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Originally posted by Magnum Vaeltaja Magnum Vaeltaja wrote:

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Fusioon - Fusioon Weird group. I am not familiar with many bands from Italy. These guys play elaborate prog, similar to... everything, yet nothing. They do a bit of classical-inspired tunes as well as jazzy pieces. Overall, this is nothing to write home about, but will definitely please a Canterbury fan that I am.

Isn't Fusioon from Spain? 

Of course, I meant Spain. I do know some bands from Italy. Wink
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Adrian J Portia - Life in Colour (Australian handpan music)
 
Magnum - Goodnight L.A. (great AOR/prog)
Magnum - Wings of Heaven


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Friday:
Griot - Gerald (With storybook this time, the lyrics finally make sense.)
Řresund Space Collective - West, Space & Love Vol.2 (Very inspired music Cool)

Saturday:
Peste & Sida - Portem-se Bem
Push Kings - s/t
Yawning Man - Nomadic Pursuits
Tangerine Dream - Phaedra

Sunday. Happy birthday Audun Beer
Motorpsycho - Behind the Sun
Led Zeppelin - III (I cannot unhear the squeaky drum stool and the clean amp buzz on "Since I've Been Loving You", it's so annoying LOL)
(Coincidentally, two albums I really like that have some really weak closers, in my opinion)
Pristine - Reboot (Because they are Norwegian and I really wanted to listen to it Tongue)
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The day is still early, but i've played these:

Wishbone Ash - No Smoke Without Fire
Wishbone Ash - Blue Horizon
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Sons Of Alpha Centauri - Sons Of Alpha Centauri  (Kent, England  2007)  Instrumental  / Post Metal   
Hermano - Into The Exam Room  (USA  2007)   This band is the harder, edgier side of Desert Rock 
The Heavy Eyes - Maera  (Memphis, Tenn.  2012)   The band says they are Psychedelic Blues Rock - I'll go with that.
Filthy Lucre - Mara  (Adelaide, Australia  2016)   Blues Rock / Psych Rock / Stoner Rock 
Floodlore - When It Was Written  (Virginia  2016)   Guitar driven psychedelic stoner rock
Elephant9 - Dodovoodoo  (Oslo, Norway  2008)   Instrumental Jazz Rock/Prog trio  (keyboards, bass, drums)     
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Led Zeppelin - "Physical Graffiti"
The Buddy Rich Big Band - "Big Swing Face"
Trendy Dog With Sunglasses - "Trendy Dog And Her Home In The Mountains"
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Yes - Tormato
Genesis - Invisible Touch
Bee Gees - Greatest Hits
Yes - Big Generator


Tough day at the prog office indeed.  Stern Smile
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Anyway, from the past couple of days:

T2 - It'll All Work Out In Boomland - A quintessential slab of everything that was going on in the early 70's in British rock music. No More White Horses is a track that I haven't paid much attention to in the past that really stuck out this time. Not only is that concluding guitar solo the most intense moment on the record, the softer, more melancholic sections have a certain power to them as well. Great as always.

Jeff Beck - Blow By Blow - The best thing Jeff Beck ever worked on. I really love this album for so many reasons. It's certainly one of the more original fusion albums of the 70's and the more composed nature with the occasional synth orchestrations and whatnot really make it a lot more interesting to listen to than a lot of the jam-based stuff many groups were doing at the time. Tight performances and a great span of moods and styles make this one a very replay-able album.

Ramones - Leave Home - This one just came on in shuffle. There's only a handful of tracks on here that I like, namely Glad To See You Go, Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment and Carbona Not Glue. So catchy!

Traveling Wilburys - Traveling Wilburys Vol. 3 - My less preferred of the two Traveling Wilburys albums, but I still really like a few of the songs on here, like She's My Baby (that guitar solo ROCKS) and Wilbury Twist, which is plenty of fun. Some of the other folk rock tracks on here are enjoyable, too, for nostalgia's sake more than anything.

Jeff Beck - Jeff Beck's Guitar Shop - A great guitar player's album. The rock tracks rock hard and the softer tracks Behind The Veil and Where Were You are quite beautiful.

