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Nightfly 
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: August 01 2007 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 3659 |
 Posted: November 10 2007 at 17:49 |
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I agree. I own the above album and Odyssice are well worth a listen if you enjoy Camel.
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erik neuteboom
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Joined: July 27 2005 Location: Netherlands Status: Offline Points: 7659 |
Posted: November 11 2007 at 06:35 |
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Thanks Nightfly, I will tell the band the good words about their music
 The previous days I have listened to many new albums by lesser known and unknown new progrock bands (from Albion and Little Tragedies to Legacy, Hoggwash and Unoma), within a few days I will publish my NOVEMBER SPECIAL about these bands.
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Nightfly
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Posted: November 11 2007 at 09:46 |
I'll be interested to read that Erik. Albion are on my list of bands to check out.
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Angelo
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Posted: November 11 2007 at 11:07 |
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Another piece of shameless plugging of Azureth from my part: http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=1158
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ISKC Rock Radio
I stopped blogging and reviewing - so won't be handling requests. Promo's for ariplay can be sent to [email protected] |
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erik neuteboom
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Joined: July 27 2005 Location: Netherlands Status: Offline Points: 7659 |
Posted: November 11 2007 at 13:57 |
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Thanks for the money Angelo
 Nightfly, if you like early Marillion I am sure the new Albion album will please you! |
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erik neuteboom
Prog Reviewer
Joined: July 27 2005 Location: Netherlands Status: Offline Points: 7659 |
Posted: November 12 2007 at 14:47 |
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Hello fellow progheads.
Here are some interesting new releases:
ECHOES – Rachel (***1/2)
- This is a new French four piece band with an additional female player on flute travers. Their debut CD entitled Rachel is an own production and distributed by the known French progrock label Musea. - Listening to Rachel I presume that the band name Echoes is a kind of tribute to the sound of Pink Floyd their album Meddle but I also hear elements from early Jane and Eloy. Echoes their sound is build upon lots of tension between the dreamy and more compelling parts with lots of organ and sensitive electric guitar. Remarkably is the variety in the instrumentation: twanging guitar and organ in Night The First, sensitive electric guitar and sparkling Grand piano in I Met With Scorn, a sumptuous church organ sound with fiery guitar and vocal harmonies in The Lift, Grand piano and flute traverse with a swelling organ sound in Supermarket Santa Claus and piano with flute and biting wah-wah guitar in Until The Last Shadow Is Gone. One of my favorite tracks is The March Of Rachel: majestic piano play, then a slow rhtyhm with propulsive guitar work and catchy guitar runs, followed by fragile piano flights and a tight tango rhythm with theatrical vocals, this sounds like a rock-opera! I had to get used to the English vocals of these Frenchmen (three musicians also sing), especially in I Met With Scorn the accent is a bit too obvious. But I am glad that in general the vocals sound OK although I would have been more please with French vocals ( always prefer native language). My conclusion: a wonderful debut with moving work on organ and guitar that has carried me away many times during the running time of 60 minutes! HOGGWASH – The Last Horizon (***1/2) HOGGWASH – Speciale Bonus CD (***) This is a very special musical project that started on the Internet where singer Will Mackie (from a pastoral village in Wales) and multi-instrumentalist Antony Kalugin (from a busy city in the Ukraine) got in touch with each other. They shared a love for progressive rock and this has resulted in the release of this debut album by Hoggwash. The name is derived from a spirit that helps people to come from the dark into the light if they are desperate or feel broken, this symbolizes that there is always light at the end of the tunnel. The sound of Hoggwash is more symphonic prog but less adventurous than Antony his other project Karfagen. Nonetheless, Hoggwash has succeeded to make varied and interesting music with flowing shifting moods and good breaks, often topped with strong solos on keyboards and guitar. The first composition is the long and captivating Out Of The Darkness: lots of variety (from compelling and dreamy to mid-tempo and bombastic) and a lush instrumentation featuring fluent synthesizer runs, heavy guitar riffs, wah-wah guitar, powerful vocals, mellow hobo, warm classical guitar and some accordeon. The colouring with the keyboards is wonderful with