Mark’s Quick Review: Magenta’s – We Are Seven.
The year was 2005 and I was just getting into progressive rock where my wife and I made a road trip down to Phoenixville for our first Prog Festival. We went to see Kino and Arena of all things and left there being a huge fan of Magenta who were touring seven. The...
Mark’s Quick Review: Karfargen’s – Messages from Afar: First Contact
Karfargen does not list Pink Floyd as an influence but the vocal tracks are straight out of Pink Floyd's Momentary Lapse of Reason. This atmospheric mostly instrumental album check all the boxes for me. Nice melodies, nice changes, some drama in places and an epic...
Mark’s Quick Review: Audio70’s – ElectRockProg(con)Fusion
This debut instrumental album from Vento region of Italy is a one man show with Luigi on the keyboards has above average song writing and the each song I like. There is some drama too with the 10 minute track Hypersequence. This is about as good as a one man band can...
Mark’s Quick Review: Riverside’s – Wasteland
One of the stand out performers of any genre, Riverside has released a new album this year and although I think that the hard core fans of the band are not very excited by it, I think it is another great album by this Polish prog band. Granted the loss of Piotr is...
Mark’s Quick Review: El tubo Elástico’s – Impala
There isn't an abundance of prog coming from Spain, but when it does come its usually pretty good. This album is no exception. This instrumental album is multi layered thanks to two guitars and keyboards. The song writing is top notch and songs are unique. And if you...
Mark’s Quick Review: Sunchild’s – Messages from Afar – The division of Illusion and Time.
Sunchild is a project by Ukrainian composer, musician, multi-instrumentalist, producer Antony Kalugin. The album is a light romp of glorious gateway prog. With a large ensemble to give this album its ultimate sound. The guitar sounds a bit Satriani like without so...
