2015 = awesome year for prog
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Topic: 2015 = awesome year for prog
Posted By: javajeff
Subject: 2015 = awesome year for prog
Date Posted: April 26 2015 at 10:24
| I just love this year so far. Many instant classics. Grand Tour, The Tangent, Beardfish, Sylvan, Nightwish, and Steven Wilson. |
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Posted By: Rick Robson
Date Posted: April 26 2015 at 10:26
And  Steve Hackett man.-------------  "Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy." LvB |
Posted By: zravkapt
Date Posted: April 26 2015 at 10:36
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I'm currently listening to an album a band member or someone connected to the band wanted me to review: Lavoro D'amore by Roz Vitalis. http://rozvitalis.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - http://rozvitalis.bandcamp.com/ Other albums I was asked to review and enjoyed... Methexis - Suiciety Unreal City - Il paese del Tramonto None of them are better than sliced bread but all of them are better than burnt toast. ------------- Magma America Great Make Again |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: April 26 2015 at 10:44
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Some excellent releases to far. The long awaited albums of Nice Beaver and Anekdoten are instant masterpieces. Those of Cailyn Lloyd and La Coscienza di Zeno are worth a honourable mention as well. I'll have to listen to the Tangents new album yet. ------------- 
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Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: April 26 2015 at 10:45
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hi, I don't think I can complaint about ANY year of "progressive" or "prog", since the very beginning! ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: April 26 2015 at 11:18
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I think last year was stronger. The new Swilson is just :s ------------- Crushed like a rose in the riverflow. |
Posted By: LearsFool
Date Posted: April 26 2015 at 11:55
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This has been and probably will continue to be a very low-key year for prog, with a few good/great albums that don't particularly stand out, and with the new Steven Wilson being about as fun as sitting in GWB traffic. The two really great prog releases thus far have been Zs's Xe and Pond's Man It Feels Like Space Again. -------------  
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Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: April 26 2015 at 12:02
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also new Arcturus album is outo in may, -------------  
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Posted By: Imperial Zeppelin
Date Posted: April 26 2015 at 12:16
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Meh. Only prog albums I liked from this year are Unreal City's Il paese del tramonto, Föllakzoid's III and Zs' Xe ------------- "Hey there, Dog Man, now I drink from your bowl." |
Posted By: javajeff
Date Posted: April 26 2015 at 12:20
| I am really looking forward to the Leprous album. I plan to get the Steve Hackett album soon. The Anekdoken album is excellent too. There are too many to list. I do not think last year was better, but I agree with the folks that say any year with program is excellent. :) |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: April 26 2015 at 12:56
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Looking like a good year for me:- Unit Wail - Beyond Space Edges Acoustic Sense & Glas - Reaching Out Schnellertollermeier - X Soft Machine - Switzerland 1974 CD + DVD Kandinsky Effect - Somnambulist King Crimson - Live at the Orpheum Nerve Institute - Fictions Karda Estra - Strange Relations Fernwood - Arcadia Scherzoo - 03 Wilson, Steven - Hand. Cannot. Erase. Steensland, Simon - A Farewell To Brains ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: Mascodagama
Date Posted: April 26 2015 at 14:04
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The highlights for me, so far, are Karda Estra's Strange Relations, Ghost Rhythms' Madeleine, October Equus' Live at Rio Festival 2014 and Vespero's Fitful Slumber Until 5am. Quite stoked about some of what's coming up soon, notably a new one from Angel Ontalva (which looks like featuring the current October Equus lineup plus several others) and a new Guapo.
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Posted By: Komandant Shamal
Date Posted: April 26 2015 at 14:07
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Three awesome albums by Abstrakt from Poland, Šamanovo Zboži from Czech Republic and Maat Lander from Russian Federation!
