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Mark’s Quick Review: Abel Ganz’s – The Life of the Honey Bee and Other Moments of Clarity

by Mark Monforti | June 21, 2020 | News, Reviews | 0 Comments

I go into this review really liking Abel Ganz and, frankly, the people behind the band. My wife and I may be the only two Americans that have seen the band twice. Denis, when sending me this album, warned me it was much different than their previous albums. He was...

Mark’s Quick Review: The Fierce and the Dead’s – Live USA 2017

by Mark Monforti | November 10, 2019 | News, Reviews | 0 Comments

The Fierce And The Dead are: Matt Stevens - guitar, synth, pianoKev Feazey - bass, programming, synth, percussionSteve Cleaton - guitar, piano.Stuart Marshall - drums, percussion This is a recording of the live show recorded at RoSfest in 2017. Yours truly was there...

Mark’s Quick Review: IQ’s – Resistance

by Mark Monforti | November 3, 2019 | News, Reviews | 0 Comments

IQ in its 38th year inexplicably has released its most ambitious album to date with Resistance. This double album with three epic tracks. Not only is the scope of the album ambitious but the quality is as good as your favorite IQ album. If you were not a fan I...

Mark’s Quick Review: Pi Mezon’s – New World

by Mark Monforti | November 3, 2019 | News, Reviews | 0 Comments

The second album from Pi Mezon was highly anticipated album for me because I did like their debut. This Finnish band had an outstanding song on that album called the puppet which is reprised also in track 10 of the album. The second album did not disappoint after...

Mark’s Quick Review: United Progressive Fraternity’s – Planetary Overload – Part 1: Loss

by Mark Monforti | April 14, 2019 | News, Reviews | 0 Comments

Let me start this review by saying it will not be a quick review. I have been living with most every version of this album for the last 100 weeks as I first heard it at 2017 RoSFest. I am also a huge fan of Mark "Truey" Trueack - flying to Wales from Chicago to see...

Mark’s Quick Review: Red Bazar’s – Things as they Appear

by Mark Monforti | March 31, 2019 | News, Reviews | 0 Comments

The Quartet of Andy, Paul,Mick, and Pete are back with their 2019 release. In my estimation it is ther best work to date. Now that the band has had this lineup for a bit they seem to be able to write to their strengths and maybe the song writing has matured as well. I...

Mark’s Quick Review: Fernando Perdomo’s – Zebra Crossing.

by Mark Monforti | March 29, 2019 | News, Reviews | 0 Comments

I have had the pleasure of seeing Fernando Perdomo live a few times with Dave Kerzner and I can say he is one of the most electric musicians I have ever seen. I was delighted to see this album show up in my inbox. The album is full of nice melodies and I really...

Mark’s Quick Review: Haken’s – Vector Deluxe Edition

by Mark Monforti | March 28, 2019 | News, Reviews | 0 Comments

Haken's 5th studio album is another triumph for the band. This English band has had such a string of exceptional albums that are tricking a whole new generation of music fans into liking progressive rock. Wow this album does have a lot of notes in there, which...

Mark’s Quick Review: Evan Hause’s – Plastic Island Pentecost

by Mark Monforti | March 26, 2019 | News, Reviews | 0 Comments

Composer Evan Hause has released his debut album. Evan, who has a Doctorate of Music Arts and Master of Music degrees, has put out an album I am sure his friends would appreciate. As for me the album fell flat. Once I heard it I thought this is music written for...

Mark’s Quick Review: ZW’s – If It’s Real

by Mark Monforti | March 24, 2019 | News, Reviews | 0 Comments

ZW is the Duo of Drummer Mark Zonder (Fates Warning, Warlord, Chroma Key) and Gary Wehrncamp (Shadow Gallery) just to name a few. After corresponding for more than a decade the two have joined up to make the first album. If It's Real The Can't Believe starts...

Mark’s Quick Review: Panzerpappa – Pestrottedans

by Mark Monforti | Jul 18, 2017

So this is rather difficult album for me to review because it is very jazz influenced and instrumental. If you like Saxophone, drums, keyboard, Chapman Stick, guitar this album might be for you. When I like this music its typically watching it performed. I just never...

Mark’s Quick Review: Yuka and Chronoship’s – The 3rd Planetary Chronicles

by Mark Monforti | Jul 17, 2017

70's Progressive Rock and Modern Day Progressive Metal has a decent following in the land of the rising sun. It is only natural to expect some great music to follow. Yuka & Chronoship is just that. The album is mostly instrumental which does not typically align...

Mark’s Quick Reviews – Cosmograf’s – The Hay-Man Dreams.

by Mark Monforti | Jul 16, 2017

The reason I have the previous band rating is so you know the personal bias I have going into listening the new album. Lets face it, that is a big part of what goes into your like or dislike of an album. So seeing as I was going into this album thinking that this is a...

Mark’s Quick Review: Flicker’s – How Much are you Willing to Forget

by Mark Monforti | Jul 15, 2017

So I forgot where I read about this album on some review blog somewhere. I decided to listen to their free crappy bit rate version on https://flicker-band.bandcamp.com/. I was absolutely floored from first listen and listened to it back to back to back. I immediately...

Mark’s Quick Review: 3RDegree’s – Ones and Zeros

by Mark Monforti | Jul 14, 2017

This is the first 3RDegree album that really caught my ear. George's soulful singing is a great pairing for this album that has some moments of drama. This album is made for music patrons that like Ayeron's subject matter as this album is probably the best excuse for...

Mark’s Quick Review: Damanek – On Track

by Mark Monforti | Jul 13, 2017

So in an unusual move I gave a debut album a PREVIOUS BAND RATING of 4 for a debut album. That was due to the strength of previous band members works in other bands. Most notably Guy Manning and Sean Timms who I liked so much I flew them both to Chicago at different...

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