101 Dimensions curated by Anthony Rowsick, March 2022: 1. The Orb – Earth Orbit One: Little Fluffy Clouds; Earth Orbit Two: Earth (Gaia); and Earth Orbit Three: Supernova at the End of the Universe (26:12) (from the album The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld, 1991) 2. John Carpenter – Distant Dream; White Pulse; Persia Rising; Angel's Asylum; and Hofner Dawn (19:24) (from the album Lost Themes II, 2016) 3. Anne Dudley – What Dreams May Come; Variations on a Groove; and Crazy Lullaby (24:44...
Mar 30, 2022•1 hr 51 min
This week on Prog-Watch: great new music from D'Virgilio, Morse, and Jennings, Tears For Fears, The Flower Kings, Kite Parade, and Marillion! Then, in the second half of the program I will finish up the feature on Chris Ramsing and his band PsychoYogi which I began last week! We'll hear a bit more chat, and a bit more of PsychoYogi's unique brand of “leftfield punk jazz”!
Mar 29, 2022•1 hr 32 min•Season 1Ep. 1
This week's Prog-Watch is a bit of a mixed bag! The first part of the program will be a Guest DJ feature with some music selected by Mr. David Rees of the UK! David's playlist includes great stuff from Meer, Marillion, IQ, Jadis, Asia, Kracked Earth, I Am The Manic Whale and Big Big Train! In the second half of the program I begin a feature on Chris Ramsing and his eclectic band, PsychoYogi, including a bit of chat and selections from the first few PsychoYogi albums!
Mar 22, 2022•1 hr 29 min•Season 1Ep. 1
More astounding progressive sounds await on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear music from Tiger Moth Tales, Lobate Scarp, Silver Nightmares, Black Sabbath (yes, Black Sabbath!) and Yes! Plus, our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, will take us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with Life In Two Dimensions, the latest solo album by Dec Burke!
Mar 15, 2022•1 hr 30 min•Season 1Ep. 1
This week on Prog-Watch it's Part Two of my coverage of Sonja Kristina! More of our chat and more great music from Curved Air, and her solo career and collaborations with Ty-Lor and Friends, Cloud 10, and Mask!
Mar 08, 2022•1 hr 28 min•Season 1Ep. 1
101 Dimensions curated by Anthony Rowsick, February 2022: 1. Bo Hansson – Attic Thoughts; Time and Space; Waiting...; Waltz for Interbeings; and Time For Great Achievements ( 21:26) (from the album Attic Thoughts, 1976) 2. Michael Hoenig – Hanging Garden Transfer; Voices of Where; and Sun and Moon (21:31) (from the album Departure from the Northern Wasteland, 1978) 3. Kraftwerk - The Voice Of Energy; Antenna; Radio Stars; Uranium; Transistor; and Ohm Sweet Ohm (17:30) (from the album Radio-Activ...
Mar 03, 2022•1 hr 55 min
This week on Prog-Watch I start a great two-part feature on one of prog rock's Grande Dames, Ms. Sonja Kristina of Curved Air! Tune in to hear some of our chat and lots of great music from all across her long and illustrious career!
Mar 01, 2022•1 hr 29 min•Season 1Ep. 1
This week's Prog-Watch is all about lions and tigers and bears! Oh my! Join me for a bevy of beastly tunes from David Bowie Steve Howe, Stick Men, Adrian Belew, Steve Hackett, Zebra, Roy Wood, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Purson, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Steve Thorne, Stone Temple Pilots, Transport Aerian, Golden Earring, Paul Draper, Kate Bush, Dhani Harrison, and Asia! All in 90 minutes! Oh my, indeed!
Feb 22, 2022•1 hr 27 min•Season 1Ep. 1
This week's Prog-Watch is another straight-up variety program, with lots of diverse, mostly contemporary progressive rock for your listening enjoyment! Tune in to hear great stuff from Karibow, Cosmograf, Steve Gresswell, This Winter Machine, Montrose, A Formal Horse, Belling The Tiger, Trettioariga Kriget, Transatlantic, GorMusik, and Andrew Roussak!
Feb 15, 2022•1 hr 30 min•Season 1Ep. 1
Lots of fantastic stuff has come across my digital desktop lately, so this week's Prog-Watch is a straight-up variety program full of awesome, mostly contemporary progressive rock! I've got great music from Pinn Dropp, Dave Bainbridge, A Gardening Club Project, Drive In Movie Band, Starfish64, Temple of Switches, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, The Bedlam Furnaces, Symfinity, Empire, and David Cross and Andrew Keeling! I hope you will join me!
