November/December 2011
| CD’S (PROGRESSIVE) ARGENTINA MUSICOS INDEPENDIENTES ASOCIADOS (MIA) - Killer new issues by this great 70's prog band. PABLO “EL ENTERRADOR” - What else is there to say about this prog/symph masterpiece other than get it! http://www.myspace.com/pabloelenterrador VITALE, LITO - 1st album by MIA keyboardist and what a dark beauty this is. Essential! BELGIUM QUANTUM FANTAY - New live album. http://www.myspace.com/quantumfantay CHILE ARENAL - Energetic (mostly instrumental) symph/prog. http://www.myspace.com/arenalvalpo FRANCE ALKOZAUR - Neo symph/prog close to Fish-era Marillion. http://www.myspace.com/alkozaur-rock-progressif AQUASERGE - Mix of jazz, fusion and chamber rock. Crazy but excellent! http://www.myspace.com/aquoisersje BALZER, ANDRÉ - Symphonic musical journey by Atoll vocalist. He still sounds great so the Atoll reunion concert at Farfest (Tertio line-up!) later this year should be something special. http://www.myspace.com/andrebalzer BLACK NOODLE PROJECT, THE - http://www.myspace.com/theblacknoodleproject BOOZ, EMMANUEL - 2nd album by this brilliant French progressive artist. http://www.myspace.com/emmanuelbooz CAMEMBERT - First full-length release by this wonderful instrumental seven piece progressive jazz rock band. Recommended! http://www.myspace.com/camembert67 ECHOES - New album! http://www.myspace.com/echoesrouen EYE TO EYE - Great new concept album! http://www.myspace.com/eye2eyeband KALMOS - Instrumental electronic/symphonic. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfyu7HpfZTk LABORATOR - Instrumental three piece (keys, drums & guitar/bass) symph/prog with bits of fusion. Great! http://www.myspace.com/laborator LAZARO - Heavy neo prog with guests such as Jordan Rudess (Dream Theatre), Mel Gaynor (Simple Minds) and Damien Schmitt (Jean-Luc Ponty). http://www.myspace.com/michelazaro NOETRA - Top quality early previously unreleased tracks! STEVEGANE PROJECT - 5 lengthy tracks of Pink Floyd & Mike Oldfield inspired guitar dominated, dreamy prog. Great! http://www.myspace.com/steveganeproject THÉORIE DES CORDES, LA - Super instrumental progressive fusion. Recommended! http://www.myspace.com/theoriedescordes VIDEO - ADVENTURES - Strange electronic music from 1979-1984 that is deemed a classic by many. GERMANY ROEDELIUS, HANS-JOACHIM - Music to the film Imagine. SEVEN STEPS TO THE GREEN DOOR - New album! http://www.myspace.com/ssttgd/music SUBSIGNAL - New album! http://www.subsignalband.com/?page_id=206 TANGERINE DREAM GREECE SOCRATES - With Vangelis. This was their only prog album but what a great one it is. HUNGARY AFTER CRYING - New album! http://www.myspace.com/aftercrying ANDROID - New album! http://www.myspace.com/androidgroup CARPATHIA PROJECT - Long-awaited 2nd album! http://www.reverbnation.com/carpathiaproject NINE BOOKS - Symphonic rock project led by two amazing musicians Bertalan Hirleman & Joe Vedres. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc8_jUrdAAE ICELAND MALONE, BRIAN - Instrumental music by this Irish multi-instrumentalist. I hear a lot of Mike Oldfield in this work. http://www.myspace.com/httpwwwmyspacecombrianmalone ISRAEL SOLSTICE COIL - New album! http://www.myspace.com/solsticecoil ITALY CAPRA, MARCELLO - New album by the incredible Procession guitarist. http://www.myspace.com/marcellocapra LAGARTIJA - New album and another wonderful effort! http://www.myspace.com/lagartijaband METAMORFOSI - Very limited! http://www.metamorfosi.me/ENdischi.html MOOGG - Canterbury progressive with some killer keyboards. Essential! http://www.myspace.com/mooggtheband NEW TROLLS - Fantastic new issues! http://www.myspace.com/newtrollsilmito RADIUS, ALBERTO - New issue of the 3rd album from 1976 by Formula 3, Il Volo guitarist. http://www.myspace.com/albertoradius JAPAN MAKI, CARMEN - 2nd album from 1969 of soft symphonic/lounge/folk/psych from this legendary Japanese singer. FOX HOLE COMMUNE (F.H.C.) - 2nd album now adding an accordian player and a more RIO/avant garde sound. HAPPY END - Soft rock/psych from 1970. