The Prog Aspect
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The Progressive Aspect (TPA) is a site dedicated to finding new and innovative music in all its guises, whilst acknowledging its long and rich history...
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Album Review: Gentle Giant – Playing The Fool: The Complete Live Experience. @GGIANTMUSIC ""It’s a fantastic set, and a live show like this deserves to be captured in full." Read @TheProgAspect review:
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Gentle Giant is a band that needs no introduction, so I won’t give them one. Instead, I’ll commend them for slowly getting me interested in their latter-day releases, as the series of remasters has…
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Prog For Peart - Day Two featuring Forgotten Gods | The Round Window | The Mighty Ra | Monkey Trial | Stuckfish | The Emerald Dawn | Sylvan. Read @TheProgAspect review:
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Abingdon United Football Club, Oxfordshire Saturday, 19th July 2025 Mark Cunningham and his team put on another successful charity prog rock festival at the Northcourt Music Venue at the Abingdon U…
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Prog For Peart: Day One: Foxpalmer | Buzz Elliott | Hats Of Gentlemen It's Adequate | Tavananna | Viper Soup Complex | The Wood Demons | Ghost Of The Machine | Retreat To Moscow | Dark Side Of The Wall | Amarok. Read @TheProgAspect review:
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Abingdon United Football Club, Oxfordshire Thursday, 17th & Friday, 18th July 2025 Mark Cunningham and his team put on another successful charity prog rock festival at the Northcourt Music Ven…
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Album Review: @CherryRedGroup | Various Artists – Rollin’ And Tumblin’: American Electric Blues 1965-1971 (3CD Boxset). Read @TheProgAspect review:
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Blues may appear to be an out of place genre to be reviewed on a progressive music site, but here is the thing, Blues and in particular electric Blues is one of the building blocks for modern music…
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A Different Aspect - Bite Size Reviews featuring: Doris Brendel & Lee Dunham | Jocelyn Pettit & Ellen Gira | This Winter Machine | Úna Quinn | Raphael Weinroth-Browne @DorisBrendel | @WinterMachine01 Read @TheProgAspect reviews.
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Featured artists: Doris Brendel & Lee Dunham | Jocelyn Pettit & Ellen Gira | This Winter Machine | Úna Quinn | Raphael Weinroth-Browne Five bite-sized reviews taking a snapshot of just so…
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Album Review: Moon Letters – This Dark Earth. "Moon Letters have produced a powerful musical statement of light and shade, with rich sweeping. " Read @TheProgAspect review:
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The Seattle-based progressive/psychedelic rock band, Moon Letters, are back with their excellent third album, This Dark Earth. Following on from their last album, 2022’s Thank You From The Future, …
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Album Review: Malabriega – Frippada Andaluza. "The album weaves passion and heritage into a singular voice carrying the weight of centuries, ancestral songs and rhythms reborn in the present moment." Read @TheProgAspect review:
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There’s nothing quite like discovering new music to stop you in your tracks – something with such a distinctive sound and charismatic presence you can’t help but keep listening, enthralled, f…
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Album Review: Tangerine Dream – From Virgin To Quantum Years: Coventry Cathedral 22 @QTangerineDream "This live album is a terrific lasting record of a rejuvenated band with plenty more Dreams to offer." Read @TheProgAspect review:
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2022 was a seminal year for the current version of Tangerine Dream. They released a ‘new’ album, Raum, their second studio album since the death of founding member Edgar Froese in 2015. It was crea…
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Album Review: The Wood Demons – In Rabbits & Corners @wooddemons "The band have really found their voice with this album – with compositions simple & accessible, & yet wonderfully complex & challenging." Read @TheProgAspect review:
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It has been 5 years since the London-based band, The Wood Demons, released their acclaimed Angels of Peckham Rye album, and 4 years since I reviewed it for the Progressive Aspect, following a refre…
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Album Review: Van Morrison – Remembering Now @vanmorrison "you will not be surprised by this record. Nothing new in style or challenging but it is Van and, after all, what else would you want from him?" Read @TheProgAspect review:
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I think that, having been in the music business since 1958, released almost 50 studio albums, 7 live albums, along numerous compilation albums, Sir George Ivan ‘Van’ Morrison knows how to make musi…
