Thousand Sun Sky "The Aurora Complex"

Country: Australia
Genre(s): Progressive Metal, Electronica
Format: digital
Release date: January 5, 2019
Tracklist: 
1. A Game Of Placebo (5:26)
2. Welcome To The End Of It All (7:42)
3. Hollow [Aurora Pt. I] (4:30)
4. Habit [Aurora Pt. II] (5:05)
5. Haven [Aurora Pt. III] (4:24)
6. And Maybe One Day (4:41)
7. The Utopia Cycle (4:46)
8. A Siren's Song For The Silent (6:49)
9. Sleepless (2:19)
10. A View Of Eternity (4:17)
11. The Myriad Transmission (3:44)
12. The Broadcast (0:54)
13. In Conclusion (5:14)

Total Time 59:51

Line-up: 
Eva Sanchez - everything
   With
Jackie Regz (Aeon Bridge) - guitar solo (Track 1, 4, 7, Track 2 - 3rd solo, Track 8 - 1st solo)
Halfduck  - guitar solo (Track 2 - 2nd solo)
Jacob Rabin  - guitar solo (Track 2 - 4th solo)
Dylan Meldrum  - guitar solo (Track 8 - 2nd solo)

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Soniq Theater "Brandenburg"

Country: Germany
Genre(s): Instrumental Progressive Rock, Electronica
Format: CD-R, digital
Release date: January 1, 2019
Tracklist: 
1. Antarctica (7:46)
2. Springtime In Siberia (5:12)
3. Brandenburg (6:54)
4. London Town (5:15)
5. The Cyclades (1:42)
6. Weekend In Monaco (5:16)
7. Tasmania (0:45)
8. Daytona Beach (2:47)
9. Brimstone Cave (2:53)
10. NYC (4:53)
11. Mariana Rift (guitar version) (10:44)

Total Time 54:07

Line-up: 
Alfred Mueller (Rachel's Birthday) - everything
   Except
Ralph Brandenburger - guitar (1,3,11)

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Jakob Skøtt "Instrumentality"

Country: Denmark
Genre(s): Instrumental Psychedelic, Krautrock, Electronica
Label: El Paraiso Records
Format: digital, vinyl
Release date: November 30, 2018
Tracklist: 
1. The Dura Plane (4:52)
2. 2nd Foundation (5:51)
3. Altered State (4:32)
4. Purple Visage (4:57)
5. Tapping The Source With The Lords Of Instrumentality (14:29)

Total Time 34:41

Line-up: 
Jakob Skøtt (Causa Sui)

Description/Reviews: 

The opener, ‘The Dura Plane’, gets the album of to a strong start with its slightly off-kilter repeato-rhythms. As you would expect the drums are high in the mix and getting a proper pounding before Skøtt leads us off into a dreamlike mid-section which feels detached and disorientated before hitting the beat again to take it home.

Read the full review by Simon at psychinsightmusic.com

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Quarkspace "All These Unfinished Suns"

Country: USA
Genre(s): Space Rock, Psychedelic, Electronica
Format: digital
Release date: November 19, 2018
Tracklist: 
1. Starbridge Freaks 4 (3:44)
2. All These Suns (12:13)
3. Who Lost Frederick? (3:18)
4. The Prodigal Spaceman (6:05)
5. Solar Progenics (6:14)
6. Watch For Swimmers (6:48)
7. The Prodigal Galaxy (5:28)
8. Space Folds Upon Itself (5:34)

Total Time 49:24

Line-up: 
Darren Gough: Guitar, Backing Vocals
Chet Santia: Bass, Guitars, Guide Vocals
Jay Swanson: Keyboards, Synths, Beats, Backing Vocals, Song Length Commentary
Paul Williams: Drumming, Synths, Keyboards, Fake Mellotrons, Beats, Loops, Moog, Backing Vocals
   With
Carl Howard: Analog Synth (3,5,6)
Stan Lyon: Bass (1,2,4)
Carlton Smith: Drumming (3,5,6)

Description/Reviews: 

The album features the 12-minute title track, long a staple of Quarkspace’s live shows, as well as a hearty dollop of improvisational and electronic instrumental cuts. Ultimately, All These Suns reveals a classic Quarkspace inspired by its psychedelic mix of song craft and improvisation. It’s a powerful album, veering between psychedelic folk and deep space rock excursions sometimes presented in an electronic fashion.

