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Addison Project - Mood Swings ($9.99)

Addison Project is a band assembled by Richard Addison, who played bass on the first two Mystery albums, and has a lot of studio experience in Montreal. This 2003 CD is sophisticated progressive fusion, [+/-]

Agah Bahari - The Second Sight of a Mind ($9.99)

Agah Bahari is an Iranian ex-pat guitarist now living in Toronto. After an initial independent release, Unicorn Digital has reissued Bahari’s 2008 debut CD The Second Sight of a Mind, on which Derek Sherinian plays keyboards, Virgil Donati drums and Rick Fierabracci bass. [+/-]

Alkemy - Da 63 Projekt ($9.99)

Enough with the silly misspellings already. Alkemy are a French progressive rock quartet (guitar/vocals, keys, bass, drums). The vocals on this 2004 CD are in excellent English though and there is nothing in the music that gives away Alkemy’s origin. They play a fairly unique blend of rock and fusion, [+/-]

Vladimir Badirov Project - Greeting from Nostradamus ($9.99)

The dominant style on this 2004 album is a unique progressive world rock featuring traditional Uzbekistan sounds and high-energy drum/percussion tracks of great complexity, all blended into a modern style. [+/-]

Capharnaüm - Le Soleil est une Bombe Atomique ($9.99)

This is the 2007 edition on Unicorn Digital of a CD released independently in 2006. Capharnaüm is an instrumental progressive rock quartet from Montreal featuring two guitarists, bass and drums. [+/-]

Celestial O’euvre - This Mortal Coil ($9.99)

Celestial O’euvre - Second Chance ($13.99)

From the New York City area, Celestial O’euvre’s name may not roll off the tongue, but they are a progressive rock band and are not trying to hide it. Taking cues from Yes, ELP, and other 1970’s bands, their sound is huge and full of pomp, sometimes with an AOR flavor, [+/-]

Direction - Est ($9.99)

Direction - Ère ($9.99)

Direction are a Québec City band with strong vocals in French, playing progressive rock along the lines of Morse Code. A cross between later Ange and classic Rush is a fair approximation of much of their music. [+/-]

Flood - Tales from the Four Seasons ($9.99)

This 2009 release is the debut CD by an Englishman known only as Flood. This is a very pastoral and relaxing work, nearly 80-minutes in length, influenced by the English classical composers. [+/-]

The Gourishankar - 2nd Hands ($9.99)

The Gourishankar - Close Grip ($9.99)

This quartet (vocals, keyboards, guitars, drums) with the catchy name is a Russian symphonic prog band singing in English. 2nd Hands (2007, 71-minutes) is one fantastic progressive rock album. [+/-]

Hamadryad - Safe in Conformity ($9.99)

Hamadryad - Conservation of Mass ($9.99)

Conservation of Mass (2000, 58 minutes) is the debut by this Montreal band and is one of the freshest and most exciting albums of mainstream symphonic progressive rock we’ve heard in some time. [+/-]

Jelly Fiche - Tout ce que j’ai revé ($9.99)

This is the most exciting new band to come out of Québec since the golden age of the 1970’s. Montreal’s Jelly Fiche debut with Tout ce que j’ai rêvé (2008, 63-minutes), a concept album that takes some inspiration from the great 70’s Québec prog bands such as Maneige and Harmonium, but could just as easily have come out of France. [+/-]

Junk Farm - Didn’t Come to Dance ($11.99)

Junk Farm - Ugly Little Thing ($11.99)

The self-described German “fusion trio from hell” consists of a keyboardist (favoring organ), guitarist/singer, and drummer. [+/-]

Kaos Moon - The Circle of Madness ($9.99)

Canadian prog band Kaos Moon trace their roots to the early 1980’s but didn’t release their first album until 1994’s After the Storm. It took more than another ten years to release their second, but The Circle of Madness is well worth the wait. [+/-]

Karcius - Episodes ($9.99)

Karcius - Kaleidoscope ($9.99)

Karcius - Sphere ($9.99)

Karcius are a quartet (guitar/keys/bass/drums) from Montréal playing complex instrumental progressive rock. They began with Sphere (2004, 67-minutes), remastered and reissued in this 2006 Unicorn Digital edition. The music here is in the vein of Liquid Tension Experiment or Planet X, a mix of progressive rock and fusion with some heavy passages. Kaleidoscope (2006, digipack) is their 57-minute second CD. It demonstrates a good deal of growth in two years, [+/-]

Karfagen - The Space Between Us ($9.99)

Karfagen - Continium ($9.99)

Continium (2006) is an elegant and classy album of instrumental symphonic prog from Ukrainian band Karfagen, probably the only progressive rock band there is in the Ukraine now. Camel and Genesis sound like their strongest influences, [+/-]

Little King - Legacy of Fools ($9.99)

Little King - Virus Divine ($9.99)

Little King, from El Paso, Texas, is a Rush-influenced band who really have their own distinct style. [+/-]

Rick Miller - Falling Through Rainbows ($9.99)

Rick Miller has been composing, producing, performing and recording since the early 1980s, gaining a great deal of production experience while working at Sound Design Studios in Toronto and later in his own studio in Lakefield, Ontario, all the while honing his skills as a singer and songwriter. Early this century, Miller turned his attention to progressive rock, [+/-]

