There are tons of tasty tunes to astound and astonish you on this week's Prog-Watch! Prick up your ears to hear great stuff from Frost*, District 97, Midlake, The Mighty Handful, Lifesigns, Arc Of Life, Robert Berry's 3.2, The Flying Caravan, Zeh, and UVTraveler!
This week's Prog-Watch is another edition of EPIX! Just a handful of lengthy tunes 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 Yes, Pattern-Seeking Animals, Moon Safari, Traffic, and Genesis!
I'm doing another of my band family tree explorations on Prog-Watch this week and my subject is the classic UK band Pink Floyd! We'll hear from the band proper, and all the major members, Syd Barrett, David Gilmour, Nick Mason, Roger Waters, and Rick Wright! Join me to hear all the great stuff that I shake out of the Pink Floyd Family Tree!
This week on Prog-Watch I'm pitching another straight-up variety program of very recently released stuff...in fact, everything we'll be hearing this week has been released in 2021! We'll hear from 3.2, Raven Sad, The Prog Collective, The Flying Caravan, Kostas Sampanis, Astral Bazaar, John Holden and Friends, Garden of Live Flowers, Lifesigns, Arc of Life, and Compile!
I've put together another eclectic mix of stuff for my turn this month on 101 Dimensions! Here's what I've cooked up: 1. Duncan Mackay – Visa; Peru Tu; Fistful of Keyboards; and See Sea (17:28) (from the album Visa, 1980) 2. Jon & Vangelis – Curious Electric; Each and Every Day; Bird Song; I Hear You Now; and The Road (21:19) (from the album Short Stories, 1980) 3. Amon Duul II – Soap Shop Rock – a. Burning Sister; b. Halluzination Guillotine; c. Gulp A Sonata; d. Flesh-Colored Anti-Aircraft...
More great, contemporary progressive sounds await on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear music from Nad Sylvan, The Franky Valentyn Project, Astral Bazaar, Skeptosphere and Sonus Umbra! Plus, our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, returns to take us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with the latest album by Kepler Ten!
Spring hit the northern hemisphere this weekend so on this edition of Prog-Watch I'm celebrating the sun! I've got a slew of spectacular solar songs from the likes of The Beatles, Asia, Overhead, Panic Room, Genesis, The Anderson-Ponty Band, Utopia, Jethro Tull, ELO, Schicke Fuehrs & Froeling, The Kinks, Badfinger, Traffic, Anekdoten, Ranaissance, In Continuum, and The Strawbs!
This week on Prog-Watch it's another variety program full of fabulous, contemporary progressive rock! I've got great stuff from Steven Wilson, Transatlantic, Asia Minor, District 97, Sonus Umbra, The Bedlam Furnaces, Kyros, Lifesigns, and 35 Tapes!
This week on Prog-Watch my very special guest is Dave Oberle of Gryphon! Tune in to hear some of our chat about the band and the making of their latest album 'Get Out Of My Father's Car'. Along the way I will of course be spinning some great Gryphon music...some classics from the 1970s, and some future classics from their most recent albums, including a few from the new one!
Join me on this month's edition of 101 Dimensions to hear my usual eclectic mix of progressive and electronic sounds! Here's what's in store: 1. Hawkwind – The Psychedelic Warlords (Disappear In Smoke); Wind Of Change; D-Rider; and Web Weaver (21:29) (from the album Hall Of The Mountain Grill, 1974) 2. Simon McKechnie – The Origin Of Species (20:51) (from the album Retro, 2021) 3. Steven Wilson – Slut 1.4; and Apres-Mortes (19:50) (from the album Unreleased Electronic Music, 2006) 4. Redshift – ...
This week's Prog-Watch is another straight-up variety program, with lots of diverse, contemporary progressive rock for your listening enjoyment! Tune in to hear great stuff from Steven Wilson, Failover, Simon McKechnie, Lunatic Soul, Steve Hackett, Transatlantic, Mushroom, The Bedlam Furnaces, SomeWhereOut, Bridgend, The Prog Collective, and Null Terminator!
This week on Prog-Watch my special guest is Peter Jones of Tiger Moth Tales, Red Bazar, and Camel! Pete released not one but TWO albums last year, so we have plenty to talk about! Of course I'll also be spinning lots of great music along the way!
This week's Prog-Watch is a BIG themed special! Hear great BIG classics from Peter Gabriel, Ritual, Electric Light Orchestra, Matt Stevens, Yes, Spock's Beard, Genesis, Damanek, Stackridge, Tears For Fears, Simon Collins, Tinyfish, Robert Plant, Fish, and Rush! All in 90 minutes!
This week's Prog-Watch is a straight-up variety program full of great contemporary progressive rock! I've got fantastic stuff from Kyros, Bidi (Luc Desjardins), Lunatic Soul, Downes Braide Association, Kepler Ten, IO Earth, Hats Off Gentlemen It's Adequate, SomeWhereOut, Neal Schon, Gazpacho, Hyco, and John Holden! I hope you will join me!
Another four weeks have come and gone, and I'm back at the helm of 101 Dimensions! I've got some different stuff lined up, which I hope you will enjoy! Here's what I've cooked up for this outing: 1. Hawkestrel – Biometrics; Cosmic Divide; Day of the Quake; and Glass Wolves (23:01) (from the album Pioneers of Space, 2020) 2. Jim Griffin – The Burden of Knowing; Of Atwood's Machine; Our New World Will Bathe in Ancient Light; and Spiral Staircase (23:53) (from the album The Signal, 2020) 3. Porcupi...
I hope you will join me on Prog-Watch this week when I will be exploring some of the vast Musical World of Steven Wilson! We'll hear great music from Porcupine Tree and his solo career, of course, as well as No-Man, Blackfield, and Storm Corrosion! (Plus, I'll have a few surprises!)