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6Kw9PNeNtU&feature=related KENSO - Quite possibly their best album. http://www.myspace.com/kensojapan MABOROSHI PAGANZ - Ex-Lacrymosa instrumental acoustic (hurdy gurdy, acoustic guitar, darbuka, tombak) music mixed with mellotron. http://www.myspace.com/maboroshipaganz QUASER - New album by symphonic proggers. http://www.eonet.ne.jp/~quaser/e/disco/index.html SAKURABA, MOTOI - Excellent keyboard driven instrumental symphonic rock by Deja Vu keyboardist. These have been out of print for many moons. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNx2GAPmghE&feature=related MEXICO CAJA DE PANDORA - Instrumental prog/symph from 1981. One of the best to come out of Mexico. http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=47 DELIRIUM - Classic Mexican symph/prog. http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=77 MÚSICA Y CONTRACULTURA - Quite unique symphonic rock with elements of opera. Been out of print for ages. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFKHRI036eo NETHERLANDS PYTHAGORAS PERU FLOR DE LOTO - New album finally in stock! http://www.myspace.com/flordelotoprogre POLAND ABRAXAS - New issues by this neo prog band band. http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=3 ACUTE MIND - Melancholy, heavy and neo prog close to Riverside. http://www.myspace.com/acutemind AFTER... - New album! http://www.myspace.com/afterpl APPLE BELLS - Although a new Polish, band these guys have a lot more in common with the 70’s Czech bands such as Modry Efekt & Synkopy. Nice debut! http://www.applebells.com/muzyka.php HIPGNOSIS - New album! http://www.myspace.com/hipgnosispl LANDSCAPE - Neo prog close to Riverside, Sylvan and Porcupine Tree. http://www.myspace.com/landscapeband METUS - 2 latest albums by this dark foreboding symphonic/gothic/classical. http://www.myspace.com/metuspl QUBE - Like Riverside but in some parts even heavier. http://www.myspace.com/qubelu TUNE - Melodic prog with some wonderful melodies and passionate vocals. Highly recommended! http://www.myspace.com/tunelodz RUSSIA LITTLE TRAGEDIES - New album! http://www.myspace.com/littletragediesband SPAIN ABSENTE H - Solid first release by this Spanish progressive band. Some very nice keyboards & flute to go along with the passionate vocals. http://www.myspace.com/absenteh IGNATIUS - Symph/prog with a wall of keyboards not unlike Eloy. Fantastic! http://www.myspace.com/ignatiusrock TRICANTROPUS - New album! http://www.myspace.com/anmarna SWEDEN ORESUND SPACE COLLECTIVE - New release by one of the best space rock bands around. http://www.myspace.com/oresundspacecollective REFORM - Top-notch instrumental progressive jazz fusion. Recommended! http://www.seaoftranquility.org/reviews.php?op=showcontent&id=12051 U.K. AARDVARK - Decca prog classic from 1970. http://www.myspace.com/aardvark1970 ARENA - Deluxe edition of their new album! http://www.myspace.com/arenaatverglas ENID, THE - http://www.myspace.com/theenid BROWN, ARTHUR & VINCENT CRANE - Great and unique orchestrated prog album originally released on Klaus Schulze’s IC label in 1980. http://www.arthurbrownmusic.com/pages/arthur-brown/vincent-crane-faster-than-the-speed-of-light/7149 BROWN’S KINGDOM COME, ARTHUR BURKE, DEC - New album! http://www.myspace.com/decburke CURVED AIR - http://www.myspace.com/curvedaironline DEEEXPUS - New album! http://www.myspace.com/deeexpusmusic FUTURE KINGS OF ENGLAND, THE - New album! http://www.myspace.com/thefuturekingsofengland HAINES BAND, NORMAN - Post-Locomotive progressive from 1971. http://www.myspace.com/normanhainesband71 HAMILL, CLAIRE - http://www.myspace.com/clairehamill HARSH REALITY - 1st official release of this proto-prog album from 1969. