Ahhh The Smell of Magnolias Stolen by The Pineapple Thief

2014, not a year that you would expect to still be hearing about Progressive Rock now would you?  Most people when they hear something about Prog Rock in the media it’s always the classic 70’s era of the genre; The Pink Floyd, Yes, Genesis, King Crimson, Rush etc etc blah blah blah always the same…

Who’s That Sitting on The Park Bench? Oh Hehehe it’s Just Aqualung with His Friend Jethro Tull

Probably one of the most stout statements from the lyrics in a song about a dirty old man in town and the band’s biggest selling album and most well known album and song in their almost fifty year career since starting out in the shambles of 1968. I’ve always had a fight with “Jethro Tull”…

Mixed Bandmates & Fusion Confusion with A Helmet of Gnats

Well let’s go look at Prog’s other facets besides Experimental Krautrock and have a look at jazz-fusion bands like this one, “A Helmet of Gnats“. Jazz-Fusion Prog the more artsier side of things and more instrumental aspect of the genre I find for the most part but definitely a meaty staple in the world that…

Ok I Can’t Go This Long Without Talking About Them…. Ladies and Gentlemen, Kraftwerk

“Kraftwerk”, the name rings synonymous with electronic music, grandfathers of modern revolution electronica, pioneers of the electric age, synth wizards, you name it. BUT! Before they went all synth and technologically advanced for the rest of the world, they were an experimental Progressive Krautrock band that played some pretty amazing stuff! Yes we are still…

And in the Blink of an Eye, Whoosh! Eiliff (JazzProg Amazingness)

Every now and then you get a band that is just a blip on the radar but they leave such an awesome carbon footprint you just have to see what it’s all about. Formed in the late sixties by Rainer Bruninghaus in Koln, West Germany with Houschäng Nejadepour, Detlev Landmann, Herbert J. Kalveram and Bill…

Ein Paar Worte Uber Die Deutsche Prog Band, Traumhaus

Wilkommen und Guten Tag! Wie gehts? Alles klar? Since we are on the topic recently of German bands I was inspired to stick with the setting and continue on with bands from Deutschland and this time one that doesn’t sing in English! “Traumhaus” (Dream House), evolving out of band called “Zweeback” in the early/mid 90’s…

So, Three Eva Brauns and Two Herman Goerrings. Oh Right, Don’t Mention The War! Ooooh The Germans are Coming! Nevermind, Here’s Triumvirat

So for those of you who got the title, enjoy your chuckle at that. You’re welcome ; ) Those who don’t should watch the episode, “The Germans” in the series Fawlty Towers. And now for something completely different with Triumvirat from Koln, West Germany formed in 1969. The band name coming from the Latin word,…

A Visit to Newport Hospital? Perhaps if You Slip on Egg’s 1971 Album “The Polite Force”

If you’ve ever been a fan of English music, in particularly English Prog music then at some point your friend who turned you on to it more than likely also introduced you to what was known as the Canterbury Scene of English Prog. You would have been exposed to bands like; “The Soft Machine“, “Caravan“,…

Swedish Symphonic Symposiums with Anglagard’s “Viljans Oga” Epic Masterpiece

Sweden, home of many exports musically since the late sixties, “ABBA” being the biggest name that comes to mind commercially but also a bounty of other big names in both Prog and Pop culture. Pop Bands like; “Ace of Base“, “Roxette“, “The Cardigans” and Prog bands like; “Opeth“, “Beardfish“, “Moon Safari” and “The Flower Kings”…

“The Time It Takes” by Nice Beaver (Perhaps time should have been extended naming the band)

Founded in 1997, in Papendrecht, Holland Netherlands when members of local bands “Scotty!” and “For Cryin’ Out Loud” decided to work together creating the formation of “Nice Beaver“. I’ll admit I have reservations about their name to which they are going for the obvious reference of the term here but it’s the music I focus…

In To The Darkest Depths of Prog with Porcupine Tree’s In Absentia Album

16 tracks that leave you standing alone barefoot in the rain at the end of a gravel road littered with broken glass, empty cans & debris by the time it’s over contemplating your very existence after having barbarically assaulted your mind and senses with this record. An absolute must have album and one of my…

Find Your “Iceberg Soul” with Poland’s Prog Outlet, Newspaperflyhunting

When one thinks of Poland one doesn’t automatically have Prog bands pop in to their heads but more things like food and wars past instead. One typically and ignorantly often associates Prog music with the; UK, Germany, some Scandinavian countries, the US and France sad to say but it’s true, however, Poland has given us…