Brand new album from Castanarc. Obscure neo-proggers from the UK mid-80's scene, CASTANARC only stuck it out for four albums. The sound is a mixture of GENESIS and YES, but the vocalist sounds so much like John Waite that if you're a fan of his or the BABYS, it can tend to be a distraction. However, the music is more keyboard-oriented and less guitar-dominant than MARILLION, and reminds at times of SAGA. Overall, CASTANARC is a fairly decent neo-prog band, comparable in quality to PALLAS or PENDRAGON. Castanarc consists of keyboard player David Powell, singer Mark Holiday and producer John Spence supplemented by regular guest musicians Charlie Morgan on drums, Pete Robinson on bass and Neil Duty and Pat Mount on guitars.

“Panic Loves Telling Lies” sees the return of Cellar Noise, seven years after their previous album “Nautilus”, which had already revealed a remarkable evolution from their 2017 debut “Alight”. The Milanese band’s focus is today even more oriented towards the future, building on superb prog-metal that evolves into darker, heavier and more structured ground, whilst retaining the atmospheres already present in their previous works. The album’s central theme explores the subtle space between pressure and fracture.

Available for the first time - live concert recordings of U Totem - the melding of 5uu's & Motor Totemists into a superlative quintet. ​Includes the complete set from their appearance at the COMA Day of Music festival on a windy spring afternoon in 1990 atop an outdoor stage in the lovely seaside city of Santa Barbara. Plus selections from the U Totem appearance on Carl Stone’s Imaginary Landscape from 1989 - broadcasting live over the radio waves across Southern California from station KPFK in North Hollywood. U TOTEM are a great example of the RIO / avant garde genre. The use of instruments as piccolo, sitar, and sax instead the classic rock instruments makes their music something very close to a soundtrack (a very dark a surrealistic one) and reaches high points of emotion and musical poetry. Highly recommended to any RIO fan.

Once again studio master / composer / bassist Guy Segers assembles a huge cast of progressive musicians to perform / improvise 8 new pieces. Guy's methods of composition and collage remain as before, but each new Eclectic Maybe Band release brings a new perspective to the music. This time round harder, more brittle sounds emerge from an album with a very punchy attitude. A mixture of avant pop and progressive complexity.

Formed in early 2003 in Astrakhan (Southern Russia), VESPERO went through numerous personnel changes, produced quite a few low budget recordings, and turned into a mainstay of local scene before releasing their official debut album in 2007. They spend most of the time diligently honing their musical craft and inventing their own fantasy world somewhere near the crossroads of psychedelic, space rock, progressive rock, kraut-rock, avant-garde poetry and live theatrical performance. “One listen to this musical outfit from Southern Russia known as Vespero was all it took to make me begin thinking about the great things that must be happening in Russia…” (by Ryan Sparks, Sea Of Tranquility). “With each new release the Russian band Vespero further reinforce my feeling that they are one of the best instrumental bands on the contemporary Space Rock/Psychedelic scene…” (by Jerry Kranitz, Aural Innovations).

ENSEMBLE NIMBUS is a Swedish quartet (keyboards, clarinet, viola and percussions) that belongs to the tradition of Scandinavia's orchestral-grade progressive-rock with a touch of UNIVERS ZERO. A very modern and lively twist on the Zamla/RIO/Zeuhl type sound, but high-tech and very very lively, featuring Hasse Bruniusson (ex-ZAMLA MAMMAZ MANNA) on drums. Bruniusson is also a member of the better known Roine Stolt's FLOWER KINGS where he is the bands percussionist. Within ENSEMBLE NIMBUS he also plays acoustic & electric drums as well as adding the percussion. This band, yet another Swedish band, is described as the "second generation of European … RIO.

This album is an exercise in diving even more deeply into my progressive rock and fusion roots. I take great inspiration from bands such as National Health, Hatfield and the North, and Happy the Man, and blend those with other jazz and synthwave type sensibilities. All songs arranged, written and produced by Pat Strawser.