the sound of brass, Hammond and Mellotron. The other seven tracks also manage to keep my attention for the full running time like in Road Of Many Challenges (from dreamy with soaring keyboards, flute and Mellotron to compelling with howling guitar and mid-tempo with sensitive guitar and flashy synthesizer flights), Like A Miracle (strong interplay between varied keyboards and guitar along good solos), Another Friday Night (beautiful mellow atmosphere with acoustic guitar, a slow rhythm with howling guitar and bombastic with Hammond, synthesizer runs and wah-wah guitar) and the dreamy final song The Last Horizon delivering a slow keyboard solo, flute and acoustic guitar. This CD is a strong calling card by Hoggwash! The special bonus CD contains five tracks: Seashell is a bit spacey, Rainbow Part 1 delivers both swinging Fender Rhodes piano as xylophone, Rainbow Part 2 has a tight mid-tempo with exciting keyboard work and the final two songs (from Antony his New Age solo albums) sound ... quite mellow. It also contains video footage from a Karfagen rehearsal including the previously not released song Waiting For A but this ‘Caveman reviewer’ cannot play it on his computer... LEGACY – Where We Go … (***) - This is the debut CD by an USA four piece band. I needed a few listening sessions to get used to the singer and to get into the music, sometimes a bit too polished for me. But the keyboard work is wonderful and the compositions sound varied and melodic, this albums is a very pleasant musical experience: keyboards in the vein of Keith Emerson, alternating guitarwork (from fiery to sensitive) and a final part with saxophone in Take A Look At Yourself, some fine musical ideas and beautiful keyboard variation in West World: Object of Desire, sensitive guitar and Rick Wakeman-like keyboard pyrotechnics in The Power and again varied keyboards in Time Travellers (from piano to orchestral) and No Where To Run (sparkling piano and a break with sensational keyboards). Count how many times I used the word ‘keyboards’ and you can conclude that the keyboard aficionados will be pleased with this debut album by new band Legacy. LITTLE TRAGEDIES – Chine Songs – Part I (***) - Russian progrock sensation Little Tragedies (I am absolutely delighted about their album Return and New Faust ) was founded in the late Eighties but it took a while before they released their debut album in 1999. However, the recent years Little Tragedies is more prolific by releasing every year at least one CD. In 2007 they even produced two albums entitled Chinese Songs Part 1 and Part II. On Chinese Songs Part I we can enjoy the typical Little Tragedies sound: from dreamy and mellow with almost whispering native vocals, soaring keyboards, harpsichord and warm piano runs to heavy with a fat synthesizer sound and a very propulsive rhythm-section, reminding me of Japanese ‘over-the-top-proggers’ Gerard (led by the keyboard wizard Toshio Egawa). In comparison with previous albums, Little Tragedies sound a bit more laidback and, like on The Sixth Sense, the band uses at some moments a saxophone player. My highlight is the long composition There Came an Unexpected Guest… featuring the Little Tragedies trademark: a more and more bombastic sound with flashy synthesizer flights, a thunderous rhythm-section and fiery guitar runs. I also like the wonderful sound of the ethnic Koto, blended with harp and keyboards in the piece The Wanderer. This is a decent effort but to me it sounds that Little Tragedies is a bit running out of ideas. - Although Chinese Songs Part 1 is a beautiful album, I had the idea that they had lost some of their dynamics, something I enjoyed on their albums Return and New Faust. Listening to Chinese Songs Part 2, I quickly got the impression that the music delivers more dynamics than on Part 1 and that there is a good balance between bombastic and mellow parts. And there is not very much work on the clarinet, I am not really a fan of woodwind – and brass instruments like saxophone, trumpet and clarinet, uuugh! The first composition Letter To My Wife showcases Little Tragedy their musical trademark: a bit melancholical Russian vocals, fiery guitar, a propulsive rhythm-section and spectacular solos on the synthesizer, a very good start of this album! In the other five compositions the atmospheres range from dreamy with acoustic guitar, warm Grand piano and sensitive guitar runs (like in the strong My Heart is Sad, Thoughts in Dismay… ) to heavy bombastic with sensational keyboards, propulsive guitar riffs and a thunderous rhythm-section (like in my highlight My Century’s Events are Worthless… featuring a spectacular duel between organ and syntehsizer). I have the idea that Little Tragedies is making more elaborate and more balanced compositions, it’s a better and more captivating effort than the for me a bit too laidback Chinese Song Part 1. Little Tragedies is back on the track!
Edited by erik neuteboom - November 12 2007 at 16:26 |
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Norbert
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Posted: November 13 2007 at 08:00 |
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From these Echoes and Hoggwash(despite the band's name) sound the most promising. Little Tragedies probably have better starting points.
