Ed’s Letter

Hello, and welcome to the new issue of Prog. And

The Camera Eye

“You have to couple action with your hope. That turns

Bloody Well Write

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KING CRIMSON RESTATE THEIR OWN HISTORY

King Crimson are to clarify the history of their most

FLOWER KINGS DOUBLE UP

Only a year after releasing their last album, The Flower

WOBBLER GO DIGGING IN THE DEEP ON LATEST ALBUM

Norwegian quintet Wobbler launch new album Dwellers of the Deep

MARILLION MARK IS MARATHON MAN

Marillion keyboardist Mark Kelly will release his solo band’s debut

INTRO extras

Yes will release The Royal Affair Tour: Live From Las

SOLSTICE START NEW CHAPTER WITH SIA

Folk prog rockers Solstice, who celebrate their 40th anniversary this

STEVE HACKETT’S MEN BREAK INTO ISOLATION

Steve Hackett Band members Jonas Reingold, Craig Blundell and Rob

LIFESIGNS PREDICT ‘WONDERFUL NOISES’ ON THIRD ALBUM ALTITUDE

Lifesigns - who recently recruited former Flower Kings drummer Zoltan

FATES WARNING DIG FOR DIVERSITY

Fates Warning will release their 13th studio album through Metal

ANNA VON HAUSSWOLFF’S SOLO PIPE DREAM

Swedish composer Anna von Hausswolff will release solo instrumental album

FAD GADGETS

When people try to solve problems that don’t really need

GARRY GARY BEERS

“I’m a real prog rock fan. Growing up, me and

PROG IN BRIEF

Devin Townsend (right) will release Order Of Magnitude - Empath

MOLASSESS

“MAKING THIS ALBUM was very painful at times - but

THE SABRES OF PARADISE

There must be countless people who, in the mid-1990s, embarked

2020 PRETTY VACANT

In his 33 years as a lighting roadie, Nigel ‘Skippy’

RELIQA

RELIQA MIGHT APPEAR to have come out of nowhere, but

Official Progressive Albums Chart

16 KING CRIMSON In The Court Of The Crimson King

CRYPTEX

OKAY, RELAX. CRYPTEX are not a death metal act. They’re

Q&A SUSANNA

In early 2019, Norwegian artist Susanna Wallumrød brought Hieronymus Bosch’s

AYREON

If Arjen Lucassen made films, they’d undoubtedly be wallto-wall blockbusters

THE BACKSTAGE

Your tour gets pulled in the midst of a pandemic

ANDY BELL

Most probably, the mere mention of the fact that Andy

BLACKFIELD

An appreciation of Blackfield increasingly depends upon one’s view of

SIMON COLLINS

Drummer/vocalist Simon Collins’ belated fourth solo album, Becoming Human, picks

CRIPPLED BLACK PHOENIX

The departure of co-vocalist/guitarist Daniel Änghede on the day Crippled

DYBLE LONGDON

When Judy Dyble met David Longdon in the foyer of

ENSLAVED

There’s no doubt about it, Norway’s Enslaved have been edging

CATHERINE ANNE DAVIES & BERNARD BUTLER

In Memory Of My Feelings, a collaboration recorded over 15

DAYS BETWEEN STATIONS

Guitarist Sepand Samzadeh and keyboardist Oscar Fuentes reunite with Billy

DÖDA HAVET

Tid Och Rum, meaning time and space, is the second

BRIAN ENO

Dieter Rams summed up his Bauhaus-influenced approach to interior and

GALAHAD ELECTRIC COMPANY

Amazing what a pandemic can do. Galahad’s Dean Baker and

JON GOMM

The magic this Leeds-based experimentalist conjures from a nylon-stringed acoustic

GAZPACHO

Gazpacho have never really gone in for small talk. They

STEVE HACKETT

Selling England By The Pound & Spectral Mornings: Live At

HAWKWIND LIGHT ORCHESTRA

Brock and co come into their own with sprawling but

JAKKO M JAKSZYK

As a linchpin of King Crimson since 2013, Jakko Jakszyk

POST-ROCK

When worriedaboutsatan’s mastermind Gavin Miller isn’t collaborating with Anathema’s Vincent

