A.Vuolo & E.Grande - "Desert" {Italy} [1979]

A.Vuolo & E.Grande - "Desert" {Italy} [1979]

New rip
You will like this album if you are fans of Alan Parsons Project (The cover also reminds me of "Eye in the Sky"(1982)...but "Desert" was earlier released !
This album's tracks are all instruments ones (without vocal tracks )



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Greg Sneddon "Mind Stroll " (Australia , Genesis clone,1975 )

Greg Sneddon "Mind Stroll " (Australia , Genesis clone ,1975)

Do you love Genesis as well as me ?
Then ,this album is for you !!!!!

You can download mp3 from the following info (excellent ripping ,indeed),so I posted WAVE only here.

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Horizont (1977,prog , Sweden)

Horizont (1977,prog ,Sweden)

Recommended to KAIPA's fans.

RYM

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Full album
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2hHwlJB0oQ

Cardboard Village "Sea Change" (USA,1973 ,psych folk )

Cardboard Village "Sea Change" (USA,1973 ,psych folk )

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David Sancious & Tone "Dance of the Age of Enlightenment" (USA,symphonic jazz rock,1977)

David Sancious & Tone"Dance of the Age of Enlightenment" (USA,symphonic jazz rock,1977)


I have got some CD-Rs or mp3s of this album to the date .
But they were not my favorite ones about sound quality.
However,at last ,I've got excellent lossless file .
So glad to enjoy this unreleased real treasure with all of you together !

RYM

info

 In those days around 1977 ,David Sancious & Tone were an anomaly to Columbia-Epic and also Arista. They didn’t know how to market the band. The band  told the companies to just put them with all the fusion artists, but those marketing boys were kind of crazy. .....Sometimes they can’t see the forest before the trees as they say.....It was the big problem with ‘'Dance of the Age of Enlightenment”. Both Columbia-Epic and Arista couldn’t conceive of the concept of a symphonic fusion band.  People didn’t realize that "Dance of the Age of Enlightenment" was scored for 20 woodwind, 20 string and 20 brass parts. That’s 60 singular individual orchestra parts that were all done on “ONE” yes one single minimoog synthesizer by David .The engineer, Bruce Botnik almost had a nervous breakdown (lol) as they had to sync three (3) 24 track MCI Tapedecks together and calibrate them every fifteen minutes to keep all the tracks sync’d up. ......Quite an undertaking.The record companies didn’t think that anyone would buy it so they tabled the project one month before the release date.It was very disappointing to the band. But it led to them creating the " True Stories  "  which is by far one of better produced records of all time. Eddie Offord was truly a genius.

This record were disposed soon although they were manufactured 1000 copies  first.No album cover, although one was created .Never went into production.............

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Harry Roesli "Titik Api" (1976,prog ,Indonesia)

 Harry Roesli "Titik Api" (1976,prog ,Indonesia)

This album was finished 53 in the best Indonesian 150 albums selected in 2007.

info

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Badai Pasti Berlalu (Indonesia ,prog pop , 1977,OST )

Badai Pasti Berlalu  (Indonesia ,prog pop , 1977, OST )

This album was finished "NO 1" in the best Indonesian 150 albums selected in 2007.
Yockie's fantastic keyboards and Chrisye's singing are really brilliant....all 13 tracks are greats !!!!!

full movie

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Harry Roesly "Ken Arok " (Indonesia ,rock opera ,1977 )

Harry Roesly "Ken Arok " (Indonesia ,rock opera ,1977 )

This album was finished 10th in the Indonesian best 150 albums (selected in 2007)

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abstract from side A

  Yockie Suryoprayogo & Chrisye "Jurang Pemisah " (Indonesia ,prog pop,1977 ) 

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This album was finished 50th in the 150 Indonesian albums (selected in 2007)

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Guruh Gipsy (1977,prog,Indonesia )

Guruh Gipsy (1977,prog,Indonesia )

Second upload followed by nahavanda  in 2006  here

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The album was recorded  twice .......First recording was July 1975 - February 1976, and the second rekoding was May 1976 - June 1976  (total 200 times dubbing).  The progressive rock GEM in Indonesia. combining elements of Western and Bali music.

