Ed’s Letter

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

BLOODY WELL WRITE

I just wanted to say thank you for the feature

JON ANDERSON TO RELEASE EXPANDED SONG OF SEVEN

Jon Anderson is to release an expanded version of Song

BARRE MARKS TULL’S HALF-CENTURY

Martin Barre celebrates Jethro Tull’s half-century career with the release

ANATHEMA STUN FANS BY REVEALING HIATUS

Anathema have left fans stunned by the announcement that they’re

LOOK OUT: FROST*’S WINTER IS COMING!

British progressive rockers Frost* will release a career-spanning limited edition

INTRO extras

The organisers of the annual RushFest Scotland event are behind

KATATONIA AIM TO FILL DEAD AIR

Katatonia will release new live album Dead Air on November

DREAM THEATER UNITE TWO WORLDS ON LIVE RECORDING

Dream Theater will release Distant Memories - Live In London

LUNATIC SOUL’S NEW JOURNEY

Riverside vocalist Mariusz Duda will release Through Shaded Woods, his

ROB REED GOES ELECTRONIC

Welsh multi-instrumentalist Rob Reed will release Cursus 123 430, his

SANGUINE HUM ARE SURPRISED TO BE BACK

Sanguine Hum are as surprised as everyone else to be

FAD GADGETS

Consider the fearsome technological power of the smartphone. One of

BARNEY GREENWAY

“My dad was into bands like Led Zeppelin and Deep

PROG IN BRIEF

Voivod will release Lost Machines - Live on November 27

KOJ

SOMETIMES THINGS ARE just meant to be. Back in 2007,

CHRIS DE BURGH

The inclusion of Chris De Burgh in this column is

MAOR APPELBAUM

Israeli-born prog fan Maor Appelbaum found success in the music

POISONOUS BIRDS

CHIRRUPING CAN BE heard at the other end of the

The prog top 30 albums

ASIAN DEATH CRUSTACEAN

“IN A SENSE we’re a band that shouldn’t really exist,”

DAVE BROCK

Eight years after their debut Stellar Variations, Hawkwind Light Orchestra

Breathe In Deep

“Change is a very important thing. On any level, I

Never FOR Ever THE STORIES BEHIND THE SONGS

‘I’ve been out before, but this time it’s much safer

Tears For Fears

Roland Orzabal is talking about his fondness for Genesis and

INTERVIEW JACQUI McSHEE

It’s not 20 miles from where Jacqui McShee was born

KING CRIMSON

What a curious, fascinating Frankenstein’s monster King Crimson’s 1969 debut

FATES WARNING

Re-signed to Metal Blade after three albums on InsideOut, prog

BELBURY POLY

If Ghost Box’s aesthetic is based around the half-heard, half-remembered

CARLTON MELTON

Light the incense, draw the curtains, get horizontal and turn

CHAOS DIVINE

Australian prog metallers ramp up the melody on their fourth

DARWIN

At only 30 minutes in length, Darwin 2: A Frozen

HOLY SONS

Emil Amos, the multi-instrumentalist from Om and Lilacs, has been

EDDIE JOBSON

From Roxy Music to Yes, Eddie Jobson has played on

THE FLOWER KINGS

Roine Stolt and co defy Covid to continue their prolific

SANGUINE HUM

Some bands seem to occupy their own pocket universe, exploring

KING MOTHERSHIP

Periphery frontman Spencer Sotelo and drummer Matt Halpern’s King Mothership

LARAAJI

Earth’s only satellite exerts a continuous yet physically imperceptible force

DAVID MINASIAN

Despite a multifaceted four-decade career as a film editor and

ELLIOT

Offspring of art rock royalty comes into his own on

PANZERBALLETT

How exactly do you Iffollow up an album of jazz-metal

PYMLICO

Groovy, baby! Oslo’s Pymlico have the sort of name that

SÒLSTAFIR

There’s always been something obvious about Icelandic post-metal heroes Solstafir,

WOBBLER

There are many bands out there, skilfully evoking the spirit

DEVIN TOWNSEND

Devin Townsend’s last album and video, Live At Plovdiv, marked

TURNING VIRTUE

Beautifully varied album of rock and prog from some of

VICTOR’S RAMPAGE

Former Enochian Theory drummer Sam Street and bassist Shaun Rayment

RICHARD WILEMAN

Karda Estra man consults the tarot on his warped, wonderful

WORLDSERVICE PROJECT

WorldService Project are fired up with righteous fury on their

YES

Taken from their 2019 appearances at the Las Vegas Hard

AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST

Veronese singer/guitarist Kavee is a member of Galaverna and Slap

TEARS FOR FEARS

Impressive, immersive, and featuring a wealth of previously unreleased recordings,

MANSUN

“ Nobody cares when you’re gone,” sang Paul Draper on

PURE REASON REVOLUTION

Since its release in 2006, Pure Reason Revolution’s debut The

RHINOCEROS

Rhinoceros were assembled Monkees-style in 1967 by hot shot Elektra

TANGERINE DREAM

Before he passed away in January 2015, Edgar Froese gave

TREVOR RABIN

There was a reason that Trevor Rabin was so highly

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Living On The Hill - A Danish Underground Trip 1967-1974

FRANK ZAPPA

Frank Zappa’s Halloween residency at the New York Palladium was

TREES

Trees’ two studio albums The Garden Of Jane Delawney (1970)

CIRCULINE

For anyone who has never seen Circuline onstage, this DVD

PINK FLOYD IN THE 1970s

The latest addition to the cottage industry of books chronicling

THIS ISN’T HAPPENING - RADIOHEAD’S KID A AND THE BEGINNING OF THE 21ST CENTURY

Intriguing examination of why Kid A was the new millennium’s

MARILLION IN THE 1980s

Anyone keen to delve into the backstory of neo-prog’s great

Stuart Nicholson of Galahad

Hearing Genesis’ Selling England By The Pound as a teenager,

Between Us

He finds it strange to talk about all this without

Dangerous Ideas

“It’s a difficult album to get into. It doesn’t welcome

Art For Art’s Sake

“I think it’s part of an artist’s function to comment

Myth Congeniality

2020 has been a thoroughly ruinous year for just about

Aphrodite’s Child 666

Salvador Dalí was no stranger to the bizarre. The Spanish

IN TRANSIT

Arjen Lucassen has never been a man to do anything

Going For The One

In 2019, Trondheim’s hairiest experimental rockers Motorpsycho were on a

Fiddler on the hoof

By his own admission, Eddie Jobson is a detail-oriented kind

Keep On Dreaming

“You can’t help but change,” John Petrucci says when asked

The Night Watch

“I’ve known Peter Hammill over the years and more recently

RÏCÏNN

Best known as operatic co-vocalist with French art-metal crackpots Igorrr,

THE SILENCE

Tokyo quartet The Silence swear by an analogue approach to

SOUL SECRET

Having issued four albums on four separate labels, this Neapolitan

POST-ROCK

Post-rock linchpins Mogwai dropped a surprise live album in September

SOLSTICE

While not as prolific nor as high-profile as some of

STEALING THE FIRE

Is there such thing as “a long time” in the

STEELSWARM

Bigger is better is prog’s eternal maxim, so Sydney trio

STRANGE NEW DAWN

In the throbbing engine room of this Norwegian prog metal

TASKAHA

This debut from Norwegian quintet Taskaha has apparently been in

TERJE RYPDAL

Norwegian guitarist Terje Rypdal’s music has always been at its

TERAMAZE

Teramaze’s musicality has always been impressive. Moreover they craft quality

PROGRESSIVE METAL

David Davidson is best known as guitarist and frontman with