I reviewed one of Alan Stivell’s other albums, Renaissance of the Celtic Harp on this website, because that album was truly far better than the usual Celtic harp albums you come across (I have also a CD from a well-known Irish folk group, The Chieftains called The Celtic Harp from 1993 that included the Belfast […] Continue reading →

This out of the way, I was born in the 1970s, so I was obviously way too young to have participated in the 1970s, so I’ll tell you how I came about becoming aware of Pavlov’s Dog. Back in 1994, when I was 21, I ran into someone into music and he mentioned me this […] Continue reading →

It’s so interesting to note that Latin American has had their share of prog rock bands. In Mexico you have Iconoclasta, Delirium (not to be confused with the ’70s Italian prog band), Nobilis Factum, Códice, and one of the more popular bands, Cast. In Brazil you have latter-day Os Mutantes (post-Rita Lee), O Terço, Sagrado […] Continue reading →

Phantasmagoria is the third album by this wonderful, and often underrated British prog rock band. This was also the final album with the original lineup of vocalist Sonja Kristina, keyboardist Francis Monkman, violinist Darryl Way, and drummer Florian Pilkington-Miksa. The band at this point was on to their third bassist, in this case Mike Wedgwood […] Continue reading →

Things sure been looking up for Zappa by the time We’re Only In It For the Money came out at the beginning of 1968. He had already two albums under the belt (maybe three, as some sources say that Lumpy Gravy was released in December 1967, before We’re Only In It For the Money came […] Continue reading →

Things sure have changed big time with Zappa between the 1966 release of Freak Out! and the 1981 released of You Are What You Is. In that time span, he decided to bring an end of the Mothers of Invention name after the release of Bongo Fury in 1975 (because, after all, the Mothers existed […] Continue reading →

Osanna was one of the great Italian prog rock bands. Maybe not as well known as PFM, Le Orme, or even Banco for that matter, but definately worth looking in to. Palepoli is Osanna’s third album, and was the very first Italian prog album I ever heard and I was just totally amazed! It also […] Continue reading →

Far East Family Band spawned the careers of three guys. Their names being Fumio Miyashita (who often released his albums under simply the “Fumio” name), Akira Ito, and most of all, Masanori Takahashi. Maybe you might not know Masanori Takahashi by that name, but you know him as Kitaro, the prolific New Age artist of […] Continue reading →

One area of prog rock I failed to cover here is the French scene. I covered the British, German, and Italian scenes pretty well here, even threw in some Scandinavian acts. When people think of French prog, they think Magma, Ange, Atoll, or Pulsar. Another band worth looking in to is Carpe Diem, who only […] 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 →