 >> This Week |
| Saturday, July 5th, 2025 |
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We'll
premiere the new release from Swedish band Gosta Berlings Saga that moves
into the top ten of this week's WEEKLYTOP20
titled Forever Now from the Pelagic Records label. Another release that
people & reviewers alike state could be yet another candidate as Just following your weekly installment of The Stargazer's Handbook, your guide to all the heavenly astronomical sites to see this coming week, our THIRD SET kicks off with new music from the Cuneiform Records label in the Chicago based free jazz/improvisation project and their self-titled debut Heat On. This new late June '25 release features saxophonists Edward Wilkerson Jr. & Fred Jackson Jr. along with Nick Macri on bass and the band leader in the amazing Lily Finnegan on drums. Lily calls this debut release 'A Love Letter To Chicago'. This kicks off our set! The Philadelphia Progressive Rock Concert Update features new music from legendary Dutch progressive rock band Focus as they make their way through the region this coming week and then arriving at the Tropicana Casino here in Atlantic City, New Jersey on July 12th! We'll feature music from their most recent album from the Spirit Of Unicorn label that was voted the #39 album in The GlobalProgressive Rock Network's Top 100 Of 2024. We'll also celebrate the 25th anniversary of an album I still look at as one of my favorite albums of all time in the Texas based project The Underground Railroad and their year 2000 release and debut titled Through And Through. This album would later finish in the #2 spot in voting in the The GlobalProgressive Rock Network's Top 100 Of 2000 and a very special release that is a true desert island disc for yours truly.
We'll also track music from French band Nil and their 2005 release Nil Novo Sub Sole that was later that year one of the top charting albums of the year, along with a flashback to when both Patrick Moraz & Bill Bruford performed live at the Laforet Museum in Tokyo, Japan on July 4th, 1985 that was bonus material from the 1985 & reissued in 2004 Moraz/Bruford release titled Music For Piano And Drums release. We'll kick off the program with the 50th anniversary from Gentle Giant in the 1975 U.S. release of Free Hand. Our
number
one album for now the fifth straight week in the WEEKLYTOP20
this week in Japanese fusion band holding the
top spot in the amazing Nankai Trio and their debut release on the A=Tonal
label titled Antarctica. You can now check us out 24 hours a day at our new Gagliarchives Radio station at RadioKing. Visit us at https://play.radioking.com/radio/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 tuned for more updates! Again we thank ALL of you for continuing on a daily basis to email us your suggestions, your lists, and ideas for future programming. 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 Visit the site at https://sonnytroy.bandcamp.com/ Sonny Troy - 1938-2021
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