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Saturday, July 11, 2026

Jane Getter Premonition "Transmogrify"

Country: USA
Genre(s): Progressive Rock
Label7D Media
Format: CD, digital,vinyl
Release date: July 10, 2026
Tracklist
1. Still Dreaming
2. Transmogrify
3. Turned Around
4. He's Gone Away (Won't Stay)
5. Blinded
6. Little Steps
7. Just Run (Remastered)

Credits
Jane Getter – guitars, lead vocals (2–7); bass (1), background vocals (1)
Adam Holzman  (Miles Davis, Steven Wilson) – keyboards
Paul Frazier – bass, background vocals (3)
Gene Lake – drums (2, 4, 5, 7)
Russell Holzman – drums (1, 3)
Chanda Rule – lead vocals (1)
Alex Skolnick – 1st guitar solo (2)
Mark Egan – bass (7)

Recorded by Anthony Ruotolo
Mixed by Jun Murakawa
Mastered by Andy VanDette, Evolve Mastering LLC
All songs written by Jane Getter

Description/Reviews:
Together, they form one of progressive rock's most compelling ensembles — a band whose command of technical virtuosity never comes at the expense of emotional depth. Transmogrify is their latest act of creative courage: a record that reflects our turbulent times without losing sight of beauty, transformation, and the possibility of change.
Most of the songs on this album began as something else entirely, transforming through the creative process into the forms they now inhabit. The album's title track reflects on the artist's evolving desires and experiences while acknowledging the shifting currents of a world in flux. He's Gone Away delves into the illusion of escape — the realization that what haunts us follows wherever we go. Blinded confronts the dangers of blind allegiance. And Little Steps — a solo acoustic guitar piece — stands as a tender tribute to the late, great Ralph Towner.
Lyrically and sonically, Transmogrify is an album that holds out hope even as it confronts difficult truths — a record for a world that is, like the music itself, in the midst of becoming something new.

Media/Samples
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Friday, October 24, 2025

Deep Energy Orchestra "The Science of Sound"

Country: Multinational
Genre(s): Instrumental Progressive Rock, Fusion
Label: 7D Media
Format: CD, digital
Release date: October 24, 2025
Tracklist
  1. Morning Over Madrid
  2. Dance of the Wood Nymphs
  3. Captain Quirk
  4. The Dancers
  5. Secrets of Subtraction
  6. Fireflies
  7. Solar Playground
  8. Stargazing
Credits
Jason Everett 
Joe Deninzon (Kansas)
Gary Husband (John McLaughlin, Allan Holdsworth)
Trey Gunn (King Crimson)
Adam Holzman (Miles Davis, Steven Wilson)
V. Selvaganesh (Shakti, Masters of Percussion)
   With
Mark Lettieri (Snarky Puppy)
U. Rajesh
Mahesh Vinayakram
Radhika Iyer
John Wubbenhorst
Eric “Doc” Smith
String section featuring violin, viola, and cello

Produced and arranged by Jason Everett
Engineering, mixing, and mastering by Don Gunn

Description/Reviews:
The album features eight compositions, six of which were written by Everett, with additional works contributed by John Wubbenhorst (“The Dancers”) and U. Rajesh with Ganesh Kumar (“Fireflies”). Each piece reflects Everett’s commitment to exploring rhythmically advanced and melodically rich material while remaining grounded in ensemble interplay.
Tracks like “Morning Over Madrid” and “Solar Playground” balance compositional precision with space for improvisation. “Captain Quirk” highlights Deninzon and Holzman in tight counterpoint, while “The Secrets of Subtraction” explores tension and release through intricate call-and-response melody. The closing track, “Stargazing,” offers a meditative resolution that underscores the album’s emotional breadth.

