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Points: 8856 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 25 2015 at 15:23
I just know I'll find some 2015 albums next year that will shake this list up. But the seven prog records I feel like recognizing are these:
Stern– Bone Turqoise (avant-prog with a slowcore bent)
Panopticon– Autumn Eternal (atmospheric black metal with a country/bluegrass bent)
Deafheaven– New Bermuda (thrashy yet a little Smiths-y post black metal)
Zs– Xe (avant-electro-acoustic madness)
Krallice– Yuug hur (avant black metal)
Sannhet– Revisionist (post metal)
Liturgy– The Ark Work (definitely flawed, but one of the most progressive [and strange] records I've heard recently; black metal + symphonic metal + math rock + idm + triplet flow rap)
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Originally posted by Raff Raff wrote:

Viggiano and his Black Madonna will be forever linked to one of my favourite literary works, Carlo Levi's Christ Stopped at Eboli.

 


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Originally posted by Mascodagama Mascodagama wrote:

Originally posted by Aussie-Byrd-Brother Aussie-Byrd-Brother wrote:

OK, so an Italian album that we should have been talking about a lot sooner...

La Fabrica dell' Assoluto's "1984 - L'ultimo Uomo d'Europa"



Those of you who really crave that dirty wild sound like the first Biglietto per L'Inferno, Ys, etc....your prayers have been answered!

 
Groovy.  Is the whole album that nuts?

Ya-huh, and it never lets up! The guitars and drums often sound like they've been recorded in a wet cardboard box.

Definitely THE standout Italian prog release of this year, and there's been a ton of good ones....but instantly you get the feeling this one is special from the first spin.
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Points: 5111 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 25 2015 at 13:24
Originally posted by Aussie-Byrd-Brother Aussie-Byrd-Brother wrote:

OK, so an Italian album that we should have been talking about a lot sooner...

La Fabrica dell' Assoluto's "1984 - L'ultimo Uomo d'Europa"



Those of you who really crave that dirty wild sound like the first Biglietto per L'Inferno, Ys, etc....your prayers have been answered!
 
Groovy.  Is the whole album that nuts?
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Points: 5111 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 25 2015 at 12:32
Originally posted by Guldbamsen Guldbamsen wrote:

So has anyone else picked up Akinéton Retard's newest offering 'Azufre'? I am very pleased with what I'm hearing. Psychedelic and groovy fusion with mad saxophones to boot. - yet still manages to sound like a proper chill out album. In some ways it reminds me of a more structured take on what Fire! Orchestra is doing... be that with a South American twang to it that I really dig.
 
I only have their first one - a wild and in places quite angry-sounding record! Seems like they have mellowed a bit since then...?
 
Been meaning to get more anyway, so putting Azufre on my list to hear.
 
 
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Points: 5111 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 25 2015 at 12:13
Originally posted by Guldbamsen Guldbamsen wrote:

Oh and to all you Magma fans who've been wondering what they'd sound like if they'd dropped some acid and decided to record the soundtrack to a Navajo flick:
Thumbs Up Also on my faves list and quite a fine album.  The combination of those typical Circle hypnotic rhythms with the ritualistic chanted vocals and repetitive horn riffs (dig the bass trombone!) is really doing it for me.
 
The Magma comparison is quite apt, even to some Blasquiz-esque vocal madness at points! My own thought was "if Magma were a caveman peyote cult" LOL


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Originally posted by Guldbamsen Guldbamsen wrote:

Oh and to all you Magma fans who've been wondering what they'd sound like if they'd dropped some acid and decided to record the soundtrack to a Navajo flick:

And the Dane strikes again! 

Fantastic track man! I'm getting this one for sure.
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Points: 24429 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 25 2015 at 10:39
Originally posted by Guldbamsen Guldbamsen wrote:

Oh and to all you Magma fans who've been wondering what they'd sound like if they'd dropped some acid and decided to record the soundtrack to a Navajo flick:



Though I haven't yet listened to the album (but I will), I was immediately struck by the cover, which depicts some southern Italian town - probably Viggiano in Basilicata, since the last song of the album bears the title of "Madonna of Viggiano". I have never been there, but I have often travelled through the region when going to visit my relatives in Calabria. However, in my mind Viggiano and his Black Madonna will be forever linked to one of my favourite literary works, Carlo Levi's Christ Stopped at Eboli.

Edit: I just found an Italian-language review of the album, and the town in question is Matera (as I suspected).


