June 5th 1971, where were you? I wasn’t born yet for a couple of years and if you were around you may have not been at West Germany’s Berliner Sportpalast when The Pink Floyd to the stage that night. It was the first rock concert to be held there using Quadraphonic sound and The Floyd…
Month: February 2016
Your Outer Light is their Inner Darkness with The Aaron Clift Experiment
They say everything’s bigger in Texas and like many of the other states that we have discovered Prog bands in on our blogging escapades here with yours truly, Texas isn’t renowned for turning out Prog music. But that has since changed with, “The Aaron Clift Experiment” from Austin. Their second album is eight tracks of…
The Mute Gods; Do Nothing Till You Hear From Them, I Mean Me
Nick Beggs, session musician extraordinaire and currently bassist for Steven Wilson’s band on tour right now coming to Toronto to play Massey Hall (amazing venue to see shows at btw) on the 1st of March (can’t wait!) has the new release with his put together band of other amazing musicians to form, “The Mute Gods“….
Dive in to the Ocean with Eloy from 1977
The album cover alone screams PROG!, and worth the price of admission alone just for the stellar artwork presented here. Now does the music match the album cover? Absolutely right it does! An equally stellar record of outstanding musicianship from Germany in the late 70’s. We speak of Hanover, West German band , ELOY. Like…
Post Rock: To Prog or Not to Prog
From Monument to Masses, God is an Astronaut, Grails, Mogwai, Red Sparowes, The Cancer Conspiracy et al. These are what is known as “Post Rock” bands but are they really just Prog Rock bands from the underground scene come to surface? Post Rock has been around for a couple of decades now but largely unknown…
Ossicles, No It Isn’t a Folklore Figure But a Prog Duo from Norway
Usually nowadays music is created by an entire band and no longer the sole person puts together their first albums by themselves. Even in the 70’s it was rare with the exception of Tom Scholtz who founded the group, “Boston” and while still working for Kodak Film Company he recorded the first Boston record…
Serpents in Camouflage?, Quick! Call Citizen Cain to the Rescue!
One thing I really love about Prog rock besides the obvious, the music, is the album covers. The bright and imaginative designs always make listening to the record such a bigger and more exciting experience. A lot of people claim that the 70’s Prog albums had the best covers, well, here’s one from the 90’s!…
Satellite, They’re in Space Right?…. No They’re From Poland
From what looks like a Tim Burton drawing for one of his animated movies the music in this album is nothing like anything Burton creates although, that said this band would do one of his films well for a soundtrack. Satellite from the Eastern European theatre of Poland, a Warsaw pact country and former communist…
Quoth the Raven, “It’s The Alan Parsons Project””
1976, not the big year for the major players in Progressive Rock to be on the field, it was more like a hiatus year to go on Hols, record or just whatever really. Mostly record to premiere 1977 with epic albums. But one great album came out in ’76 and it’s the first of many…
Experimentalism Extreme with Sand the Ultrasonic Seraphim
For a band to release one album then disappear off the radar almost entirely is really quite common. How many bands put out one record and break up or just vanish? Thousands by today’s standards probably, kids putting out albums with the advent of easy to use technology and cheap gear to record right there…
NEW HEADER IMAGE BY XHRISTOPHER BLAND
Ladies and Gentlemen, it is with Great honour that I present to you the new header image of Progressivelyso. “The Loaming” by Xhristopher Bland. A Truly Prog piece of art and a welcommed addition to the site and stellar imagery evoking thoughts of distant realms and far off lands uncharted. Many Prog Thanks Xhris…
BOO! Abigail’s Ghost Haunting Heavy Prog, Selling Insincerity Album
So, Heavy Prog, Progressive Metal, Prog Metal, any of those do? Having never given the genre any thought or consideration because I never really thought the twain shall meet but some of the following are considered to be some of the best in business; “Queensryche“, “Fates Warning“, “Mastodon“, “Opeth“, “Symphony X“, and of course, “Dream…
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