OK, but why? is Anthony Garone’s first full-length album since 2007, and pulls together his best work from nearly two decades of writing, recording, and obsessing over arrangements that are equal parts song and puzzle. While much of the music existed publicly in earlier forms, this release is the cleaned-up, finished version: updated performances, improved production, and a cohesive arc that finally connects the dots across years of ideas. The album moves between odd-meter grooves, tight counterpoint, and melodic hooks that sneak in through the side door. Besides 11 original compositions, two movements from Bach’s Concerto for Violin and Oboe (BWV1060) re-imagined through Garone’s rhythmic lens, along with a refreshed take on Robert Fripp’s “Erudite Eyes”. Featuring 20 guest musicians among them Morgan Agren, Michael Manring, Andy West, Jan Zehrfeld.

A conceptual suite for keyboards and string quartet composed by Frode Andresen. Joined with him is the acclaimed string quartet ATLYS. Andresen and ATLYS have collaborated before, notably on Andresen’s album The Composer’s Nightmare (2021), as well as on several smaller projects. Aurora Polaris is their most ambitious collaboration to date and has taken more than four years to complete. The project began with Andresen’s desire to explore, experiment, and compose specifically for string quartet.

"Sólo en Nuestra Cabeza" is the debut album by Manic Vice - a near one-hour journey through psychedelic and progressive rock, deeply rooted in the spirit of the late 60s and 70s, including echoes of the Canterbury scene, yet shaped with a voice of its own. Formed in 2021, Manic Vice is not a nostalgic act. It’s an obsession. Four young musicians immersed in the sounds, structures and atmospheres of another era, reinterpreting them with a fresh and instinctive approach. Across 11 tracks, the album moves between luminous psychedelia, ambitious progressive passages and melody-driven songwriting.

This album has until now been an exclusive collector's item for subscribers of the Phaedrus digital magazine, which was active from 2016 to 2018. Now, for the first time, it is available for sale to the general public. Triptych is a collection of pieces composed by Carlos Plaza, with the collaboration of exceptional musicians: César G. Forero - Guitars, Omar Acosta - Flute, José Luis Espejo - Clarinet, Jaime Pascual - Bass, Carlos Franco - Drums and Miguel Rosell - Cello. It is an eclectic album, featuring symphonic progressive rock, chamber music and some jazz touches.

America were formed in England in 1970 by Dewey Bunnell, Dan Peek and Gerry Beckley. Achieving significant popularity in the 1970s, the trio were famous for their close vocal harmonies and light acoustic folk rock sound. ‘Halcyon Days’ is a collection of re-recordings of their greatest hits including ‘A Horse With No Name’, ‘Sister Golden Hair’ and ‘Ventura Highway’. Also includes the bonus track ‘A Horse With No Name (A Score A Score Remix)’.

A brand new remix and remaster from the original files by Adrian Fisher. Includes the never before released original demo for Broken. Kites was the third album from This Winter Machine, sees a change of personnel, their ability to write and perform songs which are both tuneful and epic continues to shine through. Leo Trimming at Prog Radar writes: "Kites can be blown about in many unpredictable directions but somehow they remain tethered to the ground, and that appears to be a perfect symbol of the journey of the third This Winter Machine album 'Kites'. Let's face it, the world has taken a rather unexpected battering in the last couple of years, but, on another level, This Winter Machine have also faced considerable upheaval in that period, leaving the main man Al Winter to have to recruit a whole new band around him. Such disruption would have spelled the end of many bands but on the evidence of this album it appears that Al has used it as an opportunity for the band to be re-born."

Colin Clue's third album is a spiritual and philosophical tale about the search for wisdom. The author asks existential questions, building a coherent narrative: from loss and a critique of civilization, through personal awakening, to spiritual enlightenment and a call for change. As a philosophy enthusiast, Colin's lyrical work draws on the thought of ancient philosophers, and as a composer, on classic progressive rock at its finest. The songs, full of space and guitar sounds, are reminiscent of Pink Floyd or the solo releases of David Gilmour and Roger Waters. "Ultimate Wisdom" is not just a collection of songs, but a cohesive, captivating story worth listening to in its entirety. A personal, generational, and universal album about the search for simplicity, true values, and meaning in a modern world filled with noise.

LEAVING CALIFORNIA was originally released in 2021. This new Expanded 5 Year Anniversary Edition includes the original album plus newly-arranged and recorded renditions of two of the songs. When the band reformed in Vermont back in 2022, we adapted two songs from this album for our live sets, changing the instrumentation and adding new material. Although recorded in the studio, these new versions contain minimal overdubs and production, to better represent the immediacy of the live band. Leaving California may be our sunniest, most heartfelt album to date, and we’re happy to finally be able to bring it back out into the light.