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Old 10-29-2021, 05:51 PM
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Re: 2021 Work in Progress..ive

THE WATCH

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… ..The good moment for Italian progressive rock continues
another good track from the latest The Watch album
I chose "RED"
Simone Rossetti founder and composer as well as voice and
keyboard player is certainly the leader of this group that has
now pushed the boundaries of their success by releasing their
latest album everywhere.
… ..and meanwhile their long European tour continues

**** The good news for the Italian progressive also comes
from the latest PFM album which, after the disappointing previous
album, comes with some good tracks, one of which also includes
Steve Hackett Jan Anderson and Flavio Premoli




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Hi friends


2021 Work in Progress..ive





These are my best tracks of 2021



Track Title-Group or Artist-Album

The Pilgrim Suite -Andrew Stone-The Pilgrim

Discworld - Projector - Glass Kites -Glass Kites II

The Trial of the King - Chromatic Aberration -The Trial of the King

4Th Dimension - ProAge-Wymiar

Claustrophobia-Eyesberg-Claustrophobia

Rainy Sunday-Maxxess-Reactivate

Colorbox-Raven Sad-The Leaf And The Wing

Bit By Bit-Syrinx Call-Mirrorneuron

Power Trip Career Aspirations-Lucas Lee -Sindrome De Estocolmo

The Darkness in the Light-Transatlantic-The Absolute Universe: Forevermore

Soul_Of_Hundred_Lives-Inner Prospekt-Canvas Two

Flare_2-Richard_Barbieri-Under a Spell

Cosmic Krautrock-Stephan Thelen-Fractal Guitar 2

Rite_Of_Accession-Elephant9-Arrival Of The New Elders

In Discipline And With Love-Kerrs Pink-Presence Of Life

Marcha_De_Sonidos_Parte_2-Black Expression-Regreso A Casa

Crossing-Cast-Vigesimus

Alice_Krige_Parts_1_and_2-Heard Of Istinct-Unravel

Altitude-Lifesigns-Altitude

In_1985-Cosmograf-Rattrapante

Sailing_To_Byzantium-Nad Sylvan-Spiritus Mundi

Halo_Drive-Corrado Rustici -Interfulgent

Tiresias-Noisy Diners-The Princess of the Allen Key

Alice-The Mad Lab-Design of Experiments

The Real History Of Tom Wheel, Pt. 1 (The Curse)
-Fabricio Pipini(feat.Platinum)-Phantasicah (A Dreamer's Tale)


Walk_Away-Bernardo Lanzetti-Horizontal Rain

Broken Windows-Zygon-Earth And Sky

The Ascent-The Emerald Down-To Touch The Sky

Connecting_The_Dots-Confusion Field -Disconnection Complete

Day_And_Age-Frost* -Day And Age

Haunted_House-Joe_Bailey -Ghosts

Winter-Resistor -The 5th Season

Book Of Coming Forth By Day-Blacksmith Tales-The Dark Presence

Iron John-The Samurai Of Prog -The Lady And The Lion And Other Grimm Tales

Go Viral-Sylvan-One to Zero

Room 101-Karmamoi-Room 101

Hidden Land-Daniel Eliseev Project -Lost Humanity

Apollo-Big Big Train - Common Ground

Dissolution-Smalltape -THE HUNGRY HEART

Dark World-Metamorphosis-I'm Not A Hero

White Ghosts-Alessandro Corvaglia-Out Of The Gate

Beyond the Years-The Neal Morse Band -Innocence & Danger

Shanghai_to_Samarkand-Steve Hackett -Surrender Of Silence

The_Cashectomy-Benjamin Croft -Far And Distant Things


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Red-The Watch-The Art of Bleeding



from The Watch official site


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The Watch Biography


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THE WATCH EUROPEAN TOUR DATES


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Old 11-06-2021, 03:27 PM
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Isildurs Bane & Peter Hammill

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This time the track I chose belongs to a fusion of
a group Isildurs Bane and Peter Hammill
2 totally different ways of interpreting music but following their meeting
they managed to create a very captivating and sometimes hypnotic
sound from art pop and prog to neoclassical and avant-garde all held
together by one of the most singular and influential voices
of the prog music… Peter Hammill… always open to experimentation
and returned to the high levels reached in the first
Van Der Graff Generator albums….
"Pawn Hearts", "Still Life" and "Godbluff" albums
After the first experience resulted in the realization
of the excellent "in Amazonia"
Isildurs Bane and Peter Hammill continue the collaboration by making an equally interesting album "IN DISEQUILIBRIUM"
made in 2 suites, one of 3 tracks and the other of 4 tracks
I took an excerpt from the album review

from Isildurs Bane's facebook page
and is edited by From Zachary Nathanson's review


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This is another challenge from the ensemble.
It is one of the most surreal, wackiest, and insane releases I’ve
listened to. There’s this crossover between ambient music,
Frank Zappa, elements of the Rock in Opposition movement
that blends well with the insane textures of both Gentle Giant
and Goblin. And to be allowed to have King Crimson drummer
Pat Mastelotto to lend a helping hand with the ensemble,
it shows that Isildurs Bane are more than just a band, but
a family helping others to bring In Disequilibrium to life.

