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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 01 2016 at 05:32
Originally posted by Sagichim Sagichim wrote:

Bubu's Resplandor is a great little EP Approve

It is.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 01 2016 at 05:08
Originally posted by Sagichim Sagichim wrote:

Vespero's Lique Mekwas album is excellent!


I've got the CD ! StarStarStarStarStar

Another great band from RAIG Records: Human Factor - Homo Universum (2016).



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 01 2016 at 04:54
Bubu's Resplandor is a great little EP Approve
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 29 2016 at 03:52
I can't get enough of Gandalf's Fist "The Clockwork Fable" ...  It's amazing in so many ways.   Nothing like it on the Prog Scene.  
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 28 2016 at 18:14
Vespero is indeed VERY good! i'm trying to get Sonanze newest album to a spin
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 28 2016 at 17:24
I be likin' the new Kayo Dot.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 28 2016 at 05:52
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Vespero goes Santana!! Nahh it's just the sax and percussion splashes that make me think of ol Carlos. Haven't spun it since I got it though. Maybe it's time for a revisit.
Exactly what I was thinking man! It took me a while to appreciate since I have a problem with long albums, but it is very enjoyable. I would say it's a bit less progressive and I'm not sure it's the right word but more jamy maybe, but it doesn't really bother me in this case.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 28 2016 at 05:52
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Our Solar System - s/t (not on PA) psych
They have a new album? Cool Thumbs Up Looking at the Psych chart, I cleared them one year ago Embarrassed

Oh, and since we spoke about the lack of Italian albums, I listened to Ad Maiora's new album yesterday and it seemed even better than the debut at first listen. Much shorter, quite spacey and there are songs sung in Italian now.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 28 2016 at 05:43
Vespero goes Santana!! Nahh it's just the sax and percussion splashes that make me think of ol Carlos. Haven't spun it since I got it though. Maybe it's time for a revisit.

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Amoeba Split - Second Split
Our Solar System - s/t (not on PA) psych
Méta Méta - MM3 (not on PA) fusion/avant
Niechec - s/t (not on PA) fusion

One of my faves this year though has been Dutch band DeWolff's Roux-Ga-Roux. Completely abandoning their slight brush up with prog a little while back, they now seem far more content doing this wonderful mix of psychedelic south Saturn delta blues rock sounding particularly close to Dr. John from back in his Gris-Gris days. Absolute stunner of an album this one!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 28 2016 at 05:33
Vespero's Lique Mekwas album is excellent!

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 25 2016 at 21:00
Originally posted by Kazza3 Kazza3 wrote:

I really recommend the new album by Moulettes, 'Preternatural'. They're an English kind of quirky art pop/art rock band with female vocal harmonies, cello and bassoon, who have moved into a bigger, proggier (at times), more fuzzed-out sound on this new record- probably particularly of interest to fans of some of the current wave of female-fronted prog-pop bands like Moetar, Bent Knee, etc.



(and from the previous album:)

This stuff is incredible! I can't believe I never heard them before!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 23 2016 at 14:25
I still have to do a once over of the albums that have been released already this year, but I have to say that at this point in the past four or so years I had at least one album that I'd rank as a 5 star album...not the case with 2016. There have been some good solids but nothing that is lightening up the tree at this point.

Yugen's DBW probably comes the closest.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 23 2016 at 12:36
The only album to really grab my attention so far has been Purson - "Desire's Magic Theatre"
 
I was slightly disappointed by Haken - "Affinity", and VERY disappointed by Dream Theater - "The not-so-Astonishing".
 
I have hopes for the Anderson Stolt album.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 23 2016 at 09:21
I've already bought five 2016 releases so far, a joint-record in the year.

In purchase order:

Steven Wilson - 4˝
Dream Theater - The Astonishing
Haken - Affinity
Frost* - Falling Satellites
Airbag - Disconnected
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 21 2016 at 13:38
I'll have to check that Daevid Allen album out. 

I've quite like A Moon Shaped Pool, Blackstar, The Glowing Man. I listened to the stream of Plastic House on Base of Sky, and it's definitely going to require more listens, very dense, but promising.

Maybe the first time in a while that almost all the albums that are topping my list are on PA. LOL

Definitely need to explore more releases from this year, though. I'd normally check rateyourmusic for suggestions but I've been banned for seemingly no reason and it's not looking like they're going to get to lifting said ban anytime soon. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 21 2016 at 08:34
I'm glad you like it Sagi. Think I'll give it a whirl later today. I too think it is a wonderful album, and similar to Bowie, quite the swansong.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 21 2016 at 08:04
Just been overdosing on Daevid Allen's Elevenses, after the excellent final Gong album I never thought he's gonna release another solo album. 
This is a great album! check it out everyone.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 31 2016 at 09:40
The Enid - Dust, it's until the moment the best album form this year for me, really, and probably one of the best since this decade, one of the most beautiful mixture of classical music and rock that i've heard!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 28 2016 at 11:22
Looking forward to Big Big Train's new album. So far Bent Knee's new album Say So is at the top of my list for the year. 

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 28 2016 at 08:14
Looking forward to hearing new Neal Morse. Also getting new Arnioe - The Teen Years that pays tribute to some of the great PROG albums such as Close to the Edge and Aqualung.
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