“Croma were a instrumental progressive rock group that emerged in Catalonia, Spain in the 70s. During their six years of existence they played many concerts in cities all over the peninsula and the Balearic Islands, both individually and sharing the bill with different progressive rock groups such as: Triana, Iceberg, Atila, Orquestra Mirasol, Suck Electrònic, Tribu, CMB, Borne, etc.
In 1979, they recorded a demo with an 8-track tape recorder , in the semi-professional studio of the musician Joan...

"Originally released in Germany in 1978.
In 1974, New York City's famous "Viking Of Sixth Avenue" travelled to Europe to produce a concert of his works with the Frankfurt Radio Orchestra. Afterwards, Moondog (Louis Thomas Hardin, 1916-1999), who once told an interviewer that he considered himself a "European in exile," felt compelled to stay on the continent in order to realize the imagined European identity he invoked with his clothing and music. Moondog felt culturally and artistically closer to...

Stephan Thelen : Guitars / E-bow / Additional keyboards / Fractal delays / Effects & programming
Jon Durant : Fretted & Fretless Guitars / Cloud Guitar / Acoustic Guitar
Fabio Anile : Piano / Electronic Piano / Mini Moog / Synth & Sampled Instruments
Colin Edwin : Fretted & Fretless Bass Guitar
Andi Pupato : Percussion (including Udu and Azzam Bells)
Yogev Gabay : Drums

“Calling Stephan Thelen’s music an extension of the Swiss Minimalist movement may have once seemed.

What a great idea; set Robyn loose on the things that inspired him in the first place!

1 A Whiter Shade of Pale
2 Itchycoo Park
3 Burning of the Midnight Lamp
4 I Can Hear the Grass Grow
5 San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)
6 Waterloo Sunset
7 See Emily Play
8 My White Bicycle
9 No Face, No Name, No Number
10 Way Back in the 1960s
11 Vacations in the Past
12 A Day in the Life

“1967: Vacations in the Past is a...

“The Samurai Of Prog, featuring Italian composer Marco Grieco, announces their new concept album, The Time Machine.
This progressive rock release blends symphonic arrangements with Moog synthesizers, electric guitars, and orchestral instruments like flutes and violins.
The album offers an immersive journey through time, starting from the dawn of humanity and spanning to the present day. Each track explores significant historical moments and reflects on humanity’s choices. Highlights include...

“Ondatropica brings together an iconic group of top Colombian musicians representing both the classic and more modern styles of la musica Colombiana. Artists such as Fruko, Anibal Velasquez, Michi Sarmiento, Alfredito Linares, Pedro Ramaya Beltran, Markitos Mikolta and Wilson Viveros joined a group of younger Colombian musicians, members of both Mario's band Frente Cumbeiro and Quantic's Combo Barbaro, to (re)generate the excitement that positioned Colombian music as one of the most influential in South...

“The powerful third instalment of the Hidden Musics series. Grammy-winning producer Ian Brennan (Zomba Prison Project, Tinariwen, Hanoi Masters) returns to Southeast Asia to record unheralded, traditional-based musicians from Cambodia, all of whom are survivors of the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime. The result is heartbreaking, inspiring and sublime.
Khmer Rouge Survivors "They Will Kill You, If You Cry" is a welcome introduction to an embattled musical tradition and an emotionally stirring followup...

Brian Conniffe : electronics, production, mix
Gary Morrison : electronics
Simon Morris : text and voice, samples
Damien Donovan : modular synthesizer

“Two track album from Ireland's Brian Conniffe, previously known for his work with Nurse With Wound. The lengthy pieces feature the late Simon Morris (Ceramic Hobs) providing spoken word he wrote exclusively for it.
This album was recorded from 2007 to 2009, and consists of two expansive pieces, which - as the title suggests - are

"The GWR Years 1988 - 1991 is comprised of all three of Hawkwind's albums originally released by the GWR label between 1988 and 1991 -
The Xenon Codex
Space Bandits
Palace Springs.

These recordings saw Hawkwind move into the 1990s with a trio of excellent albums recorded by slightly fluctuating line-ups.
Alongside Hawkwind Captain Dave Brock and long-time member Harvey Bainbridge, The Xenon Codex would be the last album of the 1980s to feature Huw Lloyd Langton on guitar, whilst...

"Formed in Bristol in 1969, STACKRIDGE were one of the most unique British bands of the era. Possessing a gift for melody, musicianship and a fine sense of humour, their concerts were legendary. The band appeared at the very first Glastonbury festival and soon after signed to MCA Records. A succession of wonderful albums in the 1970s earned the band a loyal following but following line-up changes and the release of the album ‘Mr. Mick’ they disbanded.
It was therefore a pleasant surprise when in 1999..

"Oase is the sophomore album from Berlin-based progressive rock collective Weite, and the follow-up to the band’s 2023 debut LP Assemblage. Clocking in at almost an hour, Oase—German for "Oasis"— takes listeners on an intricate and textured journey that draws inspiration from the pioneering spirit of 70s psychedelic rock, blending influences from “Canterbury scene” prog, Krautrock, early electronica, post rock, and Americana.
The new album showcases Weite's ability to merge the old with the new...

Read all the below because it’s fascinating and true and tells you why this is very much of interest on its own, but also be aware that Tim Souster was the reason why Soft Machine were invited to play The Proms in 1970 and a recording of Intermodulation augmented by Mike Ratledge and performing ‘Keyboard Study No. 2’ from that Proms is featured on CD 2.

