Steve Roach and Byron Metcalf – Tales from the Ultra Tribe (Projekt, 2013) On Tales from the Ultra Tribe, electronic music maestro Steve Roach teams…
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Author: Angel Romero
Angel Romero has been writing about progressive music and world music for many years. Publications include Eurock (USA), Marquee (Japan), and Nuevas Músicas (Spain). He founded the websites progressiverockcentral.com and worldmusiccentral.org. Angel also produced Musica NA, a music show for TVE (Spain) featuring fusion, avant-garde, world music, new age and electronic artists.
Tundra Jazz
Oddjob – Folk (Caprice, 2015) Swedish jazz-rock band Oddjob has recreated traditional folk songs related to herding and transformed them into contemporary jazz pieces. There…
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In 1970, the brothers Shulman founded progressive rock band Gentle Giant. Derek was the lead vocalist and played alto sax and bass, Ray sang and…
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The Whiskey Mountain Sessions contains a series of lengthy jams by Hillmen, a band that features two members of progressive rock band Djam Karet. These…
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Interview with Chronotope Project
Dawn Treader by Chronotope Project is one of the best electronic music releases of 2015. Progressive Rock Central talks to multi-instrumentalist and composer Jeffrey Ericson…
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Revisiting other Worlds
Dan Pound – “Return to other Worlds” (Pound Sounds, 2012) This is the first two CD set released by ambient electronic music artist Dan Pound.…
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Herbie Hancock Receives The Recording Academy’s Lifetime Achievement Award
The Recording Academy announced today that Herbie Hancock is one of the honorees of the Lifetime Achievement Award. One of the most influential and idiosyncratic…
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Octopus Remixed
Gentle Giant – Octopus (Alucard, 2015) Octopus, one of the great progressive rock classics of the 1970s has received the masterful treatment of English musician…
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Splendid Renditions of Classics on Electric Guitar
Sam Coulson – Electric Classical Rising guitar hero Sam Coulson recreates some of his favorite classical music pieces on Electric Classical, using two Fender Stratocaster…
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Divided By One
Billy Sherwood – Divided By One (Cherry Red Records, 2015) This studio album by multi-instrumentalist Billy Sherwood is a solo effort in which Sherwood plays…
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