Never sticking to a planned route, the Brazilian-Canadian guitarist fuses prog with metal to reach new destinations with his autobiographical music. Brazilian-Canadian guitarist Rod Rodrigues is the first to admit that his life has been a series of happy accidents. “I was 37 when I left Brazil and Canada wasn’t really in my plans,” laughs […]
The Hungarian post-rockers who record in caves and find sanctuary in the rehearsal room Törzs debuted in 2015, but the Hungarian instumentalists’ story extends far further back than that. Guitarist Soma Balázs and bassist Dániel Nyitray have been friends since primary school and jammed in a host of projects since then. “Throughout our childhood and […]
When you hear Ocular live – and they intend to make that easy – you’ll be gobsmacked by the level of compositional talent and creative energy from the group of five 20somethings who perform smart jazz with a prog soul. And how couldn’t they, when bass and horn player Laurie Glass is a son of […]
The sax player for Brighton proggers Diagonal, Nick Whittaker is also half of thrilling new psych duo Fifth Daughter. They’re named after an alien in the Monica Hughes sci-fi novel ‘Space Trap’, and the idea for their debut record came to Whittaker over lockdown. “A rather lovely thing about that era was that, with nothing […]
“We’re pretty unabashedly into paganism and the folkloric”, says Faun Fables’ Nils Frykdahl, a telescope and a doll’s house visible behind him. Part of an alternative community in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains, California, he and his partner Dawn McCarthy are at home on Zoom discussing ‘Widdershins’, a glockenspiel and flute-imbued ballad from […]