A Welcome to Black Widow Records: Regular visitors to this site will notice a new label being reviewed. I’d like to welcome Italy’s Black Widow label to the group who’ve chosen to send me tasty things to review. Black Widow have been around for a good many years and seem to have gone from strength to strength, not only providing a home for heavy, dark and doomy prog but also some fine seventies flavored symphonic stuff as well. You’ll also note the new recording from the classic Italian band Delirium on their stable of releases. Great stuff. Black Widow join my fine family of prog friends, ProgRock Records, Unicorn Digital, Cuneiform, Record Heaven, Festival Music and host of independents. If you are interested in getting one more review for your releases, feel free to get in touch. As you know my prime focus here is progressive rock with a seventies or symphonic flair, but I enjoy listening to a wide range of stuff. (6/17/08)

A Random Thought about Reunions: While reading the latest issue of The Classic Rock Society Journal from England I was struck by the number of bands who are getting back together again; Curved Air and Twelfth Night come to mind. Personally I think this is great. There will always be some who would argue the band is only doing it as a kind of “cashing-in” but I say so what! I enjoyed listening to them the first time around and I’m keen to hear their music today. So good-on-ya…it’s great to see the reunions and I hope there are more of them. By the way, if you’ve never seen an issue of the journal, I highly recommend you avail yourself of this fine publication. It’s very timely and they cover a nice wide range of music. (6/17/08)

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News from Festival Music: We are extremely pleased to officially announce the signing of a worldwide deal with TWELFTH NIGHT, one of the most important and exciting Prog bands to come out of the 80s Progressive Rock Revival in the UK. Recent concerts have given rise to a renewed interest in the band. Festival Music will be releasing double CD 'Definitive Edition' versions of the TWELFTH NIGHT back catalogue. Each CD set will include the full original album  along with a second disc containing demos, rehearsals and/or live recordings from the same era, much of it previously unreleased. The CDs will be issued with updated artwork, new sleeve notes and previously unseen photographs. The first release in the series will be 'Smiling At Grief - The Definitive Edition', making the Smiling At Grief album available for the first time in eleven years!

SOLSTICE - Solstice are currently working on a new CD which we hope will be released later this year. TINYFISH - Work is going well on the new CD 'The Big Red Spark', with the drums recently recorded at John Mitchell's (Arena, It Bites) studio. This is going to be one of the major releases of 2009! MANNING - Guy Manning has put together the new core MANNING band line-up and includes Guy, Phil Wilkes (Keyboards), Kris Hudson-Lee (Bass, Vocals), Kev Currie (Guitar, Vocals), Danny Rhodes (Drums & Percussion), and Julie King (Keyboards, Vocals, Percussion). CITIZEN CAIN - Work is progressing well on the new Citizen Cain CD - we hope to have more news on this next time. As previously announced, Festival Music will be releasing all of the Citizen Cain back catalogue over the next few months, before releasing the new CD in early 2009. BITTERTOWN - The debut CD by Dutch band Bittertown called 'Scenes from the Box' is currently being mastered ready for release later in 2008. A concept album full of melodic tracks, it is sure to appeal to many Prog fans out there! (5/31/08)

News from ProgRock Records: POLES is the debut release for 'Factory of Dreams' a brand new Project by Hugo Flores and Jessica Lehto featuring a fantastic booklet fully designed for the story told in 11 songs. Factory of Dreams is: Hugo Flores - Electric Guitars, Bass Guitars and Synth bass, Synthesizers, Additional Drum arrangements Jessica Lehto – Lead vocals, Harmonies and Vocal arrangements. Factory of Dreams has some of those sonic elements that you loved from Project Creation but has a voice all its own. It ships mid-June ... The Chairman of Jupiter Society, Carl Westholm, known from other Swedish acts like Carptree and Krux, now releases an epic concept album "First Contact - Last Warning". In collaboration with people like Leif Edling (Candlemass, Krux) Mats Levén (Krux, ex Therion, Y. Malmsteen) and Declan Burke (Darwins Radio, Frost) among many others, He gives us an album with the ambient but symphonic production known from Carptree and with a clear presence of Heavier elements. Big arrangements, small details, different vocalists and musicians specially chosen for each song make it diverse and intriguing. You are given one hour of music and exclusive 20 page booklet. This is an album about some important days in a distant future and ships mid-June. (6/11/08)