This list is from Nick Baldrian, music promoter and writer for Fireworks Magazine:
His personal Top 100 signed & unsigned Progressive & Instrumental rock albums of 2013
This magazine originates from the UK but it is distributed far and wide, including stores in Montreal.
Look down...down there I am at #87. Today 87 tomorrow the world!
1- Freedom To Glide - Rain
2- Jean Pascal Boffo - Le Chant Des Fleurs
3- Ayreon - The Theory Of Everything
4- Peter Gee (Pendragon) - Paris
5- William Shatner - Ponder The Mystery
6- Jordan Rudess - All That Is Now
7- Meridian - Metallurgy
8- Zum - In the Same Boat
9- Midgar - The Holographic Principle
10- Thought Chamber - Psykerion
11- Lights & Motion - Reanimation
12- Jim of Seattle - We Are All Famous
13- ME - Even The Odd Ones Out
14- The Flower Kings - Desolation Rose
15- Haken - The Mountain
16- Aldo Tagliapietra - L'angelo Rinchiuso
17- Materya - Case
18- Renaissance - Grandine Il Vento
19- Fraqsea - Majoram
20- Aura - Вдохновение
21- Damnations Day - Invisible, The Dead
22- PMMP - Matkalaulu
23- Yiannis Glezos - The Roses Of Pieria
24- Big Big Train - Make Some Noise
25- David Tolk - Impressions
26- Deafening Opera - Blueprint
27- Gaelic Storm - The Boathouse
28- Eyevory - Euphobia
29- Lars-Erik Dahle - Step Into The Water
30- Borislav Mitic - Electric Goddess
31- The Reign of Kindo - Play with Fire
32- Ian Gordon - Retrobution
33- Moon Taxi - Mountains Beaches Cities
34- Backyards - 2Eden
35- Dream Theater - Dream Theater
36- Folk Ivan - Sea Of Glass
37- Black Heart Kings - ST
38- SimakDialog - Album Six
39- Echoes of Giants - At The End Of Myself
40- Laquesis - Laquesis
41- Gravity - The Edge of Eternity
42- King's Call - Lion's Den
43- White Willow - Ignis Fatuus
44- Brandon Murga - Aquí Descanso
45- PFM - PFM In Classic Da Mozart - A Celebration
46- Levin/Minnemann/Rudess - Levin/Minnemann/ Rudess
47- Jay Smith - King of Man
48- Miracle Of Sound - Level 3
49- Godsticks - The Envisage Conundrum
50- Ptf - Percept From
51- Byron - 30 Seconds of Fame
52- Ketil Strand - II
53- Anton Johansson's Galahad Suite - Galahad Suite
54- Dzivia - ⁄niajar Mrojaŭ
55- Skeem - ...Just Suggesting
56- The Far Meadow - Where Joys Abound
57- The Dear Hunter - Migrant
58- Poncho Delux - Poncho Delux
59- Vienna Circle - Silhouette Moon
60- Antonello Giliberto - The Mansion Of Lost Souls
61- Medda - Oceanus
62- Edward Box - Motion Control
63- Anthony Phillips - Private Parts & Pieces XI - City Of Dreams
64- Active Heed - Visions from Realities
65- Magenta - The Twenty Seven Club
66- Alessandro Bertoni - Keystone
67- Highlight Kenosis - Shield of Faith
68- La Coscienza di Zeno - Sensitivita
69- Qualia - Beginnings
70- Bruce Bouillet - The Order of Control
71- Matthew Shipp - Piano Sutras
72- Blue Cartoon - Are You Getting On
73- Duncan Parsons - Abandoned Buildings
74- Reign Of The Architect - Rise
75- Al Di Meola - All Your Life
76- Inbellum - Are You Still With Me
77- Skylark - Divine Gates Part V Chapter 1-The Road To The Light
78- Circle Of Illusion - Jeremias
79- Dhafer Youssef - Birds Requiem
80- Adrian Galysh - Tone Poet
81- Flight of Fire - Shatter the Sky
82- Raphael and Shakya - Nomadic Love
83- Fish - A Feast Of Consequences
84- Gandalf's Fist - A Day in the Life of a Universal Wanderer
85- Flaming Bess - Der Gefallene Stern
86- The Psychedelic Ensemble -The Tale of the Golden King
87- Hemant Rao - Lavender
88- Louna - Behind A Mask
89- Vangough - Between The Madness
90- Inventing Dreams - Objects In The Mirror
91- Split Sofa - Coloured Dream
92- Peter Dizozza - The Ocean Floaters
93- Tompox - Dark Side of the Sun
94- The Eternal - When The Circle of Light Begins To Fade
95- Crimson Chrysalis - Crimson Passion Cry
96- Lars Eric Mattsson - Epicentre
97- Judicator - Sleepy Plessow
98- Nermo - Le ver dans le fruit
99- Protomythos - In Human Sight
100- Submarine Silence - 13
Thanks Nick!