• This albums was selected as best Indonesian albums 150 in 2007 (as No 2 rate )

This is once vinyl reissued  by Shadoks in 2006,but  it is not a legit one......from a cassette rip....
Guruh Gipsy is always (LOL) scheduled to be reissued  in Indonesia,but always (LOL) failed until today because of the problems of copyright ......
Hope it will be reissued as CD as soon as possible  in the near future  because it is a real GEM  for us  progheads ....

B-4 is a bonus track,and it is no relation with Guruh Gipsy ?
Some one knows about the bonus track ?

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BTW,the other day(in August ?) ,Guruh Gipsy's tribute album was released in Indonesia (2 CD set).
Rick Wakeman performed in the album.
The following is the PV about the tribute album..(Rick is also watched for a moment...)

Jed "Merlin's Song " (USA,medieval folk ,1982 )

Jed "Merlin's Song " (USA,medieval folk ,1982 )

This file was ripped from youtube and split into tracks and removed noises and remastered (volume control and both speakers balance control...and so on....)

Thanks a lot the original ripper (darkfakt).
 It is rumored that only 300 were pressed


A 1  The Michaeline Hymn
    2   Wintes Glade
    3   The Palmer
   4   Rhiannon

B  1   Riddling Maid
B  2   Sand Dancer
B  3   The Arthurian Trilogy

(1) Morgan Le-Fay (2) The Ballad Of Bedivere (3)  Merlin's Song

If you ask me your request from youtube, I will help you.



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God Bless "Cermin" (1980,progressive HR ,Indonesia )

God Bless "Cermin" (1980,progressive HR ,Indonesia )

God Bless is an Indonesian legendary HR band that has released 6 albums to this date.
Unfortunately ,only this 2nd album "Cermin" never released as CD in spite of the best album of their 6 albums.
That's why the master tape can not be used anymore because of the broken condition.

Yockie Suryoprayogo (key) played in almost of their albums ,but about "Cermin" Abadi Soesman (ex- Guruh Gipsy) played on all the tracks ,and he blew his a lot of jazzy and progressive feelings  into the album,so we prog lovers can accept it  as one of the Indonesian prog masterpieces ...
Abadi has rejoined God Bless as a regular member since 2002 after withdrawing from the band in 1980 (?).

official_website

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GENOCID "Beyond the mask c/w It's three o'clock "

 GENOCID  "Beyond the mask c/w It's three o'clock "( 198? ,Belgium ,Genesis-vein )

 GENOCID was a Belgian prog band influenced by GENESIS (4 men )
 They released 2 single records during early 80s....maybe

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Abbhama "alam raya " (Indonesia ,prog,1978 )

Abbhama "alam raya " (Indonesia ,prog,1978 )

As you know, this is one of the masterpieces of Indonesian prog albums.
These days,it was released as legit LP & CD at last. (April,2014 )

info

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I bought the CD very soon because it has been my favorite one for long years.
But ,unfortunately, the CD has terrible sound too much .....
Who made the CD ...???  oh my.....

So you must not buy the CD (I'm not sure about the vinyl )

I will upload my lossless file and mp3 from the cassette ripping because more prog lovers will know why this excellent music is real GEM through my ripping ,not the terrible CD .....just like a bootleg sound....(about the package,excellent one,beautiful package ,perfect making,I think)

The band's vocalist "Iwan Madjid "  died on July 18 ,2014.....RIP.......

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Amaury Pérez (Cuba, 1979 ,prog singer )

 Amaury Pérez (Cuba, 1979 ,prog singer )

This album's value is ★★★★★ for me.
I purchase not only Cuban original vinyl but also Mexican vinyl (purple front cover ),but I think that Cuban one has better sound ,so I ripped it.
After releaseing this album ,he began to lose his interest about prog music ,and went on releasing pop and AOR music albums ,and as the result,he got a great success in Cuba.
He has played with famous Cuban prog band "Sintesis " around late 70s to early 80s.

