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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: Oll Ef   Oll Ef - Ghost of Us All Release Date: August 25, 2021 Label: selfrelease Format: Digital Length: 27:06 Genre: Post Rock Origin: Portland , OR , USA Little do we know about the Portland-based duo Oll Ef. The two members are brothers who both have played in plenty of bands and released a lot of music with bands such as Magistrater, VTRN, Sunthrower, Kaddisfly, or Water & Bodies, to name a few. Now for the first time, the two brothers have joined their forces, and the result is the EP on hand, "Ghost of Us All" by Oll Ef. For almost half an hour, the duo presents stunning soundscapes to dive into. Time and space stand still and race with high velocity at the same time when Oll Ef play their thrilling sonic narratives that tell us about the endless discrepancy between constancy and progress, and of entropy. The soundscapes on "Ghost of Us All" vary between progressive and artistic Post Rock à la Russian Circles, cinematic and atmospheric so...

  Picture Credit: Alex Henry Foster & The Long Shadows Alex Henry Foster & The Long Shadows will soon tour the UK and Europe! So, all you lovers of sophisticated and soulful Post and Prog Rock save the dates of the two upcoming tours. And feel free to listen to the live recording of "The Son of Hannah" while doing so. It might encourage you to buy tickets right away. You can also win a CD package! Send an e-mail to rmangowave@gmail.com with the subject "AHF" and write which venue Alex Henry Foster & The Long Shadows will play twice . You can then win a hand-picked CD from the MangoWave Prog collection. Don't forget to add your address, so the CDs can find their way to you. Entry deadline: September 30, 2021, 11:oo PM (Central European Time) Lights Stretching over Sorrows - with The Pineapple Thief - Autumn 2021 October 06 - Saint Luke's, Glasgow, UK October 07 - O2 Ritz, Manchester, UK October 09 - Paradiso, Amsterdam, NL October 10 - Fabrik, Ha...

Picture Credit: DIMWIND   DIMWIND - Slow Wave Violence Release Date: May 14, 2021 Label: selfrelease Format: Digital Length: 42:31 Genre: Progressive Post Rock Origin: Gothenburg , Sweden Jonas Eriksson  (drums) and Andreas Hansen  (strings, keys) have been playing music together for over twenty years. Nevertheless, it took until 2019 till they finally founded the band DIMWIND. Knowing each other for such a long time, both as persons and as musicians, is a foundation Jonas  and Andreas  can build something monumental on. In May 2021, the time has come for DIMWIND to release their first work "Slow Wave Violence". Title and cover artwork might already give you an idea of what to expect from the album. The soundscapes on this seven-track instrumental release are cold. DIMWIND musick freezing storms over the Northern oceans, the rough waves that clash against a rocky Scandinavian shore, and the melacholic and yet impressive majesty of an iceberg floating in the wate...

Picture Credit: The Mummy Cats   The Mummy Cats - Wolverine Release Date: June 18, 2021 Length: 03:57 Genre: Progessive Post Rock / Alternative Rock Origin: Birmingham , Alabama , USA Is it not fascinating what Craigslist has made possible since the site started in the 1990s. The number of interesting, beautiful, weird, funny, or heart-warming stories or situations connected to the platform are enumerable, and founder Craig Newmark might still be astonished sometimes. Nevertheless, this is the story of James Cox , who used to work as a power tool salesman in Tennessee and then moved back to his home town Birmingham, Alabama to focus on his major passion music. Via Craigslist, Cox got in contact with guitar player Morgan Liveoak . The two musicians realized that they talked the same language when they were jamming and creating songs together – it was a match! After one and half years of creative and productive work, James Cox and Morgan Liveoak decided to start releasing their ...

Picture Credit: Barnum's Freak   Barnum's Freak - Darkness between the Light Release Date: March 11, 2021 Length: 04:35 Genre: Prog Rock Origin: Naples , Italy More than six have passed since Napolitan quintet Barnum's Freak have released their last album " Revolution Loading ". This year, a new work will be published, and the single 'Darkness between the Light' is the first of omen of what we are about to expect from the upcoming release. Darkness Between the light by Barnum's Freak "Darkness between the Light" is a colourful and versatile display of intelligent rock music. Seemlessly Barnum's Freak let Retro Prog, Progressive Post Rock, and a bit of Zeuhl merge and thereby create a beautiful soundscape. Tempo, metre, and moods change in a lightfooted manner and therefore make the sophisticated sound of "Darkness between the Light" appear very easy to the hearing. Barnum's Freak have hereby produced a wholesome piece of mus...

Picture Credit: twangmen twangmen - triskele and cascades Release Date: December 04, 2020 (digital) / March 12, 2021 (physical) Label: EMG Format: Vinyl / CD / Digital Length: 69:20 Genre: Progressive Post Rock Origin: Austria A lot has happened since Austria's twangmen released their debut EP " Double Peace " in 2013. Not only has the band moved to the state Vorarlberg (a beautiful region in Western Austria, known for its gorgeous landscape and very unique language). Also, the band has grown from a trio to a quintet. Be introduced to the line-up which has recorded the full-length album "triskele and cascades": Martin 'Medy' Mayer  - guitar, Gunnary Kiesinger   - keyboards, Flow Frick  - drums, Fabian Jäger   cello, Daniel Seeger  - bass. triskele and cascades by twangmen What twangmen have created here is a collection of intelligent and various Prog and Post Rock tracks. Keyboards and cello add a highly meditative and atmospheric layer to this rather ro...

Vanity Nemesis - Prelude (Alternative Version) Release Date: 12 February, 2021 Length: 05:29 Genre: Progressive Post Rock Origin: Lisbon , Portugal Energetic, dynamic and yet sedative. Vanity Nemesis combine the atmospheric features of Post Rock with the smooth darkness of Alternative Rock, and the innovation of Prog. After all, the music is influenced structures of classic music. Content from the  MangoNews  will always stay in the  MangoRotation  playlist for 14 days. Vanity Nemesis Online: 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: Electric Mud Artwork: Gerald Oppermann   Electric Mud - Quiet Days on Earth Release: May 28, 2020 Label: selfrelease Format: CD / Digital Length: 79:10 Genre: Post Rock , Prog Rock Origin: Hannover , Germany Lower Saxony's Electric Mud might be known to many fans of Progressive Rock. And they still will be after their newest album "Quiet Days on Earth". And yet, something is different. Nico Walser  (guitars, keyboards, fretless bass, noises, drum programming, co-composing, audio engineering) and Hagen Bretschneider  (music conception, bass, video editing) are entering new territory on their newest album. Still proggy, "Quiet Days on Earth" contains influence from Neo Classic, Post Rock and some Ambient or Berlin School sounds. Smooth soundscapes and opulent arrangements define the auditive experience on this album. Intelligent Prog Rock merges with atmospheric Post Rock. Meanwhile the basic mood is carried by a multilayer dreamy air of Electronic...