The challenges inside the group’s labyrinth, just got even bigger!
From the opening 3-part title-track, it is like a movie being brought to life.
You can hear elements of ‘The Sleepwalkers’ thrown in along with
the xylophones channeling the midsection of ‘Peaches En Regalia’
from the Hot Rats period. Mats Johansson is like a conductor
giving his bandmates and Peter directions on where he wants
them to go.


He has given each of the members, a lot of machine gun ammunitions
to create these rapid firing textures. I can hear both Hällkvist and
Croné doing these chase segments for Hammill to catch up to those
insane time signatures to create this alternate score for Robert
Clampett’s Bugs Bunny short from 1943, Falling Hare.

Then, Johansson and Katrine Amsler share this futuristic temperature
rising for Hammill’s voice to come in at the right moment. It’s one
of those crazy and wackiest sequences that visions the ensemble
and Hammill transforming the second half into a chaotic groove!

The third and final section of the title-track takes us into the heart
of the jungle channeling Peter Gabriel’s score to Martin Scorsese’s
controversial classic,The Last Temptation of Christ. It gives us
a sign for revelations to come where we witness a renewal to
start new chapter in our daily lives.

But it isn’t just that, it’s a new beginning for them to press the
rewind button and start all over. Peter lets listeners know that there’s
light at the end of the tunnel. And the big bright lights on the
arrangements gives the ensemble enough rope to reach towards
the surface and seeing the sunlight again.

The four-part suite ‘Gently (Step by Step) closes the album.
It becomes a calm after the storm with its piano, synthesizers,
and xylophone setting up the empty ghost town of the dystopian
wasteland that people are finally getting out of. You can almost feel
a pin drop as the ghost-like vocals fill the city with Eagles soaring
through the sky moving away from the nightmarish landscapes into
a field of dreams.

You can hear aspects of Peter’s solo work from The Silent Corner
and the Empty Stage thrown into the mix. The symphonic structures
along with its mournful organ work, Luca Calabrese’s trumpet echoes
the funeral arrangements while Liesbeth’s violin sends the last rite to
the city that once was beautiful, now a pile of rubble.

Once you get to the third section, it becomes this epic ambient
voyage that carries bits and pieces of Popol Vuh’s Aguirre as the
survivors are sailing into unknown lands. Peter then gives a sermon
to the fallen heroes inside his church as the musicians help
churchgoers bring joy and happiness in their lives.

They also have to understand that while they’ll never forget what
has happened, it will be a part of their history that we will the next
generation in the years to come, not to make the same mistakes again
and again. In Disequilibrium is another welcoming return for the
collaboration of Isildurs Bane’s partnership with Peter Hammill.

As I’ve mentioned earlier, it is beautiful, sinister, epic, and
unexpected changes that will make your mind blown away.
Yes it may not be everyone’s cup of coffee per se, but it is
like a stick of dynamite ready to explode at any second.