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Das Rad "Das Rad"

Country: UK
Genre(s): Instrumental Electronica, Krautrock, Progressive Rock, Fusion
Label: Discus Music - 75CD
Format: CD, digital
Release date: November 18, 2018
Tracklist: 
1. Whatever You Want (4:01)
2. Heisse Rader (2:51)
3. Canterbury Steps (4:42)
4. Boom (5:02)
5. Fernweh 1 (1:04)
6. Return To Schriesheim (5:36)
7. Sehnsucht (5:44)
8. Porto Steps (15:03)
9. Ohrwurm (3:33)
10. Fernweh 2 (1:26)
11. Tenser (6:28)
12. London Steps (10:53)

Total Time 66:23

Line-up: 
Nick Robinson – electric and acoustic guitars, loops, electronics
Martin Archer – saxophones, clarinets, flutes, recorders, melodica, keyboards, electronics, synth bass
Steve Dinsdale – electric drums, acoustic percussion, synth

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Thomas Giles "Don't Touch The Outside"

Country: USA
Genre(s): Progressive Rock, Electronica
Label: Sumerian Records
Format: CD, digital, vinyl
Release date: November 9, 2018 (CD, digital), December/January 2019 (vinyl)
Tracklist: 
01 - Church Friends (03:35)
02 - Incomplet (03:50)
03 - Milan (03:22)
04 - Radiate (03:40)
05 - Everyone Is Everywhere (03:29)
06 - I Win  (03:18)
07 - Awake From Death (03:15)
08 - Sway (02:45)
09 - Mr. Sunshine (03:56)
10 - Weather MoodsPanic Start (04:08)
11 - Take Your Seats, Time Gentlemen (03:17)
12 - 1709 (01:06)
13 - Exordium (03:17)

Line-up: 
Thomas Giles aka Tommy Rogers (Between The Buried and Me): Vocals, instruments
   With
Blake Richardson (Between The Buried and Me): Drums, percussion
Kristoffer Rygg (Ulver): Vocals (3)
Einar Solberg (Leprous): Vocals (5)
Carley Coma: Vocals (6)
Dan Briggs (Between The Buried and Me): Bass (12)
Wes Hauch: Guitar (9)

Description/Reviews: 

The album’s prog and singer songwriter credentials are solidified on “Church Friends” and “Incomplet” both powered by hypnotic guitar phrases and sudden shift of gears reminiscent of King Crimson and The Mars Volta. The first song released of the album “Milan” is a gorgeous ballad demonstrating Giles ability to write sentimental compositions with Kraftwerk like synthesizers. There are songs on this album that pay homage to the 80’s like “Radiate” an ambient, moody and haunting Vangelis like creation and the closing song “Exordium” with its dreamy guitar, keyboards and drum machine effects.

Read the full review by Daniel Jaramillo at metalwani.com

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Dean Baker "Constellations"

Country: UK
Genre(s): Electronica, Progressive Rock
Label: Avalon Records, Oskar Productions -  OSKAR 1082 CD
Format: CD, digital
Release date:  October 29, 2018 (digital), November 5, 2018 (CD)
Tracklist: 
1. Le Chat Qui Pêche (9.14)
2. Off the Shoulder of Orion (4.35)
3. Here and Now (4.40)
4. Modular Seasons (3.51)
5. Clouded Hills (5.56)
6. New Horizons (5.41)
7. Nuda Veritas (4.09)
8. Engelbrecht (3.37)
9. Constellations (4.24)
10. Impression No.8 (9.01)

Line-up: 
Dean Baker (Galahad) - Keyboards
   With
Stu Nicholson(Galahad) - Vocals (3, 7, 9)
Lee Abraham (Galahad) - Guitar (8)
Anastasia Coburg - Vocals (6)

Description/Reviews: 

The album is paying homage to some of the pioneering synthesizer artists of the 1970s but it is also still very much a Dean Baker vision incorporating modern production values and Dean’s very own musical slant on modern electronic music.

