Prog-Watch

This week on Prog-Watch it's Part Two of my coverage of Ryo Okumoto! More chat with Ryo, more great solo music, and more great music from his work with Spock's Beard, K2, and GPS! (With better interview audio this week.)

This week on Prog-Watch my very special guest is Ryo Okumoto of Spock's Beard! Tune in to hear Ryo chatting a bit about his early years in the music biz, and of course, lots of great music from his solo career, the Beard, and some of his other endeavors like K2, GPS, and his own Ryo Okumoto Project!(Apologies for the audio quality of this week's interview segment. You know how it is...technical difficulties! But I am sure you will be able to get the gist of what Ryo is saying, and I promise the quality will be better for Part Two, next week!)

This week's Prog-Watch is a themed special called It's All Fun and Games Until...! With fabulous music by Triumph, Spock's Beard, Roine Stolt, Mighty Handful, Uriah Heep, Mystery, Alan Parson Project, Wood Demons, Badfinger, Arc of Life, Utopia, Robert Berry, Arena, Nick D'Virgilio, and Grand Tour!

Nearly two hours of great electronic, ambient, and progressive music from Emmett Elvin, Ott, Jean-Michel Jarre, Frank Wyatt and Friends, and Bill Laswell! (RIP, Frank)

On this week's program my very special guest is Aaron Clift of the Aaron Clift Experiment! Aaron and I chat about the band and the making of their new album The Age of Misinformation, and of course I spin lots of great ACE music along the way!

More great, contemporary progressive sounds await on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear music from Anima Morte, Comedy of Errors, Phi Yaan-Zek, Quasar, Rick Wakeman, and Elder! Plus, our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, returns to take us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with the latest album by Arena!

This week's Prog-Watch is another variety program full of fabulous contemporary Progressive Rock...sort of a More of the Best of 2022 show PLUS! With great music from the Von Hertzen Brothers, Alan Parsons, Comedy of Errors, Devin Townsend, Rick Wakeman, Phi Yaan-Zek, Elder, Tim Bowness, Kaipa, and Bjorn Riis!

This week: Part Two of my collaboration with the Progressive Aspect on some of the best of 2022! With great music from Marillion, Ryo Okumoto, Jethro Tull, David Longdon, Stuckfish, Porcupine Tree, the ESP Project, Lobate Scarp, and Tiger Moth Tales! And thanks to all the contributors from this week and last: Alex Driessen. David Edwards, Rob Fisher, John Giordano, Peter Hilton, Magnus Moar, Rick Pueser, Pete Rogers, Jez Rowden, Richard Swan, Graham Thomas, Roger Trenwith, and Leo Trimming!

See playlist here.

Happy New Year! Join us and start the year off right with some of the best progressive rock produced last year, as we begin our Prog-Watch and The Progressive Aspect collaboration on the Best of 2022! This year's contributors include Alex Driessen. David Edwards, Rob Fisher, John Giordano, Peter Hilton, Magnus Moar, Rick Pueser, Pete Rogers, Jez Rowden, Richard Swan, Graham Thomas, Roger Trenwith, and Leo Trimming! In this episode we will hear fabulous music from Lonely Robot, Leap Day, Arena, Kaipa, Alan Parsons, the Von Hertzen Brothers, Bjørn Riis, Tim Bowness, and Hedvig Mollestad & the Trondheim Jazz Orchestra! Part 2 will follow next week!