Classic, DARK freak folk release from 1971 that didn't sound like anything else in the air at that time (and still doesn't). This also includes their very rare, non-lp EP of the same time.

"If you're lucky, very very occasionally, an album comes along which completely blows you away, and you know it will be with you for life. It goes on heavy heavy rotation, and your life BECOMES the album for a while, and you know you'll never be quite the same again. Many strange threads coincided which...

“Alright, let’s cut to the chase: To Shoot Another Day is a Technicolor fever dream, a séance with rock’s wildest ghosts, and Rosalie Cunningham is the medium channeling every twisted, glamorous echo from the ‘60s and ‘70s straight to your speakers. This is no desperate grab for innovation, no, Rosalie’s too smart for that. Instead, she’s firing up the engines of classic rock and rolling out her own strange, spectacular theater.
This album is dripping in acid-soaked guitars, Bond-style cinematic...

Here’s one I never even heard until some time after it was reissued on CD and which I had put off hearing, as I was afraid it would be awful. I was wrong.
It's an extremely good 1970-style, English, proto-progressive album of songs featuring Graham Bell-electric piano, acoustic guitar, lead vocals, Geoffrey Peach-reeds, backing vocals, Alan Cartwright-bass, John Hedley-gutar and Brian Davison-drums (yes, Brian of The Nice and Refugee). If you like that very late 60s/very early 70s progressive/song...

A reissue of Julie's first solo album, before she became Julie Tippetts, but still in a proto-version of the style that she would develop to a peak on Sunset Glow. This has a great band: Julie's voice and acoustic guitar with : Jeff Clyne, Mark Charig, Jim Creegan, Elton Dean, Nick Evans, Brian Godding, Karl Jenkins,Stan Saltzman, Trevor Tompkins & Keith Tippett, among others. A classic of 1969 art/progressive/song and unavailable for a long time on CD!

“Recorded in 1969, but not released until...

A milestone in the birth of 'progressive/art' rock, East of Eden's debut album, 'Mercator Projected' has been cited by MOJO magazine as a ...masterpiece". Released on the legendary Deram label in 1969, the album established East of Eden as a major act,...

Finally available again after much too many years and much demand from our customers. This was the third and final album by the trio of Dave Stewart-organ and piano, Mont Campbell-bass and vocals and Clive Brooks-drums. It was actually recorded a few...

How to explain Family's 3rd album (1970) 50 years later? Take a idiosyncratic vocalist, who, like Peter Hammill or Don Van Vliet you either grow to love or hate (Roger Chapman) combine his talents with a standard guitar-led rock format, but add a multi-instrumentalist who plays vibes/piano/flute, a bassist who plays violin, and have the guitarist add banjo at the right times. Stir this wild and creative mix of hard rock and and folk and shake it all up with a lot of thought and experimentation, while...

Excellent reissue on Esoteric, overseen by Mark Powell, by singer/songwriter Bill Fay, who released two albums for Deram/Nova in 1970/71 and promptly dissapeared after they came out to total bafflement of the public at large.
This really is a very fine album in its vein; as the little sticker sez on the box "The missing link between Nick Drake, Ray Davies and Bob Dylan"-Uncut.
This, the second, is much more stripped down, with Bill Fay on piano and vocals, with Ray Russell as musical arranger and..

Second album by this very fondly remembered offshoot of early Yes, featuring guitarist Peter Banks, along with Ray Bennett (bass, guitar), Colin Carter (vocals) and Mike Hough (drums). A very good Yes-related album that has a lot of stylistic...

"I think once you get past the opening track "Rocket Roll" (which I think is silly and FM's worst song), the rest of the album contains my favorite music that FM ever did. The one-two punch of the very moving "Horizons" segueing into the energetic "Random Harvest" is for me, FM's high point. "Seventh Heaven" is also very good. "Sofa Back" reminds one of Rush's YYZ (except this was released 2 years before Rush's Moving Pictures album which contained YYZ). This album also shows FM in a vein that Rush did...

Fruupp were a very good but basically overlooked Irish progressive band consisting of keyboards/oboe/vocals, guitars/vocals, bass/lead vocals & drums. Their albums were Future Legends (73), Seven Secrets (74), Prince Of Heaven's Eyes and Modern Masquerades (75).
This is all very high-quality stuff; well played and well crafted and performed by a road-tested band that played shows constantly, with a light touch and even some acoustic-ish passages that might remind one of Genesis' early prime...

A very rare and very highly regarded 1971 album that mixes progressive rock and folk with a string trio. Includes an excellent booklet of photos and notes, that tell the story of this short lived band.

