Aisles – Irrationally
Twenty-one years and six albums in, the Chileans have a new singer and a forbidden-love story told out of order. The beginning turns up at track eight and lasts half a minute.
Les novetats, cròniques, entrevistes i concerts de rock progressiu —rock progresivo, en castellà—, en català: des dels grans clàssics fins a les bandes que avui construeixen obres extenses i ambicioses, amb capes de so i estructures que trenquen el format cancó. Tótum Revolútum Press hi dedica seguiment i cobertura des del 2015.
Twenty-one years and six albums in, the Chileans have a new singer and a forbidden-love story told out of order. The beginning turns up at track eight and lasts half a minute.
Fifty-two years in which it could only be heard on home recordings taken off the film. Latency issues it with three reworks of “Steiner’s Ecstasy” by james K, ML Buch and Lorenzo Senni.
3 to 10 October: original paintings at the Openspace Gallery, the “Clowns and Jugglers” album on the 9th and a sold-out concert in the hall where Barrett played for the last time in 1972.
Gravity Fields, an instrumental Barcelona project blending jazz, progressive rock and electronics.
Otxque!, the symphonic rock band from La Canonja (Tarragonès), active in the 1990s, reunited at Tótum Revolútum in 2025.
Regna, a Barcelona progressive rock band that emerged from the former thrash band Full of Anger.
Aran Prog Project, a conceptual progressive rock project born in Barcelona from Italian bassist MarFi Gentilini.
White Chameleon, the Mataró neo-prog band with six studio albums.
Orella d’Ós, the Matadepera progressive pop-rock band with influences from Porcupine Tree and Radiohead.
Golconda, a band from the Baix Llobregat fusing Irish and Balkan folk with progressive rock.
Fireplace, a Catalan project fusing jazz, folk and progressive rock, formed in 2017.
Ursa, the Terrassa trio of instrumental and experimental progressive rock.
Onyric Joy, the Barcelona psychedelic and stoner rock trio rooted in Greek Stoic philosophy.
Time Lost, the Barcelona progressive metal band behind the concept series “Stages of Grief and Loss”.
Cheeto’s Magazine, a Barcelona band with a theatrical, colourful live show, a regular on the Tótum Revolútum circuit.
Jaume Sisa, an essential figure of the Catalan underground, founder of Música Dispersa and author of “Qualsevol Nit Pot Sortir el Sol”.
Present, the Belgian band founded by Roger Trigaux (ex-Univers Zero), a pillar of Rock in Opposition.
Etron Fou Leloublan, the most eccentric French band of Rock in Opposition, a fusion of rock and absurdist theatre.
Stormy Six, the Milanese progressive rock and political song band, a founding member of Rock in Opposition.
Aksak Maboul, Marc Hollander’s Belgian project, a landmark of Rock in Opposition and the pop avant-garde.
Art Zoyd, one of the founding bands of French Rock in Opposition.
Jane, one of the most popular krautrock and progressive hard rock bands in 1970s Germany.
Panna Fredda, one of the first Italian progressive rock bands, with a single cult album.
Biglietto per l’Inferno, a cult Italian progressive rock band with a single landmark album.
Celeste, the cult progressive rock band from Sanremo, a reference for the melancholic, Mellotron-laden Italian sound.
Locanda delle Fate, one of the last great classics of 1970s Italian symphonic progressive rock.
Myrath have put the version out midway through the “Wilderness of Mirrors” tour, which has five Spanish dates and closes its European leg on 28 October in Villeurbanne.
The third chapter of the French band’s metal opera, produced by Joost van den Broek. The track they’ve put out was the weakest on the demos until the riffs went in.
The Croydon collective’s fourteenth album, just over a year on from “Glass Minds”. Eleven tracks on Dangervisit and [PIAS], with a 2027 tour taking in four German cities.
Fen’s Doug Harrison opens his EP with a declared homage to “Something in the Way”, cut on a twenty-pound guitar. The five tracks that follow don’t get near it.
Bloque, the Cantabrian progressive rock and jazz-rock band with flamenco influences.
Storm, the Seville hard rock and psychedelic rock band of the 1970s.
Smash, the Seville band that pioneered the fusion of flamenco and progressive rock.
Módulos, the Madrid symphonic progressive rock band of Fernando Arbex.
Tapiman, the Barcelona progressive and psychedelic rock band of a single cult album.
Mezquita, the Córdoba progressive Andalusian rock band of the 1970s.
Alameda, the Seville band of Andalusian rock and jazz-rock in the 1970s.
Imán, Califato Independiente, the progressive Andalusian rock band from Cádiz in the 1970s.
Granada, the Madrid symphonic progressive rock band (the name comes from the fruit, not the city).
Asfalto, the Madrid progressive rock and blues-rock band, active since the late 1970s.
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