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WAKEMAN PLAYS TO THE GALLERY!

IF IT’S OUT THERE, IT’S IN HERE

NEW MUSIC FROM DAVE FOSTER BAND

The guitarist and singer Dinet Poortman will finally return in April with Glimmer.

FLOYD BIOGRAPHER TAKES ON HIPGNOSIS IN NEW BOOK

Gilmour and Waters feature in Mark Blake’s Us And Them.

TRANSATLANTIC’S VERY FINAL FLIGHT?

Mike Portnoy confirms the supergroup’s new live record marks “the end of an era”.

WATERS REWORKS FLOYD FOR NEW EP

Roger Waters releases the surprise digitalonly The Lockdown Sessions.

VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR LIVE BOX SET DUE IN MARCH

Their latest UK show features on The Bath Forum Concert.

KARNIVOOL’S RESCHEDULED UK/EUROPE TOUR STARTS SOON

Australian prog metal champions Karnivool have moved the

HAKEN UNLEASH THE ANIMALS WITHIN

Original keyboardist Peter Jones is back for “very progressive” new album, Fauna.

FOUR-DISC BOX SET DUE FROM THE ALAN PARSONS PROJECT

The Alan Parsons Project’s classic fifth album,

PLANK OUT TO SEA FOR ALBUM THREE!

The UK instrumentalists are going “full prog” on new release, Future Of The Sea.

NE OBLIVISCARIS ANNOUNCE FOURTH ALBUM AND TOUR

The Australians will present Exul in March, and play in May.

FAD GADGETS

Rhodri Marsden on three of the latest must-have gizmos currently putting the prog in progress.

WHITFIELD CRANE

Inspiring the wider music world…

PROG IN BRIEF

PRESS/IRENE SERRANO John Martyn’s 1990 album The Apprentice

GAUPA

Heavy Swedish art-rock quintet push at the edges of surrealism.

WILL HOUSE CONCERTS SAVE LIVE MUSIC?

This reader thinks they’re a great thing.

ONSÉGEN ENSEMBLE

Our far-out trip to far-flung prog

PROG IN BRIEF

Prog metal trio Alluvial and Swedish prog metalcore

CIRCLES

Aussie veterans refine their sound in the most confident era of the band.

GRACE AND FIRE

Big melodies and a big sound from rising English prog rockers.

ASTROSAUR

Meet the ex-Leprous and Ihsahn guitarist leading Norway’s cosmic jazz-metal explorers.

JACK HUES

Wang Chung’s vocalist-guitarist and leader of The Quartet discusses quarks, cover versions and why live shows should be different every time.

THE PROG INTERVIEW

Every month we get inside the mind of one of the biggest names in music. This issue it’s Sally Oldfield. The Irish-born singer-songwriter has enjoyed a lengthy career both as a solo artist and with folk duo The Sallyangie. She’s not only contributed to albums by her brothers Mike and Terry, but also sung with Steve Hackett and The Moody Blues’ Justin Hayward. Although her last official studio album was released in the late 90s, her back catalogue is currently being reissued and recent reworkings of her old material have brought her work to new audiences around the world. Here, she discusses being born into a talented family, her inspiration and collaborations, and whether she’ll ever release another studio album.

RIVERSIDE

Polish prog metal veterans swap weighty existential introspection to for prog-adjacent 80s synthpop on jubilant eighth album.