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Hi friends


2021 Work in Progress..ive





These are my best tracks of 2021



Track Title-Group or Artist-Album

The Pilgrim Suite -Andrew Stone-The Pilgrim

Discworld - Projector - Glass Kites -Glass Kites II

The Trial of the King - Chromatic Aberration -The Trial of the King

4Th Dimension - ProAge-Wymiar

Claustrophobia-Eyesberg-Claustrophobia

Rainy Sunday-Maxxess-Reactivate

Colorbox-Raven Sad-The Leaf And The Wing

Bit By Bit-Syrinx Call-Mirrorneuron

Power Trip Career Aspirations-Lucas Lee -Sindrome De Estocolmo

The Darkness in the Light-Transatlantic-The Absolute Universe: Forevermore

Soul_Of_Hundred_Lives-Inner Prospekt-Canvas Two

Flare_2-Richard_Barbieri-Under a Spell

Cosmic Krautrock-Stephan Thelen-Fractal Guitar 2

Rite_Of_Accession-Elephant9-Arrival Of The New Elders

In Discipline And With Love-Kerrs Pink-Presence Of Life

Marcha_De_Sonidos_Parte_2-Black Expression-Regreso A Casa

Crossing-Cast-Vigesimus

Alice_Krige_Parts_1_and_2-Heard Of Istinct-Unravel

Altitude-Lifesigns-Altitude

In_1985-Cosmograf-Rattrapante

Sailing_To_Byzantium-Nad Sylvan-Spiritus Mundi

Halo_Drive-Corrado Rustici -Interfulgent

Tiresias-Noisy Diners-The Princess of the Allen Key

Alice-The Mad Lab-Design of Experiments

The Real History Of Tom Wheel, Pt. 1 (The Curse)
-Fabricio Pipini(feat.Platinum)-Phantasicah (A Dreamer's Tale)


Walk_Away-Bernardo Lanzetti-Horizontal Rain

Broken Windows-Zygon-Earth And Sky

The Ascent-The Emerald Down-To Touch The Sky

Connecting_The_Dots-Confusion Field -Disconnection Complete

Day_And_Age-Frost* -Day And Age

Haunted_House-Joe_Bailey -Ghosts

Winter-Resistor -The 5th Season

Book Of Coming Forth By Day-Blacksmith Tales-The Dark Presence

Iron John-The Samurai Of Prog -The Lady And The Lion And Other Grimm Tales

Go Viral-Sylvan-One to Zero

Room 101-Karmamoi-Room 101

Hidden Land-Daniel Eliseev Project -Lost Humanity

Apollo-Big Big Train - Common Ground

Dissolution-Smalltape -THE HUNGRY HEART

Dark World-Metamorphosis-I'm Not A Hero

White Ghosts-Alessandro Corvaglia-Out Of The Gate

Beyond the Years-The Neal Morse Band -Innocence & Danger

Shanghai_to_Samarkand-Steve Hackett -Surrender Of Silence

The_Cashectomy-Benjamin Croft -Far And Distant Things

Red-The Watch-The Art of Bleeding


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In Disequilibrium, part 3-Isildurs Bane & Peter Hammill-In Disequilibrium





from http://www.progarchives.com/




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.... here the youtube version of the track

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhGsACQ4nvk


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Old 11-09-2021, 08:24 AM
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MONARCH TRAIL


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Third Album and Third Center for Monarch Trail and "Wither Down"
not only continues the sequence of albums in a positive way but
also raises the level of Track Quality to the point that it becomes
difficult to choose one as the best ... in the previous 2 albums
some less interesting track was here Ken Baird who continues
to be the composer of all songs cancels the decrease in attention
and creates an excellent album ... exceptional use of the piano in
the opening song which then also gives the title of the album ...
among those who have commented on the album more than someone
has seen in the music of this album references to the first IQs….
and others a fusion of the styles of Genesis and Yes… ..
I just want to thank the Monarch Trail for giving us
some more excellent music.

The track I have chosen is "Megalopolitana"




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Hi friends


2021 Work in Progress..ive





These are my best tracks of 2021



Track Title-Group or Artist-Album

The Pilgrim Suite -Andrew Stone-The Pilgrim

Discworld - Projector - Glass Kites -Glass Kites II

The Trial of the King - Chromatic Aberration -The Trial of the King

4Th Dimension - ProAge-Wymiar

Claustrophobia-Eyesberg-Claustrophobia

Rainy Sunday-Maxxess-Reactivate

Colorbox-Raven Sad-The Leaf And The Wing

Bit By Bit-Syrinx Call-Mirrorneuron

Power Trip Career Aspirations-Lucas Lee -Sindrome De Estocolmo

The Darkness in the Light-Transatlantic-The Absolute Universe: Forevermore

Soul_Of_Hundred_Lives-Inner Prospekt-Canvas Two

Flare_2-Richard_Barbieri-Under a Spell

Cosmic Krautrock-Stephan Thelen-Fractal Guitar 2

Rite_Of_Accession-Elephant9-Arrival Of The New Elders

In Discipline And With Love-Kerrs Pink-Presence Of Life

Marcha_De_Sonidos_Parte_2-Black Expression-Regreso A Casa

Crossing-Cast-Vigesimus

Alice_Krige_Parts_1_and_2-Heard Of Istinct-Unravel

Altitude-Lifesigns-Altitude

In_1985-Cosmograf-Rattrapante

Sailing_To_Byzantium-Nad Sylvan-Spiritus Mundi

Halo_Drive-Corrado Rustici -Interfulgent

Tiresias-Noisy Diners-The Princess of the Allen Key

Alice-The Mad Lab-Design of Experiments

The Real History Of Tom Wheel, Pt. 1 (The Curse)
-Fabricio Pipini(feat.Platinum)-Phantasicah (A Dreamer's Tale)


