Prog-Watch

More astounding progressive sounds await on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear music from Fractal Mirror, Alex Pilkevych, Alcantara, Krokofant, Tom Slatter, Choclat Frog, Pentesilea Road, and Premiata Forneria Marconi! Plus, our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, will take us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with the solo debut of Riverside kyeboardist Michal Lapaj!

As a warm-up (or bone-chill) for Samhain or Halloween, this week's Prog-Watch is all about nightmares and the macabre! With songs concerning things spooky or supernatural from Alice Cooper, Atomic Rooster, King Crimson, Uriah Heep, Kansas, Rush, Anthony Phillips, Spock's Beard, Pink Floyd, Steven Wilson, and Jethro Tull! Join me...if you dare!

On this week's Prog-Watch my special guest is the charming Mariana Semkina of iamthemorning! Tune in to hear some of our chat, as well as lots of great iamthemorning music, and music from her solo career, including a few from her new EP Disillusioned!

101 Dimensions curated by Anthony Rowsick - October 2021: 1. Ulrich Schnauss – Melts Into Air; Love Grows Out Of Thin Air; The Magic In You; and Thoughtless Motion (23:03) (from the album Now Is A Timeless Present: A Retrospective, 2019) 2. Spacelords – Spaceflowers; and Frau Kuhnkes Kosmos (25:18) (from the album Spaceflowers, 2020) 3. Jansen Barbieri Karn – The Shallow Pool; To The Core; Sacrifi...

Get ready for another ALL NEW variety program full of great contemporary progressive rock on this week's Prog-Watch! I've got fantastic stuff from The Watch, Cyan, Aisles, Dec Burke, EmT, Three Colours Dark, Shumaun, Ray Wilson, The Paradox Twin, and Hangar Nord! I hope you will join me!

Come take a ride with me on this week's Prog-Watch and we'll drive into a Brave New World! (Well every song will be about some world, anyway...the new world, half the world, the real world, a fantasy world, etc.) Soundtrack provided by Michael Penn, The Moody Blues, Big Big Train, Rush, Conspiracy, The Alan Parsons Project, The Strawbs, Kansas, The Electric Light Orchestra, Black Bonzo, David Bowi...

On Prog-Watch this week it's another installment of OUR PROGRESSIVE PLANET in which Dr. Rob Fisher and I will take you on a little tour of the vibrant progressive music scene in Germany! With music from Sylvan, Lucifer's Friend, Subsignal, Panzerballett, Eloy, RPWL, Frequency Drift, Vanden Plas, Seven Steps To The Green Door, and Schmid and Arnold! We hope you will join us!

This week's Prog-Watch is a variety program with a Guest DJ Feature, which will have lots of great stuff---new and old---for your listening pleasure! For my part I'll be spinning fabulous music from Yes, Big Big Train, Smalltape, Kristoffer Gildenlöw, Gentle Giant, and Texel! I'll also be mixing in selections from our Guest DJ, Mr. Jean-Marc Bonard of Lausanne, Switzerland! Jean-Marc has selected...

101 Dimensions curated by Anthony Rowsick, September 2021: 1. Geoff Downes' New Dance Orchestra – Shine On; Forgiven; Movin' On; Rainbow's End; and Breaking the Spell (21:14) (from the album Electronica, 2010) 2. Edgar Froese – Stuntman; It Would Be Like Samoa; and Detroit Snackbar Dreamer (21:37) (from the album Stuntman, 1979) 3. Vangelis – Suffocation; and See You Later (19:48) (from the album...

This week on Prog-Watch it's another ALL NEW variety program full of fabulous, contemporary progressive rock! I've got great new stuff from Drifting Sun, Kyros, Ray Wilson, John Wetton, Big Big Train, Tony Kaye, Smalltape, Styx, Shumaun, Dec Burke, Lee Abraham, and Texel!

This week on Prog-Watch it's Part Two of my coverage of Tony Lowe of the ESP Project and 22 Layers! We'll hear more great music and chat, and Cheryl Stringall, Tony's partner at the Sunn Creative label, even drops by! As if this was not enough, Dr. Rob Fisher is also doing a Progressive Discoveries feature on the latest 22 Layers album, Isotope! All this in 90 minutes!

This week on Prog-Watch my very special guest is Tony Lowe of the ESP Project and 22 Layers! Tune in to hear some of our chat and lots of great music from the two projects just mentioned and his collaboration with Alison Fleming!

