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Mythology Bullfinch - The Age of Chivalry & Songs from the Age of Fable

This oddly entitled outfit seems to get their influences as much from classic and psychedelic rock as progressive rock. The Age of Chivalry is mostly a guitar, bass, and drums affair, with...

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(Posted by Mike McLatchey 2001-03-01)

Nouvelles Lectures Cosmopolites - Unis & The Cereal Killer

NLC is a project led by one Julien Ash, who has apparently been at this for some time, although these two releases were my first exposure to his work Their relative anonymity may not last, as they...

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(Posted by Sean McFee 2001-03-01)

Out of Focus - Not Too Late

Cosmic Egg is one of the recent CD labels of Audion magazine’s Alan and Steve Freeman, acting sort of as a offshoot to their Auricle cassette line that they have run since the 80s. The...

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(Posted by Mike McLatchey 2001-03-01)

Peter Banks - Can I Play You Something?

Guitarist Peter Banks continues to dig deep into his roots and comes up another winner with his latest disc. This one is of keen interest to collectors of the psychedelic era, since that’s...

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(Posted by Jeff Melton 2001-03-01)

Peter Frohmader - 2001

Pounding beats, throbbing bass, swirling electronics. Is this latest acid house, acid techno, electro-techno (whatever label you choose) sensation from Germany? No, surprisingly it is a foray into...

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(Posted by Henry Schneider 2001-03-01)

Peter Frohmader - Kanaan Live 1975

Peter Frohmader was in a number of groups in the early 70s that predated his tenure with the moniker “Nekropolis.” Kanaan is one of these groups, presented here live in concert in 1975....

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(Posted by Mike McLatchey 2001-03-01)

Peter Frohmader & Fuchs-Gamböck - Das Ist Alles

German rock journalist Michael Fuchs-Gamböck and Peter Frohmader met at a Faust concert in 1997. Their mutual interest in Krautrock and experimental music led to a lasting friendship and now a...

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(Posted by Henry Schneider 2001-03-01)

Peter Ulrich - Pathways and Dawns

To me, at first this sounds a heck of a lot like Robert Wyatt vocally and Dead Can Dance (or other similar 4AD artists) musically. Ulrich has a thin, plaintive tenor voice that, like Wyatt’s,...

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(Posted by Steve Robey 2001-03-01)

Preston Reed - Handwritten Notes

If you think that the acoustic guitar is a conventional instrument then you haven’t heard Preston Reed play it. Combining a tapping approach that is considerably evolved from the style of the...

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(Posted by David Ashcraft 2001-03-01)

Radiohead - Kid A

OK Computer showed a rock band reaching beyond the conventions of commercial music, yet somehow managing to remain commercial, selling millions of albums and impressing a lot of...  » Read more
(Posted by Jon Davis 2001-03-01)

Remy - The Art of Imagination

The Art of Imagination is a series of six musical images in the European electronic tradition. The first is in a melodic, minor key with shakuhachi-like patches intoning over some deeper...

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(Posted by Mike McLatchey 2001-03-01)

Robert Carty - The Inexplicable

Robert Carty is an independent musician who runs his own label and releases several CDRs a year in a variety of electronic styles. He has an enormous back catalog that I have only begun to tap, but...

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(Posted by Mike McLatchey 2001-03-01)

Russ Tolman - New Quadrophonic Highway

Tolman is a singer-songwriter with a half-talking / half-singing Lou Reed style of vocalization. In other words, he’s got the vocal range of about five half-steps. This is not necessarily a...

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(Posted by Jerry Baiden 2001-03-01)

Sabah Habas Mustapha & The Jugala All Stars - So La Li

Most progressive rock fans know him as Colin Bass, bassist for Camel since the late 70s, but in Indonesia he is Sabah Habas Mustapha, the youngest brother of the famous 3Mustaphas3, an incredibly...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 2001-03-01)

Scenic - Spheres

I haven’t heard Scenic’s previous releases, but from the descriptions I found on the net (“Ennio Morricone meets modern chamber music and Middle Eastern influences”), this CD EP is atypical....  » Read more
(Posted by Jon Davis 2001-03-01)

Sigmund Snopek III - Trinity Seas Seize Sees (Long Version)

Though best known these days as the keyboardist for the Violent Femmes, Sigmund Snopek’s first and greatest accomplishments have been in progressive rock. A three-act rock opera written in...

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(Posted by Jim Chokey 2001-03-01)

Similares y Conexos - De Flora y Fauna

Of the Mexican progressive groups I’ve heard, none attempts to integrate the traditional music of their country as much as Similares y Conexos. The five-pieces ranges from tunes a bit like...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2001-03-01)

Solaris - Back to the Roots - Solaris Archive 1

Shot right out of the cosmos to earth by the stories of Asimov, Bradbury, and Clarke is the Hungarian formation Solaris. Hungary is not the friendliest of places to release music that tries to...

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(Posted by Roel Steverink 2001-03-01)

Spirogyra - Burn the Bridges: The Demo Tapes 70-71

Not to be confused with a similarly-named 80s fusion act, this British band released three undisputed classics of progressive / psychedelic folk back in the 70s: St. Radigunds, Old...

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(Posted by Jim Chokey 2001-03-01)

Spring Heel Jack - Oddities

Underground darlings Spring Heel Jack is the duo of Coxon and Wales from the UK. Oddities is their last segment in a trio of recordings the composers created, which has a consistent set of...

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(Posted by Jeff Melton 2001-03-01)