Media/Samples
Captain Quirk Teaser

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Friday, May 16, 2025

Marco Mattei "Age of Fragility"

Country: Italy
Genre(s): Progressive Rock
Label: M.P. & Records (World), 7d Media/Third Star Records (NA)
Format: CD,digital
Release date: May 16, 2025
Tracklist
1. Just Tired (7:52) 
2. You Don’t Deserve It (3:39) 
3. Human Again (3:42) 
4. Wrong (3:29) 
5. Insomnia (5:25) 
6. A Trick Of The Mind (4:49) 
7. Watermark In My Heart (3:04) 
8. So Fragile (4:22) 
9. End Of The Line (6:01) 
10. Just Tired (Extended Version) (11:09) 

Total Time 53:32

Credits
Marco Mattei: Electric Guitars, Guitar Loops, Bouzouki, Acoustic Guitars, Celesta, Keyboards, Percussion, and Programming, Lead Vocals (2)
Duilio Galioto (PFM): Piano, Wurlitzer, Hammond B3, Mellotron, Lowrey Organ, Rhodes Mk1, Vox Continental, Farfisa Compact Deluxe, Memory Moog
Jerry Marotta (Peter Gabriel, Paul McCartney): Drums, Percussion
Tony Levin (Peter Gabriel, King Crimson): Electric Bass, Upright Bass
Dave Bond: Lead Vocals (1, 10), Backing Vocals (2)
Malena Ramonet: Lead and Backing Vocals (3)
Tino Boley: Lead Vocals (4)
Jennifer Maidman: Voice (5)
Trey Gunn (King Crimson): Warr Guitar (5)
Jeff Kightly: Lead and Backing Vocals (6)
Peter Voronov: Violin (6)
Joe Edelmann: Lead and Backing Vocals (7)
María Betania Hernández: Cello, Viola and Violin (7, 8)
Wrongonyou: Lead and Back Vocals (9)
Michele Boni: Cavaquinho (9)
Katrin Romanova: Harp (9)

Artwork by Bernhard Wösteinrich, elaborated for the Italian version by OndemediE
Music and lyrics by Marco Mattei, except "So fragile" (music by Marco Mattei and Duilio Galioto, lyrics by Marco Mattei)
Recorded in June 2024 at Dreamland Studios in Woodstock, NY
Mixed, mastered and produced by Marco Mattei

Description/Reviews:
An album that introduces a peculiar fusion of ethno-worldbeat, progressive rock and art rock.
"Age of Fragility" is a concept album that creates the most suitable sound environment to represent particular moods of modern life, telling stories of isolation, indifference, emotional dependence, fragile relationships, self-sabotage and depression. Through its poignant lyrics, the album paints a vivid portrait of the fragility and complexity of the human experience.
The album was , where an incredible ensemble of musicians gave life to the compositions of Marco Mattei, who is also the producer of the album.  The result is a deeply emotional and engaging sonic journey, with songs that strike deep chords, offering listeners a rewarding experience with every listen. 

Media/Samples
Just Tired
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Friday, October 11, 2024

Joe Deninzon & Stratospheerius "Impostor!"

Country: USA
Genre(s): Progressive Rock
Label: 7d media
Format: CD, digital
Release date: October 11, 2024
Tracklist
1) Voodoo Vortex (Part II) (1:42)
2) Outrage Olympics (4:53)
3) Impostor! (8:16)
4) Cognitive Dissonance (4:56)
5) Storm Surge (6:20)
6) Frame by Frame (5:21)
7) Voodoo Vortex (Part I) (5:19)
8) Tripping the Merry-Go-Round (1:53)
9) Chasing the Dragon (12:22)

