Tag Archives: prog rock

DAMO SUZUKI’S NETWORK – Floating Element

October 3, 2016

Purple Pyramid 2016 Because he can: ethereal avant-gardist enters the world of chamber exploration and comes out triumphant. Damo Suzuki’s wail may be gone now but the legendary CAN man hasn’t lost an iota of his Schrödinger’s cat quality of … Continue reading →

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JACK LANCASTER – Carnival Of The Animals

October 1, 2016

Verdant 2016 Saving the planet with a power of music, British blues maven gathers a flock of kindred spirits. Phil Collins and Wayne Kramer chime in. Four decades after its release, “Peter And The Wolf” still stands out as a … Continue reading →

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ZHONGYU – Zhongyu

September 29, 2016

MoonJune 2016 The happening of a journey from beyond The Great Wall to the land of ghosts. With “zhongyu” meaning “eventually” in Mandarin, there’s no better word to announce the arrival of this ensemble that carve a Tianxia-shaped niche within … Continue reading →

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GANDALF – To Another Horizon

September 27, 2016

WEA 1983 / Esoteric 2016 Woe to the world that we’re leaving behind: a new-age scenario of finding a way out of mundane quandary into a celestial spectrum of possibilities. Sci-fi has always been a safe haven for progressive-minded artists, yet Heinz … Continue reading →

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RENAISSANCE – Live Fillmore West 1970

September 22, 2016

Spiral 2002 / Angel Air 2016 Concert rarity from the original, Yardbirds-inhabited ensemble of quintessential British art-rockers. It would be erroneous to see this band’s original line-up as a caterpillar which transformed into a butterfly in the early ’70s and … Continue reading →

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