October 2009 Blog Posts (25)

MANDALABAND - the album BC-Ancestors is already out!!.

BC – Ancestor

A review by Keith Domone

A little over thirty years ago, the insert of Mandalaband’s concept album, The Eye of Wendor - Prophecies, stated, ‘To be continued ...’. It's been a long wait, but the third Mandalaband album is finally with us! In truth, BC - Ancestors is not a continuation of the Wendor saga, although it does… Continue

Added by Ed Unitsky on October 31, 2009 at 8:42pm — 2 Comments

The History of Halloween

Halloween's origins date back to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain (pronounced sow-in).

The Celts, who lived 2,000 years ago in the area that is now Ireland, the United Kingdom, and northern France, celebrated their new year on November 1. This day marked the end of summer and the harvest and the beginning of the dark, cold winter, a time of year that was often associated with human death. Celts believed that on the night before the new year, the boundary between the… Continue

Added by Melodic Revolution Records on October 31, 2009 at 1:30pm — No Comments

Lisa LaRue Project 2K9 Release Nov. 1; cD Release Party of the Rogue's gallery Nov 7

Keyboardist Lisa LaRue's ambitious Project 2K9-World Class progressive rock project album is set to be released on November 1, 2009. It features guest appearances from several international recording artists. The official album release party will be hosted on a special edition of Frans Keylard's Rogues' Gallery Progressive Rock Podcast, Saturday, November 7th at 2pm-4pm PST (4pm - 6pm CST/5pm-7pm EST/ 10pm-12am GMT), on… Continue

Added by Lisa LaRue Project 2K9 on October 29, 2009 at 9:21pm — No Comments

Mandalaband rises from the ashes...

The Mandalaband made 2 albums in the 70-ies and their "Eye of Wendor" became a cult album in the Symphonic scene and now 30 years later they released their 3th album.
And i can tell you it is strong, symphonic, full beautiful sounds and saoring guitars.
With a great line-upp. Read more at http://www.mostlypink.net, with links to their myspace page etc.

Added by Nick Gielkens on October 29, 2009 at 3:30pm — 1 Comment

Support slots wanted for 2010

AREA 39 are looking for other bands to support in early 2010 around the UK.

If anyone can help in anyway please let us know.

Thanks.

AREA 39

Added by AREA 39 on October 29, 2009 at 11:00am — No Comments

Ancient Mystery album available on Amazon.com mp3 download

A fusion of progressive and Jazz rock.

http://www.amazon.com/Ancient-Mystery/dp/B002TYCSS2/ref=dm_ap_alb5

Added by Moonlight Tide on October 29, 2009 at 1:35am — No Comments

For Halloween!

From Science Friction Composers..... "An Epic Halloween Journey". Give it a listen and buy it! It's only 9.99 and it's fun music for the holiday. Spoooooooky!

http://www.digstation.com/AlbumDetails.aspx?albumid=ALB000011817

Added by Prog Girl on October 27, 2009 at 12:20am — No Comments

Forum Boards

A friend of mine, Steve Adams, has really done a great job of creating forum boards for several different bands, including Agents of Mercy, Karmakanic, Hasse Froberg and the Musical Companion, Unitopia and others. Unfortunately he and these bands are so busy that they don't have time promote their own forum boards and encourage fans to post on them! Here is a link to the board: http://forum.spa-networks.co.uk/punforum/index.php.… Continue

Added by Prog Girl on October 25, 2009 at 10:55am — 1 Comment

October 17th show on www.mohawk-radio.com

Sunday the 17th of October 2009. The show started at 15h00 EST. If you liked the music, please buy the albums directly from the artists - simply follow the links.

1. Mission Profile, by Threshold (Subsurface, 2004)

2. Moonchild (Long Version), by King Crimson (In the Court of the Crimson King 5.1 Remaster, 1969/2009)

3. I Talk to the Wind (Alternate Version), by… Continue

Added by International Prog Rock Show on October 24, 2009 at 1:08am — No Comments

Porcupine Tree

Saw Porcupine Tree live at VEGA in Copenhagen 4 days ago
Great performance of their new album - the sound was really good and they played a fantastic concert.
Gavin Harrison is one of my favorite drummers; precise, with much imagination and great musicianship.

