Rick Miller "Delusional"

Country: Canada
Genre(s): Atmospheric, Art Rock
Label: MALS (CD, MALS 419)
Format: CD, digital
Release date: March 8, 2018 (digital), May 1, 2018 (CD)
Tracklist: 
1. Serial Killer (Prelude) (3:02)
2. The Garden of Forking Paths (12:18)
3. The Final Journey (3:09)
4. Serial Killer (10:52)
5. Poison (1:08)
6. Delusional Psychosis (7:31)
7. The Twilight Zone (3:39)
8. Faulty Vision (5:46)
9. Midnight (2:37)

Total Time 50:02

Line-up: 
Rick Miller: Vocals, instruments
   With
Sarah Young: Flute
Mateusz Swoboda: Cello
Barry Haggarty: Stratocaster
Will: Drums and Percussion
Kane Miller: Telecaster

Description/Reviews: 

Now, the lyrical content on “Delusional” is really dark.  It puts us in the mind of a killer, and it can get a bit unsettling at times.  This means that the album is quite grim and atmospheric and shadowy.  I’ve always been impressed with Rick’s ability to create the feelings of texture and emotional instability in his music, and this album is no different.  You will be disturbed and you will feel the torn nature of the killer’s brain.

Read the full review at theprogmind.com

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Rick Miller "Delusional"

Country: Canada
Genre(s): Atmospheric, Art Rock
Label: MALS (CD, MALS 419)
Format: CD, digital
Release date: March 8, 2018 (digital), May 1, 2018 (CD)
Tracklist: 
1. Serial Killer (Prelude) (3:02)
2. The Garden of Forking Paths (12:18)
3. The Final Journey (3:09)
4. Serial Killer (10:52)
5. Poison (1:08)
6. Delusional Psychosis (7:31)
7. The Twilight Zone (3:39)
8. Faulty Vision (5:46)
9. Midnight (2:37)

Total Time 50:02

Line-up: 
Rick Miller: Vocals, instruments
   With
Sarah Young: Flute
Mateusz Swoboda: Cello
Barry Haggarty: Stratocaster
Will: Drums and Percussion
Kane Miller: Telecaster

Description/Reviews: 

Now, the lyrical content on “Delusional” is really dark.  It puts us in the mind of a killer, and it can get a bit unsettling at times.  This means that the album is quite grim and atmospheric and shadowy.  I’ve always been impressed with Rick’s ability to create the feelings of texture and emotional instability in his music, and this album is no different.  You will be disturbed and you will feel the torn nature of the killer’s brain.

Read the full review at theprogmind.com

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7 Ocean "Сын Солнца (Son of Sun)"

Country: Belarus
Genre(s): Symphonic 
Label: MALS
Format: CD
Release date: March 15, 2015
Tracklist: 
1. Город Солнца / City of Sun (8:43)
2. Восхождение / Ascension (5:17)
3. В пещере / In the Cave (6:27)
4. Рассказ старухи / Old Woman’s Story (17:16)
5. Исчезновение / Disappearance (8:32)

Total time: 46:15

Line-up: 
Sergey Starosotsky - voice
Oleg Grinevich - guitars, bass
Alexander Eletsky - keyboards
Alexander Sofiks - drums

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Eternal Wanderers "The Mystery Of The Cosmic Sorrow"

Country: Russia
Genre(s): Progressive Rock, Space Rock, Electronica
Label: MALS
Format: CD, digital
Release date: March 1, 2016
Tracklist: 
CD1
1. Message From Space (3:50)
2. The Mystery Of The Cosmic Sorrow (8:30)
3. Methane Rain (8:18)
4. Gamma Waves (5:30)
5. Born To Suffer (10:09)
6. Silent World (8:50)
7. Valley Of Oblivion (6:03)

Total time 51:10
CD2
1. Following A Neutrino's Flight (9:29)
2. The End Of The Satellite Age (23:26)
      I.  Hard Times
      II. The Great Dance
      III. It Went The Wrong Way
      IV. Brand New Program
      V. Falling Down
3. Space (6:02)

Total time 38:57

Line-up: 
Elena Kanevskaya - vocals, keyboards, samllers
Tatyana Kanevskaya - guitars, charango, backing vocals, samplers
Dmitry Shtatnov - bass, backing vocals, analog synths and effects
Sergey Rogulya - drums, percussion
   With
Alisher Zvid - saxophone on Methane Rain, Space

Description/Reviews: 

The music style of the album is the mix of art-psychedelic rock, electronics and sympho-electronic experiment.