Yes - Yes - I've actually warmed up to this one quite a bit the past few times I've listened to it. I think I'm going to rewrite my (largely negative) review of it if I find time later. 

Rayuela - Rayuela - One of my all time faves and it loses no energy with each listen. One thing I couldn't help but notice this time around is how great of a track Vientos De La Calma is. What a fantastic and surprisingly original take on the blues. Actually, a lot of the arrangements on this album are very subtly creative. There's no doubt that Rayuela were a bunch of musicians who were as intelligent as they were soulful. They knew exactly what they were capable of and executed their ideas perfectly. Love it.

Quicksilver Messenger Service - Happy Trails - This is only the second or third time I've actually put this on. I bought it for about $5 a few months ago with absolutely no expectations and I've gotta say, they've been met! LOL The music on here isn't bad by any means but it really amounts to little more than a lot of very typical pentatonic rock/country/blues jamming, sort of like a less inspired Grateful Dead performance. Love the cover art, though!
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Originally posted by ALotOfBottle ALotOfBottle wrote:


Fusioon - Fusioon Weird group. I am not familiar with many bands from Italy. These guys play elaborate prog, similar to... everything, yet nothing. They do a bit of classical-inspired tunes as well as jazzy pieces. Overall, this is nothing to write home about, but will definitely please a Canterbury fan that I am.

Isn't Fusioon from Spain? 
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Arena – The Unquiet Sky
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I'm feeling another ARENA kick coming on soon yet again.
This is an album worthy of high praise. How can one not sing along to "How did it come this?'
Heck i am doing it right now as I write this to you, Michael!

Enjoy.
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Originally posted by progbethyname progbethyname wrote:

</span><span style="line-height: 18.2px;">Opeth-- Ghost Reveries ( wow. This one has really grown on me quick. )</span><br style="line-height: 18.2px;"><span style="line-height: 18.2px;">
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<span style="line-height: 18.2px;">Yup, it's a quick grower that one. Great album!</span>

Last couple of weeks or so for me:

Biosphere / Deathprod - Stator
Bushman's Revenge - Bushman's Fire
Mestis - Basal Ganglia
Mestis - Polysemy
Zombi - Shape Shift
Peter Gabriel - s/t 3
Monobody - s/t
Van der Graaf Generator - Godbluff
Gentle Giant - Free Hand
Monoceros - In Girum Imus Nocte Et Consumimur Igni
Brian Eno - Another Green World
Brian Eno + David Byrne - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
Moving Structures - Awake
Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson & Sigur Rós - Angels of the Universe
Ashra - New Age of Earth
Limp - Orion
Adelbert Von Deyen - Atmosphere (Watched "The Martian" the week before, which inspired me to spin this and the next two albums.)
David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
Khan - Space Shanty
Fobia Inc. - Astral Seasons
Jambinai - Différance
Jambinai - A Hermitage (Experimental post rock (just cleared for addition), with metal, folk and avant-garde leanings. Very interesting.)
Nine Inch Nails - Ghosts I-IV
Kraftwerk - Trans-Europe Express
Kraftwerk - The Man-Machine
Tangerine Dream - Phaedra
Tangerine Dream - Rubycon
Tangerine Dream - Ricochet
Tangerine Dream - Stratosfear
Solaris - Marsbéli Krónikák
Gentle Giant - Civilian (Just love this album! Nothing like their earlier ones, of course, but damn good '80's art pop.)
Bushman's Revenge - Jazz, fritt etter hukommelsen
Caravan - If I Could Do It All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You
Caravan - In the Land of Grey and Pink
Caravan - For Girls Who Grow Plump in the Night


It really is, my friend. Glad to to hear from ya and what a great list of sonic joy you got there.
Love the tangerine dream list as well as that crazy NIN ghosts album... The king of ominous tones that are dark, but highly listenable. :)

Wrapping up the weekend.

