Visit fantastical realms with Prog-Watch this week, where our theme is indeed fantasy! Tune in to hear lots of great sounds from Aldo Nova, The Tangent, Billy Joel, Introitus, The Kinks, Traffic, Patrick Moraz, Black Bonzo, Trevor Rabin, Mike Pinder, Paul Sutin & Steve Howe, Uriah Heep, Triumph, Mediaeval Baebes, and Steve Hackett!
Sep 20, 2022•1 hr 28 min•Season 1Ep. 1
Nearly two hours of great electronic, ambient, and progressive music from Kraftwerk, Synergy, Hawkwind, Mike Oldfield, and Fripp & Eno! See http://progwatch.com/101-dimensions-electronic-music/ for more details. 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...
Sep 14, 2022•1 hr 47 min
This week's Prog-Watch is a variety show with a Guest DJ Feature! Our Guest DJ is Brody Peddle of Canada, who has suggested some great stuff from UK, Anekdoten, Nektar, Broken Social Scene, Gosta Berlings Saga, Knifeworld, and Igorrr! For my part I will be mixing in new music from Sudler's Row, John Beagley, Fearful Symmetry, Moon Letters, The Mighty Handful, and Red Bazar! Tune in to hear a real mixed bag!
Sep 13, 2022•1 hr 33 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 Big Big Train, John Holden, the Intelligent Music Project, Geoff Downes, Cosmograf, Dave Kerzner, Moon Letters, Ryo Okumoto, Armageddon, Fearful Symmetry, and Paul Simon! I hope you will join me!
Sep 06, 2022•1 hr 30 min•Season 1Ep. 1
Another oldie but goodie that I thought could use a little remaster: The Psychedelic Special! A special feature on a very fascinating time in the history of music. More specifically, the Psychedelic period in the mid-to-late 1960s. This was a very creative and fertile time in which established bands such as the Beatles, the Who, the Moody Blues, and Cream figured prominently. It also saw the arrival of important nascent talents such as Pink Floyd and the young Jeff Lynne, Roy Wood, David Bowie, ...
Aug 30, 2022•1 hr 27 min•Season 1Ep. 1
This week's Prog-Watch is another edition of our Explorations series, this one looking at Progressive Folk! In this program we'll explore the Prog Folk sub-genre through great music from Fairport Convention, Comus, Spirogyra, Jethro Tull, Magna Carta, Jan Dukes de Grey, The Strawbs, Harmonium, Steeleye Span, and Clannad!
Aug 23, 2022•1 hr 33 min•Season 1Ep. 1
101 Dimensions curated by Anthony Rowsick, August 2022: 1. Peter Baumann – Strangers In The Night; Metro Man; King Of The Jungle; Be Mine; and Time Machine (from the album Strangers In The Night, 1983) 2. Thomas Dolby – She Blinded Me With Science (extended mix); Radio Silence; Airwaves; Flying North; and Weightless (from the album The Golden Age Of Wireless, 1982) 3. Hawkwind – It's The Business Of The Future To Be Dangerous; I Am The Eye That Looks Within; and Quark, Strangeness, and Charm (fr...
Aug 17, 2022•1 hr 52 min
This week's Prog-Watch is a themed special called School Days! With fabulous music by The Kinks, Argent, Comedy of Errors, Pete wnshend, Godley & Creme, Big Country, Gentle Giant, Stone Temple Pilots, Frank Zappa, Van Halen, Joe Walsh, Paul Simon, Jon & Vangelis, Jethro Tull, and Rush!
Aug 16, 2022•1 hr 30 min•Season 1Ep. 1
This week's Prog-Watch is another edition of Epix! But this time around I've done something a little different. The songs are all still 10 plus minutes in length, but this time there is more emphasis on the contemporary. Only one track comes from the 70s...the rest are from this century, with one from 2001, one from 2018, and two from this year. Tune in to hear great progressive sounds from Yes, The Watch, Ben Craven, All Traps on Earth, and Athak!
Aug 09, 2022•1 hr 28 min•Season 1Ep. 1
A plethora 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 Combinator, Evership, Grombira, The Bedlam Furnaces, Numen, Robert Berry's 3.2, The Samurai of Prog, Lucifer Was, Head Spin, Porcupine Tree, and Glass Island!
