Miriodor for me
Twelfth Night
And not prog, but still something else
Wim Mertens
My favorites whose debuts came from this period:
Abus Dangereux
Ain Soph
Rahmann
Trilogy
Cartoon
Dun
Eider Stellaire
Kultivator
Bi Kyo Ran
Bacamarte
In Spe
Thinking Plague
Bill
"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
LOL, I see what I did wrong. I took the release date of the bonus track (1981) from the liner notes, not the album proper, which you are right is 1979. My bad, but still worth a mention. This is a pretty good "Symph Prog" album for this late in the 70s. Actually one of my favorites from Germany overall too.
Bill
That's my favorite Kenso! I didn't care for most of their output afterward. And I'm not into RIO or avant at all, but I still found a lot to like during this time period, to wit(all debuts AFAIA):
Eduard Artimiev-Warmth of Earth-1980
Formas-Largos Suenos 1981
Cal-s/t 1980
Diethelm/Famulari-s/t 1983
Scapa Flow-Uuteen Aikaan 1980
Sicher-s/t 1981
Celluloid-Neptune-1983
Flught-s/t 1981
Forzanove-Autoanalisi 1981
Gerard-s/t 1983
Ivory-Sad Cypress 1980
Katarina II-s/t 1984
Kenso-s/t 1980
Lievaux-Transfo-Passage Public 1980
PLJ Band-Armageddon 1982
Pablo El Enterrador-s/t 1983
Dimitris Papadimitriou-Topia 1982
Sedmina-Melita & Veno Dolenc 1980
Sepi Kuu-Rannan Usvassa 1980
Peter Tassius & Iskander-Ouverture 1981
Tonic-This Way 1980
there are a lot more, these are just the best of the best. Just for fun, I took a look at the next 5 years(1985-89)and came up with considerably less, especially just looking for debut albums.
We forgot Blue Motion in 1980...
Different but great, and at least freshly rereleased..
A very enjoayble album, but it was actually released in 1985. However, Ode to Herald of Good was released in 1984 (no idea when it was actually recorded) and it is almost as good. Artemiev actually had a couple of LP releases in the 70s, but they, like Mood-Pictures, which may or may not have been released before Ode, were more electronic works, so Ode could be considered his Prog debut.
Also BEST
It’s also not his/their debut, that would be Mercury from 1981. Still qualifies, just wanted to clear that up.
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