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Picture Credit: Electric Mud Electric Mud - The Inner World Outside Release Date: February 01, 2022 Label: Timezone Records Format: CD / Digital Length: 48:40 Genre: Progressive Post Rock  / Cinematic Prog Art Origin: Hannover , Germany Less than two years ago, Electric Mud from Hannover, the capital of German federal state Lower Saxony, released their monumental album " Quiet Days on Earth ". Justifiably, the 70-minute release received tremendous echoes from the music press and from the Prog community. Driven by this success, the former duo consisting of Hagen  and Nico  has grown to become a sextet since then. The project has hence become band, or even an ensemble. With reference to the word ensemble, an introduction to the recent development of Electric Mud can be given. As a sextet, the band from Hannover is now able to create a way broader sonic image. While the pieces on "Quiet Days on Earth" have already conveyed a meditative and soothing Neo-Classic and Ambi...

Picture Credit: Richard Self Richard Self - Lives of the Ignorant (Part 1) Release Date: June 20, 2020 Label: selfrelease Format: Digital Length: 42:28 Genre: Prog Rock / Canterbury Origin: Nottingham , England With „Lives of the Ignorant (Part 1)“ Richard Self has started a trilogy of loose narratives which accompany a secret agent on his missions. The protagonist of which the name shall not be revealed gives us some insights into their daily life. Thus, “Lives of the Ignorant (Part 1)” does not only contain intel about some of the missions, but also a certain amount of the agent’s life apart from work is made visible. We can therefore comprehend that the protagonist received first orders in Stockholm, then went on to Mexico and later made it more and more complex for us outsiders to follow. It is still top secret as you might realize. Lives of the Ignorant (Part 1) by Richard Self Richard Self is musicking his narratives via Progressive Rock, Canterbury sound, and plenty of acou...