Episode 218: The Progressive Rock Files Podcast #218 - In Conversation with Ben Craven of Ambient Den

On This Week’s Episode: Some of My Favorite Prog from 2025Avkrvst: Waving at the Sky - "Ghosts of Yesteryear" 6:00Yuka & Chronoship: Ribbon Butterfly - "Sleeping Girl in the Stained Glass" 5:00Pattern Seeking Animals: Friends of All Creatures - "Down the Darkest Road" 4:30Monarch Trail: Four Sides - "Afterthought" 4:00Glass Hammer: Rogue - "The Road South" 5:00Magic Pie: Maestro - "Opus Imperfectus" Pt. 2 4:00Spock's Beard: The Archaeoptomist - "St. Jerome in the Wilderness" 8:30Echolyn            : Time Silent Radio VII - "Cul De Sacs and Tunnels" 7:00Brass Camel: Camel - "On the Other Side" 5:00IQ: Dominion - "Never Land" 8:00The Far Cry: Once There Was - "The Following" 6:30Nad Sylvan: Monumentata - "Wildfire" 6:30Anyone: Echoes of Man - "The Vicious" 7:30The Flower Kings: Love - "We Claim the Moon" 6:30

In Conversation with: Jim Griffin Visit:  https://therangerandthecleric.bandcamp.com/album/the-counterblast On This Week’s Episode:Phantom Vengeance: Ghost of a Warrior - "Hand of Tyr" 6:00Zombie Picnic: A Suburb of Earth - "A Cylindrical Sea" 7:30Interview Part 1 - 9:00Zombie Picnic: Rise of a New Ideology - "Defcon" 5:00Interview Part 2 - 7:00Jim Griffin: The Signal - "God of Rage" 7:30Interview Part 3 - 6:00Jim Griffin: The Counterblast - "Sleeping Generation" Pt. 2 3:30Interview Part 4 - 7:00Jim Griffin: The Counterblast - "Cosmic Law and Order" 8:00Vesuvius: Twisted Tales from Warped Minds - "Shipping Through Time" 5:30

On This Week’s Episode: Hints of ChristmasCelldweller: An Offworld Christmas - "Silent Night" 4:00Discipline: Breadcrumbs - "Aria" 10:30Jethro Tull: Jethro Tull Christmas Album - "Another Christmas Song" 3:30Last Plane Out: Cautionary Tales - "Four Hundred Days" & "The Butterfly Effect" 8:00PFM: Photos of Ghosts - "Celebration" & "Photos of Ghosts" 9:00Alberto Rigoni: Dystopia - "Genesis" & "Echoes of the Machine" 8:30Jethro Tull: Jethro Tull Christmas Album - "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" 4:30Anton Roolaart: The Ballad of General Jupiter - "Amsterdam" & "The Ballad of General Jupiter" 8:00Celldweller: An Offworld Christmas - "What Child is This" 4:00 

On This Week’s Episode: An Electronic Prog Special EditionMark Shreeve: Legion - "Legion" & "Storm Column" 10:00Vangelis: Albedo 0.39 - "Main Sequence" 8:00Tangerine Dream: 50 Years of Phaedra: At the Barbican - "Movements of a Visionary" 9:00Kitaro: Ki - "Clouds in the Sky" 8:00Billy Yfantis: 2015-2025: The First Years in Space - "Orion Nebula" 5:00Synergy: Synergy: Electronic Realizations for Rock Orchestra - "Legacy" 10:00Dave Greenslade: Pentateuch of the Cosmogony - "Introit" & "Moondance" 7:00Jon & Vangelis: Friends of Mister Cairo - "Friends of Mister Cairo" 12:00

On This Week’s Episode:Sigmund Freud: Risveglio - "Fiori di Polvere Bianca" 12:00Lunatic Soul: The World Under Unsun - "Game Called Life" 9:30Runaway Totem: Metaphorm Tetraphirm - "Mekanik Ritual" 7:30Jonas Lindberg & The Other Side: Time Frames - "End of the Road" 12:30In Spe: In Spe - "Mare Vitreum" 8:00Benjamin Dean Wilson: Until the House Falls - "Confrontation" 6:00Another Realm: Origin - "Empire of Darkness" & "If Worlds Collide" 11:00

In Conversation with: Ben Craven of Ambient Den. Visit:  Ambient Den | Ambient Den   On This Week’s Episode:Vesuvius: Twisted Tales from Warped Minds - "Logic of the Lunatic" 7:00Ben Craven: Great and Terrible Potions - "Great and Terrible Potions" 9:00Interview Part 1 - 11:00Ben Craven: Last Chance to Hear - "Spy in the Sky" Pt. 3 8:00Interview Part 2 - 9:00Ambient Den: Ambient Den - "For all Mankind" 8:00Interview Part 3 - 7:00Ambient Den: Ambient Den - "Earthrise" 9:00Jim Griffin: The Counterblast - "A Counterblast to Astral Travel" 6:00

On This Week’s Episode:Phantom Vengeance: Ghost of a Warrior - "Ghost of a Warrior" & "The Graveyard” 10:00Diaspro: Anteprima - "Per Salire Su" 3:30Last Plane Out: Cautionary Tales - "Young at Heart" & "Cautionary Tales" 9:00Supersister: To the Highest Bidder - "A Girl Named You" 10:00Billy Yfantis: 2015-2025: The First Years in Space - "Cosmic Noise" 10:00Trey Gunn & David Forlano: Select Habits of Invertebrates - "Simulacra" 6:30Trope: Dyad - "Sigil" 5:30Exit: Where Your Road Goes - "Grandi Regni" 8:30

Interview Special: Randy George of The Neal Morse Band: Beyond Words | Randy George   On This Week’s Episode:Jim Griffin: The Counterblast - "Xenocide" 5:00Ajalon: This Good Place - "This Good Place" 6:00Intv. Part 1 - 7:00Randy George: Action Reaction - "Death by Chocolate" 4:30Intv. Part 2 - 5:30Neal Morse Band: One - "Reunion" 9:00Intv. Part 3 - 4:00Randy George: Beyond Words - "Soul Geometry" 4:00Intv. Part 4 - 3:00Randy George: Beyond Words - "Foam Rubber Monsters" 4:00Intv. Part 5 - 3:00Randy George: Beyond Words - "Make Me Real" 5:00Sic Mundus: Universum - "Digital Slave" 7:00

On This Week’s Episode:Another Realm: Origin - "Let There Be Light" 5:30Trey Gunn & David Forlano: Select Habits of Invertebrates - "Select Habits of Invertebrates" 8:30Alice: Arretez Le Monde - Le Cercle (Pt. 1 & 2) 8:30The Arc Light Sessions: The Clairvoyance of the Wise - "The Desert Never Lies" & "For a Thousand Years" 10:00Ambient Den: Ambient Den - "Terraforming" 16:30D'Ercole: Reactance Theory - "There Comes a Time" & "Moving Target" 9:30The Gardening Club: The Insubstantial Pageant - "Valparaiso" 5:30

On This Week’s Episode: More Modern Prog Epics!IQ: Dominion - "The Unknown Door" 22:30Spock's Beard: The Archeoptomist - "The Archeoptomist" 21:00Magic Pie: Maestro - "Opus Imperfectus Pt. 1 & 2" 22:30