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    Posted: January 13 2022 at 08:32
Not a very outstanding year but I'm still able to pick out 10 things I'm happy with

1. Rouge Ciel - Veuillez Procéder
2. Ahvak - Ahvak
3. Ominox - Contemporary Past
4. Gary Husband & Friends - Aspire
5. Yowie - Cryptooology
6. Rubén D'Hers - Todo Está En Descanso
7. Picchio Dal Pozzo - Pic_nic@Valdapozzo
8. Trevor Dunn's Trio-Convulsant - Sister Phantom Owl Fish
9. Happy The Man - The Muse Awakens
10. Hiromi - Brain
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Cracking year from my perspective, my top 5 are outstanding.

1. Guapo - 5 Suns
2. Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - Of Natural History
3. Ahvak - s/t
4. Magma - K.A.
5. Secret Chiefs 3 - Book Of Horizons
6. Finnegans Wake - 4th
7. Ahleuchatistas - The Same And The Other
8. Thin Pillow - s/t
9. Far Corner - s/t
10a. Eccentric Orbit - Attack Of The Martians
10b. Birdsong Of The Mesozoic - 2001 Live Birds
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1 - Bark Psychosis - ///Codename: Dustsucker
2 - Bauer - Astronauta Olvidado
3 - Pez - Folklore
4 - Isis - Panopticon
5 - Mare - Mare
6 - Guapo - Five suns
7 - Enslaved - Isa
8 - Paatos - Kallocain
9 - Panzerpappa - Farlig Vandring
10 - Cult Of Luna - Salvation

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The Ocean - Fluxion
Planeta Imaginario - ¿Qué me dices?
Phlox - Piima
The Muffins - Double Negative
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Marillion - Marbles
Threshold - Subsurface
DeadSoul Tribe - The January Tree
IQ -  Dark Matter
Nightingale - Invisible
Crises - Balance
Fates Warning - FWX
The Watch - Vacuum
Dark Suns - Existence
White Willow - Storm Season
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Therion - Lemuria / Sirius B
Marillion - Marbles
Threshold - Subsurface
DeadSoul Tribe - The January Tree
IQ -  Dark Matter
Orphaned Land - Mabool
Abydos - A Little Boy's...
Magenta - Seven
Proto-Kaw - Before Became After
Indukti - SUSAR

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This was a remarkable year across multiple genres for me...

1. Ahvak - Ahvak
2. Far Corner - Far Corner
3. Magenta - Seven
4. Guapo - Five Suns
5. IQ - Dark Matter
6. Ayreon - The Human Equation
7. Eccentric Orbit - Attack of the Martians
8. Glass Hammer - Shadowlands
9. Solar Project - Force Majeure
10. Matthew Parmenter - Astray

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Retroheads - Retrospective
Liquid Scarlet - Liquid Scarlet
Mangrove - Touch Wood
Red Sand - Mirror of Insanity
The Tangent - The World That We Drive Through
Paatos - Kallocain
Runaway Totem - Pleroma
Metaphor - Entertaining Thanatos
Marillion - Marbles
Eyestrings - Burdened Hands
White Willow - Storm Season
The Watch - Vacuum
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1. Ayreon - The Human Equation
2. Marillion - Marbles
3. IQ - Dark Matter
4. Secret Chiefs 3 - Book Of Horizons
5. White Willow - Storm Season
6. Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - Of Natural History
7. Magma - K.A.
8. Magenta- Seven
9. Le Orme- L'Infinito
10. Pain of Salvation- Be
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One - Neal Morse

Dark Matter - IQ

Return to the Origin - Gert Emmens & Ruud Heij

Shadowlands - Glass Hammer

Bird Eyes View - Asturias

The Muse Awakens - Happy the Man

Ciclotimia - Amagrama

Quentadharkën - Amarok

Vacuum - The Watch

Marbles - Marillion
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Tangerine Dream - Purgatorio
Neal Morse - One
IQ - Dark Matter
Magenta - Seven
Glass Hammer - Shadowlands
Big Big Train - Gathering Speed
Nick Magnus - Hexameron
Mastodon - Leviathan
Marillion - Marbles
The Tangent - The World That We Drive Through
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Obviously the 15 have one steop head of of the 11., but outside that the order is alphabetical inside a grade.

 

12        P.G. Six            The Well of Memory USA     2004   

12        Univers Zero   Implosion        Bel       2004   

12        Woven Hand   Blush Music    USA     2004   

11        Guapo Five Suns         Eng      2004 

11        Magma           K.A (Köhntarkösz Anteria)      Fra       2004    Zeuhl

11        Panzerpappa   Farlig Vandring           Nor      2004   

11        Rêve d'Éléphant Orchestra    Lobster Caravan         Bel       2004   

11        Tarentel          We Move Through Weather USA     2004   

11        Troissoeur       3S        Bel       2004   



Bubbling under :