Credits
Joe Deninzon - lead vocals, electric 7-string Viper violin/acoustic violin/viola/chin cello/acoustic guitar/bass
Michelangelo Quirinale - guitars/background vocals
Paul Ranieri - bass/background vocals
Bill Hubuaer (Neal Morse, Crack the Sky) - keyboards/backing vocals
Jason Gianni (Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Neal Morse) - drums/percussion/backing vocals
    With
Randy McStine - background vocals, Neel Murgai - sitar, Angus Clark - guitar sitar (2)
Randy McStine - guitars/sound effects, Rich Mouser - drum programming, Anne Leighton & Rachel Gamin - spoken word intro (3)
Randy McStine - lead & background vocals (4)
Michael Sadler-lead vocals, Rachel Flowers-piano/flute, Ruti Celli-cello, Fernando Perdomo-acoustic & electric guitars (5)
Val Vigoda - background vocals (6)
Dmitri Kouzov - cello, Jennifer DeVore - cello (8)
Jennifer DeVore - cello, Steve Benson - nylon-string guitar, Chloe Lowery - lead & background vocals (9)

Media/Samples
Bandcamp

Friday, May 3, 2024

Tu-Ner "T2: Tu​-​Ner for Lovers"

Country: USA
Genre(s): Instrumental, Experimental, Progressive Rock
Label: 7d Media
Format: CD,digital
Release date: May 3, 2024
Tracklist
1. You Returned For Me 
2. Cardboard Rendevous
3. Transistor Valentine 
4. They Call Him Threnody
5. Triangle Of Love
6. The Last Barbie Tango
7. Smaller Than Three
8. The Look Of Smug
9. Syzygy
10. The White Thing

Credits
Markus Reuter (Stick Men, Anchor And Burden, Centrozoon) - Touch Guitar
Pat Mastelotto (King Crimson, Stick Men, O.R.k., Julie Slick, TU) - Drums, Electronics
Trey Gunn (King Crimson, Security Project, TU, UKZ) - Warr Guitar

All pieces by Gunn/Mastelotto/Reuter
Recorded live 2023

Mixed & Mastered by Erik Emil Eskildsen
booking by Leonardo Pavkovic (MoonJune)

Media/Samples
Bandcamp (Each week a new track is made available)

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Friday, March 17, 2023

Jason Blake "Subsequent Ruins"

Country: USA
Genre(s): Instrumental Progressive Rock/Metal
Label: 7d Media
Format: CD,digital
Release date: March 17, 2023
Tracklist
1. Obsolete Perception (3:46) 
2. Pretense Of The Herd (9:54) 
3. Follow I (Emanated Hook) (4:42) 
4. False Streets Of Entanglement (5:07) 
5. Follow II (The Coercible Leash) (5:05) 
6. A Bleak Outcome (10:33) 

Total Time 39:07 

Credits
Jason Blake (Aziola Cry) - Warr Guitar
Marco Minnemann (Steven Wilson, The Aristocrats, Mike Keneally) - Drums

Jason recorded at Gravel Road Recording by Amery Schmeisser
Marco recorded at Lakeshore Studios
Mastered at Evolve Mastering by Andy VanDette
Artwork and design by Hajo Mueller

Media/Samples
Bandcamp

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Friday, February 21, 2020

Deep Energy Orchestra "The Return"


Country: Multinational
Genre(s): Instrumental Progressive Rock, Fusion
Label: 7D Media
Format: CD, digital
Release date: February 21, 2020
Tracklist
1. Moksha - I. The Village / II. The Battle (4:48)
2. Moksha - III. The Journey (4:38)
3. Moksha - IV. The Return (7:31)
4. Zyryab (by Paco De Lucia) (4:31)
5. Call Of Kali (7:31)
6. Grapes For Khan (6:29)
7. Resolve (with Fareed Haque) (9:24)
8. Mysterious World (with SMCO) (5:16)