I'm pretty sure that no one was unhappy to see 2020 in the rear view, but it was a pretty fine year for music! So this week on Prog-Watch I am once more featuring some of the best of 2020, with a line-up that includes The Flower Kings, Blue Oyster Cult, The Tangent, Lonely Robot, Pendragon, Neal Morse, Nick D'Virgilio, Pattern-Seeking Animals, and Fish!
This week's Prog-Watch is all about humankind's favored pets...cats and dogs! Tune in to hear lots of great progressive sounds from The Rocket Scientists, The Flower Kings, Rush, Porcupine Tree, King Crimson, Pink Floyd, Mike Rutherford, Gentle Giant, The Alan Parsons Project, Stick Men, and more!
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 2020! We'll hear music from Magenta, Pendragon, Mark Vickness, Chris Opperman, Motorpsycho, Abel Ganz, and Fish; and brief reviews by Magnus Moar, Bob Mulvey, Jez Rowden, Graham Thomas, Roger Trenwith, and Leo Trimming!
The first 101 Dimensions of the New Year, and here's what I cooked up for our listening pleasure: 1. Mike Oldfield – Sentinel; Dark Star; Clear Light; Blue Saloon; and Sunjammer (21:55) (from the album Tubular Bells II, 1992) 2. Focus – Hamburger Concerto (20:20) (from the album Hamburger Concerto, 1974) 3. Wendy Carlos – Winter (20:37) (from the album Sonic Seasonings, 1972) 4. Red Shift – Tormentor; Nightshift; and Last (31:44) (from the album Last, 2007) 5. Malcolm Galloway – Wasp 76b (14:49)...
This week on Prog-Watch I have Part One of a two-part collaboration with The Progressive Aspect on some of the best albums of 2020! We'll hear music from Blue Oyster Cult, Wobbler, Hats Off Gentlemen It's Adequate, Elder, Three Colours Dark, Kansas, Pull Down The Sun, and Haken; and brief reviews by Mel Allen, Anthony Colvill, Shawn Dudley, Rob Fisher, Andrew Halley and Nick Hudson! (Part Two to follow one week hence.)
More great, new, astounding progressive sounds await on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear music from Hyco, The Weever Sands, Jump, Great Wide Nothing, Violent Silence and Antony Kalugin! Plus, our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, will take us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with the latest album by Tony Lowe's ESP Project! 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/a...
New feature on Prog-Watch this week...OUR PROGRESSIVE PLANET! On this type of program Dr. Rob Fisher and I will take you on a little tour of a particular country with a vibrant progressive music scene! This first edition focuses on Poland, and will feature music from Collage, SBB, Lebowski, Riverside, Indukti, Lizard, Osada Vida, Acute Mind, Quidam, Votum, and Satellite, with a bonus track from Fren! We hope you will join us! This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested...
Another month has come and gone so I'm back at the helm of 101 Dimensions once again! I've got another interesting set this time, so I hope you will come along for the ride! Here's what's in store: 1. Bergeton – Arabian Nights; Depeche Load; Fort Apache Marina; Lambo; and Miami Murder (20:11) (from the album Miami Murder, 2020) 2. Vinyl Dial – Bad Trip (23:08) (from the album Space Wizard, 2019) 3. Antony Kalugin – Marshmallow (20:20) (from the album Marshmallow Moondust, 2020) 4. Ashra – Mosqui...
Tons of tasty tunes abound on this week's Prog-Watch! Prick up your ears to hear great stuff from Jakko Jakszyk, Anèma, Jim Griffin, Antony Kalugin, Laura Piazzai, IT, Gandalf's Fist, Potter's Daughter, Circu5, Logos, Dyble/Longdon, and Tiger Moth Tales! 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...
On this week's Prog-Watch I'm paying tribute to the late Ken Hensley, with excerpts of my 2018 interview with the man himself and lots of great music from Uriah Heep, his solo career, and side projects. I hope you will join me in remembering this talented musician, brilliant song-writer, and overall genuine person. 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...
I'm doing another of my band family tree explorations on Prog-Watch this week and my subject is one of Sweden's greatest musical exports, the mighty Flower Kings! We'll hear from the band proper, The Tangent, Tomas Bodin, Roine Stolt, Hasse Fröberg & Musical Companion, Kaipa, The Sea Within, Karmakanic, and Agents of Mercy! Join me to hear all the great stuff that I shake out of the Flower Kings' Family Tree! This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertisi...
Be on the lookout for a plethora of fabulous progressive rock music on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear from Days Between Stations, Kansas, Druid, Wobbler, Mesmerising, Vinyl Dial, Kepler Ten, Kaleidoreal, and Harmonium! As Yoda would say, “Miss it not!” 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...
It's my turn on 101 Dimensions once again, and I've lined up some different stuff this time! Here's what's in store: 1. Vinyl Dial – Oceanic Electron Harvest (20:50) (from the album Oceanic Electron Harvest, 2020) 2. David Arkenstone – Fairy Tales; Hope Springs; Midsommar Stars; Of Mischief and Magic; Oberon Sleeps (20:53) (from the album Fairy Tales, 2020) 3. Yak – Vale Of Aeternum (19:25) (from the album Quest For The Stones, 2015) 4. Ash Ra Tempel – Reunion (30:40) (from the album Friendship,...
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 new music from Glass Hammer, Silver Nightmares, Neptune, The Wood Demons, Sanguine Hum, Cirkus, and Yobrepus! I'll also be mixing in selections from our Guest DJ, Mr. Michael Keane of Liverpool, England! Michael has selected some fantastic stuff from Anathema, IQ, Camel, Rush, Arena, Rendezvous Point, and Focus! ...