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Oh and to all you Magma fans who've been wondering what they'd sound like if they'd dropped some acid and decided to record the soundtrack to a Navajo flick:
“The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”

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Points: 23104 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 25 2015 at 10:18
Originally posted by Raff Raff wrote:

Originally posted by Guldbamsen Guldbamsen wrote:

So has anyone else picked up Akinéton Retard's newest offering 'Azufre'? I am very pleased with what I'm hearing. Psychedelic and groovy fusion with mad saxophones to boot. - yet still manages to sound like a proper chill out album. In some ways it reminds me of a more structured take on what Fire! Orchestra is doing... be that with a South American twang to it that I really dig.


I heard it on Progstreaming, and was duly impressedThumbs Up. Glad to see you enjoying Reve General as well - one of my top 5 albums of the year. Have you heard William D. Drake's superb Revere Reach? Another Top 5 album for me.

I have actually only had one listen to Howl, but it was enough to learn that I was onto something rather special. Sounds like David Gilmour decided to lend his lap steel guitar to a chamber rock outfit. Most definitely ending up near the top. 
....and yes I've heard bits and pieces from Revere Reach and I really dig the old British folk touch mixed with the ol Cardiacs quirk.
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Points: 21320 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 25 2015 at 10:04
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Points: 24429 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 25 2015 at 09:57
Originally posted by Guldbamsen Guldbamsen wrote:

So has anyone else picked up Akinéton Retard's newest offering 'Azufre'? I am very pleased with what I'm hearing. Psychedelic and groovy fusion with mad saxophones to boot. - yet still manages to sound like a proper chill out album. In some ways it reminds me of a more structured take on what Fire! Orchestra is doing... be that with a South American twang to it that I really dig.


I heard it on Progstreaming, and was duly impressedThumbs Up. Glad to see you enjoying Reve General as well - one of my top 5 albums of the year. Have you heard William D. Drake's superb Revere Reach? Another Top 5 album for me.
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Points: 6451 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 25 2015 at 09:51
Just edited my non-PA list to include Garden Of Delete by Oneohtrix Point Never. His best album yet. More 'progressive electronic' than most of what gets added to that sub here.
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Points: 23104 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 25 2015 at 04:40
Christmas brought me lots of music from the year of our dog 2015

Reve Général - Howl (oh my word! Psychedelic chamber rock? Why not)
Komara - s/t (King Crimson strikes back!)
Circle - Pharaoh Overlord (One of the best things I've heard this year along with the aforementioned Howl and Silver Mountain. Magma goes Krautrock)
Goblin Rebirth - s/t
Homunculus Res - Some incredible long title in Italian (Modern Canterbury served up with the Italian countryside)
Sonar - Black Light
Schnellertollermeier - X
Simon Steensland - A Farewell to Brains

Coupled together with my most recent purchases, Akinéton Retard's Azufre, Ángel Ontalva's Tierra Quemada and the La Fabbrica Dell'Assoluto (haven't received the latter two as of yet) - it is fixing up to be one hell of a dash to the AOTY finish line. Too many great ones this year.....not that I'm complaining.
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Points: 954 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 23 2015 at 21:57

THE best prog rock EP of the year is s\t debut by the U.S. band Clark's Secret Indentity http://clarkssecretidentity.bandcamp.com/ , already suggested to the PA' Crossover section by Windhahwk. what a great suggestion! Clap

and this extraordinary young band will make it big in the near future, i'm quite sure!
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Points: 23104 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 23 2015 at 18:01
So has anyone else picked up Akinéton Retard's newest offering 'Azufre'? I am very pleased with what I'm hearing. Psychedelic and groovy fusion with mad saxophones to boot. - yet still manages to sound like a proper chill out album. In some ways it reminds me of a more structured take on what Fire! Orchestra is doing... be that with a South American twang to it that I really dig.
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Points: 23104 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 23 2015 at 13:42
Thanks for that Italian update Michael. This Dane has hereby ordered the album
Not sure I want to check out Greg Walker's newest list - I simply haven't got the dough to do so. Let's just say that I know myself all too well....and New Years is next week with the boys no less. It's almost certainly going to be wild and expensive....but highly memorable and fun.

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Originally posted by Aussie-Byrd-Brother Aussie-Byrd-Brother wrote:

Originally posted by Sagichim Sagichim wrote:

I'll see if Greg Walker has it and I'll definitely order it, thanks buddy!

He does, that's who I got it from!

DId you get his most recent newsletter update?! Lord, I nearly lost my mind, there's about 30 damn titles I want!
Of course man, there's no end to that, my wish list is growing all the time.
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Originally posted by Sagichim Sagichim wrote:

I'll see if Greg Walker has it and I'll definitely order it, thanks buddy!

He does, that's who I got it from!

DId you get his most recent newsletter update?! Lord, I nearly lost my mind, there's about 30 damn titles I want!
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I'll see if Greg Walker has it and I'll definitely order it, thanks buddy!
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