Tekst en opmaak: Maarten Goossensen
Wanneer ik dit schrijf is het 1 januari 2019 in de ochtend. Buiten is het oorverdovend stil. Ik ben nog aan het overwegen welk album ik het eerste ga aanzetten straks. Als eerste van het nieuwe jaar. Elk jaar een dingetje bij mij. Feit is dat de keuze aan sterke albums die in 2018 uitkwamen reuze is. De lijstjes hieronder bewijzen dat al te meer. De 16 jaarlijstjes hebben allemaal een andere nummer 1. Zo is mijn persoonlijke onbetwiste nummer één dit jaar het album “False Memory Archive” van het Noorse Oak, maar in de andere 16 lijstjes komt het album niet meer voor. Zelden stonden er zoveel verschillende albums in onze gezamenlijke lijstjes. We mogen dus gerust stellen dat 2018 voor de prog een zeer geslaagd jaar genoemd mag worden.
Voor ons was het een erg goed jaar. Wij mochten ruim 1,2 miljoen bezoekers verwelkomen en dat is een record. We zijn benieuwd wat 2019 ons aan nieuwe muziek zal gaan brengen. Je kunt er zeker van zijn dat wij je weer op de hoogte zullen houden met het laatste nieuws, grondige recensies en actuele concertverslagen. We wensen je een heel goed, gezond en progressief 2019.
Maarten Goossensen
Hieronder tref je de top tien over 2018 van (bijna) alle Progwereld medewerkers aan.
Wouter Bessels | ||
Band / Artiest | Album | |
1. Steven Wilson | Home Invasion: In Concert At The Royal Albert Hall | |
2. Kayak | Seventeen | |
3. Kino | Radio Voltaire | |
4. Marillion | All One Tonight, Live At The Royal Albert Hall | |
5. Johannes Schmoelling & Robert Waters | The Immortal Tourist | |
6. Adam Holzman | Truth Decay | |
7. Low | Double Negative | |
8. Anneke van Giersbergen | Symphonized | |
9. My Baby | Mounaiki | |
10. Jonathan Wilson | Rare Birds |
Wouter Brunner | ||
Band / Artiest | Album | |
1. Michael Varekamp | Elektra Part 1&2 | |
2. Ibrahim Maalouf | Levantine Symphony No.1 | |
3. Galahad | Seas of Change | |
4. John Coltrane | Both Directions at Once | |
5. Riverside | Wasteland | |
6. Sons of Kemet | Your Queen Is a Reptile | |
7. Sophie Hunger | Molecules | |
8. R+R=NOW | Collagically Speaking | |
9. Jack O’ The Clock | Repetitions of the Old City – II | |
10. Needlepoint | The Diary of Robert Reverie | |
Marcel Debets | ||
1. Vola | Applause Of A Distant Crowd | |
2. Steven Wilson | Home Invasion: In Concert At The Royal Albert Hall | |
3. Haken | Vector | |
4. Roine Stolt’s The Flower King | Manifesto Of An Alchemist | |
5. Perfect Beings | Vier | |
6. The Pineappple Thief | Dissolution | |
7. Riverside | Wasteland | |
8. Opeth | Garden Of The Titans | |
9. Kayak | Seventeen | |
10. A Perfect Circle | Eat The Elephant |
Alex Driessen |
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1. Roine Stolt’s The Flower King | Manifesto of an Alchemist | |
2. Tiger Moth Tales | Story Tellers Part II | |
3. Big Big Train | Merchants of Light | |
4. Southern Empire | Civilisation | |
5. Lazuli | Saison 8 | |
6. Kayak | Seventeen | |
7. John Hackett & Nick Fletcher | Beyond the Stars | |
8. Yes Feat. ARW | Live at the Apollo | |
9. Dukes of the Orient | Dukes of the Orient | |
10. Mystery | Lies and Butterflies | |
Jos Driessen |
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1. Long Distance Calling | Boundless | |
2. GAS | Rausch | |
3. IO Earth | Solitude | |
4. Albion | You’ll Be Mine | |
5. Apogee | Conspiracy Of Fools | |
6. Toundra | Vortex | |
7. Gérald Massois | Le Vol Erratique d’un Papillon | |
8. Haken | Vector | |
9. Carptree | Subimago | |
10. Mystery | Lies and Butterflies | |
Maarten Goossensen |
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Band / Artiest | Album | |
1. Oak | False Memory Archive | |
2. Vola | Applause Of A Distant Crowd | |
3. Perfect Beings | Vier | |
4. Riversea | The Tide | |
5. Marillion | All One Tonight, Live At The Royal Albert Hall | |
6. The Paradox Twin | The Importance Of Mr. Bedlam | |
7. Southern Empire | Civilisation | |
8. Overhead | Haydenspark | |
9. Subsignal | La Muerta | |
10. Albion | You’ll Be Mine | |
Erik Groeneweg |
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Band / Artiest | Album | |
1. Southern Empire | Civilisation | |
2. Editors | Violence | |
3. Gazpacho | Soyus | |
4. Opeth | Garden Of The Titans | |
5. Jonathan Wilson | Rare Birds | |