Total Time 50:08

Line-up
Jason Everett aka Mister E - 7-string fretless bass, 6-string acoustic bass
Fareed Haque - guistar, guitar
V. Selvaganesh - kanjira, konnokol, custom drum kit (1)
Suhail Yusuf Khan - sarangi (1)
Vishal Nagar - tabla (1)
Eric “Doc” Smith  - zendrum (1, 6, 8)
Steve Sklar - throat singing (1, part iii)
Trey Gunn (King Crimson) - Warr touch guitar (5, 6, 8)
Radhika Iyer - electric violin (5, 6, 7, 8)
Chaz Hastings - tabla (5, 6, 8)
Anil Prasad - tabla (7)
Rachel Nesvig - violin (5, 6, 8)
Aleida Gerhels - viola (5, 6, 8)
Phil Hirschi - cello (5, 6, 8)
Karin Choo - violin (1, part iv)
Gaye Detzer - viola (1, part iv)
Annie Roberts - cello (1, part iv)
George Heidorn - double bass (1, part iv)
Wesley Peterson - drum kit (1, part iv)
Ken Jacobsen - guitar (1, part iv)
Don Gunn - drum kit (5)
Ujwal Nagar - vocal (1, part iv,)
Neyvili Radhakrishna - double-neck violin (1, part iv)

The Seattle Metropolitan Chamber Orchestra (8):
Geoffrey Larson - conductor
Rachel Nesvig - violin I and concertmaster
Thao Huynh - violin I
Caroline Faflak - violin I
Lauren Eastman - violin II
Eena Vukosavljev - violin II
Janet Utterback-peck - violin II
Tricia Wu - viola
Aleida Gehrels - viola
Julia Adams - viola
Mary Riles - cello
Phil Hirschi - cello
Bryan Kolk - double bass
Joshua Romatowski - flute
Emily Ostrom - oboe
Jenny Ziefel - clarinet
David Sloan - trumpet
Clarisse Benson - bassoon
Suzanne Feinstein - french horn
Sue Perry - french horn

Description/Reviews
Deep Energy Orchestra blends sounds and rhythms from Prog Rock, Classical, funk, Indian, and Flamenco styles
Media/Samples 
Bandcamp

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Friday, May 17, 2019

AKKU Quintet "Depart"


Country: Switzerland
Genre(s): Instrumental Post Rock, Fusion
Label: 7d media
Format: CD, digital
Release date: May 17, 2019
Tracklist
1. Largo
2. Made In China
3. Breeze
4. Depart
5. Cyan

Line-up
Manuel Pasquinelli (SONAR) - Drums
Michael Gilsenan - Sax
Maja Nydegger - Keys
Markus Ischer - Guitar
Andi Schnellmann - Bass

Description/Reviews
... Pasquinelli’s writing contains an almost cinematic dimension that encompasses bittersweet moods and moments of unfolding drama.
Between the mesmeric ostinato, subtly shifting grooves, resonant overtones, tingling harmonics and languorous, yearning melodies, AKKU Quintet hover somewhere between smouldering, jazz-infused intimacy, expansive post-rock vistas and an insistent minimalist intensity. 
Media/Samples 
Bandcamp

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Friday, April 21, 2017

Markus Reuter "Falling For Ascension"


Country: Germany
Genre(s): Experimental Instrumental Progressive Rock
Label: 7d Media (USA/Canada), Ronin Rhythm Records (Europe)
Format: CD, digital
Release date: April 21, 2017
Tracklist
  1. Condition I    
  2. Condition II    
  3. Condition III   
  4. Condition IV    
  5. Condition V   
  6. Condition VI   
  7. Unconditional
Line-up
Markus Reuter (Stick Men, Crimson ProjeKct, Tuner): touch guitars® U8, soundscapes
   With
Stephan Thelen (Sonar): guitar
Bernhard Wagner (Sonar): guitar
Christian Kuntner (Sonar): bass guitar
Manuel Pasquinelli (Sonar): drums
Tobias Reber: live electronics

