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New #review today: "As it turns out, what’s next from the German duo #cHoclatFRoG is What’s Next? a set of eight tracks that expands their sound even further from their beginnings. Father (Rainer Ludwig) and son (Tim Ludwig) once again handle all the instruments and nearly all the vocals in this complex and varied music, ranging from crushing Crimsonesque dissonant math to contemplative electric piano." #ExposeOnline #ProgressiveRock #MathRock #AvantProgressive http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/choclat-frog-whats-next-2.html

New #review today: "#Delirium's Sesta Strada lungo il Tempo is the latest chapter in a musical journey that now spans more than five decades. Emerging from the first wave of Italian #ProgressiveRock in the early 70s, surviving a hiatus of more than thirty years, and returning with a string of increasingly confident releases, the Genoese group continues to explore familiar themes of time, memory, travel, and the human condition. More importantly, they continue to do so with a vitality that many younger bands would envy." #ExposeOnline http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/delirium-sesta-strada-lungo-il-tempo-6.html

New #review today: "In harmony with the cover art and the album title, much of the music on #FrenchTV's new album sounds as if it could have been written as the soundtrack to a 70s spy thriller movie, with breezy themes and funky beats. What you won’t hear is the complex Canterbury / RIO sound the band has presented on most of their albums." #ExposeOnline #CuneiformRecords http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/french-tv-the-spanish-caper-2.html

New #review today: "#Fjall’s previous album From the Rough Hill (2023) was a lengthy twelve-part #improvisation that sparked the imagination for its masterful use of unusual instruments mixing folk, world, jazz, free improv, and classical elements in what seemed to be a studio setting; Helt, the group’s second album, brings the same crew back together across two live dates in December 2023 and April 2025." #ExposeOnline #DiscusMusic #ExperimentalMusic #ImprovisedMusic http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/fjall-helt-3.html

New #review today: "Within Seattle’s community of experimental and boundary-pushing artists, the three responsible for Gefühlswallung are certainly in the top ranks. #AmyDenio is well known around the world and here at Exposé; #GregCampbell is one of the area’s top drummers; and #HeatherBentley’s cello and viola have appeared in many settings and collaborations with other artists." #ExposeOnline #ExperimentalMusic #ImprovisedMusic #RightBrainRecords http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/the-hegramatics-gefuhlswallung-2.html

New #review today: "#AlanJenkins continues his absurdist #psychedelic journey on from E.H. Gorilla Ltd. Atomic Engineering and Mobile Library with another evocative title, Pig Costume from the Time of the Vikings. The album presents ten tracks: one epic near 20 minutes in length and nine shorter pieces, some barely over a minute long." #ExposeOnline #PyschedelicRock http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/alan-jenkins-pig-costume-from-the-time-of-the-vikings-2.html

New #review today: "It has been five years since we last heard from Russian band #Detieti. Much has changed since 2018's Frogressive Punk. Where that album reveled in eclecticism, stylistic collisions, and a healthy sense of musical mischief, Spotonica, released in May 2026, finds the band pursuing a more focused vision." #ExposeOnline #ProgressiveRock #AvantProg #AddictedLabelBNiL http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/detieti-spotonica-6.html

New #review today: "#Jorodu is #JoseRomanDuque, a Venezuelan composer, drummer, and multi-instrumentalist now resident in Miami, a graduate of Berklee College of Music, and proficient in a wide array of musical styles, from rock to Latin and world music to jazz and much more." #ExposeOnline http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/jorodu-the-hummingbird-conspiracy-3.html

New #review today: "#PhillipGolub is a Brooklyn-based pianist, improviser, and composer who has assembled an impressive cast of musicians for Partisan Ship, an instrumental exploration of #microtonal composition loosely depicting a crew of partisans on a quest toward a utopian future." #ExposeOnline #Jazz #MicrotonalMusic #ExperimentalMusic #AvantJazz http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/phillip-golub-partisan-ship-6.html

New #review today: "As a budding keyboard player in the 70s, I really loved the sound of an overdriven #HammondOrgan I heard in bands like #DeepPurple and #UriahHeep, and it’s obvious that a lot of other people did too — and still do. #Gjenferd is a band from Bergen that’s a shining example of a modern band with that classic sound as their primary influence." #ExposeOnline #PsychedelicRock #ClassicRock #OrganRock http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/gjenferd-black-smoke-rising-2.html

New #review today: "#LukeBainbridge is a London-based drummer and composer, and Petstep is his sophomore release, following his debut Surface Tension by five years. There is no question about it, this quartet is steeped in the #jazz idiom, driven by odd grooves and asymmetrical funkiness." #ExposeOnline #AvantJazz http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/luke-bainbridge-petstep-3.html