I hope you will join me on Prog-Watch this week when I will be exploring some of the vast Musical World of David Gilmour! We'll hear great music from Pink Floyd and his solo career, of course, as well as a variety of stuff featuring Dave as producer and guest!

101 Dimensions curated by Anthony Rowsick, August 2021: 1. John Carpenter – Alive After Death; Weeping Ghost; Dripping Blood; Dead Eyes; and Vampire's Touch (19:29) (from the album Lost Themes III – Alive After Death, 2021) 2. Tangerine Dream – Approaching Snowy Village; Odd Welcome; The Untouchable Castle; and The Apparently Lunatic Hierarchy (25:11) (from the album Franz Kafka – The Castle, 2013...

This week's Prog-Watch is the first of an occasionally recurring series that will explore different sub-genres of progressive rock! This first installment looks at symphonic prog, and we'll hear great music from Yes, Camel, Renaissance, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Anglagard, Echolyn, Kansas, Focus, and Genesis!

This week on Prog-Watch it's another ALL NEW variety program full of fabulous, contemporary progressive rock! I've got great new stuff from The Cyberiam, Styx, Big Hogg, Steve Hackett, Kayak, Mariusz Duda, The Yuval Ron Trio, Nad Sylvan, Daidrum, Lord Helmet, and Elypsia!

This week's Prog-Watch has a “dream theme”! Every song will be about dreams or dreaming, with marvelous, melodious music provided by The Moody Blues, Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Gary Wright, The Flower Kings, Supertramp, The Electric Light Orchestra, Yes, Asia, John Lennon, The Zombies, O.R.k., Esquire, Jethro Tull, Downes Braide Association, Genesis, King Crimson, and The Allman Brothers Band!

Lots of great sounds abound on this week's Prog-Watch! Tune in to hear fabulous stuff from Bend The Future, Red Bazar, Nine Skies, Kamyki, Crack The Sky, Deep Clear Field, Magenta, Jordsjø, Lord Helmet, and Tom Newman!

101 Dimensions curated by Anthony Rowsick, July 2021: 1. Thomas Dolby – I Love You Goodbye; Cruel; Silk Pyjamas; and Eastern Block (Sequel to Europa and the Pirate Twins) (18:05) (from the album Astronauts and Heretics, 1992) 2. Jansen Barbieri Karn – Beginning to Melt; The Wilderness; and March of the Innocents (20:53) (from the album Beginning to Melt, 1993) 3. Tom Newman – The Woods Of; Fórdin...

This week on Prog-Watch I'm breaking out some fantastic EPIX once again! In this edition we'll hear from Kansas, The Alan Parsons Project, Dream Theater, Magenta, Motorpsycho, and King Crimson!

This week's Prog-Watch is a themed special called Home Sweet Home! With fabulous music by Peter Gabriel, Magenta, Blind Faith, Genesis, Jon & Vangelis, The Alan Parsons Project, Rod Argent & Colin Blunstone, Big Big Train, Boston, Paul & Linda McCartney, The Electric Light Orchestra, Jethro Tull, Kansas, Big Country, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, and Phil Collins!

Be on the lookout for an awesome assemblage of astounding progressive rock music on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear from Frost*, Luca Zabbini, Gentle Giant, Bend The Future, Kayak, Barebone, 22 Layers, Franklin Mint, Paul Cusick, Jon Anderson, Ciccada, and Liquid Tension Experiment! As Yoda would say, “Miss it not!”

This week on Prog-Watch it's Part Two of my coverage of Simon Collins! More chat with Simon, and more great music from his most recent albums, plus a guest appearance on a Genesis re-make by Steve Hackett!

My turn on 101 Dimensions once again and here's our itinerary: 1. Tangerine Dream – Timeless; Ride on the Ray (Atlantic Ocean Version); Peddington at Five; and Morning Star (22:40) (from the album Flame, 2009) 2. Jean-Michel Jarre – Industrial Revolution: Overture, Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 (16:48) (from the album Revolutions, 1988) 3. Jean-Luc Ponty – Life Enigma; Even the Sun Will Die; Love at...

I hope you will join me on Prog-Watch this week when I will be exploring some of the vast Musical World of Ritchie Blackmore! We'll hear great music from Deep Purple, Rainbow, and his latest endeavor, Blackmore's Night!