ANTIMATTER

A Profusion Of Thought MUSIC IN STONE

AIMING FOR ENRIKE

Empty Airports JANSEN

DAVID CARROLL AND FRIENDS

Bold Reynold TALKING ELEPHANT

CIRCLES

The Stories We Are Afraid Of Vol.1 WILD THING

D_DRIVE

Dynamotive MARSHALL RECORDS

DAMANEK

Making Shore GIANT ELECTRIC PEA

DEAD MEADOW

Force Form Free BLUES FUNERAL

ENSLAVED

Heimdal NUCLEAR BLAST

HAYLEY GRIFFITHS

Melanie/Far From Here POSH AND ROCK

DOWNRIVER DEAD MEN GO

Ruins FREIA MUSIC

EMMETT ELVIN

Being Of Sound Mind BAD ELEPHANT MUSIC

GAUPA

Myriad NUCLEAR BLAST

CLAIRE HAMILL

A Pocket Full Of Love Songs ARCHWAY MUSIC

HAMMOCK

Love In The Void HAMMOCK MUSIC/SECRETLY

HAAVARD

Haavard PROPHECY

KATATONIA

Sky Void Of Stars NAPALM

HAWKLORDS

Live At Kozfest 2022 HAWKLORDS/SHELLSHOCK DISTRIBUTION

JACOB HOLM–LUPO

Entire Of Itself APOLLON

JONATHAN HULTÉN

The Forest Sessions KSCOPE

JAZZ PROG

Sid Smith rounds up the best releases from prog’s jazzier reaches.

GLEB KOLYADIN

The Outland KSCOPE

THE LITTLE UNSAID

Fable CARBON MOON RECORDS

THE LOST VISION OF THE CHANDOO PRIEST

The Lost Vision Of The Chandoo Priest AMS

MOUNDRAG

Hic Sunt Moundrages DIONYSIAC RECORDS/MODULOR

MIRIODOR

Elements CUNEIFORM

QUIST

Breathing Space SONDER HOUSE

MORGAN REID

Terran INITIATIVE MUSIK

PSYCHEDELIC PROG

Take a trip with Rob Hughes as he seeks out the latest mind-expanding music.

UXB

Anthropocene BURNING SHED

SENDELICA

One Man’s Man… FRUITS DE MER

SOLAR CORONA

Pace LOVERS & LOLLYPOPS

THE TANGENT

Pyramids, Stars And Other Stories INSIDEOUT

TIGER MOTH TALES

A Visit To Oxfordshire WHITE KNIGHT

VERBAL DELIRIUM

Conundrum BAD ELEPHANT MUSIC

VIRTUAL SYMMETRY

Virtual Symmetry SENSORY

AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST

Grant Moon has a rummage down the back of the Prog sofa for the ones that nearly got away…

BARCLAY JAMES HARVEST

Once Again ESOTERIC

ILLUSION

Out Of The Mist/Illusion DEMON

JEAN-MICHEL JARRE

The Concerts In China: 40th Anniversary Remastered Edition SONY

KING CRIMSON

Earthbound PANEGYRIC

MAGNA CARTA

When All Is Said And Done REPERTOIRE

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Steven Wilson Presents Intrigue: Progressive Sounds In UK Alternative Music 1979-89 EDSEL/DEMON

