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Breaking News and information from the Progressive Rock World 

 

 

RECENT ADDITIONS

 

Hello Madness 

Mistheria 

Heaven's Cry 

Mark 1

Tadashi Goto 

Fromuz

 Hyacintus

 Glass

The New Grove Project

Tony Banks 

Ragnarök

Osada Vida 

Mindgames 

Kopecky 

The Source

 Waterclime

The Black Noodle Project 

Prymary

Paatos

Transatlantic

Amarok

Kinetic Element

Mike Visaggio

Adrian Belew

Peter Gee 

IQ

Royal Hunt 

Ricocher

Echoes

Galadriel 

The Night Watch

The Watch 

Different Trains

Mandalaband III

Ars Nova 

Various Artists

Parallel or 90 Degrees

 Montechiari Project

Solar 

The Urbane

Shadowland

Jadis 

Tracy Hitchings

Arena

Black Bonzo 

Big Big Train

Lost World Band 

DeeExpus

Bigelf

Izz 

Acid Rain 

 

 

FAVOURITES

 

MANGROVE

 

KARFAGEN

 

GLASS HAMMER

 

THE REASONING

 

CREDO

 

MAGENTA

 

ERIK NORLANDER

 

LANA LANE

 

PENDRAGON

 

NEAL MORSE

 

ECHOLYN

 

IQ

 

KEN HENSLEY

 

NEMO

 

SALVA

 

PAR LINDH

 

CROSS

 

 

 

 

PROGRESSIVE LINKS

 

 

Ajalon

Alias Eye

Also Eden
Anekdoten

Antidepressive Delivery
Arena

Azureth

Believe

Big Big Train

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BrotherApe

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Camel
Caravan

Credo
Cross

Darwin's Radio

Dead Heroes Club

Dream Theater
Echolyn
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Enchant
Ezra
Fish
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Frogg Cafe

Galahad
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Grace

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Iluvatar

IQ
IZZ
Jadis

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Karfagen

Knight Area
Landmarq
Lana Lane
Land of Chocolate
Par Lindh
Lizette&

Arjen Lucassen

Magenta

Magic Pie

Mangrove

Mastermind

Metamorphosis

Millenium
Moongarden

Mostly Autumn

Neal Morse

Nemo
NoSound
Pallas
Pendragon

Pineapple Thief

Pink floyd

Porcupine Tree

Quidam

Riverside

RPWL
Salem Hill
Shakary
Salva
Spektrum
Spock's Beard

Sunchild
Tangerine Dream
Think Tank Media

The Reasoning

The Watch

Threshold

Tinyfish
Transatlantic

US

Uriah Heep
Yes

 

 

 


 

Karfagen - Solitary Sandpiper Journey

New Album from Karfagen to be released April 2010

Full details mp3s and track listings to follow shortly, it will be available as a pre release offer (£8.00inc P&P) from 1st March 2010

 

 


 

Classic Rock Presents Prog,  Magazine. 

February 2010

February 2010 Edition of the Progressive Rock magazine which includes a free CD with 12 tracks by various artists, The Merlin Band,  Steve Wilson, Steve Thorne, The Tangent, DeeExpus, Simon Davies, Lime Shark, Times Up, The Brimstone Solar Radiation Band, Lee Abraham, Jupiter Society and The Merlin Bird.

£8.99 + P&P  (Sold seperately to CDs/DVDs)

 

 


 

The Music of Mike Visaggio

Mike plays a five-keyboard setup and specializes in the Hammond B-3sound. His influences are the great prog rock acts of the 70's like Yes, Genesis, Asia and Emerson, Lake & Palmer.

Kinetic Element - Powered By Light. CD

(with Todd Russell on guitar)

£8.85 + P&P

Mike Visaggio - Starship Universe. CD

£8.85 + P&P

Buy both CDs

at a special price of £15.99 + P&P

 

 

 


 

Echoes - Nature | Existence. CD

"A mixture of prog-rock and math metal with a lot of post-rock, pop and industrial electronica thrown in for good measure." "It tells a story of love found and lost over the cyclical nature of life, where epilogues are the beggining of new experiences and breakups are a prologue to life shifting again."

