April/May 2007
| CD’S (PROGRESSIVE) ARGENTINA CANTILO, MIGUEL/JORGE DURIETZ...Y OTROS - Blend of folk, rock and prog. From 1975 HAMACAS AL RIO - Nice symphonic pop with excellent female voice and flute parts NEXUS - Another new album. Live in the studio BELGIUM IRISH COFFEE - Heavy organ/guitar prog from 1971 BRAZIL SECOS & MOLHADOS - Psych/prog from 1973 & 1974 CANADA BREGENT - Wonderful album from 1979 with dramatic vocals and music that ranges from symph/prog to avant-garde and dark minimalism LASTING WEEP - Pre-Maneige that blends progressive with psych and progressive. Lots of great flute work throughout SAGA CZECH REPUBLIC BLUE EFFECT FINLAND HIDRIA SPACEFOLK GERMANY AMON DUUL (II) - Wonderful new issues of these acid prog classics BETWEEN - Cosmic eastern and percussion sounds by this 70’s seminal German group led by Peter Michael Hamel ELECTRIC OUTLET - Brilliant instrumental fusion. High recommended! EPITAPH - Heavy seventies progressive EXCALIBUR - Hard progressive from 1971 with some dang good organ HARLIS - 70’s heavy rock with Jane members OS MUNDI SCHULZE, KLAUS WEED - Heavy organ progressive from 1971 HUNGARY MUSICAL WITCHCRAFT - 3rd album by Solaris flautist. Great! RANDOM DEEDS - Fantastic progressive with loads of organ and guitar and right up Pink Floyd alley. Recommended! VEDRES, CSABA - Another album by Ex-After Crying keyboardist ITALY AINUR - Concept prog/symph work based on The Silmarillion ELEKTRIKTUS - One of the few Italian electronic albums right out of the seventies Berlin school. From 1976 FARINELLA, ALESSANDRO - Melodic progressive concept album that grows on you with each listen. English vocals GENCO PURO & CO. - Melodic progressive from 1972 with nice synth and mellotron outbreaks and help from Franco Battiato GRUPPO D’ALTERNATIVA - Great complex/beautiful progressive from 1972. First time on CD! LABORATORIO DI MUSICA E IMMAGINE - 4 long tracks of instrumental prog, jazz and avant garde NATURAL MYSTIC, THE - Fantastic 6 piece prog band with acoustic/electric guitars, flutes, percussion etc... Recommended! PANNA FREDA - New mini lp sleeve issue TARZAN - Mega-rare sampler album from 1972 including Capsicum Red, Well’s Fargo, Osage Tribe, Black Sunday Flowers, Ixo, Springfield and Colonnello Musch WATCH, THE - New album by Genesis soundalikes JAPAN AIN SOPH COSMOS FACTORY - Finally available again after many moons out of print FAR EAST FAMILY BAND FLOWER TRAVELLIN’ BAND NAIKAKU - Finally snagged some copies of their hard-to-get frist album NETHERLANDS US - 5th album by these neo symphonic proggers NORWAY GAZPACHO - Richly textured deliberate progressive rock with Marillion and Porcupine Tree leanings. Great band! MAGIC PIE - 2nd studio album POPOL ACE (POPOL VUH) WATERCLIME - Great symph/prog with a touch of prog metal and Norwegian folk RUSSIA APPLE PIE - Great new band that sounds quite a bit like Spock’s Beard SOUTH AFRICA FREEDOM’S CHILDREN - Highly rated prog/psych. New digipack edition SPAIN IBIO - Back with a great new album! Disc 1 is 5.1 surround and disc 2 is stereo RIBA, PAU SWEDEN A.C.T. ANEKDOTEN - New studio! BEARDFISH - New studio! KAIPA - New studio! PAATOS - Found some more of the out of print digipack edition SWITZERLAND AFTER SHAVE - Bluesy hard rock from 1972 U.K. ARENA BOND, GRAHAM - Much jazzier album from 1970 with Jack Bruce, Jon Hiseman, John McLaughlin and Ginger Baker BOND, GRAHAME - Late 60’s blues/prog by the same artist as above but with a slightly different spelling. Some of the very first albums to feature Hammond organ and mellotron CURVED AIR DRISCOLL, JULIE - Pre-Julie Tippets singer/songwriter with help from husband Keith Tippets and Blossom Toes members ENID, THE GASS - Solid progressive from 1970 that has some jazz, funk and blues elements as well. Nice organ throughout HARVEY, ALEX & HIS SOUL BAND - Jazzy blues from 1964 MARILLION MORTON, MANDY NEO - Neo progressive super group with Clive Nolan, John Jowitt, Nick Barrett, Alan Reed and more NUTZ - 70’s hard rock OUT OF DARKNESS PALADIN - New digipack edition by these 70's hard proggies PENDRAGON PORCUPINE TREE - Excellent new album! REASONING, THE - Prog/rock with Rachel Jones (Magenta) and guest appearance by Steve Rothery SECOND HAND - Rare 1st album of prog/psych SINDELFINGEN - Classic-sounding progressive rock with a King Crimson and Gentle Giant twist STONEHOUSE - Great hard rocker from 1971 SWEGAS - Prog/jazz with nice organ and horns. From 1971 TEA & SYMPHONY - Obscure concept 2nd album TREES - One of the beloved British folk bands with stunning female vocal. Both are from 1970 UGLY CUSTARD - 1970 instrumental prog/fuzz guitar psych with heavy organ sounds WINDY DAZE - Melodic progressive folk from 1971 WOLF (DARRYL WAY’S) - Finally back on CD! USA AUDIOSYNCHROCY - Great progressive/fusion with Gentle Giant and Zappa influences DYONISOS EDEN’S CHILDREN - Late 60’s power psych trio ELDERS, THE - 1973 heavy psych with some real good organ riffs HAYSTACKS BALBOA - Heavy organ progressive from 1970 KRISTYL - Excellent Christian guitar prog/psych from 1975 MADURA - 2nd album from 1973 MAMA LION - Suprisingly good progressive blues rock led by Janis Joplin sound-alike Lynn Carey and featuring Neil Merryweather on bass and James Newton Howard on keys. From 1972 & 1973 MINGO (LEWIS) - Great instrumental prog fusion by Ex-Santana percussionist with lots of keys and African percussion. From 1976 MORSE, ALAN - Great fusion by Spock’s Beard guitarist. Fellow members of Spock’s participate as well as ex-Beardian and brother Neal PLANET X STUERMER, DARYL JAPANESE MINI LP SLEEVE CD’s CURVED AIR ENID, THE SOFT MACHINE WINDY DAZE PROGRESSIVE METAL CD’s SUN CAGED - DVD’s ANDROMEDA BUSH, KATE DIXIE DREGS KADA MAHAVISHNU ORCHESTRA METALMANIA - DVD with Moonspell, Therion, Acid Drinkers, Nevermore, Hunter, Vesania, 1349, Hieronymus Bosch. CD with Belphegor, Shadows Land, Antigama, Totem, Corruption, The No-Mads, Archeon, Centinex, SuidAkrA, Misanthrope, Beseech and The Old Dead Tree NEARFEST 2005 - Le Orme, IQ, Kenso, Present, Matthew Parmenter, The Muffins, Frogg Cafe, Knight Area, Wobbler and Steve Roach NEO OLDFIELD, MIKE PENDRAGON PINK FLOYD SALEM HILL TANGERINE DREAM ZAPPA, FRANK BOOK's ORME, LE - 320 pages in Italian |