Edward Discovers the Retro Rock of Sweden’s Siena Root!

Siena Roots Does Music the 60s and 70s Way and I Like It!

Yesterday,I was doing some organizing in my room, so I turned on Spotify. When I did a song titled “The Piper Won’t let You Stay” was playing. The longer I listened the more I thought,”Hey, I like this”  And when I heard the organ solos, I knew I liked it! The song was from an album released in 2017 titled A Dream of Lasting Peace from a band named Siena Root.

I quickly googled the band name and this is what I discovered:

Siena Root is a Swedish rock band with its roots in late ’60s and ’70s rock music. The group was founded in Stockholm in the late ’90s. Their sound is based on heavy organ, howling guitars, bass riffing and big drums. It is also often enriched with bluesy soulful vocals, various guest musicians and psychedelic vibes read more

Exploring ProgRock – The King of Number 33 – DeeExpus

So this evening I decided to check out some newer Prog Rock than early 70s Genesis and Gentle Giant. Now there’s nothing wrong with either of those bands, I just want to check out the new stuff, too. So I went back to the Prog Archives and looked at the list of Best ProgRock albums of 2010-11 and 12, because the album at number 7 King of Number 33 was released in 2012 and is the second release from DeeExpus.

DeeExpus – Heavy Prog • United Kingdom

DeeExpus hails from North East England. Andy Ditchfield formed the DeeExpus, when he decided to turn his long time solo project into a full-time band. The first member of DeeExpus beside Ditchfield was a former school band mate of Ditchfield Tony Wright. After a chance encounter Ditchfield and Wright wanted to form a band. They found that they both worked so well together. So they just put together their first album Halfway Home. They used just a few guest artists to help them out. After the success of that album they did put a band together, recorded a live CD Then They and went to work on the second album, The King of Number 33, which is the one I listened to tonight. read more