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Quorum "Another World"

Country: Russia
Genre(s): Progressive Rock
Label: MALS
Format: CD, digital
Release date: October 21, 2015 (digital), October 30, 2015 (CD)
Tracklist: 
1. Snow (7:58)
2. Another World (12:36)
3. Behold (5:49)
4. '86 (7:21)
5. Then And Here (5:22)
6. Motion (10:32)
7. Space Wanderer (5:33)

Total time 55:11

Line-up: 
Pavel Barabanov - Guitars
Dmitry Shtatnov - Guitars (1, 5, 7), Bass (1, 6), Keyboards, Synthesizers, Vocal, Back Vocal (1, 2, 6, 7)
Vladimir Yanovsky - Bass (2-5, 7)
Sergey Nikonorov - Drums
Elena Kanevskaya - Back Vocal (2)

Description/Reviews: 

The compositions featured in this album were written in the 2000s, before the band’s first disc was made. After over ten years the world’s changed, and probably we have as well. But has this become a different world?
As we are standing by the highway of pop music, we can take our time and contemplate what happened, what is happening now, and we can dream about tomorrow. Another world is possible, isn’t it?

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The Group 309 "The Keeper of an Hourglass"

Country: Russia
Sub Genre: Symphonic
Label: MALS
Release date: July 22, 2014
Tracklist: 

1. Осенний вечер / The Autumn Evening
2. Хранитель песочных часов / The Keeper Of An Hourglass
3. Исповедь колдуньи / The Confession Of A Witch
4. Ты спишь / You Sleep
5. Можно, я себе нарисую крылья... / May I Draw Wings For Myself?
6. Как здорово всё придумано / Everything Has Been Thought Up So Well
7. Одна под зонтом / One Under The Umbrella
8. Тени прошлого / The Shades Of The Past
9. Тихо и тревожно / Tranquilly And Uneasily
10. Нашей судьбы колесо... / The Wheel Of Our Fate
11. Следуй дорогой птиц... / Follow The Way Of Birds...

Line-up: 
Andrey Pishchulov  - keyboards, vocals
Igor Inshakov - guitars
Ruslan Dzhigkayty - drums
Andrey Travkin - bass
Irina Surina - vocals (3, 9)
Nikolay Vengrzhanovich - vocals (4, 8)
Nikita Simonov - bass  (1, 2, 6)

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Flight 09 "Signs of the Water"

Country: Uzbekistan
Sub Genre: Progressive Metal
Label: MALS
Release date: March 2014
Tracklist: 
1. Nowhere and Never (5:55)
2. The Snowy Tale (6:50)
3. The Wave (6:23)
4. November Snow (7:18)
5. Island of Dreams (6:24)
6. When the Rain Will Come (6:09)
7. The Cloud (7:00)

Line-up: 
Igor Savich - guitars, vocals, keyboards
Constantine Savich - bass
Vlad Nemtinov - drums

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Tinkicker "The Cup of the Lord and the Wine of Demons"

Country: Denmark
Sub Genre: Progressive Rock/Metal
Label: MALS
Release date: March 2014
Tracklist: 
1. Good Evening
2. Confession of a Clown “Spin the Wheel”
3. Lucid Dreams
4. The Boy Who Found God
5. Which Box is Yours
6. A Beautiful Day
7. Intermission I
8. St. John
9. Last of the Bohemians
10. Chasing Rainbows
11. Intermission II
12. The Mailman’s Last Route
13. Same Old Different song
14. Flight of the Moose
15. Playlist in the Sky
16. Farewell

Line-up: 
Klaus Bastian: Vocals
Soren Lindberg: Guitar
Hedstrøm: Bass
Klaus Herfort: Drums
Kristian Møller: Guitar

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Fusion Point "Mind and Illusion"

Country: Russia
Sub Genre: Fusion, Jazz-Rock
Label: MALS
Release date: March 2014
Tracklist: 
1. War of the Words
2. South Winds
3. August
4. Autumn in the City
5. 15 Seconds
6. The Lullaby
7. Fusion Labs

Line-up: 
Kirill Sokirko - Piano
Dmitry Malygin - Bass
Roman Smirnov - Drums

Description/Reviews: 

