Silver Nightmares, Neptune, The Wood Demons, Sanguine Hum, Cirkus, and Yobrepus! I'll also be mixing in selections from our Guest DJ, Mr. Michael Keane of Liverpool, England! Michael has selected some fantastic stuff from Anathema, IQ, Camel, Rush, Arena, Rendezvous Point, and Focus! Come along for a fun ride!
This week on Prog-Watch it's another variety program full of ALL NEW material! I've got fantastic stuff from The Flower Kings, Pymlico, Wobbler, Taskaha, Isobar, Jakko M. Jakszyk, Sanguine Hum, Tony Lowe's ESP Project, Cirkus, Watertank, and Steve Hackett! I hope you will join me!
This week's Prog-Watch is all about ghoulies and ghosties and long-leggedy beasties and THINGS THAT GO BUMP IN THE NIGHT! With songs concerning things supernatural from White Willow, The Strawbs, Blue Oyster Cult, Asia, Uriah Heep, Pattern-Seeking Animals, Agents Of Mercy, Ken Hensley, The Syn, Styx, Jethro Tull, Rush, The Rocket Scientists, Drifting Sun, Todd Rundgren, Warren Zevon, and Anekdoten! Join me...if you dare!
This week on Prog-Watch our reviewer extraordinaire Dr. Rob Fisher returns with a new Progressive Discoveries feature on the fabulous debut album 'The Science of Goodbye' by the UK project Three Colours Dark! For my part, I'll be spinning great stuff from Gandalf's Fist, YYNOT, Briand Boursin Rohr, Neptune, Wytch Hazel, Kevin Godley, Caravaggio, Sudler's Row, and The Wood Demons! I hope you will join us!
I'm back at the helm of 101 Dimensions and have an interesting program lined up for our listening enjoyment. Here's the itinerary:
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Hawkwind – Seeing It As You Really Are; and Mirror Of Illusion (17:56) (from the album Hawkwind, 1970)
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Garrett N. – Reprise/Bak3/Unknown; Scorpio/Ramos; Sinister; and Avant4/Outtro/Epilogue (23:32) (from the album Let's Get Surreal, 2018)
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Ashra – 77 Slightly Delayed; Midnight On Mars; Don't Trust The Kids; and Blackouts (221:26) (from the album Blackouts, 1977)
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Tangerine Dream – Towards The Evening Star; At Darwin's Motel; On Crane's Passage; and Rising Haul In Silence (25:44) (from the album Goblin's Club, 1996)
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Jon Hassel & Brian Eno – Chemistry; Delta Rain Dream; Griot (Over Contagious Magic); and Ba-Benzele (20:49) (from the album Goblin's Club, 1996)
I hope you will join me! Until next time, Prog On!
T
This week on Prog-Watch I'm taking a look at the rich and diverse Musical World of Rick Wakeman! Of course we'll hear music from his time with The Strawbs, Yes, and Anderson Bruford, Wakeman & Howe, and from his most recent foray into the world of Yes music with Jon Anderson and Trevor Rabin! I'll also be exploring some of his collaborations with son Adam and Mr. Anderson, and some of his early session work for David Bowie and Cat Stevens! Great Rick Wakeman music will abound!
This week's Prog-Watch is a variety program with a Guest DJ Feature! I'll be spinning music from Kansas, O.A.K. (Oscillazioni Alchemico Kreative), Dyble-Longdon, The Hawkwind Light Orchestra, The Broken Bridges, and Tony Lowe's ESP Project, and mixing in selections from our Guest DJ, Mr. Keith McCarthy of Newnham, England! Keith has selected some fabulous stuff from Fleetwood Mac, John Martyn, Anathema, Druid, and Camel! I hope you will come along for the ride!
Come and do a little Moonlighting with Prog-Watch this week, where every song will have the word “Moon” in the title! With music from a wide assortment of artists, including Genesis, City Boy, Tom Slatter, Sky Cries Mary, Conspiracy, Thin Lizzy, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Flame Dream, Lana Lane, The Electric Light Orchestra, White Willow, The Nice, The Alan Parson Project, Seven Steps To The Green Door, Marco Ragni, and The Who!
This week on Prog-Watch it's another variety program full of mostly new material! (Hey, at least we got a lot of good music this year!) I've got great stuff from Circuline, Automatism, The Mighty Handful, Keith and the Tiger Moth, Bob Beland, Whiteside's Daughter, Okyr, Taskaha, Michele Conta, Grus Paridae, and Watertank! I hope you will join me!
I'm back at the helm of 101 Dimensions this weekend and here's what I have lined up for our listening pleasure:
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Aphex Twin – Phlange Phace; Dodeccaheedron; Analogue Bubblebath 1; and Metapharstic (20:51) (from the album Classics, 1995)
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Oliver Wakeman with Steve Howe – Ages of Magick; Mind Over Matter; The Forgotten King; The Storyteller; and The Whales Last Dance (21:14) (from the album The 3 Ages Of Magick, 2001)
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Edgar Froese – Pinnacles (21:54) (from the album Pinnacles, 1983)
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Colin Edwin and Lorenzo Feliciati – Tin Can; Severing Suns; Bedroom Corner; and Future Echo (19:02) (from the album Twinscapes Vol. 2 – A Modern Approach To The Dancefloor, 2018)
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Rob Harvey – Idun; and Fortitude (25:07) (from the album Rainsong, 2012)
I hope you will join me!
Until next time, be well...and Prog On!
T
This week on Prog-Watch I'm shaking the Family Tree of the mighty Marillion! I'll be exploring some of the solo works and side projects of Fish, Steve Hogarth, Steve Rothery, Mark Kelly, Pete Trewavas, Ian Mosley, and Mick Pointer! Come along for a fun and interesting ride!
This week on Prog-Watch Dr. Rob Fisher returns with a new Progressive Discoveries feature on the latest album 'Song For The Homeless, Live in Russelheim, 2019' by the fabelhaft German band Subsignal! In addition, I've got great stuff from Kevin Godley, Glass Hammer, Wytch Hazel, YYNOT, Circuline, O.A.K., Turdetans, and IQ! I hope you will join us!
This week on Prog-Watch I'm digging through the vaults and doing an entire show of Prog Rock classic tracks! I'll be spinning tunes from The Cardiacs, Steely Dan, Van Der Graaf Generator, Rick Wakeman, Pink Floyd, Kansas, Supertramp, Budgie, Harmonium, Uriah Heep, The Moody Blues, and The Beach Boys!
This week's Prog-Watch is another edition of EPIX! Just six tunes will carry us through our time together and I'll play one from each decade of our favorite genre (with a bonus from the 1970s)! Tune in to hear great music from Dire Straits, Southern Empire, Rush, Rocket Scientists, Marillion, and Camel!
This week's Prog-Watch is a variety program with a Guest DJ Feature! I'll be spinning music from The Tangent, Bob Beland, Tiger Moth Tales, IQ, Rick Wakeman, and Atlas Cube, and mixing in selections from our Guest DJ, Mr. Charles Anderson of York, England! Charles has selected some great stuff from England (the band), Epidaurus, Emerson Lake and Palmer, The Enid, and Mostly Autumn!
This week on Prog-Watch my guest is the legendary Steve Howe! Tune in to hear a little chat and lots of great music from his illustrious career...starting with Yes and Asia and moving through his solo career, up to the present and the release of his wonderful new album 'Love Is'!
Howdy folks! Big Tony here and I am once again curating this week's 101 Dimensions! Here's what I have lined up:
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Hawkwind – L.S.D., Blue Shift; Death Of War; and The Secret Agent (from the album Electric Tepee, 1992)
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Synergy – Falcons And Eagles; Flight Of The Looking Glass; Shibolet; and An End To History (from the album Audion, 1981)
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Robert Rich and Ian Boddy – Metamorphic; Lithosphere; and Melt (from the album Lithosphere, 2005)
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Karda Estra – Paper Cuts; Life Drawing; Atom Of Warmth; Morning Wraiths; and Halcyon Years (from the album The Last Of The Libertine, 2007)
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Michael Stearns – The Light In The Trees; The Gathering; Cenote; and The Path Between (from the album The Light In The Trees, 1996)
I hope you will join me!
T
Rob Fisher and I have a great program lined up for you this week on Prog-Watch! I'll be spinning music from The Tangent, Man-Akin, I Am The Manic Whale, Morse, Portnoy and George, Starmen, Failover, Joost Maglev, Tiger Moth Tales, and Three Colours Dark! Plus, Rob will be taking us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with the fabulous new album, Once Around the Sun, by the Scottish band Long Earth!
This week on Prog-Watch it's Part Two of my feature on Dennis DeYoung (formerly of Styx)! Hear more chat, more classic Styx, and more solo music from Dennis (including a few more from his new album 26 East, Vol. 1)!
My special guest on this week's Prog-Watch is rock legend Dennis DeYoung (formerly of Styx)! Tune in to hear Part One of my artist feature, including some spirited conversation (and believe me, Dennis pulls no punches!) and lots of great Styx and solo Dennis DeYoung music!
Here's what's on tap for this edition of 101 Dimensions, curated by yours truly (the Progsquatch) once again:
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The Orb – Complication (3:55); Lunik (5:50); Ripples (5:51); Captain Korma (4:13); and Can Can (4:43) (from the album Okie Dokie It's The Orb On Kompakt, 2005)
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Soniq Theater – Flying Dolphins (4:40); Spirallels (4:17); Welcome To Absurdistan (2:24); Paradox (6:00); and April Snow (3:08) (from the album Squaring The Circle, 2018)
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Tangerine Dream – Crystal Voice (3:10); The Run (4:50); Testlab (4:01); Charly The Kid (3:55); and Escaping Point (5:10) (from the album Firestarter, 1984)
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Jean-Luc Ponty – Two Thousand-One Years Ago (4:20); Signals From Planet Earth (6:03); The Infinite Human Caravan (6:37); Lonely Among All (4:24); Firmament (7:21) (from the album Life Enigma, 2001)
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Matt Baber – Parts 6-10 (22:38) (from the album Suite For Piano and Electronics, 2018)
I hope you will join me!
T
I'm doing another of my band family tree explorations on Prog-Watch this week and my subject is the mighty King Crimson! I'll be spinning a few classic tunes from the band proper and exploring their roots and branches in the music of Giles, Giles & Fripp, McDonald & Giles, Peter Sinfield, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Robert Fripp, Adrian Belew, David Cross & David Jackson, and more! Come and hear what I shake out of the KC Family Tree!
This week on Prog-Watch my special guest is Nick D'Virgilio, who is perhaps best known as a drummer and vocalist for Spock's Beard and Big Big Train! Nick and I chat about his illustrious career, and along the way I'll be spinning lots of great music from Spock's Beard and various side projects in which Nick has participated (including Rewiring Genesis, Deckchair Poets, and Zorbonauts)! We will also hear a number of tunes from his solo career, including a couple from his wonderful new album 'Invisible'!
Be on the lookout for a plethora of fabulous, brand new music on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear from Surreal, The Bedlam Furnaces, Caligula's Horse, The Segue, I Am The Manic Whale, Kinetic Element, Vesper Vals, Delain, Alcàntara, Fughu, and Lonely Robot! As Yoda would say, “Miss it not!”
Another three weeks have comes and gone and it's my turn to guide the good ship 101 Dimensions again! Here's what's in store:
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Kraftwerk - Computer World (Robotron-Mix) (5:41); Tour De France (Orig. 1983 Kevorkian Ext. 12' Remix) (6:47); and Techno Pop (1983 Version) (4:35) (from the album Toccata Electronica, 1995)
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Ott - Ott Meets Billy The Kid (6:53); Scilly Automatic (7:41); and Joyful Wonder (6:39) (from the album MMII, 2014)
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Electric Mud – Aurora Moon (7:03); Mer De Glace (2:05); Quiet Days On Earth (7:21); and Silhouettes Floating Down A Rain-Slicked Street (5:18) (from the album Quiet Days On Earth, 2020)
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Kraftwerk - Metropolis (Machine-Version) (Live Utrecht 10.12.81) (5:36); and The Model (Catbonic-Mix) (5:18) (from the album Toccata Electronica, 1995)
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Thomas Dolby – Armageddon (5:29); Planet Of Lost Souls (3:00); Big Bang Backwards (2:11); and N.E.O. (5:47) (from the album he Gate To The Mind's Eye OST, 1994)
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Richard Barbieri – Ballerina (7:25); Vibra (6:52); and 1979 Rehearsal Room (5:45) (from the album Variants.3, 2018)
I hope you will join me!
(RIP Florian Schneider)
On this week's Prog-Watch: brand new music from Kansas, Nick D'Virgilio, Turdetans, Blood Brothers, Hollow Water, and Frost*, plus great stuff from Farehaven, Michele Conta, and Man Till God! In addition, Dr. Rob Fisher returns for an in depth look at City Burials, the brand new album by Katatonia, on Progressive Discoveries!
Come sail away with Prog-Watch this week, where every song will have the root word “sail” in the title! Aside from Styx (who provide the theme song, of course) we will also be hearing from Ayreon, Mystery, Carmen, Golden Earring, Manning, Elton John, Jon & Vangelis, The Strawbs, Gryphon, Radio Head, Moon Safari, Robert Palmer, John Hackett & Nick Fletcher, and Mike Oldfield! You'll almost be able to smell the salt water, and feel the wind on your face and the rocking of the waves! Well...almost...
This week's Prog-Watch is a Variety program with a Guest DJ Feature! I'll be spinning tracks from Robyn Ferguson, Tarmak, Ubi Maior, Airbag, Silas and Saski, Nick D'Virgilio, Steve Thorne, and Haken! Our Guest DJ, Mr. Tony Zappa (no relation to Frank, he informs me) has chosen songs from Yes, Spock's Beard, King Crimson, and Jon And Vangelis, and I'll be mixing those in and reading Tony's commentary!
Another three weeks have come and gone, and I'm back at the helm of the good ship 101 Dimensions! Here's what's in store for this week's journey:
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Hawkestrel – Detox Train (1:33); Up All Night (4:35); No Smoking (4:03); Invisible Spies (6:47); Man Eggs From Mars (4:17); and Higher (4:58) (from the album Hawkestrel Presents Pre-Med, 2020)
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Michael Stearns – Splash (3:34); Two Memories (3:29); Penguins On Mars (4:38); Dark Passage (4:42); and Space Grass (4:23) (from the album Plunge, 1999)
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Tangerine Dream – The Dream Is Always The Same (3:43); No Future (Get Off The Babysitter) (2:00); Guido The Killer Pimp (4:21) Lana (3:53); and Love On A Train (Risky Business) (3:58) (from the album Risky Business OST, 1983)
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Mannheim Steamroller – Orpheus Suite: a. Descent Into The Underworld (4:10); b. Dialog With The Devil (2:09); c. Ascent From Hell (4:11); and Sirens (11:55) (from the album Fresh Aire VI, 1986)
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David Sylvian – Weathered Wall (5:44); Backwaters (4:53); and Brilliant Trees (8:42) (from the album Brilliant Trees, 1984)
I hope you will join me!
T
This week on Prog-Watch Dr. Rob Fisher returns with a new Progressive Discoveries feature on the second album, Asylum, by a great band from Italy called Art! In addition, I've got fabulous music from Anubis, Chimpan A, Pendragon, Psychoyogi, Starset, Mirthrandir, and Galverna! I hope you will join us!
This week on Prog-Watch I'm taking a look at the rich and diverse Musical World of Phil Collins! We'll hear music from Genesis, Brand X, and his solo career, and some of the noteworthy and interesting guest appearances Phil made on records by other artists including some of his Genesis bandmates, Frida, Robert Plant, Howard Jones, and more! Great drumming and singing will abound!
This week's Prog-Watch is a bit of a multi-national affair, with great music from seven different countries! We'll hear from Fren, Psychoyogi, Pattern-Seeking Animals, Slap Guru, Fughu, Fireballet, Caravaggio, The Dani Lopez Quartet, Magenta, Vesper Vals, and The Enid! I hope you will join me!
Another three weeks have passed, so I'm back at the helm for this week's 101 Dimensions! Here's the itinerary:
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Aphex Twin – Donkey Rhubarb (6:08); Vaz Deferenz (5:49); and Icct Hedral (Philip Glass Orchest) (from the album Donkey Rhubarb, 1995)
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Kevin Bartlett – Moon v. Moon (11:57); and Stethoscope (8:16) (from the album Glow In The Dark, 2008)
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Klaus Schulze – Freeze (6:42); Pain (9:43); and Memory (4:54) (from the album Angst OST, 1984)
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Marvin Ayers – Androgynous Weave (4:25); Soured Alchemy (2:47); I Wish I Was The Sky (4:53); Elegiac Collage (5:59); and Forever Is Now (7:28) (from the album Eccentric Deliquescence, 2008)
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Pekka Pohjola – Sinfonia No. 1, Pt. I, II & III (27:43) (from the album Sinfonia No. 1, 1989)
I hope you will join me! Until next time, be well and Prog On!
T
This week's Prog-Watch is another edition of EPIX! Just six tunes will carry us through our time together and I'll play one from each decade of our favorite genre (with a bonus from the 1970s)! Tune in to hear great music from The Eloy, Porcupine Tree, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Pendragon, Agents Of Mercy, and Banco del Mutuo Soccorso!
This week on Prog-Watch it's another variety program full of mostly new material and some of it will be a little heavier or harder-edged than what you usually hear on the program. I've got music from Ajna, Pure Reason Revolution, Amy Birks, Starset, Haken, Band Of Rain, Roz Vitalis, Delain, The Bardic Depths, Subsignal, and Magenta! So are you ready to rock...progressively, of course?
This week on Prog-Watch my special guest is Nick Magnus! Nick is perhaps best known as a long-time collaborator and bandmate of Steve Hackett, but has an interesting history and six solo albums to his name! Nick and I chat about everything from his early days with the Enid and Autumn, through the “Hackett Years”, and up to the present, with the release of his latest solo album Catharsis! Along the way I will of course be spinning lots of great Magnus music!
Another three weeks have gone by so I'm back at the helm of 101 Dimensions once again! Here's what I've cooked up for this outing:
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Ozric Tentacles – Og Ha Be (4:42); Shards Of Ice (3:50); Sniffing Dog (6:34); Music To Gargle At (3:31); and Ethereal Cereal (2:18) (from the album Tantric Obstacles, 1985)
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Jean-Luc Ponty – Is Once Enough? (4:59); Renaissance (5:49); and Aurora, Pts. 1 & 2 (9:02) (from the album Aurora, 1976)
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Tangerine Dream – Madrigal Meridian (20:32) (from the album Cyclone, 1978)
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Trinity Ward – Hymn Of A Sorrowful Mind (8:36); Machinaria (8:24); Mechanical Rhythms, Pt. 1 (8:16); and Machine Head (5:05) (from the album Hymns For Machines, 2015)
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Vangelis – Earth (2:09); We Were All Uprooted (6:52); Sunny Earth (6:42); and He-O (4:12) (from the album Earth, 1973)
I hope you will join me!
Until next time...be well and Prog On!
T
This week on Prog-Watch I have a themed special called “A Song For All Seasons”! With music by Dukes of the Orient, Guy Manning, Terry Draper, Squackett, Justin Hayward, Steve Howe, Alan White, The Zombies, White Willow, Kayak, Potter's Daughter, Joe Walsh, Mostly Autumn, Karfagen, Ray Wilson, Zebra, Threshold, and Marillion! All in 90 minutes!
This week I've got great stuff from The Barock Project, The Blackheart Orchestra, Minutes To Midnight, Euphoria Station, The Bedlam Furnaces, and John Holden, plus another lost gem from Locanda delle Fate! If that wasn't enough, I'll be chatting a little with Malcolm Galloway and spinning some of his solo stuff and some music from his band, Hats Off Gentlemen It's Adequate!
This week's Prog-Watch is a variety program with a Guest DJ Feature! I'll be spinning music from Godsticks, Pure Reason Revolution, Moon Halo, Fluance, Sky Architect, and the Neal Morse Band, and mixing in selections from our Guest DJ (Mr. Larry Wilson of Oahu, Hawaii, USA)! Larry has selected some great stuff from The Pretty Things, Stackridge, Roxy Music, Steve Harley, and Public Image Ltd.!
I'm back as curator of this week's 101 Dimensions! I have a bit of a different journey of sound and mind planned for us this week. Here's our itinerary:
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Nik Turner – Adjust The Future (8:04); Hypernova (8:39); and Spiritual Machines (5:04) (from the album Space Fusion Odyssey, 2015)
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Asturias – Circle In The Forest (22:24) (from the album Circle In The Forest, 1988)
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The Olivia Tremor Control – Green Typewriters, Pt. 6 -10 (15:57) (from the album Dusk At Cubist Castle, 1996)
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Pink Floyd – Sysyphus, Pt. I – IV (13:28) (from the album Ummagumma, 1969)
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Ian Boddy & Markus Reuter – A Beginning In Light (8:35); Within The Space Between Things (3:49); and Trace The Memory (8:58) (from the album Distant Rituals, 1999)
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Mike Dickson – Pour Forth Thy Spirit (3:01); FM1SM (4:01); and Threnody (9:46) (from the album Basilica, 2011)
I hope you will join me!
T
A plethora of astounding progressive sounds awaits on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear music from John Holden, Magnum, Mariana Semkina, Jack O' The Clock, Godsticks, The Million Reasons, Long Earth, and The Bardic Depths! Plus, our friend and resident reviewer will take us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with the first solo outing from Ray Alder, vocalist and frontman for US band Fates Warning!
This week on Prog-Watch my guest is the legendary Alan Parsons! Tune in to hear a little chat, and lots of great music from his illustrious career!
This week on Prog-Watch I have a straight up variety program for you, and much of the stuff I will be playing is relatively new! With music from Blind Ego, Karfagen, Hats Off Gentlemen It's Adequate, Dreaming Madmen, Great Pacific Orchestra, Jeff Lynne's ELO, Nick Magnus, Ritual, and Sonus Umbra!
I'm at the helm again for this week's 101 Dimensions and here's what I have in store for your listening pleasure:
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The Orb – Delta Mk II (7:00); Ubiquity (6:13); and Asylum (5:13) (from the album Orblivion, 1997)
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Noisewheel – Dreambathing, Pt. 2 (26:10) (from the album Dreambathing, 2020)
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Massimo Ruberti – Magnificent Desolation (9:12); and Earth (10:40) (from the album Live in Palermo, 2017)
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Tangerine Dream – Tangram Set 2 (20:27) (from the album Tangram, 1980)
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Mike Dickson – Fratres (9:26); Dance of the Knights (5:44); Pavane (5:51); and Jerusalem (2:01) (from the album Mellotronwork II, 2012)
I hope you will join me!
T
This week on Prog-Watch I'm doing something a little different...investigating The Musical World of Jeff Lynne! I'll be starting from his early days in The Idle Race and The Move, and working through ELO and his solo works! In addition, I will be exploring some of the more noteworthy stuff which Jeff produced, including music from the Beatles Anthology, George Harrison, Paul McCartney, and more! Not all Prog, but all great stuff!
This week I'm celebrating the 5th Birthday of my flagship station, Progzilla Radio, with a special exploring five of the albums that got me into Progressive Rock in the first place! Take a little trip down memory lane with me and the Beatles, the Moody Blues, the Alan Parsons Project, Genesis, and Yes!
This week's Prog-Watch features a lot of great, modern Prog Rock from Jan Akkerman, Karfagen, Low Roar, Rodney Matthews and Jeff Scheetz with Oliver Wakeman, Nick Magnus, and Frequent Flyers, and a “proggy”classic from Elton John! Plus, The Doctor, Rob Fisher, will be examining the debut album by the UK group Chasing the Monsoon!
I'm back at the helm of 101 Dimensions again this week and here's what I have in store for your listening pleasure:
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Steve Dinsdale – Dark Time (5:31); Hit Of Summer (6:30); A Light Sprinkling Of Moonweed (6:17); and First Light (5:59) (from the album Light & Dark, 2018)
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Zanov – Moebius 256 (3:14); Moebius 301 (3:14); Enygma (3:08); and Plentitude (12:07) (from the album Moebius, 1977)
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Pekka Pohjola - Kätkävaaran lohikäärme (14:36); and Tehdasmusiikkia (7:37) (from the album Kätkävaaran lohikäärme, 1980)
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Willowglass – A House Of Cards, Pt. 1 (from the album The Dream Harbour, 2013)
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Altus – Alongside (7:26); Unspoken Denial (8:17); and Without Volition (6:28) (from the album Strength Of Fate, 2020)
This week on Prog-Watch my special guest is Colin Edwin, who is perhaps best known as the bassist for Porcupine Tree and O.R.k.! Colin and I chat about his illustrious career, and along the way I'll be spinning lots of great music from his time with Porcupine Tree, his current band O.R.k., his collaboration with Lorenzo Feliciati, and his solo career, including a couple from his brand new album Infinite Regress!
This week's Prog-Watch is just a bunch of great Progressive Rock, and most of it is relatively new! We'll hear from Cirrus Bay, Rodney Matthews and Jeff Scheetz with Oliver Wakeman, Fernando Perdomo, Dreaming Madmen, Nektar, Euphoria Station, Futurist, Blind Ego, Moon Halo, Richard Orange, Robertas Semeniukas, and Workshop of the Wolf! All in 90 minutes!!
This week on Prog-Watch my special guest is Frank Wyatt of Happy The Man, Oblivion Sun, and Frank Wyatt and Friends! Frank and I will be chatting about all of his projects through the years and I will of course be spinning lots of great music along the way!
My second outing on 101 Dimensions for 2020 and the second this month! Here's what I lined up for your listening pleasure:
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No Man – Love You To Bits (Bits 1 – 5) (17:03) (from the album Love You To Pieces, 2019)
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Michael Hoenig – Hanging Garden Transfer (10:59); Voices Of Where (6:17); and Sun And Moon (4:14) (from the album Departure From The Northern Wasteland, 1978)
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Jean-Luc Ponty – Modern Times Blues (7:18); Orbital Encounters (5:19); and Intuition (7:41) (from the album pen Mind, 1984)
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Frank Wyatt & Friends – Perelandra Mvts. I – IV (25:31) (from the album Zeitgeist, 2019)
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Bill Laswell – Chakra (24:13) (from the album Outer Dark, 1994)
I hope you will join me!
Prog On!
T
This week on Prog-Watch I have a fun little themed special for your listening enjoyment! I call it THE EYES HAVE IT (pun definitely intended) since every song will have the word EYE somewhere in the title! Featured artists will include the Nazz, the Von Hertzen Brothers, Victim Of Illusion, the Moody Blues, Porcupine Tree, Fates Warning, Camel, Rikard Sjoblom's Gungfly, Loggins and Messina (yes, Loggins and Messina!), Trevor Rabin, Uriah Heep, Franck Carducci, Asia, Jethro Tull, Izz, and Yes!
Great Prog Rock Variety and the first Progressive Discoveries segment of 2020 are on tap in this week's Prog-Watch! Hear music from Jeff Lynne's ELO, Great Pacific Orchestra, Flying Colors, The Flower Kings, Workshop of the Wolf, and Tool! Plus, Dr. Rob Fisher will be enlightening us on the fabulous new album, The Rising, by Tony Lowe's ESP Project!
Here's what I have in store for our first 101 Dimensions outing of 2020:
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Aphex Twin – 54 Cymru Beats (6:06); Meltphace 6 (6:24); and Ziggomatic 17 (8:35) (from the album DrukQs, 2001)
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Emmett Elvin – Butterfly in the Labyrinth (7:08); No Wonder (5:36); and The End Of Music (4:54) (from the album The End Of Music, 2019)
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Larry Fast/Synergy– Electric Blue (6:20); Ancestors (5:26); and After the Earthquake (3:29) (from the album Audion, 1981)
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Klaus Schulze – The Martial Law (31:23) (from the album Jubilee Edition, 1997)
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Robert John Godfrey – Cogenhoe Gallivant (8:20); English Rhapsody (7:17); and The Mirror of Love (6:24) (from the album The Art of Melody, 2013)
This week on Prog-Watch: Part Two of my Dave Kerzner interview and artist feature! Hear the rest of my chat with Dave and lots of great music from his solo career, his new In Continuum band, and Mantra Vega!
This week on Prog-Watch the great Dave Kerzner is my guest! Dave talks candidly about his past and his current projects, including his Sonic Reality tribute to Yes, his career retrospective compilation, and the two albums he has made with his new band, In Continuum! Along the way I'll be playing lots of great music from Sound Of Contact, Dave's solo albums, the Yes tribute, and In Continuum!
Following Christmas and my epic 3-part series with the Progressive Aspect on the best albums of the decade, I figured we should catch up on some of the great stuff released at the end of 2019. So tune in to hear new music from Flower Kings, Bruce Soord, Retrospective, Nektar, Lee Abraham, Cirrus Bay, Invertigo, Dark City Agent, Pallas, and Nick Beggs!
Christmas is upon us so it must be time for one of my Prog-Watch Holiday Specials! Come along and get into the spirit of the Season...the spirit of peace on Earth and good will to all! I'm taking a little break from all of the blabbing, so here's the play list:
- Chris Squire & Alan White – Run With The Fox
- Jethro Tull – Christmas Song
- Jon Anderson – Three Ships
- Trans-Siberian Orchestra – A Star To Follow
- Trevor Rabin – O Come All Ye Faithful
- Peter Noone & Herman's Hermits - Do You Hear What I Hear
- Trans-Siberian Orchestra – Christmas Canon
- Jethro Tull – Ring Out Solstice Bells
- Trans-Siberian Orchestra - Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24
- Emerson, Lake & Palmer – I Believe In Father Christmas
- Chris Squire – Sussex Carol
- Mannheim Steamroller – God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
- Marillion – The Carol Of The Bells
- Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Nutrocker
- Jon Anderson – The Holly And The Ivy
- Steve Morse – It Came Upon A Midnight Clear
- Roy Wood – I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday
- Trans-Siberian Orchestra – A Mad Russian's Christmas
- Jethro Tull – Another Christmas Song
- Annie Haslam – O Holy Night
- Chris Squire - Silent Night/Night Of Silence
Relax with some electronic/ambient/new age sounds before the Holiday hustle and bustle really kick in! Here's what I've lined up:
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Church Of Hed – Q Ching (8:47); and The Ruler Does Not Travel (8:48) (from the album The Fourth Hour, 2019)
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Silicon Psychosis – Physician Magician (5:10); Rainy Beaches (5:52); and The Silent Message (5:27)
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Vangelis – I Can't Take It Anymore (5:42); Multi-Track Suggestion (5:36); and Memories Of Green (5:48) (from the album See You Later, 1980)
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Ian Boddy and Andy Pickford – Enigmagic (9:29); Who Goes There? (3:00); and Dreifarbig Bomber (7:29) (from the album Symbiont, 2008)
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Gandalf – The Lonesome Wanderer (4:42); Secret Of The Ancient Tree (8:47); and Road Of Atlantis (7:00) (from the album The Stone Of Wisdom, 1992)
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Cluster and Eno – Ho Renomo (5:11); Schone Hande (3:05); Steinsame (4:12); Wehrmut (5:04); and Mit Simaen (1:32) (from the album Cluster and Eno, 1977)
I hope you enjoy! Until next time...Prog On!
