Thursday, 9 October 2014

Brainstorm - Last Smile (2001)

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The first live album from this German band. The gig is from 1974 and this album was released through the Garden Of Delights record labe...
Wednesday, 8 October 2014

Puppet Show - The Tale Of Woe (2006)

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The second and so far final album from this US band. Their 1997 album Traumatized showcased a band who knew how to make elegant symph...
Tuesday, 7 October 2014

Piero E I Cottonfields - Il Viaggio, La Donna, Un' Altra Vita (1972)

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The one and only album from this Italian band. This band were fronted by the vocalist Piero Cotto. He and his very good vocals are su...

Pennelli di Vermeer. I - Mod.Barocco, Fragile, Maneggiare con cura. Grazie! (2003)

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The debut album from this Italian band who has so far released two albums. The very long title and the band name hints about some the...
Monday, 6 October 2014

Delirium - Il Nome Del Vento (2009)

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The fourth album from this Italian band. Their fourth album between 1971 and 2009. That means this is off course a comeback album as ...

Ummagma - Lama (2014)

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A remix album of other Ummagma songs. For those who does not know, this two piece band, the married couple Alexander Kretov and Shaun...

Pax Romana - And The Dance Begins Again (2009)

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The second album from this Finnish band. The band continues more or less in the same vein as on their debut album. We are talking abo...
Sunday, 5 October 2014

Planetarium - Infinity (1971)

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The one and only album from this Italian band. Planetarium was an Italian band whose members are not known to others than themselves....

Phoenix Again - Look Out (2014)

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The second album from this Italian band. Their listing as neo-prog in ProgArchives gave me some hope. I quite like Italian neo-prog. ...
Thursday, 2 October 2014

Pholas Dactylus - Concerto Delle Menti (1973)

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The one and only album from this Italian band. Some of the albums from these one album bands takes on a mythological status. This is ...

Perfect Beings - Perfect Beings (2014)

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The debut album from this US band. Perfect Beings is one of those prog bands who has got too much sun in their face and is heavy infl...

Conqueror - Istinto (2003)

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The debut album from this Italian band. This band comes from Sicily and they are fronted by a female vocalist. Simona Rigono is her n...
Tuesday, 30 September 2014

Pye Fyte - The Gathering Of The Krums (1998)

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The debut and so far only album from this US band. I know absolute nothing about this band. I can only write about their music. The...

Monarch Trail - Skye (2014)

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The debut album from this Canadian band. Monarch Trail is another musical vehicle for Ken Baird, a veteran in the scene. He is here h...
Monday, 29 September 2014

Perdio - A Robert (1998)

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The comeback album from this Italian band after 20 years of silence. Perdio is an Italian prog band from the 1970s who never got a re...

Logos - L'Enigma Della Vita (2014)

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The third album from this Italian band. Logos released their two first albums Logos (1999) and Asrava (2001) to a bit of a muted resp...

Barock Project - Misteriosevoci (2007)

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The debut album from this Italian band. No, we are not talking symphonic prog here. Instead, we are visiting one of the many good Ita...
Sunday, 28 September 2014

Planeta Imaginario - Qué Me Dices (2004)

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The debut album from this Spanish band. Spain has produced a lot of good jazz and fusion bands during the last fifty years. The seven...

Pangea - Invasori (1976)

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The one and only album from this Italian band. Pangea was not really a band. It was a name the producer Mauro Paoluzzi put on his own...
Saturday, 27 September 2014

Minimum Vital - Envol Triangles Les Saisons Marines (1992)

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A collection of old tracks from this French band. Minimum Vital has released some great albums. Their first album is not among those ...

Pancake - No illusions (1979)

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The third album from this German band. Germany means krautrock in a lot of the albums I am reviewing here. I like krautrock a lot. So...

Puppet Show - Traumatized (1997)

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The first of in total two albums from this US band. Both are/will be reviewed in this blog. This five piece band has chosen a rather ...

Pan & Regaliz - I Can Fly (1971)

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A one off album from this Spanish band who disappeared after the release of this album. Hopefully not in one of general and dictator Fr...

Brainticket - Voyage (1982)

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The fifth out of in total six studio albums from this German band. Brainticket's career has been filled with high and lows. But i...
Thursday, 25 September 2014

Albero Del Veleno. L' - Le Radici Del Male (2013)

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The debut album from this Italian band. This band with this rather odd band name for us non-Italian speakers, is another new name in ...