JOHN PETRUCCI

Dream Theater man shows his range on belated second solo

JACQUI MCSHEE & KEVIN DEMPSEY

Pentangle singer and 60s folk-prog mainstay Jacqui McShee and journeyman

MINT FIELD

Second album from Mexican psychgaze duo is both enchanting and

MOLASSESS

This ambitious and evocative debut from the Dutch psych-rockers was

MOTORPSYCHO

Any new music from Motorpsycho is cause for celebration, and

NERVOSA

When Prog first mentioned this Cornish quintet online there were

OBSIDIAN KINGDOM

Obsidian Kingdom have compared themselves to avant-garde movie maker Alejandro

PSYCHEDELIC PROG

It’s almost impossible to keep track of US multi-instrumentalist Ty

ROGER WATERS

Considering it was a tour whose main message was “just

THE OCEAN

If anyone still needs to check The Ocean’s prog credentials,

THE OSIRIS CLUB

Blazing Worlds - Live At Roadburn & Twicefold Of Kind

OZRIC TENTACLES

Space rock legends blow the doors of perception clean off

REDEMPTION

No let up over two live discs of prog and

ANNEKE VAN GIERSBERGEN + KAMERATA ZUID

Late in 2019, Anneke van Giersbergen, and her unique voice,

ANNA VON HAUSSWOLFF

Recorded over seven days on a huge pipe organ inside

AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST

And this month’s award for Most Cumbersome Album Title goes

COLOSSEUM

Live At Montreux International Jazz Festival 1969/Live At The Boston

BRIAN ENO AND JOHN CALE/BRIAN ENO AND JAH WOBBLE

A pair of wildly different Eno couplings, expanded with two

PETER GABRIEL

On the back of four big-selling studio albums and a

GALAHAD

A significant album in Galahad’s 35-year career, 1998’s Following Ghosts

MICHAEL ROTHER

Following on from 2019’s Solo box, this seven-CD set continues

MASTODON

Heavy-prog masters celebrate 20 years with a rare rock morsels

SAMURAI

Samurai’s sole album is a classic victim of progressive rock’s

RAY THOMAS

When Ray Thomas died in 2018, The Moody Blues mourned

ULTRAVOX

Although its immortal title track battled fruitlessly to topple Joe

DEVIL TAKE THE HINDMOST: THE OTHERWORLDLY MUSIC OF ALLAN HOLDSWORTH

From his debut recording in 1969 to his death in

ON TRACK… 10CC AND GODLEY & CREME: EVERY ALBUM, EVERY SONG

This track-by-track analysis of the music of 10cc and their

ON TRACK: GENTLE GIANT: EVERY ALBUM, EVERY SONG

This sprightly 120-page canter through Gentle Giant’s output is written

HAWKWIND: DAYS OF THE UNDERGROUND - RADICAL ESCAPISM IN THE AGE OF PARANOIA

Hawkwind’s status as perennial outsiders is scrupulously examined in Joe

Rikard Sjöblom

I had a great substitute teacher when I was 15

Music In Theory And Practice

Music Theories Recordings is home to the expressive and expansive,

THE GREATEST PROG MUSICIANS OF ALL TIME

We asked. You voted. In your thousands. Almost 80,000 of

5 DAVID GILMOUR

When I interviewed Nick Mason and Roger Waters and asked

4 GEDDY LEE

So, post-Rush, are you just sitting around going, “Thank God,

3 RICK WAKEMAN

“There’s no formula in progressive rock, and quite rightly so,”

2 ROBERT FRIPP

Working with Robert Fripp. It’s the kind of overawing challenge

1 NEIL PEART

He would have hated this, of course. Accolades and adulation

Hope Action Change

On the evening of August 25, 2017, America braced as

By Grace Alone

It’s tempting to look for parallels between the Biblical conversion

Folk Off

Bearded men with acoustic guitars always appeared to be the

The truth is out there

If any band has got off lightly from the carnage

Bittersweet Symphony

Tim Bowness finished work on his new album, Late Night

Jethro TullThick As A Brick

Monty Python. It might seem a little odd to mention

God’s Own COUNTRYMAN

“Most people my age are starting to think about retirement,”

Patience Is A Virtue

Touring, fatherhood, more touring and near-catastrophic vocal problems; it felt

THE PROG INTERVIEW JOHN LEES

John Lees is one of the cornerstones of 1970s progressive

FISH

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