Mystery - Destiny? 10th Anniversary edition ($9.99)

Mystery - Theatre of the Mind ($9.99)

Mystery - At the Dawn of a New Millennium (Best of) ($9.99)

With Destiny? (1998), this Canadian band took the most progressive elements of Rush and Saga and married them with a more symphonic and ambitious approach to produce this gem of a concept album. [+/-]

Nathan Mahl - Exodus ($9.99)

Formed at the end of 1981, Nathan Mahl (a totally fabricated name) are now one of the longest-lived and most accomplished Canadian progressive rock bands. After a long wait, Nathan Mahl released a new studio album in 2008: Exodus (59-minutes). [+/-]

Nil - Nil Novo Sub Sole ($9.99)

Nil - Quarante Jours sur le Sinai ($9.99)

This is Unicorn Digital’s 2006 re-edition of Quarante Jours sur le Sinai (2002, 65-minutes), the third album from French symphonic band Nil (French for Nile, as in the river), though few people have heard their first two. “Forty Days in the Sinai”, an Egyptian-themed concept album, is classic French progressive, heavily instrumental, with some beautiful female vocals and strong male vocals (in French). [+/-]

Parallel Mind - Colossus Adea ($9.99)

Parallel Mind is an American (Milwaukee-based) instrumental progressive rock trio whose compositions are intense and complex, yet still accessible and powerfully melodic. [+/-]

Pictorial Wand - Face of Our Fathers ($11.99)

Pictorial Wand - A Sleeper’s Awakening (2CD, $12.99)

A Sleeper’s Awakening (2006) is the double-CD debut project of Norwegian musician Mattis Sørum, who recorded the album while attending university. Sørum enlisted the help of a large number of musicians for this concept album. The label calls it a symphonic progressive rock album, which it is, [+/-]

Qwaarn - Aberrations ($9.99)

After some lineup changes including a new singer, Québec prog band Qwaarn returned in 2007 with their second concept CD. Aberrations continues the story of Qwaarn begun on their 2004 debut The Word of Qwaarn. [+/-]

Retroheads - Introspective ($9.99)

Retroheads - Retrospective ($9.99)

Let’s be clear that this Norwegian five-piece band are retro-prog-heads, and despite the album name, Retrospective is their debut, and may have been the best debut of 2005. [+/-]

Ring of Myth - Weeds ($9.99)

Weeds (2005) is an album we’d been looking forward to since, well, 1996, when Ring of Myth released their first CD Unbound on the Kinesis label. [+/-]

Signs of One - Innerlands ($9.99)

Signs of One is a Quebec City prog rock band who released two albums on their own prior to Innerlands (2007), which is on Unicorn Digital. This is elaborate Yes/Genesis style symphonic prog with enough prog-metal added to let you know they’re a contemporary band. [+/-]

Spaced Out - Evolution ($11.99)

Spaced Out - Unstable Matter ($9.99)

Spaced Out - Slow Gin ($9.99)

Spaced Out - Eponymus II ($9.99)

Spaced Out - same ($9.99)

Spaced Out - Live in 2000 DVD ($12.99)

Spaced Out are a Montreal-based instrumental progressive fusion quartet (keys, guitar, bass, drums) whose 2000 self-titled CD is a very impressive 54-minute debut in the Allan Holdsworth, Bruford, and Brand X styles. [+/-]

Daryl Stuermer - Rewired: The Electric Collection ($9.99)

Daryl Stuermer is known for being Genesis’ live guitarist following the departure of Steve Hackett, also as a member of Phil Collins’ band since 1982, and a member of Jean-Luc Ponty’s band from 1975-78. [+/-]

Sympozion - Kundabuffer ($9.99)

This young Israeli quintet has produced a debut album of stunning quality. Mostly instrumental, Kundabuffer (2006) is in Gentle Giant, Canterbury, and Zappa territory, but highly original. [+/-]

Talisma - Quelque Part ($9.99)

Talisma - Chromium ($9.99)

Talisma - Corpus ($9.99)

Talisma are a Québec band that date to 1993. It’s unclear whether all their previous releases were merely demos; in any event, Corpus (2003) is the first release in their trio format. Instrumental aside from two tracks with some wordless or scat-style female vocals, this perhaps comes closest to Edhels, albeit a bit heavier in spots. The Steve Hackett and King Crimson influences that shaped Edhels are here also, though that only partially describes Talisma. There’s a bit of Rush in here too, but also touches of jazz, ethnic, space, and more lyrical and delicate passages befitting a Québec band. [+/-]

T.A.O. - The Abnormal Observations ($9.99)

This is the 2006 debut by a young Polish band. They mix and match many prog styles, one of which is prog-metal. [+/-]

Claire Vezina - Cyber Neptune ($9.99)

Claire Vezina - Alambic ($9.99)

Cyber Neptune is a 2008 release from Quebec’s Claire Vezina, her fourth album. From what we can gather, Vezina is a singer/songwriter who has been making increasingly progressive albums each time out, expanding well beyond the singer/songwriter universe with the assistance of other musicians and a co-writer. [+/-]

Xinema - Basic Communication ($9.99)

Xinema - Different Ways ($9.99)

Xinema is a Swedish melodic progressive rock band that evolved out of a mid-1980’s band called Madrigal, so Xinema’s members have been at this for a while. [+/-]

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