Germany based Art-Rock/Pop-outfit "starfish64" was formed in 2006 by singer-songwriter Dieter Hoffmann and has since been accompanied by various musicians from all over europe.
His latest album "The Future In Reverse" was released June 11, 2018.
Montag, 11. Juni 2018
starfish64
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Labels: Art Rock, Singer/Songwriter
Samstag, 26. Mai 2018
daviesteelman
daviesteelman is the name under which David Mudie writes and records music in the genre of progressive rock. The current release is Where It All Began, a five-track EP studio project comprising around 40 minutes of music.
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Labels: Art Rock, Progressive Rock
Flav Martin & Jerry Marotta
World renowned drummer Jerry Marotta has performed with Paul McCartney, Hall & Oats, The Indigo Girls, Sarah MacLachlan, and John Mayer to name but a few plus a decade of performing and recording with Peter Gabriel.
Credited as one of the most innovative acoustic guitar players on the scene, Flav Martin blends beautiful melodies with intricate technique, voicing, and a percussive style.
Soul Redemption is the debut release from singer/song writer Flav Martin and drummer Jerry Marotta. The duo harmoniously blends modern adult rock with traditional world pop. Whether performed in a cafe in Italy or on the polo fields of Indio, these songs would feel comfortably at home in either environment.
Innovative acoustic guitarist Flav Martin teamed up with long time friend Jerry Marotta to deliver a solid album that showcases Flav’s strength as a singer-songwriter and vocalist. Seven of the nine songs on Soul Redemption were penned by Flav. Standout tracks are “Soul Redemption“, “Please” and the infectious “Rio De Janiero“. The traditional Italian ballad “Coffee Song (Cosa Hai Messo Nel Caffè)” captures Flav and Jerry’s Italian roots.
Fans of Peter Gabriel will delight as Jerry Marotta and Tony Levin (bass), the rhythm section of his classic line-up, reunite for the backbone of this album. Also backing up the duo are their long time friends Peter Primamore (piano), Thor Jensen (guitar), Marc Shulman (guitar), and Gary Schreiner (harmonica/accordion).
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Labels: Art Rock, Crossover Prog, Pop, Singer/Songwriter
Montag, 22. Januar 2018
Roger Floyd
What if Pink Floyd were still producing concept albums? Toronto, Ontario based Roger Floyd pays homage with his delicate album "No Service".
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Labels: Art Rock
Donnerstag, 18. Januar 2018
Starsabout
Starsabout hails with their dream sounds from Bialystok, Poland.
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Sonntag, 10. Dezember 2017
Johnny Bob
Eine interessante Mischung haben die Norddeutschen da in Form gebracht, auf "Carnival of the Brahma-Sox" erwartet uns melodischer Artrock mit progressiven Elementen.
In der von dem Autoren Hannes Moorhahn stammenden Kurzgeschichte geht es um eine Gruppe Aliens – die Brahma-Sox -, welche einen Jahrmarkt infiltrieren und dort Johnny Bobs Freundin entführen. Nun muss sich Johnny den Prüfungen der außerirdischen Gestaltwandler stellen, um seine Angebetete wieder zu erlangen. Dabei begegnet er Verbündeten, Verdammten und Weltzerstörern wie dem Ariola Tellerwäscher, der Katze Mad Jazz oder Ringer Beelzebubba, um im Finale dem Schrei eines Schmetterlings zu folgen, der das Tor in eine andere Dimension öffnet, in die Johnny Bob die Brahma-Sox mit Hilfe des Ulumulu Totems verbannt.
Die Aufnahmen zum zweiten Johnny Bob Album "Fjodor and the Watergiant" haben bereits im Mai 2017 begonnen...man darf gespannt sein.
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Labels: Art Rock, Crossover Prog, Progressive Rock
Dienstag, 28. November 2017
Xanima is a dramatic and visual artrock band from Stockholm, Sweden. Their music is a combination of progressive-rock- electronica with symphonic elements.
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Labels: Art Rock, Crossover Prog
Sonntag, 26. November 2017
Mavara
Mavara, is Iran’s first premier progressive rock band. The name Mavara translates to “beyond everything you think” which speaks to the essence of their music. The band was formed in 2001 by composer/keyboardist Farhood Ghadiri and over the years has had a fluid line-up of members, performing extensively in Tehran and Karaj.
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Labels: Art Rock, Progressive Rock
Donnerstag, 14. September 2017
Milky Way Gas Station
"Somewhere / Anywhere" is the title of the debut-album by Milky Way Gas Station, a
progressive rockband from the Netherlands.
Fans of Pink Floyd, Steven Wilson and other progressive artists will definitely embrace the group's musical diversity, ranging from straight-in-your-face rock guitars to quiet synth-filled atmospheric songs.
This work features musical input from keyboardists Joakim Svalberg (Opeth) and Jan Peter Bast (The Scene), and background vocals by Lana Wolf and Sanne Jonges.
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Labels: Art Rock, Progressive Rock
Samstag, 9. September 2017
Professor Tip Top
Professor Tip Top from Bergen, Norway, is a group playing fine progressive music with a retro sound and lysergic touch, which serves a very psychedelic aura. The songs are partly melodic with vocals, while adding longer instrumental parts of guitar, analogue sequencers, vintage synths and keyboards in between. Inspiration and influences are the 60'/70's versions of Gong, Yes, Pink Floyd, and the Canterbury scene. The band started in 2011, but the members are veterans with a musical background starting in the early 70's. "Life Is No Matter" is their fourth album so far...