Walk_Away-Bernardo Lanzetti-Horizontal Rain

Broken Windows-Zygon-Earth And Sky

The Ascent-The Emerald Down-To Touch The Sky

Connecting_The_Dots-Confusion Field -Disconnection Complete

Day_And_Age-Frost* -Day And Age

Haunted_House-Joe_Bailey -Ghosts

Winter-Resistor -The 5th Season

Book Of Coming Forth By Day-Blacksmith Tales-The Dark Presence

Iron John-The Samurai Of Prog -The Lady And The Lion And Other Grimm Tales

Go Viral-Sylvan-One to Zero

Room 101-Karmamoi-Room 101

Hidden Land-Daniel Eliseev Project -Lost Humanity

Apollo-Big Big Train - Common Ground

Dissolution-Smalltape -THE HUNGRY HEART

Dark World-Metamorphosis-I'm Not A Hero

White Ghosts-Alessandro Corvaglia-Out Of The Gate

Beyond the Years-The Neal Morse Band -Innocence & Danger

Shanghai_to_Samarkand-Steve Hackett -Surrender Of Silence

The_Cashectomy-Benjamin Croft -Far And Distant Things

Red-The Watch-The Art of Bleeding

In Disequilibrium, part 3-Isildurs Bane & Peter Hammill-In Disequilibrium


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Megalopolitana-Monarch Trail -Wither Down







from http://www.progarchives.com/




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AMAROK

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Amarok is back with a new album! Michał and Marta Wojtas are
joined by their old friends – Kornel Popławski and Konrad Zieliński.
The result of this collaboration is the album “Hero” – a spiritual
sequel to the 2017 “Hunt”.

Much like the aforementioned „Hunt”, the upcoming album presents
a fusion of musical styles known and loved by fans and critics alike.
Here the sounds of progressive rock folk and ambient mix together, complemented by a wonderful and subtle guitar virtuosity.
The soundscape feels exotic, thanks to the use of uncommon
instruments such as violin, theremin, wind gong, djembe, harmonium,
flute, and rainsticks.

The pieces have a strong lyrical layer, with their vocals referencing
the ongoing digitalization of our life and the unsure position of a
human in the future world. There are also beautiful instrumental
fragments reminiscent of film scores similar in style to the depictions
from the War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells. Hero is a story of a
protagonist, fighting for survival, going up against reality and
themselves. It’s about everyone courageously facing the unknown.
The lyrics based on this idea, also touch on the current pandemic
and the state of the world.

The upcoming album „Hero” is a collection of innovative, fresh,
and spatial compositions with just as good lyrical parts, that
inquires into our current questions about the future. We recommend
spending a while to relax, reflect and enter the world of this unique
music. The climate of each and every piece mesmerizes the first
time you hear it and brings you back again and again.


Taken from the band's website



The track I have chosen is "Hero"



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Hi friends


2021 Work in Progress..ive





These are my best tracks of 2021



Track Title-Group or Artist-Album

The Pilgrim Suite -Andrew Stone-The Pilgrim

Discworld - Projector - Glass Kites -Glass Kites II

The Trial of the King - Chromatic Aberration -The Trial of the King

4Th Dimension - ProAge-Wymiar

Claustrophobia-Eyesberg-Claustrophobia

Rainy Sunday-Maxxess-Reactivate

Colorbox-Raven Sad-The Leaf And The Wing

Bit By Bit-Syrinx Call-Mirrorneuron

Power Trip Career Aspirations-Lucas Lee -Sindrome De Estocolmo

The Darkness in the Light-Transatlantic-The Absolute Universe: Forevermore

Soul_Of_Hundred_Lives-Inner Prospekt-Canvas Two

Flare_2-Richard_Barbieri-Under a Spell

Cosmic Krautrock-Stephan Thelen-Fractal Guitar 2

Rite_Of_Accession-Elephant9-Arrival Of The New Elders

In Discipline And With Love-Kerrs Pink-Presence Of Life

Marcha_De_Sonidos_Parte_2-Black Expression-Regreso A Casa

Crossing-Cast-Vigesimus

Alice_Krige_Parts_1_and_2-Heard Of Istinct-Unravel

Altitude-Lifesigns-Altitude

In_1985-Cosmograf-Rattrapante

Sailing_To_Byzantium-Nad Sylvan-Spiritus Mundi

Halo_Drive-Corrado Rustici -Interfulgent

Tiresias-Noisy Diners-The Princess of the Allen Key

Alice-The Mad Lab-Design of Experiments

The Real History Of Tom Wheel, Pt. 1 (The Curse)
-Fabricio Pipini(feat.Platinum)-Phantasicah (A Dreamer's Tale)