Description/Reviews
Perhaps sharing similar strands of the kind of polymetrical DNA that informed the interweaving knot-work of King Crimson’s Discipline, the pointillist components with Reuter’s pieces, interacting across the group, resembles a series of interlocking constellations whose orbits and traversals connect to create new variations and associations. Hypnotic and beguiling, the music comes with a guttural punch that’s felt as much as heard.
The music offers deep explorations between tension and release, between the gravitational pull of grooves and floating freefall in space. There’s contrast between stillness and grace next to the ever-changing motion.
Across the 70-minute album these pieces possesses the same metronomic intensity of groups such as Can in full-flight, in which intense, pulsating grooves are strafed by Reuter’s smouldering solos or wreathed in luminous clouds of soundscapes. Without recourse to showy grandstanding, his playing possesses a remarkable, unerring accuracy when it comes to finding the emotional heart of this music. Much like the sparse acuity of a haiku poem, when he plays Reuter understands that less is so often very much more.
The hypnotic quality dominating many of the pieces opens the possibility of trance states, of surrender, of losing yourself in the maze of interconnecting corridors and spaces.
Media/Samples 
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Friday, October 21, 2016

Stick Men "Prog Noir"


Country:  USA
Genre(s): Progressive Rock, Fusion
Label: Moonjune Records, 7d media, iapetus Media
Format: CD, vinyl, digital
Release date: October 21, 2016
Tracklist
1. Prog Noir   
2. Mantra    
3. Plutonium   
4. The Tempest    
5. Schattenhaft    
6. Rose in the Sand / Requiem   
7. Leonardo   
8. Trey's Continuum   
9. Embracing the Sun   
10. Never the Same

Line-up
Tony Levin (King Crimson): Stick and Voice
Markus Reuter: U8 and AU8 Touch Guitars and Voice
Pat Mastelotto (King Crimson): Acoustic and Electronic Drums and Percussion

Description/Reviews
The album's ten compositions showcase Stick Men at their most versatile and enterprising; there's even some superb vocals (and vocal arrangements). While most of the large following the band has amassed will undoubtedly be surprised by the more structured and preconceived nature of the tunes, the revelation is a pleasant one. The album triumphantly succeeds on every level, with the group even displaying a playful sense of humor, clearly enjoying and savoring the moment.
From the overpowering to the sublime; from an organic, instinctive avant garde, to intricate, Crimsonesque tapestries, to rich cinematic themes and potent melodies, the album embodies the go-for-it, pioneering spirit that fans of the genre have long savored.
Media/Samples 
Bandcamp (orders placed from North, Central and South America, Middle East, Africa and Asia)
Bandcamp (orders placed from Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia)

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Saturday, November 16, 2013

Matte Henderson with Marco Minnemann "The Veneer of Logic"


Country: USA
Sub GenreElectronica, Post Rock, Jazz-Rock, Fusion
Label7d media
Release dateNovember 15, 2013
Tracklist
  1. Whirled 03:07
  2. Bible camp 03:32
  3. Ppgf 02:46
  4. Can't indict a flower 03:19
  5. Myers lane 03:17
  6. So much more (killing) 03:23
  7. My world 03:37
  8. Come on 02:45
  9. Single cell shark 03:33
  10. Balinese funeral 04:15
  11. Tomatte 03:21

Line-up
Matte Henderson - guitars
Marco Minnemann - drums
     with:
Tony Levin - Upright Bass, Fuzz Bass
Trey Gunn - Warr Guitar
David Torn - vocals
Doctor Know - vocals
Mary Pastorius - vocals
Pat Mastelotto - drums

Description/Reviews
Tracks including bi-polar metal vs. clean sweep of “Whirled,” the schizophrenic trip hop of “So Much More (Killing)” featuring sound bytes from Charles Manson, with the cynically soft syrup drenched “Bible Camp” and Kraftwerk infused “Come On” all pertain to the brain altering sonics – every one being very much in the vein of Crimson, ProjeKcts, Jakko Jakszyk, and the recent Levin Minnemann Rudess record, but being unique unto itself. 
Read the full review by Tommy Hash at ytsejam.com

Media/Samples 
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