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ADVENTURE - Symph/prog with a slight heavy sound
AMPERA - Excellent progressive with female vocals, mellotron, mini moog & flute. Imagine Anekdoten with a lead female singer! ANTI-DEPRESSIVE DELIVERY - Heavy progressive with great vintage analog keys AUNT MARY - 70’s heavy prog that blends Pink Floyd with Zeppelin CIRCLES END - Prog/symph with a mix of Camel and Crimson like sounds DELUSION - Innovative and unique mixture of ambient techno, psych and industrial rock FLAX - Guitar based heavy prog and comparable to early Deep Purple FOLQUE - 70’s folk rock FRUITCAKE - Excellent prog GARGAMEL - Mellotron, hammond organ, cello soaked prog in the style of King Crimson, Anekdoten and Van Der Graaf Generator GAZPACHO - Richly textured deliberate progressive rock with Marillion and Porcupine Tree leanings. Great band! GUARDIAN’S OFFICE, THE - Offshoot of Fruitcake and in the same mode HJARNIDAUDI - Three long tracks of dark ambient music HOLE IN THE WALL - Blend of prog/psych and folk with alternate male/female vocals from 1972 HOST - Brilliant 70’s heavy prog JUNIPHER GREENE - Guitar oriented masterwork orignally released as a two lp set KERRS PINK - Camel inspired KONG LAVRING - Folk rock rarities KVAZAR – Similar to Porcupine Tree LINDQUIST, FREDDY - Heavy prog/psych from 1970. One of the rarest from Norway LUCIFER WAS - Heavy prog rock not unlike early Jethro Tull LYNNE, BJORN - Like Oldfield/Gandalf MAGIC PIE - Great symph/prog somewhere between the 70’s and modern progressive groups MAYBE - Good folky progressive rock METROGNOM - Amazing prog rock with hammond, mini moog, mellotron, woodwinds and not a track under 13 minutes. Recommended highly! MIKROMIDAS - Prog rock with heavy hammond organ & mellotron at the forefront OCTOPUS - Prog killer and totally unknown monster from 1980. Dark complex symph/prog PANZERPAPPA - Crazy prog/jazz/fusion similar to Miriodor or Samla but with melodic mellotron landscapes PICTORIAL WAND - Symph/prog concept album with loads of analog synths POPOL ACE (POPOL VUH) - All 5 studio albums in 1 complete set by this Floyd inspired group PROCOSMIAN FANNYFIDDLERS - A bit of Anglagard & Zappa. Excellent! PRUDENCE - 70’s hard rock RAVANA - Parallels to Crimson and Zappa can be found here RETROHEADS - Name says it all! Great symph/prog 70’s style RUPHUS - Renaissance-like RYPDAL/THOWSEN/CHRISTENSEN/ANDERSEN - Experimental fusion album from 1977 SHINE DION - Wonderful celtic prog SAFT - Anthology that covers their entire career as one of Norway’s leading early 70’s rock band SMELL OF INCENSE - Brilliant Celtic prog SPLASH - 3 long tracks doused with wind instruments, organ, minimoog, violin TANGLE EDGE - Fantatsic progressive guitar psych THE THIRD & THE MORTAL - Great dark progressive with stunning female voice THULE - Pink Floyd inspired group but with an overall dark grungy approach TIRILL - First solo effort from White Willow lead vocalist. Soft symphonic backs her beautiful voice TITANIC - Progressive hardrockers WATERCLIME - Great symph/prog with a touch of prog metal and Norwegian folk WHITE WILLOW - Fantastic symph folk with mellotron, bass pedals & female vocals. Brilliant! WINTHERSTORMER - Brilliant electronic work in 70’s Klaus Schulze/Tangerine Dream style WOBBLER - Excellent prog/symph like a blend of Anglagard and White Willow. Essential! WOLLO, ERIK - Electronic music by one of Norway’s most noted musicians YUNGAN - Tangle Edge offshoot from 2001 |