Bo Hansen
Hi, I am Bo Hansen, one of the webmasters of Progzilla.com. My role focuses on maintaining the website, ensuring its usability, and providing a seamless experience for users to explore and engage with the world of progressive rock.
Mitsune
Bo Hansen December 19, 2023Japanese folk reimagined for the 21st Century with classic prog influences. “Our new EP is heavily influenced by //Close To The Edge// by Yes”. This comment leaves //Prog// momentarily speechless. Australian Youka Snell is discussing the forthcoming release by her Berlin-based group Mitsune. Given the band’s love of Japanese folk, which includes dressing in traditional […]
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Storm Deva
Bo Hansen December 19, 2023The composer-astroscientist duo that are cloudbusting in mythical, eclectic style. In Hinduism, a Deva (pronounced dayva) is a god; someone supernatural who shines and is literally dev-ine. Add extreme weather, and emotion, and there’s a substantial concept manifesting. So when Leeds-via-Hertfordshire composer, vocalist and pianist Carollyn Eden chose this name for her work she was […]
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Gabriel Kahane
Bo Hansen December 19, 2023Meet the forward-thinking singer-songwriter and composer who juggles catchiness and complexity “I try to make things that people have a reason to return to over and over again.” Gabriel Kahane has been furrowing his own path in folk, singer-songwriter and compositional circles for years, but he quips – mainly by virtue of his many, many […]
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Closure In Moscow
Bo Hansen December 19, 2023Outlandish Aussies battle overcome mental health battles to make show-stopping return Body//As vocalist Christopher de Cinque delicately puts it, Closure In Moscow’s story went from the cliché tale of high school kids jamming, to “a fucking whirlwind” in the blink of an eye. Their 2008 debut EP, //The Penance And The Patience//, quickly earned the […]
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TRYO
Bo Hansen December 19, 2023Even before they’d recorded a note of music, TRYO (Chile) found themselves opening for prog royalty Yes at the prestigious Quinta Vergara Amphitheater in the coastal city of Viña del Mar. “It was a big honour!” beams band manager Ignacio Carvajal, who acts as translator for his charges. It was also the culmination of seven […]
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Zahn
Bo Hansen November 22, 2023Berlin’s Zahn like to have their cake and eat it. As hard as the boney incisor they named themselves after (Zahn means tooth in German and is pronounced with a “s” rather than a “z” sound), they are the purest distillation of the instrumental power trio, but also an experimental electronic outfit at the same […]
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Skáld
Bo Hansen November 22, 2023Christophe Voisin-Boisvinet spent his childhood in the Loire Valley in central-western France: a stunning, rural region defined by its series of sky-piercing castles. So it really shouldn’t be a surprise that he grew up to be the multi-instrumentalist of a historical prog/folk collective. “As a child, I was quite introverted and surrounded by these mediaeval […]
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Jerboah
Bo Hansen November 22, 2023Genuinely eclectic combination of jazz rock and art pop from multinational quartet Bands that claim to play without musical boundaries very rarely follow through on such claims. But one group of musicians that seems to buck the trend are Amsterdam-based quartet Jerboah. Indeed a live set by the band feels like a trip through the […]
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Spurv
Bo Hansen November 22, 2023“The thing I’m admiring most in other bands and musicians, and striving to achieve myself, is an acute attention to composition and how albums function as wholes and not merely as collections of independent songs,” vocalist and main composer Gustav Jørgen Pedersen explains after //Prog// asks what sets Norwegian instrumental post-rock collective Spurv apart from […]
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Under The Surface
Bo Hansen November 22, 2023The worst thing that can happen when sending a speculative mail is reading the word “no”, but fortunately for Dutch singer Sanne Rambags the answer was in the affirmative. Approaching seasoned jazz drummer Joost Lijbaart and experienced guitarist Bram Stadhouders to work with, the two musicians readily agreed. “Eight years ago, she was selected by […]