Feelings of weariness and fatigue invariably descend on us all. The relentless grind of daily life, the struggle to make ends meet, the constant battle with its seeming injustices, inherent unfai...
https://theprogressiveaspect.net/blog/2024/09/24/esp-project-silent-waves-astral-dreams/
Meditations on death, time and mortality are not exactly unfamiliar territory in the prog universe, but surely few are as hauntingly beautiful as Memento Vivere. This is the second album from Hav...
https://theprogressiveaspect.net/blog/2024/09/23/haven-of-echoes-memento-vivere/
French composer and guitarist Gabriel Keller returns with his second album, Hope Despite Everything, showing his poetic and often powerful progressive rock to great effect. As with his 2022 debut...
https://theprogressiveaspect.net/blog/2024/09/22/gabriel-keller-hope-despite-everything/
About six weeks ago, I met up with David Cross Band co-founder and keyboard player Sheila Maloney in a well-known meeting place/pub at the back of Kings Cross station for a good old natter. Read ...
https://theprogressiveaspect.net/blog/2024/09/21/sheila-maloney/
The Camden Club, London Sunday, 8th September 2024 MARIA FAUSTA From David Cross’s Italian connections comes this engaging solo artist, playing her electronically enhanced violin, piano and syn...
https://theprogressiveaspect.net/blog/2024/09/21/david-cross-band-maria-fausta/
The first I heard of Circuline was when they were added to the roster at RoSFest in 2016. Because I was unfamiliar with the band, I dutifully bought their debut album, Return, to see what they we...
https://theprogressiveaspect.net/blog/2024/09/20/circuline-c-o-r-e/
Seven Arts, Leeds Saturday, 14th September 2024 A double header of the John Hackett Band and The Blackheart Orchestra. Seeing just one of them, on their own, would have justified all the travelli...
https://theprogressiveaspect.net/blog/2024/09/19/john-hackett-band-the-blackheart-orchestra/
Stoller Hall, Manchester Friday, 30th August 2024 Rickie Lee Jones became an overnight sensation following the release of her debut, eponymous, album in 1979. Chuck E’s in Love, her jazz-influe...
https://theprogressiveaspect.net/blog/2024/09/18/rickie-lee-jones/
Nick Magnus is certainly no stranger to the progressive rock scene. After a five-year break since his last studio album Catharsis there is newcomer A Strange Inheritance, a concept album with an ...
https://theprogressiveaspect.net/blog/2024/09/16/nick-magnus-a-strange-inheritance/
Japan has the greatest proportion of jazz lovers than any other country in the world. As Michael Caine never said, not a lot of people know that. The land of the rising sun has also bred a substa...
https://theprogressiveaspect.net/blog/2024/09/15/yusuke-shima-silent-jazz-case-5/