With world music, jazz and more in the mix, this is a great modern prog album. It touches and builds on older sounds, but brings them into a modern soundscape. If you like modern prog, you will probably enjoy this. If you are more an old school progressive rock person, I’d still recommend giving it a try. Expand your horizons with something classy.

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Lush and dark, this is a killer modern prog piece as it starts. It drops to a very sparse keyboard based arrangement. The piece continues to evolve. It’s got a great contrast between mellower and harder rocking sections. It’s a great example of a powerful moody modern prog piece.

This comes in more like the modern moody prog rock. It’s a potent piece, but perhaps not as dynamic as some of the rest. Still, it has a lot of class and does get some crunch in the mix later.

Somehow, I’m reminded just a little of Steely Dan on this song. The cut is a great modern prog number.

A sparse arrangement is the concept here. It’s got a lot of keyboards and some classical strings. It’s moody and a little jazzy at times. Around the three minute mark it gets reinvented with a lot more intensity and power. Still, it drops back after that instrumental section. More hard rock based music emerges after, though. This really gets intense.