“Peregrination is the centerpiece of a cycle that began with the release of Retinue (2019) and will find it's completion in a final recording yet to come. Where the universe described in Retinue is an expat's new home, Peregrination packs up, throws open the doors sets out on a pilgrimage whose immediate focus is found among the uncounted details discovered along the path of any and every journey. Built of rhythms, timbres, scales, and voices gathered from an imagined archipelago, Peregrination is...

“The six extended pieces on Retinue had their beginning in a book on creating step sequencers using Max/MSP that Gregory Taylor wrote for Cycling ’74 after his return from the Netherlands (where his previous sonic diary Randstad was recorded). The development of the book’s materials was an opportunity to re-encounter his love for sequencing as practiced by the form’s early (Edgar Froese, Suzanne Ciani, Michael Hoenig) and later (Saul Stokes, Paul Ellis) practitioners and also to explore its connections...

Mike Taylor (piano)
Dave Tomlin (soprano saxophone)
Tony Reeves (double bass
Jon Hiseman (drums)

Mike Taylor only released two albums in his very short lifetime, which were recorded in 1965 and 1966 (and then, totally weirdly, two more that were recorded in 1965 were uncovered and released in 2021!).
After a long time trying to source this release, I finally got a copy and I made quiet time for myself as soon as I could and I played it.
I saw some bitching, somewhere on th

"2004 album by Danish composer and multi-instrumentalist Robin Taylor and long-time mate Karsten Vogel. A 7-tracker that contains progressive jazz/avant-garde music, filled with beauty. A coherent and impressive album that shows what progressive rock...

"An 8-track compilation of left-overs and tracks not fitting the original albums. Highly mind-expanding progressive/Art Rock/RIO/fusion style in Taylor's own league. With Karsten Vogel on sax."

Kenji Imai - Flute
Ryuji Yonekura - Keyboards
Takayuki Asada - Drums
Yukio Iigahama - Bass
Katsumi Yoneda - Guitar

“Tales of Eternal Entities brings the sound already characteristic of the Japanese quintet, Progressive symphonic rock with a lot of influence from Camel and the classic Italian bands with the use of flute as the main instrument and the guitar full of jazz phrasing. 'Epimetheus' and 'Mother Earth' are my favorites.
Listen to TEE if you like instrumental...

Kenji Imai - flute, piccolo
Ryuji Yonekura - piano, synthesizers
Takayuki Asada - drums & percussion
Yukio Iigahama - bass, fretless bass
Katsumi Yoneda – guitars

This is the fifth album by TEE, also sometimes known as T.E.E., also sometimes known as The Earth Explorer.
Here’s what you need to know: TEE are a super competent symphonic / progressive rock band with jazz/rock touches, with a line-up of instrumentation the same as the second and third Kenso albums, and...

This is one of a trilogy of albums coordinated by label founder Tee Fuji. Its a bit of an all-star jam with members of the TBM roster. The album consists of two side long groove laden tracks that give everyone a chance to blow. Particularly notable...

''A co-founder of Musica Elettronica Viva (M.E.V.) Richard Teitelbaum has been acknowledged as a musical pioneer for over three decades. Golem, a multimedia 'interactive opera,' features vocalists Shelley Hirsch and David Moss, violinist Carlos Zingaro...

"In July 1971, Telegraph Avenue's debut album appeared on the market in Peru, and became the best selling rock record of the year. The time was right for Latin rock with psychedelic touches (a fact evident all over the Americas), and Telegraph Avenue...

“The first question you'll likely have about this one is - how does it sound? The answer is, it's about the same quality as an audience cassette recording. We're talking lo-fi, and when you consider the second half has already been out there, you might even have heard much of it before (it was previously released by ROIR as The Blow Up). So that's the quality out of the way - drums sound a little distant, you lose the vocals at times, but the guitars are ever-present, and blistering.
If you own The...

