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  First of all, and because it cannot be said often enough: нет войны | ні війні | No War How to help the people in Ukraine ______________________________________________________ Picture Credit: Iuliano Iuliano - De-Algorithm Release Date: April 08, 2022 Label: Quiteloud Records Format: Digital Duration: 16:56 Genre: Art Rock / Prog Rock Origin: Italy Most of us will know these situations. You have a harmless chat about the weather with your neighbour, and some hours later your social media or search engine feeds are crammed with advertisments for holiday resorts, sun shields, umbrellas or whatever fits the exact direction of your previous dialog best. Or, you either accidentally or for research reasons click on a video by Jordan Peterson or Milo Yiannopoulos , and next time you refresh your video streaming service it looks like the wet dream of a neo-fascist conspiracy theorist. Italian artist Iuliano has taken on this subject, the subject of algorithm and their power as a d...

Picture Credit: INTERCONTINEN7AL   INTERCONTINEN7AL - INTERCONTINEN7AL Release Date: December 20, 2020 Label: selfrelease Format: Digital Length: 47:05 Genre: Prog Rock / Alternative Rock / Folk Origin: Earth INTERCONTINEN7AL is a worldwide collective of musicians. And they absolutely come up to their name, as INTERCONTINEN7AL features artists from all seven continents (Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Europa, North America, Oceania/Australia, and South America). A dozen songs has been written, recorded, and assembled on this album which can be streamed or downloaded (see links below). All proceeds of the album go to the COVID-19 General Relief Found, and you can also donate directly on the collective's homepage. The album is a sonic declaration of love to our home planet, to life, and to peaceful coexistance of nature, species, and humakind. The abridged message of this impressive album is: we are one kind, one big family, so let us support each other and shape the future. The musical ...

Alexandra Zerner - Perspective feat. Maja Shining Release Date: 05 March, 2021 Length: 07:49 Genre: Prog Rock / Prog Folk Origin: Brno , Czechia The new album "Sihouette" by Czech Prog luminary and multi-instrumentalist  Alexandra Zerner  will be released soon. Join the crowdfunding and save yorselves a copy of the 47-minute journey through progressive music. For the track "Perspective", Alexandra Zerner  has received support by the great  Maja Shining  ( Forever Still ). Alexandra Zerner  Online: Homepage Facebook Instagram Bandcamp YouTube Spotify Looking for affordable and high quality promotion for your music? Here's MusoSoup! Follow MangoWave on Telegram DONATE

Picture Credit: Hairetis Harper Hairetis Harper - Draft Release Date: December 07, 2020 Label: Same Difference Music Format: Vinyl / Digital Length: 49:38 Genre: Folk Rock / Experimental Origin: Crete , Greece / London , England The album "Draft" is a collaboration of London's harpist Maria-Christina Harper  and Cretan lute player Yiagos Hairetis . Together those two exceptional musicians are Hairetis Harper. And the word exceptional fits this album very well. "Draft" does willingly break with genres or styles - it just forms a new one. The terms that apply to the seven tracks are Progressive Folk, Avantgarde, Experimental Folk or Psychedelic Ambient. Listening to "Draft" feels like a romantic journey through a colourful forest, alongside creeks and a glade where wild animals peacefully browse while the sunlight is creating the most beautiful game of colour and reflections. You might as well discover elves or fairies, but that is up to your imaginati...

Thy Catafalque - Napút Release Date: January 11, 2021 Length: 03:48 Genre: Progressive Black Metal / Progressive Folk Origin: Makó , Hungary From their album "Naiv" (2020, Season of Mist ) Thy Catafalque Online: Facebook Twitter Instagram Bandcamp Spotify Looking for affordable and high quality promotion for your music? Here's MusoSoup! Follow MangoWave on Telegram DONATE

Picture Credit: Moura Photo: Leo López Artwork: Hugo Santeiro Moura - Moura Release Date: April 01, 2020 Label: Spinda Records Format: Vinyl / CD / Cassette / Digital Length: 38:36 Genre: Psychedelic Folk / Progressive Folk Origin:  A Coruña , Spain A Coruña (or La Coruña in Castellano) is the capital of the autonomous region of Galicia which is situated in the very Northwest of the Iberian Peninsula. The town is home to Moura, a five-piece band which has released their first studio album via Spinda Records this year. Moura and their selftitled debut are a good example to show that progressive and psychedelic music are free from boundaries. Here, it is the imposant mixture of 70s-style Prog and Psych Prog with Galician Folk tunes. The latter is a genre that was completely new to me, but as an outsider, I would say that Galician Folk shows some similarities to Celtic Folk. Moura's album features a various representation of light-footed and harmonic Folk tunes. These melod...