10        4/3 De Trio     Ersatz Fra       2004   

10        Akinetón Retard         Akinetón Ao Vivo        Chl       2004   

10        Bärtsch, Nik / Mobile Aer      Swz      2004   

10        Coltrane, Alice            Translinear Light        USA     2004   

10        Cul De Sac & Damo Suzuki     Abhayamudra (Strange Attractors Audio House)    

10        Far Corner       Far Corner       USA     2004   

10        Ghost  Hypnotic Underworld Jpn       2004   

10        Gong   Acidmotherhood         Var      2004   

10        Hammill, Peter           Incoherence    Eng      2004   

10        Hypnos 69       The Intrigue of Perception     Bel       2004   

10        Mahavishnu Project   Phase 2           USA     2004   

10        Muffins, The   Double Negative        USA     2004    Avant

10        Picchio Dal Pozzo       Picnic @ Valdapozzo Ita        2004   

10        Pip Pyle's Bash,         Belle Illusion   Var      2004   

10        Red Masque, The       Feathers for Flesh      USA     2004    Avant

10        Siena Root      A New Day Dawning Swe     2004   

10        Six Organs of Admittance      For Octavio Paz          USA     2004   

10        Tortoise          It's All Around You      USA     2004   

10        Zombi  Cosmos           USA     2004   

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Tony Banks - Seven: A Suite for Orchestra
Barclay James Harvest: Live: The Ultimate Anthology
Big Big Train - Gathering Speed
Steve Hackett - Once Above a Time
IQ - Dark Matter
Jon Lord - Beyond the Notes Live
Magenta - Seven
Mostly Autumn - Pink Floyd Revisited
Nektar - Evolution
Procol Harum - Live at Union Chapel, London
The Tangent - The World That We Drive Through
Vangelis - Alexander (soundtrack)
Rick Wakeman - The Ultimate Anthology
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1. Anti-Depressive Delivery - Feel.Melt.Release.Escape.
2. Mike Keneally Band - Dog
3. Helmet of Gnats - Timeslip
4. Echolyn - Stars and Gardens
5. Mattias Eklundh - Freak Guitar - The Road Less Traveled
6. Fates Warning - FWX
7. French TV - Pardon Our French
8. Happy the Man - The Muse Awakens 
9. Pip Pyle - Belle Illusion
10. Glass Hammer - Shadowlands



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     2004     
1. BARK PSYCHOSIS Code Name: DustSucker
2. MAGENTA Seven
3. AMAROK Quentadharken
4. MAGMA K.A.
5. KARDA ESTRA Voivode Dracula
6. PAATOS Killocain
7. STEREOLAB Margerine Eclipse
8. DUNGEN Ta Det Lugnt
9. DAVE BAINBRIDGE Veil of Gossamer
10. ASTURIAS Acoustic Asturias: Bird Eyes View

11. ORPHANED LAND Mabool--The Story of the Three Sons of Seven7 
12. GUAPO Five Suns
13. KNIGHT AREA The Sun Also Rises
14. UNIVERS ZERO Implosion
15. MATTHEW PARMENTER Astray
16. THORK Weila
17. MY EDUCATION 5 Popes
18. SLEEPYTIME GORILLA MUSEM Of Natural History
19. INDUKTI S.U.S.A.R.
20. WHITE WILLOW Storm Season

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BIG BIG TRAIN Gathering Speed
IQ Dark Matter
MARILLION Marbles
AYREON The Human Equation
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Originally posted by omphaloskepsis omphaloskepsis wrote:

1. Ayreon - The Human Equation
2. Marillion - Marbles
3. IQ - Dark Matter
4. Secret Chiefs 3 - Book Of Horizons
5. White Willow - Storm Season
6. Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - Of Natural History
7. Magma - K.A.
8. Magenta- Seven
9. Le Orme- L'Infinito
10. Pain of Salvation- Be

I have to say I'm always really impressed when I see a list with the diversity of Marillion, IQ, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum & Magma.

Well done sir, I doff my hat to you. ClapThumbs Up
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alphabetically

Nick Magnus - Hexameron
Mirage - Tales from the Green Sofa
Le Orme - L'Infinito
Silver Lining - The Inner Dragon
Strawbs - Deja Fou
Third Ear Band - Magus (recorded in 1970s, not released till 2004)


hon mentions:

Fractal - s.t
Nightwish - Once
Renaissant - South of Winter
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Augury - Concealed
Enslaved - Isa
Guapo - Five Suns
Happy The Man - The Muse Awakens
IQ - Dark Matter

Magma - KA
Mastodon - Leviathan
Mattias Eklundh - Freak Guitar - The Road Less Traveled
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I have lots of good albums from this year, but not really an outstanding one in the prog category. The ranking is quite arbitrary. Juxtaposition by Radian and Michigan by Sufjan Stevens beat all of these by some distance.

Tortoise - It's All Around You
Rapoon & Birds of Tin - Monomyth (*)
Guapo - Five Suns
Bark Psychosis - Codename: Dustsucker
Ahvak - Ahvak
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - Of Natural History
Secret Chiefs 3 - Book Of Horizons
Bjork - Medulla
Tin Hat - Book of Silk
Karda Estra - Voivode Dracula
(Tarentel - We Move Through Weather)
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Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

Originally posted by omphaloskepsis omphaloskepsis wrote:

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I have to say I'm always really impressed when I see a list with the diversity of Marillion, IQ, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum & Magma.

Well done sir, I doff my hat to you. ClapThumbs Up

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