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Saturday, May 4th, 2024

Covering The World And Beyond....Join us at 10PM EST for Program 1890, as after four weeks, we have returned! This week we'll track in our premiere spot the new release from China based project Ou and their new offering that moves up to number three in the WEEKLYTOP20 titled II Frailty. We could not get enough of this band after their debut two years ago and wondered if the 'sophomore jinx' would be a factor. Not even close. This new offering is amazing from beginning to end and shows the quartet even tighter than before and is produced by the amazing Devin Townsend who also appears on the album as well. Another must get for 2024! We'll also track the new release from Oslo, Norway based project Elephant9 and their Mythical River release from the Rune Grammofon records label. This is an excellent follow up to their Arrival Of The New Elders from 2021. The band is tighter than ever and continue to deliver production excellence and are in the top five of the WEEKLYTOP20 at number four.

We'll track the new live archive release from Andalusian fusion band from southern Spain known and loved as Guadalquivir and the new recording titled Live Bilbao 1980 from the 5 Lunas Producciones label. Our 5th SET sees us flashback to a decade ago when we were joined in studio by composer/vocalist Susan Clynes who was hot off the heels of her Moonjune Records release titled Life Is... and was joined by her partner in-studio in Antoine Guenet of Univers Zero/The Wrong Object/SHTGN for an interview as well. This took place in April of 2014 on Program 1366

Just following your weekly installment of The Stargazer's Handbook, your guide to all the astronomical events for the coming week, our letter of the week from Todd in Fargo, North Dakota requesting our thoughts on exciting recent projects hailing from the northern mid-west of the United States in one excellent band and their release turning a year old in K'Mono and their Mind Out Of Mind release hailing from Minneapolis, Minnesota. This week's Philadelphia Progressive Rock Concert Update spotlights legendary fusion guitarist Al Di Meola who makes his way to the Keswick Theater in Glenside, Pennsylvania this coming week amidst his Electric YThe Lost Satelliteears tour as he performs his catalog from the mid-1970's onward including material he has never performed live with tracks from Return To Forever as well. We'll give a sneak peak from a performance his band had at The City Winery in Atlanta, Georgia on 1/24/24 to just give you a taste of how great this show will be next week!

Our 4th Set Space Out this week spotlights by request for the 2nd time in a month, music from Glasgow, Scotland based project The Cosmic Dead and their Infinite Peaks album from the Heavy Psyche Records label that is currently up four spots this week in WEEKLYTOP20 to number thirteen. We'll also track a MUST get in 2024 for fans of the Canterbury flavored progressive rock in an album that is literally a ONE MAN recording in the self titled debut from Franch multi-instrumentalist Tom Penaguin. New from the Amarxe label, this album will make you think its a full band effort when in fact, it's just Tom. This excellent release is now at number seven in this week's WEEKLYTOP20!Rufus

We'll celebrate concert anniversaries this week from King Crimson recorded live in Pittsburgh recorded 50 years ago this week from King Crimson that was released as part of their 1992 box set The Great Deceiver along with the 30th anniversary of Marillion's emotional performance in Paris, France at the La Cigale of their then, new release they were touring in support of in Brave that later was part of the double live release from their 1996 offering title Made Again from the Castle Communications label when they were joining us regularly on the program during the Brave-Afraid Of Sunlight-This Strange Engine period. Next week we'll celebrate the 20th anniversary of Marbles as well. We'll also celebrate the 50th anniversary of Arti E Mestieri's legendary Tilt album along with the 40th anniversary of Roger Waters first solo release after leaving Pink Floyd in his 1984 release The Pros And Cons Of Hitchhiking from the Harvest/Columbia label. We'll kick things off this week with the 25th anniversary of Steve Hackett's Darktown and close out with what is number one for the twelfth consecutive week in the WEEKLYTOP20 The Circus And The Nightwale release from the Inside Out Music / Sony label. 

You can now check us out 24 hours a day at our new Gagliarchives Radio station at RadioKing. Visit us at https://www.radioking.com/play/gagliarchives-radio where you can hear bits and pieces of recent programming and a special nod back to our spin-off radio program known as The Analogue Tapes Series! Stay tune for more updates!

Thanks to all of our loyal listeners who submitted their Top Ten lists for the year and more, those who voted and requested on our WEEKLYTOP20 all throughout 2023 along with your new music submissions throughout the year that made 2023, one of the BEST years for new progressive rock in recent memory! The GlobalProgressive Rock Network's Top 100 has been a tradition since 1995. But our year end tabulations of the best new releases go back to the year 1991 in The Lost Satellite Top Ten, Twenty, Thirty, and Forty from the years of 1991-1994 respectively. Since our inception, we have had 32 number one albums. Including bands such as Anekdoten (twice '96 & '15), Steve Hackett (twice '97 & '21), Yes (twice '91 & '94); Opeth (twice '19 & '14), Porcupine Tree (twice '07 & '09), Steven Wilson (twice '11 & '13) Emerson Lake & Palmer, Djam Karet; Nathan Mahl, King Crimson, Ozric Tentacles, McGill/Manring/Stevens, Deus Ex Machina, Kaipa, White Willow, The The gagliarchives 30th Anniversary Mars Volta, Pure Reason Revolution, Duty Free Area, Hypnos 69, Anglagard, David Bowie, Bent Knee, Soft Machine, La Maschera Di Cera, and Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso.

Again we thank ALL of you for continuing on a daily basis to email us your suggestions, your lists, and ideas for future programming. This GlobalProgressive Rock Network Top 100 Of 2023 IS FOR YOU. THANKS TO ALL OF YOU FOR MAKING THIS SO MUCH FUN!!

Our recent interviews with Jason Blake, Ice Age, ZOPP, Hedvig Mollestad, Percy Jones & Ray Loboda will be up on our http://youtube.com/gagliarchives in the upcoming weeks as well! 

Also friends, North Thirteenth Studios has launched the new Lost Satellite Records Bandcamp page to celebrate the many unearthed recordings of Philadelphia jazz guitar legend Sonny Troy who sadly left us this year. This prodigious and beloved musician The Late Great Guitarist Sonny Troy by many of his colleagues and fans has a new offering recorded in 1973 at The Warwick Hotel along with  the debut we released in 2021 titled Live At The Greentree: 12/28/79. Forthcoming will be a live television performance from Channel One in Philadelphia from 1980, coming very soon!

Visit the site at https://sonnytroy.bandcamp.com/ 

Sonny Troy - 1938-2021


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THIS WEEK'S NUMBER ONE ALBUM IN THE WEEKLY TOP TWENTY>>

05/03/24

12th Week

Steve Hackett

THE CIRCUS AND THE NIGHTWHALE

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