American virtuoso keyboardist, jazz-rock fusion trailblazer and composer Chick Corea passed away on February 9th, 2021 at the age of 79 from a rare form…
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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.
Nineties Progressive Rock Classics Transformed
Glass Hammer – A Matter of Time Volume 1 (Glass Hammer, 2020) American progressive rock band Glass Hammer has released a digital only album titled…
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Finely Crafted Orchestral Jazz Meets Otherworldly Electronica
Cotatcha Orchestra – Bigbandová elektronika / Bigband Electronics (Big Round records, 2020) Bigbandová elektronika / Bigband Electronics presents the innovative Czech Cotatcha Orchestra from Brno.…
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A Musical Quantum Entanglement in Nine Acts
Dwiki Dharmawan – Hari Ketiga (Moonjune Records, 2020) Renowned Indonesian keyboardist Dwiki Dharmawan got together with an all-star group of musicians that regularly record for…
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Masterful and Deeply Satisfying Work from Transatlantic
Transatlantic – The Absolute Universe, Forever More [Extended Version] (InsideOut Music, 2021) The Absolute Universe, Forever More is the superb new album from Transatlantic. This…
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Abracadabra, Extraordinary Legacy of Soft Machine
Soft Works – Abracadabra in Osaka (Moonjune, 2020) The double album Abracadabra in Osaka, recorded in Japan in 2003 brought together some of the top…
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Well-deserved Tribute to Greg Lake
Greg Lake – The Anthology, A Musical Journey (BMG, 2020) This 2-CD set is a superb tribute to Greg Lake, one of the greatest singer-songwriters…
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Pymlico Ventures Deeper into Crossover Jazz
Pymlico – On This Day (Apollon Records, 2020) On This Way is the sixth album from instrumental rock band Pymlico. The Norwegian band is known…
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Stick Men Move Forward with Vital Electric Energy and Emotion
Stick Men with Gary Husband – Owari (MoonJune, 2020) The fantastic exploratory progressive rock geniuses Stick Men added the fabulous multi-instrumentalist Gary Husband to its…
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Dynamic Fusion Meets Imaginative Chamber Strings
Gavin Harrison and Antoine Fafard – Chemical Reactions (Harmonic Heresy, 2020) With bassist Antoine Fafard involved in a recording, you have the guarantee of a…
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