Prog-Watch

This week on Prog-Watch my very special guest is Dave Bainbridge, multi-instrumentalist and co-founder of Iona, solo artist, and collaborator with many bands and artists including Lifesigns, the Strawbs, the Downes Briade Association, and Sally Minnear! Dave and I had a lot to talk about, so tune in to hear some of that chat, and lots of great music from his diverse career!

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 Green Asphalt, 3.2, and Ben Craven! I'll also be mixing in selections from our Guest DJ, Mr. Andrew Dickey of Plainfield, Indiana, USA! Andrew has selected some fantastic stuff from Galahad, Lucifer Wa...

Wow have I got a lot of diverse, new progressive rock for you on this week's Prog-Watch! Tune in to hear great stuff from Greyfox Agenda, Pattern-Seeking Animals, Pymlico, The Bardic Depths, Lobate Scarp, Checking For Echo Project, Christopher Libertino, Kite Parade, Gordon Giltrap and Oliver Wakeman, Art Griffins Sound Chaser, Stuckfish, Godley and Creme, and Hats Off Gentlemen, It's Adequate! Al...

This week's Prog-Watch is another edition of EPIX! Just a handful of mini modern symphonies will carry us through our time together and I'll spread the love across the decades of our favorite genre! Tune in to hear great music from Transatlantic, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Unitopia, Mystery, and Wobbler!

101 Dimensions curated by Anthony Rowsick, May 2022: 1. Nerissa Schwarz – Raised Like a Daughter; My Little Polymath; New Eyes For Laika; Europa Waiting; and Making Plans For Departure (21:56) (from the album New Eyes For Laika, 2022) 2. Klaus Schulze - L'affaire Tournesol (19:38) (from the Jubilee Edition box set, 1997) 3. Vangelis – Heaven and Hell (21:42) (from the album Heaven and Hell, 1975)...

More great, contemporary progressive sounds await on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear music from Lobate Scarp, Pattern-Seeking Animals, Time Dwellers, Spriggan Mist, and Better Strangers! Plus, our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, returns to take us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with the latest album by the ESP Project!

This week on Prog-Watch I'm digging into some of the vast Musical World of Manfred Mann! From his early days in the '60s pop band that bore his name, through the jazz explorations of Manfred Mann Chapter Three, to the more progressive sounds of Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred has had a long and diverse career! I hope you will join me in exploring some of it!

This week on Prog-Watch it's a new type of show—Discovering Progressive Virtuosos! In this series Dr. Rob Fisher and I will look at virtuosos on their chosen instruments and listen to some of their best work! This first edition will feature guitar virtuosos, and we're sure you can probably tell who we will be featuring, based on this episode's cover art!

Be on the lookout for a plethora of fabulous progressive rock music on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear from Luca Di Gennaro, Tiger Moth Tales, Checking For Echo Project, SomeWhereOut, Kaprekar's Constant, Twelfth Night, Yes, The Flower Kings, Christopher Libertino, Ben Craven, and The ESP Project! As Yoda would say, “Miss it not!”

101 Dimensions, April 2022: 1. Ott – 382 Seaside; Roflcopter; and A Shower of Sparks (23:06) (from the album Skylon, 2012) 2. Anne Dudley – Giant Below # Giant Above # Giant Within (22:51) (from the album Art of Silence Co UK, 1996) 3. Altamont – Altamont (17:49) (from the album Prayer for the Soul, 1983) 4. Ulrich Schnauss – The Weight of Darkening Skies; Borrowed Time; Ten Years; and A Ritual in...

Take your best shot this week with Prog-Watch! On this little themed special we'll hear from Utopia, Mansun, Anekdoten, Dennis DeYoung, UFO, Pineapple Thief, Rick Wakeman, Yes, Anthony Phillips, Kevin Ayers, Traffic, Saul Blease, Richard & Linda Thompson, Peter Hammill, and Fish! All in 90 minutes!

More great, contemporary progressive sounds await on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear music from Luca Di Gennaro, Karmamoi, the Checking For Echo Project, Anton Johansson, and Kite Parade! Plus, our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, returns to take us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with the latest album by Thomas Thielen (AKA “t”)!

I hope you will join me on Prog-Watch this week when I will be exploring some of the vast Musical World of Robert Fripp! We'll hear great music from King Crimson and his solo career, of course, and from some of his collaborations with Brian Eno, Andy Summers, and David Sylvian. Plus, a few of Robert's interesting guest appearances!