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Shineback "Dial"

Country: UK
Genre(s): Electronica, Progressive Rock/Pop
Label: Bad Elephant Music
Format: CD, digital
Release date: September 14, 2018
Tracklist: 
1. Lies and consequences
2. I love you from memory
3. Consider her ways
4. Dial
5. Here I am
6. The gentleman
7. Me vs. me
8. Without words
9. Let her sleep
10. My new reward
11. Kill devil hills

Line-up: 
Simon Godfrey (Tinyfish, Valdez) - vocals, instruments
    With
Dec Burke (Frost*, Darwin's Radio, AudioPlastik) - guitar
Hywel Bennett (Dec Burke Band) - guitar
Joe Cardillo (Valdez) - keyboadrs
Tom Hyatt (Valdez, Echolyn) - bass
Ray Weston (Echolyn) - vocals
Matt Stevens (The Fierce And The Dead) - guitar
Karl Eisenhart (Pinnacle) - guitar
Daniel Zambas (We Are Kin) - keyboadrs
Henry Rogers (Mostly Autumn, Touchstone) - drums
Tom Slatter - guitar

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Central Unit "Whatever Day Suits You Best"

Country: Italy
Genre(s): Instrumental Jazz-Rock, Fusion, Electronica
Label: M.P. & Records - MPRCD079/MPRLP080
Format: CD, vinyl
Release date: August 31, 2018
Tracklist: 
1. On Board (6:05)
2. Gear Path (5:49)
3. Snowed Under (5:07)
4. Get It Out Of Your System (6:17)
5. Seesaw Daydream (8:20)
6. What Use (Bob Costa Remix) (5:12)

Total Time 36:50

Line-up: 
Alberto Pietropoli - saxophone, flutes, voice
Enrico Giuliani - bass
Riccardo Lolli - keyboards
Andrea Ventura - drums and percussions

Description/Reviews: 

The album Whatever Day Suits You Best mixes electronica, prog and jazz into a thick and heady brew of dance-beat inflected, instrumental jazz-fusion.... If you are looking at the line-up, and are thinking: “ah now that looks like an instrumental Van Der Graaf Generator, those perennial favourites of the Italian prog community”, then you would be, as I was, wrong. The sound here is more individualistic and reminds me of the French electronica-meets-jazz of Moksha Samnyasin and also of Sonny Simmons’ 2015 album Nomadic. It is livelier, less dark, though just as substantial.

Read the full review by Martin Burns at dprp.net

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Thousand Sun Sky "An Infinitesimal Multiverse"

Country: Australia
Genre(s): Progressive Metal, Electronica
Format: digital
Release date: June 23, 2018
Tracklist: 
1. The Edge Of Reason (7:28)
2. Sanctuary To Scars (5:34)
3. Echoes From Time's Passing (4:59)
4. Nova/Helios (5:10)
5. A System To End It All (4:56)
6. The Condemner (4:05)
7. Your Story Has Gone Missing (0:36)
8. Reclaimers (7:28)
9. The Universe Creation Forgot [Album Version] (17:42)
10. Scars Of The Homeworld [Aeon Bridge Cover] (3:26)

Total Time 61:24

Line-up: 
Eva Sanchez - everything
   With
Jackie Regz (Aeon Bridge) - solos, programming

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Lunatic Soul "Under the Fragmented Sky"

Country: Poland
Genre(s): Atmospheric Progressive Rock, Electronica
Label: Kscope (KSCOPE612/987), Mystic Production
Format: CD, digital, vinyl
Release date: May 25, 2018
Tracklist: 
1. He av en (4:05)
2. Trials (5:44)
3. Sorrow (1:30)
4. Under The Fragmented Sky (5:03)
5. Shadows (4:31)
6. Rinsing The Night (3:56)
7. The Art Of Repairing (7:54)
8. Untamed (3:24)

Total Time 36:07

Line-up: 
Mariusz Duda (Riverside) - vocals, instruments
  With
Wawrzyniec Dramowicz - drums (8)

Description/Reviews: 

Under The Fragmented Sky is Duda's sixth studio album as Lunatic Soul and follows the acclaimed Fractured (both were recorded at the same time whilst Mariusz was facing tragic events in his personal life).
Under the Fragmented Sky rebuilds Lunatic Soul as we know it, with dark and haunting atmospheres coming to the forefront. 

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Atumatu "Duma"

Country: Canada
Genre(s): Instrumental Progressive Rock, Electronica
Format: digital
Release date: April 27, 2018
Tracklist: 
1. Old Continent I (9:47)
2. Picahielo (5:05)
3. Magnetic Mountain (6:05)
4. Paean Of Praise (4:50)
5. Second Red Scare (5:57)
6. Old Continent II (10:25)

Total Time 42:09

Line-up: 
Quinn Downton - drums, drum programming, loops, percussion, keyboards, samples
Dylan Hyman - saxophone
Sidharth Krishnan - guitars
Derick Penrod - guitars, bass, additional keyboards
Wojciech Pielużek - guitars, additional keyboards
Greg Maclean - bass, additional keyboards, fx
Dylan Robins - percussion
Laurence Shann - bass

Description/Reviews: 

Those influences are post rock, jazz, neo-prog, electronica, art rock, funk, cinematic music and psych rock. The music is very melodic and pretty dynamic too. It has some good moods and a good soundscape. 

