Zachary Nathanson

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I’m a freelance writer/blogger that started doing reviews nine years ago. I’m a fan of Hard Rock, Progressive Rock, Heavy Metal, and Jazz Rock. Also a musician for 20 years. Music has been my friend since listening to the Beatles when I was a little boy. It wasn’t until I discovered Pink Floyd 20 years ago and it changed my life. Geek also, but the Progressive genre has still kept me going from day one. And there’s no stop sign for me. I also have a blog site in which I also do reviews since 2008 entitled, Music from the Other Side of the Room.

Articles by Zachary Nathanson

Various Artists – Yeah Man, It’s Bloody Heavy!! Volume 1

Rise Above have scored a home run with Yeah Man, It’s Bloody Heavy to delve into the proto-sounds of early metal and hard rock that deserves to see what you’ve been missing.

Markus Reuter & Stephan Thelen – Promise of a Better World

This isn’t just a meditated composition, this is a piece where you are free from all of the complicated situations Reuter and Thelen put to the table.

Steve Hackett – The Lamb Stands Up Live At The Royal Albert Hall

Whether it moves you or not, you have to give Steve Hackett the utmost respect for him to revisit not just his solo work, but honouring his time with Genesis.

Agropelter – The Book of Hours

Quite the journey this is, but The Book of Hours is a realisation that Agropelter are here to stay and they are keeping the genre up and running with more train tracks approaching to see where their next adventure will lead them to.

A Tribute to Black Sabbath

Thank you for this incredible journey from a struggling band that were one time known as Earth to inspiring others to pick up an instrument, and laying the groundwork on the metal genre.

Robin Trower – For Earth Below (50th Anniversary Edition)

If you’re very new to Robin’s work, this is a head start to see and hear on what you’ve been missing.

exo-X-xeno – Luminous Voyage

Their debut release is quite a stretch of moving forward and never looking back. But what exo-X-xeno have done, is to bring everything full circle and moving on into the next one to see what they’ll come up with next in the mid roaring ‘20s. Because the game has just begun.

O.R.k – Firehose of Falsehoods

This is not a happy story, this is a tragedy of someone built upon a lie and then crashing it down to reveal how much the citizens are trapped in this cube they’re stuck in, for a very long time.

Markus Reuter featuring Fabio Trentini & Asaf Sirkis – Truce <3

Truce

Giac Taylor – The Last Sicilian Standing

This is Giac Taylor showcasing a true sense of what real good movies with a killer score should be, top to bottom. And its points us in the right direction that we badly needed.

Peter Baumann – Nightfall

Whether you get it or you don’t, Baumann has taken up the ante to create this textile sound that proves to be unearthly, unusual, and exquisite.

Hedvig Mollestad Trio – Bees In The Bonnet

Raw, in your face, brutal, and down to the bone, Hedvig comes out swinging to bring the Bees knees with the flavour of incredible results!

Manuel Pasquinelli – HEARTBEAT DRUMMING: Bellmund Session

So, for Manuel, it created this journey into a meditated field of finding his own true self by playing at the tempo of the beats he was playing.

Brian Eno & Beatie Wolfe – Luminal + Lateral

So, for them to embark on the different parallels they’ve brought to the kitchen table, it seemed like an unexpected idea for them to work together, but it works like a charm.

Jon Anderson & The Band Geeks – Live: Perpetual Change

There are some incredible ways to honour the compositions that places inside our hearts, but for Jon and the Geeks, they knocked it out of the ball park to give Yes fans the loyalty they truly deserve.

Brass Camel – Camel

They manage to deliver something out of this world on their second album. And if you’re very new to them, this might be your gateway to see what you’ve been missing.

Nad Sylvan – Monumentata

This may not be everyone’s cup of tea per se, but Sylvan brings it all to the front with the hope of letting the past and the present be, and moving on to seeing what the future will be for them.

AVKRVST – Waving at the Sky

It is great to see this Norwegian band making more darker and heavier themes to continue with the subject matter and see what will happen in the years to come.

Derek Shulman from Gentle Giant

With the re-release of Gentle Giant’s 1977 live album, Playing The Fool: The Complete Live Experience, it was time to talk about the reissue with co-founder Derek Shulman. Zachary Nathanson caught up with Derek from the legendary progressive rock band.

Hats Off Gentlemen Its Adequate – The Uncertainty Principle

The Uncertainty Principle is an album that keeps you coming back for more to see what you’ve been missing and the pieces of the puzzle the band has left behind.

The Flower Kings – Love

Stolt has the power and vision to keep the progressive genre alive, and never back down without a fight.

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