Hola Moshkito

Any other ideas to confuse Dark's mind? 

let me start by saying Thank you your great comment and taking your time to writing this great essay of some of the musician's that defiantly has a great meaning to your life.

Let get give such a great I am also a huge ECM Jazz fan. I have been a Jan Garbarek, Keith Jarrett, Terje Rypdal for the past 20 years.(I all ready had in mind doing a ECM collage and a Garbarek one as well) After I was introduced to prog in the early 80's by my dear uncle which I love I was also introduced to Jazz  and fusion it was like a second chapter to my life. Them my dear uncle brought an Cassette tape an ECM recording artists :The Pat Metheny Group, Jan Garbarek, Ketih Jarrett and Chick Corea ECM records. I enamored of this type of Jazz that even still today I truthfully love those early ECM records. Jan Garbarek had become the saxophonist that had accompanied me at night for many y   ears. Too bad he doesn't tour the USA so I have never seen him live. I deeply love Garbarek records..

Then thanks to Garbarek I discovered his early records with TerjeRypdal and eventually Rypdal also become a favorite.A friend told me that Rypdal plays his guitar like a violin or synth. you can't even hear when he touches the strings. So powerfully beautiful.

Well to mention the other fantastic musician that you also mentioned I am also a pretty huge Tangerine Dream fan and Vangelis. I think I have all Vangelis albums. The soundscape to my sweet dreams.

Well i had done a less American and English progressive collage in the past take a look below however it had been a bit less successful in popularity. maybe 'cause of the unknown bands.

Again I truthly appreciate your ideas and effort to get across your deep desire to make unpopular and maybe unknown musicians to be known Yes, they do diserve the exposure on this forum..

Italian Progressive Rock Collage.

hey moshkito Great words man!!

I like the way your express your feeling about the music your love. that I also love as well . well said and very possionate writing cool thing bud!

You gonna make me go back and listen to my Gismonti's records that I haven't listen in years. I have the records that your mentioned and I remember really enjoying them. I won't say that I am  a big Gismonti fan but i do like his style and some of his albums. I should pay more mind to his records. In the acoustic I prefer Ralph Tower solo albums and his work with Oregon. Ralp's albums had  brought tears to my eyes. his way of playing is breathtaking and gorgeous a master of his instruments. I do think as you but I can't express my feeling as good as you in your writing. I guess in my collages I do a better job expressing myself and my love for music.

thanks again...

Phideaux are great but they only have 2 albums.they don't have that manty artwork to work with but the idea sounds good how can I contact them?

I  had been asked in the past and Marillion once won the 2nd place when I had a poll about what should been my next collage. I am just not a big fan of them, but I see what I can do next year.. thanks for asking and enjoying my collages..