What albums did you listen to today?

TeleStrat wrote: Sun Mammuth - Cosmo

Did you also receive an e-mail from the band about the delay of the order?

^ Wait 

Meltdowner wrote: Mansun - Six

Did you like it, Sam?

Their other two albums are also very good in their own way, just not as obviously `prog' as that one. The first one `Attack of the Grey Lantern' has really ambitious Brit-pop stuff on it and is a terrific album overall, and the third album `Little Kix' has more of a less complex synth-pop/new romantic sound, which was a disappointment coming after `Six', but it proves its worth for what it is after several spins. They also had a ton of singles/Ep's loaded with B-sides (and most of them very good) that their fans were manic about.

Last night's listens:

Focus – Live at the Rainbow
Atomic Rooster – In Hearing Of...
Mondo Drag - s/t
La Coscienza di Zeno – La Notte Anche di Giorno
Sezione Frenante – Metaforsa di un Viaggio
Kitaro – Asia (live)
Forrest Fang – The Sleepwalker’s Ocean
Eric Wollo – Blue Radiance
Steve Roach – Texture Maps

AEProgman wrote: Aussie-Byrd-Brother wrote: Last night's listens: Focus – Live at the Rainbow Atomic Rooster – In Hearing Of... Mondo Drag - s/t La Coscienza di Zeno – La Notte Anche di Giorno Sezione Frenante – Metaforsa di un Viaggio Kitaro – Asia (live) Forrest Fang – The Sleepwalker’s Ocean Eric Wollo – Blue Radiance Steve Roach – Texture Maps Kitaro, that is a name I have not heard in a long time.  Used to have a bunch of his stuff in the early 90s, but have not heard any in about as long.  It is overdue! Love that Focus album, it was the first album by them I bought.

Hey Jim, I only got to that particular Focus album quite recently, even though I've long known the status is has! Needless to say, it's a ripper!

Kitaro....I completely 100% defend his first several albums as being very worthwhile prog-electronic releases, even if they have many gentle moments! Pretty much up until the mid 80's most of his albums were very strong, and then of course the New Age elements took over a lot more. I honestly wish he was on the Archives, but I'm pretty sure he was knocked back long ago, no doubt being written off because of the stigma his New Age popularity brought. I avoided his music for so long expecting the worst, but when I had the opportunity to pick up a few of his earlier works dirt-cheap on CD, I took the chance and was quite stunned at how good they were!

Actually, that `Asia' live album is really decent, someone pointed out to me that it's really quite `prog rock', and they were right! The drums, the lethargic acoustic guitar strums and the dreamy synths all make it surprisingly sound like parts of Novalis' `Sommerabend'!

Edited by Aussie-Byrd-Brother - January 19 2016 at 14:55

Aussie-Byrd-Brother wrote: Meltdowner wrote: Mansun - Six Did you like it, Sam? Their other two albums are also very good in their own way, just not as obviously `prog' as that one. The first one `Attack of the Grey Lantern' has really ambitious Brit-pop stuff on it and is a terrific album overall, and the third album `Little Kix' has more of a less complex synth-pop/new romantic sound, which was a disappointment coming after `Six', but it proves its worth for what it is after several spins. They also had a ton of singles/Ep's loaded with B-sides (and most of them very good) that their fans were manic about. Focus – Live at the Rainbow

Yes, very much. It's quite accessible and catchy but also really interesting musically, that it didn't seem like a 70 minute album. I already knew "Legacy", I don't know from where. I'll keep an eye out for their albums

I heard that Focus album last week, it's the only one I have. It's fantastic... and impossible not to headbang furiously to the sound of Hocus Pocus

Tuesday...

Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - Of Natural History 

Arabs in Aspic – Victim of your Father’s Agony
Onewayness & Modular ESP – Astral Bridges (THE electronic release of 2015 to my ears!)
Kitaro – Full Moon Story
Tangerine Dream – Reims Cathedral, Dec 1974 (Official Bootleg – vol 1)
Tangerine Dream – Manheim, 1976 (Official Bootleg – vol 1)
Tangerine Dream – Rubycon
Ash Ra Tempel – Le Berceau de Cristal

Steven Wilson - Hand. Cannot. Erase.

Joyce Manor - s/t
The Police - "Fall Out" / "Nothing Achieving"
Gene Clark - "No Other"
Genesis - "A Trick of the Tail"
The Band - "Music From Big Pink"