RYM

Amaury re-recorded all tracks of the album with his friends and released 2CDs + 1DVD set ,1CD is the original version,and the other is the new recorded version with other Cuban artists (here ) ,the video above is the footage at that time. .I purchased the CD just now ,and will upload here when it arrives.

Thai Rock (Thailand ,1990 HR)

I hear that this album was released by the members of Carabao (1981-present)  &   Kraton 　(1986-1993) in 1990.
Tell me about this album in detail ,please....



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Tracks "The Very Best of Tracks 1969-1974 " (USA,complilation, 1991 )

Tracks "The Very Best of Tracks 1969-1974 " (USA,complilation, 1991 )

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Graham Moses "Put It All On Red " (USA,1980)

Graham Moses "Put It All On Red " (USA,1980)

Do you like the following 4 albums by Peter Hammill (VDGG) ?

The Future Now (1978)
PH 7(1979)
A Black Box (1980)
Sitting Targets (1981)

If so,
you might enjoy this obscure gem by this talented American singer's album.
Reminds me of  PH (early 80s era)

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Grupo Proyecto De Gonzalo Rubalcaba ‎ "Concatenacion Vol.1 " (Cuba,1987 Jazz rock)

Grupo Proyecto De Gonzalo Rubalcaba ‎  "Concatenacion Vol. 1" (Cuba,1987 Jazz rock)

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As you know ,Gonzalo Rubalcaba (from Cuba)  is one of the greatest jazz pianists  all over the world.

In his early career ,he recorded this brilliant jazz rock live album in 1987.
You will be surprised his miraculous　progressive keyboard playing a lot.

The following album is the same as my post....Discogs

BTW
It is famous that Cuban vinyls are not good condition very much....but mine is really near-mint one,so happy you will enjoy this forgotten  gem without any mental stress.

And,he also released  "vol2" but I don't own it yet,so please share it if you have the file.

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les Bel-Air "Galaxie / Kyrie Eleison " (Canada,psych,prog,acid ,1970)

les Bel-Air "Galaxie / Kyrie Eleison " (Canada,psych,prog,acid ,1970)

info (You can try samples there ,too)

This single was not included in their original albums. (both tracks)

Chariot (USA,Xian progressive HR,1974)

I know nothing about this band. Tell me if someone knows about them Side A Side B

Nick-Nack "Albion" (USA,1982,progressive HR)

Nick-Nack "Albion" (USA,1982,progresiive HR,)

I hope all of you will spread this USA's forgotten gem all over the world ....
Unfortunately,original recording quality worse than expected.

RYM

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Part Three of the Blossom Dearie Chronicles: Simply Vol. VII and a complete Chez Wahlberg

It was surprisingly easy to find the complete original rip of Chez Wahlberg on a Friday night I had nothing better to do... good for you guys to have found out it was incomplete, which I never thought would happen and in fact had forgotten about.  On the same backup CD I found the album she did after the Vol. VI one (obviously) which was distinctly inferior, though there are a couple of great songs, esp. the "Over the Weekend" number and the incredible sound of the electric piano on "Free Again".  There must be only a handful of people in the world who even knew of the existence of this album, at least until now.  

The gorgeous track "After Me" that closes the album out should have been a hit.  

Check out the hilarious lyrics for "Loving in the present tense:"

"No more turnin' off the new wave

Heavy metal makes good sense

We make out to Michael Jackson

Loving in the present tense"

ouch!

Now I recommend you all bookmark the new site which has featured some astonishing albums lost in the past, saved for the present:
http://progressreview.blogspot.com

Iviron REUP and Linkola's Banana REUP

http://prognotfrog.blogspot.ca/2012/04/iviron-1981.html
I'll do this first since as you can tell from what I wrote this is one of my favourite discoveries from the last couple of years.  I'll post a wav, please use a standard program like xrecode to convert to mp3.  If anyone can help with these reuploads I would appreciate it greatly.


