Discovering jadis

The grand parade of lifeless packaging? Far from it, as this much-delayed blockbuster reissue of one of prog’s most fascinating and frustrating albums finally proves.

Folk-proggers Kindred Spirit Band have teamed up with members of Gryphon, Stuckfish, Haze, Spriggan Mist and more on their seventh studio album. Bandleader Elaine Samuels tells Prog about the personal story that lies behind the conceptual The Journey Within , and the fantastical characters she conjured up to tell it.

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New York proggers return with first studio album in almost a decade.

The great and good of progressive music give us a glimpse into their prog worlds. As told to Grant Moon.

THE GENESIS OF Quadvium — the extreme fusion project from fretless bass visionaries Steve DiGiorgio (Testament, Death, Sadus) and Jeroen Paul Thesseling (Obscura, Pestilence) — dates back to the mid-’