£9.35 + P&P

 

 


 

Mandalaband III - BC Ancestors. CD

The third reincarnation of an extraordinary progressive rock band with a long history. it has been thirty years since their last album. Symphonic rock, with majestic themes and mysterious soundscapes and complex, multi-layered sounds.

£9.25 + P&P

 

 


 

Parallel or 90 Degrees - Jitters. CD

A commentary on the world financial slump at the decade's end, It's also Po90's hardest hitting,and most uncompromising record to date.

£9.50 + P&P

 

 


 

Amarok - Canciones De Los Mundos Perdidos. CD

Re Issue of their 1995 album with extra tracks

£9.25 + P&P

 

 


 

Black Bonzo - Operation Manual : The Guillotine Model Drama. CD

Heavy Rock N Roll with a simular style to Uriah Heep with a powerfull Hammond organ but slightly more guitar than the previous albums.

£9.75 + P&P

 

 

 

Big Big Train - The Underfall Yard. CD

Containing the band’s most ambitious and finely-crafted songs to date and is the first to feature new singer David Longdon.
Once again the band are joined on drums by Nick D’Virgilio (Spock’s Beard, Tears For Fears, Genesis) with Dave Gregory (XTC, Peter Gabriel), Francis Dunnery (It Bites) and Jem Godfrey (Frost*). more info

£8.85 + P&P for a limited period

 

 


 

Montechiari Project - How Was The Future ? CD 

Keyboard based melodic progressive rock influenced by Yes, Kansas, Camel, Marilion, Pink Floyd, Genesis, ELP, Rick Wakeman, Dream Theater, Tears For Fears, Toto, Phill Colins.

£9.70 + P&P

 

 


 

IZZ - The Darkened Room. CD

"IZZ’s new studio album, The Darkened Room, offers the listener music which is at once both adventurous yet still uniquely IZZ"

£8.85 + P&P

 

 


 

Eggs & Dogs - You Are. CD

The first album from Tomis Bodin's new band featuring Glenn Hughes with other members of Flower Kings.

£9.45 + P&P

 

 


 

Cross - The Thrill Of Nothingness. 2xCD

Finally the new release from Hansi Cross has arrived, delayed for 3 years because of Hansi's hearing problems and it was worth the wait! Superb Powerful Symphonic Progressive Rock at its best.

£14.99 + P&P

 

 

 

Sunchild - The Gnomon and The Invisble Line

Sunchild - The Invisible Line. CD and Bonus CDR

plus Sunchild - The Gnomon. 2xCD

£16.00 + 1xP&P

 

 


Latest Musea Releases

 

Various Artists (Tributes) - Tuonen Tytär II. 3xCD

Tributes to the Finnish Progressive rock movement of the Seventies, thirty-one bands contributed to this three-CDs project, more than three hours of music.

£23.99 + P&P*

 

 

Dante's Divine Comedy Part One - Inferno

 

The Epic Dante's Divine Comedy boxsets have become the most talked about Musea projects for many years,

£28.50 + P&P* each

Dante's Divine Comedy Part Two - Purgatorio

 *Pre-Order payment basis, and delivery would be within 21 days of payment.


The Future Kings Of England

Progressive / Ambient / Psychedelic Rock.

The Fate Of Old Mother Orvis The Viewing Point

£9.00 + P&P each

or £17.00 + 1xP&P for both


 

Lost World Band - Sound Source. CD

Unusual line-up: violin/guitars/drums/flute/keyboards. Unusual music too: this is a sort of dynamic instrumental chamber music, mixing classical influences and progressive ones

£9.50 + P&P

 

 


 

Glass Hammer - Three Cheers For The Broken-hearted. CD

The album reveals a leaner, tighter Glass Hammer; with Steve Babb and Fred Schendel once more handling nearly all of the instrumentation and one hundred percent of the writing and production. Susie Bogdanowicz is the solo vocalist on seven of the album’s eleven tracks. 

