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Festive greetings, and welcome to a retrospective of a brilliant year (if we do say so ourselves) at Kscope the Post-Progressive Podcast.

There’s been a a Grammy™ nomination, several successful tours, rejuvenated groups, new groups, old friends, the wonderful celebration of the label at the Union Chapel in London -  and lots of love from you.

Thanks to crowd-sourcing on social media we have an unscientific straw poll of your favourite releases from this year’s Kscope family, here are they.. presented by the chaps from Anathema no less, Daniel and Vincent Cavanagh…..

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A very warm welcome to this ‘double album’ length Kscope, The Post-Progressive Podcast. Billy Reeves here.

Recently, Kscope hosted a very special concert at The Union Chapel in north London; arguably London’s nicest venue. It’s a working church, built in the Victorian gothic revival style in the 1870s, it’s also a centre for the arts. It’s unspoiled inside, the audience sit in pews, it’s gorgeous.

We invited four of the Kscope family to perform unique versions of some of their repertoire: you’ll hear tunes from NOSOUND, ENGINEERS, BRUCE SOORD from THE PINEAPPLE THIEF (with Alx Leeks) and ANATHEMA.

PLUS pre-show, backstage and aftershow interviews with all the atristes as we were (very kindly) allowed to go running around with a microphone.

What a night! A packed house from all over the world (you’ll hear from some of the audience too). If you were there, re-live it here. If you weren’t let’s take you there…

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Episode Twenty – Steven Wilson talks Grace For Drowning

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Welcome to Kscope, the Post-Progressive Podcast.

Steven Wilson (Porcupine Tree) has recorded what he feels is his “..Biggest project to date”; the sumptuous double album Grace For Drowning, a journey through many musical influences and styles - filtered through the Wilson audio-scope.

The album is out now. Here, in an exclusive interview with Billy Reeves, Steven describes the joy and creative spark he felt when working on the King Crimson re-issues, how the project began and ended, who one can bounce off if one is making a solo record, and answers two age-old musical conundrums: (i) what is the difference between an autoharp and a hammered dulcimer..? & (ii) were the 60s/70s prog rockers simply jazz musicians who wanted to get laid…?!?

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Episode Nineteen – Daniel Cavanagh from Anathema (at the Kscope Piano) on Falling Deeper

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Welcome to Kscope, the Post-Progressive Podcast. Billy Reeves here.

In this edition, Daniel Cavanagh from Anathema sits and plays the Kscope piano. He’s here to talk about about Falling Deeper, their stunning new album; and to reminisce about how the tunes were formed in their infancy.

The album is out on September 12^th (pre order now from www.BurningShed.com for your LP or CD). Falling Deeper continues where the acclaimed 2008 album Hindsight left off. The album features brand new arrangements of songs with a 26 piece string ensemble; which we reckon successfully brings to life the very essence from the melodies -  the beautiful melancholia from Anathema’s earliest days as pioneers of heavy music.

And, a reminder of the special Kscope night at the Union Chapel in north London – it’s happening on the 30^th September…

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HELLO Kscope, The Post Progressive Podcast returns.

The Pineapple Thief  have had a great couple of years: the most recent Kscope LP Someone Here Is Missing (and plenty of key shows) have placed their bittersweet prog-metal and awesome choruses into many more folks’ auditiory cortexes. It’s been a decade of good work from the Yeovil boys; time therefore we thought to revisit the classic 10 Stories Down album, which is now out, remastered (and presented as a double CD with the 8 Days Later album as it was back in ’05).

Bruce Soord from The Pineapple Thief therefore is our special guest, some musings from the tour bus on the long drive west back from playing with Blackfield and Riverside in Europe. It’s festival season as I write, so as Bruce grew up only a few miles from the site of the UK’s biggest festival, Glastonbury, we get a few memories of how ‘Glasto’ has changed.

PLUS there’s some exciting news of new Steven Wilson and Anathema releases contained herein…

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Billy Reeves here from dear old Blighty. Time for Kscope, The Post-Progressive Podcast.

I hope you’re well. Ulver, legends of Norway, have signed to Kscope, I’m proud to say. Their LP, loosely based around the theme of nationhood entitled Wars of the Roses is out now, A brilliant coincidence, as the day of posting this is the day of the British “Royal Wedding”. We’ll hear two tracks, and an ultra-mega-rare interview with the band. www.Kscopemusic.com/Ulver

Our dear friend Steven Wilson is as busy as ever. Touring with Blackfield in support of their beautiful new LP Welcome To My DNA www.Kscopemusic.com/Blackfield/WelcomeToMyDNA - and this month popping up on a 7” to help publicise International Record Store day: a version of the Caridacs’ Stoneage Dinosaurs.

And Engineers will be releasing a single from their superb album In Praise Of More soon, as a digital EP with various exciting remixes, ahead of a visit to my favourite London venue, the University of London Union on Friday 13^th May. http://www.kscopemusic.com/engineers/inpraiseofmore/index.php (Our chums North Atlantic Oscillation will be there as the support band, and I’ll be there too so do come and say hello)

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Greetings! You are enjoying Kscope, The Post-Progressive Podcast.

Billy Reeves here, I trust you’re well. I’ll start with something new to the Kscope family if I may: welcome Ulver: one of the most astonishing live bands you’ll see. “..an immersive experience, fuelled by haunting, progressive art. After such a night, you don’t want to see another band for a few days. Because anything else would pale when put alongside Ulver” say Classic Rock, and I’m inclined to agree. www.Kscopemusic.com/Ulver

Our main course this episode is arguably the most interesting person currently working in the field of rock music, Aviv Geffen. An exclusive and frank interview with Aviv is bookended herein by two beautiful tracks from the new Blackfield LP (his collaboration with Steven Wilson of Porcupine Tree of course). www.Kscopemusic.com/Blackfield/WelcomeToMyDNA

The Pineapple Thief are supporting Blackfield on the first few dates of the latter’s big tour: to celebrate - a track from The Pineapple Thief’s free two-hour digital gift to their fans Someone Here Is Live – free to download at www.pineapplethief.com/news/someone-here-is-live-exclusively-here

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NEXT MONTH: A RARE INTERVIEW WITH ULVER

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Wherever you may be, a very warm hello and welcome back to Kscope, The Post-Progressive Podcast.

Billy Reeves here, I trust you’re well. Let’s begin with the eagerly anticipated Blackfield album! A really pretty track from Welcome To My DNA, soaring strings courtesy of Aviv Geffen & a lovely vocal from Steven Wilson; is this Blackfield’s best LP to date? You can decide on March 28^th. Meanwhile sign up to the mailing list and get this piece (Glass House) for free: www.Kscopemusic.com/Blackfield

PLUS new sounds from the giants of Norwegian Artrock  - Gazpacho. Their LP Missa Atropos is a grand affair; so your genial host met up with the band backstage at a packed-out show in north west London to hear more about the album’s narrative (and Gazpacho’s connections with Marillion). Pop along to www.Kscopemusic.com/Gazpacho for more.

AND details of Nosound’s latest iPhone app ..which gives us the perfect excuse to play a track from Nosound’s award-winning Kscope LP A Sense Of Loss.

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NEXT MONTH: AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH AVIV GEFFEN FROM BLACKFIELD.

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