Read the full review by Torodd Fuglesteg at thesoundoffightingcatstwo.blogspot.co.uk

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Reformat "The Singularity"

Country: UK
Genre(s): Electronica, Progressive Rock
Label: Bad Elephant Music
Format: CD, digital
Release date: April 20, 2018
Tracklist: 
1. Kosmos (3:20)
2. System Terror (2:53)
3. The Nevergator (3:57)
4. Hot/Knives (2:59)
5. Hypograms (3:47)
6. Broken Tongue (3:39)
7. Vectrex (4:11)
8. Astrograms (3:47)
9. Down/Strata (3:43)
10. Clawcrane (3:24)
11. Zeldan Skies (4:59)

Total Time 40:39

Line-up: 
Luke Pajak - instruments
Russ Russell - instruments
Jay Russell - drums, electronics

Description/Reviews: 

The musical style is a great mix of burning electronic tones with progressive rock. You will hear plenty of “real” instruments, from thrilling guitars to pounding drums.  However, the overall mood of the album is led purely by synth and keys, and so it feels almost like Vangelis or Tangerine Drum decided to go rock out one day.

Read the full review at theprogmind.com

Also read the review by Patrick McAfee at dprp.net

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Electric Mud "The Deconstruction Of Light"

Country: Germany
Genre(s): Instrumental Progressive Rock
Label: Timezone - TZ1562
Format: CD, digital
Release date: April 6, 2018
Tracklist: 
1. Deadend Mind (11:40)
2. Canary In A Cathouse (11:02)
3. Black Dog (5:46)
4. Suburban Wasteland Blues (4:02)
5. Heads In Beds (11:50)
6. Through The Gates (4:04)
7. Moongarden (3:59)

Total Time 52:23

Line-up: 
Hagen Bretschneider - bass guitar
Nico Walse - keyboards, guitar, percussion
Lennart Hueper - guitar

Description/Reviews: 

... the first part of opener “Deadend Mind”. A dark part with some Doom and Stoner Rock influences. But the song develops gradually more into an electronic soundscape with references to Jean-Michel Jarre and Tangerine Dream. The last part with the xylophone and the synths has a strong resemblance to one of the best Steve Hackett songs (“Shadow of the Hierophant”) from his debut album “Voyage Of The Acolyte”.

Read the full review by Douwe Fledderus at progvisions.nl

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MetaQuorum "Witchcraft Jazz"

Country: UK
Genre(s): Jazz-Rock, Fusion, Progressive Rock, Electronica, Funk
Format: CD, digital, vinyl
Release date: February 22, 2018 (CD, digital), April 2018 (vinyl)
Tracklist: 
1. Crimson Dreams (5:13)
2. Jonathan Vingston (3:46)
3. Socket Swing (3:22)
4. The Bartender (5:06)
5. Swagger (6:19)
6. Seven Dwarfs Rock (4:25)
7. Witchcraft Jazz (6:11)
8. Limping Mathematician (4:27)
9. Parallax (9:52)
10. Chicken & Egg (3:45)
11. Autumn Groove (4:04)
12. Goldfinch Charm (3:59)

Total Time 60:29

Line-up: 
Dmitry Ermakov - keyboards, key-bass, key-guitar, synth and percussion programming, synth-brass, sound-scape, tambourine, shaker, voice
Koos van der Velde – drums, jembe
Victor Mikheyev – bass, rhythm-guitar, percussion & synth programming, sound-scape
Carol Ermakova – vocal (3)
George Mikheyev – cello (7)
Andrew Guerin – trumpet (11)

Description/Reviews: 

12 tracks – that’s one minute short of an hour! – in the ground-breaking style the band calls Meld – a blend of jazz, fusion, rock, funk, electronica, even baroque, this album includes spontaneous improvisations, funk jams, and creative compositions finished off with state-of-the-art production techniques

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Bob Katsionis "Prognosis & Synopsis"

