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 →

Focus followed their wonderful Moving Waves with Focus 3, this time being a double album. The band at this point featured guitarist Jan Akkerman, organist/flutist Thijs van Leer, and drummer Pierre van der Linden with new bassist Bert Ruiter (later a member of Earth & Fire). Although this album still has some fine material, it […] Continue reading →

While Lord of the Rings remains Bo Hansson’s best known, not to mention best selling (sold quite well in Europe and Australia), I really believe that Attic Thoughts (known in Sweden as Mellanväsen), which is his third solo album, to be by far his best album. After the somewhat lacklustre (but still worth having) Magician’s […] Continue reading →

King Crimson might not have the most consistent album output, mainly because the band went through so many different lineup changes (with only guitarist Robert Fripp being the only member through it all) and different phases (fans of one phase of Crimson might not be the fan of another phase of the band). 1969’s In […] Continue reading →

If you want to look for more great Italian prog and it’s something different from the usual PFM, Banco, Le Orme influenced stuff, then let me suggest you Sensations’ Fix. Fragments of Light is their very first album and is very unlike most Italian bands. For one thing, instead of borrowing heavily from classical, or […] Continue reading →

After a couple of Mothers of Invention albums (Freak Out, Absolutely Free), Zappa decided to do a project outside the Mothers, and he decided to do what is perhaps his most ambitious project up until that point. And Lumpy Gravy, released in December 1967 (I’ve also seen varying sources say this album was released in […] Continue reading →

Paul Horn spent the late 1950s to mid 1960s playing conventional jazz. The kind of jazz he played is what you expect in that kind of music way before “smooth jazz” and Kenny G. ever came around and made it crappy. But by the end of 1966, he flew to India to study meditation with […] Continue reading →