Danny Bonte

Art Rock Show – S.E.I. (Week 50)

Het is al een tijdje geleden dat de Italiaanse band La Maschera di Cera, een nieuw album uitbracht. Fabio Zuffanti is de drijvende kracht achter de band en iemand die muzikaal nooit stil zit.

Prog Archives review: “Rock Progressivo Italiano is my favourite prog rock genre and La Maschera Di Cera is my favourite RPI band. So when I have heard about this new album from them I was more excited than ever. And my expectation were highly rewarded. Although this new release is very different from their last release (Le Porte Del Domani) in terms of structure, SEI is equally good and rewarding.

There are only three songs but epic ones, regarding the lenght, the shorter one being 10 minutes long and the first is about 22 minutes long.… Read more...

Rock On! Wednesday, 9 december – Acquiring The Taste (Pink Floyd, King Crimson, Triangle, Panta Rei)

Psychedelic, heavy, prog and more innovating sounds spanning the late 60s and the early 70s – Wednesday December 9th. Dan’s pick of the week: Pink Floyd (Atom Heart Mother), King Crimson (In The Court Of The Crimson King), Triangle (Triangle), Panta Rei (Panta Rei) & Roger Waters; Ron Geesin (Music From The Body).

Op donderdag 1 oktober 1970 bracht EMI de nieuwe Pink Floyd plaat ‘Atom Heart Mother’uit. De LP met die koe op de hoes vormde het begin van een ware koersverandering. Vanaf toen kwam de band met steeds complexere epische prog en werd de psychedelica steeds meer naar de achtergrond geschoven.

Dick van der Heijde van Prog Wereld: “De mannen van Pink Floyd, de pioniers, hadden het in hun vingers, met name Roger Waters was behoorlijk bedreven geraakt in het manipuleren van de opnameband.… Read more...

Art Rock Show – Take a Closer Look (Week 49)

Deze week brengen we Osiris, een van Bahrein’s meest populaire bands in de jaren tachtig. De laatste plaat dateert ook al weer van tien jaar geleden. Prog Archives review: “This is probably more of a straightforward neo/symphonic album than those released during their halcyon days, but what might be lacking in the ethnicity department is more than compensated by their fervor for the prog rock that is as much a part of who they are. Cautiously I want to say that this sounds like it could have appeared after “Myths and Legends”, but that would be minimizing the impact of the last 30 years of prog revival. So, while comparisons to CAMEL, ELOY, FM, SAGA and even KANSAS still resonate, I also hear kinship with the grandchildren of that generation like CLEPSYDRA and TEMPUS FUGIT.… Read more...

Art Rock Show – Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic – Cenozoic (Week 48)

Het Duitse prog & post-metal collectief The Ocean heeft een nieuw plaat uit. En wat voor een. Met Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic – Cenozoic laat de groep z’n meest progressieve, experimentele kant zien.

Brian Masso van Sonic Perspectives: “Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic | Cenozoic is a mesmerizing, innovative, experimental, and groundbreaking record that ranks as the best album recorded by The Ocean.

Despite continuing the paleontology theme portrayed on “