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Originally posted by BrufordFreak BrufordFreak wrote:

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



They were great playing this material at ProgDay.
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Originally posted by Mirakaze Mirakaze wrote:

Originally posted by Mirakaze Mirakaze wrote:

Originally posted by Mirakaze 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
* 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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The Mighty Ra - All Secrets Known
Ghost Of The Machine - Scissorgame

Both of these albums I would give 5 stars too.
Friedrich Nietzsche: "Without music, life would be a mistake."



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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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Flamborough Head - Jumping The Milestone
The Blackheart Orchestra - Hotel Utopia
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Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso-  "Orlando: Le Forme Dell'Amore"
Aliante-  "Destinazioni Oblique"
RanestRane-  "Apocalypse Now"
Motorpsycho- "Ancient Astronauts"
Yesterdays-  "Saint-Exupéry álma"
Porcupine Tree- "C/C"
Big Big Train-  "Welcome To The Planet"
Collage- "Over And Out"
Kaprekar's Constant- "The Murder Wall"
Mary Halvorson- "Amaryllis"
 









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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote BrufordFreak Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 30 2022 at 06:35
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
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Originally posted by progaardvark progaardvark wrote:

I'm really far behind on listening to new stuff, and there are some key albums I have yet to listen to. So, this is what I got so far...

Afforested – Ancient Healing Oakwood Journeys
Artefactron – Artefactron
The Tangent – Songs from the Hard Shoulder
October Equus – Noches Blancas, Luces Rojas
Magician’s Red – Threshold
Anthropods – Anthropods
Bresk – A Journey Through the Life of Peder Balke 1804-1887
Jalayan – Floating Islands
François Thollot – Alternatives
Giant Hedgehog – Im Siel
Alex Ward + Mark Browne + Pat Thomas – Oxford 1992

I've really fallen behind in my listening duties, but to add to the above list I posted in August, I offer the following...

Ahleuchatistas - Expansion
Aliante - Destinazioni oblique
Anima Morte - Serpents in the Field of Sleep
Ars de Er - Attacca Subito
Ars de Er - L'adieu au monde
Banco del Mutuo Soccorso - Orlando: Le forme dell'amore
Birth - Born
Fren - All the Pretty Days
Horse Lords - Comradely Objects
Jaz - The Adventures of Valérian and Laureline
Lobate Scarp - You Have It All
Bjørn Riis - Everything to Everyone
Sc'ööf - CDR_003_SA
Pierre Vervloesem - 30 Years of Success
Pierre Vervloesem & Eric Thielemans - Masterpieces of Irish Folklore, Vol. 12
Ed Wynne - Tumbling Through the Floativerse
Yôkaï - Coup de grâce
5uu's - The Quiet in Your Bones

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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.

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Checked the albums I've listened to in 2022 so far, maybe I'm getting old but the top ones for me are by 'regular' offenders (bands I already listen to a ton), not a lot of new discoveries:

Major Parkinson - Valesa Chapter 1 (Very different from what I expected but quite good)
Devin Townsend - Lightworker
Dear Hunter - Antimai (didn't strike strong at first but gets better each listen)
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November 2022, a great month for progressive music: Collapse, Oak, Retrospective and Threshold. Smile
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Originally posted by PhideauxFan PhideauxFan wrote:

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

I only listened to Threshold out of these but I plan to listen to them all. Tongue
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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
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
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A couple more to add to my list above...

Greco Bastián - With a Little Hell From My Friends
Deadly Orgone Radiation - Desecration of Form
Sherpa the Tiger - Ithkuil
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Wippy Bonstack, 22, should be placed on the best of 2022 so far list!
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In random order:

With a little hell from my friends by Greco Bastián

La civilisation de la graine by M'Z

Zenith by Poly-Math

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These have tickled my fancy this year:

Black Country New Road - Ants From Up There
Big Big Train - Welcome to the Planet
Von Hertzen Brothers - Red Alert in the Blue Forest
The Tangent - Songs From The Hard Shoulder
Porcupine Tree - Closure / Continuation
Birth - Born
Marillion - An Hour Before its dark
Tiger Moth Tales - A Song of Spring
Motorpsycho - Ancient Astronauts
Bubblemath - Turf Ascension
Evership - The Uncrowned King Act 2
iNFiNiEN - Beyond the Veil
Galahad - The Last Great Adventurer

As last year my favourite album of the year is by black midi - Hellfire
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Recap:

Pattern-Seeking Animals 'Only passing through'

Michael Romeo 'War of the Worlds pt. 2'

Moonwagon 'The efficient use of Space'

Ryo Okumoto 'The Myth of the Mostrophos'

The Tangent - Songs from the hard Shoulder

Big Big Train - Welcome to the Planet

RanestRane - Apocalypse Now

Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso - Orlando: Le Forme dell'Amore

Motorpsycho - Ancient Astronauts

Regal Worm - Worm!

Phoenix Again ‘Vision’

Head Spin ’Escape Velocity’ (cleared by PSIKE team)

Lobate Scarp ‘You Had It All’


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great year, I need to listen to a lot more but these stand out for me

Motorpsycho - Ancient Astronauts
Daal - Daedalus
Glass Hammer - At The Gate
Marillion - An Hour Before Dark
The Flower Kings - By Royal Decree
Black Midi - Hellfire
Big Big Train - Welcome To The Planet
Galahad - The Last Great Adventurer
The Tangent - Songs From The Hard Shoulder
Animals As Leaders - Parrhesi
Lonely Robot - Model Life
Muse - Will Of The People
Evership - The Uncrowned King - Act 2
Comedy Of Errors - Time Machine 
Porcupine Tree - Closure/Continuation
Threshold - Dividing Lines
Major Parkinson - Valesa Chapter 1
Devin Townsend - Lightworker
Virgil and Steve Howe - Lunar Mist
Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso - Orlando: Le Forme dell'Amore



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Here's some jazz/folk/psych/prog/heavy stuff that I have enjoyed through the year.

Merit Hemmingson - Huvva! Tredje Sviten
Dungen - En är for mycket...
Brad Mehldau - Jacob's Ladder
Jenny Hval - Classic Objects
Koma Saxo - Koma West
Uusi Aika - s/t
Sammal - Aika Laulaa
Trevor Dunn - Seances
Darkthrone - Astral Fortress
Svenska Folkjazzkvartetten - Folkjazz anfaller
Joakim Åhlund og Jockum Nordstrøm - Meets Moussa Fadera
Birth - Born
Florist - Florist
Andy Shauf - Satan (single)
Rural Tapes - Inner space music
Mary Halvorson - Amaryllis

The Mystic Revelation of Teppo Repo - Kosmoksen erakko

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