“Formed in Cambridge in 1969 by Tim Souster and Roger Smalley, Intermodulation started out as a four-piece group with the addition of Robin...

This is a really great, 1974, minor Krautrock classic that was originally self released and then re-released on Brain in 1976. Recommended!

"There are records that come from the soul. No matter how primitive may be the recording techniques the musician has access to, the soul gets its way to the heart and mind of the listener. Samtvogel is one of those records. Günter Schickert recorded that amazing piece of human greatness in 1974, using the media he had at the time, putting his brain at work...

"You don't really need to say much about this man: co-founder of Wallenstein, drummer on at least two of the most wonderful Krautrock albums (namely Mother Universe and Cosmic Century), member of the legendary Kosmische Kuriere, records with Ash Ra Temple and Klaus Schulze. Finally, Harald Grosskopf switched from drums to sequencers and created something breathtaking. I listened to his solo debut Synthesist to death, and few days began without 'So weit, so gut.' It was a record that did everything right...

“Roscoe Mitchell (Art Ensemble Of Chicago) was 2023's recipient of an American Society of Arts and Letters award which let to the creation of this work. Mainly a trio and quartet work Roscoe plays Bass saxophone as well as his percussion array.”

Paul Dunmall: tenor & soprano saxophones
Liam Noble: piano
John Edwards: double bass
Mark Sanders: drums, percussion

“In the quartet on this album, Paul Dunmall has returned to his first love: totally free improvisation based on interaction between the four players. Many aspects of Paul Dunmall’s playing are apparent on this album. His approach is to listen very carefully to what is happening around him and to react to it. If you see him play live, you will see how he concentrates..

Ginger Baker was a member of Hawkwind for a short time in 1980, but left the band already after the album "Levitation".
However, Ginger Baker's manager Roy Ward had already planned a tour of Italy for March 1981, albeit for Hawkwind. But that didn't stop Ginger from putting together a band to play the concerts himself. He wanted to present a fait accompli to the promoters. The new band was called "Ginger Baker Nutters" and included Keith Hale (keyboards, vocals) from Hawkwind, his old friend Riki...

"If you're in the dark, complex ambience of progressive rock, but interested in the future of the genre, look no further than Markus Reuter's music. He's pushing the genre (and arguably, music in general) in amazing new directions, and this album is one of many that demonstrates that. It keeps the listener on their toes with a sort of unsettling ambience, the result of mixing complex rhythms and time signatures across multiple voices with mellow instrument tones. It's a great album if you want some...

“An astounding, captivating live album of current and former King Crimson members performing new and classic Crimson tunes!
Recorded in lovley Barcelona, Spain, 2003, this album features the superb talents of vocalist Jakko M. Jakszyk, saxophonist Mel Collins, multi-instrumentalist Ian McDonald, bassist Peter Giles and drummer Ian Wallace! Deluxe 6-panel digipak houses both discs filled with Crimson's best and most loved songs!”

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Schizoid Intro
• 2 A Man a City...

Andy Partridge and Steven Wilson supervised and remixed 8th album.
This is one of their highest points for me, in a career filled with highlights. One of the smartest, best and most distinctive pop bands of their time. Highly recommended.

“Sequenced and produced by the legendary Todd Rundgren, 1986's Skylarking is perhaps the most acclaimed of all XTC's releases.
An album unlike anything else in the band's back catalogue, dense orchestrations and a more organic soundscape were deployed.

“Originally released in 2004 on CD only, ‘Incoherence’ was formed of 14 songs that were all linked together to form one continuous piece of music, the first time in many years that Peter Hammill had taken this approach. All the pieces had a common lyrical focus on miscommunication and failures of language. Upon its release, the album was highly praised by both fans and critics and is one of Peter’s most acclaimed later works.
‘Incoherence’ was completed immediately prior to Peter suffering a heart...

One of Terry's greatest albums, with two side long pieces. The first is for multiple keyboards, while the other is a slow, droney work for organ and soprano sax. Classic early minimalism and hugely influencial on modern composition as well as progressive rock players (listen to this and then listen to Soft Machine Third or Six or Hugh's 1984, among others).

Seriously needed reissue of the first of their 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!

"Hell has indeed frozen over. An actual Frost* live film.
It was Thursday November 30th 2022. We took to the stage at the Komedia in Bath, our first UK tour since Dingwalls in 2017. We had our ever-patient compadre Rob Reed and his troupe of cheerful professionals in tow and not only did they have a load of top-of-the-range cameras with them, they had the talent and expertise to make us look presentable. We were determined to succeed and well…we only went and bloody did it, didn’t we?
What we...

• REMASTERED & EXPANDED 2CD EDITION OF THE CLASSIC 1972 ALBUM BY HAWKWIND.
• FEATURING THE ORIGINAL 1972 MIX NEWLY REMASTERED FROM THE ORIGINAL MASTER TAPES AND STUNNING NEW STEREO REMIXES BY STEPHEN W TAYLER INCLUDING PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED SESSION OUT-TAKES & THE SINGLE ‘URBAN GUERRILLA’ & ‘BRAINBOX POLLUTION’.
• WITH AN LAVISHLY ILLUSTRATED BOOKLET.

Recorded at Rockfield and Olympic studios in September and October 1972, the legendary album followed on the success of the band’s hit...