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5 stars  1975: MAGIC SPELL - Is There Anywhere a Gas Station? (Symphonic Prog  Switzerland) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpZWmccEP00

This outstanding Symphonic Prog album definitely cast its magical spell on me. It's firing on all cylinders with a full tank of gas! Thumbs Up



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Berne, baby Berne! Are you ready for some funky Jazz-Rock, courtesy of Lost Peace, a lost and found one-album band from Berne in Switzerland? Beer

 1977: Lost Peace - Lost Peace - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9SXkG5AfVc





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Originally posted by Sean Trane Sean Trane wrote:

Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

 
Definitely! New Zealanders and Tasmanians will both be more than welcome to join me with a six-pack 'round the barbie. G'day mate!

you'll have to find a better (read bad) play on words for title to open that blog LOL

How about The Wizards of Aussie Prog for a snappy blog title? Ermm

And on the subject of snappy titles, Are You Ready for Krokodil: a Swiss Krautrock outfit that you can really get your teeth into. Smile

4 stars 2020: Krokodil - An Invisible World Returns
3 stars 2021: Krokodil - Another Time



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Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

 
Definitely! New Zealanders and Tasmanians will both be more than welcome to join me with a six-pack 'round the barbie. G'day mate!

you'll have to find a better (read bad) play on words for title to open that blog LOL
let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword
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Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

Originally posted by BrufordFreak BrufordFreak wrote:

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It's just a pity all of the lyrics are sung in the band's native French, instead of English - the universal language of prog. Smile

I'm sad that you feel that way, Paul! I for one much prefer that a band sing in their native tongue! I find the exposure/experience much more edifying, enlightening, and genuine!

You may not feel that way if you heard the Symphonic Prog of Mister Robot, where all of the lyrics are sung in their native Russian. Do Svidaniya. Smile

I have to admit that Russian does not sound as nice of a fit for the prog lexicon as some other languages, but cut Alexei some slack! He is a serious, up-and-coming artist. I watch him and his output with serious interest (and hope)!

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Originally posted by Sean Trane Sean Trane wrote:

Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

Originally posted by BrufordFreak BrufordFreak wrote:


P.S. This is quite an endeavor you've undertaken! All for one country! Do you plan to offer the same attention and love to every country? It's a worthy consideration though might, I think, prove exhausting.


Well, I've already covered classic Dutch Prog and classic Japanese Psych in their entirety, and next up are all of the East European artists in my Prague Archives blog, so that should keep me busy for awhile. How about an Aussie prog blog, featuring artists from a land down under, where women glow and men plunder?  Smile


If you do one on the wallabies, make sure you invte the kiwis as well



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Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

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P.S. This is quite an endeavor you've undertaken! All for one country! Do you plan to offer the same attention and love to every country? It's a worthy consideration though might, I think, prove exhausting.


Well, I've already covered classic Dutch Prog and classic Japanese Psych in their entirety, and next up are all of the East European artists in my Prague Archives blog, so that should keep me busy for awhile. How about an Aussie prog blog, featuring artists from a land down under, where women glow and men plunder?  Smile


If you do one on the wallabies, make sure you invte the kiwis as well



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Originally posted by BrufordFreak BrufordFreak wrote:


P.S. This is quite an endeavor you've undertaken! All for one country! Do you plan to offer the same attention and love to every country? It's a worthy consideration though might, I think, prove exhausting.


Well, I've already covered classic Dutch Prog and classic Japanese Psych in their entirety, and next up are all of the East European artists in my Prague Archives blog, so that should keep me busy for awhile. How about an Aussie prog blog, featuring artists from a land down under, where women glow and men plunder? Smile
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Originally posted by BrufordFreak BrufordFreak wrote:

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It's just a pity all of the lyrics are sung in the band's native French, instead of English - the universal language of prog. Smile

I'm sad that you feel that way, Paul! I for one much prefer that a band sing in their native tongue! I find the exposure/experience much more edifying, enlightening, and genuine!

You may not feel that way if you heard the Symphonic Prog of Mister Robot, where all of the lyrics are sung in their native Russian. Do Svidaniya. Smile
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... [QUOTE=Psychedelic Paul]
It's just a pity all of the lyrics are sung in the band's native French, instead of English - the universal language of prog. Smile

I'm sad that you feel that way, Paul! I for one much prefer that a band sing in their native tongue! I find the exposure/experience much more edifying, enlightening, and genuine!

P.S. This is quite an endeavor you've undertaken! All for one country! Do you plan to offer the same attention and love to every country? It's a worthy consideration though might, I think, prove exhausting.






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Kjol: a cool Jazz-Rock band for a warm Sunny Day of off-piste skiing in the Swiss Alps, but watch out for the snowfalls and snowballs.  Smile

3 stars 1979; Kjol - Take It On - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfrMM4Mw8wU
3 stars 1981: Brigeen Doran's Kjol - Sunny Day







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Kedama: Switzerland's answer to Emerson, Lake & Palmer! Thumbs Up



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Kashmir: as mysteriously beautiful as the province of the same name on the Indian subcontinent, and also one of the best Swiss prog albums you've never heard of. Thumbs Up
 
 
 


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This spooky album with a cover by H.R. Giger is from a band who appeared briefly like a Swiss zephyr  and then just as mysteriously disappeared, never to be heard from again. Pictures is a haunting album of offbeat Eclectic Prog that reaches new levels of eclecticism. It's not the kind of album I'd want to take to a desert Island, but it should appeal to fans of VDGG's legendary Pawn Hearts album. Smile

2 stars 1977: Island - Pictures - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GS5XP4-gmuQ


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Edelweiss, edelweiss, if only Swiss Prog Folk were twice as nice. Instead, it's twice as wyrd. Wacko

3 stars 1985: Kay Hoffman - Floret Silva (recorded in 1978) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ott1c5bc6kw



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3 stars 1973: Sergius Golowin - Lord Krishna von Goloka - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7j4hqXD8p4

Sergius Golowin (born in Prague, CZ) is surely one of the most obscure artists ever to emerge from Switzerland in this rare, one-off album of spiritual devotion. Heart

I'm guessing the irate pilot (Robert Stack) in the clip below wouldn't enjoy this devotional Hare Krishna album at all. Ouch

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Originally posted by Progmind Progmind wrote:

Hi Paul,

I recommend you Sicher, they released only one album "Sicher" (1981) they remind me in some parts to Flame Dream, delicate flute and sax parts, hammond, even cellos and strings, totally instrumental

Thanks! Sicher are already on my Swiss playlist (at #33) on Page 1 of this blog. Thumbs Up
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Hi Paul,

I recommend you Sicher, they released only one album "Sicher" (1981) they remind me in some parts to Flame Dream, delicate flute and sax parts, hammond, even cellos and strings, totally instrumental
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I'm So Glad Sean Trane told me about Galaad - the second-best Neo Prog band to emerge from Switzerland. It's just a pity all of the lyrics are sung in the band's native French, instead of English - the universal language of prog. Smile

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Flame Dream: a Symphonic Prog band from the picturesque Swiss town of Lucerne, where the music sounds as dreamily beautiful as the city by the lake. 

4 stars 1978: Flame Dream - Galatea - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17ZX2dbo_9k
5 stars 1979: Flame Dream - Elements - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0-1lxoI7Ww
5 stars 1981: Flame Dream - Out in the Dark - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52-YiwokMO0
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