Pete Oxley & Nicolas Meier – The Alluring Ascent (MGP Records, 2019) Pete Oxley and Nicolas Meier continue their guitar collaboration with The Alluring Ascent,…
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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.
Transfixing Shamanic Trance Music from Byron Metcalf and Mark Seelig
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Richard Christopher Wakeman was born May 18, 1949 in Perivale, Middlesex, England. His interest in music manifested itself very early. From the age of seven…
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Fusion and Electronics Around the Drums
Manu Katché – The Scope (Anteprima Productions, 2019) French drummer, singer, songwriter and composer explores various genres on his ninth album, The Scope. The biggest…
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Tim Bowness with his Favorite Singers and Musicians
Tim Bowness – Flowers at the Scene (InsideOutMusic, 2019) Flowers at the Scene is the exquisitely produced and arranged fifth solo album by British artist…
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Interview with World Class Fusion Drummer Dali Mraz
Czech drummer Dali Mraz has released a spectacular new album titled Level 25. Mraz delivers a set of masterful creative drumming performances accompanied by world…
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Drummer and vocalist Diego Fopiani, founder of trailblazing Andalusian progressive rock band Cai, died on April 4, 2019. He had been sick for the last…
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Cai was a progressive rock band from the Cadiz province of Spain. The groundbreaking group combined progressive rock, with jazz fusion and Flamenco. The band’s…
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Strat Andriotis and Jerry Goodman, a Remarkable Collaboration
Strat Andriotis – Night Manager (Dekatria Records, 2018) Canadian guitar virtuoso Strat Andriotis collaborates with iconic musicians from the jazz and fusion world on Night…
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Peter Bank’s Remarkable Guitar and Experimentation
Peter Banks – The Self-Contained Trilogy (The Peter Banks Musical Estate/Cherry Red Records, 2018) This 3CD boxed includes remastered versions of all three of Peter…
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