Lots of fantastic stuff this week from Andrew Roussak, Tiger Moth Tales, Modern-Rock Ensemble, Karibow, Cosmograf, D'Virgilio, Morse & Jennings, and Tears For Fears! Plus, I will pay a little tribute to two great musicians who we lost recently...Ian McDonald and Gary Brooker.

101 Dimensions curated by Anthony Rowsick, March 2022: 1. The Orb – Earth Orbit One: Little Fluffy Clouds; Earth Orbit Two: Earth (Gaia); and Earth Orbit Three: Supernova at the End of the Universe (26:12) (from the album The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld, 1991) 2. John Carpenter – Distant Dream; White Pulse; Persia Rising; Angel's Asylum; and Hofner Dawn (19:24) (from the album Lost Them...

This week on Prog-Watch: great new music from D'Virgilio, Morse, and Jennings, Tears For Fears, The Flower Kings, Kite Parade, and Marillion! Then, in the second half of the program I will finish up the feature on Chris Ramsing and his band PsychoYogi which I began last week! We'll hear a bit more chat, and a bit more of PsychoYogi's unique brand of “leftfield punk jazz”!

This week's Prog-Watch is a bit of a mixed bag! The first part of the program will be a Guest DJ feature with some music selected by Mr. David Rees of the UK! David's playlist includes great stuff from Meer, Marillion, IQ, Jadis, Asia, Kracked Earth, I Am The Manic Whale and Big Big Train! In the second half of the program I begin a feature on Chris Ramsing and his eclectic band, PsychoYogi, inclu...

More astounding progressive sounds await on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear music from Tiger Moth Tales, Lobate Scarp, Silver Nightmares, Black Sabbath (yes, Black Sabbath!) and Yes! Plus, our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, will take us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with Life In Two Dimensions, the latest solo album by Dec Burke!

This week on Prog-Watch it's Part Two of my coverage of Sonja Kristina! More of our chat and more great music from Curved Air, and her solo career and collaborations with Ty-Lor and Friends, Cloud 10, and Mask!

101 Dimensions curated by Anthony Rowsick, February 2022: 1. Bo Hansson – Attic Thoughts; Time and Space; Waiting...; Waltz for Interbeings; and Time For Great Achievements ( 21:26) (from the album Attic Thoughts, 1976) 2. Michael Hoenig – Hanging Garden Transfer; Voices of Where; and Sun and Moon (21:31) (from the album Departure from the Northern Wasteland, 1978) 3. Kraftwerk - The Voice Of Ener...

This week on Prog-Watch I start a great two-part feature on one of prog rock's Grande Dames, Ms. Sonja Kristina of Curved Air! Tune in to hear some of our chat and lots of great music from all across her long and illustrious career!

This week's Prog-Watch is all about lions and tigers and bears! Oh my! Join me for a bevy of beastly tunes from David Bowie Steve Howe, Stick Men, Adrian Belew, Steve Hackett, Zebra, Roy Wood, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Purson, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Steve Thorne, Stone Temple Pilots, Transport Aerian, Golden Earring, Paul Draper, Kate Bush, Dhani Harrison, and Asia! All in 90 minutes! Oh my,...

This week's Prog-Watch is another straight-up variety program, with lots of diverse, mostly contemporary progressive rock for your listening enjoyment! Tune in to hear great stuff from Karibow, Cosmograf, Steve Gresswell, This Winter Machine, Montrose, A Formal Horse, Belling The Tiger, Trettioariga Kriget, Transatlantic, GorMusik, and Andrew Roussak!

Lots of fantastic stuff has come across my digital desktop lately, so this week's Prog-Watch is a straight-up variety program full of awesome, mostly contemporary progressive rock! I've got great music from Pinn Dropp, Dave Bainbridge, A Gardening Club Project, Drive In Movie Band, Starfish64, Temple of Switches, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, The Bedlam Furnaces, Symfinity, Empire, and David Cross a...

101 Dimensions curated by Anthony Rowsick, late January 2022: 1. Spacelords – Cosmic Trip (24:20) (from the album SpaceFlowers, 2020) 2. Ott – Jack's Cheese and Bread Snack; and Somersettler (20:23) (from the album Blumenkraft, 2003) 3. Trinity Ward – Between the Edges of the Universe; Artifact; Make It Be; and Transmission (Ethereal Mix) (18:41) (from the album Enter the Infinite, 2010) 4. Baber...