£9.00 + P&P

 

 


 

Brother Ape - Turbulence. CD

With powerfull progressive jazz-rock fusion, Brother Ape have developed a style that is something quite unique.

Read Review

Brother Ape talks about their new album 

£9.50 + P&P

 

 


 

Reviewed by Graham White

Transatlantic - The Whirlwind. 2xCD+DVD

Progressive Rock Supergroup featuring DREAM THEATER's Mike Portnoy, MARILLION's Pete Trewavas, THE FLOWER KINGS' Roine Stolt and Neal Morse (Ex-SPOCK'S BEARD).

"77-minute piece of music that is sure to satisfy the band's legions of fans that have patiently waited almost the entire decade for the reunion of these 4 musicians".

£14.95 + P&P 

 

 

 

Guilt Machine (Arjen Lucassen) - On This Perfect Day. CD+DVD Digipack

As Ayreon fans have come to expect from Arjen, the music of Guilt Machine ranges from dark and heavy to atmospheric and melancholic.

£13.50 + P&P

 

 

 

Steve Thorne - Into The Ether. CD

Featuing some of the best musicians Earth has to offer and is packed with eleven brilliant tracks "Lyrically it’s very personal in places and is a step up in recording quality and songwriting"

£9.50 + P&P

 

 

 

Neal Morse - So Many Roads Live In Europe. 3xCD

Recorded at some of the best venues in Europe, this contains breathtaking performances handpicked by Neal Morse from a series of concerts with his critically acclaimed European band.

£13.99 + P&P

 

 


 

Bigelf - Cheat The Gallows. CD

The Gallows plays like a tribute to heavy prog bands of the recent past. Mostly, it draws heavily from the hard rock giants from the 70's, including DEEP PURPLE and BLACK SABBATH.

£9.45 + P&P

 

 


 

DeeExpus - Half Way Home. CD

Influenced by Steve Wilson and Porcupine Tree you can see simularities but they are by no means a clone, powerfull melodic progressive rock at its best.

£8.95 + P&P

 

 


 

Neverness - The Measure Of Time. CD

This the bands third album marks a certain evolution, with compositions much more personal and mature. Mostly instrumental, the six long titles are also reinforced by the inclusion of English lyrics.

£9.50 + P&P

 

 


 

Prymary - The Enemy Inside. CD

Prymary transcending their past achievements and creating a collage of stories that are independent and yet united in the themes of self-destruction and dreams unfulfilled.

£9.15 + P&P

 

 


 

Ars Nova - Seventh Hell - La Vénus Endormie. CD

Stylish Symphonic Bombastic Progressive Prog Metal, an emblematic band of the Japanese Progressive rock scene. 

£9.50 + P&P

 

 


 

Jupiter Society - Terraform. CD

This is the sequel to "First contact/Last Warning" CD.
Featuring Carl Westholm (Carptree), Kulle and Marcus Jidell (Royal hunt) on lead guitars among others.

£9.35 + P&P

 

 


 

Factory of Dreams - A Strange Utopia. CD

Neo-Prog music which takes you on a voyage to mysterious places... a planet called Utopia…

£9.15 + P&P

 

 


 

Atmosfear - Zenith. CD

Accessable Atmospheric Progressive Metal

£9.15 + P&P

 

 


 

Yak - Journey Of The Yak. CD

Melodic music inspired by Classic Progressive Rock but with a new approach that gives them their own musical style.

£8.75 + P&P

 

 


 

Galahad - Sleepless In Phoenixville: Rosfest Live 2007 (2CD) (digipak)

Not edited at all, you literally get the whole concert including all the inter song waffle!! It is as it was, no editing, reparation or auto tune!!! Consequently, it captures the spirit and momentum of a triumphant debut Galahad concert in the USA.

£10.15 + P&P

 

 


 

Knight Area - Realm Of Shadows. CD

Neo Progressive Rock with a harder edged symphonic style in the vein of Arena, Marillion and Dream Theatre.