http://abstraktband.bandcamp.com/album/abstrakt-limbosis-2015-digital-version" rel="nofollow - http://abstraktband.bandcamp.com/album/abstrakt-limbosis-2015-digital-version
http://samanovozbozi.bandcamp.com/album/p-b-h-ku-ete" rel="nofollow - http://samanovozbozi.bandcamp.com/album/p-b-h-ku-ete
http://raig.bandcamp.com/album/maat-lander-the-birth-of-maats-galaxy" rel="nofollow - http://raig.bandcamp.com/album/maat-lander-the-birth-of-maats-galaxy |
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: April 26 2015 at 14:12
Angel Ontalva is one of the best-kept secrets of the current prog scene. All the releases he's been involved with are nothing less than outstanding. Also agree on the Ghost Rhythms album (the band are currently under evaluation by the Eclectic Prog team), while I haven't heard the new Karda Estra yet. Anyway, in my opinion the best releases of this year so far have come from little-known bands or artists - with the sole exception of Anekdoten. |
Mascodagama wrote:Posted By: Mascodagama
Date Posted: April 26 2015 at 14:20
You managed to quote me before I edited to add the recent October Equus live album! I am a big fan of pretty much all Angel's projects. Off topic, but I wanted to thank you for hipping me to Oteme's Disenchanted Garden album on your blog. That has turned out to be one of my favourite records of the last few years. |
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: April 26 2015 at 14:22
Thank you  ! I hope to start writing again in the near future. Now I am enjoying a well-deserved break, after working so hard on those reviews for the past few years. |
Posted By: Smurph
Date Posted: April 26 2015 at 14:47
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Well for people that love extreme metal prog and avant prog this is a fantastic year! ------------- http://pseudosentai.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - http://pseudosentai.bandcamp.com/ wtf |
Posted By: JD
Date Posted: April 26 2015 at 14:54
------------- Thank you for supporting independently produced music |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: April 26 2015 at 14:58
Agree on the Karda Estra and October Equus, I just picked up the first Ghost Rhythms so will probably pick up the recent one soon. Really really looking forward the the Guapo release. It'll be James's last on on bass as he's just joined Thurston Moores band. The bassist from Thumpermonkey has replaced him. ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: Mascodagama
Date Posted: April 26 2015 at 15:06
Didn't know about that. Guess he'll be featuring on bass again. He kicks arse on bass of course, but I'd sort of like to hear him play some guitar!
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Posted By: Mascodagama
Date Posted: April 26 2015 at 15:09
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I wanted to add about Ghost Rhythms, that their keyboard player Camille Petit has a solo album out: https://ladywith.bandcamp.com/releases" rel="nofollow - https://ladywith.bandcamp.com/releases And it's good stuff, too. Actually issued in 2014 but new to me...
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Posted By: Altairius
Date Posted: April 26 2015 at 15:15
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Hand. Cannot. Erase. - Steven Wilson The Grand Experiment - The Neal Morse Band Alco Frisbass - Alco Frisbass Until All the Ghosts are Gone - Anekdoten +4626-COMFORTZONE - Beardfish Šlaǧ Tanz - Magma
Not bad at all. Bjork also had a good album. The Ciccada album was disappointing though. |
Posted By: Gully Foyle
Date Posted: April 26 2015 at 15:21
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almost 5 months in to 2015 - where is Infernal, or news of it? or do we think this is a 2016 album now?
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Posted By: Polymorphia
Date Posted: April 26 2015 at 18:24
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All the prog albums from this year that I've heard have elicited similar reactions out of me: namely, I don't know what to think of them. Not because of explicit flaws, but mostly because I streamed them once and wasn't entirely focused on the albums, or just because I wasn't sure what they were going for. I'm digging backwards with my purchases, currently. Once my birthday comes around, I'll probably buy a bunch of CDs from this year. ------------- https://dreamwindow.bandcamp.com/releases" rel="nofollow - My Music 
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Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: April 26 2015 at 19:53
| So far, a good year indeed. |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: April 26 2015 at 21:42
James plays guitar in Chrome Hoof check out their last one, it's fantastic ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: April 27 2015 at 01:28
| I would also add Lonely Robot and The Enid - The Bridge, plus the deluxe 2 disc edition of Dave Kerzner's - New World although released as a singe CD last year ( and went totally under the radar) now has 2 CD's of brilliant original music ( the second disc is not a bonus disc). Davy O'List's solo release is another great album and should be considered 'prog' and last but not least Patterson/Eyre's Northlands album which is also enchanting. Of those already mentioned I like the Wilson , Hackett and Beardfish releases. So that's 8 contenders for my album of the year and there are still 8 months to go! |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: April 27 2015 at 01:30
9 , forgot Glass Hammer |
Posted By: Mascodagama
Date Posted: April 27 2015 at 03:15
Thanks - they've been on my list of bands to check out for ages, but I wasn't aware of that. I think they just jumped up the list. |
Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: April 27 2015 at 04:26
^Would definitely have thought you owned a couple of Chrome Hoof albums You are certainly in for a treat. This band's inspiration reaches as far as Zeuhl, pop, avant, electronic, disco and metal - and they tend to cram their albums full of these unlikely bedfellows. Their newest is just about as good of a start to their discography as any
 ------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: April 27 2015 at 05:07
It is still on progstreaming .
