2021 best of so far

[schupdoggy]

Halfway through 2021 and it has been a stellar year of prog releases. I have quite a large list of music yet to listen to, but of all the new releases I have heard so far, these are my favorites based on repeated listens...

Ashes in Sapphire - From Twilight to Light
Blacksmith Tales - The Dark Presence
Cast - Vigesimus
Chromatic Aberration - The Trial of the King
Ciccada - Harvest
Cirkus - Page 12 on the Right
Crack The Sky - Tribes
Department of Revenge - Shut up and pay the bill
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - G_d's Pee at State's End!
John Holden - Circles in Time
JPL - Sapiens Chapitre 2-3 Deus ex Machina
Liquid Tension Experiment - LTE3
Meer - Playing House
Nine Skies - 5.20
Noisy Diners - The Princess of the Allen Keys (The History of Manto)
Perfect Storm - No Air
Relayer - Broken Branches
Resistor - The 5th Season
Sylvan - One To Zero
The Samurai of Prog - The Lady And The Lion
Transatlantic - The Absolute Universe - Forevermore
Various Artists - Still Wish You Were Here - A Tribute to Pink Floyd

Vey excited for the rest of the year.

[progscotty]

Thanks for posting this, I haven't seen too many opinions so far. I have a few of these already..

Blacksmith Tales - The Dark Presence
Cast - Vigesimus
Ciccada - Harvest
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - G_d's Pee at State's End!
JPL - Sapiens Chapitre 2-3 Deus ex Machina
Liquid Tension Experiment - LTE3
Resistor - The 5th Season
Sylvan - One To Zero
The Samurai of Prog - The Lady And The Lion
Transatlantic - The Absolute Universe - Forevermore

[mariocc]

Dave Holland - Another Land
Hedvig Mollestad Trio - Ding Dong. You're Dead
Daniel Eliseev Project - Lost Humanity
Needlepoint - Walking Up That Valley
Monobody - Comma
Mildlife - Auomatic
Brad Mehldau - Variations On A Melancholy Theme

and lately
Tim Lefebvre.M Wollny.E Parisien.C lillinger - XXXX


5 in library,,,

Holland ,,outstanding

[schupdoggy]

Add these to my favorites of 2021 so far...

Evership - The Uncrowned King Act 1
Galaad - Paradis Posthumes
Permian Incident - All The Things No Tomorrow Brings

[artw]

Last few uploads had some really good ones imo:

Coevality - Multiple Personalities
Mahogany Frog - In The Electric Universe
The Cyberiam - Connected
U.C. - Time Distortion
Billie Bottle & The Multiple - The Other Place

[mariocc]

Air Craft ! this update is while I am listening the show

[Ramon Porta]

Woww schupdoggy agree with your fine list maybe i can put som more like the new Dennis De Young "26 East", Poverty's No Crime "A Secret to Hide", Dirt Poor Robins "Deathorse", Karmamoi "Room 101",Frost"Day And Age",Kayak "Out Of This World", Castanarc"The Sea of Broken Vows, Reegonetti Band "Exploring the Unknow". Well sorry but i have som more but though this are a great prog year.Love aLL.

[schupdoggy]

Woww schupdoggy agree with your fine list maybe i can put som more like the new Dennis De Young "26 East", Poverty's No Crime "A Secret to Hide", Dirt Poor Robins "Deathorse", Karmamoi "Room 101",Frost"Day And Age",Kayak "Out Of This World", Castanarc"The Sea of Broken Vows, Reegonetti Band "Exploring the Unknow". Well sorry but i have som more but though this are a great prog year.Love aLL.

Ramon Porta
Castanarc, Kayak, Frost, are good choices

[mariocc]

John McLaughlin
Liberation Time
:-) Happy happy happy for this one

and inspiring
“God bless my mother;I inherited music from her but I also inherited arthritis”
https://londonjazznews.com/2021/07/12/john-mclaughlin-liberation-time/

[mariocc]

and very agree with ART
Coevality

[mariocc]

JOHN MCLAUGHLIN..yes in caps :-)
Liberation Time

[schupdoggy]

A few more for my list...

Galactic Cowboy Orchestra - Flirting with Chaos
K'Mono - Return To The 'E'
Ske - Insolubilia
Umphrey's McGee - You Walked Up Shaking In Your Boots But You Stood Tall And Left A Raging Bull

[schupdoggy]

Frost - Day And Age
Fufluns - Refuses

[schupdoggy]

Deafening Opera - Driftwood
The Far Cry - If Only...

[schupdoggy]

Jordsjø - Pastoralia

[mariocc]

Vijay Iyer - Uneasy

[mariocc]

I had forgotten
Elephant9 - Arrival Of The New Elders

in my t0p 10