New #review today: "Who is #LOmbraDellaSera? A new Italian progressive rock band named after the mysterious Etruscan statuette featured in the cult television series Ritratto di Donna Velata? Not quite. L'Ombra della Sera is actually the alter ego of #LaMascheraDiCera." #ExposeOnline #ProgressiveRock #MasceraDiCera #OmbraDellaSera http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/lombra-della-sera-segreti-nel-nero-6.html

New #review today: "Die Regeninsel is #DirkSerries’ sixth collaboration with #AsmusTietchens, thrice previously as #VidnaObmana (Untitled, Motives for Recylings, and The Shift Recyclings) and twice previously as Dirk Serries (Air and Die Hofner Akten); on this latest release Serries’ layered guitar abstractions meet Tietchens’ treatments and effects, pushing the limits of the possibilities of sound." #ExposeOnline #ElectronicMusic #AmbientMusic #ExperimentalMusic http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/dirk-serries-asmus-tietchens-die-regeninsel-3.html

New #review: "Guitarist #RikWright is back with his #FundamentalForces, and Fool’s Fate sees them leaning into an edgier sound. Wright has been developing his tone over the years, and he’s now at a place where clean sustain meets a hint of distortion for melodic use, and eerie echoes and whammy bar provide atmospheric backing to other sections." #ExposeOnline #jazz #JazzNotJazz #JazzGuitar http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/rik-wrights-fundamental-forces-fools-fate-2.html

New #review: "The genesis of Voci Notturne is as intriguing as the music itself. #ExpiatoriA vocalist #DavideCiccarelli (aka Krieg) initiated the concept, a split release centered on the 90s Italian TV miniseries of the same name, and #IlSegnoDelComando immediately recognized the terrain, stepping in with their cinematic, occult, and deliberately mysterious sensibilities. The result is a seven-track collaboration that plays less like a traditional split and more like two parallel readings of the same shadowed narrative." #ExposeOnline #ProgressiveRock http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/expiatoria-il-segno-del-comando-voci-notturne-6.html

New #review today: "It won’t take more than ten or fifteen seconds into the opening track “How Dreams Do Creep (for Souls Asleep),” a nine-minute three part epic, to know that #IanNeal loves #ProgressiveRock and exactly who his biggest influence is; it sounds like he’s carefully studied and immersed himself in the sounds of #TonyBanks’ synthesizers, in particular the post-Gabriel #Genesis era from Trick of the Tail through Duke." #ExposeOnline http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/ian-neal-this-gemlike-flame-3.html

New #review today: "Over the last 13 years, Sweden’s #Agusa has done something a lot of so-called “retro” prog acts never quite pull off: they’ve made the past feel present-tense. Yes, the ingredients are familiar — late-60s/early-70s #ProgressiveRock, Scandinavian folk melodies, touches of #Krautrock repetition — but this isn’t museum work. It’s muscle memory. It breathes, expands, contracts." #ExposeOnline http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/agusa-panacea-6.html

New #review today: "#LorenzoBedini is best known as the primary songwriter and multi-instrumentalist of British #ProgressiveRock band #Airbridge going all the way back to their 1982 debut Paradise Moves, as well as all the more recent incarnations of the band beginning with the four-song EP Return in 2013. I suppose over the years he had composed some material that didn’t precisely fit the Airbridge sound, so it finds its way to life here on Bedini’s first solo album, Who Never Was." #ExposeOnline http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/lorenzo-bedini-who-never-was-3.html

New #review today: "It was nearly 20 years ago now that I first heard HottoïzzoH, the debut EP by #OnségenEnsemble, and their first full-length album, Awalaï, came out in 2016. After that initial long gap, they managed three more albums at two-year intervals, followed by a four-year span until Realms, and now we have A Tale after a further four years." #ExposeOnline #ProgressiveRock #SpaceRock #PostRock http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/onsegen-ensemble-a-tale-2.html

New #review today: "It’s not often that a release by an orchestra can be legitimately categorized as #jazz, but #MetropoleOrkest is no ordinary orchestra. Over the 80s years since its founding, the orchestra has backed such diverse artists as Ella Fitzgerald, Adrian Belew, Dizzy Gillespie, Al Jarreau, Tori Amos, Bono, Brian Eno, Elvis Costello, Snarky Puppy, Todd Rundgren, Louis Cole, and dozens (if not hundreds) more. But Arakatak is a pure Metropole release with no celebrity soloists, though it features compositions by #DonnyMcCaslin, #TinekePostma, #LouisCole, and others. #MihoHazama takes the baton for a rousing set of big arrangements." #ExposeOnline http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/metropole-orkest-arakatak-2.html