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 →

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 →

Writing on the Wall, from Edinburgh, Scotland is the epitome of an underground rock band. Their one and only album was entitled The Power of the Picts, released in 1969 on a label called Middle Earth (the band also happened to perform at the Middle Earth Club as well). The label only had something like […] Continue reading →

While many people most familiar with the German scene are familiar with bands such as Can, Faust, Neu, Amon Düül II, Tangerine Dream, Ash Ra Tempel, and the likes, the country had quite a few more or less conventional symphonic prog acts out there. Like Eloy, Novalis, Grobschnitt, Ramses, many of these bands of course, […] 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 →

I have already reviewed a bunch of Ozric Tentacles albums already, but what I hadn’t done is reviewed one of their live albums, so here goes. Live at the Pongmasters Ball is the band’s most recent live album, recorded March 29th (Friday), 2002 at the Shepherds Bush Empire in London. This was also their first […] 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 →

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 →

Music in a Doll’s House is the debut album from this eclectic British rock band, Family, and is by far their most psychedelic. It’s also one of my all-time favorite psychedelic albums ever. This band never made it in America (they were quite a bit more popular in their native England) which is a real […] Continue reading →

Fleetwood Mac is one of those bands that received so much hype and they had so many songs overplayed on the radio it’s not even funny. But of course, this was the post-1975 Fleetwood Mac with Lindsay Buckingham and Stevie Nicks. To be frank, I’m not really much a fan of that era of Fleetwood […] Continue reading →