Fusion Point is a project of the St.-Petersburg pianist Kirill Sokirko. Fusion Point continues the tradition of chamber music in a trio format, which does not so much define the number of performers as the instruments used – piano, bass, and drums. The band plays in the style of fusion – an appropriate label, given the fact that the musicians work between several sub-genres, including jazz-rock, smooth-jazz, funk, and trip hop, along with nu-jazz, lounge, and even some older genres like cool, be-bop, and mainstream/swing. However, since the contemporary understanding of fusion is more often associated with jazz-rock, some critics would say the band's style is better described as modern-jazz. Despite the various styles inherent in their compositions, Fusion Point’s music mainly centers around melodicism, with a sharp definition of musical form. This underscores their background in classical music, and makes their arrangements more accessible and transparent, while the improvisation so characteristic of jazz takes secondary importance. The concept of each composition is to be arranged in such a way to be accessible to most listeners. At the same time, the public’s reaction to the music helps the musicians grow and to set new priorities when working on material. The direction of Fusion Point’s music has been influenced by a number of bands, such as Esbjorn Svensson Trio, Hiromi Uehara, Michel Petrucciani, Niacin, Marcus Miller, and many others.

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Mind Portal "1/2: Thought and Matter"

Country: Russia
Sub Genre: Instrumental, Fusion, Progressive Metal
Label: MALS
Release date: February 2014
Tracklist: 

1. Thought and matter
2. The lost totem
3. Composition time
4. Information war
5. Intermedia
6. Apotheosis

Line-up: 
Grigory Kurnosov - Guitar
Vitaly Zotov - Bass
Vyacheslav Bessonov - Keyboards
Roman Gorodnyansky - Drums

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Rick Miller "Heart of Darkness"

Country: Canada
Sub Genre: Progressive Rock
Label: MALS
Release date:  January 5, 2014  (digital), February 24, 2014 (CD)
Tracklist: 

1. Heart Of Darkness - 06:20
2. Blood Of The Rose - 10:03
3. Castle Walls - 05:06
4. The Dark Lady - 13:26
5. Come Summer, She Died - 06:52

Line-up: 
Rick Miller - Instruments and vocals
   With
Kane Miller: Acoustic guitar and violin
Sarah Young: Flute
Mateusz Swoboda: Cello
Barry Haggarty: Stratocaster guitar
Will: Drums and Percussion
Ruth Archer: Lyrics on Blood Of The Rose

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Krobak "Little Victories"

Country: Ukraine
Sub Genre: instrumental Post Rock
Label: MALS
Release date: September, 2013
Tracklist: 
1. And there by the River I lost my Glasses (10:14)
2. Last Days of Summer (8:15)
3. Broken (are little Victories by the Ship of Life) (4:40)
4. It's snowing like it's the End of the World (11:50)
5. Amnesia (2013) (15:01)

Line-up: 
Marko - violin
Asya - bass
Igor - guitar
Natasha - drums

Description/Reviews: 

The record dives deep into intricate layers of swirling guitars and eerie violin melodies, resurrecting that classy sound and attitude of early Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Mono. With dynamics ranging from almost dog-whistle-level of “And there by the River I lost my Glasses” intro to thunder-like “It’s Snowing like it’s the End of the World” coda, the album peaks with re-recorded “Amnesia”, one of the first Krobak pieces ever written. The intensity and the groove are clearly audible on the shortest track of the record, “Broken”.

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Jeremy & Progressor "Searching for the Son"

Country: Multinational
Sub Genre: Psychedelic, Symphonic, Classical
Label: MALS
Release date: August, 2013
Tracklist: 
01. Searching for the son - 8:01
02. Future Flight - 7:44
03. Blind Man's Dream - 6:53
04. Distant Light - 10:28
05. Wings Of The Wind - 11:16
06. Messiah Will Come - 7:09
07. Had Enough - 4:34
08. Way To Zion - 6:01
09. The Mirror - 6:29
10. On A Cherub - 5:23
11. Sonic Dances - 4:05

Line-up: 
Vitaly "Progressor" Menshikov: Ssynthesizer, Organ, El. & Ac. Guitars, Bass; Lead Guitars on tracks 1 & 11, Drums on track 1.
Jeremy Morris:   Lead & 12-string Guitars, Bass; Drums; Mellotron, Pianos.
Jon Dawson:   Keyboards, Guitar, Bass, Drums, Percussion, Loops on tracks 2, 3, 5.
John "Rabbit" Bundrick (Jethro Tull, The Who, Free):   Keyboards, Guitar, Bass, Drums, Percussion, Loops on tracks 2, 3, 5.
Albert Khalmurzayev (FromUz, X Religion):   Keyboards on tracks 4, 6, 8.
Valery Vorobiov (X Religion):   Drums on tracks 4, 6, 8.
Bill Morris:   Trumpet and Saxophone on tracks 1, 5, 6.