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgxWtKbbIzY HAWKWIND IONA - We finally have stock of the new album! http://www.myspace.com/ionauk KING CRIMSON LAST DAZE OF THE UNDERGROUND, THE - Porcupine Tree, Praise Space Electric, On Trial, Treatment, Electric Orange, Josiah, Kryptastesie, Kava Kava, Wobble Jaggle Jiggle, The Aarvarks, Jeff Tarlton, , Moom, John Fallon, The Surf Sluts, Reefus Moons & The Suicidal Flowers, The Beginning, The Steppes, Dead Flowers, The Sons Of Selina, Nova Express, Nick Riff, Mandragora, Boris & His Bolshie Balalaika, Colored Plank, Saddar Bazaar, Vex, Omnia Opera, Nine Invisibles, Zuvuya With Terence McKenna, Breitband, Psychomuzak, Liberation Thru’ Hearing, Tangle Edge, Nukli, The Spacious Mind. MAN MANDALABAND - New album! http://www.myspace.com/mandalaband3 MANN’S EARTH BAND, MANFRED - Manfred's best album now available as a mini. OZRIC TENTACLES - New album! http://www.myspace.com/ozrictentacles SNAFU - Post-Jucy Lucy, Procol Harum seventies mix of funk & country rock. SOFT MACHINE STUD - Prog/rockers from 1971, 1972 & 1973 with connections to Family, Blossom Toes and Taste. http://www.irishrock.org/irodb/bands/stud.html WILSON, STEVEN - Limited quantity of the special digibook edition! http://www.myspace.com/therealstevenwilson WOOD, CHRIS - Previosuly unreleased 70’s jazz rock album by flute/sax player of Traffic. http://www.lunarmusic.co.uk/ UKRAINE KARFAGEN - New album! http://www.myspace.com/karfagen USA GLASS HAMMER - New album! http://www.myspace.com/glasshammer11 HOT TUNA - Post-Jefferson Airplane 70’s blues rock. http://hottuna.com/ LOGIC GATE - Killer 70’s Berlin-style electronic music. http://logicgate.bandcamp.com/album/from-the-silence & http://logicgate.bandcamp.com/album/voyages POCKET ORCHESTRA - Instrumental avant garde/prog/jazz band. This package includes Knëbnagäuje and a live CD from 1980-84. SNOPEK III, SIGMUND - Best album by one of USA’s most prolific prog artists. STARCASTLE - Super issues by the American answer to Yes. http://www.myspace.com/starcastlerocks & http://www.myspace.com/starcastle7677 VARIOUS ARTISTS CD’s LAST DAZE OF THE UNDERGROUND, THE - Porcupine Tree, Praise Space Electric, On Trial, Treatment, Electric Orange, Josiah, Kryptastesie, Kava Kava, Wobble Jaggle Jiggle, The Aarvarks, Jeff Tarlton, , Moom, John Fallon, The Surf Sluts, Reefus Moons & The Suicidal Flowers, The Beginning, The Steppes, Dead Flowers, The Sons Of Selina, Nova Express, Nick Riff, Mandragora, Boris & His Bolshie Balalaika, Colored Plank, Saddar Bazaar, Vex, Omnia Opera, Nine Invisibles, Zuvuya With Terence McKenna, Breitband, Psychomuzak, Liberation Thru’ Hearing, Tangle Edge, Nukli, The Spacious Mind. JAPANESE MINI LP SLEEVE CD’s CURVED AIR ENID, THE HAMILL, CLAIRE MANN’S EARTH BAND, MANFRED MUSICOS INDEPENDIENTES ASOCIADOS (MIA) NEW TROLLS PABLO “EL ENTERRADOR” SNAFU SNOPEK III, SIGMUND STARCASTLE STUD DVD's ARENA MANGROVE PBII LP’s BRAINTICKET ECHOES GARYBALDI KING CRIMSON KONG LAVRING MIN BUL MURPLE ORESEUND SPACE COLLECTIVE PYTHAGORAS TANGERINE DREAM TEOREMI, I VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR WHITE WILLOW |