Country: Greece
Genre(s): Instrumental Progressive Power Metal, Electronica
Label: Symmetric Records
Format: CD, digital
Release date: February 17, 2018
Tracklist: 
1. Prognosis (4:00)
2. Secret Of The Nomads (4:00)
3. Tomorrow Starts Today (4:30)
4. Dark Matter (4:00)
5. Asymmetric Parallels (4:10)
6. Aegean Sunset (4:02)
7. The Messenger (4:55)
8. Cold Embrace (5:00)
9. Amnesia (5:00)
10. Synopsis (6:00)

Total Time 45:37

Line-up: 
Bob Katsionis (Revolution Renaissance, Ioannis Anastassakis) - all instruments
   except
Vangelis Moraitis - drums

Description/Reviews: 

Style-wise, “Prognosis & Synopsis” is mostly prog metal but also has elements of New Age and power metal, albeit not at the same time. 

Read the full review by Rob at progressivemusicplanet.com

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Fearing The Hill "Titan"

Country: Canada
Genre(s): Instrumental Progressive Rock/Metal, Electronica, Classical
Format: digital 
Release date: February 2, 2018
Tracklist: 

1. Titan (21:31) 

2. Fearing The Hill (6:29) 

3. Farlands (9:26) 

4. Daybreak (8:31) 

5. Downpour (5:48) 

Total Time 51:45

Line-up: 
Stefan Soc - all instruments
    With
Ben Rosemberg - guitar solo (1)

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Inner Prospekt "Seven Ways to Lose Yourself"

Country: Italy
Genre(s): Progressive Rock, Electronica
Format: digital
Release date: January 18, 2018 
Tracklist: 
1. Free Walk (11:05)
2. The Fun District (7:35)
3. Down Deep (5:11)
4. Where They Live (13:13)
5. The Breath Of The Red Lights (11:29)
6. Rebirth (7:35)
7. Down Deeper (9:28)

Total Time 65:36

Line-up: 
Alessandro di Benedetti (Mad Crayon) - all instruments
   With
Federico Tetti (Mad Crayon) - vocals (6)

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Soniq Theater "Squaring The Circle"

Country: Germany
Genre(s): Instrumental Progressive Rock, Electronica
Format: CD-R, digital
Release date: January 1, 2018
Tracklist: 
1. Squaring The Circle (6:21)
2. Circus Ponies On The Run (5:00)
3. The Unbearable Lightness Of Being (5:50)
4. Strange Times And Odd Days (5:42)
5. Kissing The Sun (2:27)
6. Pink Panda (5:46)
7. Flying Dolphins (4:40)
8. Spirallels (4:17)
9. Welcome To Absurdistan (2:24)
10. Paradox (6:00)
11. April Snow (3:08)

Total Time 51:35

Line-up: 
Alfred Mueller (ex-Rachel's Birthday) - everything

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Watter "History Of The Future"

Country: USA
Genre(s): Instrumental Eclectic Progressive Rock, Electronica
Label: Temporary Residence TRR296
Format: CD, digital, vinyl
Release date: October 20, 2017
Tracklist: 
1. Telos (4:17)
2. Shadow Chase (2:27)
3. Death Knock (4:15)
4. Sacrificial Leaf (4:11)
5. Depth Charge (7:02)
6. Liquid Of Life (3:01)
7. The Cloud Sanctuary (2:17)
8. Macho Milano (6:27)
9. History Of The Future (7:26)
10. Final Sunrise (5:06)

Total Time 46:29

Line-up: 
Zak Riles - Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Baglama [Saz], Oud, Sequencer, Synthesizer, Mellotron, Harmonium, Drum Machine, Bass (3), Drums  (1, 3, 5, 6)
Tyler Trotter- Keyboards, Synthesizer, Lap Steel Guitar, Bass (5)
   With
Britt Walford - Drums
Rachel Grimes- Piano
Bundy K. Brown (Tortoise) - Bass
Todd Cook - Bass
Dahm Majuri Cipolla - Drums
Nathan Salsburg - Electric Guitar
Shawn Trail - Marimba
Jacob Duncan - Tenor Saxophone

Description/Reviews: 

The new album is approximately 50 minutes in length and is a collection of ten exquisite pieces that have so many nuances that’s quite impossible to define its music style: elements of jazz, math rock, electronic and some classical notes are all blended together to create an album that represents a step ahead compared to This World. History of the Future is probably more dynamic but it does have calm, dreamlike moments.

Read the full review by Daniela Patrizi at echoesanddust.com

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