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7 Ocean "Diapause"

Country: Belarus
Sub Genre: Symphonic
Label: MALS (CD)
Release date: July, 2013 (digital), March 2014 (CD)
Tracklist: 
1. Песня Тьмы / Song of Darkness (11:47)
2. Песня Света / Song of Light (8:48)
3. Седьмой океан / The Seventh Ocean (6:24)
4. Песня Первого Озера / Song of First Lake (3:08)
5. Песня Дождя / Song of the Rain (6:42)
6. Вторая песня Тьмы / Second Song of Darkness (3:38)
7. Диапауза / Diapause (6:39)
8. Когда-нибудь / Sometime (3:34)
9. Песня Второго Озера / Song of the Second Lake (11:01)
10. Философия гнёзд / Philosophy of nests (5:41)

Line-up: 
Alexander Eletsky - keyboard, voices
Sergey Starosotsky - voices
Alexander Sophiex - drums
Oleg Grinevich - electric guitars, voices
Alexander Chugaev - acoustic guitar, voices
Vladimir Stoljarov - bass

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Lantinor "Ensign of Fairies. Volume 1"

Country: Russia
Sub Genre: Art Rock
Label: MALS
Release date: June 2013
Tracklist: 
1. Ensign of Fairies, part 1: At the Dawn of the World
2. Ensign of Fairies, part 2: The Golden Age
3. Jerica
4. Ensign of Fairies, part 3: At the Verge of Epochs
5. Ensign of Fairies, part 4: Thus the Ensign Fell

Line-up: 
Alexander Kaminsky – guitars, vocals
Anton Telkov – string instruments, percussion
Alina Bulat – vocals
Dmitrij Miroshnichenko – bass

Description/Reviews: 

The style of the new disc most accurately can be described as art rock, though it contains (as the the story goes) composition in styles of folk, progressive, Russian rock and even sometimes art punk rock. The idea of ​​the album is consonant with the works of Soviet science fiction classic Ivan Efremov of super-civilization of the future. The album tells the story of the coming to earth of the Fourth Race of mankind, the symbol of the power of which was the so-called Ensign of Fairies - an extraterrestrial artifact, which for thousands of years guarded  the people of this race from destruction. Fourth Race has reached an incredible technological and spiritual power in mastering of elements of earth and space. At the end of the Third Epoch of domination (about a million years after the appearance of the first man of the Fourth Race) the mystery of Ensign of Fairies was sold by the ruling clan of Keepers of Relics to a hostile clan of the emerging Fifth Race, eventually leading  nations of the earth to the world war and spiritual decline. The main feature of the album is that the birth, rise and collapse of the state meet stages of the life of its protagonist: childhood, adolescence, adulthood and death.

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Daymoon "Fabric of Space Divine"

Country: Portugal
Sub Genre: Symphonic
Label: MALS
Release date: April 11, 2013 (digital), May, 2013 (CD)
Tracklist: 
1 Singularity To Sol
2 Seed Of Complexity
3 Evolution
4 Beyond Nature
5 Beyond Trinity
6 Anthropocentrics
7 Beyond Multiplicity
8 Beyond Good And Evil
9 Middle
10 Ice Prospector
11 Digital
12 Beyond
13 Grasping The Fabric
14 Twisting The Fabric
15 Beyond Zero Kelvin
16 One

Line-up: 
Fred Lessing  -  guitars, bass, percussion, keyboards, woodwinds, reeds, vocals (15),  backing vocals, angklung, baroque recorder, krummhorn, banjo, smashes bottles, flute, d’zi flute
André Marques  -  drums, percussion, smashes bottles, rips cloth, keyboards, piano
Joana Lessing - percussion (1, 2, 5), backing vocals (10)
Adriano Pereira  - clarinet (1)
Paulo Catroga  - piano (5)
Bruno Evangelista  - vocals (2,5,15)
Michael Dorp (Flying Circus) - vocals (4)
Hugo Flores (Project Creation, Factory of Dreams) - vocals (14)
Helena Madeira  - celtic harp (2)
Vasco Patrício - guitar solo (15)
Paulo Chagas - sax (1,2,6), alien percussion & vocals (13) reeds & woodwinds (13,14), flute (1,2,3,6,15)
Davis Raborn III - drums (6,14)
Jeff Markham - vocals (7,9,10,11,12), Europa probe voice (12)
Mark Guertin - bass (3,4,5,6,7,11)

