Art Rock Show – Departures (Week 25)

Javier Miranda is een progressieve elektronische componist uit Lugo, Spanje. Tot 2021 kon hij in eigen beheer twee albums uitbrengen, waarop hij Berlijnse School en Ambient elektronica mixt met Krautrock en Avantgarde muziek. Daarna ging het snel…

Prog Archives review: “Dense and beautiful album. Following the titles seems like a journey through the life of an ordinary person. Very ambient and atmospheric. “Everything” is exciting as a sample of the birth of life. The second song “In Transit” contains a small rhythmic base that gives it color and has influences from the more ambient themes of Aphex Twin.

“The Descent” is the darkest moment on the album with sounds that seem like a mellotron approaching dark ambient. The final “Resurrection” is absolutely suggestive and epic at times with very curious rhythmic moments and a beautiful final coda.… Read more...

• 21/06/2023
• Art & Prog Rock
• Danny Bonte

Art Rock Show – Quiet Euphoria (Week 24)

Amoeba Split is een Spaanse band die progressieve rock mixt, met speciale aandacht voor de Canterbury scene, jazz en klassieke muziek. In 2010 verscheen hun eerste album, “Dance of the Goodbyes”, genomineerd door Progawards als “Beste prog debuutalbum van 2010”.

Peter Thelen van Exposé Online : “This is a band that certainly can’t be accused of flooding the market with product — after their debut album, Dance of the Goodbyes (2010) and the follow-up Second Split (2016), I was beginning to wonder if the band was still a going concern. In fact, they have even managed to add a couple new members for Quiet Euphoria, making them now an octet.

If the earlier albums pushed all of the right buttons for you, then one has nothing to worry about, this one is definitely in the same league, with many of the same 60s-70s Euro/Brit jazz-rock references that made their earlier albums so compelling; one can easily hear the strong hints of Supersister, Soft Machine, and Nucleus in their sound and approach, a creative powerhouse of Canterbury styled sounds if there ever was one, spread out across six tracks of varying length — succinct eough to fit on two sides of a long player.… Read more...

• 15/06/2023
• Art & Prog Rock
• Danny Bonte

Art Rock Show – One Man’s Grief (Week 23)

Daniel Kriffel en Dominique Király komen uit Boedapest en noemen de gebruikelijke invloeden als Steven Wilson, Mariusz Duda en Ólafur Arnalds. Je kunt vage hints van deze muzikanten horen in het geluid van Deposed King, maar het is zeker een geluid dat ze zelf hebben gesmeed. Hun gepolijste, low key muziek doet me denken aan veel van de progressieve rock en post-rock acts die recentelijk uit Oost-Europa en vooral Polen zijn gekomen.

Progradar review: “With intelligent and thought provoking music and a calming aura deep at its core, the album is nine tracks long and brief opener First Light sets the scene of things to come, thoughtful and wistful in tone and delivery, this delicate instrumental focuses your mind immediately. There’s a segue into the chiming guitars of Caves, a piece of music that, while thoughtful in nature, has a more urgent and intense feel than the previous track.… Read more...

• 08/06/2023
• Art & Prog Rock
• Danny Bonte