Walk_Away-Bernardo Lanzetti-Horizontal Rain

Broken Windows-Zygon-Earth And Sky

The Ascent-The Emerald Down-To Touch The Sky

Connecting_The_Dots-Confusion Field -Disconnection Complete

Day_And_Age-Frost* -Day And Age

Haunted_House-Joe_Bailey -Ghosts

Winter-Resistor -The 5th Season

Book Of Coming Forth By Day-Blacksmith Tales-The Dark Presence

Iron John-The Samurai Of Prog -The Lady And The Lion And Other Grimm Tales

Go Viral-Sylvan-One to Zero

Room 101-Karmamoi-Room 101

Hidden Land-Daniel Eliseev Project -Lost Humanity

Apollo-Big Big Train - Common Ground

Dissolution-Smalltape -THE HUNGRY HEART

Dark World-Metamorphosis-I'm Not A Hero

White Ghosts-Alessandro Corvaglia-Out Of The Gate

Beyond the Years-The Neal Morse Band -Innocence & Danger

Shanghai_to_Samarkand-Steve Hackett -Surrender Of Silence

The_Cashectomy-Benjamin Croft -Far And Distant Things

Red-The Watch-The Art of Bleeding

In Disequilibrium, part 3-Isildurs Bane & Peter Hammill-In Disequilibrium

Megalopolitana-Monarch Trail -Wither Down


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Hero-Amarok-Hero



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Taken from the band's website



HERO - AMAROK

https://amarokmusic.bandcamp.com/track/hero


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I live permanently in my ProgLand, I feel great and sometimes I like to make some visits to the border where I always find Dream Theater very happy or go to more distant lands such as electronic music or go to the territory of great jazzrock-fusion instrumentalists. ... today I chose to breathe the sound of this band that is classified as progressive metal but in many songs definitely metal but always very far from the metal of only noise of many groups ...

The Dream Theater were born in 1985 from the meeting of JOHN PETRUCCI , JOHN MYUNG
and MIKE PORTNOY who attended the same prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston

Taking into account only the current components

in 1991 he joins the group JAMES LABRIE who responds to an announcement from the DT who were looking for a singer and finds himself in a club with 200 other aspirants and wins the challenge that has consecrated him a decisive component of the group's success, very generous in performances live just to make comparisons with the due differences what Robert Plant and Ian Gillan were for Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple

in 1999 he joined the group JORDAN RUDESS which certainly contributes to adding a more prog and less metal sound and this thanks to his admission of being influenced by artists such as Keith Emerson, Tony Banks, Rick Wakeman and Patrick Moraz and having among the his favorite bands Gentle Giant, Yes, Genesis, Pink Floyd, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, King Crimson, Jimi Hendrix, Autechre, and Aphex Twin ... also very interested in any new devilry applicable to his keyboards in order to always generate new sounds.

2 Videos to learn more about the thousand facets of Jordan Rudess
a guarantee why the sound of the DT does not turn towards only metal sound


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCimXv5LzcY



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cp9Ie9IvPTU



in 2011 MIKE MANGINI last joined the band to replace Mike Portnoy's exit
it's been 10 years now that the line-up hasn't changed and not only do I think it's the best ... but I also hope this remains

returning to MIKE MANGINI I think JAMES LABRIE suggested his entry, who had him in his 3 albums only but apart from this possible recommendation, the biography of this drummer speaks of a child who at the age of 2 and a half was already having fun with a drums and at 9 he trained from 2 to 4 hours a day and then joined the DT with a 360 degree drum set, seeing him live in his percussion cage is a show.


I am pleased to read many positive comments that recognize its value in the following video in which MIKE is training to face the World Tour and he does it with a reduced battery in the same configuration as the recording of the album but uses the base of the excellent ALIEN sent at a speed of 10% higher than the original this to find everything easier in live performances


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFx19PMxGTc


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And here we are finally at this umpteenth Dream Theater album with 2 excellent tracks inside, the first opens the album .. "Alien" and the last "A View from the Top of the World" both very suitable to open their next show on the world tour that are about to start in February 2022 ... both tracks have a long instrumental introduction with a strong impact that when it returns to the initial chorus opens the scene at the entrance of LaBrie ... we will see which song they choose to open the concert

Taking a step back I like to insert the genesis of this album
as told by the DT themselves

