AQ&F (ARNAUD QUEVEDO & FRIENDS)

From Magma to King Crimson via Gong or Nobuo Uematsu, Arnaud Quevedo‘s influences are numerous. His sometimes lyrical, sometimes jazzy, often funky universe, including obsessive loops and a few heavy riffs, remains firmly anchored in a progressive jazz-rock style.

BABAL

BABAL reveal a dystopian, offbeat view of life. Their cinematic, psych/art-rock approach calling up comparisons with Talking Heads, Zappa, Beefheart, Hendrix, Primus, Bent Knee, and Patti Smith among many others.

EREWÄN

It’s a story against violence, war, absurd hate, and behavior between humans.
A deep dive into psychological human nature and what it has been able to commit in History.
Orchestral and cinematic situations, presented in folk/prog/rock/Celtic music.

FEARFUL SYMMETRY

Fearful Symmetry is a UK progressive music ensemble, studio-based. Style: blending early classic prog, rock, classical, jazz, and world music.

Fortunato

Fortunato is a band of passionate musicians who strive to compose energetic and melodic music that lies between neoclassical metal and “FM” hard rock.

GABRIEL KELLER

Gabriel Keller explores emotions: joy, sadness, nostalgia, melancholy… Between luminous, airy, and light atmospheres, inspired by artists such as The Beatles, Pink Floyd, and Agnès Obel and a more tortured, aggressive, and progressive facet inspired by artists such as Porcupine Tree, Opeth, or Karnivool.

IMAGINAERIUM

Mixing progressive rock, classical music, and some theatrical aspects, the band originally formed by Eric Bouillette, Laura Piazzai & Clive Nolan announced their debut album “The Rise of Medici”.
This opus features some of the major episodes in the life of Cosimo and Contessina De’ Medici.

JPL

Since NEMO disbanded after 9 albums distributed all over the world, JPL carries the torch of French Progressive Rock as a recording and touring artist.
Between 2020 and 2022, the “Sapiens” trilogy was released, a musical fresco about the history of humanity recently brought to the stage by a new team of high-profile musicians.

LIVIN’EVIL

The purest tradition of heavy metal! For fans of Iron Maiden, Helloween, or Judas Priest.

MONOLITHE

After more than twenty years of existence, eight studio albums, a live album, and two mini-albums, the longevity and now respectable discography of MONOLITHE are the first witnesses of the intense activity of this band that has become a veteran of the international underground Doom Metal scene.

MOON LETTERS

Moon Letters was formed in 2016 in Seattle. The music suggests a diverse approach, with lyrics exploring personal growth, the future of the world, and sci-fi imaginations of the early space age.

MORGAN ROUSSEL

“Improviser rather than jazzman, just as capable of confronting the scores of a classical repertoire as of composing himself, Morgan Roussel is one of those “precocious children” who have found refuge in art.” (Benjamin Ferret – Sud Ouest)

NEMO

From 2002 to 2015, NEMO have been one of the leading Prog Rock bands in France. In 15 years of existence, they conquered the world community of Prog lovers with their nine studio albums.

Nemo have shared the stage with: Focus, Adagio, The Flower Kings, 3, Anglagard, Galahad, Carptree, Pat McManus band, Fish, Vanden Plas, Saga…

NICK FLETCHER

Nick is a guitarist and composer. He has been playing the guitar and writing music professionally since 1981, starting out after leaving Music College as a classical guitarist and guitar teacher but also embarked on a career as a session guitarist. He has played in many bands with the likes of Dave Bainbridge and Tim Harries, who was previously the bassist with Bill Bruford’s ‘Earthworks’, Steve Hackett, and John Hackett.

NINE SKIES

Nine Skies is a progressive rock band inspired by many influences: rock, pop, progressive, jazz … They welcomed outstanding guests in their albums (Steve Hackett, Clive Nolan, Craig Blundell, Damian Wilson…)

O.A.K. (Oscillation Alkemy Kreativity)

Under the acronym of O.A.K.(Oscillation Alkemy Kreativity), the musician, composer, and singer Jerry Cutillo has alchemized prog witcheries, acid folk ballads, symphonic themes, and new millennium resonances. 

OIAPOK

A product of the new French scene, OIAPOK is the missing link between future
jazz, progressive rock, exotica, and the music of Frank Zappa.

OVERHEAD

Overhead is a Progressive rock band from Finland whose successful releases and
live performances around Europe have catapulted the band to the top of the
Finnish prog hierarchy.

POLYCHROME

Lulled in their youth by the Beatles albums, Polychrome’s main influences come from British seventies’ progressive rock including Pink Floyd and King Crimson, unclassified artists such as Robert Wyatt or XTC, as well as from Steve Reich’s American minimalist music.

POST GENERATION

Following the footsteps of bands such as Porcupine Tree, Anathema, Pain Of Salvation, and the softer side of Opeth, Post Generation is sure to represent a definite answer to a genre that still has a lot to say.

PRYZME

Pryzme‘s music can be described as airy and accessible progressive rock. Pryzme is a journey that takes the audience to lands where rock, prog, jazz, and sometimes even metal meet.

SOLACE SUPPLICE

Solace Supplice is a French art rock band, inspired by many influences from prog to classical, creating dark & more dreamy ambiances.

STEVE ANDERSON

Debut solo album from guitarist and songwriter
Steve Anderson. A founding member of melodic rock band, The Room; also
a long-time member of progressive rock band, Grey Lady Down, and jazz-rock
fusion Sphere³.

WEDINGOTH

Wedingoth is a musical project based on openness, a mixture of styles, whose claimed credo is
eclecticism. It combines the power of rock served by a female voice charged with emotion,
to atmospheric nuances inviting to travel, supported by an orchestral technique.

XAVIER BOSCHER

Xavier Boscher is a French musician and painter. Guitarist, keyboardist, and bass player, he has composed and released many albums since 1999 in progressive rock and metal genre, for himself and other projects (Nebuleyes, Misanthrope, and more…). He has recorded 2 albums with Misanthrope (‘Immortel’ and ‘Recueil d’écueils’) and the band has toured in Europe with Septicflesh.

XCIII

XCIII (To a passerby…) is an Avantgarde Rock / Metal project located in France. Its aim is to combine different styles going from Black Metal to Trip Hop with no limitation, but with the will to keep a musical and lyrical coherence between all the tracks. A kind of « Art Total », where music, lyrics, and pictures respond to each other.