Tony
This week on Prog-Watch: The third and final part of my collaboration with The Progressive Aspect on the best albums of the past ten years! Ten more great tracks and write-ups from ten great albums as selected by ten of TPA's finest reviewers!
With contributions from Rob Fisher, Basil Francis, Andrew Halley, Magnus Moar, Bob Mulvey, Jez Rowden, Graham Thomas, Roger Trenwith, Leo Trimming, and John Wenlock-Smith!
This week Prog-Watch and The Progressive Aspect continue our three-part presentation of the Best of 2010-2019! I'll be presenting ten more great tunes and write-ups by ten of TPA's best reviewers from some of their favorite albums of the past decade!
With contributions from Rob Fisher, Basil Francis, Andrew Halley, Magnus Moar, Bob Mulvey, Jez Rowden, Graham Thomas, Roger Trenwith, Leo Trimming, and John Wenlock-Smith!
This week Prog-Watch and The Progressive Aspect begin a three-part “prog-stravaganza” looking at the best albums of the past ten years! Ten of TPA's reviewers have selected their three favorite albums, and I will be presenting their short reviews and playing tracks from those albums over the course of three programs!
I've got some different stuff lined up again for this week's 101 Dimensions! Here's what's in store:
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Hawkwind – Brainstorm (11:33); Space Is Deep (6:22); One Change (0:50); and Lord Of Light (6:58) (from the album Doremi Fasol Latido, 1972)
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Grobschnitt – Symphony (13:49); and Travelling (6:49) (from the album Grobschnitt, 1972)
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Johannes Schmoelling – Big Cityscapes (6:28); It's Your Birthday (6:38); and The Time Seller (6:49) (from the album Instant City, 2006)
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Anthony Phillips – Slow Dance, Pt. 2 (26:27) from the album Slow Dance, 1990)
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Cluster – Oh Odessa (3:04); Proantipro (7:01); Seltsame Gegend (7:34); and Helle Malange (3:37) (from the album Curiosum, 1981)
Until next time...Prog On!
Tony
This week's Prog-Watch is an entire show dedicated to prog rock classic tracks! I'm spinning tunes by Genesis, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, King Crimson, Kansas, The Alan Parson Project, Yes, Jethro Tull, The Electric Light Orchestra, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, and Caravan! Our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, is also doing a Progressive Discoveries segment on a classic album...Breathless by Camel! Come along as Prog-Watch goes “old school”!
This week's Prog-Watch is 100% certified new prog rock! Get set for a great program full of music from Yuval Ron, Richard Henshall, Millenium, Eloy, Emmett Elvin, Diagonal, The Barock Project, Peter Gabriel, Eiemel, District 97, Free to Grow, Hasse Fröberg & Musical Companion, and UVTraveler! All in 90 minutes!
Another themed special on Prog-Watch this week, and the key word is HEART! We'll hear from Emerson, Lake & Palmer, King Crimson, The Alan Parson Project, Yes, Marillion, Rush, Mystery, Manfred Mann's Earth Band and many more! Come along for a fun ride!
This week on 101 Dimensions I'm heading into some different territories! Here's the itinerary:
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The Orb – Earth Orbit One: Fluffy Clouds (4:27); Ultraworld Probe Six: Perpetual Dawn (9:31); and Earth Orbit Two: Gaia (9:48) (from the album The Orb's Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld, 1991)
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Vangelis – Origins (Arrival) (4:22); Starstuff (5:14); Infinitude (4:30); Exo Genesis (3:33); and Celestial Whispers (2:31) (from the album Rosetta, 2016)
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Mannheim Steamroller – G Major Toccata (5:06); Crystal (4:21); Interlude 7 (3:04); Four Rows Of Jacks (3:13); and Red Wine (4:20) (from the album Fresh Aire IV, 1981)
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Karda Estra – Eve (7:37); Sparks That Flash And Fall (10:23); and Thoughts And Silences (3:23) (from the album Eve, 2001)
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The Enid – Childe Roland (7:09); Fand I (11:46); and Fand II (5:41) (from the album Aerie Faerie Nonsense, 1977)
I hope you will join me!
Until next time...Prog On!
Tony
This week on Prog-Watch it's ALL NEW Variety and a great feature on Progressive Discoveries! We'll hear music from Franck Carducci, Elaine Samuels and Kindred Spirit, The Barock Project, District 97, Organic Noises, and Clepsydra! On Progressive Discoveries with Dr. Rob Fisher: an in depth look at Seed, the fabulous new album by Freedom To Glide!
I'm doing another of my band family tree explorations on Prog-Watch this week and my subject is the British band IQ! I'll be spinning a few brand new tunes from the band's latest double album, Resistance, and exploring their roots and branches in the music of The Lens, Niadem's Ghost, Jadis, and Martin Orford!
This week on Prog-Watch I've got a MOSTLY NEW Variety program! Most of the music will come from 2019 releases (and this has been quite a good year for our favorite genre)! Tune in to hear great stuff from Chasing The Monsoon, Lobate Scarp, IQ, Organic Noises, The Horn Of The Spiral Night, Flying Colors, Proportions, The Kentish Spires, Psychoyogi, The ESP Project, Deadly Circus Fire, and The Flower Kings! All of this crammed into 90 minutes!
It was my turn again on 101 Dimensions and as usual I tried to dig up some interesting stuff for your listening enjoyment! Here's what I found:
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Kraftwerk – Aerodynamik (Intelligent Design Mix) (8:34); and La Forme (King of the Mountains Mix) (11:31) (from the Aerodynamik and La Forme Remixes, 2007)
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Nheap – Origin Of Water (6:07); Primary Colors (5:24); Half-Asleep (3:57); and Wandering (7:21) (from the album Flying And The Silence, 2013)
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Klaus Schulze – Licht und Schatten (17:27) (from the album Shadowlands, 2013)
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Richard Barbieri – Flaw (5:00); Medication Time (6:54); Red Square (7:52); and Path Not Taken (6:29) (from the album Things Buried, 2004)
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Fripp & Eno – The Heavenly Music Corporation (21:00) (from the album The Essential Fripp & Eno, 1994)
I hope you will join me!
Until next time, be well, and Prog On!
Tony
This week on Prog-Watch there's more great new prog rock from How Far To Hitchin', Klone, Steve Hackett and the Genesis Revisited Band and Orchestra, the Earthling Society, and Richard Henshall (of Haken)! Also, some classic music from Joe Walsh, and Port Noir on Progressive Discoveries with Dr. Rob Fisher!
This week on Prog-Watch I'm finishing up my coverage of Dave Oberle' and his most unique progressive folk band, Gryphon! Hear the remainder of our chat and lots of great music from the band, from both the classic period and the modern era!
(If you missed Part One of my coverage of Dave and Gryphon, you may want to catch up before listening to this episode. You can do so here:
http://progwatch.com/627/)
This week on Prog-Watch I have a plethora of great new Prog Rock for your listening pleasure! Hear new music from Moron Police, Guillem Plana, The Tea Club, Hats Off Gentlemen It's Adequate, Tim Hunter, The Kentish Spires, Blank Manuskript, Drifting Sun, and Hasse Fröberg & Musical Companion! Plus, Seven Steps To The Green Door on Progressive Discoveries with Dr. Rob Fisher!
It's my turn on 101 Dimensions once again! Here's what I have in store for you:
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Jean-Luc Ponty – Demagomania (6:28); In Case We Survive (4:10); Forms Of Life (4:51); and Peace Crusaders (5:41) (from the album Civilized Evil, 1980)
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Isao Tomita – Sunrise (5:16); Painted Desert (6:56); On The Trail (7:07); and Sunset (4:40) (from the album Grand Canyon, 1982)
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The Orb – Pomme Fritz (Meat 'n Veg) (9:02); More Gills Less Fishcakes (8:03); We're Pastie To Be Grill You (7:11) (from the album Pomme Fritz, 1994)
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Nova Cascade – Plasticene & Paint (2:52); Joseph (3:16); A Dictionary Of Obscure Sorrows (10:19); and Thaw (2:04) (from the album A Dictionary Of Obscure Sorrows, 2019)
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Edgar Froese – Aqua (17:00); and Panorphelia (9:41) (from the album Aqua, 1974)
I hope you will join me! Until next time, be well...and Prog On, my brothers and sisters!
T
This week on Prog-Watch it's another of my themed specials, and the theme is family! Every song has to do with family and especially close family members (Mother, Father, Sister and Brother)! Music will be supplied by great classic and contemporary artists, including Jethro Tull, Genesis, Yes, Pendragon, Alan Parsons, Renaissance, Seven Steps To The Green Door, Queen, IO Earth, Traffic, The Nice, The Who, Dukes Of The Orient, and Peter Gabriel! Come along for a fun ride!
This week on Prog-Watch my special guest is multi-instrumentalist, composer, and arranger, Charlie Cawood! Charlie and I chat about his roots, his involvement in so many bands and projects (Knifeworld, Tonochrome, Lost Crowns, My Tricksy Spirit, Mediaeval Baebes, and more!) and his brand new album, Blurring Into Motion! Musically, we'll hit on all of Charlie's major projects, and hear some great selections from his first solo album (The Divine Abstract) and his new one!
This week on Prog-Watch: straight up Variety! With lots of new music from Before Fire, Izz, This Winter Machine, Mark Rowen, George Arriola, Jordsjø, Jordan Rudess, SubLunar, Pattern-Seeking Animals, and In Continuum, plus a classic from Ambrosia!
Hello to all my friends out there in Progland! This is Big Tony and I'm back at the helm of 101 Dimensions! Here's what I have for your listening pleasure:
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Vangelis – Spiral (6:57); Ballad (8:31); and Dervish D (5:15) (from the album Spiral, 1977)
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Tony Levin – Chasms (5:21); We Stand In Sapphire Silence (5:44); Etude In The Key Of Guildford (3:12); and Heat (6:30) (from the album World Diary, 1995)
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Systems Theory – Riverrun (Harmelodythm) (6:38); Spamivore (10:35); and Car Crash Messiah (5:55) (from the album Codetalkers, 2008)
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Jean-Michel Jarre – Magnetic Fields, Pt. 1 (17:57); and Magnetic Fields, Pt. 2 (5:25) (from the album Magnetic Fields, 1981)
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Klaus Schulze – Cellistica (24:35) (from the album Audentity, 1983)
I hope you will join me!
Until next time, Prog On, my brothers and sisters!
Tony
On this week's program I'm finishing up my coverage of the Australian composer and singer, Mark Trueack, of Unitopia and United Progressive Fraternity (UPF)! Hear more of my chat with Mark, and lots of great music from both of his bands!
(If you missed Part One, check out Prog-Watch 622!)
This week's Prog-Watch is a Variety program with music from ELO, Dhani Harrison, Lucifer's Friend, Iamthemorning, Axiom, Mindspeak, Tom Slatter, and Roine Stolt's The Flower King. Plus, Dr. Rob Fisher will be taking us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with the latest album by Lost In Thought.
This week on Prog-Watch my special guests are Mark Zonder and Gary Wehrkamp who have formed a new project called Zonder-Wehrkamp! (Mark is perhaps best know as the drummer for Warlord, Spirits Of Fire, and Fates Warning. Gary is probably best known as a member of Shadow Gallery, but has also worked with Arjen Lucassen, James Labrie, Doug Rausch, and also contributed to the first Roswell Six album.) Tune in to hear some of our chat, some music from the guys' pasts, and some from their brand new project!
For my first turn on 101 Dimensions this month, I have selected some (mostly) newer stuff that I hope you will enjoy! Here's what I have programmed for our time together:
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Nik Turner – Ghost Dance (6:41); Watching The Grass Grow (4:46); D-Rider (9:00); and Master Of The Universe (8:35) (from the album Space Ritual 1994, 1995)
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Gunship – Symmetrical (3:32); Cyber City (5:59); and The Gates Of Discord (5:44) (from the album Dark All Day, 2018)
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Malcolm Galloway – Pattern Jugglers (7:40); and Slow (6:17) (from the album Transitions, 2019)
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Silicon Psychosis – Humanoid Space Invaders (6:00); Mindship Man (6:33); and Noises In My Head (5:30) (2011, 2010, and 2012, respectively)
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Church Of Hed – Brandenburg Heights, Part 2 (19:48) (from the album Brandenburg Heights, 2016)
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Mirror Of Dreams – Wisteria Garden (6:52); Broken Memory; Resolution (6:48); and The Orrery At Twilight (8:40) (from the album Land Of Forgotten Destiny, 2019)
I hope you can come along for the ride!
Until next time, be well and Prog On, my brothers and sisters!
Tony
This week I have more awesome Prog Rock variety, with Guest DJ selections from a listener and friend of the show by the name of Simon Forrest of Hove, UK. We'll hear music from George Arriola, Marillion, ELO, Cirkus, Anathema, Rush, Nomadic Horizon, Fish, Porcupine Tree, SubLunar, and Cairo!
This week's Prog-Watch is a themed special, and the theme is “Shhhh”! Every song relates to silence or quiet. We'll hear music from great classic and contemporary artists including Mike + The Mechanics, Unitopia, Chris Squire, Paul Draper, Spock's Beard, The Flower Kings, Sanguine Hum, Queensryche, Dave Kerzner, RPWL, The Barock Project, and Genesis! Come along for a fun ride!
This week's Prog-Watch is an ALL NEW Variety program with lots of great stuff from some artists who are new to the show and some returning favorites! We'll hear new music from The Gift, Rob Cottingham, Lazleitt, iamthemorning, Mindspeak, We Are Kin, and Nomadic Horizon! On top of all that, we will also have a house call from THE DOCTOR, Rob Fisher, who will be taking us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with the latest album by the German band Cyril!
This weekend marked the 50th Anniversary of the Moon Landing in 1969! Since I happened to be at the helm of 101 Dimensions I decided to do something fun and a little different to celebrate the occasion. I broke from my usual format and stretched the bounds on the music quite a bit! Tune in to hear a wide array of music relating to our beautiful, awe-inspiring satellite and the Greek god whose name the NASA mission bore.
Here's the playlist for those who want to come along for the ride:
- Apollo 100 – Joy (from the album Joy, 1972)
- Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Black Moon (from the album Black Moon, 1992)
- Paul McCartney – C' Moon (from the album UK Singles Collection, 2007)
- The Zombies – Moonday Morning Dance (from the album The Return Of The Zombies, 1989)
- The Alan Parsons Project – Apollo (from the album On Air, 1996)
- Damanek – Moon-Catcher (from the album In Flight, 2018)
- Moon Safari – Moon Walk (from the album Blomljud, 2008)
- Harry Nilsson – The Moonbeam Song (from the album Nilsson Schmilsson, 1971)
- Gary Numan – This Prison Moon (from the album Warriors, 1983)
- George Harrison – Here Comes The Moon (from the album George Harrison, 1979)
- Journey – Moon Theme (from the album Dream After Dream, 1980)
- Fairport Convention – Rising For The Moon (from the album Rising For The Moon, 1975)
- Gerry Rafferty – Look At The Moon (from the album Snakes And Ladders, 1980)
- Potter's Daughter – Silver Moon (from the album The Blind Side, 2018)
- Japan – New Moon At Red Deer (from the album Rain Tree Crow, 1991)
- Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark – Apollo XI (from the album Sugar Tax, 1991)
- Porcupine Tree – Moonloop (from the album Coma Divine, 1997)
- Vangelis – The Oracle Of Apollo (from the album Direct, 1988)
- Fish – Poet's Moon (from the album Internal Exile, 1991)
- Kitaro – Moon-Star (from the album The Best Of Ten Years, 1988)
- Phil Collins – The Same Moon (from the album Dance Into The Light, 1996)
- Steve Howe – Apollo (from the album Time, 2011)
- Conspiracy – Man In The Moon (from the album Conspiracy, 2000)
- The Nice – The Diamond Hard Blue Apples Of The Moon (from the album The Thoughts Of Emerlist Davjack, 1968, 2003)
I hope you will join me!
Tony
On this week's Prog-Watch I'm finishing up my coverage of composer and keyboard wizard Andrew Colyer (which began in Prog-Watch 314)! Andrew and I chat about many of his side projects, his upcoming tour with Robert Berry's 3.2, and what's next for his main band Circuline. Along the way there will be plenty of great music from Circuline, Andrew's solo and soundtrack work, and one from an album he did with the band Cell 15!
I have a lot of great stuff lined up for you on this week's Prog-Watch! For starters, I'll be catching you up on some of the latest Prog Rock releases from Izz, Pattern Seeking Animals, Introitus, Jordan Rudess, and Terry Draper, formerly of Klaatu! Plus, I'll have a couple of listener dedications (Camel and U.K.), and there will also be a house call from THE DOCTOR, Rob Fisher, who will be taking us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with the latest album by the Norwegian band Oak!
This week's Prog-Watch is a wonderful variety program with lots of new music, plus some great selections from a Guest DJ by the name of David Graham of Hawick, Scotland! We'll hear music from Magic Pie, The Tornados, Thank You Scientist, The Moody Blues, The Gift, Genesis, Freedom To Glide, Pallas, Drifting Sun, Swallow The Sun, and Gandalf's Fist! All of that jammed into 90 minutes!
This week I'm in conversation with Dave Oberle of that most unique progressive folk band, Gryphon! Hear some of our chat and lots of great Gryphon music!
So the 101 Dimensions schedule has rolled around to me once again. And despite the fact that we have just experienced the longest day of the year, I have charted a bit of a darker course this time. Here's what's in store:
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Shamall – Pong Tscha (6:52); The Whole Story Of The Turning (11:46); Monotonie (5:56); and Snowfall (4:51) (from the album Collector's Items (1986 – 1993), 1993)
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Darkroom – Butterfly 2 (7:52); After Dark (9:28); and Dark Tomb (6:21) (from the album The DAC Mixes, 2004)
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Asturias – Distance (5:41); Cryptogram Illusion (4:20); Adolescencia (4:22); Mistral Island (3:41); and Phoenix (5:33) (from the album Cryptogram Illusion, 1993)
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Tolpamin – Venus In The Noise (4:01); Carnival Glass (4:22); Ropes Of Reckoning (3:48); and Il Sorpasso (3:21) (from the EP Tolpamin, 2018)
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Ian Boddy – Welcome To The Soundhouse (9:47); and Zero-G (15:00) (from the album The Final Question, 2007)
I hope you will join me!
Until next time...be well...and Prog On, my brothers and sisters!
T (not Thomas Thielen)
This week's Prog-Watch is another edition of EPIX! Just five tunes will carry us through our time together and I'll play one from each decade of our favorite genre. Tune in to hear great music from Twelfth Night, Rocket Scientists, Genesis, Karfagen, and IQ!
The midpoint of 2019 is rapidly approaching! Which means that it is time for this year's Prog-Watch and The Progressive Aspect collaboration on Some Of The Best Of 2019 (So Far)! A dozen tracks from some of the best albums of 2019, as selected by Yours Truly and some of the top reviewers at TPA!
This week on Prog-Watch I have a bit of a mixed bag! We'll hear great stuff from the likes of Surreal, Bjørn Riis, In Continuum, and Nad Sylvan, plus Dr. Rob Fisher will be taking a look at the latest Damanek album on Progressive Discoveries! As if that was not enough, I'll have a mini feature on Nikki Squire and her band Esquire! Nikki has a new track and she and I chatted about that and the future of Esquire!
Fans of electronic/ambient music: I'm at the helm of 101 Dimensions again this week and as usual I've tried to dig up a few things a little out of the ordinary for your chilled listening delight! Here's what I have lined up:
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Jan Hammer – Seeds (4:12); Too Far (3:27); Magic Theater (3:45); Sunset (3:11); Transformers (2:32); and Nothing But Love (2:57) (from the album Beyond The Mind's Eye, 1992)
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Nik Turner – Prophecy (4:44); Watching The Grass Grow (3:01); Children Of The Sun (4:26); Strontium 90 (2:42); Communique (3:43); and Chances Lost (4:14) (from the album Prophets Of Time, 1994)
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Tangerine Dream – No Man's Land (9:43); Hyperborea Part I (4:07); and Hyperborea Part II (4:48) (from the album Hyperborea, 2008)
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Church of Hed – Echoes Of December (5:37); and A Cold White Universe (10:01) (from the EP A Cold White Universe, 2017)
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The Orb - The Dream (6:25); Vuja De (5:45); Something Supernatural (0:36); and A Beautiful Day (6:48) (from the album The Dream, 2007)
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Thomas Dolby – Armageddon (5:29); Planet Of Lost Souls (3:00); Big Bang Backwards (2:11); N.E.O. (5:47); and The Ascent Of Man (8:32) (from the album The Gate To The Mind's Eye, 1994)
I hope you will join me! Until next time, be well, and Prog On, my brothers and sisters!
T (not Thomas Thielen)
On Prog-Watch this week I'm Shaking the Family Tree of the classic band Queen! I'll be spinning some tracks from the band proper and delving a little into the solo careers and side projects of Brian May, Roger Taylor, and the late Freddie Mercury! Come and see what shakes out!
This week on Prog-Watch my special guest is Australian singer and songwriter Mark Trueack, formerly of Unitopia and now with the United Progressive Fraternity! Mark and I chat about his past and present, and in between interview segments I'm spinning lots of great Unitopia and UPF music (including a few epics and one from the new UPF album Planetary Overload Part One: Loss)!
This week on Prog-Watch: More ALL NEW Prog Rock Variety from Lonely Robot, Brighteye Brison, Great Wide Nothing, Green Desert Tree, BangTower, Cosmograf & Alan Parsons! Plus, a visit from THE DOCTOR, Rob Fisher, who will be taking a look at “Solipsystemology”, the latest album by 't' (Thomas Thielen), on Progressive Discoveries!
I'm at the helm of 101 Dimensions again and I've laid in a course which will take us through various musical worlds! (There will even be a brief foray into the Vinyl Zone so try not to pay too much attention to the pops and crackles)! Here's the itinerary:
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Trinity Ward – Collider (6:13); The Gadget (5:38); Mayak (5:00); and Evaporator (4:40) (from the album Reactor, 2014)
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Duncan Mackay – Visa (3:30); Peru Tu (3:59); Fistful Of Keyboards (6:14); and See Sea (3:44) (from the album Visa, 1980)
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Karda Estra – Scorpio (7:50); Vela (9:28); and Twice Around The Sun (6:13) (from the album Constellations, 2003)
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Massimo Ruberti – Snorri (11:51); and Spider Guardian Machine (10:54) (from the album Live In Palermo, 2017)
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Embryo – Road To Asia (12:17) (from the album Embryo's Reise, 1979)
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Kitaro – Mirage (4:14); Flight (4:58); Aurora (4:41); and Fire (4:56) (from the album The World Of Kitaro, 1981)
I hope you will come along for the ride!
Tony
On this week's Prog-Watch I'm finishing up my coverage of composer, bassist, and vocalist Steve Babb and his band Glass Hammer! Hear more of my chat with Steve and lots of great music from the band's most recent albums, including a few from their latest offering, Chronomonaut!
This week on Prog-Watch: ALL NEW Variety! I'll be spinning new stuff from Mansun, Big Big Train, Joost Maglev, Alan Parsons, Jon Anderson, The Far Meadow, Dream Theater, Lonely Robot, Devin Townsend & Cosmograf! Come along for the ride and catch up with some of the great new music that has recently been released!
(Somebody pinch me so that I know that I'm not dreaming as I type this! OW! Thanks, Mrs. Progsquatch!)
This week on Prog-Watch my very special guest is the legendary keyboardist, composer, and vocalist Rod Argent! Rod rose to fame with The Zombies, and was recently inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame as a member of that seminal band! After the Zombies disbanded in the late 1960s, he enjoyed much success with his own band Argent and with various solo albums and collaborations, before getting back together with Colin Blunstone and reforming The Zombies for a new century! Tune in to hear much of my chat with Rod, and a lot of great Zombies, Argent, and solo Rod Argent music!
Fans of progressive electronic/ambient music: I'm at the helm of 101 Dimensions again, and as usual I have tried to dig up some interesting stuff for you! Here's what I came up with:
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Nik Turner – Out Of Control (3:57); Interstellar Aliens (5:12); Thunder Rider (6:36); and The Final Frontier, Pt. 1 (5:15) (from the album The Final Frontier, 2019)
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Rick Wakeman – Music Reincarnate Pt. 1-5 (28:30) from the album No Earthly Connection, 1976)
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Garrett N. - The Eternal Laugh (14:20); Reprise/Bak3/Unknown (10:08) (from the album Let's Get Surreal, 2018)
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Eddie Jobson – Inner Secrets (3:51); Spheres Of Influence (3:01); The Sojourn (6:32); and Ice Festival (5:34) (from the album Theme Of Secrets, 1985)
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Brian Eno – Manila Envelope (12:14); and Beast (6:51) (from the album Headcandy, 1994)
I hope you will join me!
This week on Prog-Watch I'm serving up a Variety program with music from Cyril, Kinetic Element, The Far Meadow, and Coma Rossi, plus newcomers Last Flight To Pluto and Astralingua! Also, I'll have some Guest DJ selections chosen by long-time listener Rick Gibbs. Rick has suggested some great songs by IQ, Steven Wilson, Lonely Robot, and Subsignal! So I hope you will join me!
Multi-instrumentalist, composer, music engineer and producer, and head of the Unicorn Digital record label...Michel St-Père does it all! And this week he also guests on Prog-Watch! Tune in to this week's program to hear some of our chat and lots of great music from his band Mystery!
This week I'm spinning fabulous stuff from The Room, The Franky Valentyn Project, Residuos Mentales, John Lodge, Premiata Forneria Marconi (or PFM, for short), Grand Tour, and Now In Colour! Plus, our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, will be taking us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with the German duo Manuel Schmid and Marek Arnold, with a look at their collaborative album called Zeiten! So kick back and get ready to rock...progressively, of course!
For the second time this month I am at the helm of 101 Dimensions! (It is a moderately rare event, similar to a Blue Moon, in which you get two doses of the Progsquatch in one month...a Blue Squatch?) Anyway, as usual I have tried to dig up some interesting electronic and ambient stuff for your listening pleasure. Here's what I came up with:
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Alexander Brandon – Flight Castle (0:51); Shared Dig (2:35); Dusk Horizon (2:31); Bluff Eversmoking (3:58); Isotoxin (4:06); Unreal Temple (Crypt) (4:13); and Black Wind (3:10) (from the album Unreal OST, 2000)
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Church Of Hed – Brandenburg Heights, Pt. 1 (20:45) (from the album Brandenburg Heights, 2016)
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Mirror Of Dreams – Hysteria Garden (2:42); Aphelion (8:16); The Lacrimosa Experiment (4:34), and Broken Memory/Desolation (5:48) (from the album Land Of Forgotten Destiny, 2019)
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Kevin Bartlett – Nothing Really (5:31); The Snow, The Fish and Glastonbury Hill (8:22); and Chauncey Saucer Survives 2012 (9:15) (from the album Glow In The Dark, 2008)
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Tangerine Dream – Alpha Centauri (22:08) (from the album Alpha Centauri, 1971)
I hope you will join me!
This week on Prog-Watch I'm chatting with the talented and prolific Andrew Colyer! Aside from his work with his own band Circuline, Andrew has guested on many side projects, released solo piano albums, and done soundtrack work, as well. He will also be touring later this year with Robert Berry in the live band for Robert's 3.2 project. Andrew and I talked about all of this and more, and in this week's program you can hear some of our chat. Of course there will also be a boatload of great music from Circuline, his solo piano albums and soundtracks, and a project called The Prog Rock Orchestra! I hope you will join us!
This week on Prog-Watch I'm spinning some great new(er) stuff from O.R.k., VAK, Mostly Autumn, Ed Wynne, Tim Bowness, and Weezer (yes, Weezer)! I'll also be mixing in some great older selections from a Guest DJ by the name of Reno Faoro! Reno's picks include stuff by Carmen, Minimum Vital, Duncan Browne, Bloodrock, and Golden Earring! If you haven't heard of some of these artists, I strongly suggest you come along for the ride and expand your “Prog-cabulary”! All are interesting and worth hearing!
This week on Prog-Watch it's A Numbers Game! Every song will have a number in the title! Can you guess what I will be playing? I'll give you some hints...there will be music from King Crimson, Yes, Gentle Giant, David Bowie, Traffic, Kansas, Tiger Moth Tales, Chris Squire, Bruce Soord, Steely Dan, Moody Blues, Jethro Tull, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Renaissance, and The Nice! Intrigued? I hope so! Be there or be square!
This week on Prog-Watch I'm spinning a diversity of fabulous music from around the Progressive Rock world! Hear (mostly) new music from Karfagen, Radius Funk, Bram Stoker, RPWL, Grand Tour, The End Of The Ocean, Coma Rossi, Soft Machine Legacy, Falling Edge, and Whiteside's Daughter!
This week I am host of another episode of 101 Dimensions, featuring my usual eclectic blend of electronic and ambient music! Here's what's in store:
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Redshift – Toll (20:44) (from the album Toll, 2006)
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Asturias – Suite of Elemental: Pt. 1. Undene: Water Elemental; Pt. 2. Salamander: Fire Elemental; Pt. 3. Sylphide: Fire Elemental; and Pt. 4. Gnome: Earth Elemental (28:46) (from the album Elementals, 2014)
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Synergy – Flight Of The Looking Glass (3:39); North River (1:22); Steam and Steel Towers (6:16); Metropolitan Theme (4:11); and Into The Abyss (8:17) (from the album Reconstructed Artifacts, 2002)
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Zanov – Phantasm (11:08); Lost Message (6:15); and Infinitude (2:21) (from the album In The Course Of Time, 1982)
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The Art Of Noise – Eye Of A Needle (4:42); Robinson Crusoe (4:03); A Nation Rejects (4:45); and Art Of Love (7” Version) (4:34) (from the album The Ambient Collection, 1990)
I hope you will join me!
This week on Prog-Watch I'm in conversation with Steve Babb, one of the founding members of the venerable U.S. band Glass Hammer! Steve and I chat about the early days of the band and the role that television shopping played in getting them going, among other things. Along the way I also naturally play lots of great Glass Hammer music!
This week I've got another boatload of great new Progressive Rock from Kenny McCormick, Red Bazar, The Room, Ed Wynne, Voices From The Fuselage, Manuel Schmid and Marek Arnold, Overhead, and The Enid! As if that wasn't enough, there will also be a Progressive Discoveries segment with our friend and resident reviewer Dr. Rob Fisher, on a great project called Zeelley Moon! Patrick Molesworth of Zeelley Moon even provides some commentary!