From their Official Site
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Dream Theater – comprised of James LaBrie, John Petrucci, Jordan Rudess, John Myung and Mike Mangini - was in the middle of a sold-out world tour in support of their last release Distance Over Time and the 20th anniversary of Scenes From A Memory when a Global Pandemic brought the world to a stop. The musicians found themselves at home with LaBrie in Canada and the rest of the group in the States. As fate would have it, they’d just finished construction on DTHQ (Dream Theater Headquarters) —a combination live recording studio, rehearsal space, control room, equipment storage, and creative hive. With LaBrie in Canada, he initially wrote with the band via ZOOM on a monitor in DTHQ. In March 2021, he flew down to New York, quarantined, and recorded his vocals face-to-face with Petrucci. The album ultimately threaded together lean and uncompromising hooks with tried-and-true technical proficiency.
“We just love to play our instruments,” observes Petrucci. “That never goes away. I love to be creative, write, and exercise that part of my mind. We’ve been able to do this for a long time, and we don’t take it for granted. Whenever we get together, we know we can’t disappoint ourselves or our fans, so we manage to try even harder.”

“We approach every album like it’s our first,” adds LaBrie. “It’s been such a great ride, but we’re not going to stop.”
__________________________________________________ ____________


I have chosen for my best tracks of 2021 "A View from the Top of the World" a suite consisting of 3 parts
i. The Crowning Glory
ii. Rapture of the Deep
iii. The Driving Force
which takes place with many variations of rhythm for a duration of over 20 minutes…. The long tracks of the DT are the ones that I like the most and are those in which they manage to enhance the qualities of all the members of the group and where it is also easier to identify them as a progressive metal
band.

Long live Dream Theater




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Hi friends


2021 Work in Progress..ive





These are my best tracks of 2021



Track Title-Group or Artist-Album

The Pilgrim Suite -Andrew Stone-The Pilgrim

Discworld - Projector - Glass Kites -Glass Kites II

The Trial of the King - Chromatic Aberration -The Trial of the King

4Th Dimension - ProAge-Wymiar

Claustrophobia-Eyesberg-Claustrophobia

Rainy Sunday-Maxxess-Reactivate

Colorbox-Raven Sad-The Leaf And The Wing

Bit By Bit-Syrinx Call-Mirrorneuron

Power Trip Career Aspirations-Lucas Lee -Sindrome De Estocolmo

The Darkness in the Light-Transatlantic-The Absolute Universe: Forevermore

Soul_Of_Hundred_Lives-Inner Prospekt-Canvas Two

Flare_2-Richard_Barbieri-Under a Spell

Cosmic Krautrock-Stephan Thelen-Fractal Guitar 2

Rite_Of_Accession-Elephant9-Arrival Of The New Elders

In Discipline And With Love-Kerrs Pink-Presence Of Life

Marcha_De_Sonidos_Parte_2-Black Expression-Regreso A Casa

Crossing-Cast-Vigesimus

Alice_Krige_Parts_1_and_2-Heard Of Istinct-Unravel

Altitude-Lifesigns-Altitude

In_1985-Cosmograf-Rattrapante

Sailing_To_Byzantium-Nad Sylvan-Spiritus Mundi

Halo_Drive-Corrado Rustici -Interfulgent

Tiresias-Noisy Diners-The Princess of the Allen Key

Alice-The Mad Lab-Design of Experiments

The Real History Of Tom Wheel, Pt. 1 (The Curse)
-Fabricio Pipini(feat.Platinum)-Phantasicah (A Dreamer's Tale)


Walk_Away-Bernardo Lanzetti-Horizontal Rain

Broken Windows-Zygon-Earth And Sky

The Ascent-The Emerald Down-To Touch The Sky

Connecting_The_Dots-Confusion Field -Disconnection Complete

Day_And_Age-Frost* -Day And Age

Haunted_House-Joe_Bailey -Ghosts

Winter-Resistor -The 5th Season

Book Of Coming Forth By Day-Blacksmith Tales-The Dark Presence

Iron John-The Samurai Of Prog -The Lady And The Lion And Other Grimm Tales

Go Viral-Sylvan-One to Zero

Room 101-Karmamoi-Room 101

Hidden Land-Daniel Eliseev Project -Lost Humanity

Apollo-Big Big Train - Common Ground

Dissolution-Smalltape -THE HUNGRY HEART

Dark World-Metamorphosis-I'm Not A Hero

White Ghosts-Alessandro Corvaglia-Out Of The Gate

Beyond the Years-The Neal Morse Band -Innocence & Danger

Shanghai_to_Samarkand-Steve Hackett -Surrender Of Silence

The_Cashectomy-Benjamin Croft -Far And Distant Things

Red-The Watch-The Art of Bleeding

In Disequilibrium, part 3-Isildurs Bane & Peter Hammill-In Disequilibrium

Megalopolitana-Monarch Trail -Wither Down

Hero-Amarok-Hero


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A View From The Top Of The World-Dream Theater- A View From The Top Of The World

