"Single Celled Organism is the new progressive rock project of Jens Lueck. The attentive progVisions reader will recognize this name from my reviews of the albums of his musical partners Isgaard and Volker Kuinke. The later makes music under the moniker Syrinx Call. Jens Lueck has his own Art Of Music Studio and is a respected producer, composer and musician. My first acquaintance with Jens Lueck was at the time when he produced some albums of one of my favorite German bands, Sylvan. To stay with Sylvan...

“At hand are five compositions in a category somewhere between interesting and magical, originally recorded around 1993, remastered ten years after that, with a couple of the pieces (a purely electronic version of “Evon” and “Quert”) finding a home on a 1992 Auditorium soundtrack disc and a 2002 Margen label sampler respectively, and then finally released together on CD in 2007 on Hi Sound Records, and now reissued again on ADN in 2016. Sinigaglia is primarily known as an electronic musician, although...

Marco Giovannini – voice
Sauro Musi – guitar
Valerio Roda – bass
Maurizio Pezzoli – keyboards
Eleonora Montenegro – transverse flute
Nicola Alberghini – drums

"An elegant, poetic crossroads between italian progressive rock from the 70s, prog-folk tints and songwriting attitudes. Almost a concept album and as in the debut (“Il sole alle spalle” 2017) a splendid suite could not be missing, this time the 14 minutes of “Il Viaggio di Es”
About Sithonia, the sound is.

Great price on this now out of print disc from CMP. One of the most famous Sharki singers, Sipahi performs Turkish vocal msuic accompanied by the Kudsi Erguner Ensemble. [CMP]

When I was at the tail end of 8th grade, beginning of 9th grade, I had been playing guitar for about a year, I had my first electric guitar and amplifier and I was in my first band.
We covered as much of the first Sir Lord Baltimore album as I could muster and we were dreadful, which was a feature, not a bug.
This is totally great, loud, lunkhead metal circa 1970. They truly ARE what every stoner rock band merely aspires to be...

“When it comes to the birth of heavy metal and hard..

Yaw Tembe trumpet, voice
Monsieur Trinité percussion

"Two generations gather in this surprising project: from one side a young Swazi born trumpeter who is committed to bring Africa to the Portuguese free music scene, Yaw Tembe, and from the other a veteran percussionist / objects manipulator, Monsieur Trinité (Francisco Trindade), a former emigrant in Paris who brought home the Situationist concepts he discovered in France. Nothing on their respective careers prepared us for the music of...

"Listening to Asaf Sirkis at work, two things are immediately obvious: passion and commitment. Blessed with technical skills that are disarmingly under-played, his middle-Eastern sensibility balances the potentially volcanic with the meditative and reflective. A master of creative surprise, it’s on the edge of your seat listening when Asaf’s in town."-Bill Bruford ...

Jaume Sisa is a folk-rock artist with a very idiosyncratic style. His first album, Origa (1971), was a prime example of psychedelic folk the Spanish way, with Sisa following his whim much like Robin Williamson (Incredible String Band) in his heyday. Th...

"I first met Blaise Siwula back in January 2005, when I played at ABC NoRio (located in Lower East Side of Manhattan) with the superlative bassist Vytis Nivinskas from Lithuania. Since 1998, Blaise has been hosting C.O.M.A., a weekly creative music...

"Through dark days and glowing nights, Six Organs of Admittance continues to step to the far rim of the world with purposeful strides. Indeed, new horizons are visible throughout Luminous Night. Be it in the face of spiritual crisis or catharsis, Ben...

Rikard Sjoblom is the very great keyboardist in Beardfish, and this 80' album is basically two albums combined. Inspired by a well known (in Sweden - he's unknown here) author's work, Rikard has given this book "Cyklomannen" (The Cyclone Man) a musical...

“On May the 30th 2011, SKE – 1000 Autunni was released, under the AltrOck/Fading Records label. It was the solo debut album of Paolo Botta, better known at the time as the keyboard player of one of the most acclaimed R.I.O/Avant Rock new bands: Yugen.
The album was praised by critic and public alike, for its miraculous equilibrium between symph prog and avant prog, and went out of print in a few months.
The band's numerous lineup included a good part of Yugen plus members from french band...