"Most of the songs were composed bearing in mind the possibility of using a small string ensemble, so when the nucleus of the band, leader Tony Durant (acoustic and electric guitars and vocals) (from psychedelic band Louise and collaborations with ex-Louise and future Henry Cow drummer Chris Cutler.

“Between March 1972 and their final performance at The Nottingham Boat Club in August 1975, the Global Village Trucking Company played 390 gigs. In that time, they gained many friends, fans and admirers. A Global Village gig was always a special occasion, full of unexpected moments and often passages of true inspiration. They were constantly pushing and stretching the boundaries, with a huge appetite for improvisation that often took them to giddy musical heights. It was for good reason that they were...

“A newly re-mastered and expanded edition of the highly collectable and legendary 1974 album by Gravy Train, "Staircase To The Day".
Formed in Lancashire in 1969, Gravy Train was fronted by guitarist and vocalist Norman Barratt, along with J.D. Hughes on keyboards, flute and saxophones, Les Williams on bass and Barry Davenport on drums. The band first came to public attention when they signed to Vertigo Records in 1970.
Gravy Train recorded two classic progressive rock albums for the label...

“A newly re-mastered and expanded 2 CD edition of the classic 1975 album, Time & Tide by GREENSLADE. Formed in 1972 by former Colosseum keyboard player Dave Greenslade, the band also featured former Web and Samurai member Dave Lawson (keyboards, vocals), former Colosseum bass player Tony Reeves and drummer Andrew McCulloch (formerly with King Crimson and Fields).
The calibre of the members of Greenslade ensured that the group would be innovative, ground breaking and dynamic in their musical...

"This is an official release of a 2 disc deluxe edition of GTR, the self-titled 1986 album by Steve Hackett and Steve Howe's band GTR. GTR was formed in 1985 following guitarist Steve Howe's departure from ASIA. Teaming up with the equally legendary...

"Esoteric Recordings are pleased to announce the release of a newly re-mastered expanded edition of Steve Hackett's unique 1994 album, "Blues With a Feeling".
The album showcased another side of the musical personality of the legendary guitarist. As Steve says; "The Blues is a style of music that's intensely emotional and exciting. The music is the place where truly alive electric guitar sounds were first born. All the sonic developments that rock music inherited stem from that"....

Seriously needed reissue of the second of the two Arista albums (the only records released during the band's lifetime) by the band I & many others consider to be the greatest US symphonic band of all time. They used a great dual keyboards/ woodwinds plus guitar front line, with great rhythm section & an amazing sense of dynamics. Some vocals, but not too much.
If you like "symphonic progressive rock" & you don't own this, you are missing out!

Saddled with what I think is the worst name in the world, this is a band that I used to see in the bins in the early 70s, but never heard and never wanted to hear until I was tipped off that they were actually an extremely good psychedelic / proto-progressive trio!
This includes both of their 1970 studio albums, their first single, as well as a previousy unreleased studio album! Surprisingly great (or at least surprising to me!)

“These days, “prog rock” suggests music with flagrant classical..

The second half of the complete output by this Canterbury supergroup, bringing together members of Egg, Gong, Caravan, Matching Mole & Delivery. Phew! One of my all time favorite bands. Both of their albums are fabulous, include bonus tracks & sound...

Never-before released, professionally recorded live album by the short-lived Hawklords, the offshoot of the Hawkwind. Never-before released, professionally recorded live album by the short-lived Hawklords, the offshoot of the Hawkwind...

"Atomhenge continue their series of definitive releases of Hawkwind's amazing legacy with the release of "CODED LANGUAGES: Hammersmith Odeon 1982". In 1982 Hawkwind released the album "Choose Your Masques" on RCA, their final release for the label and...

"This new edition has been remastered from the original master tapes, has been cut at Abbey Road Studios and is a facsimile of the original 1972 LP release with inner bag and poster.
The release also includes a remastered facsimile bonus seven-inch picture sleeve single of the rare German 1972 single release of ‘Lord of Light’ b/w ‘Born to Go” (live)’."

Hawkwind have a lot of very, very good albums, especially their 70s run, but for me personally, this 1971 release – their second – is their absolute finest hour. All the moves that make Hawkwind Hawkwind are here, but here they were VERY freshly conjured...

“Recorded in 1971, the album was Hawkwind’s first true masterwork and saw them fully realise their unique brand of Space Rock and was greeted with acclaim upon its release in October 1971 and was the band’s first Top 20 hit. The record was...