"The second album by TEMPEST, the group formed in 1972 by Colosseum drummer JON HISEMAN. Upon the demise of Hiseman’s previous group he formed the muscular outfit Tempest with Colosseum bassist MARK CLARKE, guitarist ALLAN HOLDSWORTH and Vocalist and Keyboard player PAUL WILLIAMS.
Another excellent work, this Esoteric Recordings edition of “Living in Fear” has been re-mastered and restores the albums original elaborate artwork and features two bonus tracks recorded in 1974."

This is the third studio release from one of the best Rock Progressivo Italiano bands currently out there at this time and the band is made even better by having on board ace-drummer Mattias Olsson behind the kit!

"As the preceding album, also in this case the title is a word game. The union of latin verb "ludere", that means 'the act of playing', with the italian article "il" generates a dualism between "il giocare" (the act of playing) and the verb "illudere", that means 'to deceive' or...

Gavin Templeton - Alto Saxophone
Joshua White - Piano
Richard Giddens - Bass
Gene Coye - Drums

*****5 STARS***** from All About Jazz
"Listening to this disc, one gets the sense that Templeton is baring his soul, playing as if his very life depends on it. And somehow, he's lined up a band with the same attitude. This is what sets Ballast apart. There's something going on here above and beyond the high quality of Templeton's compositions and the amazing musicianship throughout thi

Relatively little known, short-lived band emerging from the progressive and folk scenes of Quebec, who released two albums. This from 1977 is their second and last.
They were formed in 1975 and their sound, not surprisingly, is influenced by the immensely popular progressive / folk sound of Harmonium.

“It is the second time producer Max Marchini respecfully dare to revisit timeless classics.
First with The North Sea Radio Orchestra on the critically acclaimed “Folly Bololey”, issued on Dark Companion Records. Now with this stunning revisitation of Tarkus, the revolutionary masterpiece written by Greg Lake and Keith Emerson over 50 years ago and issued by ELP on Island on June 14, 1971.
The project was conceived when Max, under Greg Lake’s agreement, was the artistic director of the reborn...

"This is the second release by the Los Angeles-based Ten East. Ten East started up in the mid-'00s as a semi-improvised outfit. They caught the ears of Alone Records out of Spain, who released their debut Extraterrestrial Highway (now re-released by...

"We often forget that the voice was the first instrument humans had at their disposal. A major error but one that Sardinian artists, with their age old vocal tradition do not make, as can be seen from the robust health of the a tenore polyphonic chant...

This albums marks the 30th anniversary of this legendary acappella group from Sardina. Over the years their pure and powerful style has wond the admiration of artists such as Frank Zappa, Peter Gabriel, Lester Bowie & Ornette Coleman. There is no denyi...

"A quartet from Rome, though their singer Vincenzo "Lord Enzo" Massetti came from Naples, they debuted with a single in 1971. The album, simply called “I Teoremi”, is one of the rarest Italian prog-era albums, though not a proper prog LP, as it...

Think of the crazy, tap-guitar complexity of Upsilon Acrux. Then marry it with the deep, multi-part singing of Time of Orchids and that's the area this is working in. Really good, modern, underground/punky/avant-progressive.

"The long-awaited follow-up to 2013's X'ed Out, Trash Generator finds the Sacramento-based math rock unit turning in another singular set of knotty, hook-laden, anti-pop emissions that deliver daring feats of fingerboard wizardry, jerky time-signature-be-damned rhythmic...

“Tercia was a great Mexican symphonic progressive rock band in the mid 70’s and early 80’s but unfortunately, they never recorded any music, let alone made a record back then.
Now, original keyboard player and composer Fernando Garrido has rescued the original compositions of Tercia from obscurity by recording them for the first time.
Back at that time, Tercia were a four piece ensemble, and Garrido has done a decent job of recreating all the parts from his multi-keyboards.
“El Viaje”...

with Jeb Bishop, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Jason Roebke, Ben Vida [Atavistic]