Its concept is a metaphysical journey that finds their music and themes taking a decidedly darker turn.

£9.40 + P&P

 

 

 

Ajalon - This Good Place. CD

Melodic progresssive rock with a theme that addresses the depravity and selfishness of the human condition and how it has lead to the downfall of the character, but it's never too late to turn from those ways.

£9.15 + P&P

 

 

 

The Aurora Project - Shadow Border. CD

Shadow Border is a no-nonsense progressive rock album. No storytellers or choirs, instead some firm guitar playing with a solid rhythm section and breathtaking vocals!

£9.40 + P&P

 

 


 

Sylvan - Force Of Gravity. CD

A seventy-minute musical opus with eleven gripping songs  that could not be more versatile.  It  is a unique album containing the roots of 70's progressive rock as well as the features of “new artrock“.

£9.15 + P&P

 

 


 

Karfagen - The Key to Perception. 2xCD

Antony Kalugin the talented 28 year old Ukrainian rock artist, who has created two of the most exciting musical projects of the last few years Sunchild and Hoggwash, now releases the definitive history to date of his initial project work Karfagen.

£9.50 + P&P

Full Track MP3 Downloads : Old Legends : Labyrinth

 

 


 

Porcupine Tree - The Incident. 2xCD Version 

With this album Porcupine Tree covers all the ground that it’s visited over the years, progressive rock, metal, psychedelia, vocal harmonies, and ambient.

£9.99 + P&P

 

 


Jan Akkerman

 Jan Akkerman, well known for being at the core of the 70's band FOCUS, and a lengthy solo career is interviewed by Tonny

 

 

CROSS

 Tonny Interviews 

Cross

Read it Here 

 

Big Big Train

 Greg Spawton

Big Big Train interview 

 

ECHOLYN

Echolyn Interview

Read all about it here

 

PHIDEAUX

Phideaux Xavier Interviewed by Tonny Larsen for Caerllysi Music

 

  

Yak

Yak interview

Read this thoughtful in-depth interview

 

Ennerdale 

(Andrea Stagni)

Information and mp3s

Update September 2009

   

Dead Heroes Club

An Interview, with Dead Heroes Club

Read it here

 

Aquaplanage

Aquaplanage Interviewed by Tonny

Read it here

 

US Interview

Tonny interviewsUS

Read it here

  

Mangrove Interview

Tonny interviews the Netherlands top Prog Artists

Read it here

 

Antony Kalugin 

 

The Invisible Line 

 
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Project CDs

and bundles page

 

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Will's project

Read all about it !  

 
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Exclusive video of Karfagen rehearsing 15.5mb, 9min video download

 

 

Rob Reed interview

Magenta's Rob Reed is interviewed by Tonny Larsen.

 

Read it here

 

 Tonny Larsen  

 

Tonny (from Progplanet) is sharing his news, interviews and reviews with us, contact him here.

 

Martin Orford  

Tonny Larsen interviews the top keyboardist

 

 

NEARfest  2008

Reviewed by Tam

 

 SPECIAL OFFERS

 Abel Ganz

Special Offer

while stocks last

Back From The Zone

£6.00 + P&P

or buy both

Shooting Albatross and  Back From The Zone

for £13.95 + P&P

for the two.

 

 

INTERVIEWS

 

An Interview

by Leo of Progplanet

with

Guy Manning 

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 Tam interviews

The Reasoning

Read it here also read a statement about their future ! here

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Tam interviews Abel Ganz and reviews thier gig Read it here

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Tam has a superb interview with the master of the Hammond

Ken Hensley 

Read it here

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Tam at the Subtacto Festival in Norway review & pictures

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Our man Tam interviews Gilbert Marshall of Magic Pie. Read it here

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 Tam interviews Nick Barrett of Pendragon. Read it here

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 Neal Morse is interviewed by Will of Caerllysi Read it here

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Steve Wilson is interviewed by Tam Read it here

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Leo of Progplanet Interviews Antony of Karfagen & Hoggwash Read it here

 

 

 

 

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