Pax Romana - Trace Of Light (2005)

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The debut album from this Finnish band. I quite liked their new album and thought it was a good idea to invest my hard earned cash in...

Le Orme - Florian (1979)

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The tenth album, or the ninth album from this Italian band if you take away the English version of the Felona E Sorona album. The ban...
Tuesday, 23 September 2014

Jevtovic. Dusan - Am I Walking Wrong ? (2013)

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To my knowledge, this is the debut album from this Serbian guitarist. This album was released through MoonJune Records on the 1. Octo...

Paidarion - Behind the Curtains (2011)

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The second album from this Finnish band. I know next to nothing about this band and I am struggling with my blindness here. OK, this ...

Pazzo Fanfano di Musica - Pazzo Fanfano di Musica (1989)

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The one and only album from this Japanese band. This band is another Japanese band who has camouflaged themselves under an Italian na...
Monday, 22 September 2014

Hopper. Hugh - Hopper Tunity Box (1976)

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The second album from Hugh Hopper & friends. This album was recorded after he had left Soft Machine and in Yes mobile studio. It ...

Trip. The - Time Of Change (1973)

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The fourth and final album from this Italian band. The band was now reduced to an ELP like trio. And they sounded like that too at ti...
Sunday, 21 September 2014

Budgie - Bandolier (1975)

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The fifth album from these Welsh rockers. This power trio is a bit of a strange band and I am not sure how to describe their music. I...

Minimum Vital - Au Cercle de Pierre (1998)

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The one and only live album from this French band. A band who released six studio albums in their time. This live album comes between t...

J.E.T - Fede, Speranza, Carità (1972)

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The debut album and first of in total two studio albums from this Italian band. Their second one is so obscure that hardly anyone hav...

Gurumaniax - Psy Valley Hill (2010)

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The debut album from this German project. What do you get when you take Mani Neumaier from Guru Guru, Ax Genrich from the 1974 versio...
Saturday, 20 September 2014

Lineateorica - Lineateorica (2014)

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The first sign of life, an EP, from this Italian band. This band from Rome is is fairly and squarely an Italian progressive rock band...

Mikromidas - Faunus (2005)

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The second and final album from this very obscure and long forgotten band from Stavanger, Norway. I reviewed their debut album Brenne...

Big Goodbye. A - History In Rewind (2014)

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The second album from this US band. I quite liked their 2011 debut album Sounds & Silences whom I reviewed in ProgArchives. I not...

Curved Air - Air Cut (1973)

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The fourth album from this English band. Curved Air's previous three albums showcased a band in fine form, somewhere between the ...
Friday, 19 September 2014

Zaragon - No Return (1984)

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The one and only album from this Danish band. 1984 was in the middle of the dark ages for progressive rock and most of the music scen...

Pell Mell - Only a Star (1978)

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The fourth album from this German band. Pell Mell was one of those bands who combined symphonic prog with a lot of classical music. T...
Tuesday, 16 September 2014

Trip. The - Atlantide (1972)

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The third album from this Italian band. It is many years since I were listening to and reviewed an album by The Trip. Their second al...

Eloy - Codename Wildgeese (1985)

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The thirteenth album from this German band. This is also the first of three albums where these masters of space and krautrock lost th...
Monday, 15 September 2014

Halloween - Silence...au dernier rang (1998)

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The live album from this French band, released before their final album and after their first three albums. I am no longer a great fa...
Sunday, 14 September 2014

Event - Human Condition (2001)

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The second of in total three albums from this US band. I thought for a long moment that I had got a King's X album on my hand her...

Blue Öyster Cult - Cultösaurus Erectus (1980)

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The seventh album from this US art rock band. Art rock or whatever you may call it. Their music are difficult to pinpoint, to say at le...

Minimum Vital - Capitaines (2009)

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The sixth and so far final album from this French band. It is many years since the last time I reviewed a Minimum Vital album. Perhap...
Saturday, 13 September 2014

Watch. The - Tracks from the Alps (2014)

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The sixth studio album from this Italian band. Or the seventh if the lone album from The Night Watch is included too. The Watch alter...

Spettri - Spettri (2011)

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The one and only album from this Italian band. Don't be fooled by the 2011 release date. The album was recorded and then shelved ...