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The 2022 World Tour Dates


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Here also the prices for the concerts with conspicuous differences
between them most likely in relation to the seats available


https://myrockshows.com/band/384-dream-theater/




.... here the youtube version of the track

A View From The Top Of The World-Dream Theater

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DeiV0ryQDY


GOOD LISTENING

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Re: 2021 Work in Progress..ive

ANDREW ROUSSAK



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Hi friends


2021 Work in Progress..ive





These are my best tracks of 2021



Track Title-Group or Artist-Album

The Pilgrim Suite -Andrew Stone-The Pilgrim

Discworld - Projector - Glass Kites -Glass Kites II

The Trial of the King - Chromatic Aberration -The Trial of the King

4Th Dimension - ProAge-Wymiar

Claustrophobia-Eyesberg-Claustrophobia

Rainy Sunday-Maxxess-Reactivate

Colorbox-Raven Sad-The Leaf And The Wing

Bit By Bit-Syrinx Call-Mirrorneuron

Power Trip Career Aspirations-Lucas Lee -Sindrome De Estocolmo

The Darkness in the Light-Transatlantic-The Absolute Universe: Forevermore

Soul_Of_Hundred_Lives-Inner Prospekt-Canvas Two

Flare_2-Richard_Barbieri-Under a Spell

Cosmic Krautrock-Stephan Thelen-Fractal Guitar 2

Rite_Of_Accession-Elephant9-Arrival Of The New Elders

In Discipline And With Love-Kerrs Pink-Presence Of Life

Marcha_De_Sonidos_Parte_2-Black Expression-Regreso A Casa

Crossing-Cast-Vigesimus

Alice_Krige_Parts_1_and_2-Heard Of Istinct-Unravel

Altitude-Lifesigns-Altitude

In_1985-Cosmograf-Rattrapante

Sailing_To_Byzantium-Nad Sylvan-Spiritus Mundi

Halo_Drive-Corrado Rustici -Interfulgent

Tiresias-Noisy Diners-The Princess of the Allen Key

Alice-The Mad Lab-Design of Experiments

The Real History Of Tom Wheel, Pt. 1 (The Curse)
-Fabricio Pipini(feat.Platinum)-Phantasicah (A Dreamer's Tale)


Walk_Away-Bernardo Lanzetti-Horizontal Rain

Broken Windows-Zygon-Earth And Sky

The Ascent-The Emerald Down-To Touch The Sky

Connecting_The_Dots-Confusion Field -Disconnection Complete

Day_And_Age-Frost* -Day And Age

Haunted_House-Joe_Bailey -Ghosts

Winter-Resistor -The 5th Season

Book Of Coming Forth By Day-Blacksmith Tales-The Dark Presence

Iron John-The Samurai Of Prog -The Lady And The Lion And Other Grimm Tales

Go Viral-Sylvan-One to Zero

Room 101-Karmamoi-Room 101

Hidden Land-Daniel Eliseev Project -Lost Humanity

Apollo-Big Big Train - Common Ground

Dissolution-Smalltape -THE HUNGRY HEART

Dark World-Metamorphosis-I'm Not A Hero

White Ghosts-Alessandro Corvaglia-Out Of The Gate

Beyond the Years-The Neal Morse Band -Innocence & Danger

Shanghai_to_Samarkand-Steve Hackett -Surrender Of Silence

The_Cashectomy-Benjamin Croft -Far And Distant Things

Red-The Watch-The Art of Bleeding

In Disequilibrium, part 3-Isildurs Bane & Peter Hammill-In Disequilibrium

Megalopolitana-Monarch Trail -Wither Down

Hero-Amarok-Hero

A View From The Top Of The World-Dream Theater- A View From The Top Of The World


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Invisible Killer-Andrew Roussak- Crossing the Line


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all the instruments are played by Andrew and also the voices
including the choirs
I chose the track "Invisible Killer" but the album contains other
tracks worthy of attention





.... here the youtube version of the track

Invisible Killer-Andrew Roussak

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBsenkZzUG4


GOOD LISTENING

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SPHERICAL AGENDA

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Spherical Agenda hails from Cincinnati, OH, and features some
of the best prog players in the Midwest ....
Bassist Matt Wiles, drummer Devon Leigh, keyboardist Ben Tweedt
and guitarist Brandon Coleman create a sound that blends
progressive rock, jazz and fusion.

