A while ago I posted a subject in the music section of Hipforums regarding unusually packaged CDs and LPs. I made a nice list, and a lot of people contributed. So, here I’ll make a list and description of each album: – Acqua Fragile: Acqua Fragile (1973) Italian prog rock band related to PFM because […] Continue reading →

If you’re a fan of Gong, here’s an album I should suggest you: from Clearlight, called Clearlight Symphony. Sometimes the band is called Clearlight Symphony (but it doesn’t really matter, the band was called simply Clearlight after this album). Mainly Clearlight was a project of French keyboardist Cyrille Verdeaux, and whatever musicians he could find […] Continue reading →

Just when I thought I knew Far East Family Band through albums like Nipponjin (1975) and Tenkujin (1977), they gave us Parallel World, which is their third album. Like their previous album, Klaus Schulze was given a hand (in the mixing department), only this time around his influence is even stronger. The three guys handling […] Continue reading →

For every Yes, ELP, Genesis, King Crimson, etc., there were many more lesser known prog rock bands. Bands like Gentle Giant, Van der Graaf Generator, Caravan, Cressida, Beggars Opera, Spring, etc. all created some great music but were often forgotten in the mists of time, but those who found out about these bands gave high […] Continue reading →

1971’s Galactic Zoo Dossier, Arthur Brown’s first album with his new band Kingdom Come proved that he still had more great material to give us. So a year later, he decided to record a second album, called Kingdom Come. By this point VCS-3 synthesizer player Julian Paul Brown and bassist Desmond Fisher left, replaced by […] Continue reading →

For an album that’s as amazing as Ash Ra Tempel’s self-entitled 1971 debut, the band knew right away they would need to follow that up with another excellent albums and they delivered. Guitarist Manuel Göttsching and bassist Hartmut Enke were still there. Klaus Schulze had already left the band, to pursue his ever famous solo […] Continue reading →

Caravan, Soft Machine, Hatfield & the North, National Health, and Matching Mole are a few examples of the Canterbury rock scene. Many of these groups tended to be jazzy with bizarre experimentations thrown in. Another example is Khan, who only released this one and only album, Space Shanty in 1972 on Deram Records (same label […] Continue reading →

Apparently Brazil was a real hotbead of progressive rock. O Terço, Bacamarte, Sagrado Coração da Terra, III Milenio, and latter-day Os Mutantes (most people are familiar with them as a psychedelic pop band, but they went prog after 1972 or thereabout) are a few examples. Acidente was another. Apparently there were two different versions of […] Continue reading →

If you’re a fan of horror movies and seen films such as Dawn of the Dead (aka Zombi) or Suspiria, chanches are you’ve heard some music from Goblin, one of the top Italian prog bands. While bands like PFM, Banco, Le Orme, Il Balletto di Bronzo, Museo Rosenbach, and the likes are mostly known to […] Continue reading →

Nektar was one of those prog rock bands that people classify as German or Krautrock, when in reality, they were a British band who took residence in Germany. The band consisted of keyboardist Allan “Taff” Freeman, guitarist Roye Allbrighton, bassist Derek “Mo” Moore, and drummer Ron Howden. Journey to the Centre of the Eye is […] Continue reading →