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Akhenaton
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 occasional live show, they haven't released an album with Yochk'o Seffer (sax, ex-Magma, Perception, Speed Limit, Neffesh Music) and Francois "Faton" Cahen (keys, ex- Magma) together since the classic Kawana. Due to good sales of their reissued CDs (Kawana, S…
Five Suns
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 Heat, Ruins, Sun Ra and Terry Riley. As Sound Projector put it, "Guapo come on like all the hellhounds of Magma, Eskaton and Ruins were after them...on a par with Magma’s Kohntarkosz or Univers Zero’s Ceux Du Dehors". Five Suns is the band’s fifth albu…
Obscure Knowledge
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 respected 'muscular and modern' experimental /progressive rock bands. Centered around founding member and extraordinary drummer David J. Smith, the group on the album also features three additional heavy-weights of British experimental rock: Kavus Torab…
Rock And Roll Exibition
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.""
Arbeit Macht Frei
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, Canterbury Scene prog rock, acid psychedelia, and vanguard jazz all filtered through a particularly Italian sensibility. Those who came to love PFM later will not be able to handle the beautiful -- yet very disciplined -- weirdness of Area, at least…
Kesämaa
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' brilliant insight was to have Tasavallan Presidentti accompany his first album. This synthesis gave rise to music that, instead of acoustic folk, was influenced by prog, psychedelia and sometimes even jazz. However, the arrangements did not banish the deli…
Sea Shanties
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 the decade's darker end. On Sea Shanties, there's nothing fey and flowery in Hill's bleak lyrics or his doomy Jim Morrison-like delivery, and psychedelia's melodic whimsy is supplanted by a physicality more in line with the visceral heft of metal prog…
My Story...
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 little to do with metal. Vinc plays just about everything here: keys, acoustic & electric guitars, bass, drums and vocals, and is assisted by a violinist, a cellist, and two singers. The music is melancholy, full-sounding symphonic rock that sounds ver…
Additives
2004 release ** "New interesting italian prog band, with psychedelic-rock sounds. Their CD includes a cover of the Van Der Graf Generator track “Afterwards”, plus other 7 original tracks by Gap Party. This band formed in 1999 and already released several interesting albums over the years."
Still Constant
2010 release ** "By citing Pain Of Salvation, Opeth, Dream Theater, Riverside, Pink Floyd and Eloy as influences, Turkey's Hope to Find essentially reveals its sound before you even push "play." But that's no reason to overlook Still Constant, a four-track debut EP that covers a lot of moody musical territory. From the riffs-aplenty rock and roll of "The Grand Opening" (the aptly titled track that kicks off this 27-minute disc) to the more arty "Witness of Happiness," Hope To Find sounds compete…
25 Years Minimum R&B
2017 release ** "25 years of activity, an original artist, sincere and inspired. A Nordic-inspired poetry that finds its soundness in search of sound, in the company of many musicians / companions Simon, tells us, in this volume, a unique artistic journey that varies between Rock, Contemporary, Jazz, Chamberlain . Becoming an icon of the RIO movement between the 90s and 2000s, Simon Steensland proposes two discs, one that collects a collection of pieces of his first period on CD, which has long …
Leila Saida
2008 release ** "This Harmony is an Italian instrumental quartet comprised of violin, guitar, bass and drums. The classically influenced violin is the star of the show, and Leila Saida is recommended to all who love rock with violin in the lead. This Harmony are similar to the Polish band Ankh, but more refined. Obviously they are most similar to the original Ankh that included violin in the lineup, but there is also a good deal of the dreamy, psychedelic feel that Ankh adopted after their violi…
Album 1 (Descuento)
2005 release ** "Combining rock, improvisation, and contemporary classical music with a distinctly exploratory spirit, the group is part of a small, but not necessarily insignificant, movement, sharing similarities with other projects from the late 1990s and early 2000s such as Prolapsus, Dolores Fiuler, and Turangalila. Their only studio album, "Álbum 1 (descuento)" (2005), is characterized by its unique approach focused on experimentation, with an interesting range of influences that, as we me…
Good Night To The Bucket
2004 release ** "With their experimental tendencies increased beyond measure, Vedda Tribe's sound is now more electronic, cryptic and eclectic: if the intellectual adherence to the most cerebral King Crimson is still important, the psychedelic and neoclassical ambitions of their debut are largely left by the wayside or in any case widely camouflaged in a sonic chaos of cold synths with technological and space-like features, by bassist Mauro Pamiro... The musical discourse of "Good Night To The B…
Ohrenschmaus (Neue Pop-Musik Aus Deutschland)
Original 1970 2LP compilation of tracks from early Ohr albums featuring Floh De Cologne, Embryo, Witthüser & Westrupp, Amon Düül, Annexus Quam, Tangerine Dream, Guru Guru, Limbus.
Mitten Ins Ohr
Original 1971 2LP compilation of tracks from several early Ohr albums featuring Birth Control, Floh De Cologne, Embryo, Witthüser & Westrupp, Amon Düül, Paul & Limpe Fuchs, Annexus Quam, Ash Ra Tempel, Tangerine Dream, Guru Guru, Xhol, Limbus.
Stories, Songs & Symphonies
Original 1975 edition on Kosmische Musik of the fourth Wallenstein album, at bargain price because of the condition.
Cosmic Century
Original 1973 edition on Kosmische Musik of the third Wallenstein album.
Dreamlab
Original 1975 first edition on Kosmische Musik of Mythos' second album.