6. Sly & Robbie Meets Nils Petter Molvaer | Nordub | |
7. Lo Moon | Lo Moon | |
8. Kino | Radio Voltaire | |
9. Umphrey’s McGee | It’s Not Us | |
10. Jakob Bro | Returnings | |
Dick van der Heijde |
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Band / Artiest | Album | |
1. Philhelmon | Perpetual Immobile | |
2. Dilemma | Random Acts Of Liberation | |
3. Riversea | The Tide | |
4. Arena | Double Vision | |
5. Mystery | Lies and Butterflies | |
6. Southern Empire | Civilisation | |
7. Evership | Evership II | |
8. Kayak | Seventeen | |
9. Kino | Radio Voltaire | |
10. Dukes Of The Orient | Dukes Of The Orient | |
Joop Klazinga |
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Band / Artiest | Album | |
1. Big Big Train | Merchants of Light | |
2. Arena | Double Vision | |
3. Mystery | Lies and Butterflies | |
4. Steve Hackett | Wuthering Nights Live In Birmingham | |
5. IO Earth | Solitude | |
6. Galahad | Seas Of Change | |
7. Subsignal | La Muerta | |
8. Philhelmon | Perpetual Immobile | |
9. Opeth | Garden Of The Titans | |
10. Phideaux | Infernal | |
Ron Kraaijkamp |
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Band / Artiest | Album | |
1. Mystery | Lies and Butterflies | |
2. IO Earth | Solitude | |
3. Anubis | Different Stories | |
4. Kino | Radio Voltaire | |
5. Gerald MASSOIS | Le Vol Erratique d’un Papillon | |
6. Matthew Browning | Love and Grief | |
7. Crystal Palace | Scattered Shards | |
8. Big Big Train | Merchants Of Light | |
9. Wilson & Wakeman | The Sun Will Dance in Its Twilight Hour | |
10. Lex Bekkernens | Deflexion |
Clemens Leunisse |
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Band / Artiest | Album | |
1. Project Patchwork | Reflection | |
2. Weend’o | Time of Awakening | |
3. Hillsphere | Florescence | |
4. Bjørn Riis | Coming Home | |
5. F.D. Project | Roots | |
6. IO Earth | Solitude | |
7. Ümit! | The Testament of Ümit! | |
8. Gazpacho | Soyuz | |
9. Albion | You’ll Be Mine | |
10. Crystal Palace | Scattered Shards | |
Fred Nieuwesteeg |
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Band / Artiest | Album | |
1. La Coscienza di Zeno | Una Vita Migliore | |
2. RanestRane | A Space Odyssey: Starchild, final part | |
3. IO Earth | Solitude | |
4. Mystery | Lies And Butterflies | |
5. Albion | You’ll Be Mine | |
6. Kayak | Seventeen | |
7. Southern Empire | Civilisation | |
8. Riverside | Wasteland | |
9. Steve Hackett | Wuthering Nights Live In Birmingham | |
10. Jordso | Jord | |
Mario van Os |
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Band / Artiest | Album | |
1. Riverside | Wasteland | |
2. Lunatic Soul | Under The Fragmented Sky | |
3. Long Distance Calling | Boundless | |
4. Kamelot | The Shadow Theory | |
5. Arena | Double Vision | |
6. NoSound | Allow Yourself | |
7. The Mad Baron | When Nothing Comes True | |
8. Orphaned Land | Unsung Prophets & Dead Messiahs | |
9. Seventh Wonder | Tiara | |
10. Seventh Dimension | The Corrupted Lullaby | |
Luke Peerdeman |
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Band / Artiest | Album | |
1. Phideaux | Infernal | |
2. Daal | Decaloque of Darkness | |
3. Mystery | Lies and Butterflies | |
4. Koenjihyakkei | Dhorimvishka | |
5. Bubu | El Eco Del sol | |
6. Galahad | Seas of Change | |
7. Weend’o | Time of Awakening | |
8. IO earth | Solitude | |
9. Far Corner | Risk | |
10. Soft Machine | Hidden Details | |
Ralph Uffing |
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Band / Artiest | Album | |
1. Subsignal | La Muerta | |
2. Galahad | Seas of Change | |
3. Hekz | Invicta | |
4. The Pineapple Thief | Dissolution | |
5. Downriver Dead Men Go | Departures | |
6. Michael Romeo | War Of The Worlds Part 1 | |
7. Kayak | Seventeen | |
8. Frequency Drift | Letters To Maro | |
9. Perfect Beings | Vier | |
10. Burntfield | Hereafter | |
Ruard Veltmaat |
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Band / Artiest | Album | |
1. Elizabeth The Last | Elizabeth The Last | |
2. Albion | You’ll Be Mine | |
3. Crone | Godspeed | |
4. Gazpacho | Soyuz | |
5. The Good Hand | Blissful Yearning | |
6. Vola | Applause Of A Distant Crowd | |
7. Galahad | Seas Of Change | |
8. Primordial | Exile Amongst the Ruins | |
9. Silent Chambers | Thousand Victories | |
10, Art Of Illusion | Cold War Of Solipsism |