Added by haiku on October 22, 2009 at 3:00pm — No Comments

First review of the Purgatorio's project!

Here is the first review of the project!!!

http://www.progwalhalla.nl/product_reviews_info.php?products_id=15093&reviews_id=769

Thanks to all of you for the support!!!

Added by La Bocca della Verità on October 22, 2009 at 9:50am — No Comments

Purgatorio's compilation!

Finally is out the Purgatorio by Colossus Project with an our song!!!

Hi friends!

We are very proud to announce that finally is out the second chapter of the Colossus Project by Marco Bernard of the "Divine Comedy" of Dante Alighieri called "Purgatorio".

There is, on the first of four cds, a song called "CANTO II" that is composed and performed by KBridge ( www.myspace.com/kbridgeband ), the other band of mine and Max… Continue

Added by La Bocca della Verità on October 22, 2009 at 9:48am — No Comments

Just Arrived

Arve - Be on a Razors Edge $17.99

Recommended if you like Gentle Giant, Mike Batt, The Flower Kings, Yes

Half Past Four - Rabbit in the Vestibule $12.99

Recommend if you like King Crimson Fluttr Effect Fran Zappa Pink Floyd

Haiku – Flow $12.99

Recommended if you like Brian Eno Arvo Part Craig Armstrong…

Continue

Added by Melodic Revolution Records on October 18, 2009 at 10:15am — No Comments

keep music alive

Folks!

if you love and support a band please keep in mind

that they need you to buy their music because that is the

only way to keep your fav band in biz !

Of course they post bulletins encouraging you to purchase

their work and that is because this is what puts food on their table.

So when you can and if you can,

buy their music so they can keep making music for all of us to enjoy.

There are some awfully great deals coming from some fabulous bands… Continue

Added by TIMECODE ALPHA on October 18, 2009 at 6:25am — 3 Comments

Unitopian Garden of friends

Hello Unitopians,

We have so much great news to share!

Magnus Friberg accepted recently to be our promotions manager for all Scandinavia. Magnus has is own multi media company in Sweden called JoJu Multimedia. Our Viking (we like to call him like this) will set up our first - of many to come - Worldwide Unitopian fans Web site in Scandinavia. We will keep you posted on this. If you want to help Magnus promote Unitopia in Scandinavia, or you are a promoter interested in… Continue

Added by Unitopia on October 17, 2009 at 4:30pm — No Comments

T-shirt Contest

To combat this boring design we are have our first T-shirt contest. If you are an artist and are looking for a challenge then this contest is for you.

1st place winner will receive a T-shirt + small percentage of all sales for 1 year.

2nd place winner will receive a T-shirt + $100 dollar shopping spree at our online shop

3rd place winner will receive 3 T- shirts one of each winning design. All designs will be displayed on the site… Continue

Added by Melodic Revolution Records on October 17, 2009 at 1:30pm — No Comments

Autumn comes to rest in her garden

By Ann Brody

Yes indeed, it is the time again when autumn comes to rest in her garden and Half Past Four is getting more excited for the October 29th show with Orco Muto. The title of our night is “Clean Up on Aisle 666” how satirical, right? That’s because the show is… Continue

Added by Half Past Four on October 13, 2009 at 2:38pm — 1 Comment

New song off upcoming CD

Just added a new song off our upcoming CD "The Culmination." This song is entitled "Since the Inception." I hope you all like it .

Added by Subject to Thoughts on October 13, 2009 at 2:44am — No Comments

Back in the studio

The band has returned to the studio to re-record old materials (back when the band was "Academie of FarSide). Wildstix will act as duo-producer together with his long time music partner, Mr. Ang (ex-Venus Bullet, EVO band).

The album will be released sometime in 2010

Added by 8 on October 12, 2009 at 11:53pm — No Comments

About Angst/Daydreamer coming out soon!

This is about the progressive rock double album I am currently producing with the help of some very talented musicians. The album is nearly finished and will be released in November 2009.

CD 1 - About Angst is a concept album inspired by one of Grimm's fairy tales: “The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was”.