RUSSELLK

Russell Kirkpatrick

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Member since: 2/28/2005 • Forum posts: 782 • Last visit: 12/29/2014 7:06:51 PM EST
Location: New Zealand

Progressive Biography

I'm passionate about music. I bought my first album in 1971 (Led Zeppelin IV) at the age of ten, and haven't stopped.

I grew up in the late sixties and early seventies, and listened to whatever I could. GENESIS, YES, BLACK SABBATH, LED ZEPPELIN, DEEP PURPLE, all the usual suspects, supplemented by whatever else I could find. New Zealand did not receive copies of many non-British or American records, so I remained ignorant of the wealth of progressive music from other parts of the world until recently. In the eighties I embraced post-punk, new wave and all the rest; in the nineties I found myself enjoying the so-called intellectual end of the dance music scene, acts like THE ORB, APHEX TWIN, AUTECHRE and ORBITAL. I still enjoy electronic music of all types. More recently I've delved into progressive metal, some avant-garde and other varieties of new prog. At heart, though, I'm still in love with symphonic prog.

Outside music I'm a retired senior lecturer in Geography. I run an award-wining mapmaking business. And, as a hobby, I write fantasy novels. I have had six published in Australia by HarperCollins, and in the USA and UK (by Orbit). I write epic fantasy in the Tolkien style.

I'll give anything a listen.

Reviews distribution by sub-genre

	Sub-genre	Nb of reviews	Avg rating
1	Crossover Prog	96	3.06
2	Symphonic Prog	53	3.28
3	Psychedelic/Space Rock	50	3.30
4	Prog Related	49	3.12
5	Heavy Prog	36	3.53
6	Progressive Electronic	33	2.97
7	Progressive Metal	24	2.92
8	Eclectic Prog	22	3.32
9	Prog Folk	17	3.41
10	Tech/Extreme Prog Metal	15	3.47
11	RIO/Avant-Prog	11	3.64
12	Experimental/Post Metal	9	3.33
13	Neo-Prog	6	3.17
14	Rock Progressivo Italiano	6	3.33
15	Jazz Rock/Fusion	4	3.50
16	Post Rock/Math rock	4	3.25
17	Proto-Prog	4	4.00
18	Krautrock	1	4.00

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