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Rick Miller "Immortal Remains"

Country: Canada
Sub Genre: Symphonic
Label: MALS
Release date: March 28, 2013 (digital), May, 2013 (CD)
Tracklist: 
1.Rats In My Darkness 03:02
2.Ode To An Angel 09:20
3.Like A Drug 05:05
4.The Hands Of Time 10:20
5.The Oasis 02:42
6.Sanctity 04:50
7.Providence 05:18
8.My Atom Heart 02:21

Line-up: 
Rick Miller - all instruments and vocals
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Kane Miller: Acoustic guitar and violin
Sarah Young: Flute
Mateusz Swoboda: Cello
Barry Haggarty: Stratocaster guitar
Ruth Archer: The spoken word on Ode To An Angel and Sanctity

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Batisfera "Solar Wind - The Inner Circle"

Country: Russia
Sub Genre: Symphonic
Label: MALS
Release date: November, 2012
Tracklist: 
01. The Sun You're My Son - 13:58
02. Transition A - 02:17
03. Mercury Who I Am - 09:08
04. Transiiton B - 00:50
05. Venus Brought You Roses Every Sunday - 11:13
06. Transition C - 03:28
07. Earth I'm Walking - 13:16
08. Transition D - 02:13
09. Mars Four Years Since - 12:15
10. Transition E - 00:54
11. Phaeton Don't Touch Me ! - 10:22

Line-up: 
Oleg Anurin - Keys, Vocal, Flute
Michael Zonov - Guitars
Vladimir Kislyakov - Bass
Michael Heifets - Drums

Description/Reviews: 

A debut full-length album by Moscow-based Batisfera (Bathysphere). Batisfera play complex symphonic prog in the classic style featuring keyboards, flute, and electric & 12-string guitars. The music is an amalgam of Yes (especially Topographic Oceans), Genesis, Camel, Grobschnitt, and a dozen other prog bands. It is sophisticated, constantly changing and evolving. Occasionally it’s heavier than the bands mentioned but remains in a 1970s style. It’s fortunate the album is as instrumental as it is, as the vocals (which are in English) have yet to catch up to the skill level of the instrumentalists. Still, the album is so full of symphonic goodies, it’ll keep your brain releasing endorphins for a good while. The album is a conceptual work, supported by a beautiful 28-page booklet in English. (kinesis)

Also read a review at progplanet.com

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Roz Vitalis "Patience of Hope"

Country: Russia
Sub Genre: Instrumental Symphonic, Avant Prog, Chamber
Label: MALS
Release date: September, 2012
Tracklist: 
1. Patience of Hope (6:43)
2. The Unfading Sun (The Loved Version) (2:50)
3. To Stir Up Your Pure Minds (3:10)
4. Seeds Fell Among Thorns (6:17)
5. The Forgiven Monday (3:36)
6. Gorgeous Cliff (1:35)
7. Mother of All Rain (4:28)
8. Confidence (5:53)
9. Dove il Sole E Meraviglia (1:57)
10. Touching Upon the Mystery (8:55)
11. The Unfading Sun (The Loving Version) (3:56)

Line-up: 
- Vladimir Efimov / guitars, keyboards
- Yuru Khomonenko / percussion, drums, accordion
- Ruslan Kirillov / bass
- Philip Semenov / drums
- Vladislav Korotkikh / flutes, harp
- Ivan Rozmainsky / piano, harpsichord, Hammond, keyboards, metallophone
- Vladimir Semenov-Tyan-Shansky / guitars, bass
With:
- Natalia Fedorova / gusli
- Dasha Kosatina / cello
- Grigory Maliev / clarinets
- Fyodor Mazhzhevelov / bassoon
- Ilya Rysin / trumpet, flugelhorn
- Roman Shilepin / sax
- Ilya Ten / cello

Description/Reviews: 

Style of the newest Roz Vitalis studio album titled "Patience of Hope" can be also described as the "Unclassifiable Branch of Prog Rock"; Avant Prog, Sympho Prog, Instumental are, perhaps, the most relevant tags. The conception of the album is about the essence and the mysteries of HOPE. In particular, it is about ability to keep in confidence and maintain endurance in the times of troubles. It is possible when human life has been penetrated with the Unfading Sun. (MALS)

Read reviews in English at progplanet.com and in Russian at soundvoyager.blogspot.com

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