Feb 08, 2022•1 hr 29 min•Season 1Ep. 1
101 Dimensions curated by Anthony Rowsick, late January 2022: 1. Spacelords – Cosmic Trip (24:20) (from the album SpaceFlowers, 2020) 2. Ott – Jack's Cheese and Bread Snack; and Somersettler (20:23) (from the album Blumenkraft, 2003) 3. Trinity Ward – Between the Edges of the Universe; Artifact; Make It Be; and Transmission (Ethereal Mix) (18:41) (from the album Enter the Infinite, 2010) 4. Baber / Wileman – Passing Wave; 2009; Day Follows Night; and The Birth of Spring (19:14) (from the album B...
Feb 02, 2022•1 hr 41 min
This week on Prog-Watch it's Part Two of my coverage of Dec Burke! More of our chat and more great music from his solo career, as well as AudioPlastik, Dilemma, Frost*, and Darwin's Radio! Plus, a little bit of interesting news! Tune in to hear it!
Feb 01, 2022•1 hr 31 min•Season 1Ep. 1
This week on Prog-Watch I start a great two-part feature on my very special guest, Dec Burke, solo artist and past member of Frost*, AudioPlastik, Dilemma, and Darwin's Radio! Tune in to hear some of our chat and lots of great music from all across his career!
Jan 25, 2022•1 hr 27 min•Season 1Ep. 1
This week's Prog-Watch is another edition of our Explorations series, this one looking at Neo-Progressive Rock, or Neo-Prog, for short! In this program we'll explore the Neo-Prog sub-genre through great music from Marillion, IQ, Galahad, Pendragon, Arena, Magenta, Comedy of Errors, Collage, Sylvan, and the Barock Project!
Jan 18, 2022•1 hr 29 min•Season 1Ep. 1
This week on Prog-Watch it's Part Two of my two-part collaboration with The Progressive Aspect on some of the best albums of 2021! More great TPA commentary on music from A Formal Horse, 3.2, Trettioariga Kriget, The Holy Family, The Paradox Twin, Steven Wilson, Three Colours Dark, This Winter Machine, Drifting Sun, and Mostly Autumn!
Jan 11, 2022•1 hr 36 min•Season 1Ep. 1
101 Dimensions curated by Anthony Rowsick, January 2022: 1. Keith Emerson – And Then January; Pictures at an Exhibition; and Abaddon's Bolero Orchestral (18:58) (from the album Off the Shelf, 2006) 2. Richard Barbieri – Nevada; Fear and Trembling; and Light on Glass (17:22) (from the album Things Buried, 2004) 3. Jon Lord – Window: 1st Movement – Renga; 2nd Movement – Gemini; and 3rd Movement – Alla Marcia; Allegro (32:15) (from the album Windows, 1974) 4. Darkroom – Amor Mundi; The Last Sense t...
Jan 05, 2022•1 hr 47 min
Happy New Year! Join us and start the year off right with some of the best progressive rock produced last year, as we begin our Prog-Watch and The Progressive Aspect collaboration on the Best of 2021! We'll hear music from Raven Sad, Sylvan, Lifesigns, Cyan, The Emerald Dawn, Octarine Sky, and Big Big Train! With brief reviews by our TPA contributors, Tony Colvill, David Edwards, Rob Fisher, Magnus Moar, Bob Mulvey, Jez Rowden, Graham Thomas, Roger Trenwith, and Leo Trimming!...
Jan 04, 2022•1 hr 29 min•Season 1Ep. 1
This week I've got a new Prog-Watch Christmas special which I hope will help get you into the spirit of the Season! Lot's of great stuff and no talking (well, aside from the preamble...) This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/3136310/advertisement
Dec 21, 2021•1 hr 29 min
This week on Prog-Watch it's another variety program full of fabulous stuff for your listening enjoyment! I've got great music from Porcupine Tree, Kosmodome, Octarine Sky, Al Stewart, Viriditas, Marillion, Burntfield, PsychoYogi, Billy Joel, Ross Jennings, and Transport Aerian!
Dec 14, 2021•1 hr 31 min•Season 1Ep. 1
101 Dimensions curated by Anthony Rowsick, December 2021: 1. Ott – 16mm Summer Day; Coursing Batch; and Harwell Dekatron (23:24) (from the album Fairchildren (2015) 2. Vangelis Mouettes; Chromatique; Irlande; and Flamants Roses (22:29) (from the album Opera Sauvage, 1979) 3. Röyksopp – Silver Cruiser; True To Life; It's What I Want; and Across The Graveyard (17:56) (from the album Junior, 2009) 4. John Carpenter – Abyss; Wraith; Purgatory; and Night (18:54) (from the album Lost Themes, 2015) 5. ...
