Best of 2022 so far - Progressive Rock Music Forum

Wippy Bonstack, 22, should be placed on the best of 2022 so far list!

No order at this time:
(you can hear most of them on Bandcamp)

Late 2021 (I missed out on them)

Charlotte Greve, Wood River, Cantus Domus - Sediments We Move
Dust Mountain - Hymns for Wilderness
Levitation Orchestra - Illusions & Realities

2022:
Pan Daijing - Tissues
Akku Quintet - Live

Ikarus - Plasma

Roland Bühlmann - Enmaloc

Black Flower - Magma
Yokaï - Coup de grâce

Glass Museum - Reflet

MChazi - Papara

Under the Reefs Orchestra - Sakurajima

Kajgün - Daogoad
One Shot - A James
Läuten der Seele - Läuten der Seele
High Pulp - Pursuit of Ends
Arthur Brown - Long Long Road
Birth - Born
Eclectic Maybe band - Again, Alors?

Levitation Orchestra - Illusions & Realities

Fractal Sextet - Fractal Sextet

Magma - Khartel

Origina1Nerd - Unknown

Fren - All The Pretty Days

WYZRD - Seasons

Comet is Coming - Pÿramid

Black Mirrors - Tomorrow will be without us

Village Of The Sun - First Light

Work Money Death - Thought, Action, Reaction, Interaction

Tom Skinner - Voices of Bishara

Manna/ Mirage- Rest of the World

Compassionizer - Narrow Is The Road

Qasim Naqvi / Wadada Leo Smith / Andrew Cyrille - Two Centuries

Tavat - Tavat

Sammal - Aika Iaulaa

Aamunkoite - Aamunkoite

Ilkka Arola Sound Tagine: Blue & Golden

Bubbling under:
Cheer Accident - Here comes the Sunset
All Them Witches - Live on the Internet
Black Midi - Hellfire
Bubblemath - Turf Ascension
Join The Din - Elephants In Autumn Rage
Action & Tension & Space - Tellus

October Equus : Noches blancas, luces rojas

Black Flower - Magma

Kajgun - Daogoad

Ilkka Arola Sound Tagine - Blue & Golden

Janel Leppin - Ensemble Volcanic Ash

Tumi Mogorosi - Group Theory : Black Music

DRH - Ode Toa Firework

Nanot - Nanot

Mabe Fratti - Se Ve Desde Aqui

House of Lords - Comradely Objects
Compro Oro – Buy The Dip

hardly finalized

Edited by Sean Trane - December 13 2022 at 02:16

let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword

November 2022, a great month for progressive music: Collapse, Oak, Retrospective and Threshold. Smile

I'm finding that there are only two albums released in 2022 that I want to hear every day: iNFiNiEN's Beyong the Veil and RanestRane's Apocalypse Now. Start to finish, or drop me in during the middle of a song, it doesn't matter: I love these two albums and want to hear them every day. To me, that says something.

Drew Fisher
https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/

My list has changed (expanded) a bit since August:

1. iNFiNiEN Beyond the Veil

2. WESERBERGLAND Sacrae Symphonae nr. 1

3. IKARUS Plasma

4. MOTORPSYCHO Ancient Astronauts

5. KLAUS SCHULZE Deus Arrakis

6. FIVE-STOREY ENSEMBLE Presence

7. RANESTRANE Apocalypse Now

8. RETURNED TO THE EARTH Fall of the Watcher

9. DREADNAUGHT The Endless

10. STRANGE POP Ten Years Gone

11. BREIDABLIK Alduorka

12. SILENT TEMPLE Faery Revolution

13. HAVEN OF ECHOES The Indifferent Stars

14. JONAS LINDBERG & THE OTHER SIDE Miles from Nowhere

15. TANGERINE DREAM Raum

16. INNER PROSPEKT Grey Origin

17. STEVE VAI Inviolate

18. BIRTH Born

19. BLACK MIDI Hellfire

20. VON HERTZEN BROTHERS Red Alert in the Blue Forest

Drew Fisher
https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/

Flamborough Head - Jumping The Milestone
The Blackheart Orchestra - Hotel Utopia

Friedrich Nietzsche: "Without music, life would be a mistake."

Music Is Live

Two people are better off than one, for they can help each other succeed.

Keep Calm And Listen To The Music…
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Mirakaze wrote:

Mirakaze wrote:

* Anthropods - Anthropods

* Tangerine Dream - Raum

* Tatsuya Yoshida & Risa Takeda - Plate No. 4

* Oksana Linde - Aquatic And Other Worlds

* Tatsuya Yoshida & Risa Takeda - Nazabukha

* Tatsuya Yoshida & Risa Takeda - Syndebuk

* John Irvine - Psychopomp

* National Diet - The Noon Hour

* Crushing My Palms Between The Glass Shards You Gave Me - Wake Up! A New Dawn Is Waiting For You.

* Alex Ward, Mark Browne & Pat Thomas - Oxford 1992
* Trio Subliminal - Cinema Infernale

* Odd Fiction - Puzzle Machine

* Mario Lino Stancati - Vairagya

* Tigran Hamasyan - StandArt

* Acid Mothers Temple - Japanese New Music Festival Japan Tour 2022

* 5uu's - The Quiet In Your Bones

* Missigno - Dystopian Reverie

* Handwrist - Nine Steps

* Black Midi - Hellfire

* Join The Din - Elephants In Autumn Rage

* Louis De Mieulle - Magnetic Feel

* John Zorn - Suite For Piano

* Robert Fripp - Washington Square Church

* John Zorn - John Zorn's Olympiad, Vol. 2: Fencing 1978

* Ventifacts - Chronic Town

* Paranoid Void - Travels In My Universe

* Raze The Maze - 7AM Dream

* Tatsuya Yoshida & Sara Wakui - Reflections

* Wayne Shorter, Terri Lyne Carrington, Leo Genovese & Esperanza Spalding - Live At The Detroit Jazz Festival

* The Fourth World Quartet - Grand Bland Vapid Rapids

* Björk - Fossora

* In-Dreamview - Spires

* Tatsuya Yoshida & Risa Takeda - Gaku

* Tatsuya Yoshida & Risa Takeda - Sin

One more of these before I start re-listening to everything in preparation for my best-of-the-year list:

* Jack & Owane - Guardian Spirits Of The Quantum Multiverse

* Head Spin - Escape Velocity

* Perfect - Perfect

* Greco Bastián - With A Little Hell From My Friends

* John Zorn - Multiplicities: A Repository Of Non-Existent Objects

* Ahleuchatistas - Expansion

* Pierre Vervloesem - Dark Matter 3 / Dark Matter 4

* Trevor Dunn's Trio-Convulsant Avec Folie À Quatre - Séances

* Emmett Elvin - Being Of Sound Mind

* Wippy Bonstack - 22

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Watch out everybody: Chrissie Loftus and iNFiNiEN are back with another album! And it's killer! So smooth, mature, and engaging start to finish!

Drew Fisher
https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/

Four albums I've given a 5 (four and a half) stars this year, in no particular order:

Jonas Lindberg & The Other Side - Miles from Nowhere

The Tangent - Songs from the Hard Shoulder

TRK Project - Books that End in Tears (Duets version)

Solace Supplice - Liturgies Contemporaines :-(

Honourable mentions for Pure Reason Revolution, and possibly splitting opinion, Porcupine Tree

richardh wrote:

My favourite of the year so far

the first track is so outta place, dunno. A loose psych jam opening an eclectic prog album? Why?

The rest is good though