Prog Rock/Concept Album Review: Kompendium-Beneath The Waves

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Kompendium is the name of the “band” behind the concept album Beneath The Waves. This is the brainchild of Rob Reed, from the Welsh progressive rock band, Magenta, and it has taken 3 years to come to fruition. There are remarkable musicians involved in this project, such as Steve Balsamo (vocals), Steve Hackett (guitar), Gavin Harrison (drums), Nick Beggs (chapman stick), Troy Donockley (Uileann pipes and whistles), Nick Barrett (guitar) and more, including a contribution by the opera singers, Rhys Merion and Shan Cothi, with superb input by the English Chamber Choir and the London Session Orchestra.


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Progressive Rock Review: KingBathmat-Truth Button

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KingBathmat are an independent progressive rock band, hailing from Hastings in England. Initially started by singer/songwriter John Bassett, the band have now independently released five albums to date Son of a Nun (2003), Crowning Glory (2004), Fantastic Freak Show Carnival (2005), which was my introduction to the band, Blue Sea, Black Heart (2008) and Gravity Field (2009). The 4 piece band comprises of John Bassett (bass, vocals), David Georgiou (keyboards), Lee Sulsh (guitar) and Bernie Smirnoff (drums).


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Progressive Rock Review: Colin Edwin & Jon Durant-Burnt Belief

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Colin Edwin, bassist of progressive rock band Porcupine Tree has teamed up with guitarist Jon Durant to produce Burnt Belief; a progressive rock instrumental album with influences from a vast array of genres such as classical, ambient, electronic, and jazz. This marks the pair’s second collaboration; the first being Durant’s Dance of the Shadow Planets (2011).


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Prog Rock Review: Focus-X

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Focus are a Dutch progressive rock band founded away back in the depths of time, well 1969 to be precise, by Thijs Van Leer, a classically trained organist and flautist and Jan Akkerman, guitar virtuoso. (Well at least I think he is). They first released an album, In And Out Of Focus in 1970 and then they had a few hit singles, notably “Hocus Pocus” and “Sylvia.”


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Prog Rock Review: Unitopia-Covered Mirror Vol. 1 (Smooth as Silk)

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Unitopia are an Australian band, based in Adelaide, South Australia and currently comprises seven musicians. The band members are Mark Trueack (vocals), Sean Timms (Keyboards), Matt Williams (Elect/Ac/bass guitars), Tim Irrgang (Tuned/untuned percussion), Dan Burgess (Sax, Flute, Clarinet, Whistle /Didgeridoo), David Hopgood (drums) and Craig Kelly (bass). The band’s music can be described as using progressive themes as a framework and incorporating elements of world, classical, jazz, heavy rock and groove.


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Prog Rock Review: Shadow Circus-On A Dark And Stormy Night

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Shadow Circus were formed back in 2006 by John Fontana and David Bobick and this album On A Dark And Stormy Night is their third release following on from Welcome To The Freakroom (2007) and Whispers and Screams (2009). There are now 5 members to the band, John Fontana (guitar/orchestral and incidental keyboards), David Bobick (lead vocals), Jason Brower (drums/percussion), Mark Masek (bass/cello/12 string and nylon string guitar) and David Silver (keyboards).


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Prog Rock Review: Clay Green’s Polysorbate Masquerade Band-Chronicles of Bubbledroid Collector’s Edition

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Recently a very unusual CD landed on my desk for review. This is a band that I can say with certainty that I have never heard of before, and the name of the band, Clay Green’s Polysorbate Masquerade Band. The CD comes in two versions, Chronicles of Bubbledroid and the Collector’s Edition of the same CD which has additional tracks.


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Prog Rock Review: Nine Stones Close-One Eye On The Sunrise

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Nine Stones Close was conceived in 2008 as a solo project by Adrian Jones. He independently released the first album, St Lo, to critical acclaim and this led to a follow up, released in 2010, Traces. This was an album made with a “proper” band comprising, Adrian Jones (guitars), Brendan Eyre (keyboards), Marc Atkinson (vocals) and Neil Quarrell (drums). This new release. One Eye On The Sunrise, from the band shows further changes to the members of the group. Former members Brendan and Marc rejoin Adrian, and they are joined by Peter Vink (bass) and Pieter Van Hoorn (drums).


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Progressive Rock Review: Stealing Axion-Moments

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The band Stealing Axion offers up a curious musical fusion. On the one hand, with its sometimes rough lead vocals, it sounds like a modern heavy metal band. However, musically, this group’s instrumental approach is far more in line with a progressive rock band. In some cases, the vocals alternate between hard rock singing, and smooth, progressive vocalizing.
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