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NORDIC GIANTS (FINALLY) SPEAK
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NORDIC GIANTS (FINALLY) SPEAK
In the first full interview of their 10-year career, the reclusive post–rockers give Prog the scoop on new album Symbiosis, and discuss the plan for their upcoming UK tour.
Nordic Giants celebrate “the union between two elements and between us as individuals” on new album Symbiosis.
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Send your letters to us at: Prog, Future Publishing, 121-141 Westbourne Terrace, London, W2 6JR, or email prog@futurenet.com . Letters may be edited for length. We regret that we cannot reply to phone calls. For more comment and prog news and views, find us on facebook.com under Prog
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ANIMALS GET HEAVY ON ALBUM FIVE
Instrumental pioneers Animals As Leaders found ‘more is more’ on new LP Parrhesia.
STEVE HACKETT TO TOUR AS FOXTROT TURNS 50
The star will play the Genesis classic in full at UK shows
FLOWER KINGS BACK BYROYALDECREE
Their new, 15th album opens a year that will include live shows and a reissue campaign
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WILDERUN GET ‘META’ ON NEW ALBUM
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Clive Mitten revisits and reorchestrates the music that made him, on Suite Sixteen.
ROSALIE CUNNINGHAM BACK WITH ALBUM TWO AND TOUR
European and UK dates mark release of Two Piece Puzzle.
VON HERTZENS ARE ON ‘RED ALERT’
The Finns bring nuance and meaning to eighth album, Red Alert In The Blue Forest.
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VOIVOD GET THAT SYNCHING FEELING
Canadian proggers adapted to remote working on new release, Synchro Anarchy.
LOOP RETURN WITH FIRST NEW ALBUM IN 32 YEARS!
Robert Hampson’s influential band are back with Sonancy
FAD GADGETS
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RICKY PHILLIPS
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PROG IN BRIEF
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ELECTRIC EYE
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NO SONGS? NO PROBLEM!
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DUSK MATTER
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DYNATRON
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BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME
On 2007 album Colors North Carolina’s progressive metal luminaries put prog and metal on a collision course, and now they’re revisiting those early years with a spiritual sequel. Two members of the band talk to Prog about the new record, which has echoes of the past while staring boldly into the future
INTERVIEW FISH
Every month we get inside the mind of one of the biggest names in music. This issue it’s Derek Dick, who, as Fish, rose to fame in the early 80s as frontman for prog game-changers Marillion. Four UK Top 10 albums, three Top 10 singles and one spectacularly acrimonious split later, he began his own eventful solo career, and in 2020 released his swansong album, Weltschmerz, to great acclaim. We sent one of our tallest writers to look the former lumberjack right in the eye (more or less) and ask him the questions you always wanted to…
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IN MEMORY OF DAVID LONGDON
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In The Biblical Sense
The new Jethro Tull alb`um comes nearly 20 years after the last, and draws on the Bible, the modern world and many of the band’s classic-era qualities too. Ian Anderson talks Covid, Christianity and the creation of The Zealot Gene.
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Premiata Forneria Marconi, aka PFM, have been one of Italy’s leading lights since 1970. Inspired by sci-fi movies and social media culture, they recently returned to the studio to create the dynamic I Dreamed Of Electric Sheep. Prog catches up with Franz Di Cioccio and Patrick Djivas to discuss their past, present and future
In Bloom
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Shooting For The Moon
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Liberation is a word that’s been on a lot of people’s minds over the last two years, and jazz fusion pioneer John McLaughlin has turned that idea into the topic of his latest solo album. The 4th Dimension leader discusses Miles Davis, the Mahavishnu Orchestra’s legendary debut album, and Liberation Time
FEELINGS ARE GOOD
Five years ago, Maybeshewill hung up their instruments for what they thought would be the last time. Now, after half a decade away, the post-rock masters are back for their victory lap, armed with the cinematic new album, No Feeling Is Final. Co-founding guitarist John Helps tells Prog the story behind their unexpected return
Blooming Misery
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It’s been 10 years since actor-comedian and prog polymath Matt Berry signed with Acid Jazz, bringing his lauded acid-folk record Witchazel to an eager audience. So, with the release of box set Gather Up, it’s time to reflect on a decade of soulful progression, surreal experimentation and TV theme celebration – as Berry marvels that it all even happened at all
THE FUTURE’S BRIGHT, AT LAST!
Progressive music old and new come together once more in Holland in April for the Prognosis festival 2022. Our forecast is: the event will have been worth the wait… Your guide: Phil Weller
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