Experimental / Progressive

Split release on Minotauro: Thomas Hand Chaste's Insetti, where progressive rock atmospheres meet dark minimal ambient and dirty industrial sounds, paired with Felis Catus's Cartesius. Seventeen tracks in all.

A live album featuring the best tracks from the tour undertaken in April 2026 by the improvisational duo Tatsuya Yoshida and Ichiraku Yoshimitsu is set to be released. Tatsuya Yoshida, known for his overwhelming performance style that makes heavy use…

New issue of Audion, the magazine edited by Alan Freeman for Ultima Thule, printed in 60 copies. The cover article covers Magma from 1996 to 2026, thirty years since the band came back to activity, and runs alongside the second part of the beginner's…

Audion 87 arrives like a lovingly overstuffed mixtape passed between devotees, its 44 A4 pages packed with rabbit holes for anyone who still hears “progressive” as a verb, not a museum tag. At its core sit two major anchor features. The first is a de…

You Smile — The Song Is Over is Cheer-Accident’s 27th full-length release, out on the most-singular/most-still-standing Cuneiform label. It is an ambitious little monster, with lots of density and lots of sprawl, and it’s the perfect catalyst to forc…

French edition Editions EG of the first collaboration by the two colossal progressive rock musicians who played with Yes, King Crimson, the Moody Blues, and many others, released in 1985.

Original UK edition on EG of the second collaboration by the two progressive rock giants who played with Yes, King Crimson, the Moody Blues, and many others, released in 1985.

1977 Italian re-issue on Polydor of one of the most amazing and influential albums ever released, a monument of prog-rock and a timeless masterpiece created in 1969.

Original Dutch edition on Polydor/EG of the surprising first album of the renewed, both musically and in the line-up, KC of the early 1980's, released in 1981.

Original Italian edition on Polydor/EG of the great second album of the renewed, both musically and in the line-up, KC of the early 1980's, released in 1982.

Original Italian edition on EG of the great third album of the renewed, both musically and in the line-up, KC of the early 1980's, released in 1984.

Unofficial LP with the recording of the concert at Plumpton Festival on August 9, 1969.

Unofficial 1983 LP with extracts from two concert neld in 1973 at Richards in Atlanta, GA and in Amsterdam.

Rare unofficial 2LP set on Haro Records with the entire concert at Sun Plaza Hall in Tokyo in 1984.

Original Italian edition on Charisma, with lyrics transalted into Italian on the innsersleeve, of the 1973 second solo album of experimental art-rock by Van Der Graaf Generator's singer, accompanied by his bandmates.

1985 German re-issue on Jaro Medien of the mighty 1975 double LP set of live recordings by the most original, powerful, uncompromising, influential French group of the 1970's led by Christian Vander. A must on the NWW list.

Rare 1979 Italian re-issue on Virgin with misprinted labels of one of the most acclaimed and successful progressive art-rock albums of the 1970's, originally released in 1973.

Orig‌inal Italian edition on Virgin of the third album and progressive rock monument from 1975.

Original UK edition on Virgin of the 1978 double album with four long minimalist suites conducted by David Bedford.

Orig‌inal Italian edition on Virgin of the great pop album from 1983, featuring Family's Roger Chapman and Yes' Jon Andderson.

Orig‌inal Italian edition on Virgin of the 1987 album blending progressive rock and pop, featuring Kevin Ayers amd Bonnie Tyler.

Orig‌inal Italian edition on Virgin of the great 1990 experimental album.

2026 stock Formed in Rome in 1984, this is a newly mastered release of ARPIA's first demo tape from 1987. “De Lusioni” is comprised of 7 songs -clocking at 71 minutes- which the band has described at an "experimental demo but of rich forms and ideas …

Visitors was the brain-child of French producer/composer/genius, and enfant terrible Jean-Pierre Massiera. In 1974, he recruited a group of nineteen musicians (most notably jazz violinist Didier Lockwood, who made an indelible mark on Magma's 1975 li…

Audion 86 arrives as a concentrated blast of deep listening culture, a 44-page A4 issue that treats the margins of rock, jazz and experimental sound as its natural centre. First published on 6 February 2025 in simultaneous printed and pdf editions, t…

2019 re-issue on Spittle with two bonus tracks of excellent and very odd experimental rock tape from 1979.

On From Books and Dreams, Message twist hard-rocking kraut-prog into a delirious, book‑strange suite of nightmares and visions, where riffs, sax and Mellotron bleed into long-form songs that feel equal parts acid hangover, cosmic sermon and waking dr…

Mentioned on Julian Cope's essential guide Jap Rock Sampler, Food Brain released their debut album in 1970, gathering influences from prog, proto-hard and psychedelic music. By far a supergroup consisting of Shinki Chen (Speed, Glue and Shinki), Hiro…

World Of Echo announces the reissue of two remastered albums by Japanese guitarist and songwriter Naoki Zushi, 1988’s Paradise, and 2005’s III. Two classics of Japanese psychedelia, both Paradise and III were originally released on Org Records, the i…

World Of Echo announces the reissue of two remastered albums by Japanese guitarist and songwriter Naoki Zushi, 1988’s Paradise, and 2005’s III. Two classics of Japanese psychedelia, both Paradise and III were originally released on Org Records, the i…

1994 release ** "Zao should need no introduction for progressive fusion fans, as they were one of France's best groups of the 70s, releasing five albums, four of them essential listens. While Zao has reformed occasionally since 1977 for the occasiona…

2025 stock  Nine CD set. This impressive release collates their Decca/Deram years complete with bonus tracks and rare live recordings in a striking box released to coincide with Decca's 90th Anniversary. The English city of Canterbury is home to two …

2004 release ** "Guapo is a British trio that plays an intense music that straddles the boundaries of progressive, noise, minimalism and avant-rock. Their sound has been compared to such artists as Magma, Boredoms, King Crimson, Univers Zero, This He…

2015 release ** "The group started their life as a heavy bass/drums duo playing post-hardcore, noisy rock, but in the two decades since, they have expanded their instrumentation and their stylistic references to become one of Europe's most highly res…

2005 release ** ""Rock N’ Roll Exhibition" is a completely new and unique album in the career of Demetrio Stratos, Mauro Pagani and Paolo Tofani and also for the Cramps label: it is a live tribute to the origins of rock’n’roll.""

2014 release ** "Appearing as it did in 1973, Area's debut album must have sounded to the average Italian pop critics like the end of the world. Issued on the Cramps label, the album highlighted Area's early sound, which featured overt folk melodies,…

2003 release ** "Pekka Streng's music was fundamentally far from rock or pop; his intimate and reflective songs were more reminiscent of folk, vocals and often even children's music (Tove Jansson was one of Streng's great idols). Love Records' brilli…

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2010 release ** "With the Misunderstood, Tony Hill co-wrote epochal psych-rock anthems like "Children of the Sun"; however, while High Tide's sound has roots in the peace-and-love era, the band was also in tune with the post-psychedelic comedown at t…

2007 release ** "Vinc Project is primarily the work of Vincent Zermatten (Vinc for short) of Switzerland. His regular job is guitarist in the band Ever Since, who apparently are one of the three million metal bands in Europe. But My Story has very li…