APP-- Tales of Mystery& imagination ( deluxe edition with 1987 remixes. ;)
Eric Woolfson-- ....Sings the alan parsons project that never was.
NIN-- The Fragile (halo 14 Left & Right)
Adrenalin Mob-- Undaunted ( it's not that bad. Really it isn't. )
The Orb- UFOrb (deluxe edition 2008 remaster. )
Genesis-- The Way We Walk ( the longs)
How to destroy Angels-- ST ( EP)
Logos-- l'enigma Della Vita ( I adore this one. So glad I bought it. )
Threshold--- Sticky Planets (EP)
Devin Townsend-- Terria
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Il Baletto di Bronzo - Ys Great, great album. What else is there to say. I like how heaviness of this work is made to shake hands with complexity, calculation, and elegance, something that all too many bands forget about.

Quiet Sun - Mainstream
What a revival! I forgot how amazing this album is. I've enjoyed it so much. Really, this is one of the most unique albums I've heard in days. Experimentation, beauty, intelligence, and astonishing atmosphere meet on Mainstream.

Philip Glass - Music with Changing Parts I had the pleasure of seeing Philip Glass live when I was about 10 or 11, here in Lublin. I even handed him flowers after the concert. Now I am re-discovering his music and absolutely loving it. Music with Changing Parts is really amazing in its textural wealth.

Fusioon - Fusioon Weird group. I am not familiar with many bands from Italy. These guys play elaborate prog, similar to... everything, yet nothing. They do a bit of classical-inspired tunes as well as jazzy pieces. Overall, this is nothing to write home about, but will definitely please a Canterbury fan that I am.


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Banco del Mutuo Soccorso – Come in Ul’Ultima Cena – This is actually a seriously good album, not a poor second of music on the entire disc.

Mirror - Daybreak
Premiata Forneria Marconi – L’isola di Niente
Arena – The Unquiet Sky
Camel – Stationary Traveller
Yes – Time and a Word

Yes – Big Generator – Still a perfectly good rock/pop album. How odd that I would prefer to listen to this any day over the recent Anderson/Stolt album! Even this album has more instrumental passages and less singing!

Premiata Forneria Marconi – Passpartu – In a totally different way, this is also a great little album! Sam, you wouldn’t believe it, Goatboy sings really well on it (in Italian too):

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Indeed, took me a little while

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^Yeah, the cover is nice indeed. As to the material itself, my initial thoughts are just... my initial thoughts. I will keep on coming back to the album. Who knows, it might grow on me!
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^ I like it, and a nice cover too --

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Yesterday:

Banco del Mutuo Soccorso - Io Sano Nato Libero Banco changes with every album as you crawl up their discography. My initial feeling about this one recall those when I first checked out Dawrin! Something is different and I'm not enjoying it immensly, but am able to appreciate how well-crafted this is.

Emerson Lake & Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery One album that I think I've definitely judged to quickly. I am really starting to appreciate this one now. Especially for how well it is composed. The melodies are everywhere and they are good melodies actually. The bombast performance does not bother me anymore - I even like it.

Murple - Io Sono Murple Well, I don't like it. It's rather medicore in my opinion. It's quite medicore and insignificant to me. The composition and performance are decent, but the overall effect seems quite single-faceted and boring. Sorry, guys from Murple.
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Saturday...

Vega - Vega  (Milwaukee, Wisconsin  2014)   Very heavy down tuned stoner doom
Windhand - Soma  (Richmond, Virginia  2013)   More heavy down tuned stoner doom 
Heavy Blanket - Heavy Blanket  (Amherst, Mass.  2014)   This album was described as 37 minutes of (J. Mascis) guitar solos.
Yawning Man - Historical Graffiti  (Palm Desert, CA  2016)   Recorded at ION Studios, Buenos Aires in 2015 with guest artists on violin, accordion and keyboards/Mellotron.   
Yawning Sons - Ceremony To The Sunset  (USA/UK  2009)   Yawning Man guitarist Gary Arce with British rock group Sons Of Alpha Centauri. 

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Billy Cobham - "Spectrum"
John Scofield - "A Go Go"
Herbie Hancock - "Head Hunters"
Billy Cobham - "Crosswinds"
Bob & Doug McKenzie - "Great White North"
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Gong - Flying Teapot
Gong - Angels Egg
Gong - You
Gong - I See You (RIP Gilli Smyth)
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