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Posted By: Mascodagama
Date Posted: April 27 2015 at 14:03
Shocking isn't it? I sort of feel I've let the side down  Crazy world of too much good music that we live in, but I don't grumble!Chrome Black Gold it shall be. |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: April 28 2015 at 01:53
| The new version(s) of Spectral Mornings by Longdon,Booth,Hackett,Reed,Beggs and D'Virgillio is another great addition to this years releases. For those that don't know , its a charity EP in aid of Parkinson's which of course is a particularly nasty disease. Please get your wallets out for this and the bonus is that's its rather good to say the least. There are 4 versions , 2 with lyrics and 2 instrumental. I love them all! |
Posted By: Kazza3
Date Posted: April 30 2015 at 01:01
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Most of the album's I've been particularly impressed by so far this year haven't been prog, or at least not much (though I haven't gone looking for much avant yet), but some notable ones: Godspeed You Black Emperor- Asunder, Sweet and Other Desires Pond- Man It Feels Like Space Again Bjork- Vulnicura Non-prog: Kendrick Lamar- To Pimp A Butterfly Sufjan Stevens- Carrie & Lowell Courtney Barnett- Sometimes I Sit And Think... I'm a big Beardfish fan, but their new one underwhelmed me, and after several listens I don't really feel any pull at all to listen to it again. |
Posted By: XavGel
Date Posted: May 03 2015 at 13:53
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SchnellerTollerMeier X is really, really great. I can't think of something winning so fast my entire adhesion since a long time. ------------- http://ghostrhythms.bandcamp.com |
Posted By: XavGel
Date Posted: May 03 2015 at 13:56
Released in 2014, but we didn't promote The Lady with the Monkey until Madeleine's release. I may be biased, but, yes, great album...  ------------- http://ghostrhythms.bandcamp.com |
Posted By: Catcher10
Date Posted: May 03 2015 at 14:13
Yup it's been a pretty good year so far.....although still have no real liking for the Hackett album  -------------   
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Posted By: M27Barney
Date Posted: May 03 2015 at 16:31
Strange thing personal taste, this album has had the biggest four/five spin effect on me for five years.....It's absolutely brilliant from start to end (excepting the two bonus tracks I think). But my youngest son - says that Hackett can play a guitar but he isn't a good composer ! (He's sulking coz I said it was better than the S. Wilson H.C.E !!!) ------------- Play me my song.....Here it comes again....... |
Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: May 03 2015 at 17:07
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Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: May 05 2015 at 18:43
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Agreed! 2015 is shaping up to be a good one! I've listened to about 50 albums (thanks to progstreaming, band camp and spottily) so far and can claim these bands' releases as my favorites (in order): ANEKDOTEN THE PSYCHEDELIC ENSEMBLE LA COSCIENZA DI ZENO METHEXIS KLONE THE AMAZING ABSTRAKT CICCADA T he releases of SANGUINE HUM, ALCO FRISBASS, THE NERVE INSTITUTE, VOLA, STEVEN WILSON, DAVE KERZER and NICE BEAVER are also quite good. ------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: Daysbetween
Date Posted: July 03 2015 at 11:36
| New Hackett is good while SWilson album has not grown on me yet despite many plays. Anekdoten is in the post but think it will be better than my other two purchases. |
Posted By: tszirmay
Date Posted: July 03 2015 at 11:53
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Unreal City- Il Paese del Tramonto 2-
Karnataka- Secrets of Angels 3-
Progression by Failure- Sonic Travelogue 4-
Minimum Vital- Pavanes 5-
IO Earth- New World 6-
Grand Tour- Heavy on the Beach 7-
Dave Kerzner- New World 8-
Steve Hackett- Wolflight 9-
Nice Beaver- The Time it Takes 10-
Sylvan- Home 11-
Steve Wilson- Hand. Cannot. Erase 12-
Gentle Knife- same 13-
Methexis- Suiciety 14- The Tangent- A Spark in the Aether More to come (Eddie Mulder, Yak, Fjieri, Anekdoten, Seven Reizh, Brad Stock etc....) ------------- I never post anything anywhere without doing more than basic research, often in depth. |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: July 03 2015 at 12:23
it will certainly be in my top 10 come year end, brutal jazz with a minimalist twist, the title track is a monster ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: July 03 2015 at 14:13
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Animal Version (Belgium) http://animalversion.bandcamp.com/album/elsewhere" rel="nofollow - http://animalversion.bandcamp.com/album/elsewhere  A fantastic debut album! |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: July 03 2015 at 15:45
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Echolyn will release a new album on the 31st: I Heard You Listening. More info http://www.echolyn.com/presale.asp" rel="nofollow - here . Maybe the third major masterpiece of this year. I'm curious... Their self-titled 2012 album is on top of my list of 21st century prog albums.
