Rick Daishiell's Rikter Scale radio show on Aural Moon will feature a
ProgDay preview this Sunday and Monday. Details on how to tune in
below:
airing Sunday, August 24 from 8-11 PM EST and Monday, August 25 from
1-4 PM EST on
www.auralmoon.com
Fourteen times now, music lovers will have converged on a farm outside
Chapel Hill, North Carolina for the longest American prog festival.
Some well-known and later to be well-known progressive bands have
played Progday. This year features a couple of heavyweights, some
established artists, and some up and comers. A good mix of styles this
time. Here's some music from every band, except Pinnacle (did not have
a full song to play).
Von Frickle -
Antiparticle Assassin
Pyramidium
Freak Parade
Galactic Bounty Hunter
A band that's new to me, but I really like what I've heard. Quirky is
too tame of a word for Von Frickle, from their music to the live
uniforms they wear.
Abigail's Ghost -
Waiting Room
Love Sounds
Dead People's Review
I'm conflicted about this band. I have "Selling Insincerity", and the
music is wonderful, but every song sounds like a Porcupine Tree tune
from Lightbulb Sun to Deadwing albums. Some of the songs you can even
match against particular PT songs. There's even a Wilson in the band!
Seriously, though - I'm betting they will be great live and they will
also be at Rosfest 2009. After all, Marillion's Grendel almost
pigeonholed them, and that turned out all right.
Ain Soph -
Ride On A Camel
Variations on a Theme by Brian Smith
Japanese Canterbury. That's awesome.
Mirthrandir -
For Four
Not a lot to choose from in the catalogue, so I went with the longest
song. Live, Alan Benjamin from Advent is the guitarist. They also
played Rosfest.
Canvas Solaris -
Chromatic Dusk
Interface
Sinusoid Mirage
Vaihayasa
Their influences are heavy bands such as Voivod (a good thing in my
book) - but these songs are a bit different. Good, instrumental rock.
Kinetic Element -
Now And Forever
The Ascent
The first two songs of this year's "Powered by Light Suite". Mike
Visaggio is a tireless worker and scored a slot at the pre-show. They
will kick some ass.
Cheer Accident -
Frozen
Learning How to Fly
The Day After I Never Met You
This year's "Orion band" award winner... very interesting sounds, a
lot of changes - should be a lot of fun.
Secret Oyster -
Leda & The Dog
Paella
Sirenerne
Very established Danish fusion band, they played on Fusion Friday at
Nearfest a couple of years back. They will close the festival.
Holding Pattern -
Blaster
Out the Other
Guitar-driven instrumental prog, with some serious chops.
Speechless -
Spidercrawl
Vader's Boogie
Sean Tonar (guitar) is the curator of the great Progressive Ears. His
band isn't bad either - they'll be playing the pre-show.
I'm off to 3RP this weekend and next weekend is Progday. I'll be
skipping a week, then back with either some Progday purchases or
another non-thematic show.