OZRIC TENTACLES

Trees Of Eternity: 1994-2000 KSCOPE

ANTHONY PHILLIPS & JOJI HIROTA

Wildlife ESOTERIC

FRANK ZAPPA

Waka/Wazoo UMC

ADVENTURES IN MODERN RECORDING: FROM ABC TO ZTT

Trevor Horn NINE EIGHT BOOKS

THE JOURNEY INTERNAL

Robert Berry & JC Baez KINGMAKER

VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR IN THE 70S

Steve Pilkington SONICBOND PUBLISHING

RUNNING UP THE HILL: 50 VISIONS OF KATE BUSH

Tom Doyle NINE EIGHT BOOKS

OPETH

Opeth: pushing musical boundaries since 1995! ANNE-MARIE FORKER

JANE WEAVER

VENUE LONDON QUEEN ELIZABETH HALL DATE 26/11/2022 SUPPORT

JOHN PETRUCCI

Enjoying his moment in the solo spotlight. STEPHANIE

NIGHTWISH

VENUE OVO ARENA, WEMBLEY DATE 21/11/2022 You can

DAVE COUSINS

VENUE GEORGE IV, LONDON DATE 21/11/2022 Gig appearances

FROST*

Frost*: masters of their craft. KEVIN NIXON VENUE

ROSALIE CUNNINGHAM

VENUE NEW CROSS INN, LONDON DATE 27/11/2022 SUPPORT

AMORPHIS

VENUE O2 FORUM, LONDON DATE 25/11/2022 SUPPORT ELUVEITIE

PORCUPINE TREE

The “sensational” Porcupine Tree. PRESS/CARL GLOVER VENUE OVO

RUSSIAN CIRCLES

VENUE METRO, CHICAGO ILLINOIS DATE 12/11/2022 Winter is

PROG THE FOREST

VENUE THE FIDDLER’S ELBOW, LONDON DATE 04/12/2022 She

OZRIC TENTACLES/GONG

Ozric Tentacles bring Erpland to Camden. WILL IRELAND

MICHAEL ROTHER & FRIENDS CELEBRATE 50 YEARS OF NEU!

VENUE CLAPHAM GRAND, LONDON DATE 03/11/2022 Forty years

STEVE BABB (GLASS HAMMER)

The great and good of progressive music give us a glimpse into their prog worlds. As told to Grant Moon

THE PROG READERS’ POLL 2022

It’s that time of year again, folks! It’s

IN MEMORY OF NIK TURNER

He was the Mighty Thunder Rider, Hawkwind’s sax and flute player plus frontman, a flamboyant performer whose maverick spirit helped to define Britain’s free festival underground. Nik Turner may have died in November at the age of 82, but his legacy as a cosmic visionary and countercultural catalyst will live on.

KEEP PUSHING

Fifty-four years ago, Magma opened the gates to Zeuhl and unleashed their otherworldly music on our unsuspecting ears. Despite countless line-up changes, they’ve continued on their experimental path and have now arrived at their most accessible album yet, Kãrtëhl. Longtime vocalist Stella Vander Linon explains how their recent restructuring has brought new life to their unique sound, and reveals why they’re still pushing each other to keep going.

Scream Primal Therapy

After a short break, British-American-Italian supergroup O.R.k. sound more energised than ever on Screamnasium. Bassist Colin Edwin and vocalist LEF reveal why they decided to write about human connection on their cathartic fourth album.

Dancing On A Highwire

Formed in 1975, Alan Parsons Project transformed the titular man from Abbey Road engineer into a household name, both at home and away, over the space of a few years. As The Complete Albums Collection is remastered and reissued – now with The Sicilian Defence, available on vinyl for the first time – Parsons himself takes Prog through the history behind each of the 11 LPs included in the Woolfson family-approved package. And we discover if there are any more secrets hidden in the APP vault.

Behind Closed Doors

In November 2021, Big Big Train vocalist David Longdon was nearing the end of recording his second solo album, Door One, when he died unexpectedly. His friends, family and colleagues fulfilled his final wishes to finish and release the record posthumously and it’s become a fitting epitaph to the talented singer-songwriter and instrumentalist. We look back on the creation of one of 2022’s finest albums.

A CELTIC LEGACY

Ireland’s ‘Fab Five’, Horslips emerged from a troubled country to become the prog saviours of their national heritage. Fifty years on, with the release of an expansive box set featuring a staggering array of previously unavailable music, the band’s biographer takes Prog through the making of their 1972 debut album… and how it earned the wrath of Rolling Stone Mick Jagger.

“WE’RE VOIVOD – WE’RE NEVER GOING TO SOUND LIKE ANYONE ELSE!”

In 1989, Canadians Voivod tapped into their love of Pink Floyd and classical music to create an album that would push them to the forefront of the growing progressive metal movement. Nothingface was their first release for a major label – and it remains their most successful to date. This is the story behind their “trippy” record that not only changed Voivod but also prog metal… forever.

The Saga Of The Space Ritual

After blasting out of the underground via the acid-laced rocket fuel of Silver Machine, Hawkwind created a spectacular multimedia live show unlike anything seen or heard before: the Space Ritual. Celebrating its 50th anniversary, this is the story of its creation and of the extraordinary album it gave rise to.