Aug 02, 2022•1 hr 27 min•Season 1Ep. 1
I sometimes listen to old shows to see how I've progressed. In listening to this first edition in my “Shaking the Tree” series, I really liked the content, but feel the sound quality leaves a little to be desired. So I decided to remaster it, and in many cases used tracks from remastered versions of the albums. Since I had time, I also included a bonus track at the end. Sonically, the program is far superior to the program (although there was only so much I could do with the voice track). Anyway...
Jul 26, 2022•1 hr 26 min•Season 1Ep. 1
I hope you will join me on Prog-Watch this week when I will be exploring some of the vast Musical World of the late Jon Lord! We'll hear great music from Deep Purple and his solo career, of course, as well as some of his other work with Tony Ashton, Whitesnake, and George Harrison!
Jul 19, 2022•1 hr 26 min•Season 1Ep. 1
More astounding progressive sounds await on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear music from Bill Bruford, Nick Fletcher, Robert Berry's 3.2, The Prog Collective, Caravaggio, Andrew Ruoti, and Grombira! Plus, our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, will take us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with the latest release by the Finnish band Poets of the Fall!
Jul 12, 2022•1 hr 30 min•Season 1Ep. 1
Join Rob Fisher, Magnus Moar and Big Tony on Prog-Watch this week for a look at some of the greatest keyboard virtuosos to ever grace our favorite genre! Guess who made the program, based on the episode's cover art! Even if you can guess them all, you won't want to miss this one! It's a belter!
Jul 05, 2022•1 hr 29 min•Season 1Ep. 1
This week on Prog-Watch it's Part Two of my coverage of Dave Bainbridge! More chat with Dave, more great solo music, and more great music from his work with the Strawbs, Lifesigns, the Downes Braide Association, and Dave Fitzgerald!
Jun 28, 2022•1 hr 29 min•Season 1Ep. 1
101 Dimensions curated by Anthony Rowsick, June 2022: 1. Gary Numan – Resurrection; Big Noise Transmission; Dead Sun Rising; When The Sky Bleeds, He Will Come; and For The Rest of My Life (22:31) (from the album Dead Son Rising, 2011) 2. Klaus Schulze – Mindphaser (25:37) (from the album Moondawn, 1976) 3. Nik Turner – We Came In Peace; and Interstellar Clouds (20:21) (from the album Space Fusion Odyssey, 2015) 4. Vangelis – Chariots of Fire (20:41) (from the album Chariots of Fire, 1982) 5. Mik...
Jun 22, 2022•1 hr 50 min
This week on Prog-Watch my very special guest is Dave Bainbridge, multi-instrumentalist and co-founder of Iona, solo artist, and collaborator with many bands and artists including Lifesigns, the Strawbs, the Downes Briade Association, and Sally Minnear! Dave and I had a lot to talk about, so tune in to hear some of that chat, and lots of great music from his diverse career!
Jun 21, 2022•1 hr 32 min•Season 1Ep. 1
This week's Prog-Watch is a variety program with a Guest DJ Feature, which will have lots of great stuff---new and old---for your listening pleasure! For my part I'll be spinning fabulous music from Green Asphalt, 3.2, and Ben Craven! I'll also be mixing in selections from our Guest DJ, Mr. Andrew Dickey of Plainfield, Indiana, USA! Andrew has selected some fantastic stuff from Galahad, Lucifer Was, RPWL, Rush, Rocket Scientists, and King Crimson! Come along for a fun ride!
Jun 14, 2022•1 hr 30 min•Season 1Ep. 1
Wow have I got a lot of diverse, new progressive rock for you on this week's Prog-Watch! Tune in to hear great stuff from Greyfox Agenda, Pattern-Seeking Animals, Pymlico, The Bardic Depths, Lobate Scarp, Checking For Echo Project, Christopher Libertino, Kite Parade, Gordon Giltrap and Oliver Wakeman, Art Griffins Sound Chaser, Stuckfish, Godley and Creme, and Hats Off Gentlemen, It's Adequate! All in 90 minutes!
Jun 07, 2022•1 hr 30 min•Season 1Ep. 1
This week's Prog-Watch is another edition of EPIX! Just a handful of mini modern symphonies will carry us through our time together and I'll spread the love across the decades of our favorite genre! Tune in to hear great music from Transatlantic, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Unitopia, Mystery, and Wobbler!
