Chicago did it a little less experimentally on their fourth studio release, but as a transitional album, "Chicago V" is rather good, in my humble opinion. On this album you really can still hear the...
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Chicago did it a little less experimentally on their fourth studio release, but as a transitional album, "Chicago V" is rather good, in my humble opinion. On this album you really can still hear the...
Steve Howe is playing "Mood for a Day" at the Montreux Jazz Festival, 1979
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiA1XBXAE6U
"Fields of Infinity'' is the second release of the U.S. act The Banach-Tarski Paradox. It's a fusion that is full of surprises & well-polished moments; the album is definitely worth its money. For...
Yes "Roundabout" live at the Glastonbury festival, 2003
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CUlNYYs3pw
Yes "We Have Heaven" & "South Side of the Sky" live at the Glastonbury festival 2003
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imy-nSbPkYw
Yes "Roundabout" live at the Rainbow Theatre, 1972
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmZoQFYYx8U
Yes feat. Chris Squire "The Fish (Schindleria Praematurus)" live in Philadelphia, 1979
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2feH1pP39M
ExCubus existed from 1970 to 1974, but the band was still called Incubus. This progressive rock quartette from Québec was well known in the French-speaking part of Canada in the first half of the...
"Long Distance Runaround" from the concert held on May 10, 1975, at Queen's Park Rangers Stadium in London, in front of 25,000 spectators. Anderson' singing is seraphic here.
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I'm always curious when something new is released by Yes - even if the predecessor "Heaven & Earth" really didn't make a good impression on me either. But, Yes have now landed on a record label that...
James Chance and the Contortions "Don't Want To Be Happy" 1979
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q22NkFLFnLI
Actually, it's one of the photos from Fragile the album recording sessions :)
"Fragile" is the fourth studio album by Yes, released on 26 November 1971. It was their first album to feature the keyboard-wizard Rick Wakeman, who replaced founding member Tony Kaye after the band...
The avant-heads may know Claudio Milano as the singer and vocal artist of the Italian group NichelOdeon. Towards the end of the first decade of the new millennium, he collaborated with the Dutch Erna...
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Abbhama "Asmara" 1978
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qb4vrt03CVo
Grupa 220 "Slike" 1975
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7khGgK1V80
I hope you won't be disappointed.
Here's another proggy hard-rock gem from the same box-set:
Bijelo Dugme "Bitanga i princeza" 1979
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvXZl195gC4
"Mingus" is my favourite album by Joni Mitchell and, as I am a fan of her music, I think that Mingus the album is something special in her catalogue. As an album dedicated to Charles Mingus, it is...
Tale Spinnin' the album seamlessly continues the style of its predecessor 'Mysterious Traveler': easy-going and catchy jazz-fusion, but still rousing and varied, naturally also virtuoso as usual....
Opus "Memento mori" & "Dolina bisera" 1975
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYN6I9Sv4zw
Birth Control "Trial Trip" 1975
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rh-UYFX67mw
For example the English version of Šta bi dao da si na mom mjestu the song ("Playing the Part"), of which I think that is excellent, was for the first time officially released on the box-set....
Let's go back to the Swinging Sixties, at the time when the Stones gave the world some magnificent albums in the 'Rock' genre, like 'Aftermath', 'Between the Buttons' and 'Beggars Banquet'. However,...
You have to dig the just released 5-track EP titled "Psychology Today" by New York's Extreme Animals because it has its experiment here with sounds, noises, with musical genres - experimental rock,...
Gentle Giant "Raconteur Troubadour" 1972
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOtdzF7qqrA
"Spirit of Eden" was one of the greatest musical surprises in the 1980s. You only remember the synth-pop album "The Party's Over" then the extremely successful "It's My Life" with single hits like...
Van der Graaf Generator "Childlike Faith in Childhood's End" 1976
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pf1rrypg_zY
Rick Wakeman "The Prisoner" 1976
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixNcV4FQUOY
According to their Bandcamp page, English band Drifting Sun see themselves in the tradition of "progressive rock giants" such as "Dream Theater, Queensrÿche, Genesis and Jethro Tull". With Genesis...
Ana Popović Band "Hold On" live at Trasimeno Lake, Perugia, Italy 2009
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFTH14sDKMY
Island "Pictures" 1977
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKyoe89FgBM
Psihokratija "Iz pomraćenog uma" 1987
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CH9JVqr38lM
"A Salty Dog" is often referred to as the best Procol Harum album; I absolutely cannot agree with that. The title song is a beautiful one with its dark atmosphere, the orchestral arrangements and...
Midnight Circus "Mr Clown" 1972
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXmr6Sl7Fj8
Gòtic "Historia d'una gota d'aigua" 1978
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QN60_NhMATc
Boomerang "Život svetlucava prolazna stvar" 1979
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUA5icfvG10
With "In Disequilibrium", Isildurs Bane consistently continued the path that long time ago had taken on their album "Cheval" towards a style that crosses The Enid fields: intelligent, complex,...
England "Three Piece Suite" 1977
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iwHt0KK2Nw
After their separation from the band, the "better half" of 10cc continued to make challenging to more experimental side of Art Rock, with a knack for superb melodies and arrangement. Thus, Laurence...
Genesis "Fading Lights" / "The Cinema Show" / "Afterglow" live in Birmingham 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2tPqLjtkNc
This Syd Arthur's song has a solo accordion as intro:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7f5oHSoukA
Well, I have always been a fan of cirkus & carnival music, so I really like "Los...
Provided by a trio from Germany, this is an extraordinary release. "Take The Step" is an entirely instrumental 6-track EP in the heavy fusion vein. Crafty and inventive, Alternative Ways turns out to...
Van der Graaf Generator "A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers" Belgium television appearance 1972
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-TXKdoi8WQ
Kansas "Child of Innocence" 1975
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_FcHC0GZzw
Smak "Black Lady" 1978
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yZiLdL7lWI
Bijelo Dugme "Playing The Part" 1975
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMIgIlDD9Bc
For me, "Discipline" is clearly one of the best 80's records. Of course the joy was great when one of the most brilliant bands returned to the spotlight. And a rather rare example that was possible...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwmKYYLp_gc
Sun Ra And His Solar Arkestra "UFO" 1979
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2q3dqOaMt0
Jethro Tull "Songs from the Wood" 1977
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4UYX2qpUK0
I think that "The Original Soundtrack" is an album that fits this thread not only because of "Une nuit à Paris". As a virtuoso sound collage, it's their most wacky record.
10cc "Une nuit à...
Premiata Forneria Marconi "Impressioni di Settembre" live in Japan, 2002
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DS76YKxiOKU
After Zappa's phenomenal jazz-rock excursion on "Hot Rats", it was time again for a Mothers record; in terms of sound, the band is somewhere between the two previous albums, "Uncle Meat" & "Hot...
In Spe "Mare vitreum" 1983
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ewmu3hIstM
Scott Walker's "The Drift" certainly fits the bill.
"Clara" (from "The Drift", 2006)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5hvHEBLNpI
Troisième Rive "Légende" 1978
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYtAX38V3DQ
Troisième Rive was a French progressive folk-rock sextet that created a magnificent music featuring the accordion. Their debut album titled "Banlieues" (translate "Suburbs") is certainly one of the...
Nimal was a RIO formation led by Swiss multi-instrumentalist Momo Rossel who, among many other instruments, plays the accordion as well. Rossel's accordion works its way into the foreground and...
Taproban "Outside Nowhere" 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-xjFWegXPo