Dec 08, 2021•1 hr 45 min
Get your "Royal Highness" on with Prog-Watch this week, with our theme of Kings and Queens! Tune in to hear lots of regal refrains from The Moody Blues, Jump, Richard Thompson, The Nice, Jethro Tull, Oliver Wakeman and Steve Howe, Bankstatement, Arena, Camel, Al Stewart, The Strawbs, Pendragon, Tony Lowe and Alison Fleming, Ken Hensley, ELO, and Renaissance!
Dec 07, 2021•1 hr 28 min•Season 1Ep. 1
More great, contemporary progressive sounds await on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear music from Moron Police, Glacier, Jethro Tull, A Secret River, and Hasse Fröberg & Musical Companion! Plus, our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, returns to take us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with the latest album by Three Colours Dark!
Nov 30, 2021•1 hr 28 min•Season 1Ep. 1
This week on Prog-Watch I'm digging through the vaults and doing an entire show of Prog Rock classic tracks! I'll be spinning tunes from Steve Hackett, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Spring, Abel Ganz, Badfinger, Marillion, Rick Wakeman, The Alan Parsons Project, Fantasy, 10CC, Kestrel, Ryo Okumoto, and It Bites!
Nov 23, 2021•1 hr 28 min•Season 1Ep. 1
This week's Prog-Watch is a straight-up variety program full of great contemporary progressive rock! I've got fantastic stuff from Leslie Hunt, Fantasy, This Winter Machine, Hangar Nord, Premiata Forneria Marconi, Kosmodome, Cyan, Yes, Red Sand, and Glass Hammer! I hope you will join me!
Nov 16, 2021•1 hr 28 min•Season 1Ep. 1
101 Dimensions curated by Anthony Rowsick, November 2021: 1. Vangelis – Atlas's Push; Inside Our Perspectives; Out In Space; Juno's Quiet Determination; and Jupiter's Intuition (20:43) (from the album Juno To Jupiter, 2021) 2. Public Service Broadcasting – Lichtspiel I – Opus; Lichtspiel II – Schwarz Weiss Grau; Lichtspiel III – Symphonie Diagonale; and Ich Und Die Stadt (17:39) (from the album Bright Magic, 2021) 3. Kosmogon – Somnus (22:57) (from the album Mässan, 2021) 4. Edgar Froese – Tropi...
Nov 10, 2021•1 hr 47 min
I'm doing another of my band family tree explorations on Prog-Watch this week and my subject is the classic US band Spock's Beard! We'll hear from the band proper, and many of the major members, past and present! Join me to hear all the great stuff that I shake out of the Spock's Beard Family Tree!
Nov 09, 2021•1 hr 26 min•Season 1Ep. 1
More astounding progressive sounds await on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear music from Fractal Mirror, Alex Pilkevych, Alcantara, Krokofant, Tom Slatter, Choclat Frog, Pentesilea Road, and Premiata Forneria Marconi! Plus, our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, will take us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with the solo debut of Riverside kyeboardist Michal Lapaj!
Nov 02, 2021•1 hr 29 min•Season 1Ep. 1
As a warm-up (or bone-chill) for Samhain or Halloween, this week's Prog-Watch is all about nightmares and the macabre! With songs concerning things spooky or supernatural from Alice Cooper, Atomic Rooster, King Crimson, Uriah Heep, Kansas, Rush, Anthony Phillips, Spock's Beard, Pink Floyd, Steven Wilson, and Jethro Tull! Join me...if you dare!
Oct 26, 2021•1 hr 27 min•Season 1Ep. 1
On this week's Prog-Watch my special guest is the charming Mariana Semkina of iamthemorning! Tune in to hear some of our chat, as well as lots of great iamthemorning music, and music from her solo career, including a few from her new EP Disillusioned!
Oct 19, 2021•1 hr 29 min•Season 1Ep. 1
101 Dimensions curated by Anthony Rowsick - October 2021: 1. Ulrich Schnauss – Melts Into Air; Love Grows Out Of Thin Air; The Magic In You; and Thoughtless Motion (23:03) (from the album Now Is A Timeless Present: A Retrospective, 2019) 2. Spacelords – Spaceflowers; and Frau Kuhnkes Kosmos (25:18) (from the album Spaceflowers, 2020) 3. Jansen Barbieri Karn – The Shallow Pool; To The Core; Sacrifice; and Cold Light (20:27) (from the album Ism, 1999) 4. Ennio Morricone and John Carpenter – Main T...
Oct 13, 2021•1 hr 55 min