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Posted By: infocat
Date Posted: July 04 2015 at 03:22
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Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: July 04 2015 at 04:15
Awesome new album titled Buru Haze by Kanoi from Austria: http://kanoi.bandcamp.com/album/buru-haze" rel="nofollow - http://kanoi.bandcamp.com/album/buru-haze  |
Posted By: King Manuel
Date Posted: July 10 2015 at 12:34
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Haven't yet gotten my hands in much 2015 prog yet. What I got and really like:The Barock Project -Skyline. A spark in the Aether by The Tanget is the only other prog release I purchased, but somehow I am not really warming to it. On the Non-Prog front released in 2015 an album which currently is not getting out of my CD Player: Europe - War of Kings! ------------- Don't Bore Us, Get To The Chorus |
Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: July 10 2015 at 12:48
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I'm really enjoying the new Europe album as well. ------------- 
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Posted By: Roland113
Date Posted: July 10 2015 at 13:00
Did they do a 28 minute version of The Final Countdown? ------------- -------someone please tell him to delete this line, he looks like a noob------- I don't have an unnatural obsession with Disney Princesses, I have a fourteen year old daughter and coping mechanisms. |
Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: July 10 2015 at 13:04
No. Would that get them added to PA though?  -------------
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Posted By: Kati
Date Posted: July 10 2015 at 13:07
hahaha!! The Final Countdown... terirerum terirerirum ....
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Posted By: Wolfhound
Date Posted: July 10 2015 at 13:25
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2015 is a great year for prog already and we're only halfway through it! Lots of great releases by established groups and some great debuts as well! Some of my favorites so far: Magic Pie - King For A Day Sanguine Hum - Now We Have Light Arcane - Known/Learned No More Pain - The Post Human Condition (great debut from these guys, looking forward to seeing them continue) Native Construct - Quiet World (another great debut, can't wait to see them live in August) Beardfish - Comfort Zone Breaking Orbit - Transcension Chaos Divine - Colliding Skies Leprous - The Congregation Sylvan - Home Anekdoten - Until All the Ghosts Are Gone and others as well, some already mentioned here. Plus we have new ones coming from Riverside (finally gonna get to see them live this year, YEYAH!), Subsignal, Spock's Beard, Echolyn, Godsticks and more. What a great year for prog! |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: July 10 2015 at 13:45
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Add to my previous list Jaga Jazzist Upsilon Acrux Guapo William D Drake Stepmother (new D Kerman band) ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: infocat
Date Posted: July 11 2015 at 01:09
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Posted By: Kazza3
Date Posted: July 11 2015 at 03:21
| Toe have a new album out, http://toe-music.bandcamp.com/album/hear-you" rel="nofollow - Hear You , and so do Korekyojinn, http://magaibutsu.com/mgb/korekyojinn-fall-line/" rel="nofollow - Fall Line . |
Posted By: King Manuel
Date Posted: July 12 2015 at 01:54
I actually used to be into Europe as a teen due to final countdown but later kind of totally forgot about Europe. It was years later that I heard a tune of their album Bag of Bones which is a kind of bluesy hard rock album and I bought it because I apart from Prog listen to a lot of modern Blues Rock stuff. The newest Europe "War of Kings" is less bluesy than Bag of Bones but its an amazing kick ass hard rock album. Especially enjoyable cranked up in the car while driving down the highway. ------------- Don't Bore Us, Get To The Chorus |
Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: July 12 2015 at 03:07
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Naxatras (Greece) s/t debut is awesome space rock. http://naxatras.bandcamp.com/album/naxatras" rel="nofollow - http://naxatras.bandcamp.com/album/naxatras  |
Posted By: Kati
Date Posted: July 12 2015 at 03:33
someone-else, I heard a few of their tracks last night of their new album and omg you won't be disappointed. Jazzwars especially is aaahhhh absolutely fantastic!  This album is a special gem! Wow! Big hug to you, Sonia xxxxx
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Posted By: miamiscot
Date Posted: July 12 2015 at 15:48
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Magenta and Spock's Beard also have new albums coming out!!! 2015 has been fantastic!!!
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