Also, in mp3 this time:
http://prognotfrog.blogspot.com/2011/03/jukka-linkola-banana-1976.html
These requests remain to be done:
Ela Helasvuo, Arturo Meza, This Oneness, Goro Ohmi, Hazard, Francois Faton Cahen, Didier Bonin, Sangi, Resa, Dune

Japotage REUP by request

http://prognotfrog.blogspot.ca/2012/06/japotage-germany-1985.html
I will post this as a wav, please use something like xrecode if you want to switch to mp3.
Go ahead and request reups, time permitting I will be able to do some or get help from:
http://progressreview.blogspot.com
Merry Xmas & Happy Holidays

Update

Apologies for being so quiet, but I would like to open the door to any requests in the meantime.

And thanks to http://progressreview.blogspot.com for helping fulfill some requests.  I urge everyone to bookmark that website and follow it daily as I've seen so many interesting things in there.  I believe it may still prove to be a worthy successor to this location and I might switch to contributing there.

Everyone please have a happy holiday period and merry christmas as the case may be, in particular to isabelbc, wherever you may be.

Nels Cline - Elegies (USA, 1981)

This was requested in the Quartet Music posts.  I asked the "new kid on the block" if he had it, and he apparently does.  So I'll send you to him, because for now, I am going on vacation for a few weeks.  Good luck everyone, and hopefully you will be entertained in the meantime there, it seems you will.
http://progressreview.blogspot.com

Wisse Scheper - Topaz (Netherlands, 1972)

I guess people might have misunderstood a bit what I was doing in the last few weeks, I meant to post my own personal favourites-- maybe using terms like best or masterpiece was wrong-- that I heard in the last year or so.  I guess few read the introduction, which is OK, and I understand since it was pretty long-winded.  I wouldn't claim that it will turn out these are the favourites for everyone, it's obvious people have different tastes, so I apologize if you're disappointed, I honestly do.  Please, no more crazy fighting, my purpose is to share music with as many people as possible and I've said that multiple times.   I guess the odd thing is there are people who don't like it.  But you can't make everyone happy,  as you can see from the political situation in the United States.  In fact you can't even make a minority of people happy.

As usual I check nowadays to make sure a post hasn't been posted before -- I've had enough comments about that issue already (and again, sorry about the mistake with matrix, I was completely wrong with that one, though I still think it's great music!)  So I was shocked and fell off the chair to see this unknown new blog had already posted this album:
http://progressreview.blogspot.com/
So I'll just send you there.

BEST US fusion album PART TWO: Matrix (USA, 1975)

On the front:
"Stimulus for the auditory nerve"
On the back:
"Music is the healing force of the universe -- Albert Ayler"

It doesn't get any better than this, if you're looking for highly progressive fusion.  Amazingly it hails from the relatively early years of 1972-1973 (i.e., music recorded in those years, I guess the record was released 2 years later).  This band or album is completely different from the later US soul fusion band of the same name:
http://rateyourmusic.com/artist/matrix__70s_us_
http://rateyourmusic.com/artist/matrix_f6

A representative piece is the "Morning Song," which has a fugue-like structure played between organ, flute, and electric guitar, with the drummer giving a wave-like sound with his cymbals in the background.  Simply astonishing.


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Best shockingly creative Vanessa-like progressive fusion from Bulgaria: Septet Rousse (1976)

What a beautiful cover!  The paintings with musical instruments and nature scenery are a hallmark of the Eastern European covers, right?  We've seen them before.  But I love this one, so typical of the seventies, with its darkly surrealistic background similar to an Yves Tanguy.

To make up for  yesterday's pulled-down post of Matrix (which I urge everyone to buy to hear) I'll post this one, which probably hasn't been released to CD yet, though I might be wrong since I scarcely have time to check on all these things.  Derived from the famous hoard of Berlin I alluded to earlier, this one compared to Matrix is interesting in that it is squarely in the European fusion style or perhaps Russian fusion style, versus the Matrix which was US-style fusion.  On the other hand, it suffers slightly from featuring over-long improvisations in my opinion.

After today I'll say goodbye until after my holidays for a bit.