His personal Top 100 signed & unsigned Progressive & Instrumental rock albums of 2013
This magazine originates from the UK but it is distributed far and wide, including stores in Montreal.
Look down...down there I am at #87. Today 87 tomorrow the world!
1- Freedom To Glide - Rain
2- Jean Pascal Boffo - Le Chant Des Fleurs
3- Ayreon - The Theory Of Everything
4- Peter Gee (Pendragon) - Paris
5- William Shatner - Ponder The Mystery
6- Jordan Rudess - All That Is Now
7- Meridian - Metallurgy
8- Zum - In the Same Boat
9- Midgar - The Holographic Principle
10- Thought Chamber - Psykerion
11- Lights & Motion - Reanimation
12- Jim of Seattle - We Are All Famous
13- ME - Even The Odd Ones Out
14- The Flower Kings - Desolation Rose
15- Haken - The Mountain
16- Aldo Tagliapietra - L'angelo Rinchiuso
17- Materya - Case
18- Renaissance - Grandine Il Vento
19- Fraqsea - Majoram
20- Aura - Вдохновение
21- Damnations Day - Invisible, The Dead
22- PMMP - Matkalaulu
23- Yiannis Glezos - The Roses Of Pieria
24- Big Big Train - Make Some Noise
25- David Tolk - Impressions
26- Deafening Opera - Blueprint
27- Gaelic Storm - The Boathouse
28- Eyevory - Euphobia
29- Lars-Erik Dahle - Step Into The Water
30- Borislav Mitic - Electric Goddess
31- The Reign of Kindo - Play with Fire
32- Ian Gordon - Retrobution
33- Moon Taxi - Mountains Beaches Cities
34- Backyards - 2Eden
35- Dream Theater - Dream Theater
36- Folk Ivan - Sea Of Glass
37- Black Heart Kings - ST
38- SimakDialog - Album Six
39- Echoes of Giants - At The End Of Myself
40- Laquesis - Laquesis
41- Gravity - The Edge of Eternity
42- King's Call - Lion's Den
43- White Willow - Ignis Fatuus
44- Brandon Murga - Aquí Descanso
45- PFM - PFM In Classic Da Mozart - A Celebration
46- Levin/Minnemann/Rudess - Levin/Minnemann/ Rudess
47- Jay Smith - King of Man
48- Miracle Of Sound - Level 3
49- Godsticks - The Envisage Conundrum
50- Ptf - Percept From
51- Byron - 30 Seconds of Fame
52- Ketil Strand - II
53- Anton Johansson's Galahad Suite - Galahad Suite
54- Dzivia - ⁄niajar Mrojaŭ
55- Skeem - ...Just Suggesting
56- The Far Meadow - Where Joys Abound
57- The Dear Hunter - Migrant
58- Poncho Delux - Poncho Delux
59- Vienna Circle - Silhouette Moon
60- Antonello Giliberto - The Mansion Of Lost Souls
61- Medda - Oceanus
62- Edward Box - Motion Control
63- Anthony Phillips - Private Parts & Pieces XI - City Of Dreams
64- Active Heed - Visions from Realities
65- Magenta - The Twenty Seven Club
66- Alessandro Bertoni - Keystone
67- Highlight Kenosis - Shield of Faith
68- La Coscienza di Zeno - Sensitivita
69- Qualia - Beginnings
70- Bruce Bouillet - The Order of Control
71- Matthew Shipp - Piano Sutras
72- Blue Cartoon - Are You Getting On
73- Duncan Parsons - Abandoned Buildings
74- Reign Of The Architect - Rise
75- Al Di Meola - All Your Life
76- Inbellum - Are You Still With Me
77- Skylark - Divine Gates Part V Chapter 1-The Road To The Light
78- Circle Of Illusion - Jeremias
79- Dhafer Youssef - Birds Requiem
80- Adrian Galysh - Tone Poet
81- Flight of Fire - Shatter the Sky
82- Raphael and Shakya - Nomadic Love
83- Fish - A Feast Of Consequences
84- Gandalf's Fist - A Day in the Life of a Universal Wanderer
85- Flaming Bess - Der Gefallene Stern
86- The Psychedelic Ensemble -The Tale of the Golden King
87- Hemant Rao - Lavender
88- Louna - Behind A Mask
89- Vangough - Between The Madness
90- Inventing Dreams - Objects In The Mirror
91- Split Sofa - Coloured Dream
92- Peter Dizozza - The Ocean Floaters
93- Tompox - Dark Side of the Sun
94- The Eternal - When The Circle of Light Begins To Fade
95- Crimson Chrysalis - Crimson Passion Cry
96- Lars Eric Mattsson - Epicentre
97- Judicator - Sleepy Plessow
98- Nermo - Le ver dans le fruit
99- Protomythos - In Human Sight
100- Submarine Silence - 13
Thanks Nick!