This week I take the helm again at 101 Dimensions! As usual I have tried to find some interesting things for you from my electronic and ambient music vault. Here's what's in store:
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Gary Numan – Berserker (5:52); This Is New Love (6:18); The Secret (5:55); My Dying Machine (5:36); and Cold Warning (6:00) (from the album Berserker, 1998)
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Jean-Michel Jarre – Pleasure Principle (6:12); Geometry Of Love, Part 1 (3:49); Soul Intrusion (4:43); and Electric Flesh (5:59) (from the album Geometr Of Love, 2003)
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Kraftwerk – Tanzmusik (6:37); and Ananas Symphonie (13:55) (from the album Ralf and Florian, 1973)
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Rob Harvey – Rainsong (8:14); Output, Part 1 (5:46); Synaps (7:27); and Skepsis (3:40) (from the album Rainsong, 2012)
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Mike Oldfield – Music From The Balcony (19:44) (from the album Heaven's Open, 1991)
I hope you enjoy!
Prog On!
Tony
This week's Prog-Watch is a variety program with a few special features! There will be a little feature on Thomas Thielen and a sneak peek at the next "t" album called Solipsystemology! (Thomas loves those titles that just roll off the tongue, doesn't he?) I also have a Guest DJ, Bill Dunaway of High Ridge, Missouri, USA! Bill checks in with some of his Prog Rock favorites, and I mix in a few newer tracks, as well. So in addition to the "t" music, you can expect a boatload of great stuff, new and old, from the likes of Bill Bressler, Yes, Duke 72, Vangelis, Red Bazar, Big Big Train, Dreamwalkers Inc, and Spock's Beard!
This week on Prog-Watch I've got a fun little themed special called "Interrogative Prog"! Every song asks a question. What will I be playing? That's a good question, but you will have to tune in to find out! I will tell you this...there will be music from The Moody Blues, Zebra, Uriah Heep, The Strawbs, Blackfield, Gentle Giant, Asia, Billy Sherwood, Ken Hensley, Steve Hackett, Golden Earring, Pete Townshend, Guy Manning, Saga, and The Eloy!
On this week's Prog-Watch I've got great music from Deep Energy Orchestra, Voices From The Fuselage, The Tangent, RPWL, Simon Godfrey, Phil Keaggy, Tony Levin & Jerry Marotta, Residuos Mentales, and Hedfuzy! Plus Pymlico on Progressive Discoveries with Dr. Rob Fisher!
It's my turn again on 101 Dimensions and this time I've dug a little deeper into the archives, in an effort to find some stuff that I think is cool and maybe you may not have heard. Here's what I dug up:
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Nattefrost - In Natura (4:21); Draconian (5:43); Music For The Man (5:25); and Die Kinder Der Erde (4:58) (from the album Dying Sun – Scarlet Moon, 2010)
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Ian Tescee – The New World (5:28); Passport (6:02); Earthrise (4:01); and The Lost City Of Mars (4:16) (from the album A Traveler's Guide To Mars, 2008)
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Silicon Psychosis – The Silent Message (5:27); Aliens vs. Robots vs. Humans (5:14); Humanoid Space Invaders (6:00); and Noises In My Head (5:30)
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Brian Eno – Targa (18:49) (from the album 77 Million – An AudioVisual Installation, 2006)
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Michael Stearns – Chronos (41:45) (from the album Chronos, 1985)
Until next time...Prog On!
Tony
On this week's program I'm shaking the family tree of the band 10cc! We'll hear music from the pre-10cc days, from the classic period of the band in the 1970s, and from the individual members Graham Gouldman, Eric Stewart, Kevin Godley & Lol Creme, post-10cc!
This week's Prog-Watch is a straight up variety program with lots of great stuff from around the progressive rock world! I'm spinning mostly newer tunes from Kenny McCormick, Regal Worm, OAK (Oscillazioni Alchemico Kreative), The D Project, Nikki Squire & Dweezil Zappa, Karibow, Pinn Dropp, Heather Findlay, Be Bop Deluxe, and Glass Hammer!
This week's Prog-Watch is a Variety program with a new feature...The Guest DJ! My first Guest DJ is a long time friend and supporter of the show, Mr. Thaddeus Wert of Nashville, Tennessee, USA! We'll be playing a number of Thaddeus's favorite Prog tunes and enjoying some of his personal commentary on those selections. With music from Phil Keaggy, Tony Levin and Jerry Marotta, Somewhere Out, Drifting Sun, Manuel Schmid and Marek Arnold, Luke the Lone, UK, Big Big Train, Sanguine Hum, and Glass Hammer!
This week on Prog-Watch my esteemed guest is Daniele Giovannoni, drummer, keyboardist, and main musical composer of the band Karmamoi! Daniele and I chat about the history of the band and their new concept album The Day Is Done. And of course I play plenty of great Karmamoi music along the way!
For this edition of 101 Dimensions I've assembled a variety of interesting electronic/ambient sounds spanning five decades! Here's what's on tap:
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Edgar Froese – Icarus (9:13); Metropolis (11:11); and Era Of The Slaves (8:10) (from the album Ages, 1978)
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The Orb – O.O.B.E. (12:51); U.F.Orb (6:09); and Blue Room (17:34) (from the album U.F.Orb, 1992)
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Richard Barbieri – The Experience Of Swimming (6:58); Slink – Orphan 5 (11:17); and Variants.4 Teaser (7:10) (from the album Variants.4, 2018)
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David Sylvian – Words With The Shaman: Part 1 – Ancient Evening (5:15); Part 2 – Incantation (3:29); and Part 3 – Awakening (Songs From The Treetops) (5:18) (from the album Alchemy: An Index Of Possibilities, 1985)
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Wendy Carlos – Aurora Borealis (19:53) (from the album Sonic Seasonings, 1972)
I hope you enjoy! Until next time, Prog On!
Tony
Start the New Year with some Prog Rock EPIX from the likes of Änglagård, The D Project, Rush, Dream Theater, and Pink Floyd! One mini rock symphony from each decade of our favorite musical genre!
Well, it's that time of year again...when Prog-Watch teams with The Progressive Aspect to bring you our end of year round-up of some of the best albums released in the Progressive genre this year! Seven of the fine reviewers from TPA provided short lists of their favorites, and brief reviews. Your humble host has also selected one of his own. With contributions from Mel Allen, Shawn Dudley, Rob Fisher, Magnus Moar, Jez Rowden, Roger Trenwith, and Leo Trimming, and music from 3.2, Dukes of the Orient, Gazpacho, North Atlantic Oscillation, Phideaux, Pymlico, Regal Worm, and Voivod!
This time on 101 Dimensions I've got a lot of great electronic and ambient music from some fantastic newer artists and some older, classic ones! Here's what you can expect:
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Kraftwerk – Techno Pop (7:42); Sex Object (6:50); and Electric Cafe (4:17) (from the album Electric Cafe, 1986)
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North Atlantic Oscillation – Low Earth Orbit (5:22); Downriver (6:46); and Fernweh (7:50) (from the album Grind Show, 2018)
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Quarkspace – All These Suns (12:13); The Prodigal Spaceman (6:05); and Solar Progenics (6:14) (from the album All These Suns, 2018)
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Gösta Berlings Saga – Square Five (7:02); Over And Out (4:36); and Fundament (9:59) (from the album Et Ex, 2018)
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Vangelis – Origins (Arrival) (4:22); Starstuff (5;14); Infinitude (4:30); Exo Genesis (3:33); and Celestial Whispers (2:31) (from the album Rosetta, 2016)
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Isao Tomita – Arabesque (3:58) (from the album Snowflakes Are Dancing, 1974)
Until next time...Prog On!
Tony
On this week's Prog-Watch I'll be playing fantastic prog rock music from Astral Bazaar, Anathema, Oscillazioni Alchemico Kreative (O.A.K.), Jussi Petäjä, Spriggan Mist, Daniel Eliseev Project, Roxy Music, All Traps on Earth, and The Tangent! Plus, a great feature on the new album by Canadian proggers mystery on Progressive Discoveries with Dr. Rob Fisher!
On Prog-Watch this week my special guest is Oliver Rüsing of Karibow! Oliver and I have an interesting (and at times fun) conversation about the making of the spectacular new Karibow album, Monumento! Along the way I also play lots of great Karibow music, including a couple from the new one!
This week on Prog-Watch I have another awesome variety program! With music from El Tubo Elastico, Riverside, Sunchild, Nosound, D'AccorD, & Gosta Berlings Saga! Plus, Dr. Rob Fisher dishes on the great new album by Aussie proggers Southern Empire!
For this month's 101 Dimensions I've lined up another eclectic blend of fine electronic and ambient sounds for your listening pleasure! Here's what's in store:
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Silicon Psychosis – Beautiful Angelic Fairy Princess (5:10); Brave New Worlds (6:50); Civilisation Reset Button (5:54); and Floating On An Alien Ocean (6:40)
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Richard Barbieri – Hypnotek (8:16); Byzantium (7:37); and Decay (5:02) (from the album Stranger Inside, 2008)
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Johannes Schmoelling – Blueprint (5:55); A Thousand Times (Reprise) (5:45); Kiterunner (5:32); and Palace Of Dreams (5:38) (from the album A Thousand Times, 2009)
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Radio Massacre International – Damanhur (12:56); Iceland (6:08); and Findhorn (8:16) (from the album City 21, 2011)
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Harmonia & Eno – Welcome (3:02); Atmosphere (3:24); Vamos Campaneros (4:34); By The Riverside (9:31) (from the album Tracks And Traces, 1976)
If you like electronic/ambient music I hope you will join me!
Until next time, I wish you all well! Prog On!
Tony
This week on Prog-Watch I'm shaking the family tree of Traffic! Hear lots of great music from the band proper and the four original members, Jim Capaldi, Dave Mason, Steve Winwood, and Chris Wood! Everything you hear will not be progressive rock in the strictest sense, but rest assured it will be fabulous classic rock from an influential and storied band, and the wildly talented individual members.
Viva variety! That's the spirit of this week's Prog-Watch which features a boatload of fabulous prog rock sounds! With music from IQ, We Could Build an Empire, The Pineapple Thief, Saul Blease, Oak, Tiger Moth Tales, Sunchild, Overhead, Pymlico, Psychoyogi, Vola, Hats Off Gentlemen It's Adequate, and Pinn Dropp!!
This week on Prog-Watch my esteemed guest is Guy Manning of Manning, United Progressive Fraternity and Damanek! Guy and I chat about his various projects and the upcoming Damanek tour with Southern Empire! And of course there is plenty of great music to be heard along the way!
Also: hear Tony clarify how Guy likes to pronounce "Damanek" and then revert to his own pronunciation for the rest of the program! I guess you really can't teach an old prog rock show host new tricks.
This edition of 101 Dimensions features some electronic/ambient type sounds for the season! Here's the playlist:
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Novus – Wicked Library Theme (0:49); and A Murder Of Crows (6:51) (from the album Into The Future, 2014)
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Asturias – Spirits (6:08); Reincarnation (3:08) and Soul Trees (10:40) (from the album In Search Of The Soul Trees, 2008)
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Kitaro & Tomita – A Night On Bare Mountain (12:47) (from the album Kitaromita, 1997)
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Ian Boddy – Spirits (23:27) (from the album Spirits, 1984)
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Trinity Ward – The Interloper (7:16); Oblivion (7:36); Soul Destroyer (4:36); and For Whom The Bell Tolls (2:20) (from the album Soul Destroyer, 2013)
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Ann Dudley – Troll Trouble (3:46); A Stepmother's Curse (3:04); These Are Dark Days (3:15); Seven Years Of Bad Luck (2:32) and Still Lost In The Forest (2:57) (from the album The 10th Kingdom (Original Television Soundtrack), 2000)
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Vangelis – Heaven And Hell (Part Two) (21:23) (from the album Heaven And Hell, 1975)
I hope you enjoy!
Tony
This week on Prog-Watch my special guest is Doug Rausch of the US band Rausch! Doug and I chat about his classical training, his influences, the Jordan Rudess connection, and much more! Along the way there will, of course, be plenty of great Rausch music! If you like your prog rock fresh and catchy, with brilliant keyboard playing and a dash of Queen thrown in, you will not want to miss this one!
This week's Prog-Watch is full of stars! Every song will have the word "star" in the title! We'll hear music from artists ranging from Anekdoten to Yuka & Chronoship! Come along and try to guess what I'll be playing!
This week's Prog-Watch is a great variety program made up of all music released this year! (Well, technically...two of the tracks are re-issues, but hey, they were re-issued this year!) We'll hear music from Blackfield, Gunship, Potter's Daughter, El tubo elastico, IQ, The National Orchestra of the United Kingdom of Goats, Sanguine Hum, Morgan and the Mountain, Phideaux and Napier's Bones! Plus Yuka & Chronoship on Progressive Discoveries with Dr. Rob Fisher!
On this week's Prog-Watch my very special guest is the one and only Martin Barre of Jethro Tull fame! Martin and I talk Tull and his solo career, and along the way there is plenty of great music...a few Tull tunes on which Martin really shines, and lots of great music from his solo albums, including a few from his fabulous new album "Roads Less Travelled"!
This week sees me back at the helm of 101 Dimensions, and as usual I have an eclectic mix of stuff lined up for your auditory delight! Here's what's in store:
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Electric Mud – Deadend Mind (11:38); and Canary In A Cathouse (11:02) (from the album The Deconstruction Of Light, 2018)
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Nova Cascade – Above All Else (3:29); Continuum (3:06); Prophecy (5:10); We Never Spoke (3:35); and Hurtled (3:42) (from the album Above All Else, 2018)
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Church of Hed – Sandstoned (5:31); Synth Cadence (2:16) 1 a.m. At The Dean Road Bridge (4:18); Quarrydosing (2:19); and 2 a.m. At Crownhill Cemetary (from the album Sandstoned, 2018)
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Kitaro – Lotus Mountain (9:04); Yakushi (8:25); and Magic Seeds (8:37) (from the album Sacred Journey of Ku-Kai, Volume 4, 2010)
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Klaus Schulze – Count Me In (4:03); and Bona Fide (14:30) (from the album Jubilee Edition, 1997)
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David Sylvian and Holger Czukay - Mutability ('A New Beginning is in the Offing') (20:59) (from the album Flux + Mutability, 1988)
Until next time...Prog On!
Tony
This week on Prog-Watch my special guest is Simon Godfrey of Tinyfish, Valdez & Shineback! Hear some of my chat with the always-entertaining Simon, plus music from all of his bands, including several from the new Shineback album "Dial"!
This week on Prog-Watch it's another great variety show of mostly new Progressive sounds! Hear music from Phideaux, Ghost, Telegraph, Built For The Future, Marillion, mystery, Riverside, The Pineapple Thief, Stackridge, Skeptosphere & The Dame!
This week I'm finishing up my coverage of the prolific keyboard maestro, Mr. Clive Nolan! There will be chat about his more recent endeavors, and plenty of great music from his collaboration with Oliver Wakeman, his theater-oriented project Caamora, and, of course, Arena! (In fact, there will be quite a bit of Arena, including a generous helping from the new album Double Vision!)
If you missed the first part or feel like listening again, you can find it at the following link:
http://progwatch.com/522/
I'm back at the helm of 101 Dimensions this week and here's what I've lined up for a late summer Saturday evening/Sunday morning:
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Thomas Dolby – Dissidents; The Flat Earth; Screen Kiss; and White City (from the album The Flat Earth, 1984)
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Alan Parsons – Return To Tunguska; Mammagamma 04; and We Play The Game (from the album A Valid Path, 2004)
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The Orb – Little Fluffy Clouds (Cumulo Nimbus Mix); Backside Of The Moon (Under Water Deep Space); and Spanish Castles In Space (Castles In Goa Mix) (from the album Aubrey Mixes – The Ultraworld Excursions, 1991)
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Mangabros – The History Of Swaying; 'z' (The Last Ghost Story); Sirens Of The Plague Coast; and White Mice In A Red Maze (from the album Deepfleshred (Venus And Mars Edition), 2018)
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Brian Eno – Discreet Music (from the album Discreet Music, 1975)
I hope you will join me! Until next time...Prog On!
Tony
This week on Prog-Watch: a whole lot of great Progressive Rock variety! With music from Aisles, Paul Draper, Steve Hackett, Kaleidoreal, Glass Hammer, Octavarium, The Kentish Spires, and King's X! Plus, The Paradox Twin on Progressive Discoveries with Dr. Rob Fisher!
This week on Prog-Watch my special guest is Robert Berry of 3 and 3.2! Robert talks candidly about the formation of the original 3 (with Keith Emerson and Carl Palmer) in the late 1980s, how he and Emerson came to resurrect the idea of the band, and the ordeal he faced in finishing the album following Emerson’s tragic death in 2016. Along the way, there will be plenty of great music…from the original 3, a few from Robert’s solo career, and of course a few from the new 3.2 album “The Rules Have Changed”!
US band Crack the Sky have a career that goes back more than 40 years, when their first self-titled album was chosen by Rolling Stone as the Debut Of The Year. Since then they have had their ups and downs, but in recent years the band has reunited many of the original and classic members and continue to make their own quirky and catchy brand of progressive rock music. I spoke to John Palumbo, founder and principal composer of the band, a few weeks ago on the eve of the release of their new album Living In Reverse. This week's Prog-Watch will consist of some of that interview, interspersed with lots of classics from the band's past and a few from the new album.
Whether or not you have heard of Crack The Sky I hope you will join me! John is a unique character, and to see where his vision leads the band's music is always interesting!
Three more weeks have rolled by, so I am back at the helm of 101 Dimensions! This week's program is an eclectic collection (as usual) ranging from the more muscular sounds of Jason Rubenstein, to the classic electronic stylings of Tangerine Dream, and the more ambient motifs of Richard Barbieri and David Sylvian and Holger Czukay. Here's the playlist if you want to follow along at home:
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Jason Rubenstein – Consideration; and Acceleration (from the album Four Points Of Focus, 2018)
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Space Debris – Phonomorph (from the album Space Rock – An Interstellar Traveler's Guide, 2016)
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The Firemen – Trans Lunar Rising; and 4 4 4 (from the album Strawberries Oceans Ships Forest, 1993)
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Tangerine Dream – Tear Down The Grey Skies; Genesis Of Precious Thought; and Electron Bonfire (from the album Quantum Gate + Quantum Key, 2018)
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Electric Orange – Meals Of Confusion (from the album Space Rock – An Interstellar Traveler's Guide, 2016)
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Richard Barbieri – Nevada; Fear And Trembling; Light On Glass; and Drop Of Mercury (from the album Things Buried, 2004)
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David Sylvian and Holger Czukay – Plight (The Spiralling Of Winter Ghosts) (from the album Plight And Premonition, 1988)
I hope you will join me!
Until next time...Prog On!
Tony
Pure, wholesome variety is on tap for this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear fabulous new music from Argos, Circuline, Rausch, Jason Rubenstein, Gleb Kolyadin and Spock's Beard! Plus not quite so new (but equally fabulous) stuff from Argent, Cardiacs, Peter Matuchniak, Art Griffin's Sound Chaser, Isproject, Golden Earring & Michael Penn!
So come on...it's certified 100% organic and soooo good for you!
This week's Prog-Watch is another edition of EPIX! My usual criteria apply: an EPIC must be over 10 minutes long; and we will hear one for each major decade of our favorite genre! This time we'll hear music from The Flower Kings, Big Big Train, Southern Empire, Jethro Tull and Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman & Howe!
I hope you will join me for some wonderful, modern rock symphonies!
This week's program is a Variety show with lots of great new stuff from 3.2, The Sea Within, EvenFlow, Drifting Sun, and Strangefish! We'll also hear great (but not quite new) music from Agam, Heresy, and The Bedlam Furnaces, and our resident reviewer Dr. Rob Fisher will check in with a Progressive Discoveries feature on the latest album by the Italian band Victim Of Illusion! I hope you can come along for the ride!
I'm at the helm again for this week's 101 Dimensions and I've got an interesting journey plotted for us. Here's the itinerary:
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Pete Townshend - Who Are You (from the album The Lifehouse Chronicles, 2000); Catsnatch; Body Language; and Baroque Ippanese (from the album Scooped, 1995)
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Jean-Michel Jarre – Electric Flesh; and Skin Paradox (from the album Geometry Of Love, 2003)
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The Orb (featuring David Gilmour) – Metallic Side (from the album Metallic Spheres, 2010)
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The Fragile Fate (featuring Rupert Greenall, Jerry Marotta, and Eric Taylor) – Bell-Like; Configuration; Rolled Over; Large Rooms; and The Lost Toy Piano (from the album Lilliam Ocean, 2015
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Glass Hammer – Twilight On Longview (from the album On To Evermore, 1998)
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Kitaro – Mysterious Encounter; Sundance; The Field; and The Light Of The Spirit (from the album The Light Of The Spirit, 1987)
I hope you will join me on!
Until next time, Prog On!
Tony
This week on Prog-Watch I'm shaking the family tree of one of my favorite bands of all time...Jethro Tull! So much great stuff shakes out, including music from Blodwyn Pig, Aviator, solo Ian Anderson, solo Martin Barre, and some real lost gems from the late Glenn Cornick's Wild Turkey!
Come and see what shakes out!
This week on Prog-Watch we're celebrating 40 years of Pendragon with the second of two Nick Barrett interview programs! Nick and I had an epic chat and you can hear some more of that PLUS a whole lot of great Pendragon music in this week's program!
If you missed the first show (or just want to refresh your memory so you can get the full-on Nick and Pendragon experience) you can find it here:
http://progwatch.com/511/
Well I'm back at the helm of the Starship 101 Dimensions and I've plotted an exciting course for us this month! Here's our itinerary:
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Trinity Ward – Shadowfire; Sunburst; Lotus On An Ocean Of Milk; and The Mountains Of The Moon (from the album Incoherent Light, 2018)
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Lunatic Soul – Shadows; Rinsing The Night; The Art Of Repairing; and Untamed (from the album Under The Fragmented Sky, 2018)
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Duncan Mackay – Morpheus; and 12 Tone Nostalgia (from the album Chimera, 1974)
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The Art Of Noise - Il Pleure (At The Turn Of The Century); and Born On A Sunday (from the album The Seduction Of Claude Debussy, 1999)
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Massimo Ruberti – The City Without Sun; Sabotage; and Last Bird In The Valley (from the album The City Without Sun, 2013)
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Kitaro – By The Seaside; Soul Of The Sea; Micro Cosmos; Beat; and Fire (from the album Ten Kai (Astral Voyage), 1978)
I hope you can join me! Until next time, Prog On!
Tony
This week's Prog-Watch is another fabulous variety program with mostly new(er) music! We'll hear from Wobbler, David Cross and David Jackson, Ben Craven, Spock's Beard, Stratospheerius and The Bedlam Furnaces! Plus, Dr. Rob Fisher provides an insightful Progressive Discoveries segment on the new album 'La Muerta' from Subsignal!
The Beatles were kind of my “gateway” band. Before I discovered them, I liked music probably about as much as your average teenager. After I discovered them, I became what I suppose you would call a “music fanatic”. Their music resonated with me on many different levels and I was amazed at the transformational musical journey they had made in less than a decade. Once I had absorbed just about everything they had done I moved on to explore the musical catalogs of Badfinger, The Who, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, and countless other classic rock bands. Eventually my explorations led me to Yes, The Moody Blues, Genesis, ELP, and the entire world of Progressive Rock. But I really owe it all to the Beatles...for me they were the spark. If you listen to interviews with many of the people who went on to found some of the greatest Golden Age Prog bands, you will also find that many of them were directly influenced in some way by the Beatles.
So I always knew that I would do some kind of Beatles show at some point. The impetus to finally do it came a few weeks ago when I was presented with an opportunity to interview Tom Murray, an author and photographer who actually spent a whole day taking some beautiful, classic, color photos of the Beatles back in 1968, on the eve of the release of The White Album. Tom has since published a book called “Mad Day Out” with not only his Beatles photos from that day, but also lots of other great pictures from the heady days of the 1960s. Speaking to Tom was a link to the legend of the Beatles.
So I offer you Prog-Watch 528 – A Celebration of the Music of the Beatles! The program features a few of the Beatles “proggier” tracks, a few cool tribute tunes, and lots of great covers of Beatles songs by some Prog and Prog-related artists. Plus a bit of my chat with Mr. Tom Murray. I hope you will join me!
Time Of The Season by The Zombies is one of the first songs I can remember hearing as a child, and that strange beat and smooth, almost ethereal (over an AM radio!) vocal made a lasting impression. So it was with great pleasure that I was actually able to interview the owner of that voice, Mr. Colin Blunstone, a few weeks back! As an original British Invasion artist he had many recollections of those heady days, and also talked about his solo career, and time spent with The Alan Parsons Project and the offshoot band Keats. Tune in to this week's Prog-Watch to hear some of that interview, and a whole lot of great music by The Zombies, The APP, Keats, Colin alone, and some bloke named Neil MacArthur! (If you don't know who this is, tune in and find out!)
This week's Prog-Watch is one of our semi-annual collaborations with the fine reviewers of The Progressive Aspect to bring you some of the Best of 2018 (So Far)! Nine fantastic pieces from nine of the best albums released so far this year and short reviews of each! With contributions from Mel Allen, Tony Colvill, Rob Fisher, Bob Mulvey, Roger Trenwith, Leo Trimming, and John Wenlock-Smith!
It's my turn on 101 Dimensions again and I've lined up a veritable smorgasbord of electronic and ambient music for your listening pleasure! Here's what's in store:
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The Buggles – Technopop; and Island (Edit Version) (from the album The Age Of Plastic, 2010 Japanese reissue)
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Synergy – Into The Abyss; Prairie Light; and West Side Nights (from the album Metropolitan Suite, 1987)
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The Buggles – Vermillion Sands; and I Am A Camera (from the album Adventures In Modern Recording, 1981)
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Aphrodite's Child – Chakachak (from the album Babylon The Great – An Introduction To Aphrodite's Child, 2002)
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Matt Baber – Suite For Piano And Electronics, Pt. 1-5 (from the album Suite For Piano And Electronics, 2018)
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Silicon Psychosis – Sound Is Holographic; Encroaching Psychotic Entity; Pyramids Of The Global Matrix; Calling All Aliens; and The Machine Elves (from the album Electronic Tonalities for Like-Minded Aliens, 2018)
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Vangelis – Beaubourg, Pt. 1 (from the album Beaubourg, 1978)
I hope you will join me!
Until next time, be good to each other, and Prog On, my brothers and sisters!
Tony
This week on Prog-Watch it's the long-awaited return of THE DOCTOR, Rob Fisher, with another great edition of Progressive Discoveries! This edition centers on the exciting new album by Sharon den Adel's solo project My Indigo. Prepare for something a bit different! Also on this week's program: a lot of great Progressive Rock (this ain't Rap-Watch!) from Yuka & Chronoship, The Dame, Armonite, Emerson, Lake and Powell, Gazpacho, World Trade, The J Conspiracy, IO Earth, and BangTower!
Jerry Marotta is one of the most prolific drummers in the history of modern music. He has played on literally hundreds of records and has worked with acts such as Orleans, Hall & Oates, The Indigo Girls, Stackridge, Marshall Crenshaw, The Dream Academy, Tears For Fears, Elvis Costello, Paul McCartney, and many, many more. Of particular note to Progressive Rock music fans is his association with Peter Gabriel, Tony Levin, and Trey Gunn of King Crimson, who now works with Jerry in The Security Project. Jerry is my esteemed guest on this week's Prog-Watch, and he talks at length about working with the Prog icons just mentioned, and what he is up to now. Along the way we will hear lots of great music from the progressive end of his resume.
If you enjoy progressive electronic/ambient music, instrumental jazz, and even a little vintage electro-pop for good measure, check out this month's 101 Dimensions! The program features an eclectic blend of stuff for your auditory enjoyment. Here's what's in store:
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Gary Numan – Cars; Airplane; Metal; and Complex (from the album The Pleasure Principle, 1979)
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Kavus Torabi – Slow Movements (from the album Solar Divination, 2018)
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Trinity Ward – Shadows Over Eden; Overflight; The Interloper; and Oblivion (from the album Soul Destroyer, 2013)
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Jean-Luc Ponty – Infinite Pursuit; Radioactive Legacy; and Perpetual Rondo (from the album Fables, 1985)
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Pink Floyd – Things Left Unsaid; It's What We Do; Ebb And Flow; Sum; and Skins (from the album The Endless River, 2014)
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Ian Boddy – Out There (from the album The Mechanics Of A Thought, 2007)
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Isao Tomita – Lady Aoi and Lady Rokujo; and Spirit (from the album The Tale Of Genji, 1999)
I hope you will join me! Until next time...be good to each other, and Prog On, my brothers and sisters!
Tony
Variety is the spice of life, so this week's Prog-Watch is a diverse collection of great progressive rock to enliven your world! We'll hear music from The Dear Hunter, ESP 2.0, Mostly Autumn, Onségen Ensemble, Robert Plant, Ange, Visual Cliff, Coast, 3RDegree, Kansas, Lines In The Sky, IQ, and Bomber Goggles!
This week on Prog-Watch it's Part One of my coverage of keyboard wizard and composer Clive Nolan! Clive and I chat about his many projects and endeavors, and along the way I spin lots of great tracks from some of them, including Arena, Strangers On A Train, Casino, Shadowland, one of his collaborations with Oliver Wakeman, and of course some solo material!
This week's program is part variety show and part feature! On the variety side we will hear great (mostly newer) stuff from Perfect Beings, Kayak, Drifting Sun, and Skeptosphere! As for the feature: Aaron and Devin of The Aaron Clift Experiment drop by to talk about their brand new album If All Goes Wrong, and we check out three tracks from the album!
Another month, another great program of cool music from the electronic/ambient end of the spectrum! Here's this month's playlist:
Alberto Rigoni featuring Marco Minnemann – Evorevolution (from the album EvoRevolution, 2018)
Tangerine Dream – Sensing Elements; and Non-Locality Destination (from the album Quantum Gate + Quantum Key, 2018)
The Fragile Fate (featuring Rupert Greenall, Jerry Marotta, and Eric Taylor) – Water Field; Float; Sign Waves; Lilliam Ocean; and On Land-Like (from the album Lilliam Ocean, 2015)
Robert Reed – The Moonsinger Suite, Pts. 1-3 (from the album Sanctuary III, 2018)
I hope you enjoy! Until next time, be good to each other, and Prog On, my brothers and sisters!
Tony
This week on Prog-Watch I am wrapping up my coverage of rock legend Ken Hensley! Ken and I chat about his PledgeMusic campaign and his new anthology, Rare and Timeless, and about what's coming up in his near future. I also spin plenty of music from his illustrious career...with Uriah Heep, Toe Fat, and Ken Hensley and Live Fire, his collaboration with John Wetton, and of course some solo stuff, including a few from that brand new anthology!