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Album Review: Various Artists – I Wanna Be A Teen Again: American Power Pop 1980 – 1989. "This North American power pop of the ‘80s is a compilation with more than its fair share of fun tunes." Read @TheProgAspect Review:
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Ever since the Beatles announced “I want to hold your hand”, power pop has had a significant grip on popular music. That influence has waxed and waned throughout the years, but never has it disappe…
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Album Review: Pymlico – Core @Pymlicomusic "one of the most varied and consistently enjoyable albums yet released by Pymlico." Read @TheProgAspect review:
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Norwegian jazz prog stalwarts Pymlico return with their eighth album, Core, their first for three years. Unusually for Pymlico, the band’s line up is unchanged from 2022’s Supermassive. It seems th…
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Album Review: Yak – The Pink Man & The Bishop. "a delightful, melodic and symphonic progressive rock album that nostalgically bathes lovingly in the classic prog era and yet feels fresh and vibrant." Read @TheProgAspect review:
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It is very welcome news that Martin Morgan has resurrected his keyboard-led symphonic prog rock project Yak, with an excellent, new album called The Pink Man & The Bishop. It comes a decade af…
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Album Review: Jethro Tull – Still Living In The Past (5CD/Blu-ray Boxset) @jethrotull @PPRPublicity "this is another deluxe set worth investing in again." Read @TheProgAspect review:
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Still Living in the Past sees Jethro Tull issuing another high-quality release in the series of deluxe edition remasters of their classic albums. These attractive packages have increasingly become …
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Album Review: A Multitude Of One – The Book Of Enoch. "". another impressive slab of symphonic and melodic prog from this talented multi-instrumentalist. Darkly atmospheric yet melodically rich. " Read @TheProgAspect review.
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Multi-instrumentalist Colin Powell remains as prolific as ever with his A Multitude of One solo project name, as he releases another engaging symphonic/melodic prog concept album, called The Book o…
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Album Review: To mark the official @insideouteu release TPA review Steve @HackettOfficial – The Lamb Stands: Live At The Royal Albert Hall. Read @TheProgAspect review.
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Another Steve Hackett tour, and another live album/video to mark its success, as well as being a perfect souvenir for all those that witnessed one of the many dates, and want to relive the show at …
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Album Review: @CherryRedGroup 3CD Boxset anthology featuring guitar maestro @LarryCarlton's solo albums recorded on the Warner Brothers label. Read @TheProgAspect review.
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Larry Carlton is a name fondly remembered by Steely Dan fans, his guitar work on The Royal Scam was another level, but he is far more than just that as I was to discover. Born in Southern Californi…
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Album Review: Soft Ffog – Focus. @KarismaRecords Soft Ffog. "have effectively woven elements of seventies inspired prog into a jazz rock vehicle which shines brightly with star potential. It’s a rewarding listen. continue reading @TheProgAspect
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Focus is the second album by Norwegian jazz proggers Soft Ffog, led by acclaimed guitarist and composer Tom Hasslan. He is something of a virtuoso player, hinting at John Etheridge at times, or occ…
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Album Review: Hothouse Flowers – The Older We Get – The London Years (8CD Boxset). @hothouseflowers | @CherryRedGroup "If you are or were a Hothouse Flowers fan then this boxset is virtually a ‘must buy’. "
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Hothouse Flowers seem to be blooming again with a recent successful tour focusing on their first two hit albums People and Home and now this extensive box set comprising all their recordings for Lo…
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Album Review: Nosound – To The Core. @nosoundofficial | @kscopemusic "Stripped back, ensuring each track is emotionally sumptuous and achingly heartfelt. " Read @TheProgAspect review.
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Blossoming from a one-man studio project in 2005, award winning Nosound were created initially as a solo project by multi-instrumentalist Giancarlo Erra, evolving into a full band and currently fea…
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