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erik neuteboom
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Joined: July 27 2005 Location: Netherlands Status: Offline Points: 7659 |
Posted: November 13 2007 at 09:00 |
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Indeed Norbert and here's another interesting album:
 Eclectic Prog (Studio Album, 2003) Avg: 3.33/5 from 3 ratings BEARDFISH — Från En Plats Du Ej Kan Se Review by erik neuteboom (erik neuteboom) Special Collaborator Symphonic Prog Expert
This is Beardfish their debut album (2003), quite an exciting musical experience: compelling and bombastic with psychedelic undertones and Swedish vocals in the titletrack, twanging acoustic guitar with violin-Mellotron in the dreamy Brother, mid-tempo rock with heavy guitar play and lush Hammond organ in the alternating Poison Ivy And The Full Monty and catchy Hammond with rhythm guitar, a flowing guitar solo and exciting work on the Moog synthesizer in the long A Psychic Amplifier. My CD version also contains two bonustracks: a fluent rhythm with wah-wah guitar and Hammond waves in In Your Room and a heavy atmosphere with powerful vocals, again Hammond waves and sensational solos on synthesizer and guitar. These guys know how to entertain and how to write dynamic music with lots of strong solos on guitar and keyboards (a big hand for the Hammond organ), this is a band to discover! My rating: 3,5 stars.  |
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erik neuteboom
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Posted: November 13 2007 at 13:17 |
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Later this week I may borrow these CD's from Progwalhalla Hans:
Both Exodus-CD's
Hobson's Choice - New Horizons
Pineapple Thief - What We Have Sown
Singularity - All Of The Mysteries
Areknames - Live Herzberg 2007 (Hammond time
 )Galleon - Engine Of Creation
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LeInsomniac
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Joined: December 22 2006 Location: Portugal Status: Offline Points: 315 |
Posted: November 13 2007 at 13:21 |
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Didn't knew of the existence of this first album from Beardfish, it slipped by me, but i founded really a great work their The Sane Day album. Now I feel bad from missing their performance in symforce Erik. Maybe next year theyll play in the main stage.
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Happy Family One Hand Clap, Four Went On But None Came Back |
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erik neuteboom
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Posted: November 13 2007 at 13:28 |
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Good to see you back on Prog Archives, Miguel, any bands that have your attention you at this moment?
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LeInsomniac
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Joined: December 22 2006 Location: Portugal Status: Offline Points: 315 |
Posted: November 14 2007 at 01:08 |
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well Erik, nothing that you probably don't know already, from what can be considered new groups I'm hearing Bigelf Hex album (this one has grabbed me) ; Phideaux Doomsday Afternoon (first three spins have been quite a treat); Nexus Perpetuum Karma; and William Gray's Living Fossils which has made me wanting for more groups! Now i have an album from Disen Gage, the screw loose entertainment which I heard once and struck me as a solid work from this russian group, which I believe quite some people already know here. Another album i've grown to like is Amarok's Sol de Medianoche, I didnt knew the spanish had great works like these.
I'm trying to listen to more albums again, I've been out of here and I dont know which new groups I should be looking now, im kinda lost. So, now that I have time for me, Ill indulge myself again into some "learning". I'm back alright. |
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Happy Family One Hand Clap, Four Went On But None Came Back |
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erik neuteboom
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Posted: November 14 2007 at 06:05 |
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Very good choices Miguel, especially Hex by Bigelf is so dynamic, compelling and those Mellotrons, majestic
 Disen Gage is a band to check out, never heard of and Sol De Medianoche was a very pleasant musical experience, quite impressive folky prog
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Nightfly
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Posted: November 14 2007 at 10:49 |
I'm listening to The Sane Day at the moment and agree it's a great album. I'm going to do a review of it soon.
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erik neuteboom
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Posted: November 14 2007 at 13:39 |
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Nightfly, just read your La Maschera Di Cera review about LuxAde and Tarcisio,
today I read your positive words about Odyssice their mini-CD Moondrive, thanks
for the support to these lesser known new progrock bands
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Nightfly
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Posted: November 14 2007 at 14:06 |
My pleaure Erik, credit where credit is due is what i say.  .....and thanks to you too for keeping us updated on so many interesting new/lesser known bands and making a big dent in my wallet. My wife may not be equally grateful though.  Edited by Nightfly - November 14 2007 at 14:10 |
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erik neuteboom
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Posted: November 14 2007 at 14:52 |
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Nightfly, let's not talk about my wife's opinion about my beloved progrock, only some very melodic and mellow Camel, BJH, Supertramp and Pink Floyd is allowed in her presence.................. sometimes
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Atkingani
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Posted: November 14 2007 at 15:05 |
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I think I'm a lucky guy... my wife is a huge Shadow Circus fan and also PFM, Harmonium, Moody Blues, etc. The other day she found Pythagoras' "After The Silence" in the player (I wasn't at home) and loved them.
Edited by Atkingani - November 14 2007 at 15:05 |
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Guigo
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erik neuteboom
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Posted: November 14 2007 at 15:39 |
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Atkingani, did you know that guitarist Arjen Lucassen ( Ayreon) played a solo on one of the tracks on that Dutch progrock album by Pythagoras? In an interview he told me that he was quite stoned and in the Pink Floyd mood
And the drummer Bob De Jong was the owner of a record shop in my hometown The Hague, he was specialized in German prog/Krautrock, there I bought all albums by Novalis, Jane, Grobschnitt, Ramses, Wallenstein, etc. !
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Atkingani
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Posted: November 14 2007 at 16:15 |
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I'll tell this to my other half too... she's also a Novalis & Ramses fan. In fact, she gifted me with "La Leyla".
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erik neuteboom wrote:
A few months ago I witnessed this Swedish formation during their performance on the Dutch Symforce Festival. I was delighted about their powerful and varied sound and enthousiasm, especially the bass player freaked out!