This week's Prog-Watch contains a colossal collection of contemporary and classic Progressive Rock for your careful consideration! Hear music from IO Earth, Coburg, Lazuli, Whiteside's Daughter, Elephant9, Axios, David Gilmour, Yuka & Chronoship, Motherjane, Gentle Giant, The Bridge, Anthony Phillips, and Projekt Gemineye! Come cherish the cheer!
Guitar legend Mick Box has been rocking with Uriah Heep for approximately 50 years! This week he is my esteemed guest on Prog-Watch! Mick and I have a quick chat about the current Heep tour, their forthcoming album, and their PledgeMusic campaign, and along the way I spin lots of great Heep music, new and old!
This week's Prog-Watch features an appreciable and astonishing amalgamation of Progressive Rock for your auditory amusement! Hear music from Tangekanic, Sweet, Kino, World Trade, Frequency Drift, Steve Hackett, Tears for Fears, Comedy Of Errors, Barclay James Harvest, Now In Colour, Art Griffin's Sound Chaser, Terry Draper, and Rausch! An amazing assortment, eh?
Ken Hensley is a self-proclaimed survivor...a veteran of the mega rock star days of the 1970s, and a music business machine that would just as soon grind up, spit out, and replace band members, rather than stop the money stream long enough for them to get help for addictions or other problems. In a career going back more than 50 years, his compositions and versatile musicianship put Uriah Heep on the map and then sustained a solo career and various bands, collaborations, and projects up through today. I was lucky enough to catch up with Ken a few weeks ago and chat at length with him about his illustrious career and his most recent project, a solo anthology called Rare And Timeless, driven and curated by Ken himself, and done in conjunction with BMG and Pledge Music. This week I am proud to present some of that interview and a “Heeping” helping of great Ken Hensley music! (Part Two will follow in a few weeks.)
It's my turn on 101 Dimensions once again, my friends, and I've got an eclectic selection of electronic, ambient, space rock, and new age music for your listening pleasure! Here's what I have in store:
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Jem Godfrey & Simon Godfrey – Answer 5 (Simon); and Answer 6 (Jem) (from the album Six Questions, Twelve Answers, 2018)
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The Spacelords – Pyroclastic Monster (from the album Space Rock – An Interstellar Traveler's Guide, 2016)
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Jem & Simon Godfrey – Answer 7 (Simon); and Answer 8 (Jem) (from the album Six Questions, Twelve Answers, 2018)
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Yuri Gagarin – At The Center Of All Infinity (from the album Space Rock – An Interstellar Traveler's Guide, 2016)
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Massimo Ruberti – Liftoff; Burn; and Earth (from the album Armstrong, 2015)
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Mirror of Dreams – Broken Memory; and Desolation, 2018
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Röyksopp - Blade Runner Blues; and Small Hours (from the album Late Night Tales, 2013)
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David Arkenstone – Garden Of Eve; Last Tango In Paris; Fashion Week; Gnossiennes No. 1; and I Will Wait For You (from the album Parisian Lounge, 2018)
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Riverside – Rapid Eye Movement (from the album Rapid Eye Movement (Deluxe Edition), 2007)
Until next time, be good to each other, and Prog On, my brothers and sisters!
Tony
This week's Prog-Watch is another one of those mash-ups that I like to refer to as a variety show...just a bunch of great progressive rock, new and old, but with an emphasis on the new(er). We'll hear music from Yes, Neal Morse, Renaissance, Flying Colors, Karibow, Flutatious, Steven Wilson, Kino, Riverside & Vinegar Joe! Get out of your brain on the Prog-Watch 515!
I love the Moody Blues, and I loved Ray Thomas. Late last year I had even resolved to attempt to contact him and interview him for this program. Sadly, that would never come to be as he left this world in early January of this year. So my idea to do a retrospective feature on a legendary man and his music became a tribute to a beloved figure, whom I was never lucky enough to meet, but feel like I knew through his songs. This tribute program covers much of his career with the Moody Blues and a few from his two wonderful solo albums from the mid-1970s. I respectfully dedicated it to Ray's family and all who knew and loved him.
This week I'm chatting with our old friend, Erik Norlander, mostly about his new project with John Payne called Dukes Of The Orient! We get the low down on the Dukes and some of Erik's other endeavors, and along the way I spin plenty of great music, with an extra large helping of new Dukes Of The Orient music!
I'm at the helm again for this week's 101 Dimensions and here's what I have lined up for you:
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Duncan Mackay – Song For Witches (from the album Chimera, 1974)
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Massimo Ruberti – Wilderness/Falling; and Green Cave/Invocation (from the album Granchite Yumtruso, Pt. 2, 2018)
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Trinity Ward – Attack Angels; White Sands; and Invisible Reflections Of The Machine God (from the album The Majestic, 2016)
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Eze Gonzalez – Luz (from the album Collection Of Electronic Music, 2016)
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Radio Massacre International – Kairos; and The Clockwork Time Dragon (from the album Time And Motion, 2010)
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Tangerine Dream – Atem (from the album Atem, 1973)
I hope you enjoy!
Prog On!
Tony
This week's Prog-Watch is loaded with a plethora of great Progressive Rock for your listening pleasure! We'll hear from Mothertongue, Ryan Parmenter, Klaatu, Umphrey's McGee, Marco Ragni, the Strawbs, Zombie Picnic, It Bites, Pinn Dropp and StuckFish! We'll also be checking in with our friend Dr. Rob Fisher for another fantastic voyage of Progressive Discovery featuring music from Liquid Tension Experiment and the Canadian band Intervals!
I'm up again this week on 101 Dimensions and I've pulled together an eclectic selection of electronic music, space rock, and some more ambient stuff for your listening enjoyment. Here's what I'll be spinning:
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Deep Control – Luna Sea Colors (from the album Collection Of Electronic Music, 2016)
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Andre Hecht – Minimal Mechanism (from the album Collection Of Electronic Music, 2016)
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Antonio Energy – UFO (from the album Collection Of Electronic Music, 2016)
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Can – All Gates Open (from the album Space Rock – An Interstellar Traveler's Guide, 2016)
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Øresund Space Collective - The Trichophantic Spire (from the album Space Rock – An Interstellar Traveler's Guide, 2016)
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Ozric Tentacles – Space Out (from the album Space Rock – An Interstellar Traveler's Guide, 2016)
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Soniq Theater – Squaring The Circle; and Circus Ponies On The Run (from the album Squaring The Circle, 2018)
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Soniq Theater – The Unbearable Lightness Of Being; and Strange Times And Odd Days (from the album Squaring The Circle, 2018)
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Radio Massacre International – Wintergreen (from the album Lost In Space, 2006)
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David Bedford – The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner, Pt. 2 (from the album The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner, 1975)
I hope you enjoy! Until next time...be good to each other and Prog On!
Tony
This week on Prog-Watch my special guest is none other than Nick Barrett...founder, composer, guitarist and vocalist for the classic UK band Pendragon! The band is celebrating their 40th anniversary this year, so Nick and I had plenty to talk about! With such a vast back catalog of great music from which to choose, I also had no problem selecting great tunes to spin along the way!
Lords and Ladies of Adventure! Join me on this week's Prog-Watch for a look at the Legend of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table as portrayed in Progressive Rock music! The program will, of course, draw a bit on Rick Wakeman's two albums dealing with the Arthurian Legend. But I've also found great tunes from Kayak, The Minstrel's Ghost, Finisterre, Erik Norlander, Galahad, and Children In Paradise, which all deal with the characters and story surrounding the Legendary English King. I've also peppered the show with a few other references for a little comic relief, if you know what I mean (wink, wink, nudge, nudge, say no more)!
This week I've lined up a plethora of great progressive rock music from Unitopia, Murky Red, Karfagen, The J Conspiracy, Godsticks, Camel, Joe Deninzon & Stratospheerius, Radiohead, Forever Twelve, Motorpsycho, Manfred Mann's Earth Band and Pinn Dropp! In the words of Yoda, “Miss it not!”
This week on Prog-Watch my special guest is Michael Whiteman, bassist, singer, and composer from I Am The Manic Whale! Michael and I chat about all sorts of things, from the origins of the band to the future of “progressive rock”. Along the way I will, of course, spin lots of great music from Michael and the rest of his pod-mates in I Am The Manic Whale!
It was my turn on 101 Dimensions once again and I put some great electronic/ambient stuff to warm a cold winter's night! Here's what's in store:
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Trinity Ward – No Regrets; The New Sound Of London; Vita; Organs; Uplifter; and Curtains Of Clouds (from the album Echoes From Earth, 2011)
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Jim Griffin – An Ocean Mind (from the album To A Far City, 2017)
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whatsisname – Relax, Offsets; and Terraform (from the album Indefinite Articles, 2017)
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Har – 2 am Vision Within The Mirror (from the album Obscura, 2010)
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Goblin – Roller; Aquaman; Snip Snap; and Il Risveglio Del Serpente (from the album Roller, 1976)
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Har – Amelia (from the album Obscura, 2010)
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Andreas Vollenweider – Behind The Gardens, Behind The Wall, Under The Tree; Pyramid, In The Wood, In The Bright Light; Micro, Macro; and Skin And Skin (from the album Behind The Garden, Behind The Wall, Under The Tree, 1981)
I hope you enjoy!
Prog On!
Tony
For this week's Prog-Watch I've put together a variety show with a little tribute to the late Colin Tench. We'll hear a new one from the Colin Tench Project, and two from a couple of his other projects, BunChakeze and Corvus Stone. I'll also be spinning lots of great stuff from The Fierce & The Dead, Fractal Mirror, Bram Stoker, Jethro Tull, Steven Wilson, Downes-Braide Association, Rush, Spiral Key, and Somnambulist.
This week on Prog-Watch I'm shaking the family tree of a favorite band from my youth...The Alan Parsons Project! We'll be playing some classics from the band, exploring some offshoots and forerunners, and sampling the solo work of some of the core vocalists and musicians who made up the collective. We'll hear from the Project proper, as well as Keats, Pilot, Dave Paton, Colin Blunstone, Lenny Zakatek, and Chris Rainbow, and we'll check out some post-Project stuff from the two founders of the Project, Alan Parsons and Eric Woolfson.
This week on Prog-Watch we have a very special edition of Progressive Discoveries, hosted by Dr. Rob Fisher himself! Rob will be talking about the new Lunatic Soul album “Fractured” and how it relates to us all as we struggle to get over losses in our lives. Before and after this special feature, I've got a variety of great new stuff from Wobbler, Looking-Glass Lantern, Karfagen, ZEH, Gleb Kolyadin, and the Von Hertzen Brothers!
It's my turn on 101 Dimensions again and as usual I've got a variety of electronic/ambient type stuff lined up for your auditory delectation! Here's the playlist if you want to follow along at home:
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Peter Baumann – Strangers In The Night; Metro Man; King Of The Jungle; Be Mine; and Time Machine (from the album Strangers In The Night, 1983)
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Thomas Dolby – She Blinded Me With Science (extended mix); Radio Silence; Airwaves; Flying North; and Weightless (from the album The Golden Age Of Wireless, 1982)
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Hawkwind – It's The Business Of The Future To Be Dangerous; I Am The Eye That Looks Within; and Quark, Strangeness, and Charm (from the album 25 Years On, 1994)
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Erik Norlander – Fanfare For Absent Friends; City Of Living Machines; and New Gotham Prime (from the album Seas Of Orion, 2004)
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Vangelis – The Motion Of The Stars; The Will Of The Wind; Metallic Rain; Elsewhere; Dial Out; and Glorianna (Hymn a la Femme) (from the album Direct, 1988)
I hope you enjoy!
Prog On!
Tony
This week's Prog-Watch is a special centered on Progressive Rock epics! Five tracks only make up the 90 minute show! To avoid over-emphasizing the golden age, I have selected one track from each of the five decades of our favorite genre! We'll hear music from Marillion, Phideaux Xavier, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Pallas, and Discipline!
This week on Prog-Watch I've got nearly 90 minutes of fantastic Progressive Rock variety for your listening enjoyment! We'll hear from Gaillion, King's X, Steve Walsh, Stackridge, Dave Kerzner, The Flower Kings, Downes Braide Association, Steven Wilson, Art Griffin's Sound Chaser, Charlie Cawood, Eddie Jobson, and Evolve!
This week on Prog-Watch my special guests are the gentlemen from the German duo, Clouds Can! I have a feature on their new album Leave, and chat with Dominik Hüttermann and Thomas Thielen about their new "progressive pop" approach. (And with the aide of much coffee, Thomas is in fine form!) Aside from the Clouds Can music, I'm also spinning a few other great tunes by The Wood Demons, Armed Cloud, Servants Of Science, and Michael Crimson!
This week on Prog-Watch I'm finishing up my coverage of the ubiquitous John Mitchell! Hear the rest of our epic chat and lots of great music from his numerous bands and projects, including Lonely Robot, Arena, Frost*, and It Bites!
So ring in the New Year with one of the most prolific Progressive Rock artists of our time, the one and only John Mitchell!
P.S. If you missed the first part of my coverage of John, you can listen at Progwatch.com, at the link below:
http://progwatch.com/446/
My turn on 101 Dimensions again, and again I am pushing the boundaries! Here's the playlist:
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Lindisfarne – Winter Song (from the album Nicely Out Of Tune, 1971)
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Patrick Moraz – Here Comes Christmas Again (from the album Future Memories I & II, 1985)
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Atomic Rooster – Winter (from the album Atomic Rooster, 1970)
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Keith Emerson – Troika (from The Christmas Album, 1999)
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The Prog World Orchestra – Joy To The World (from the album A Proggy Christmas, 2012)
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Enya – White Is In The Winter Night (from the album And Winter Came..., 2008)
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2002 – Carol Of The Bells (from the album Christmas Dreams, 2007)
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Rick Wakeman – Hark The Herald Angels Sing (from the album Christmas Variations, 2006)
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The Moody Blues – December Snow (from the album December, 2003)
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Edison's Children – Solstice (from the album Somewhere Between Here And There, 2015)
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2002 – In The Bleak Midwinter (from the album Christmas Dreams, 2007)
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Manning – Winter (from the album Cascade, 2001)
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John Boswell – The First Noel (from The Carols Of Christmas, 1996)
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Corvus Stone – After Solstice (from the album Unscrewed, 2015)
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Liz Story – Greensleeves (from the album Winter Solstice I, 1985)
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Keith Emerson – I Saw Three Ships (from The Christmas Album, 1999)
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Rick Wakeman – Angels From The Realms Of Glory (from the album Christmas Variations, 2006)
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Jethro Tull – A Winter Snowscape (from The Jethro Tull Christmas Album, 2003)
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The Enid – Winter 'The Key' (from The Spell, 1985)
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David Darling – O Holy Night (from The Carols Of Christmas, 1996)
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2002 – Silent Night (from the album Christmas Dreams, 2007)
This week on Prog-Watch I'm taking a little bit of a break from the usual script writing, talking, and editing all the flubs! After a brief preamble, I will simply be playing nearly 90 minutes of holiday themed music from mostly progressive artists. Since I will not be announcing the artists and tracks, here is a proper playlist, in case you hear something new that you really like and want to know what it is:
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Intro – Mike Oldfield – In Dulci Jubilo
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Chris Squire & Alan White – Run With The Fox
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Jethro Tull – Christmas Song
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Jon Anderson – Three Ships
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Trans-Siberian Orchestra – A Star To Follow
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Trevor Rabin – O Come All Ye Faithful
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Peter Noone & Herman's Hermits - Do You Hear What I Hear
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Trans-Siberian Orchestra – Christmas Canon
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Jethro Tull – Ring Out Solstice Bells
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Trans-Siberian Orchestra - Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24
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Emerson, Lake & Palmer – I Believe In Father Christmas
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Chris Squire – Sussex Carol
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Mannheim Steamroller – God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
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Marillion – The Carol Of The Bells
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Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Nutrocker
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Jon Anderson – The Holly And The Ivy
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Steve Morse – I Came Upon A Midnight Clear
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Roy Wood – I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday
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Trans-Siberian Orchestra – A Mad Russian's Christmas
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Jethro Tull – Another Christmas Song
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Annie Haslam – O Holy Night
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Chris Squire – Silent Night/Night Of Silence
This week on Prog-Watch I've got some great stuff from artists new to the show, some listener dedications, and a few classics! We'll hear from Believe, Tusmørke, Michael Trew, Turning Virtue, Airbag, Tiger Moth Tales, King Crimson, Victim Of Illusion, Porcupine Tree, iNFiNiEN, Gentle Giant, The Flower Kings, & Whiteside's Daughter!
This week's Prog-Watch is our semi-annual collaboration with some of the merry reviewers at The Progressive Aspect, bringing you some of the best Prog Rock releases this year! We'll hear short reviews and sample music from ten of the best albums of 2017, as suggested by Mel Allen, Tony Colvill, Shawn Dudley, Rob Fisher, Jez Rowden, Roger Trenwith, and Leo Trimming. I'll also pick a favorite of my own, and run down the whole list of albums which were nominated, but not represented on the show. (We do only have 90 minutes, and more than 30 albums were suggested!) So join me this week for a year-end round-up of some of the best new music released this year in our favorite genre!
My turn on 101 Dimensions again! I hope you enjoy! Here's the playlist:
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Franky Valentyn Project – The Jovian Moon Suite (from the album All In A Dream, 2017)
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Röyksopp – What Else Is There (from the album The Understanding, 2005)
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Lunatic Soul – Lunatic Soul; and The Final Truth (from the album Lunatic Soul, 2008)
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Röyksopp – Circuit Breaker (from the album The Understanding, 2005)
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whatsisname – Refraktor, 2016
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Röyksopp – Someone Like Me (from the album The Understanding, 2005)
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Markus Reuter – The Abolition Of Death; A Clue To Reality; and Read Aloud In Cold Blood (from the album The Longest In Terms Of Being, 2001)
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Röyksopp – Alpha Male (from the album The Understanding, 2005)
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David Bowie – Warszawa; Art Decade; Weeping Wall; and Subterraneans (from the album Low, 1977)
Prog On!
Tony
With all of the interview programs and specials I have done recently, I figured it was about time for a good old variety program, featuring great stuff released in the past year or two. So tune in for a lot of fabulous music from Playgrounded, I Am The Manic Whale, Hedfuzy, Paul Draper, Kaprekar's Constant, Godsticks, Karmamoi, The Far Meadow, 3RDegree, Projekt Gemineye, and Damian Wilson & Adam Wakeman!
This week's Prog-Watch is a special on the legendary Irish guitarist Gary Moore! Gary's longtime friend and guitar tech Graham Lilley is my guest and we chat about Gary, his versatility, his legacy, and a brand new collection of Gary's later work by BMG music called “Blues and Beyond”. Along the way we will hear some great blues rock music from that new collection. But lest you think that I am changing the name of the program to "Blues-Watch", there will be plenty of progressive rock on hand, including some of Gary's work with Colosseum II and Greg Lake. We'll also hear some of his heavier solo material and some of his work with Thin Lizzy and Phil Lynott. (Couldn't do a Gary Moore show without some of that, right?) So join me this week for a look at a versatile virtuoso, the late Gary Moore! A bit of a departure? Yes. But there will still be plenty of great music, and much of it quite progressive. Remember: One does not live by Prog alone!
This week on Prog-Watch my esteemed guest is Geoff Downes of The Buggles, Asia, Yes, Icon, and Downes Braide Association! Geoff and I chat about the new DBA album, John Wetton, and the new Yes live album. Along the way I naturally play lots of great music from Geoff's illustrious career, including some brand new DBA and live Yes!
I'm stretching the bounds a little again this time, but it was fun last time and you guys seemed to like it! Anyway, here's the playlist for this month's 101 Dimensions:
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Jason Rubenstein – Complicated Exosphere; The Templar Calling Card; and The Curmudgeon Invents The Future (from the album This Is Not A Love Letter, 2014)
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Trinity Ward – Transmission; Saturn V; Enter The Infinite; The State Of The Art; and Between The Edges Of The Universe (from the album Enter The Infinite, 2010)
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Ian Boddy – Kinetics; The Circle; Deja Vu, Parts 1 & 2 (from the album The Climb, 1983)
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whatsisname – Cascade; Felonius Monk; Indian Summer; and Stand Still, I Say (from the album Indefinite Articles, 2017)
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Redshift – Nails; and Ultranaut (from the album Down Time, 1999)
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Gandalf – Forgotten Kingdom, Parts 1 & 2; and Garden Of Illusions, Parts 1, 2 & 3 (from the album Tale From A Long Forgotten Kingdom, 1984)
I hope you enjoy!
Prog On!
Tony
This week on Prog-Watch my special guest is modern progressive rock icon John Mitchell! John and I chat about many things including song writing, working with John Wetton, and his record label White Star Records! Along the way we hear music from many of his bands and projects, including the Urbane, Arena, Frost*, Kino, It Bites, Lonely Robot, and more! (Look for Part 2 in a few weeks!)
On this week's Prog-Watch I finish up my coverage of Scottish vocalist Joe Cairney and his two fantastic bands, Comedy Of Errors and Grand Tour! More of our epic chat and lots of great music from both bands are in store!
This week on Prog-Watch: a great variety program with a mix of new and old! We'll hear from Dave Kerzner, Anekdoten, Steve Tilling, Ian Anderson, Lifesigns, Styx, The Room, Kaipa, King's X, and Soup! Plus, we'll check in with THE DOCTOR, Rob Fisher, for another great edition of Progressive Discoveries on the new album by Brother Ape!
It's my turn on 101 Dimensions again, and I may be stretching the boundaries a bit this time! But it's all good, right? Here's the playlist:
Lunatic Soul – Blood On The Tightrope; and A Thousand Shards Of Heaven (from the album Fractured, 2017)
Fripp & Eno – Deep Water (from the album New Depression Music (Music For Fans), 1980)
Band Of Rain – Gurdjieff; and Lydian Flight (from the album The Dust Of Stars, 2017)
Fripp & Eno – Untitled (from the album New Depression Music (Music For Fans), 1980)
Wolfgang Bock – Robsai, Pt. I & II; and Changes/Stop The World (from the album Cycles, 1980)
Fripp & Eno – The Last Door (from the album New Depression Music (Music For Fans), 1980)
Vessels – Mobilise; and Glower (from the album The Great Distraction, 2017)
Fripp & Eno – Chemin Der Fer (from the album New Depression Music (Music For Fans), 1980)
Wolfgang Riechmann – Silberland; Himmelblau; and Traumzeit (from the album Wunderbar, 1978)
Tangerine Dream – Tangram, Pt. 1 (from the album Tangram, 1980)
I hope you enjoy! Until next time, Prog On!
This week on Prog-Watch I have a themed special called "Shine A Little Light"...all the songs have the word "Light" in the title! Can you guess what I will be playing? Here are the artists: Transatlantic, Glass Hammer, Ian Anderson, David Gilmour, Conspiracy, Iona, Rocket Scientists, Rush, Willowglass, Black Bonzo, Subsignal, Yes, IO Earth, and Genesis. A nice and diverse list, right?
This week I have another great variety program with music spanning five decades! We'll hear from Queensryche, the Colin Tench Project, Magenta, Steve Winwood, Lifesigns, Fish, the Strawbs, Arena, and Steven Wilson! Plus, there will be another edition of Progressive Discoveries with Dr. Rob Fisher, looking at the great new album by White Moth Black Butterfly!
With the Moody Blues, he helped to define our favorite genre of music, and he continues to rock progressively today! He is John Lodge, legendary singer, bassist, and composer, and this week I am proud to say that he is my guest on Prog-Watch! John and I chat about some of the history of his storied band, his bass playing influences, and many other things, including his solo tour and forthcoming live album. Along the way we will hear plenty of great Moody Blues, Blue Jays, and John Lodge solo music, including a few from the forthcoming live album.
This week on Prog-Watch I wrap up my coverage of Dream Theater's keyboard wiz, Jordan Rudess! Hear the remainder of my conversation with Jordan, and lots of great music ranging from peaceful solo piano pieces, to the crunch and flying keyboard solos of Dream Theater, Levin Minnemann Rudess, and Liquid Tension Experiment!
Join me for two hours of cool electronic and ambient music for an early autumn evening! Here's what's in store:
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Klaus Schulze vs. Solar Moon - Let The Rain Come (from the album Contemporary Works 1, Disc 5 “Docking”, 2000)
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Riverside – Rapid Eye Movement (2016 Mix) (from the album Eye Of The Soundscape, 2016)
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Brian Eno – One-Two; and Two-Two ( from the album Music For Airports, 1978)
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Riverside – Night Session Part 1 & 2 (from the album Eye Of The Soundscape, 2016)
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Ozric Tentacles – Plown; Will Of The Wisps; and Air City (from the album Paper Monkeys, 2011)
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Karda Estra – The Pit And The Pendulum (from the album The Land Of Ghosts 3, 2012)
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Pink Floyd – A Saucerful Of Secrets (from the album A Saucerful Of Secrets, 1968)
I hope you enjoy!
Until next time...Prog On!
Tony
This week on Prog-Watch we pay a little tribute to the late Walter Becker of Steely Dan, before embarking on a great variety program with music from Ghostly Beard, Soul Secret, Drifting Sun, Peter Gabriel, Robert Reed, BangTower, Wetton & Downes Icon, and Gandalf's Fist. Near the end of the program, two of the boys from the Aaron Clift Experiment drop in to chat about their recent concert activities and their crowd funding campaign for their projected third studio album, “If All Goes Wrong”. We finish with another by Walter Becker, this time from his solo career.
This week on Prog-Watch: another great show of mostly new stuff! We'll hear from The Tangent, How Far To Hitchin', Big Big Train, Cosmograf, Nad Sylvan, Karmamoi, Aisles, and Karibow! Plus, our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, will take us on another trip of Progressive Discovery with the intense new solo album by Bjørn Riis of the Norwegian band Airbag!
I'm at the helm again for this week's 101 Dimensions, so look for another week of eclectic stuff from a wide variety of progressive, electronic, ambient and new age artists. Here's the playlist:
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Eloy – The Apocalypse; and End Of And Odyssey (from the album Chronicles I, 1993)
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Eddie Jobson – Theme Of Secrets; Memories Of Vienna; Lakemist; and Outer Secrets (from the album Theme Of Secrets, 1985)
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Patrick Moraz – Metamorphoses, Mvmts. II and III (from the album Future Memories I & II, 1985)
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Manuel Göttsching – Eloquentes Wiesel (from the album The Private Tapes, Vol. 1, 1996)
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Mannheim Steamroller – Escape From The Atmosphere; and Earthrise – Return (from the album Fresh Aire V, 1983)
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Enya – Lothlorien; Marble Halls, Afer Ventus; and Smaointe (from the album Shepherd Moons, 1991)
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The Cosmic Jokers - Interstellar Rock - Kosmische Musik; Raumschiff Galaxy Saust In Die Lichtbahnen; and Der Planet Des Stemenmadchens (from the album Planeten Sit-In, 1974)
Come along for the ride!
This week on Prog-Watch, my esteemed guest is music and video legend Kevin Godley of 10cc and Godley & Creme! We chat about all sorts of stuff, including the Gizmo, the split with 10cc, Godley & Creme, video directing, and his forthcoming solo album, of which YOU could be a part (if you write music)! Along the way, there will also be plenty of great music from Kevin's illustrious career with 10cc, Godley & Creme, and GG06.
On this week's Prog-Watch I'm shaking the family tree of the legendary band, the Moody Blues! We'll hear lots of great stuff from the Moodies, Justin Hayward, John Lodge, Ray Thomas, Mike Pinder, Graeme Edge and more! See what shakes out!
This week on Prog-Watch: Part 2 of my coverage of Progressive Rock/Progressive Metal Icon Arjen Anthony Lucassen! Hear the remainder of my conversation with Arjen, as well as lots of great music from Star One, Ayreon, Ambeon, The Gentle Storm, and Stream of Passion!
(See Prog-Watch 423 for Part 1)
I'm at the helm again for tonight's 101 Dimensions, and I have an interesting voyage charted! For those who might want to follow our progress, here's a map:
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Hawkwind – LSD; and Blue Shift (from the album 25 Years On, 1994)
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Art Of Noise – Il Pleure (At The Turn Of The Century); Close (To The Edit); and Metaforce (from the album Electronic Collection, 2001)
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Larry Fast's Synergy – S-Scape; Chateau; and Cybersports (from the album Sequencer, 1976)
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Har – The Low Road (2017)
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Kraftwerk – Kometenmelodie 1 & 2; and Mitternacht (from the album Autobahn, 1974)
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David Arkenstone – New Day; Sunset Highway; Places In The Heart; Full Sail; and Pacific Rain (from the album Sketches From An American Journey, 2002)
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Karda Estra – Preliminary Steps; and The Curtain Falls (from the album Equilibrium, 2002)
It should be an interesting ride, with ups, downs, and all arounds! I hope you enjoy!
Until next time...bon voyage...and Prog On!
Tony
This week's Prog-Watch is a fun themed special I'm calling "Show Me The Money!" Every song will have the word "money" in the title. I'm sure your brains are working feverishly to guess which songs I'll be playing, and I bet a few of your guess will be right. But I would also bet that you will NOT guess some of the interesting things I will be pulling from my vaults! Tune in to find out!
Variety is on tap for this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear new music from Katre, The Franky Valentyn Project, Steven Wilson, Galahad, Marillion, and Kim Seviour, along with great stuff from Trey Gunn, Jeff Berlin, and the Stick Men! I'll also send out a couple of listener dedications by Gravy Train and Genesis, and Dr. Rob Fisher will be taking us on another voyage of Progressive Discovery, with the Spanish project Kant Freud Kafka!
On this week's program, my guest is Joe Cairney, singer for not just one, but TWO great Scottish bands, Comedy Of Errors and Grand Tour Music! Joe will be filling us in on some of the interesting history of these two bands, and as usual, along the way I will play a whole lot of great music!
For this edition of 101 Dimensions, I've assembled a diverse program of electronic, ambient, and new age music from a wide variety of international artists. Some of them you may know, some you may not...but I think you will enjoy them all! Here's what's on tap:
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Röyksopp - Royksopp Forever (from the album Junior, 2009); Eple (from the album Melody A.M., 2001); The Girl And The Robot (from the album Junior, 2009); and Dead To The World (from the album The Understanding, 2005)
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The Buggles – Living In The Age Of Plastic; Kid Dynamo; Clean Clean; and Elstree (The Age Of Plastic, 1979)
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Jean-Michel Jarre – Chronologie Pt. 1 – 5 (from the album Chronologie, 1995)
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Electric Asturias – Brilliant Streams (from the album Brilliant Streams, 1990)
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Gandalf – Alhambra – Prelude; Under Southern Skies; Once In A Star-Brightened Night; Alhambra; and A Place In The Sun (from the album Sanctuary, 2009)
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Klaus Schulze – Havlandet (from the album Historic Edition, 1995)
I hope you enjoy! Until next time, Prog On!
