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Now Angelo’s Rock Orphanage is complete – ready for action
I finally got around to doing something that needed doing a while ago – get my site at the right location, http://www.angelosrockorphanage.com. Old blog links as posted on Facebook, Twitter and...
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Angelo’s Rock Orphanage on ISKC Rock Radio – every week!
Although I started carefully, by offering to do this once a month, I quickly changed my mind. From this week onward, I will provide a weekly playlist to ISKC Rock Radio, which will be played on...
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Echolyn – I heard you listening
I intended to wait with this review until the vinyl was out, but that would take too long now that it’s postponed (although only by a week) – the world needs to know all there is to know about this...
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Kalle Vilpuu – Silver Linings
Over the past 9 months, I wrote quite a few reviews and had many discussion with people about music. One topic that keeps coming back is the role of vocals. They have mixed role – both telling the...
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Gekko Projekt – Reya of Titan
Science fiction, something I like a lot when I was a teenager, and that can still get my attention when I run into a good movie or book. Apparently, I should add music album to that list as well –...
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On ratings and reviews
A few months ago, I thought it was a good idea to add some ratings to my reviews, in order to give people a feel for what to expect without having to read the full review. That felt paradoxal, because...
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Anuryzm – All is not for All
Today I had a discussion with a friend on how people listen to music. There’s a lot of rock and metal music being released under the moniker ‘progressive’. Regardless of how fitting that moniker is...
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Amadeus Awad – Death is Just a Feeling
On dark days, I may have gloomy thoughts – which I later mostly regret. Never were they as dark and gloomy though as the experiences that led Amadeus Awad to compose, record and release Death is Just...
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Kinetic Element – Travelog
Some music takes time to grow, both when being written or performed as when being consumed. With Kinetic Element, that was clear already with their debut album, which took the best part of three years...
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How will it grow? (2)
A couple of months go, I wrote a post here, with the title How will it grow? In that post, I wrote about how I was planning on dreaming up a poem, or even a song lyric around four lines of text that...
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Murky Red – No Pocus without Hocus
Sometimes, it’s hard to get into an album – as a listener, or as a reviewer. And in other cases, it just happens naturally. The latter is the case with Murky Red‘s new album No Pocus without Hocus, and...
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Pin Ups? Yes, Pin Ups
The first 42 years of my life I largely ignored the fact that a Mr. David Bowie existed. The reason was very simple: at the time I was a teenager getting into the likes of Van Halen, Iron Maiden and...
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After a short break – on to 2016
Today I realised it’s been over a month since I posted anything here, and the last post wasn’t even a review. I have been reviewing, for other sites, and I’ve been busy with other music related...
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Seconds before Landing – 2
Composer, singer, drummer and midi player, that is the description John Crispino’s name has on the album II, the second release of his personal project Seconds before Landing. On the album he gets the...
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IZZ – Everlasting Instant
IZZ have been around since the 90s, and were founded by American brothers Tom (keyboards, vocals) and John (bass, guitar, keyboards, vocals) Galgano. Over time, the band became known for incorporating...
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Il Ballo Delle Castagne – Live Studio
The Austrian (and according to some Italian) band Il Ballo Delle Castagne is the brain child of singer Vinz Aquarian and guitars/keyboard player Marco Gargegnani. They founded the band in 2007 and...
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The Prog Files and Angelo’s Rock Orphanage Charity radio shows
On Wednesday December 16 and 23, The Prog Files / Angelo’s Rock Orphanage on ISKC Rock and Web Radio will give attention to a number of artists who are donating proceeds of music and merchandise to...
View ArticleHow Major Tom dealt with copyright floating around his tin can
Copyright on music is an issue, as we all know. Of course, in the first place, copyright was invented to protect the original author of a work, e.g. a writer, a painter or a musician. Without that, the...
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The Prog Files and Angelo’s Rock Orphanage charity shows (part 2)
In two days, it’s December 23rd, and time for the second charity show I run this year on ISCK Rock Radio. In this second episode, amongst the regular tracks, we’ll be playing music from the following...
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3RDegree – Ones & Zeros: Vol. 1
I missed the live gig of 3RDegree at ‘t Blok in The Netherlands earlier this year, unfortunately. Would have loved to finally meet Robert James Pashman, who contacted me at ProgArchives in March 2008,...
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