“In early 2002, Achim Kaufmann, Frank Gratkowski and Wilbert de Joode first got together as a trio at a small venue in Amsterdam. Since then, the three musicians have been touring and performing internationally on a regular basis, while constantly developing, deepening and enriching their musical rapport now documented on five CDs so far: kwast on Konnex; Unearth on Nuscope; Palaë and Oblengths on Leo Records; and Geäder on Gligg Records. To celebrate their ten-year anniversary as a trio in 2013...

In the early 1980's, after disbanding the great trio Massacre, Fred Frith formed Skeleton Crew as a sort of a three person 1-man band, with Tom Cora (Curlew) and Dave Newhouse (The Muffins). Dave left pretty soon after, and for the next few years, the two man Skeleton Crew toured all over everywhere, bringing their unique blend of high musicianship (Fred on violin, guitar, half a drumset, vocals and Tom on cello, guitar, bass, the other half of the drumset and vocals) and low-tech protest song and...

I've always had a real soft spot for this band and their two albums, which came out in 1970 (Skid) and 1971 (34 Hours). A weirdo progressive blues band, which was the first professional gig for the then 17 year old guitarist Gary Moore + bassist/vocali...

While this saxophone trio lasted for several years and played a lot of gigs in Europe, I believe that this is the only release that the band actually put out. It's been a real rarity until this new reissue.

"It is wonderful to have this album available for the first time on CD—and scary to realise that it was recorded and released in 1975! It is worth dwelling for a moment on how the (jazz) world has changed in the intervening years. In 1975, the idea of an all-saxophone group was unheard of; the...

Harry Skoler - clarinet
Kenny Barron - piano
Christian McBride - bass
Johnathan Blake - drums
Jazzmeia Horn - vocals
Nicholas Payton - trumpet
Megan Gould - violin I
Tomoto Omura - violin II
Karen Waltuch - viola
Noah Hoffeld - cello

“The righteous and bombastic nature of the great bassist/composer Charles Mingus made him a polarizing personality. His unique personality, combined with his groundbreaking music, were magnetic for open-minded list

"Causa Sui drummer Jakob Skøtt is back with the third installment in his "drums versus synthesizers" explorations. Fully indulging in this strange form of layered solo jams, these tracks are alive in a very real sense -- there's an organic vibe present in which monophonic synthesizers and polyphonic rhythms merge in a way you've never heard before. Any reference to other music and genres gets warped and turned on its head, quicker than you can catch onto it, as everything is weaved together in a...

This has that heavy stoner/psych/early metal vibe that some Swedish bands (and the Transubstans label) do so well! Vocals, guitars, bass and drums. You can hear the inspirations from Black Sabbath & Captain Beyond as well as from Mastodon and High on...

"After thirteen years as one of the centerpieces of Sweden’s experimental rock scene The Skull Defekts return with their final, self-titled album. The Skull Defekts are known for merging the coarse vitality of punk with the ritualism of folk dances to create music that is addictive, wondrously discordant, and rooted in a belief in the overwhelming power of pure sound.
Their final self-titled album is the band’s most composed effort to date and features new member Mariam Wallentin (Wildbirds &....

In the late 1970s, Sky emerged as sort of a musician's musicians supergroup, consisting of musicians from the classical and (progressive) rock worlds. While they weren't touted as a progressive rock band, they were a progressive rock band in the same...

"The Studio Albums 1979 - 1987 is a clamshell box set that gathers together all seven studio albums released by the legendary classical rock band Sky over a nine year period. Formed in 1979, Sky brought together the worlds of rock and classical music in a highly successful and inspiring way. Featuring the gifted talents of guitarist John Williams, percussionist Tristan Fry, legendary bass player Herbie Flowers, former Curved Air keyboard player Francis Monkman and guitarist Kevin Peek, Sky recorded their...

"Skyline from the Bielefeld area emerged out of the well-known band Virus; they had, however, hardly anything in common with their predecessor’s music. What they now played was jazz-rock with slight funky influences and English lyrics; altogether much smoother than the music by Virus. Their only LP, “Louise for one night”, was recorded in fall of 1975 and released as a private pressing in an edition of 500 copies in 1976.
Skyline took part in the Vlotho “Umsonst und draußen” (“Free and open air”)...