Tony
For this week's Prog-Watch I've put together another eclectic variety show, with music spanning five decades! We'll hear from Peter Gabriel, Amplifier, Lana Lane, Marillion, Karibow, Squackett, Discipline., The Mahavishnu Orchestra, and Roger Waters! Our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher will also be taking us on another voyage of Progressive Discovery, with the great new album by Damanek!
This week my esteemed guest is Jordan Rudess, keyboard wizard for Dream Theater! We talk about his career and his company Wizdom Music, and along the way I play a lot of great Dream Theater music, as well as music from Jordan's solo career and some of his side projects, Liquid Tension Experiment and the Rudess/Morgenstein Project!
There's been no shortage of great music released so far this year. So to keep you on top of all the great sounds out there, this week I am doing a 100% all new variety show! Every song will come from an album released in 2017. We'll hear from Sky Architect, Big Big Train, Cosmograf, The Winter Tree, Steven Wilson, Anathema, The Samurai of Prog, Nad Sylvan, and Drifting Sun! Dr. Rob Fisher will also take us on another voyage of progressive discovery, with the latest album by Steve Hackett!
On this week's program I wrap up my coverage of the phenomenally talented UK artist Rob Reed! We'll hear the remainder of my conversation with Rob, interspersed with a lot more music from Magenta, and early 2000s project called Chimpan-A, and some of his fabulous Sanctuary project!
(Part 1 of my coverage with Rob can be found in episode 418.)
This month on 101 Dimensions we have another great selection of interesting stuff spannign five decades! Here's the playlist:
Kitaro – Island Of Life (from the maxi-single Island Of Life, 1992)
Hawkwind – Levitation; Motorway City; Psychosis; and World Of Tiers (from the album Levitation, 1980)
Depeche Mode – In Chains; Hole To Feed; Wrong; and Fragile Tension (from the album Sounds Of The Universe, 2009)
Patrick Moraz – Heroic Fantasy; and Satellite (from the album Future Memories I & II, 1985)
Jean-Luc Ponty – Cosmic Messenger; I Only Feel Good With You; and Ethereal Mood (from the album Cosmic Messenger, 1978)
Kitaro – Gentle Forest; The Stone And The Green World; and Sunlight Dancing (from the album Spiritual Garden, 2006)
Echelon Effect – Goodbye Sierra; End Transmission; Signals; and Outbound (from the album Signals, 2017)
Variety is on tap for this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear from Uriah Heep, Ben Craven, Dreadnaught, Foreigner, Syncage, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Manfred Mann`s Earth Band, Snarky Puppy, IO Earth, Anekdoten & Rocket Scientists! We'll also hear from our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher who will be enlightening us on the great new album by The Mute Gods!
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This week on Prog-Watch: the conclusion of my coverage of Prog Rock icon Neal Morse! Hear the remainder of my conversation with Neal, as well as great music from Spock's Beard, Transatlantic, Flying Colors, his solo career, and the latest Neal Morse Band album!
(See episode 415 for Part 1 of my ocverage on Neal Morse.)
This week's episode is a variety program, with lots of great (mostly) new stuff for your listening pleasure! Hear music from Ghost Community, Rikard Sjöblom's Gungfly, Karda Estra, Brother Ape, The Mothers Earth Experiment, Simon Says, Deep Purple, Valdez, Cast, Gregorian Rock, and Machines Dream! We'll also hear from our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, who will be focusing on the latest album by Damian Wilson!
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Tune in to this week's 101 Dimensions to hear a variety of electronic/ambient music from some great artists you may know, and some you may not! Here's the playlist:
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The Orb – Once More; Promise; Ghostdancing; and Turn It Down (from the album Cydonia, 2001)
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Aphex Twin – W32.Mydoom.AU@dmm; VBS.Redlof.B; and Backdoor.Ranky.S (from the album Analord 11, 2005)
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Paul Ellis – Rosecross; Private Ocean; Flying Parallel; Morning Moon; Lightning In The Temple; Sirius; and Cyberspace (from the album The Secret Fire, 1991)
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Ian Boddy – Trapped In Black (from the album Three Dreams, 2007)
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Isao Tomita – Gigantic Geometric Patterns; Song Of The Universe; El Humahuaqueno; and City Under The Desert (from the album Nasca Fantasy, 1995)
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Vangelis – Mask, Movements 1, 2, & 3 (from the album Mask, 1985)
I hope you enjoy!
Tony
This week's Prog-Watch is a Best Of 2017 (So Far) special, in cooperation with the fine reviewers of The Progressive Aspect! We'll have commentary from Rob Fisher, Bob Mulvey, Jez Rowden, Mel Allen, Shawn Dudley, Roger Trenwith, Leo Trimming, and John Wenlock-Smith! Music will come from a dozen of the best releases of 2017 (so far) by All Them Witches, Richard Barbieri, The Barock Project, The Bob Lazar Story, Tim Bowness, Gordon Giltrap and Paul Ward, Steve Hackett, Kepler Ten, Lonely Robot, The Mute Gods, Alan Reed and White Willow!
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My special guest on this week's program is none other than Arjen Anthony Lucassen, the mastermind behind Ayreon and Star One! Hear some of a conversation I recently had with Arjen, along with lots of great music from Ayreon, Star One, Ambeon, and his solo catalog! As a special bonus, you will find out which famous Star Wars character his favorite chair sounds like! (I'm not making this up!)
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This week's program is a fun themed show called "It's About Time". Every song played will have the word "time" in the title. The bands featured will run the gamut from Asia to the Zombies!
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Join me for another 2+ hours of great electronic/ambient music spanning five decades! I've definitely dug up some different stuff this time! Here's what's on tap:
- Zombi – Escape Velocity; Slow Oscillations; and Shrunken Heads (from the album Escape Velocity, 2011)
- Richard Barbieri – Interstellar Medium (from the album Planets + Persona, 2017)
- Quasar – UFO (A. UFO; B. Flying; C. Fire In The Sky; and D. Moon) (from the album Fire In The Sky, 1981)
- Zero Times Everything – And Now This (from the album Sonic Cinema, 2017)
- Harmonia – Watussi; Sehr Kosmisch; Sonnenschein; and Dino (from the album Musik Von Harmonia, 1974)
- Zero Times Everything – Events In A Field (from the album Sonic Cinema, 2017)
- The Enid – Dark Hydraulic; and Ultraviolet Cat (from the album Sundialer, 1995)
- Richard Barbieri – Unholy (from the album Planets + Persona, 2017)
- Wendy Carlos – Spring (from the album Sonic Seasonings, 1972)
I hope you enjoy! Prog On!
Tony
This week I finish up my coverage on Thomas Thielen, the fascinating German artist simply known as "t"! We'll hear more of my conversation with Thomas, along with more "t" music, and some EXCLUSIVE music from his forthcoming Clouds Can project! Also, we'll check in with Dr. Rob Fisher, for a great Progressive Discoveries feature on the new album by Alan Reed!
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This week's program is a Rosfest 2017 Special, with music from many of the bands that appeared at this year's festival! We'll hear from Kyros, Moon Safari, The Aaron Clift Experiment, Unified Past, The Neal Morse Band, The Fierce & The Dead, Evership, and Änglagård! Plus, we will check in with Dr. Rob Fisher for another great Progressive Discoveries feature on a unique U.K. act called the Beatrix Players!
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Viva variety! This week's show has music from Allan Holdsworth, Big Big Train, Kant Freud Kafka, Karnivool, Traffic, Dec Burke, Heliopolis, The Minstrel's Ghost, Rush, Long Earth, Alan Reed, Electric Light Orchestra, and Gandalf's Fist! That's a whole lotta Prog!
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My turn again on 101 Dimensions! Here's what's on tap:
- Erik Norlander – The Dark Water (from the album The Galactic Collective, 2010)
- Synergy – Legacy; Slaughter On Tenth Avenue, and Synergy (from the album Electronic Realizations For Rock Orchestra, 1975)
- Ashra – Morgana Da Capo; Pas De Trois; and Phantasus (from the album Correlations, 1979)
- David Arkenstone – Border Journey; Trail Of Tears; Chosen Voices; and Winds Of Change (from the album Return Of The Guardians, 1996)
- Pinhas & Merzbow – Rhizome 1; and Rhizome 2 (from the album Rhizome, 2011)
- Brian Eno – Lanzarote (from the album The Shutov Assembly, 2006)
I hope you enjoy!
Prog On!
Tony
My special guest on Prog-Watch this week is none other than Rob Reed---the prolific UK composer and multi-instrumentalist who has brought you great Progressive Rock through his numerous bands (including Cyan, ChimpanA, Magenta, Kiama, and Kompendium) and his own Mike Oldfield-inspired Sanctuary projects! I spoke with Rob about numerous interesting topics, including the new Magenta album, the state of the music industry, and much more. Hear part of that conversation and lots of great music in which Rob has had a hand, including one from the new Magenta album!
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This week's program? is another fabulous variety show, with lots of mostly new music! Hear from Trans-Siberian Orchestra?, The Bob Lazar Story?, Lonely Robot?, Drifting Sun?, Lifesigns?, Stewart Bell?, White Willow?, Nova Collective?, The Fierce & The Dead, and Projekt Gemineye! Plus, another great edition of Progressive Discoveries with our friend, Dr. Rob Fisher?, centering on the classic, first solo album by Tony Banks?!
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This episode of 101 Dimensions features an eclectic mix of electronic/ambient/instrumental music from an interesting collection of international artists! Here's the playlist:
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Nattefrost – In Natura; Draconian; Music For The Man; Die Kinder Der Erde; and The Swan (from the album Dying Sun/Scarlet Moon, 2010)
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Kitaro – By The Seaside; Soul Of The Sea; Micro Cosmos; Beat; and Fire (from the album Ten Kai (Astral Voyage), 1978)
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Kraftwerk – Computer World; Pocket Calculator; Numbers; and Computer World 2 (from the album Computer World, 1981)
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Jean-Luc Ponty – Mystical Adventures Suite, Pts. 1 – 5 (from the album Mystical Adventures, 1982)
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Michael Stearns – Double Helix; To The Center; Seven; and Of Earth (from the album Within – The Nine Dimensions, 1998)
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Vangelis – Dawn; Morning Papers; Nerve Center; and Side Streets (from the album The City, 1990)
I hope you enjoy! Prog On!
Tony
This week's show is a fun little special in which I shake the Family Tree of the band Genesis! See what shakes out!
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With Spock's Beard he helped re-invigorate the American Prog scene in the '90s, and then continued on as a solo artist and eventually with a band bearing his own name. Along the way, he was also a member of not just one, but two Prog Rock super-groups, Transatlantic and Flying Colors. He is, of course, Prog Icon Neal Morse, and this week he is my special guest on Prog-Watch!
Tune in and get to know Mr. Morse a little better! We'll also be spinning a lot of great epic Prog tracks from Spock's Beard, Transatlantic, Neal Morse solo, and with The Neal Morse Band!
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This week we have another great variety show, with a mixed bag of great stuff for your delectation! Hear music from Renaissance, Witchwood, Life in 24 Frames, Stick Men, Iona, Elephants of Scotland, D'AccorD, Elaine Samuels and Kindred Spirit Band, and Le Orme! Plus another great edition of Progressive Discoveries, with our friend Dr. Rob Fisher dishing on the great new album by Kepler Ten!
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My special guest this week is the fascinating German artist Thomas Thielen, also known simply as "t". Tune in to hear epic Prog Rock from his three latest albums, and some of a very deep and interesting conversation I had with Thomas a few weeks ago. Before I dig into it with Thomas, however, I get things rolling with a new track from the great new White Willow album!
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"...And then there were three..."
With only three of us doing the rotation on 101 Dimensions, my turns will be coming more often. No worries, though...I've got lots of great electronic/ambient music to blow your mind! Like this week's crop:
- Jean-Michel Jarre – Oxygene (Pts. IV, V, & VI) (from the album Oxygene, 1976)
- The Alan Parsons Project – I Robot (from the album I Robot, 1977)
- Pekka Pohjola – B The Magpie, Side 1 (including The Beginning, The First Morning, Bad Weather, and Bialoipokku's War Dream) (from the album B The Magpie, 1974)
- The Alan Parsons Project - Hyper Gamma Spaces (from the album Pyramid, 1978)
- Boddy, Reuter & Mullaney – Mysterionic (from the album Triptych, 2003)
- Klaus Schulze – Die Prophezeiung Erfult Sich (from the album Contemporary Works, Vol. II, 2002)
- The Alan Parsons Project – Lucifer (from the album Eve, 1979)
- Redshift – A Midnight Clear (from the album Redshift II, 1997)
I hope you enjoy! Until next time, Prog On!
Tony
This week's program is a great variety show with lots of new music for your listening pleasure! Hear music from Boundary Exception, Pat Mastelotto & Markus Reuter, Southern Empire, Offworld, IQ, Alan Reed, Richard Barbieri, Tom Slatter, Knight Area & Blackfield! Plus another great edition of Progressive Discoveries with Dr. Rob Fisher, on the wonderful debut album from This Winter Machine! A splendid time is guaranteed for all!
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This week I pay my respects to another hero of mine who passed away earlier this year--- John Wetton. I've put together a nice program with lots of fantastic music from John's numerous projects (solo work, Original Asia, U.K., and Wetton Downes) plus some great guest shots with Steve Hackett and Renaissance. I'll also be reading some statements by notable friends, bandmates, and admirers.
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Tune in to this week's 101 Dimensions to hear an eclectic mix of new and old electronic/ambient music! Here's what's on tap:
- Erik Norlander – City Of Living Machines (from the album Seas Of Orion, 2004)
- 17 Pygmies – Celestina XVI (from the album Celestina II – Second Son, 2011)
- Ian Boddy & David Wright – Still Motion (from the album Shifting Sands, 2009)
- David Bedford – The Song Of The White Horse (from the album Star Clusters, Nebulae & Places In Devon/The Song Of The White Horse, 1999)
- 17 Pygmies – Celestina XXVII (from the album CIII – Even Celestina Gets The Blues (A Tale Of Love And Quantum Physics, 2012)
- Rocket Scientists – Traveler On The Supernatural Highway (from the album Supernatural Highways, 2014)
- Tangerine Dream – Suite From Dead Solid Perfect (from the album Dream Music, 1992)
- Red Shift – Damage (from the album Last, 2007)
Until next time...Prog On!
Tony
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This week on Prog-Watch there will be a feature on the Greek band Verbal Delirium, complete with an interview with Jargon and George of the band! We will, of course, also hear fantastic progressive music from all three of Verbal Delirium's albums! As if that was not enough, you can also hear great new music from The Mute Gods, Knight Area, and Napier's Bones!
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On Prog-Watch this week, it's Part 2 of our Roine Stolt coverage! You'll hear the rest of my interview with the man himself, plus great music from Agents Of Mercy, Kaipa, Transatlantic, and Anderson/Stolt! Our friend Dr. Rob Fisher will also weigh in on a classic from The Flower Kings!
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Our special guest this week on Prog-Watch is Keith Buckman of the UK band The Far Meadow! Keith and I talk TFM, as Keith and the band get ready for a great Evening Of Bad Elephant Music in London on 25 February! (Konchordat and The Rube Goldberg Machine are on the bill, as well!) Of course I also play a lot of great TFM music and even slip one in from the new Mike Oldfield album!
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On 101 Dimensions this month we have a diversity of electronic/ambient material from the 70's up through today! Here's the playlist if you are listening along:
- British Theatre – Blue Horror (from the album Mastery, 2016)
- Gary Numan – Cars (from the album Pleasure Principle, 1979)
- Chris Carter – The Man Machine (from the album Electronic Sound, Vol. 2, 2016)
- Galahad – Year Zeroverture (from the album Year Zero, 2002)
- Northwoods – Elements (from the album Elements, 2014)
- Eurythmics – Here Comes The Rain (from the album Touch, 1983)
- Aphex Twin – Cliff (from the album Selected Ambient Works, Vol. 2, 1994)
- Kraftwerk – Metropolis (from the album The Man Machine, 1978)
- Billy Ray Martin – Crackdown (from the album Electronic Sound, Vol. 2, 2016)
- Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) (Hot Remix) (from the album Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This, 1983)
- Mike Oldfield – Nothing But/Bridge To Paradise (from the album Earth Moving, 1989)
- Gary Numan – Engineers (from the album Pleasure Principle, 1979)
- Nine Inch Nails – Ghosts II (from the album Ghosts I-IV, 2008)
- Vangelis – Islands Of The Orient (from the album Oceanic, 1997)
- Tim Blake – New Jerusalem (from the album Blake's New Jerusalem, 1978)
Until next time...take care and Prog On!
Tony
This week's Prog-Watch is a variety program with lots of great stuff from David Gilmour, Toto, Ultranova, Glass Hammer, Pendragon, Unifaun, Black Bonzo, Tim Bowness, Procul Harum, and Machines Dream! Plus a great edition of Progressive Discoveries with Dr. Rob Fisher and the German band Blind Ego!
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The focus of this week's Prog-Watch is the band Kyros (formerly known as Synaesthesia)! Adam Warne and Robin Johnson of the band chatted with me via Skype and you can hear some of that conversation on the program! We will also hear a lot of great Kyros/Synaesthesia music, and have the WORLD PREMIERE of two new songs from the band's forthcoming EP "Monster" (which is not even officially released until 10 February)! Hear the future of Progressive Rock and get a sneak peek at the new Kyros music...only on Prog-Watch!
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The focus of this week's Prog-Watch is a man who is perhaps one of the most prolific artists in the history of Progressive Rock, Roine Stolt! From his beginnings in Kaipa, through The Flower Kings, Tangent, Agents Of Mercy, Transatlantic, and his recent collaboration with Jon Anderson of Yes, this man has made a lot of great music in a career spanning more than 40 years! I was lucky enough to speak with Roine via Skype, and I'd like to share that conversation with all of my friends out there in Progland! So tune in to hear some of that conversation and a lot of great Roine Stolt music from some of his various projects! Our friend Rob Fisher will also join in the festivities, with an edition of Progressive Discoveries that takes a look at Roine's recent reunion with some of his original Kaipa bandmates in a project called Kaipa Da Capo!
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This time on 101 Dimensions, we have a special centered on Tangerine Dream and various former members! For those inclined to follow along, here is the playlist:
- Tangerine Dream – Song Of The Whale (Pt. 1 & 2) (from the album Underwater Sunlight, 1986)
- Michael Hoenig – Hanging Garden Transfer (from the album Departure From The Northern Wasteland, 1978)
- Johannes Schmoelling – The Zoo Of Tranquility (from the album The Zoo Of Tranquility, 1998)
- Tangerine Dream – Ricochet, Pt. 2 (from the album Ricochet, 1975)
- Peter Baumann – Glass House (from the album Strangers In The Night, 1983)
- Klaus Schulze – Alles Ist Gut (from the album Historic Edition, 1995)
- Edgar Froese – Maroubra Bay (from the album Epsilon In Malaysia Pale, 1975)
- Tangerine Dream – Phaedra (from the album Phaedra, 1974)
Until next month, Prog On!
Tony
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This week's Prog-Watch is a variety program, with music from Ian Anderson, Steven Wilson, Kansas, Erik Norlander, Haken, Odyssice, Jadis Music, Karibow, Yuka & Chronoship, and Stackridge! Plus, another edition of Progressive Discoveries with Rob Fisher, from the latest album by Katatonia!
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This week on Prog-Watch we are catching up with the Jonses! Or at least one of the Joneses...namely, our friend Peter Jones of Tiger Moth Tales! Peter had a helluva year in 2016, from guesting on albums by Red Bazar and The Colin Tench Project, to live Tiger Moth Tales gigs with a full band, and even touring Japan as part of the legendary Camel! I caught up with him late last year and we discussed all of this and more. Plus, I play a lot of great music in between the chat, so in the words of Yoda, “miss it not!”
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Greg Lake was kind of a personal hero to me; and as a guy with a Prog Rock show, I couldn't let his passing go without doing a tribute show. I've put together a nice career retrospective here, with some things you might not expect to hear and a few you may never have heard. So join me this week as I take a look back at a little of the impressive body of work left by Greg Lake. Requiescat in pace, Greg.
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Well, it's a new year, and I've got a boatload of (mostly) new Progressive Rock on Prog-Watch this week! Great stuff from Jason Rubenstein, Paatos, Chickn, This Winter Machine, Circuline, Fair To Midland, The Invisible, UVTraveler, and Triumvirat! Plus a Progressive Discoveries segment with Dr. Rob Fisher on the latest album by Dec Burke!
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Howdy, friends! I hope you are all well. It's my turn on 101 Dimensions again and I've been so busy with other stuff that I did not prepare a themed show this month...just a regular old 101 Dimensions full of awesome electronic and ambient Progressive music! I hope you enjoy! Here's the playlist for those inclined to follow along:
- Archive - Blue Faces - Driving In Nails (from the album The False Foundation, 2016)
- Ambeon - Fate (from the album Fate Of A Dreamer, 2001)
- Isao Tomita - Arabesque (from the album Snowflakes Are Dancing, 1974)
- Kraftwerk - Kometenmelodie 1 (from the album Autobahn, 1974)
- Aphex Twin - Tree (from the album Selected Ambient Works, Vol. II, 1994)
- Kraftwerk - Kometenmelodie 2 (from the album Autobahn, 1974)
- Har - Blue Searchlight (from the album Obscura, 2010)
- Kitaro (with Jon Anderson) - Island Of Life (from the album Dream, 1992)
- David Arkenstone - Water Of Life: Out Of Darkness & Transformation (from the album Return Of The Guardians, 1996)
- Yanni - Nightbird (from the album Nightbird, 1997)
- Amon Düül II - Yeti (Improvisation) (from the album Yeti, 1970)
- TANGERINE DREAM - Nebulous Dawn (from the album Zeit, 1972)
Until next month...I wish you and yours much happiness. Remember that it is not WHAT you have in life, but WHO you have in life that really matters. Be good to each other and Prog On, brothers and sisters!
Tony
This week on Prog-Watch?, our guest is Stu Nicholson? of the band Galahad?! We have a little chat and spin some great Galahad tunes along the way. Also, we have a special extended Progressive Discoveries feature with our man Dr. Rob Fisher?, centering on the brand new album by the German artist simply known as "t" (aka Thomas Thielen?).
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This week's show? is a special year-end round-up, more than a month in the making! A collaboration between the Progsquatch and 11 of those fine gentlemen who perform reviews at The Progressive Aspect?, to bring you an even dozen of the best Progressive Rock albums of 2016! (With contributions from Roger Trenwith?, Mel Allen?, Jeremy Rowden?, John Wenlock-Smith, Bob Mulvey?, Mark Johnson?, Leo Trimming?, Phil Lively?, Tony Colvill?, Shawn Dudley?, and of course Rob Fisher!)
As always, send questions, suggestions or comments to progsquatch@gmail.com. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit our Prog-Watch Facebook page. If you follow on Twitter or like the Facebook page, you can see the Daily Classic album---a fun little feature which the Squatch sends out six days each week! (Squatches rest on Sundays!) The Squatch also posts about the show and shares noteworthy news items from around the Prog World, so like or follow!
This week's Prog-Watch is a variety program with fabulous music from Verbal Delirium, Glacier, Profuna Ocean, Maschine, Regent, Kyros, Zombie Picnic, and The Alan Parsons Project! Plus another edition of Progressive Discoveries with Dr. Rob Fisher of The Progressive Aspect and Progradar featuring the band Thence!
As always, send questions, suggestions or comments to progsquatch@gmail.com. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit our Prog-Watch Facebook page. If you follow on Twitter or like the Facebook page, you can see the Daily Classic album---a fun little feature which the Squatch sends out six days each week! (Squatches rest on Sundays!) The Squatch also posts about the show and shares noteworthy news items from around the Prog World, so like or follow!
On this week's show our special guest is none other than Nikki Squire of the band Esquire! In her first interview in a number of years, the former Mrs. Chris Squire talks candidly about what she learned about music from Chris, the early years of her own band, Esquire, and her writing partnership with Nigel McLaren, through to the loss of her former husband and Nigel both in a short period of time last year. Along the way we will hear music from the first two Esquire albums, and their brand new release No Spare Planet, which is a return to form and fitting tribute to the late Nigel McLaren.
As always, send questions, suggestions or comments to progsquatch@gmail.com. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit our Prog-Watch Facebook page. If you follow on Twitter or like the Facebook page, you can see the Daily Classic album---a fun little feature which the Squatch sends out six days each week! (Squatches rest on Sundays!) The Squatch also posts about the show and shares noteworthy news items from around the Prog World, so like or follow!
My turn on 101 Dimensions again and this month I went with a theme of movies. There are movie themes and sound track music, and a few that have to do with movies or books that were adapted into movies. Here's the playlist:
- Rick Wakeman - Renzi - Chopsticks - Fantasia (from the album Listzomania, 1975)
- Vangelis - Blush Response (from the album Bladerunner (OST), 1982)
- Keith Emerson - The Church (Main Theme) (from the album La Chiesa (OST), 1989)
- Tangerine Dream - The Dream Is Always The Same (from the album Risky Business (OST), 1983)
- Tony Banks - Quicksilver Suite (from the album Sountracks, 1986)
- Oliver Wakeman and Clive Nolan - Overture (from the album The Hound Of The Baskervilles, 2002)
- Goblin - Suspiria (from the album The Fantastic Voyage Of Goblin, 2007)
- Peter Gabriel - Go Away Mr. Evans (from the album Long Walk Home – Music From The Rabbit-Proof Fence, 2002)
- Giorgio Moroder - Machines (from the album Metropolis (OST), 1984)
- Jon & Vangelis - The Friends Of Mr. Cairo (from the album The Friends Of Mr. Cairo, 1981)
- The Who - Love Reign O'er Me (from the album Quadrophenia, 1973)
- Keith Emerson - The Chase (from the album Nighthawks (OST), 1981
- American Symphony – London Metropolitan Orchestra (from the album Mr. Holland's Opus (OST), 1995)
- Peter Gabriel - The Heat (from the album Birdy (OST), 1985)
- Rick Wakeman - Eastern Shadows (from the album Crimes Of Passion (OST), 1984)
- Mike Oldfield - Etude (from the album Killing Fields(OST), 1984)
- Isao Tomita - Mongolian Fantasy - Land Of Great Kahn (from the album Storm From The East (OST), 1992)
- Vangelis - Chariots Of Fire (from the album Chariots Of Fire (OST), 1981)
Catch you next month! Prog On!
Tony
This week's program is something a little different than the usual...a show focused on epic tracks! Instead of placing undue emphasis on the classic era, however, we are attempting to cover the entire history of Progressive Rock more evenly. With music from Yes, Genesis, David Cross, Gazpacho, and Porcupine Tree! (Former Prog-Watch co-host Dave Luttig should like this one!)
As always, send questions, suggestions or comments to progsquatch@gmail.com. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit our Prog-Watch Facebook page. If you follow on Twitter or like the Facebook page, you can see the Daily Classic album---a fun little feature which the Squatch sends out six days each week! (Squatches rest on Sundays!) The Squatch also posts about the show and shares noteworthy news items from around the Prog World, so like or follow!
This week's show is another great variety program, featuring music from Rikard Sjöblom, The Dear Hunter, Ray Wilson, IT, Marco Ragni, Renaissance Rock Orchestra, Emmett Elvin Music, and DeeExpus! Plus, another edition of Progressive Discoveries with Dr. Rob Fisher of The Progressive Aspect and Progradar, with music from CYRIL and Seven steps to the green door (both projects of Marek Arnold)!
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This week's Prog-Watch focuses on the German band Karibow! I chat with Oliver Rüsing, founder and main creative force of the band, and sample music from their last three albums, Addicted, Holophinium, and the newly remixed and remastered Man Of Rust! Also in this week's show: another edition of Progressive Discoveries with Dr. Rob Fisher of The Progressive Aspect and Progradar, and music from Dwiki Dharmawan!
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This week's show is a variety program with lots of great new music! Hear brand new tunes from Riverside, Marillion, Kansas, Colin Tench Project, karmakanic, Verbal Delirium, The Gift music UK, and The Far Meadow! Plus music from Dave Bainbridge and another edition of Progressive Discoveries with Rob Fisher and the German project Eureka!
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This week we've got a special feature on a very fascinating time in the history of music. More specifically, we're looking at the Psychedelic period in the mid-to-late 1960s. This was a very creative and fertile time in which established bands such as the Beatles, the Who, the Moody Blues, and Cream figured prominently. It also saw the arrival of important nascent talents such as Pink Floyd and the young Jeff Lynne, Roy Wood, David Bowie, Steve Howe, and Chris Squire, to name but a few. We'll hear from all of these and more on the Prog-Watch Psychedelic 60s Special! So come along for a fun ride...it'll be groovy, baby!
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Well, I'm up again as curator of 101 Dimensions! This month I've got a fun little themed show for you, which I am calling the Classic Connection! All of the songs this month are modern interpretations of pieces by the Classical masters! Here's the playlist:
- Apollo 100 - Joy (from the album Joy, 1972)
- Wendy Carlos - Ode To Joy (from the album A Clock Work Orange (OST), 1971)
- Isao Tomita - Mars The Bringer Of War (from the album Planets, 1976)
- Rick Wakeman - Pathetique (Beethoven) (from the album Classical Vibrations, 2001)
- Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Fanfare For The Common Man (from the album Works, Vol. 1, 1977)
- Jethro Tull - Bouree (from the album Stand Up, 1969)
- Curved Air - Vivaldi (from the album Reborn, 2008)
- Isao Tomita - Space Fantasy (from the album Kosmos, 1979)
- Yes - Cans And Brahms (from the album Fragile, 1972)
- The Nice - Intermezzo From The Karelia Suite (from the album Five Bridges, 1970)
- Mike Oldfield - In Dulci Jubilo (from the album Hergest Ridge, 2010 Remix)
- Wendy Carlos - Sheep May Safely Graze (from the album Switched On Bach II, 1973)
- Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Romeo And Juliet (from the album Black Moon, 1992)
- Steve Howe - Concerto In D, 2nd Movement (from The Steve Howe Album, 1979)
- Wendy Carlos - Brandenburg Concerto #3 - Allegro (from the album Switched On Brandenburgs, 1980)
- Mike Oldfield - William Tell Overture (from the album Incantations, 2011 Remix)
- The Nice - Rondo (from the album The Thoughts Of Emerlist Davjack, 1968)
- Rick Wakeman - Variations On A New World Symphony (Dvorak) (from the album Classical Variations, 2001)
- Wendy Carlos - Chorale Prelude 'Wachet Auf' (from the album Switched On Bach, 1968)
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- Electric Light Orchestra - In The Hall Of The Mountain King (from the album On The Third Day, 1973)
- Isao Tomita - The Hut Of Baba Yaga (from the album Pictures At An Exhibition, 1975)
- Emerson, Lake & Palmer - The Great Gates Of Kiev (from the album Pictures At
This week's episode begins with another voyage of Progressive Discovery with our resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher of The Progressive Aspect and Progradar! This week, Rob has some insight into the latest album by Swedish band Wolverine! Then we move into the main body of the show: a feature on melodic proggers The Room! You'll hear parts of a fun conversation I had with Andy Rowe and Martin Wilson of the band and we'll hear some great music from The Room along the way! (I also slip in one from Martin's previous band, Grey Lady Down!)
