One of the earlier of the second generation of Japanese progressive/symphonic bands, originally forming in the late 1970's, this was their fifth album and was originally released in 1991, and is available for the first time in many years, courtesy of P...

Ange is without any doubt the most popular French Progressive Rock band of all-time. Coming from Belfort (Near the Swiss border), the group was at the forefront of the French musical scene during the 1970's. This is the complete, mythical Mulhouse conc...

Classic French progressive/symphonic that I have long heard compared to Genesis, but which sounds quite original to me. Excellent stuff!

"Ange's...debut was released in 1972 as Caricatures two years after they formed. This was a very strong...

This was the last of their 1970's works. "Ange returned to the studio in 1978 as a changed line up again with the Decamps, Guichard and new members Claude Demet on guitar and Gerald Renard on bass. As a result, Guet Apens had a different feel, this tim...

This is the current line-up of Ange performing what is one of their best and is one of their best-known releases, recorded live on November 8, 2003.

With the exception of the last three tracks on the album, the 'live' versions of all seven of the other songs, taken from the different studio albums, were constructed within the framework of a unified stylistics. Here, all of them are a bit more heavy...

Classic style symphonic progressive performed on guitars, bass/bass pedals, piano/ organ/mellotron, flute, drums & a smattering of vocals. Fantastic! This is a professional recording of the bands final-ever show, & includes most of their final album Ep...

"One of the many fantastic, obscure European progressive bands to be unearthed and made available to the prog-buying public by the French label Musea is Asia Minor, who only released two very small-time albums in the late '70s. This Turkish/French band...

The one and only album released by this Chilean progressive/fusion band which is released for the first time on CD here and with over 12' of bonus material. All instrumental, they used Fender Rhodes piano and synths, electric and acoustic guitar, flute...

"Erik Baron is a bass player and leader of the band from the Bordeaux band 'DésAccordes'. This third album, after 'Cordeyades' and 'In C', is revisiting Jannick top’s Magnum Opus 'De futura Hiroshima', initially released on Magma’s album 'Udu Wudu'...

Great package of oddball, weird, compelling, noisy, charming recordings. Bastien is a musical tinkerer who builds very low-tech machines that he calls Mecanium. Sometimes the Mecanium play alone and sometimes he plays instruments...

"In 1985, Guigou Chenevier, the leader of the French band ETRON FOU LELOUBLAN, had this funny idea of creating a trio entirely devoted to drums-and-sticks. He chose American Rick BROWN (V-EFFECT, FISH AND ROSES, RUN ON...) and British Charles HAYWARD...

"Alain Blesing is a French guitar player, known for having been part of the legendary progressive/zeuhl rock band Eskaton, who are considered to be one of the most gifted disciples of Magma. From the late Seventies, he extended his capacities by...

I'm certain that many of you will fondly remember this keyboard-dominated album that came out on Egg in France in the late 1970's. In addition to his solo works, Breant was in a band with Albert Marcoeur called Nemo and he is responsible for the wonder...

The last record by this fine pianist/keyboardist, who first came into the public's eye with Magma and Zao. This is a jazz/electric jazz release that features François on keyboards, François Causse-drums, Petteri Parviainen-electric bass, Leonard Le...

The second (& my favorite) of two by this solid symphonic rock band from Nice, France. Having the exact same instrumentation as the better known Pulsar (keyboards, reeds, guitar, bass, drums & vocals), Carpe Diem's music might be a bit comparable to Pu...

"As steady as a click, Cast carries on making albums, so regularly that you have the feeling the Mexican band has always been a part of the progressive rock scene.... Like the legendary phoenix, Cast arises from its ashes, again and again. With the...

'Disciple of the wizards', One of the greatest French virtuosos of the guitar", "A new trouvere", "A modern griot"... Here are a few sentences chosen by the French press at the beginning of the Eighties, to qualify Philippe Cauvin's works. The leader o...

A very short but excellent release composed by Guigou, performed by this precursor to his Rumors Of The City project, & is musically similar. Another stupendous work from Guigou. [In Poly Sons]

"Responding to the big demand, the joint-venture between Colossus (The Finnish Progressive Music Association) and Musea proudly presents its brand new concept-album: The 7 Samurai "The Ultimate Epic"! Here's a progressive rock concept-album inspired by...

Descamps has been Ange's singer, frontman and leader since their beginning. This is a one-man show by Christian, recorded in 1993. Christian plays guitar and keyboards and sings, including some Ange classics, and tells stories and tall tales. [Musea]

5{$ly excellent version of Terry Riley's landmark classic, performed by a French guitar-centric ensemble led by Erik Baron. It includes seven classical guitarist, nine electric guitarists, seven bassists, a harpist, two cellists, percussion....

"East Wind Pot is a current Japanese band, led by keyboards player Yuko Tsuchiyat, former member of the Progressive rock group Theta. One can also find a drummer, a bass player and woodwinds (saxophone, clarinet). Jointly published by the Musea and Pos...

The second album, from 1977, by this French fusion outfit consisting of keyboards, guitar, bass and drums with some vocals. Their first album is an ok album, but having heard this band only from that, I never understood their very good reputation. NOW...

Originally released in 1987, this presents the strange meeting between two French musicians (Guigou Chenevier-drums & Guy Sapin-guitars) & two Dutch musicians (Raymund Van Santen-reeds/synths & the amazingly twisted vocalist Han Buhrs). Tres over the...