Galahad

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‘Battle Scars’ is the new studio album from established English rock/progressive band Galahad.
Recorded, engineered and mixed by Karl Groom (Threshold) at Thin Ice studios. ‘Battle Scars’, Galahad’s seventh studio album, shows the band evolving from their well received and critically acclaimed 2007 album ‘Empires Never Last’. ‘Battle Scars’ is the first of two new studio albums from Galahad scheduled for release this year.
‘Battle Scars’ contains a myriad of styles from rock and prog through to techno, ambient and dance sounds via classical arrangements. Throughout, the production is modern and pristine, incorporating powerful, direct guitar riffs, lush keyboard arrangements and occasional quieter passages of subtle beauty, melding together to create an often massively epic sound.
‘Battle Scars’ is Galahad music for the 21st century: very much looking forward but also showing occasional and affectionate nods to the analogue past.
In recognition of the band’s 25 year plus history, a new recording of their classic song Sleepers is included as a bonus track on the CD and download version.
As always, the proof of the pudding is in the listening. Go on, give it a whirl, leave your pre-conceptions at the door and play it loud! We know it’s our best album yet, and hope you agree.

Parallels or 90 Degrees

Been away for a while, which ain't good. Lessee how it goes this time around.

Here's a band that's new to me. From the UK, it's "Parallel or 90 Degrees."

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Lo Fi Resistance

Bandcamp.com is a great place to get up and coming Prog artists. It's a bit hit and miss, but generally, lots of good stuff if you know how to look.

My World of Prog

It had me captured when I was a child listening to the Dave Clark Five, who I believed at the time had a much more promising future as a band than the upstart competitor, the Beatles. Oh well. Hindsight is usually 20/20.

In University, it was all Floyd, Santana, Hendrix. and many other pioneers we didn't see as genre starters.

In my early work life, even the FM stations were playing my musical love. Bands like Genesis, Arthur Brown, ELO, ELP, Jethro Tull, and so on. They were glory days.

Then it was wrongly reported that Prog was past tense. Gone and remembered only in the context of time past. But not so. They may have disappeared from front and centre, but they were alive and well in the smoky bar scenes of Poland, England, and even the U.S.A. although in smaller numbers. RUSH became # three on the list of all time album sales, and they're Canadian! (As am I by the way) Today, Prog music can be found by the discerning searcher, in practically every country in the world.

My goal here is to reveal these unknown bands and unknown sounds of the Prog world through simple posts that will hopefully give you the idea and motivation to search out more.

I sincrely hope you can learn to appreciate the subtleties and excellent musicianship of the Prog genre. It has so much to offer, and its malignment is undeserved.

Welcome.

Progressive Excellence

The plan at this point is simply to populate this blog with the best of the Progressive Rock genre. It doesn't matter much to me what sub-genre is posted here, but it must be Prog Rock. Occasionally I'll write an intro, and I invite anyone who views to share their knowledge as well.

Here's to it. Let's see what happens.