As always, send questions, suggestions or comments to progsquatch@gmail.com. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit our Prog-Watch Facebook page. If you follow on Twitter or like the Facebook page, you can see the Daily Classic album---a fun little feature which the Squatch sends out six days each week! (Squatches rest on Sundays!) The Squatch also posts about the show and shares noteworthy news items from around the Prog World, so like or follow!
On this week's show I am very proud to begin a new feature in conjunction with Rob Fisher, reviewer at The Progressive Aspect and Progradar! We are calling our joint venture Progressive Discoveries, and this week's feature will center on great new albums from Fates Warning and Flux! Also on this show: new music from Dave Kerzner, Kylver, Opeth, Cirrus Bay, and Grus Paridae, plus stuff from Introitus, Renaissance Rock Orchestra, and Frank Zappa!
(My apologies to Renaissance Rock Orchestra...due to a mix up with their Twitter account name, I mis-announced them on the show. But I'll have it right in the show notes and links. Plus I'll get it right next time on the air, and trust me, there will be a next time!)
As always, send questions, suggestions or comments to progsquatch@gmail.com. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit our Prog-Watch Facebook page. If you follow on Twitter or like the Facebook page, you can see the Daily Classic album---a fun little feature which the Squatch sends out six days each week! (Squatches rest on Sundays!) The Squatch also posts about the show and shares noteworthy news items from around the Prog World, so like or follow!
Big Big Train won big big kudos at this year's Prog Awards, being named Band Of The Year and honored as the Best Live Event! A few weeks ago I was lucky enough to have a chat with David Longdon of the band and you can hear that conversation (as well as some great BBT music) on this week's Prog-Watch! We covered a lot of ground, from the current state of the music business as regards creativity and a band's connection to their fans, to that time when David auditioned for Genesis! So you won't want to miss this one!
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A wide variety of stuff is in store for you on this week's show! There's music from Flying Colors, Thank You Scientist, Joost Maglev, Happy the Man, The Dowling Poole, Magenta, Haken, Trevor Rabin, and Barclay James Harvest! And don't go anywhere when you hear our outro music! I tacked on a last minute addition...the new single from the Colin Tench Project, featuring our friend, Peter Jones! You won't want to miss it!
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That Harvest Moon is shining in the sky telling us that fall is almost here! So join me for a few hours of cool, electronic and ambient musical entertainment as we prepare to bid adieu to Summer 2016. Here's what I have on tap for you this month, o faithful listener:
- British Theatre – Defeat Skeletons (from the album Dyed In The Wool Ghost, 2012)
- Doug Woods and Colin Powell – Rats In The Attic (from the album The Haunting Of Sally Caster, 2015)
- Shpongle – Shpongle Falls (from the album Are You Shpongled?, 1998)
- Darkroom – Some Of These Numbers Mean Something (from the album Some Of These Numbers Mean Something, 2008)
- Eddie Jobson – The Sojourn (from the album Theme Of Secrets, 1985)
- Larry Fast's Synergy – Warriors (from the album Reconstructed Artifacts, 2002)
- Tangerine Dream – Cloudburst Flight (from the album Force Majeure, 1979)
- Vangelis – Alpha (from the album Albedo 0.39, 1975)
- Andreas Vollenweider – Behind The Gardens, Behind The Wall, Under The Tree (from the album The Essential Andreas Vollenweider, 2000)
- George Winston – Colors /Dance (from the album Autumn, 1980)
- Shpongle – Around The World In A Tea Daze (from the album Tales Of The Inexpressible, 2001)
- Ian Boddy & David Wright – Comets (from the album Shifting Sands, 2009)
- Trevor Rabin – Roundabend (from the album Gone In Sixty Seconds (Original Soundtrack), 2000)
- Jean-Michel Jarre – Rendez-vous 2 (from the album Images, 1991)
- Resonant Drift – On The Edge Of Doubt (from the album Resonant Drift, 2004)
- Patrick Moraz – Time For A Change (from the album Out In The Sun, 1977)
Until next time...be good to each other, and remember to Prog On, brothers and sisters!
Cheers!
Tony
This week's show is a Proghopper episode centering on the diverse career of Mr. Damian Wilson! I tried to get Damian for an interview show, but we couldn't get it together. So I did the next best thing...because if ever there was a person who could be called a Proghopper, it's Damian! On the show we will be hearing music from Damian's time with Landmarq, Threshold, Ayreon, and Rick Wakeman's New English Rock Ensemble! We'll also hear from Headspace, his band with Adam Wakeman, and from a few of his solo albums, including the brand new one, Built For Fighting!
As always, send questions, suggestions or comments to progsquatch@gmail.com. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit our Prog-Watch Facebook page. If you follow on Twitter or like the Facebook page, you can see the Daily Classic album---a fun little feature which the Squatch sends out six days each week! (Squatches rest on Sundays!) The Squatch also posts about the show and shares noteworthy news items from around the Prog World, so like or follow!
Variety is the spice of life on this week's Prog-Watch! Hear music from Shpongle, Evership, cosmograf, Andy Tillison Diskdrive, Huis, Profusion, Comedy Of Errors, Galahad, and Electric Light Orchestra!
As always, send questions, suggestions or comments to progsquatch@gmail.com. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit our Prog-Watch Facebook page. If you follow on Twitter or like the Facebook page, you can see the Daily Classic album---a fun little feature which the Squatch sends out six days each week! (Squatches rest on Sundays!) The Squatch also posts about the show and shares noteworthy news items from around the Prog World, so like or follow!
This week's show is a bit of a departure for Prog-Watch! We chat with the lovely Elaine Samuels of Kindred Spirit, which could probably best be described as a Progressive Folk band. We talk about the band, exploding drummers (a la Spinal Tap), the giants of British Folk (Fairport Convention, Steeleye Span, and Lindisfarne) and the tribulations of being a band that doesn't easily fit into one particular genre. Of course, lots of great Kindred Spirit music will be interspersed in between the chat!
As always, send questions, suggestions or comments to progsquatch@gmail.com. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit our Prog-Watch Facebook page. If you follow on Twitter or like the Facebook page, you can see the Daily Classic album---a fun little feature which the Squatch sends out six days each week! (Squatches rest on Sundays!) The Squatch also posts about the show and shares noteworthy news items from around the Prog World, so like or follow!
This week's Prog-Watch features a variety of great stuff for your listening entertainment! Hear music from Toto, Katatonia, Armonite, The Pineapple Thief, Jeavestone, the Von Hertzen Brothers, Mungion, Pendragon, Knight Area, Napier's Bones, Simon Collins, and Crack the Sky!
As always, send questions, suggestions or comments to progsquatch@gmail.com. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit our Prog-Watch Facebook page. If you follow on Twitter or like the Facebook page, you can see the Daily Classic album---a fun little feature which the Squatch sends out six days each week! (Squatches rest on Sundays!) The Squatch also posts about the show and shares noteworthy news items from around the Prog World, so like or follow!
My turn on 101 Dimensions, and the next time I come 'round again it will be Autumn! Boy the time flies the older you get (trust me on this, anyone younger than 35)! Anyway, I've got another fun program lined up for you, complete with an appearance by Gandalf and his steed! Here's your play list for tonight's show:
- Phonatacid – AFX (from the album Analord 02, 2005)
- Trains – Ian Anderson (from the album Walk Into Light, 1983)
- Legacy – Art Of Noise (from the album The Best Of The Art Of Noise, 1988)
- Impact – Patrick Moraz (from the album The Story Of I, 1976)
- Opa-Loka – Hawkwind (from the album Warrior On The Edge Of Time, 1975)
- Photographic – Tora, Tora, Tora – Depeche Mode (from the album Speak and Spell, 1981)
- Ways Of Changes – Klaus Schulze (from the album Blackdance, 1974)
- Harmogram Suite, Movement 1 & 2 – Marvin Ayres (from the album Harmogram Suite, 2011)
- The Keeper Of The Old Forest – Gandalf (from the album Fantasia - The Best Of Gandalf, 1987)
- The Darker Water – Erik Norlander (from the album Echoes From The Collective, 2012)
- The Dignity Of Labour Pt. 1,3&4 – The Human League (from the album Reproduction, 1979)
- Folksong For A Nuclear Village – Shadowfax (from the album Folksongs For A Nuclear Village, 1988)
Until next month, I wish you well! Be good to each other...
Tony
The last cover song special on Prog-Watch was very well received, so this week we are doing a follow-up, which we are calling "Cover 2 Cover"! The show features music from Kevin Gilbert Official, Daryl Stuermer, Erik Norlander, Manfred Mann`s Earth Band, Fish, Rush, Unitopia, Dream Theater, Yes, Echolyn, Steve Howe, Arjen Anthony Lucassen and more!
As always, send questions, suggestions or comments to progsquatch@gmail.com. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit our Prog-Watch Facebook page. If you follow on Twitter or like the Facebook page, you can see the Daily Classic album---a fun little feature which the Squatch sends out six days each week! (Squatches rest on Sundays!) The Squatch also posts about the show and shares noteworthy news items from around the Prog World, so like or follow!
This week's show features none other than Colin Tench of Corvus Stone and The Colin Tench Project! Colin and I had a great conversation and I think you will enjoy listening to sections of it, interspersed, of course, with lots of great Corvus Stone and CTP music! The conversation ranged from serious topics like modern record production and the evolution of Pop and Prog music, to the more outrageous, such as the actual origin of the notorious title of the Corvus Stone song, Jussipussi! So don't miss it...it was fun and we had quite a few laughs!
As always, send questions, suggestions or comments to progsquatch@gmail.com. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit our Prog-Watch Facebook page. If you follow on Twitter or like the Facebook page, you can see the Daily Classic album---a fun little feature which the Squatch sends out six days each week! (Squatches rest on Sundays!) The Squatch also posts about the show and shares noteworthy news items from around the Prog World, so like or follow!
This week we have another fun variety show, with a little of the old, a little of the new, a couple of orchestras, an MBE, and a summer "Double Shot" in the middle! With music from Klaatu, The Mahavishnu Orchestra, Glass Hammer, Electric Light Orchestra, Circa, Sir Paul McCartney, Karibow, Supertramp, The Dowling Poole, and Steve Thorne! Plus a classic from Nektar in honor of the late Roye Albrighton.
As always, send questions, suggestions or comments to progsquatch@gmail.com. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit our Prog-Watch Facebook page. If you follow on Twitter or like the Facebook page, you can see the Daily Classic album---a fun little feature which the Squatch sends out six days each week! (Squatches rest on Sundays!) The Squatch also posts about the show and shares noteworthy news items from around the Prog World, so like or follow!
This week on Prog-Watch, we get "Surreal" with Erik Norlander! We talk a lot about the making of his new solo album (entitled "Surreal") and some of the great musicians who played on the album. We also chat about some of his other projects (the Rocket Scientists and Last In Line), the Mexican Prog scene, and why you, the listener, are only three degrees away from Kevin Bacon! Of course, we play plenty of music, too, from Erik's new solo album, and we throw in a couple from the Rocket Scientists for good measure!
As always, send questions, suggestions or comments to progsquatch@gmail.com. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit our Prog-Watch Facebook page. If you follow on Twitter or like the Facebook page, you can see the Daily Classic album---a fun little feature which the Squatch sends out six days each week! (Squatches rest on Sundays!) The Squatch also posts about the show, and shares noteworthy news items from around the Prog World, so like or follow!
This week's Prog-Watch is a great variety show! Hear music from Airbag, Rick Wakeman, Aisles, Lonely Robot, Godsticks, Tilt, Votum, Paul Bremner (of Izz), United Progressive Fraternity - UPF, Barock Project, and Gentle Giant! You are invited!
As always, send questions, suggestions or comments to progsquatch@gmail.com. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit our Prog-Watch Facebook page. If you follow on Twitter or like the Facebook page, you can see the Daily Classic album---a fun little feature which the Squatch sends out six days each week! (Squatches rest on Sundays!) The Squatch also posts about the show, and shares noteworthy news items from around the Prog World, so like or follow!
This week we feature some great music from Brazilian artist Cristiano Varisco and America's own Jason Rubenstein! The bulk of the program, however, is dedicated to the UK band, We Are Kin! We play music from their first album "Pandora", and from their newly released "...And I Know..." and even have a chat with Daniel Zambas and Lee Braddock of the band!
As always, send questions, suggestions or comments to progsquatch@gmail.com. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit our Prog-Watch Facebook page. If you follow on Twitter or like the Facebook page, you can see the Daily Classic album---a fun little feature which the Squatch sends out six days each week! (Squatches rest on Sundays!) The Squatch also posts about the show, and shares noteworthy news items from around the Prog World, so like or follow!
It's my turn again at 101 Dimensions on Progzilla Radio! Here's what's on tap for a midsummer's night of cool, electronic and ambient musical mental refreshment:
- Redshift – Redshift (from the album Redshift, 1996)
- Twelfth Night – Sequences (from the album Collector's Item, 1991)
- Ozric Tentacles – Steep (from the album Swirly Termination, 2000)
- Ian Boddy & David Wright – Endless Terrain (from the album Shifting Sands, 2009)
- Kraftwerk – Computer World (from the album Computer World, 1981)
- Tangerine Dream - Band & Jon Anderson – Loved By The Sun (from the album Legend (Original Soundtrack), 1985)
- Jethro Tull – Apogee (from the album Under Wraps, 1984)
- Rick Wakeman Music – Mount Fuji By Night (from the album Aspirant Sunshadows, 2007)
- Paul Ellis – Secret Fire (from the album The Secret Fire, 1991)
- Mary St. John – Underwater Light Extinction (from the album Some Leaves Turned Red, Some Still Green, 2008)
- Markus Reuter – Angels To Burn (from the album The Longest In Terms Of Being, 2001)
- Voyager – Arrival (edit) (from the album A Brief History Of Ambient Volume 2: Imaginary Landscapes, 1993)
- Sylvian & Fripp – Bringing Down The Light (from the album A Brief History Of Ambient Volume 2: Imaginary Landscapes, 1993)
- Patrick O'Hearn Music Official Page – Beneath The Celestial Sphere (from the album Glaciation, 2007)
I hope you enjoy! Stay safe and positive and continue to Prog On!
Tony
This week's show is a collaboration with Progradar: It's the Best Of 2016 (So Far)! We'll be playing tracks from the 10 best albums of 2016 as selected by Martin Hutchinson and his band of merry reviewers! We'll also get Bite-Size album reviews from Martin, Gary Morley, Leo Trimming, Emma Chrysoprasia Roebuck, Shawn Dudley, Kevin Thompson, Roger Trenwith, and David Elliott!
As always, send questions, suggestions or comments to progsquatch@gmail.com. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit our Prog-Watch Facebook page. If you follow on Twitter or like the Facebook page, you can see the Daily Classic album---a fun little feature which the Squatch sends out six days each week! (Squatches rest on Sundays!) The Squatch also posts about the show, and shares noteworthy news items from around the Prog World, so like or follow!
This week on Prog-Watch we have a lot of great stuff lined up, including some Prog Award nominees! There will be music from the Electric Light Orchestra, Nine Stones Close, the Strawbs, Pete Jones (he of the Tiger Moth Tales), Steve Howe, Kylver, Anderson Ponty Band, Circuline, and Robert Reed! It's also the last week for the Gaillion contest, so listen and enter to win the entire Gaillion catalog!
As always, send questions, suggestions or comments to progsquatch@gmail.com. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit our Prog-Watch Facebook page. If you follow on Twitter or like the Facebook page, you can see the Daily Classic album---a fun little feature which the Squatch sends out six days each week! (Squatches rest on Sundays!) Plus there are posts about the show and cool things happening in your favorite musical genre!
On this week's show we continue with the Gaillion contest and hear music from a new release by US band Ghost Medicine! The main part of the episode, however, is devoted to a feature on Australian Cinematic Prog Rocker Ben Craven! We chat about the Aussie Prog scene, working with Roger Dean and William Shatner, and various other topics! And we play a whole lot of Ben's music along the way!
As always, send questions, suggestions or comments to progsquatch@gmail.com. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit our Prog-Watch Facebook page. If you follow on Twitter or like the Facebook page, you can see the Daily Classic album---a fun little feature which the Squatch sends out six days each week! (Squatches rest on Sundays!)
This week's show is a great variety episode with music from Gaillion, Anekdoten, Agents Of Mercy, Yuka & Chronoship, The Barock Project, Bent Knee, Downriver Dead Men Go, Sylvan, Riverside, and Starcastle!
As always, send questions, suggestions or comments to progsquatch@gmail.com. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit our Prog-Watch Facebook page. If you follow on Twitter or like the Facebook page, you can see the Daily Classic album---a fun little feature which the Squatch sends out six days each week! (Squatches rest on Sundays!)
My turn on 101 Dimensions again (boy the months fly by)! This time I've got a bit of an eclectic mix of new and old electronic and ambient type stuff! (Don't forget 101 Dimensions features ALL MUSIC and NO TALKING!) Here's the playlist for this month's show:
- Patrick Moraz – Heroic Fantasy (from Future Memories II, 1982)
- Erik Norlander - Adrift On The Fire Seas Of Orion's Shield (from Seas Of Orion, 2004)
- Jean-Michel Jarre – Oxygene Part V (from Oxygene, 1977)
- The Orb – Slug Dub (from Orbus Terrarum, 1995)
- Aphex Twin – Actium (from Selected Ambient Works, 85 – 92, 1993)
- The Art of Noise – Moments In Love (from Who's Afraid Of (The Art Of Noise), 1984)
- Larry Fast's Synergy – Sequence 14 (from Sequencer, 1976)
- Ashra – Sunrain (from New Age Of Earth, 1976)
- Redshift – Runes (from Oblivion, 2004)
- Brian Eno – One-One (from Ambient 1 – Music For Airports, 1978)
I hope you enjoy! Until next month, be good to each other and remember to...
Prog On, brothers and sisters!
Tony
This week's show is a new kind of special called Shaking The Family Tree! The focus of the show this time will be the band Yes, and we will be playing tracks by former members who had solo careers or worked in other bands besides Yes proper. There will be music by The Buggles, Trevor Rabin, Refugee, Asia, Flash, Esquire, Levin/Torn/White, Badger, and Bruford!
As always, send questions, suggestions or comments to progsquatch@gmail.com. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit our Prog-Watch Facebook page. If you follow on Twitter or like the Facebook page, you can see the Daily Classic album---a fun little feature which the Squatch sends out six days each week! (Squatches rest on Sundays!)
This week's show is a great variety episode! Hear music from Apollo 100, Karibow, Airbag, Mike Kershaw, Red Bazar (with Peter Jones), Tin Spirits (a Dave Gregory project) and Big Big Train!
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This week's episode centers on a feature on the US band 3RDegree, including an interview with Robert James Pashman of the band! Also on deck: music from Brave, Lee Abraham, and a Progradar recommendation from the new Frost* album!
As always, send questions, suggestions or comments to progsquatch@gmail.com. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit and like our Prog-Watch Facebook page.
It's my turn on 101 Dimensions again. This month I've got a lot of different stuff lined up, spanning more than 45 years of great electronic/ambient music!
Here's tonight's playlist, for those who like to follow along:
- Bicentennial Presentation – Peter Baumann (from Romance '76, 1976)
- Oxygene 7 – Jean-Michel Jarre (from Oxygene 7-13, 1997)
- Tower Of Light – David Arkenstone (from Atlantis: A Symphonic Journey, 2004)
- As The Leaves Are To The Limb – British Theatre (from Dyed In The Wool Ghost, 2012)
- Lili... - Northwoods (from Warsongs, 2016)
- Dalumina – Edgar Froese (from Orange Light Years, 2005)
- Road To The Sea – David Arkenstone (from Quest Of The Dream Warrior, 1995)
- A Play Within A Play – Jon & Vangelis (from Short Stories, 1979)
- To The One Who Knows – Yanni (from The Very Best Of Yanni, 2000)
- Machines – Giorgio Moroder (from Metropolis Soundtrack, 1984)
- Mastery – British Theatre (from Mastery, 2016)
- The Grey Havens – Bo Hansson (from Lord Of The Rings, 1970)
- Stigma – Johannes Schmoelling (from A Thousand Times, 2009)
- Mitternacht – Kraftwerk (from Autobahn, 1974)
- Sehr Kosmisch – Harmonia (from Musik Von Harmonia, 1974)
- Horizon – Jon & Vangelis (from Private Collection, 1983)
Until next month...
All the best,
Tony
This week's Prog-Watch is an awesome variety show with a lot of great stuff for your listening pleasure! We have music from Rick Wakeman, Purson, Pete Jones, The Room, Kylver, Iona, Aisles, Vly, and Camel!
As always, send questions, suggestions or comments to progsquatch@gmail.com. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit and like our Prog-Watch Facebook page. If you have a Prog band and are looking to maybe break into “the big league”, contact us to get on our Watch List! (We just might play you on the show, and who knows, it might lead to your big break!)
This week's show is mainly dedicated to Gandalf's Fist and their brilliant new album The Clockwork Fable! I chat with the drummer from the band Stefan Hepe and spin a hearty helping of GF music! I also play music from the new Mothertongue and I Am The Manic Whale albums!
As always, send questions, suggestions or comments to progsquatch@gmail.com. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit our Prog-Watch Facebook page. If you follow on Twitter or like the Facebook page, you can see the Daily Classic album---a fun little feature which the Squatch sends out six days each week! (Squatches rest on Sundays!)
This week's show is a 2016 Rosfest Special featuring many of the bands which appeared at this year's festival! The show has music from the Strawbs, Kinetic Element, 3RDegree, Dave Kerzner, Comedy Of Errors, Magic Pie, Spock's Beard, and Zebra! If you couldn't be there, you can at least crank up the volume, bust out your cell phone or lighter, close your eyes, and pretend!
As always, send questions, suggestions or comments to progsquatch@gmail.com. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit our Prog-Watch Facebook page. If you follow on Twitter or like the Facebook page, you can see the Daily Classic album---a fun little feature which the Squatch sends out six days each week! (Squatches rest on Sundays!) And don't forget to check out the website Progwatch.com. You can listen to shows there and find out more about the artists featured!
The bulk of this week's Prog-Watch is devoted to a feature on the international band Fractal Mirror! I chat with Frank Urbaniak and Ed Van Haagen of the band about how they got together, the marvels and pitfalls of trans-Atlantic recording, and the making of their great new album Slow Burn 1! And of course we play a lot of great music along the way! We also have a Progradar Recommendation and Bite Size review from the new Iamthemorning album, and an epic by Pervy Perkin, a Spanish band recommended by a listener named Andreas of Denmark!
As always, send questions, suggestions or comments to progsquatch@gmail.com. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit our Prog-Watch Facebook page. If you have a Prog band and are looking to maybe break into “the big league”, contact us to get on our Watch List! (We love to spread the word on great new music!)
Another great variety show this week with a lot of great new music from Nine Stones Close, Konchordat, Headspace, Francis Dunnery, Ben Craven and Jump! Plus Subsignal, and a classic from Mike Oldfield!
As always, send questions, suggestions or comments to progsquatch@gmail.com. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit our Prog-Watch Facebook page. And don't forget about the website...Progwatch.com! There's a whole lotta great Progressive Rock music there for your listening enjoyment!
This week's show is a special paying tribute to an icon of the Prog world whom we sadly lost a few weeks ago... Keith Emerson. The show will feature commentary from some of today's Prog artists who knew Keith, and/or were inspired and influenced by him. Guests include Aaron Clift and Eric Gutierrez (of the The Aaron Clift Experiment), Erik Norlander (solo, Lana Lane, and Rocket Scientists), Dave Kerzner (solo, Sound of Contact, and Mantra Vega) and Luca Zabbini (of the Barock Project). (A great big THANK YOU to all the artists who contributed!) Of course, there will also be plenty of brilliant music spanning five decades.
It's my turn to curate 101 Dimensions again! (Man, the months seem to fly by lately!) Anyway, I've dug up some interesting stuff for you...some by artists I'm sure you will recognize, others by artists which may be new to you. (I hope so, anyway.) Here's your playlist:
Ashra – Mosquito Dance (from Tropical Heat, 1991)
Redshift – Shift To Blue (from Wild 3, 2009)
The Orb – Ghostdancing (from Cydonia, 2001)
ARC – Umbra (from Umbra, 2014)
Vangelis – Pinta, Nina, Santa Maria (Into Eternity) (from 1492 – Conquest Of Paradise, 1992)
Tangerine Dream – Death In The Shadow (from The Island Of The Fay, 2011)
Resonant Drift – Adrift From The Burning (from Resonant Drift, 2004)
Mannheim Steamroller – The Heart And The Feather (from Fresh Aire 8, 2000)
The Enid – Under The Summer Stars/Adieu (from In The Region Of The Summer Stars, 1976)
Wendy Carlos – Midnight Sun (from Sonic Seasonings, 1972)
Until next month...
All the best,
Tony
This week's show is another great variety episode, with brand new Gandalf's Fist, Marillion, Tony Patterson, Hedfuzy, Barock Project, District 97, Sanguine Hum, The Syn (with Moon Safari) and Anthony Phillips! Plus the Progradar Weekly Recommendation and Bite Size Review from the new album by Body English!
As always, send questions, suggestions or comments to progsquatch@gmail.com. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit our Prog-Watch Facebook page. If you have a Prog band and are looking to maybe break into “the big league”, contact us to get on our Watch List! (We just might play you on the show, and who knows, it might lead to your big break!)
This week's Prog-Watch is a special focused on keyboardist extraordinaire Erik Norlander! Tony and Erik chat about his solo career, the Rocket Scientists, and his work with his wife, Lana Lane, and play a lot of great music along the way!
As always, send questions, suggestions or comments to progsquatch@gmail.com. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit our Prog-Watch Facebook page. If you follow on Twitter or like the Facebook page, you can see the Daily Classic album---a fun little feature which the Squatch sends out six days each week! (Squatches rest on Sundays!)
This week's Prog-Watch is a straight up variety show, with a lot of great stuff on board! Music from IQ, Unitopia, Porcupine Tree, Francis Dunnery, Haken, King's X, Red Bazar (featuring Peter Jones of Tiger Moth Tales), Ian Anderson and The Flower Kings! Plus the Progradar Recommendation and Bite Size Review from the new album by N.y.X!
This week's show pays a little tribute to two great men whom we lost recently---Sir George Martin and Keith Emerson. Stay tuned, faithful listener, as we are also working on an entire episode dedicated to Keith Emerson, which we think will be something special.
But much of this week's show is dedicated to the artist Gordon Midgley. We have a little chat, play some of his solo work and his work in a side project called Selena And Gordon's Factory, and play a few from his main band Napier's Bones! We've even got a track from their brand new album "Hell And High Water" which just released this week!
As always, send questions, suggestions or comments to progsquatch@gmail.com. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit our Prog-Watch Facebook page. If you follow on Twitter or like the Facebook page, you can see the Daily Classic album---a fun little feature which the Squatch sends out six days each week! (Squatches rest on Sundays!)
It's my turn to curate 101 Dimensions once again! No over-arching theme this time...just cool, electronic and ambient Prog!
Vangelis – Titles (from Chariots Of Fire, 1981)
Erik Norlander – Trantor Station (from Echoes From The Collective, 2012)
Northwoods (featuring Saul Blease) – Elements (from Elements, 2014)
Zombi – Serpens (from Cosmos, 2004)
Wolfgang Bock – Cycles (from Cycles, 1980)
Erik Norlander – Sky Full Of Stars (from Echoes From The Collective, 2012)
Franco Leprino – Part 1 (from Integrati...Disintegrati, 1977)
TANGERINE DREAM – Rubycon, Pt. 2 (from Rubycon, 1975)
Vangelis – Chariots Of Fire (from Chariots Of Fire, 1981)
Eno – The Lost Day (from Ambient 4 – On Land, 1982)
Until next month...all the best, my friends!
Tony
The Squatch has a lot of great stuff lined up this week, much of it quite new! Music from John Mitchell, Red Bazar (featuring Peter Jones of Tiger Moth Tales), Mechanical Butterfly, The Gift, GEPH, Lazuli, Headspace (with Adam Wakeman and Damian Wilson), Southern Empire, and Focus!
As always, send questions, suggestions or comments to progsquatch@gmail.com. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit our Prog-Watch Facebook page. If you follow on Twitter or like the Facebook page, you can see the Daily Classic album---a fun little feature which the Squatch sends out six days each week! (Squatches rest on Sundays!)
And if you haven't yet, check out the website Progwatch.com! Lots of great stuff there from our previous seasons!
Well I've been hyping it for a few weeks and it is finally here! The Dave Kerzner Special, complete with interesting chat about Dave's company, Sonic Reality, working with notables such as Genesis and Alan Parsons, and of course, his various musical projects Sound of Contact, the Dave Kerzner Band, and Mantra Vega! We'll also be playing a lot of great music from those projects along the way! So don't miss it!
As always, send questions, suggestions or comments to progsquatch@gmail.com. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit our Prog-Watch Facebook page. If you follow on Twitter or like the Facebook page, you can see the Daily Classic album---a fun little feature which the Squatch sends out six days each week! (Squatches rest on Sundays!)
And if you haven't yet, check out the website Progwatch.com! Lots of great stuff there from our previous seasons!
As you may have guessed from the title, this week's show is all about great Prog cover songs! The artists featured include Erik Norlander, Simon Collins, Manfred Mann`s Earth Band, Unitopia, Glass Hammer, Steve Howe, Transatlantic, April Wine, Emerson, Lake & Powell, Saul Blease, and Yes!
As always, send questions, suggestions or comments to progsquatch@gmail.com. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit our Prog-Watch Facebook page. If you follow on Twitter or like the Facebook page, you can see the Daily Classic album---a fun little feature which the Squatch sends out six days each week! (Squatches rest on Sundays!)
And don't forget to check out the website... Progwatch.com!
This week our esteemed guest is none other than Peter Jones of Tiger Moth Tales! Yes, the man who has recently announced that he will be joining Camel on an upcoming Asian tour, opening for Moon Safari in London, and releasing a new project in conjunction with Red Bazar! Peter is a busy man for sure, but I was able to catch up with him and chat about his pop beginnings, his two Tiger Moth Tales albums, how he approaches recording and other topics!