ARCANE WISDOM, the band's entire debut album, is an eclectic
assortment of compositions with diverse musical influences.
The album deals with jazz-rock in its various facets while always
keeping the level of music high, an entire instrumental album ...
demonstrating a richness that means that on the first album they
did not do anything wrong and certainly a group not to be
underestimated anything. and certainly that it could certainly give us
other albums of the same level but also certainly superior to this one ...
difficult to find the best song, I have identified 3 songs,
I have a preference on "GUTS" but the doubt on other 2
"STEAK JAZZ" and "COLEMAN'S QUESTION"
the other songs are also very respectable and without a doubt
those who love jazzrock will have a new group to follow




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Hi friends


2021 Work in Progress..ive





These are my best tracks of 2021



Track Title-Group or Artist-Album

The Pilgrim Suite -Andrew Stone-The Pilgrim

Discworld - Projector - Glass Kites -Glass Kites II

The Trial of the King - Chromatic Aberration -The Trial of the King

4Th Dimension - ProAge-Wymiar

Claustrophobia-Eyesberg-Claustrophobia

Rainy Sunday-Maxxess-Reactivate

Colorbox-Raven Sad-The Leaf And The Wing

Bit By Bit-Syrinx Call-Mirrorneuron

Power Trip Career Aspirations-Lucas Lee -Sindrome De Estocolmo

The Darkness in the Light-Transatlantic-The Absolute Universe: Forevermore

Soul_Of_Hundred_Lives-Inner Prospekt-Canvas Two

Flare_2-Richard_Barbieri-Under a Spell

Cosmic Krautrock-Stephan Thelen-Fractal Guitar 2

Rite_Of_Accession-Elephant9-Arrival Of The New Elders

In Discipline And With Love-Kerrs Pink-Presence Of Life

Marcha_De_Sonidos_Parte_2-Black Expression-Regreso A Casa

Crossing-Cast-Vigesimus

Alice_Krige_Parts_1_and_2-Heard Of Istinct-Unravel

Altitude-Lifesigns-Altitude

In_1985-Cosmograf-Rattrapante

Sailing_To_Byzantium-Nad Sylvan-Spiritus Mundi

Halo_Drive-Corrado Rustici -Interfulgent

Tiresias-Noisy Diners-The Princess of the Allen Key

Alice-The Mad Lab-Design of Experiments

The Real History Of Tom Wheel, Pt. 1 (The Curse)
-Fabricio Pipini(feat.Platinum)-Phantasicah (A Dreamer's Tale)


Walk_Away-Bernardo Lanzetti-Horizontal Rain

Broken Windows-Zygon-Earth And Sky

The Ascent-The Emerald Down-To Touch The Sky

Connecting_The_Dots-Confusion Field -Disconnection Complete

Day_And_Age-Frost* -Day And Age

Haunted_House-Joe_Bailey -Ghosts

Winter-Resistor -The 5th Season

Book Of Coming Forth By Day-Blacksmith Tales-The Dark Presence

Iron John-The Samurai Of Prog -The Lady And The Lion And Other Grimm Tales

Go Viral-Sylvan-One to Zero

Room 101-Karmamoi-Room 101

Hidden Land-Daniel Eliseev Project -Lost Humanity

Apollo-Big Big Train - Common Ground

Dissolution-Smalltape -THE HUNGRY HEART

Dark World-Metamorphosis-I'm Not A Hero

White Ghosts-Alessandro Corvaglia-Out Of The Gate

Beyond the Years-The Neal Morse Band -Innocence & Danger

Shanghai_to_Samarkand-Steve Hackett -Surrender Of Silence

The_Cashectomy-Benjamin Croft -Far And Distant Things

Red-The Watch-The Art of Bleeding

In Disequilibrium, part 3-Isildurs Bane & Peter Hammill-In Disequilibrium

Megalopolitana-Monarch Trail -Wither Down

Hero-Amarok-Hero

A View From The Top Of The World-Dream Theater- A View From The Top Of The World

Invisible Killer-Andrew Roussak- Crossing the Line


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Guts-Spherical Agenda-Arcane Wisdom



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Guts-Spherical Agenda

https://sphericalagenda.bandcamp.com/track/guts-2



.... the doubt in the choice with:


Coleman's Question-Spherical Agenda

https://sphericalagenda.bandcamp.com...edo-reyes-jr-2



Steak Jazz-Spherical Agenda

https://sphericalagenda.bandcamp.com...fredo-reyes-jr



GOOD LISTENING


.....and finally the video of the long live version
of the excellent "Steak Jazz"


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2SDmjA8WhI

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