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Labels: Art Rock, Progressive Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Space Rock
Montag, 22. Mai 2017
Roger Waters
25 lange Jahre haben die Fans von Roger Waters auf neues Material der Pink-Floyd-Legende gewartet. 2017 werden sie für ihre Geduld belohnt. »Is This The Life We Really Want?« heißt das vierte Soloalbum von Waters und wird am 02. Juni offiziell erscheinen.
Hier schon mal zwei Songs zum Reinhören.
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Labels: Art Rock
Donnerstag, 18. Mai 2017
Jhimm
Jason Himm is a Connecticut based musician who writes and records in his home studio in northern New Haven county. Jason is a keyboard player and has been experimenting with recording for over 22 years and has worked professionally with many local and national acts. His influences stem from the progressive rock genre and include artists such as Peter Gabriel, Pink Floyd and Genesis among others.
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Labels: Art Rock, Progressive Rock
Samstag, 18. Februar 2017
Tim Bowness
Tim Bowness has released his fourth solo album "Lost In The Ghost Light".
The album has been mixed and mastered by Steven Wilson and is unlike any in Tim’s back catalogue.
Bowness utilises a core band comprising Stephen Bennett (Henry Fool), Colin Edwin (Porcupine Tree), Bruce Soord (The Pineapple Thief), Hux Nettermalm (Paatos) and Andrew Booker (Sanguine Hum), and is also joined by guests including Kit Watkins (Happy The Man/Camel), Steve Bingham (no-man) and the legendary Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull). Andrew Keeling (Robert Fripp/Hilliard Ensemble/Evelyn Glennie) arranges for string quartet and flute on three of the album’s songs.
Lost In The Ghost Light is a concept album revolving around the onstage and backstage reflections of a fictional ‘classic’ Rock musician in the twilight of his career. Ranging from the hypnotic opener Worlds Of Yesterday to the wistful climax of Distant Summers, via the thrilling rage of Kill The Pain That’s Killing You and the orchestral expanse of You’ll Be The Silence, the album features some stunning solos and harmonically rich compositions that represent Bowness’s most musically ambitious work to date.
yrically, the album addresses how the era of streaming and ageing audiences affects creativity, how a life devoted to music impacts on real / family life, and how idealistic beginnings can become compromised by complacency and the fear of being replaced by younger, more vital artists.
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Labels: Art Rock
The Spiritual Machines
Named after famed futurist/novelist Ray Kurzweil’s book The Age of the Spiritual Machines, The Spiritual Machines is Evan Frankfort (all instruments) and James Grundler (vocals). The band’s first album "Volunteer", is a science fiction concept album, one that can only be described as epic – an original headphone trip exploring the concept of living outside of one’s body. It asks the question: if we are able to upload our brains so that our essence continues on after our body gives out, what would happen to our minds? Their second album "Awake Alert Alive almost" was released February 14, 2017.
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Labels: Art Rock
Sonntag, 30. Oktober 2016
Doris Brendel
"Not Utopia", a magical collaboration between acclaimed singer/song-writer Doris Brendel and Lee Dunham, producer and multi-instrumentalist.
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Labels: Art Rock, Crossover, Pop, Singer/Songwriter
Sonntag, 9. Oktober 2016
John Wesley
John Wesley, songwriter, singer and guitarist from Brandon, Florida has released another great album entitled "a way you'll never be..."
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Labels: Art Rock, Crossover Prog
Montag, 12. September 2016
Modern-Rock Ensemble
Art rock from Kiev, Ukraine...interesting.
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Labels: Art Rock
Samstag, 6. August 2016
Nosound
Nosound’s fifth album marks a major departure and includes guest appearances from Anathema’s Vincent Cavanagh and acclaimed Italian singer Andrea Chimenti.
Inspired by personal upheaval and a desire for change, "Scintilla" is an emotionally complex and musically direct work presenting a stripped-down set of compositions that mark a major departure from Nosound’s trademark symphonic lushness and production precision.
After a decade of crafting a very particular type of widescreen melancholia and wistful imagery, Nosound’s fifth studio album "Scintilla" introduces a wholly new musical and visual approach for Giancarlo Erra’s ever-evolving band.
Anathema’s Vincent Cavanagh lends his distinctive vocals to two of the album’s tracks, and cellist Marianne De Chastelaine returns once more to the Nosound fold. Acclaimed Italian singer Andrea Chimenti co-writes and sings on the serene Sogno E Incendio.
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Labels: Art Rock, Crossover Prog
Donnerstag, 30. Juni 2016
Robert Reed
So let’s get this out of the way, this is not Mike Oldfield! What we have here is the very talented multi-instrumentalist, producer and composer Robert Reed, (of progressive rock band "Magenta") with his simply entitled "Sanctuary II" follow up to the excellent "Sanctuary" from 2014.
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Labels: Art Rock
Mittwoch, 6. April 2016
Big Big Train
"From Stone and Steel" is the audio release of their upcoming Blue Ray "Stone and Steel".
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Labels: Art Rock, Progressive Rock