(Due to restrictions in certain markets, I did "bookend" the Peter Jones feature with a few other songs, one from an excellent new project called Kiama and a classic from Genesis. So don't be alarmed if you tune in and don't hear Peter right off the bat...you'll hear the interview and some great Tiger Moth tracks soon enough!)
As always, send questions, suggestions or comments to progsquatch@gmail.com. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit our Prog-Watch Facebook page. If you follow on Twitter or like the Facebook page, you can see the Daily Classic album---a fun little feature which the Squatch sends out six days each week! (Squatches rest on Sundays!) Looking for recent episodes or ones from the previous two seasons? Check out the website Progwatch.com!
It's my turn once again to curate 101 Dimensions! So join me for a little electronic/ambient chill-axation! I'm calling this one "Of Earth And Sky And Water".
- Fripp & Eno - Wind On Water (from Evening Star, 1975)
- 2002 – To Touch The Sky (from Chrysalis, 1997)
- Enya – The Hummingbird (from Dark Sky Island, 2016)
- 2002 – Where The Stars And Moon Play (from Deep Still Blue, 2007)
- Enya – Dark Sky Island (from Dark Sky Island, 2016)
- Michael Stearns – As The Earth Kissed The Moon (from Planetary Unfolding, 1981)
- Michael Hoenig & Manuel Göttsching – Early Water (from Early Water, 1976)
- Novus – A Murder Of Crows (from Into The Future, 2014)
- Enya – Even In The Shadows (from Dark Sky Island, 2016)
- Johannes Schmoelling – Rain Echoes (from Images And Memory, 2007)
- David Arkenstone – Night Wind (from Valley In The Clouds, 1987)
- Eno – Stars (from Apollo - Atmospheres & Soundtracks, 1983)
I hope you enjoy! Until next month!
Tony
This week the 'Squatch has gotta whole lotta great stuff lined up! Music from Manfred Mann`s Earth Band, Al Di Meola, David Bowie, Yes, The Mute Gods, Frost*, Matthew Parmenter (of Discipline), Dream Theater, Panic Room, and the Moody Blues! Plus another Progradar Recommendation and Bite-Size Review from the new album by Jack Arthurs!
As always, send questions, suggestions or comments to progsquatch@gmail.com. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit our Prog-Watch Facebook page. If you follow on Twitter or like the Facebook page, you can see the Daily Classic album---a fun little feature which the Squatch sends out six days each week! (Squatches rest on Sundays!)
Also, check out the new website, Progwatch.com. It's a great archive of our past shows. Like a fine wine, the show has improved with age, but when you start looking at all the past episodes that are available, we have probably featured more than 250 great Prog songs since our inception! That is a whole lotta Prog!
This week's show features music from Trevor Rabin, The Winter Tree, Rick Wakeman, Mantra Vega, and the Anderson Ponty Band! Plus a feature on UK band Godsticks, including an interview with main man Darran Charles!
As always, send questions, suggestions or comments to progsquatch@gmail.com. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit our Prog-Watch Facebook page. If you follow on Twitter or like the Facebook page, you can see the Daily Classic album---a fun little feature which the Squatch sends out six days each week! (Squatches rest on Sundays!)
Also, check out the new website, Progwatch.com. It's a great archive of our past shows. Like a fine wine, the show has improved with age, but when you start looking at all the past episodes that are available, we have probably featured more than 250 great Prog songs since our inception! That is a whole lotta Prog!
Finally, if you have a Prog band and are looking to maybe break into “the big league”, contact us to get on our Watch List! (We just might play you on the show, and who knows, it might lead to your big break!)
This weeks' episode is a Whole Lotta Prog variety show! It's got music from Bruce Soord, Thieves' Kitchen, Spock's Beard, N.y.X, and IQ! Plus the Progradar Recommendation and Bite-Size Review from the latest Abel Ganz album, a classic from the Strawbs and Wet Rabbit on the Watch List!
As always, send questions, suggestions or comments to progsquatch@gmail.com. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit our Prog-Watch Facebook page. If you follow on Twitter or like the Facebook page, you can see the Daily Classic album---a fun little feature which the Squatch sends out six days each week! (Squatches rest on Sundays!)
Also, check out the new website, Progwatch.com. It's a great archive of our past shows. Like a fine wine, the show has improved with age, but when you start looking at all the past episodes that are available, we have probably featured more than 250 great Prog songs since our inception! That is a whole lotta Prog!
Finally, if you have a Prog band and are looking to maybe break into “the big league”, contact us to get on our Watch List! (We just might play you on the show, and who knows, it might lead to your big break!)
This week's show is devoted to UK/US Progger Simon Godfrey! Tony and Simon talk music (of course) as well as beer, Bad Elephant Music, Jem Godfrey (Simon's brother, a record producer and Frost* mastermind), moving to America, and other topics. Oh, and there's a whole lotta great music, too...from Simon's projects Tinyfish and Shineback, plus some of his solo stuff!
As always, send questions, suggestions or comments to progsquatch@gmail.com. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit our Prog-Watch Facebook page. If you follow on Twitter or like the Facebook page, you can see the Daily Classic album---a fun little feature which the Squatch sends out six days each week! (Squatches rest on Sundays!)
Also, check out the new website, Progwatch.com. It's a great archive of our past shows. Like a fine wine, the show has improved with age, but when you start looking at all the past episodes that are available, we have probably featured more than 250 great Prog songs since our inception! That is a whole lotta Prog!
Finally, if you have a Prog band and are looking to maybe break into “the big league”, contact us to get on our Watch List! (We just might play you on the show, and who knows, it might lead to your big break!)
This week's show features music from Saga, Spiral Key, Dream Theater, We Are Kin, and Hasse Fröberg and the Musical Companion! Plus the Progradar Weekly Recommendation and Bite-Size Review from the new Subsignal album and a classic from Todd Rundgren's Utopia! Wanna whole lotta Prog?
As always, send questions, suggestions or comments to progsquatch@gmail.com. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit our Prog-Watch Facebook page. If you follow on Twitter or like the Facebook page, you can see the Daily Classic album---a fun little feature which the Squatch sends out six days each week! (Squatches rest on Sundays!)
Also, check out the new website, Progwatch.com. It's a great archive of our past shows. Like a fine wine, the show has improved with age, but when you start looking at all the past episodes that are available, we have probably featured more than 250 great Prog songs since our inception! That is a whole lotta Prog!
Finally, if you have a Prog band and are looking to maybe break into “the big league”, contact us to get on our Watch List! (We just might play you on the show, and who knows, it might lead to your big break!)
This week's show finishes up our coverage of the best of 2015, with music from Comedy Of Errors, Glass Hammer, Riverside, Echolyn, Grand Tour, and Dave Kerzner! Plus a few more Yak trax, and a few more questions answered by Yak main man Martin Morgan!
As always, send questions, suggestions or comments to progsquatch@gmail.com. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit our Prog-Watch Facebook page. If you follow on Twitter or like the Facebook page, you can see the Daily Classic album---a fun little feature which the Squatch sends out six days each week! (Squatches rest on Sundays!)
And if you get a chance, check out the website Progwatch.com! It's coming along!
Happy New Year! And to start things off right, we have more of the best of 2015, with music from the Barock Project, Spock's Beard, Nad Sylvan, and Tiger Moth Tales! Plus music from Alek Darson, a classic from Hawkwind (RIP, Lemmy) and a feature on The Aaron Clift Experiment, with a real sit-down interview with Aaron Clift himself!
If you get a chance, check out the website progwatch.com! It's shaping up pretty nicely and will hopefully be complete soon!
As always, send questions, suggestions or comments to progsquatch@gmail.com. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit our Prog-Watch Facebook page. If you follow on Twitter or like the Facebook page, you can see the Daily Classic album---a fun little feature which the Squatch sends out six days each week!
This week's show features some of the best of 2015, including music from Steven Wilson, Built for the Future, Lonely Robot, Jon & Vangelis, and Steve Hackett! Plus the Progradar Weekly Recommendation and Bite-Size Review from Arcade Messiah and a feature on a fantastic Prog band from Japan, Yuka & Chronoship! Yuka Funakoshi even answers some questions for us!
We did tell you that Squatches love Christmas, right? So it's one more week of Christmas music, but the selections are completely different from those that we played last year (last week)! This time we've got music from the likes of the Prog World Orchestra, Keith Emerson, Blackmores Night, various members of Yes, Steve Morse, Robin Trower, Trans Siberian Orchestra, Moody Blues, Marillion, Jethro Tull and more! Whew!
Next week it's back to regular Prog-For-All-Seasons, and we'll start taking a look back at the best of 2015!
"I heard him exclaim, 'ere he drove out of sight, Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good night!"
Merry Christmas everyone, and pray for peace!
It's my turn once again to curate 101 Dimensions. (Electronic and ambient, and no talking.) Let's call this one "Of Angels, Heaven, and Christmas". Merry Christmas, and pray for peace, people, everywhere.
The playlist:
2002 - Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (from the album Christmas Dreams, 2007)
Mannheim Steamroller - Joy To The World (from the album Christmas In The Aire, 1995)
Jamie Craig – Illumination (Part I and II) (from the album Illumination, 2008)
Vangelis – Heaven And Hell (Part II) (from the album Heaven and Hell, 1975)
2002 – In The Bleak Midwinter (from the album Christmas Dreams, 2007)
Mannheim Steamroller – Faeries (from the album Christmas Extraordinaire, 2001)
John Boswell – The First Noel (from the album The Carols Of Christmas, 1996)
Rick Wakeman - Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (from the album Christmas Variations, 2000)
Jamie Craig – Guardian Angel (from the album Illumination, 2008)
Liz Story – Greensleeves (from the album A Winter Solstice I, 1985)
Mannheim Steamroller - O Little Town Of Bethlehem (from the album Christmas In The Aire, 1995)
Klaus Schulze – At The Angle Of An Angel (from the album Audentity, 1983)
Rick Wakeman – Angels From The Realms Of Glory (from the album Christmas Variations, 2000)
Edgar Froese – Vault Of The Heavens (from the album Beyond The Storm, 1995)
David Darling – O Holy Night (from the album The Carols Of Christmas, 1996)
2002 – Silent Night (from the album Christmas Dreams, 2007)
Join the Squatch as he and Son-Of-Squatch, Paul, reminisce a little and provide interesting facts on some of their favorite Prog Christmas tunes! Music from Yes, Jethro Tull, Jon Anderson, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Chris Squire and more! (This show was actually recorded in 2014, but was only released on a very limited basis, so you probably have not heard it!)
As always, send questions, suggestions or comments to progsquatch@gmail.com. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit our Prog-Watch Facebook page. If you follow on Twitter or like the Facebook page, you can see the Daily Classic album---a fun little feature which the Squatch sends out six days each week! (Squatches rest on Sundays!)
This week's show features music from Dave "Squids" Kerzner, Steven Rothery, and Brand X! Plus, the Progradar Weekly Recommendation and Bite-Size Review from the new Mystery album, and a feature on the band Unified Past, complete with an interview with Stephen Speelman!
As always, send questions, suggestions or comments to progsquatch@gmail.com. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit our Prog-Watch Facebook page. If you follow on Twitter or like the Facebook page, you can see the Daily Classic album---a fun little feature which the Squatch sends out six days each week! (Squatches rest on Sundays!)
This week's show is another Proghopper episode, this time focusing on none other than John Mitchell! Guitarist, singer, composer, engineer, and producer, John is a man of many talents, and he's been in a few pretty good bands, too! Join Big Tony (the Prog-Squatch) as he follows Mitchell's career hopping from Arena to The Urbane to Kino to It Bites to Frost* to his latest fantastic project called Lonely Robot!
As always, send questions, suggestions or comments to progsquatch@gmail.com. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit our Prog-Watch Facebook page. If you follow on Twitter or like the Facebook page, you can see the Daily Classic album---a fun little feature which the Squatch sends out six days each week! (Squatches rest on Sundays!)
This week's show features music from Tom Slatter, Steve Morse and Jordan Rudess, Druckfarben, Post Mortem, and Gentle Giant! Plus, the Progradar Weekly Recommendation and Bite Size Review from the brilliant, new Comedy Of Errors album and a feature on the band Yak, with an interview with main man Martin Morgan!
As always, send questions, suggestions or comments to progsquatch@gmail.com. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit the Prog-Watch Facebook page. If you follow on Twitter or like the Facebook page, you can see the Daily Classic album---a fun little feature which the Squatch sends out six days each week! (Squatches rest on Sundays!)
This week's show features music from Erik Norlander, The Opium Cartel, Camel, Grus Paridae, Glass Hammer, The Dear Hunter and Pink Floyd! Plus, the Progradar Weekly Recommendation and Bite Size Review from the new IO EARTH album!
As always, send questions, suggestions or comments to progsquatch@gmail.com. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit the Prog-Watch Facebook page. If you follow on Twitter or like the Facebook page, you can see the Daily Classic album---a fun little feature which the Squatch sends out six days each week! (Squatches rest on Sundays!)
My second outing as curator of 101 Dimensions on Progzilla.com! This show features progressive electronic and ambient music and no talking.
This month's play list:
Erik Wøllo & Bernhard Wöstheinrich – Subgiants (from the album Weltenurh)
Harmonia – De Luxe (Immer Wieder) (from the album De Luxe)
Red Shift – The Love Of Nature (from the album Turning Towards Us)
Edgar Froese – Epsilon In Malasia Pale (from the album Epsilon In Malasia Pale)
Andy Summers – Earthly Pleasures (from the album The Golden Wire)
Ian Boddy & Markus Reuter – Beacon (from the album The Colour Division)
Michael Hoenig - Departure From The Northern Wasteland (from the album Departure From The Northern Wasteland)
Fripp & Eno – Evening Star (from the album Evening Star)
Andy Partridge & Harold Budd – Geography – Through The Hill (from the album Through The Hill)
Eno – The Lost Day (from the album Ambient 4 – On Dry Land)
2002 – Dreams Of Peace (from the album Believe - A Spiritual Romance)
This week's show features music from Riverside, Sean Filkins, Aisles, and Focus! Plus a feature on Anton Roolaart, and the Progradar Weekly Recommendation and Bite-Size Review from the new album by The Room!
As always, send questions, suggestions or comments to progsquatch@gmail.com. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit the Prog-Watch Facebook page. If you follow on Twitter or like the Facebook page, you can see the Daily Classic album---a fun little feature which the Squatch sends out six days each week! (Squatches rest on Sundays!)
This week's show features a variety of great stuff from the Rocket Scientists, Yes, Panic Room, Mario Tomic, Fish, Lunatic Soul, Galahad, and Barclay James Harvest! Plus the Progradar Weekly Recommendation and Bite-Size Review from Twice Bitten!
As always, send questions, suggestions or comments to progsquatch@gmail.com. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit our Prog-Watch Facebook page. If you follow on Twitter or like the Facebook page, you can see the Daily Classic album---a fun little feature which the Squatch sends out six days each week! (Squatches rest on Sundays!)
More great variety! Music from Goblin Rebirth, Pendragon, Citizen Cain, The Pineapple Thief, Rush, Dixie Dregs, The Bob Lazar Story, and The Moody Blues! Plus, the Progradar Weekly Recommendation and Bite-Sized Review from the new Unified Past album, and a feature on CICCADA, including an interview with Nicolas Nikolopoulos! I am not joking when I tell you that I was madly editing my own yakking to get this under 90 minutes, because I did not want to cut a single tune or a single minute of Nick's interview! There is that much stuff jammed into 90 minutes this week!
As always, send questions, suggestions or comments to progsquatch@gmail.com. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit our Prog-Watch Facebook page. If you follow on Twitter or like the Facebook page, you can see the Daily Classic album---a fun little feature which the Squatch sends out six days each week! (Squatches rest on Sundays!)
This week we've got more variety on tap! Great music from Franck Carducci, UVTRAVELER, Karfagen, Happy the Man, Renaissance, Solaris, Spock's Beard and Uriah Heep! Plus, the Progradar Weekly Recommendation and Bite-Sized Review from the new David Gilmour album!
My once-a-month curatorship of a new Progzilla.com show called 101 Dimensions begins! This show features progressive electronic and ambient music and no talking. In keeping with the season, I have programmed a journey that begins as a joy ride, but later takes a decidedly...darker turn. For those of you who would like to track the progress of our journey, I give you the “road map” below.
(PS. I cannot be held responsible for the occasional nightmare, should anyone happen to fall asleep while listening to any of the later tracks with headphones.)
Enjoy!
Your “road map”:
- Kraftwerk – Autobahn (from the album Autobahn, 1974)
- Michael Stearns – Craft: Dimensional Release (from the album Encounter, 1988)
- Flower Kings - Retropolis By Night (from the album Retropolis, 1996)
- Ash Ra Tempel – Traummaschine (from the album Ash Ra Tempel, 1971)
- Michael Stearns – Dimensional Shift: Across The Threshold (from the album Encounter, 1988)
- Johannes Schmoelling - Wuivend Riet, Part II (from the album Wuivend Riet, 1986)
- Tangerine Dream – Zeit (from the album Zeit, 1972)
- Klaus Schulze – Velvet Voyage (from the album Mirage, 1977)
This week's show features music from Anima Morte, The Alan Parsons Project, Mechanical Butterfly, King Crimson, and Rick Wakeman! We also have the Progradar Weekly Recommendation and Bite-Sized Review from the new Nad Sylvan album and a feature on NEKTAR, complete with an interview with Roye Albrighton! In the words of Yoda: "Miss it not!"
This week's show features music from the Anderson Ponty Band, Corvus Stone, Progoctopus, Mike Rutherford, The Aaron Clift Experiment, House Of Not, Steven Wilson, The Flower Kings, and Kansas! Whew, that's a whole lotta Prog! Oh, and the first ever Progradar Weekly Recommendation and Bite-Sized Review, in conjunction with my mate Martin Hutchinson!
As always, send questions, suggestions or comments to progsquatch@gmail.com. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit the Prog-Watch Facebook page. If you follow on Twitter or like the Facebook page, you can see the Daily Classic album---a fun little feature which the Squatch sends out six days each week! (Squatches rest on Sundays!)
This week Tony is joined by Terry DeLien for a more in-depth look at two interesting bands. First up, US group The Protomen whose concept albums blend Prog Rock and Americana with a dash of Sci-Fi themes! In the second half of the show, it's one of Prog's hottest commodities, the Italian band the Barock Project! The guys even have a little Q & A with the band's main man, Luca Zabbini (keyboardist, guitarist and composer)!
For more information on this week's artists you can visit:
http://www.protomen.com/
and http://www.barockproject.net/
As always, send questions, suggestions or comments to progsquatch@gmail.com. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit our Prog-Watch Facebook page. If you follow on Twitter or like the Facebook page, you can see the Daily Classic album---a fun little feature which the Squatch sends out six days each week! (Squatches rest on Sundays!)
This week we have a new feature (which will recur every once in a while) called "Proghopper". In this series we will look at the career of a progressive artist who has been in several different bands, and possibly has a solo career, as well. Our first installment will look at the career of John Wetton, in Mogul Thrash, with King Crimson, UK, and Asia, solo, and in collaboration with Geoff Downes! (We respectfully dedicate this first Proghopper installment to John Wetton, with hopes for a full and speedy recovery.)
As always, send questions, suggestions or comments to progsquatch@gmail.com. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit our Prog-Watch Facebook page. If you follow on Twitter or like the Facebook page, you can see the Daily Classic album---a fun little feature which the Squatch sends out six days each week! (Squatches rest on Sundays!)
This week's show has another bumper crop of great Prog from the likes of Neal Morse, Magenta, Methexis, Kinetic Element, Ian Anderson, Ciccada, and Jon & Vangelis!
This week an old friend, Steve Luttig, returns as guest host, and he and the Squatch put the spotlight on two great bands! First up: a look at a classic German Prog outfit, the Eloy! In the second half of the show the guys delve a little into the career of Prog Super-Group, Transatlantic!
For more information on this week's artists, you can visit:
www.eloy-legacy.com/ and
www.transatlanticweb.com/
As always, send questions, suggestions or comments to progsquatch@gmail.com. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit our Prog-Watch Facebook page. If you follow on Twitter or like the Facebook page, you can see the Daily Classic album---a fun little feature which the Squatch sends out six days each week! (Squatches rest on Sundays!)
Another great variety show with music from White Willow, 3RDegree, Times Up, The Barock Project, Echolyn, Yes, and Jethro Tull!
This week Tony and Terry DeLien do something new...playing all LIVE versions of great prog tunes by bands that really shine on the stage! The bands featured include Renaissance, Moon Safari, Dream Theater, Credo, and Änglagård !
For more information on this week's artists, you can visit:
www.renaissancetouring.com/
www.moonsafari.se/
http://www.dreamtheater.net/
http://www.credo.gb.com/
http://www.anglagardrecords.com/
As always, send questions, suggestions or comments to progsquatch@gmail.com. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit our Prog-Watch Facebook page. If you follow on Twitter or like the Facebook page, you can see the Daily Classic album---a fun little feature which the Squatch sends out six days each week! (Squatches rest on Sundays!)
This week's Prog-Watch is another great variety episode, loaded with great music from IO Earth, The Tangent, Built For The Future, Karnataka, Arena, and Emerson, Lake & Palmer!
For more information on this week's artists, you can visit:
http://www.ioearth.com/
http://www.thetangent.org/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/353722211450935/
http://karnataka.org.uk/
http://www.arenaband.co.uk/
http://www.emersonlakepalmer.com/
As always, send questions, suggestions or comments to progsquatch@gmail.com. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit our Prog-Watch Facebook page. If you follow on Twitter or like the Facebook page, you can see the Daily Classic album---a fun little feature which the Squatch sends out six days each week! (Squatches rest on Sundays!)
Terry's back this week, and he and the Squatch take a special, in depth look at one of the most important, critically acclaimed albums of Hogarth-era Marillion---the 1994 concept album 'Brave'! The guys play several tracks and get into the story behind the album, the multiple endings, and various other interesting things which Terry (being a real Marillion geek) knows all about! They close the show with a new feature---the Classic Corner, in which they play a classic Genesis tune from the Golden Age of Prog!
For more information on this week's artists, you can visit:
http://www.marillion.com/ and
http://www.genesis-music.com/
As always, send questions, suggestions or comments to progsquatch@gmail.com. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit our Prog-Watch Facebook page. If you follow on Twitter or like the Facebook page, you can see the Daily Classic album---a fun little feature which the Squatch sends out six days each week! (Squatches rest on Sundays!)
This week's episode is another great Variety Show! This time we feature a few new artists and a few we are re-visiting, including Argos, Sky Architect's Christiaan Bruin, FM, Steve Hackett, John Lodge, Magic Pie, and The Fierce & The Dead!
For more information on this week's artists, you can visit:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Argos/110922852290581?fref=ts
https://www.facebook.com/christiaan.bruin?fref=ts
http://www.thebandfm.com/
http://www.hackettsongs.com/
https://www.facebook.com/johnlodgemusic
http://www.magicpie.net/ and
http://www.fierceandthedead.com/index.html
As always, send questions, suggestions or comments to progsquatch@gmail.com. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit our Prog-Watch Facebook page. If you follow on Twitter or like the Facebook page, you can see the Daily Classic album---a fun little feature which the Squatch sends out six days each week! (Squatches rest on Sundays!)
This week, the Squatch is joined by guest host Terry DeLien once again, and they take a more in depth look at two great bands---Anubis from Australia and America's own Glass Hammer! The guys from Anubis were even kind enough to answer “The Pog-Watch Questions” so you get to hear them give a little more insight into how they write and record their fabulous music, their gear, how they approach live performances, etc.!
For more information on this week's artists, you can visit:
http://www.anubismusic.com/
and
http://glasshammer.com/
As always, send questions, suggestions or comments to progsquatch@gmail.com. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit our Prog-Watch Facebook page. If you follow on Twitter or like the Facebook page, you can see the Daily Classic album---a fun little feature which the Squatch sends out six days each week! (Squatches rest on Sundays!)
Yes was one of the first Prog bands to resonate with the Squatch more than 30 years ago, and as a bass player and backing vocalist himself, the Squatch always admired the phenomenal talents of Chris Squire. When Chris passed Tony knew he had to do something in tribute. So he gives you Episode 227, with a montage of some of his favorite Yes music (with Chris prominently featured) as well as music from all of Chris's solo albums and collaborations over the years.
Playlist:
- Montage of some of Chris's best moments with Yes
- You By My Side (from Chris Squire's 1975 album “Fish Out Of Water”)
- Days Of Wonder (from Conspiracy's 2000 album “Conspiracy”)
- Breaking Down Walls/Some Time, Some Way (from the Syn's 2005 album “Syndestructible”)
- Tall Ships (from Squackett's 2012 album “A Life Within A Day”)
- Amazing Grace/Whitefish (from Yes's 1985 album “9012Live - The Solos”)
As always, send questions, suggestions or comments to progsquatch@gmail.com. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit our Prog-Watch Facebook page. If you follow on Twitter or like the Facebook page, you can see the Daily Classic album---a fun little feature which the Squatch sends out six days each week! (Squatches rest on Sundays!)
Terry's back this week, and he and the Squatch begin things with a look at a heavy Prog band called Soul Secret from Italy! We get to hear music from their latest two albums, and some interview material from keyboardist Luca Di Gennaro! Next up, Terry gets his geek on as the guys cover one of his first and all-time favorite Prog bands, the legendary Marillion! Their coverage starts at the beginning of the Steve Hogarth era, but don't worry, I'm sure there will be some Fish era material played at some point on Prog-Watch (both eras are SO good)!
For more information on this week's artists, you can visit:
http://www.soulsecret.net/ and
http://www.marillion.com/
As always, send questions, suggestions or comments to progsquatch@gmail.com. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit our Prog-Watch Facebook page. If you follow on Twitter or like the Facebook page, you can see the Daily Classic album---a fun little feature which the Squatch sends out six days each week! (Squatches rest on Sundays!)
This week's episode is another great Variety Show! This time we feature a few new artists and a few we are re-visiting, including Tiger Moth Tales, Gryphon, Stewart Bell (of Citizen Cain), Flower Kings & Autumn Electric!
For more information on this week's artists, you can visit:
http://www.tigermothtales.com/
http://www.gaudela.net/gryphon/
http://www.citizencain.nl/
http://www.flowerkings.se/ and
http://www.autumn-electric.com/
As always, send questions, suggestions or comments to progsquatch@gmail.com. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit our Prog-Watch Facebook page. If you follow on Twitter or like the Facebook page, you can see the Daily Classic album---a fun little feature which the Squatch sends out six days each week! (Squatches rest on Sundays!)
This week the Son Of Prog-Squatch, Paul Rowsick, sits in again for a look at two more great Swedish bands! One of them is a newer group called A.C.T who play an energetic, guitar and keyboard driven brand of Prog with lush vocals that sometimes draw comparisons to Queen! The second band is a legendary seventies group recently reborn, called Kaipa! This group helped put the great Roine Stolt (of the Flower Kings, Transatlantic, the Tangent, etc.) on the Prog world map!
For more information on this week's artists, you can visit:
http://www.facebook.com/acttheband and
http://kaipa.info/
As always, send questions, suggestions or comments to progsquatch@gmail.com. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit our Prog-Watch Facebook page. If you follow on Twitter or like the Facebook page, you can see the Daily Classic album---a fun little feature which the Squatch sends out six days each week! (Squatches rest on Sundays!)
We've been on the air for a year! In celebration we are offering this special episode in addition to the regularly scheduled episodes. A while back our friend Dan Foytik at the 9th Story Podcast was kind enough to interview the Squatch's band Novus and feature the interview and some Novus music in the 9th Story Podcast Episode 313. This is an excerpt from that episode which features the Squatch, his son, Paul, and author/stunt vocalist Nelson W Pyles talking about music, the creative process, Viagra, riding tigers, and various other topics. Dan acts as MC. Warning: the language and subject matter do get a little more "colorful" than your typical Prog-Watch episode! But we had fun doing it and we hope you have fun listening to it!
Another great variety show with more than 45 minutes of spectacular Prog rock from Overhead, Spock's Beard, Big Big Train, Flying Colors, Oblivion Sun and Andre Perim! For more information on this week's artists you can visit http://www.overhead-band.com/
http://www.spocksbeard.com/ http://www.bigbigtrain.com/ http://flyingcolorsmusic.com/ http://oblivionsun.com/ and https://www.facebook.com/perim.andre?fref=ts
As always, send questions, suggestions or comments to progsquatch@gmail.com. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit our Prog-Watch Facebook page. (Please give us a like while you are there!)
This week we have the Son Of Prog-Squatch, Paul Rowsick, in the guest host seat for a look at a band he and Dad talked about way back on the third ever episode of Prog-Watch---Moon Safari! This time the guys dig a little deeper into one of the band's finest albums, the double disc entitled “Bloomjud”. But first, they play some music from an interesting American group called the Tea Club, who have three albums to their name and a fourth soon on the way.
For more information on this week's artists, you can visit:
http://www.theteaclub.net/ and
http://www.moonsafari.se/
As always, send questions, suggestions or comments to progsquatch@gmail.com. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit our Prog-Watch Facebook page. If you have a Prog band and are looking to maybe break into “the big league”, contact us to get on our Watch List! (We just might play you on the show, and who knows, it might lead to your big break!)
Another great variety show, full of awesome Prog from Manning, Rocket Scientists, Nick Magnus, Spock's Beard, Cirrus Bay and Yak!
For more information on this week's artists, you can visit:
http://www.guymanning.com/
http://www.thetank.com/
http://www.magnus-music.com/
http://www.spocksbeard.com/
http://www.cirrusbay.com/ and
http://www.yaksongs.com/
As always send questions, suggestions or comments to progsquatch@gmail.com. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit our Prog-Watch Facebook page. Also, if you have a Prog band and are looking to maybe break into “the big league”, contact us to get on our Watch List! (We just might play you on the show, and who knows, it might lead to your big break!)
This week the Squatch welcomes a new person to the co-host chair---friend and fellow Prog aficionado Terry DeLien! In the first half of the show, the guys discuss and play some great music from UK project Cosmograf! In part two T-squared (Tony & Terry) put the spotlight on Swedish Prog legends Änglagård! There's a lot of great, epic Prog music in this one, so don't miss it!
For more information on this week's artists, you can visit:
http://www.cosmograf.com/ and
http://www.anglagardrecords.com/
As always, send questions, suggestions or comments to progsquatch@gmail.com. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit our Prog-Watch Facebook page. If you have a Prog band and are looking to maybe break into “the big league”, contact us to get on our Watch List! (We just might play you on the show, and who knows, it might lead to your big break!)
Another great variety show! This time with Theo, Deluge Grander, Gandalf's Fist, Anekdoten & Toundra!
As always, send questions, suggestions or comments to progsquatch@gmail.com. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit our Prog-Watch Facebook page. If you have a Prog band and are looking to maybe break into “the big league”, contact us to get on our Watch List! (We just might play you on the show, and who knows, it might lead to your big break!)