May 31, 2022•1 hr 29 min•Season 1Ep. 1
101 Dimensions curated by Anthony Rowsick, May 2022: 1. Nerissa Schwarz – Raised Like a Daughter; My Little Polymath; New Eyes For Laika; Europa Waiting; and Making Plans For Departure (21:56) (from the album New Eyes For Laika, 2022) 2. Klaus Schulze - L'affaire Tournesol (19:38) (from the Jubilee Edition box set, 1997) 3. Vangelis – Heaven and Hell (21:42) (from the album Heaven and Hell, 1975) 4. Redshift – Toll (20:44) (from the album Toll, 2006) 5. Klaus Schulze - Fourneau Cosmique (25:35) ...
May 25, 2022•1 hr 50 min
More great, contemporary progressive sounds await on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear music from Lobate Scarp, Pattern-Seeking Animals, Time Dwellers, Spriggan Mist, and Better Strangers! Plus, our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, returns to take us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with the latest album by the ESP Project!
May 24, 2022•1 hr 27 min•Season 1Ep. 1
This week on Prog-Watch I'm digging into some of the vast Musical World of Manfred Mann! From his early days in the '60s pop band that bore his name, through the jazz explorations of Manfred Mann Chapter Three, to the more progressive sounds of Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred has had a long and diverse career! I hope you will join me in exploring some of it!
May 17, 2022•1 hr 35 min•Season 1Ep. 1
This week on Prog-Watch it's a new type of show—Discovering Progressive Virtuosos! In this series Dr. Rob Fisher and I will look at virtuosos on their chosen instruments and listen to some of their best work! This first edition will feature guitar virtuosos, and we're sure you can probably tell who we will be featuring, based on this episode's cover art!
May 10, 2022•1 hr 37 min•Season 1Ep. 1
Be on the lookout for a plethora of fabulous progressive rock music on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear from Luca Di Gennaro, Tiger Moth Tales, Checking For Echo Project, SomeWhereOut, Kaprekar's Constant, Twelfth Night, Yes, The Flower Kings, Christopher Libertino, Ben Craven, and The ESP Project! As Yoda would say, “Miss it not!”
May 03, 2022•1 hr 29 min•Season 1Ep. 1
101 Dimensions, April 2022: 1. Ott – 382 Seaside; Roflcopter; and A Shower of Sparks (23:06) (from the album Skylon, 2012) 2. Anne Dudley – Giant Below # Giant Above # Giant Within (22:51) (from the album Art of Silence Co UK, 1996) 3. Altamont – Altamont (17:49) (from the album Prayer for the Soul, 1983) 4. Ulrich Schnauss – The Weight of Darkening Skies; Borrowed Time; Ten Years; and A Ritual in Time and Death (24:23) (from the album Now Is A Timeless Present: A Retrospective, 2019) 5. Vangeli...
Apr 27, 2022•1 hr 47 min
Take your best shot this week with Prog-Watch! On this little themed special we'll hear from Utopia, Mansun, Anekdoten, Dennis DeYoung, UFO, Pineapple Thief, Rick Wakeman, Yes, Anthony Phillips, Kevin Ayers, Traffic, Saul Blease, Richard & Linda Thompson, Peter Hammill, and Fish! All in 90 minutes!
Apr 26, 2022•1 hr 30 min•Season 1Ep. 1
More great, contemporary progressive sounds await on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear music from Luca Di Gennaro, Karmamoi, the Checking For Echo Project, Anton Johansson, and Kite Parade! Plus, our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, returns to take us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with the latest album by Thomas Thielen (AKA “t”)!
Apr 19, 2022•1 hr 32 min•Season 1Ep. 1
I hope you will join me on Prog-Watch this week when I will be exploring some of the vast Musical World of Robert Fripp! We'll hear great music from King Crimson and his solo career, of course, and from some of his collaborations with Brian Eno, Andy Summers, and David Sylvian. Plus, a few of Robert's interesting guest appearances!
Apr 12, 2022•1 hr 29 min•Season 1Ep. 1
Lots of fantastic stuff this week from Andrew Roussak, Tiger Moth Tales, Modern-Rock Ensemble, Karibow, Cosmograf, D'Virgilio, Morse & Jennings, and Tears For Fears! Plus, I will pay a little tribute to two great musicians who we lost recently...Ian McDonald and Gary Brooker.
Apr 05, 2022•1 hr 29 min•Season 1Ep. 1