Dave is back this week for a look at two really great Prog acts! First up is the unique Prog stylings of IO Earth, a UK project headed by Dave Cureton and Adam Gough, who handle much of the composing and instrumental chores. They have a wide variety of influences and weave them together in a sophisticated and compelling manner which can only be called “Prog”! In the second half of the show, the guys go back for more of the great Steve Hackett! Don't miss it...because as Dave may have said “It's Steve Hackett!”
For more information on this week's artists, you can visit:
http://www.ioearth.com/ and
http://www.hackettsongs.com/
As always, send questions, suggestions or comments to progsquatch@gmail.com. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit our Prog-Watch Facebook page. If you have a Prog band and are looking to maybe break into “the big league”, contact us to get on our Watch List! (We just might play you on the show, and who knows, it might lead to your big break!)
This week's episode is another great Variety Show! This time we revisit Ian Boddy (in collaboration with Markus Reuter), IQ, Knight Area, and Philhelmon! On the Watch List we also have a great band out of Sweden called Miosis, who are putting the finishing touches on their second album but still looking for a record company to release it! They have some good stuff, so if you know any record company execs, maybe you can put in a good word for them! (Seriously, they are quite good, and hopefully someone out there can help!)
For more information on this week's artists, you can visit:
http://www.din.org.uk/ or http://www.ianboddy.com/ ;
http://www.iq-hq.co.uk/ ;
http://www.knightarea.com/ ;
https://philhelmon.bandcamp.com/ ;
and http://www.miosis.se/
As always, send questions, suggestions or comments to progsquatch@gmail.com. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit our Prog-Watch Facebook page. If you have a Prog band and are looking to maybe break into “the big league”, contact us to get on our Watch List! (We just might play you on the show, and who knows, it might lead to your big break!)
In the first part of this show, Tony and Dave take a look at U.S. band Shadow Circus! Guitarist and keyboardist John Fontana and vocalist David Bobick front this group which is sure to appeal to fans of traditional, Symphonic Prog and Heavy Prog! John also provided answers to the standard Prog-Watch questions, so you can get a little insight into the creative processes that lead to the music of Shadow Circus. In the second half of the show, the guys begin coverage on another Prog legend, Jon Anderson! Jon is, of course, the classic voice of Yes, and has more than 20 solo albums to his name! On this show the guys cover his first two albums---the epic “Olias Of Sunhillow” and his second “Song Of Seven”. Obviously, more of Jon will follow!
For more information on this week's artists, you can visit:
http://www.shadowcircusmusic.com/ and
http://jonanderson.com/
As always, send questions, suggestions or comments to progsquatch@gmail.com. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit our Prog-Watch Facebook page. If you have a Prog band and are looking to maybe break into “the big league”, contact us to get on our Watch List! (We just might play you on the show, and who knows, it might lead to your big break!)
Join the Squatch for the third great variety show this season (and yes, the Squatch is going solo this time, as Dave's personal life is a little busy right now). But with no one to gab to, the big guy actually keeps the talk to a minimum and plays more music! The great artists represented in this episode include Ayreon, Comedy Of Errors, Dave Kerzner, Sky Architect, and White Willow! There's also a Watch List entry from a great Brazilian artist by the name of Eduardo Aguillar!
For more information on this week's artists, you can visit:
http://www.arjenlucassen.com/
http://comedyoferrors.org/
http://www.davekerzner.com/
http://www.skyarchitect.com/
http://www.whitewillow.info/
and
www.facebook.com/aguillareduardo
As always, send questions, suggestions or comments to progsquatch@gmail.com. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit our Prog-Watch Facebook page. If you have a Prog band and are looking to maybe break into “the big league”, contact us to get on our Watch List! (We just might play you on the show, and who knows, it might lead to your big break!)
In the first part of this episode the guys look at Oblivion Sun, a group which arose from the ashes of the legendary Happy The Man. (Happy The Man was, of course, at more than one point in their career being considered as a backing band by none other than Peter Gabriel, so how's that for a recommendation?!?!) With two original Happy The Man alums, Oblivion Sun naturally plays a jazzy, interesting, eclectic brand of Prog like their predecessor. In part two of this great episode, the guys embark on coverage of one of the greatest Prog acts to come out in the last 20 or 30 years---the mighty Flower Kings of Sweden! We will not waste any more words telling you how great these guys are. Just tune in an you will find out!
For more information on this week's artists, you can visit:
www.oblivionsun.com/
www.flowerkings.se/
As always, send questions, suggestions or comments to progsquatch@gmail.com. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit our Prog-Watch Facebook page. If you have a Prog band and are looking to maybe break into “the big league”, contact us to get on our Watch List! (We just might play you on the show, and who knows, it might lead to your big break!)
The second variety show! The guys (try to) talk less and play more music! On this episode: District 97 with John Wetton, Karmakanic, The D Project, and Black Bonzo! Plus, the Squatch sneaks in one from his own project Novus (call it a Watch List submission)!
For more information on this week's artists, you can visit:
www.district97.net/
www.reingoldmusic.com/
www.thedproject.com/
www.facebook.com/pages/Black-Bonzo/
novus3.bandcamp.com/releases/
As always, send questions, suggestions or comments to progsquatch@gmail.com. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit our Prog-Watch Facebook page. If you have a Prog band and are looking to maybe break into “the big league”, contact us to get on our Watch List! (We just might play you on the show, and who knows, it might lead to your big break!)
So what do you get when you combine the talents of two of the most famous Morses in rock (Neal of Spock's Beard & Transatlantic and Steve of Dixie Dregs, Kansas, & Deep Purple) and mix in some Mike Portnoy (Dream Theater) on drums, Dave LaRue (Dixie Dregs) on bass, and Casey McPherson (Alpha Rev) on guitar and vocals? A Prog super-group know as Flying Colors, of course! The first half of this week's show is dedicated to examining the two albums from said super-group. In part two, Tony and Dave give you a taste of a very interesting and different kind of project called Looking-Glass Lantern. The brain child of Graham Dunnington, a multi-instrumentalist with a PhD in Victorian Popular Music, LGL's specialty is Victorian/Prog adaptations of the adventures of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famous detective, Sherlock Holmes! Prog fans who also have an interest in classic literature will not want to miss this! Plus, we finally get to hear Dave's famous Steve Howe story!
For more information on this week's artists, you can visit:
http://www.flyingcolorsmusic.com/
http://lookingglasslantern.com/
As always, send questions, suggestions or comments to progsquatch@gmail.com. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit our Prog-Watch Facebook page.
The first of a new type of show that the boys will be tossing at you every other week or so---a variety show! In this kind of episode, the guys will (try to) talk less and play more music! The first show they've lined up with this format is a doozy, with no less than five great artists represented: Dave Kerzner, Grand Tour, Mystery, Sound Of Contact and Armed Cloud! That's a lot of great PROG!
For more information on this week's artists, you can visit:
http://www.davekerzner.com/
http://grandtourmusic.org/
http://www.therealmystery.com/
http://www.soundofcontact.com/
https://www.facebook.com/ArmedCloud
As always, send questions, suggestions or comments to progsquatch@gmail.com. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit our Prog-Watch Facebook page. If you have a Prog band and are looking to maybe break into “the big league”, contact us to get on our Watch List! (We just might play you on the show, and who knows, it might lead to your big break!)
Another great show! First, Tony and Dave start out with a taste of Nick Magnus! A former member of the Enid and long-time Steve Hackett sideman, Nick has produced a handful of interesting albums over the years, with notable guests such as Steve and John Hackett, Geoff Whitehorn (Procol Harum, Whitesnake), Pete Hicks (Steve Hackett Band) and Anthony Patterson (ReGenesis), to name a few! Then the guys look at a few more great albums from the Spock's Beard catalog, featuring a few of the last couple that featured Neal Morse! (The great double concept album “Snow” still awaits, along with a wealth of post-Neal material.) And on the Watch List: a great band from the Seattle area called Autumn Electric, who are currently touring in support of their great debut album “Star Being Earth Child”! (Check out their album for FREE on bandcamp, and if they are coming to your town, help support them! They're really good, but we all know how tough the music biz is these days!)
For more information on this week's artists, you can visit:
http://www.magnus-music.com/
http://www.spocksbeard.com/
and
https://autumnelectric.bandcamp.com/
As always, send questions, suggestions or comments to progsquatch@gmail.com. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit our Prog-Watch Facebook page. If you have a Prog band and are looking to maybe break into “the big league”, contact us to get on our Watch List! (We just might play you on the show, and who knows, it might lead to your big break!)
This week's show comes out swinging with Tony and Dave sounding a little punchy, and then hitting you with the Heavy Prog stylings of Anekdoten! Hailing from Sweden, these guys (and gal) play a heavy, syncopated, dynamic, eclectic kind of music that may remind you of some of the heavier mid period King Crimson! To finish things off, the boys get into something they have been hinting at for weeks---coverage of the great Prog icon, Steve Hackett! His first three albums are examined and sampled, in what is only one of many installments to come! (The guy only has 30+ albums!)
For more information on this week's artists, you can visit:
http://www.anekdoten.se/
and
http://www.hackettsongs.com/
As always, send questions, suggestions or comments to progsquatch@gmail.com. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit our Prog-Watch Facebook page. If you have a Prog band and are looking to maybe break into “the big league”, contact us to get on our Watch List! (We just might play you on the show, and who knows, it might lead to your big break!)
This week's show kicks off with the remainder of the interview with Abel Ganz's vocalist and guitarist, Stuart “Mick” MacFarlane. Mick even breaks out his acoustic and sings a snippet of one of the first tunes he ever wrote---and again, you can only hear it here on Prog-Watch! Following the interview, the guys play one of Mick's favorites from the latest Abel Ganz album released last year, an epic entitled “Unconditional”. In part two of the show, Tony and Dave look at a relatively new group from the Netherlands, called Sky Architect. These guys blend Symphonic and Heavy Prog elements in a manner which is sure to please fans of either sub-genre!
For more information on this week's artists, you can visit:
www.abelganz.com/content/
and
http://www.skyarchitect.com/
As always send questions, suggestions or comments to progsquatch@gmail.com. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit our Prog-Watch Facebook page. Also, if you have a Prog band and are looking to maybe break into “the big league”, contact us to get on our Watch List! (We just might play you on the show, and who knows, it might lead to your big break!)
This week Tony and Dave start things off with Karmakanic! This is a project from the Flower Kings family, with Jonas Reingold of the Kings at the helm. The guys cover the first two albums “Entering The Spectra” and “Wheel Of Life”, both of which featured lots of guest appearances by fellow Flower Kings alumni. If you like the Kings, you are going to like Karmakanic! In the second part of the show the boys begin coverage on the last couple of albums by Abel Ganz, and boy are they some good albums! Plus, they have some great interview material from current vocalist and guitarist, Stuart “Mick” MacFarlane!
For more information on this week's artists, you can visit:
www.reingoldmusic.com/
and
www.abelganz.com/content/
As always send questions, suggestions or comments to progsquatch@gmail.com. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit our Prog-Watch Facebook page. Also, if you have a Prog band and are looking to maybe break into “the big league”, contact us to get on our Watch List! (We just might play you on the show, and who knows, it might lead to your big break!)
This week's episode kicks off with a few more fascinating tunes and the remainder of the interview material from the enigmatic Hugh Bonar (HB3)! Then Tony and Dave give you a little taste of a fresh American Prog act called District 97! These guys blend heavy, intricate instrumental sections (a la Liquid Tension Experiment and the like) with the brilliant, at times jazz-tinged vocals of an American Idol finalist, Leslie Hunt! A truly interesting blend! Finally, they leave you with the awesome stylings of guitar and studio wizard Alek Darson on the Watch List! And you definitely want to watch for this guy!
For more information on this week's artists, you can visit:
www.reverbnation.com/hb3;
www.district97.net;
www.alekdarson.com;
As always send questions, suggestions or comments to progsquatch@gmail.com. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit our Prog-Watch Facebook page. Also, if you have a Prog band and are looking to maybe break into “the big league”, contact us to get on our Watch List! (We just might play you on the show, and who knows, it might lead to your big break!)
In the first half of this week's episode, Tony and Dave go back to the first band that was ever featured on Prog-Watch---Overhead, from Finland! They play a brand-new cut from the band and also a song by their spectacular guitarist (and all around nice guy) Jaakko Kettunen! In part two, they look at an enigmatic performer, America's own Hugh Bonar! Hugh is pretty much the epitome of Prog, with a body of work that runs the gamut from full-blown Prog albums to solo piccolo bass excursions! The guys also gain a little more insight into the varied career of Hugh, through some exclusive interview material!
For more information on this week's artists, you can visit:
www.overhead-band.com
www.jkettunen.bandcamp.com
www.reverbnation.com/hb3
As always send questions, suggestions or comments to progsquatch@gmail.com. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit our Prog-Watch Facebook page. Also, if you have a Prog band and are looking to maybe break into “the big league”, contact us to get on our Watch List! (We just might play you on the show, and who knows, it might lead to your big break!)
To kick things off this week, the Squatch and Diamond Dave re-visit a band which was featured on Prog-Watch last summer---the spectacular UK group Big Big Train! The guys play and discuss a couple of great, longer pieces from their albums “The Difference Machine” and “The Underfall Yard”. Then, in the second half of the show, buckle up for a wicked ride with Dutch guitarist Mark Bogert! Mark was formerly with Penny's Twisted Flavour and is the current lead guitarist in a band we featured a few months back called Knight Area. He has just released his first solo album of guitar-driven instrumental music, “A Story In Parts”, which is the focus of our feature.
For more information on Big Big Train you can visit bigbigtrain.com
For more information on Mark Bogert you can visit knightarea.com/mark-bogert
As always send questions, suggestions or comments to progsquatch@gmail.com. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit our Prog-Watch Facebook page. Also, if you have a Prog band and are looking to maybe break into “the big league”, contact us to get on our Watch List! (We just might play you on the show, and who knows, it might lead to your big break!)
In the first part of this week's episode the Squatch and Diamond Dave continue their coverage of the great Rocket Scientists, culminating in a track from their latest album, Refuel! In the second half of the show, they shift gears and move on to the folky Prog sounds of U.S. Band Cirrus Bay! (Fans of Gandalf's Fist should love these guys!)
For more information on Rocket Scientists you can visit myspace.com/rocketscientistsband or thetank.com
For more information on Cirrus Bay you can go to cirrusbay.com
As always send questions, suggestions or comments to progsquatch@gmail.com. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit our Prog-Watch Facebook page. Also, if you have a Prog band and are looking to maybe break into “the big league”, contact us to get on our Watch List! (We just might play you on the show, and who knows, it might lead to your big break!)
In the first part of this week's episode the Squatch and Diamond Dave feature music by Machines Dream, a Canadian Prog outfit from Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada . Craig West, vocalist, guitarist, and composer for the band also provides some excellent interview material! In the second part of the show, the guys begin coverage of the Rocket Scientists, which features Erik Norlander, Mark McCrite, and Don Schiff. This week they cover the first three studio releases from the Rocket Scientists. Coverage will continue in the first part of next week's show, finishing up with a track from their newly released album “Refuel”!
For more information on Machines Dream visit facebook.com/MachinesDream
For more information on Rocket Scientists you can visit myspace.com/rocketscientistsband or thetank.com
As always send questions, suggestions or comments to bigsquatch@verizon.net. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit our Prog-Watch Facebook page. Also, if you have a Prog band and are looking to maybe break into “the big league”, contact us to get on our Watch List! (We just might play you on the show, and who knows, it might lead to your big break!)
In the first part of this week's episode Tony and Dave feature music by ARC, a collaboration between UK electronic musician and composer Ian Boddy and Mark Shreeve from the UK Progressive Electronic group Red Shift. Fans of vintage Tangerine Dream will love this stuff! In the second part of the show, the guys have some exclusive new music from Grand Tour, a sort of Scottish Prog “Super-Group” featuring Joe Cairney and Bruce Levick (currently of Comedy Of Errors), Hew Montgomery (of Abel Ganz fame), and Mark Spalding (formerly of Comedy Of Errors). This stuff is really good, and you get to hear it FIRST on Prog-Watch!
For more information on Ian Boddy and his various collaborations visit www.din.org.uk or www.ianboddy.com
For more information on Grand Tour you can visit www.grandtourmusic.org
As always send questions, suggestions or comments to bigsquatch@verizon.net. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit our Prog-Watch Facebook page. If you have a Prog band and are looking to maybe break into “the big league”, you should also contact us to get on our Watch List! (We just might play you on the show, and who knows, it might lead to your big break!)
This week the guys take a little break and leave you with a look back at some of the great bands that they featured during the first season of Prog-Watch, including Comedy Of Errors, Haken, Big Big Train, and Overhead. But it's not just a look back, since it also lays some groundwork for the next few weeks, where they will be featuring new music from Overhead and their amazing guitar player, Jaakko Kettunen, more Big Big Train, and a band called Grand Tour, which features members of Comedy of Errors and Abel Ganz! So relax and enjoy a look back at some of the finer moments from Season One, and get ready, because they have some great stuff already in the works for the new season beginning the first week of 2015! Oh, and Happy New Year!
In the beginning of this week's show the Squatch and Diamond Dave look at the early career of Scottish Neo-Prog band Abel Ganz, which featured the keyboard work of one Hew Montgomery. (We'll be talking more about Hew next month, when we preview music from his latest project, Grand Tour, which features members of another Scottish band we've covered, Comedy Of Errors. You'll hear it FIRST HERE, since the album isn't officially released until later next month!) In the second part of the show, the boys feature an interesting Norwegian band called White Willow, which is unlike anything you've ever heard on this show before. Moody, Progressive, and Folky with Symphonic touches---interesting to say the very least. And in keeping with the season, they leave you with a holiday offering from their friends in Gandalf's Fist. The track is called “The Snows They Melt The Soonest” and if you like it, you can download it FREE from their bandcamp site!
“...But I heard him exclaim ere he drove out of sight, Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good night!”
Since we last covered them (way back in our second episode!) Haken has released an excellent EP called “Restoration”. In the beginning of this week's show the Squatch and Diamond Dave play some music from that EP. In the second part of the show, they put the spotlight on Canadian band Mystery which eventually featured Benoit David (who went on to front Yes during the “Fly From Here” era). This week they cover the first two Mystery releases, with the Benoit David era to follow at a later date. And finally, a great Watch List submission from an Eastern U.S. band called In The Presence Of Wolves from their recently released album “Thalassus”. If you like your Prog HEAVY you don't want to miss these guys! They rock!
And don't forget: if you have a Prog band (or know someone who does) you could have your music featured on our Watch List! Send your submissions or links (with a short bio) to the Squatch via e-mail at bigsquatch@verizon.net, or post to the Prog-Watch Facebook page. Also, if you like what we are doing, give us a “like” on Facebook, or follow the Squatch on Twitter @ProgSquatch.
This week the Squatch and Diamond Dave start off with more great stuff from one of America's biggest Prog acts from recent decades---Spock's Beard, of course---playing music from their second and third albums to be more specific! In the second half of the show they dig a little deeper into the fantastic solo career of keyboardist extraordinaire Erik Norlander!
For more information on Spock's Beard visit http://www.spocksbeard.com/
For more on Erik Norlander visit http://thetank.com/
And don't forget: if you have a Prog band (or know someone who does) you could have your music featured on our Watch List! Send your submissions or links (with a short bio) to the Squatch via e-mail at bigsquatch@verizon.net, or post to the Prog-Watch Facebook page. Also, if you like what we are doing, give us a “like” on Facebook, or follow the Squatch on Twitter @ProgSquatch.
In the first half of this week's show, the Squatch and Diamond Dave discuss and play music from Deluge Grander, a U.S. Prog act headed by Dan Britton. In the second half of the show, they put the spotlight on the first album by Spock's Beard, the legendary Prog outfit founded by brothers Neal and Alan Morse in the mid-1990's. Coverage of the early years of Spock's Beard will carry on into the next episode.
And don't forget: if you have a Prog band (or know someone who does) you could have your music featured on our Watch List! Send your submissions or links (with a short bio) to the Squatch via e-mail at bigsquatch@verizon.net, or post to the Prog-Watch Facebook page. Also, if you like what we are doing, give us a “like” on Facebook, or follow the Squatch on Twitter @ProgSquatch.
Last week the guys teased about some exclusive live material from Gandalf's Fist. This week you get to hear it, and boy is it worth the wait! The first song Dean Marsh ever wrote and a live in the studio version of Emerald Eyes from their second album! Plus, a couple more tracks from their first few albums. Can you believe this show is FREE? But wait, there's more! In the second half of the show, Tony and Dave give you a taste of a really cool Swedish band that more of you should be listening to, called Black Bonzo. Trust us, these guys are good!
And don't forget: if you have a Prog band (or know someone who does) you could have your music featured on our Watch List! Send your submissions or links (with a short bio) to the Squatch via e-mail at bigsquatch@verizon.net, or post to the Prog-Watch Facebook page. Also, if you like what we are doing, give us a “like” on Facebook, or follow the Squatch on Twitter @ProgSquatch.
This week the Squatch and Diamond Dave L. dig a little deeper into the catalog of a band they previously covered, Nine Stones Close! In the second half of the show, they begin coverage of the UK sensation Gandalf's Fist, including a track from their fantastic new album (A Forest Of Fey) and some Q & A with Dean Marsh, one of the original founding members of the band! Coverage of Gandalf's Fist will continue next week, with the conclusion of the Q & A with Dean, and two live tracks recorded EXCLUSIVELY for Prog-Watch! Don't miss any of this!
And don't forget: if you have a Prog band (or know someone who does) you could have your music featured on our Watch List! Send your submissions or links (with a short bio) to the Squatch via e-mail at bigsquatch@verizon.net, or post to the Prog-Watch Facebook page. Also, if you like what we are doing, give us a “like” on Facebook, or follow the Squatch on Twitter @ProgSquatch!
This week the Squatch and Diamond Dave L. examine some of the solo career of keyboardist extraordinaire Erik Norlander, and go back to the well for some more great Ayreon! Also, they play the first song in our new feature (the Watch List) from Danish band Mythery! And keep those submissions coming! Get your band worldwide exposure on the Prog-Watch Watch List! (And if you don't have a band, tell a friend who does!)
This week the Squatch and Diamond Dave L. put the spotlight on a great Dutch band called Knight Area! They trace the history of the band up through their just-released "Hyperdrive" album, and even do a little Q&A with Gerben Klazinga, main composer and keyboardist for the band! This is a good one! (But aren't they all?)
As always, the Squatch would like to invite listeners to send questions, comments, and suggestions. (Please keep them polite!) Contact the big guy via e-mail at bigsquatch@verizon.net or post to the Prog-Watch facebook page. Also, if you like what we are doing, stop by and give us a “like” on Facebook. You can also follow the Squatch on twitter @ProgSquatch.
In Episode 107, the Squatch and co-host Steve Luttig introduced you to the influential UK "neo-prog" band, IQ. In that episode the boys covered the output of the band in the 20th century. In this episode they cover IQ in the 21st century, including material from their latest, the excellent double disc, “The Road Of Bones”! Plus, listener e-mail and new things on the horizon! Don't miss it!
As always, the Squatch would like to invite listeners to send questions, comments, and suggestions. (Please keep them polite!) Contact the big guy via e-mail at bigsquatch@verizon.net or post to either the Prog-Watch or Prog-Squatch facebook pages. Also, if you like what we are doing, stop by and give us a “like” on Facebook. You can also follow the Squatch on twitter @ProgSquatch.
The D Project is very much the brain child of Stephane Desbiens, founder and leader of Canadian Prog band “Sense.” When moonlighting in the D Project, Desbiens assembles a talented array of regular band mates (including the rhythm section of Matheu and Jean Gosselin) as well as guest “heavy-hitters” such as Sean Filkins (ex Big Big Train), Tomas Bodin (Flower Kings), Martin Orford (IQ) and Fred Schendel (Glass Hammer), to name a few! Join the Squatch and co-host Dave Luttig as they give you an overview of this interesting Prog outfit from the “Great White North”! As always, the Squatch would like to invite listeners to send questions, comments, and suggestions. (Please keep them polite!) Contact the big guy via e-mail at bigsquatch@verizon.net or post to either the Prog-Watch or Prog-Squatch facebook pages. Also, if you like what we are doing, stop by and give us a “like” on Facebook. You can also follow the Squatch on twitter @ProgSquatch.
It took Scottish band Comedy Of Errors more than 20 years to get their first album released! But Dave and the Squatch are glad they finally did, and they are sure you will be, too! With their sophisticated sound and their ability to write longer, engaging Prog “epics”, these guys should appeal to all Classic and Neo-Prog fans. And this week, Dave finally gets his wish---the guys play three songs that amount to almost 30 minutes of music! (Dave always says he likes the epics!)
As always, the Squatch would like to invite listeners to send questions, comments, and suggestions. (Please keep them polite!) Contact the big guy via e-mail at bigsquatch@verizon.net or post to either the Prog-Watch or Prog-Squatch facebook pages. Also, if you like what we are doing, stop by and give us a “like” on Facebook. You can also follow the Squatch on twitter @ProgSquatch.
The brain-child of Dutch guitar virtuoso and composer Arjen Anthony Lucassen, Ayreon is a band that all Proggers should appreciate! The guest lists on the albums read like a “who's who” of Prog and European heavy rock, which is a testimony to the quality of this stuff! The albums themselves also have themes in sci-fi/fantasy and are often arranged like operas with different singers voicing different characters in the story arc! And the music blends many different genres, from folk, to electronic, to hard rock and heavy metal, all in a manner that can only be described as “Prog”! Did you get all that? You NEED to check out Ayreon---there is so much going on, on so many different levels!
As always, the Squatch would like to invite listeners to send questions, comments, and suggestions. (Please keep them polite!) Contact the big guy via e-mail at bigsquatch@verizon.net or post to either the Prog-Watch or Prog-Squatch facebook pages. Also, if you like what we are doing, stop by and give us a “like” on Facebook. You can also follow the Squatch on twitter @ProgSquatch.
Prog-Watch Episode 107 – IQ (Part 1):
This week we feature the music of the legendary U.K. band, IQ! Many of the bands we have featured so far on Prog-Watch have listed IQ as an influence, and on this episode you can begin to get an idea why. With a career spanning more than 30 years, IQ was truly one of the first bands to pick up the Prog torch and carry it forward through the dark days of the early 80s, when it seemed like punk and new wave might kill off our favorite musical genre. Along with Marillion, Twelfth Night, Pallas and a few other contemporaries, they were among the first bands to be called “Neo-Prog”. Join the Squatch and his co-host, Steve Luttig, as they look at the 20th century output from this seminal band. And look for another show down the road in which we will examine their 21st century output, because these guys are still at it, and like a fine wine, they have gotten even better with age!
As always, the Squatch would like to invite listeners to send questions, comments, and suggestions. (Please keep them polite!) Contact the big guy via e-mail at bigsquatch@verizon.net or post to either the Prog-Watch or Prog-Squatch facebook pages.
Prog-Watch Episode 106 – Bigelf:
So, what do you get when you take one part Beatles, one part Uriah Heep, and one part Black Sabbath? Why, BIGELF, of course! With roots in late 60's Psychedelia and early 70's Heavy Prog, Bigelf has a unique sound which could best be described as “heavy retro”. Ethereal vocals float above heavy beds of organ and Mellotron, with muscular guitar work that might remind you of Tony Iommi in places! Join the Squatch and co-host Dave Luttig as they examine this singular and interesting American band.
As always, the Squatch would like to invite listeners to send questions, comments, and suggestions. (Please keep them polite!) Contact the big guy via e-mail at bigsquatch@verizon.net or post to either the Prog-Watch or Prog-Squatch facebook pages.
Named after a stone circle on Harthill Moor in the UK, Nine Stones Close can take you on an emotional roller coaster ride! The band is very much the brain child of Adrian Jones, a singer and guitarist whose playing may remind you a little of one David Gilmour. Join the Squatch and his co-host Dave Luttig as they take you on a journey that begins on a slow burn and progresses into a pulse-pounding frenzy of ripping guitars. Guitar driven Prog at its finest! Don't miss it!
As always, the Squatch would like to invite listeners to send questions, comments, and suggestions. (Please keep them polite!) Contact the big guy via e-mail at bigsquatch@verizon.net or post to either the Prog-Watch or Prog-Squatch facebook pages.
All Aboard! Get ready for a great ride this week as the Squatch and his co-host Steve Luttig bring you music from a fantastic UK band called Big Big Train! Winners of the Breakthrough Award at the 2013 Progressive Music Awards held in Kew Gardens in London (hope they were watching out for Giant Hogweeds!) these guys have been making some big noise in their home country, and are one of the best things the Squatch has unearthed in recent years. Aside from a number of great tunes from the band, there are also some interesting tidbits about Ant Phillips of Genesis fame, and Tom Keating, infamous art restorer and forger! Plus, a digression on the Mellotron! Don't miss it!
As always, the Squatch would like to invite listeners to send questions, comments, and suggestions. (Please keep them polite!) Contact the big guy via e-mail at bigsquatch@verizon.net or post to either the Prog-Watch or Prog-Squatch facebook pages.
This week's band is Moon Safari from Sweden. They have a lighter sound than the band's from the previous two episodes, with a greater emphasis on fantastic vocal harmonies. Also this week: Son-of-Prog-Squatch, Paul Rowsick, takes the co-host's seat and gives a younger man's perspective on the band. Dad and son talk Moon Safari, Prog, and great parent-to-child songs, and send a shout-out to Paul's twin brother, George, who has just re-enlisted in the Army. Once again, the Squatch would like to invite listeners to send questions, comments, and suggestions. (Please keep them polite!) Contact the big guy via e-mail at bigsquatch@verizon.net or post to either the Prog-Watch or Prog-Squatch facebook pages.
This week the Squatch puts the spotlight on the heavy, symphonic, eclectic progressive stylings of UK band Haken! He also livens things up with his first guest host, Dave Luttig. So look for more analysis of the music, and a freer, more conversational approach, with more banter and humor. The Squatch would also like to invite listeners to send questions, comments, and suggestions. (Please keep them polite!) Contact the big guy via e-mail at bigsquatch@verizon.net or post to either the Prog-Watch or Prog-Squatch facebook pages. (While you're there give him a like, if you would! Squatches are actually quite contemplative and sensitive creatures!)
Meet your host-who-is-the-most, Big Tony Rowsick, alias the Prog-Squatch. In this episode the big, hairy host goes over some basic ground rules for the show, and discusses some hallmarks of Progressive Rock music. Then things get cooking with the music of Finnish band OVERHEAD! Their eclectic sound may remind you of some classic Prog acts such as King Crimson, Genesis, and Jethro Tull in places, yet these guys incorporate said influences into a new and vital sound, with contrasting light and heavy passages, interesting song structures and tempos, virtuoso performances, and all the things you love about Prog!