Allan Holdsworth - None Too Soon (96)

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Guitarist Allan Holdsworth is widely considered to be one of the finest instrumentalists in all of jazz fusion, yet has never truly received the recognition that he so rightfully deserves.

Born on August 6, 1946, in Bradford, Yorkshire, Holdsworth was originally taught music by his father, who was a pianist.

First a saxophone player, Holdsworth didn't pick up the guitar until he was 17 years old, but learned the instrument quickly.

After playing in local outfits (in addition to learning the violin), Holdsworth relocated to London, where he was taken under the wing of saxophonist Ray Warleigh.

By 1972, Holdsworth had joined progressive rockers Tempest, appearing on the group's self-titled debut a year later before joining Soft Machine in December 1973 — and radically changing the latter outfit's sound to guitar-based fusion in the process.

Focus - Focus con Proby (77)

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1 Wingless
2 Orion
3 Night Flight
4 Eddy
5 Sneezing Bull
6 Brother
7 Tokyo Rose
8 Maximum
9 How Long

O Focus é uma banda de rock progressivo dos Países Baixos fundada em 1969 pelo organista e flautista Thijs van Leer.
Foi para muitos a melhor banda dos Países Baixos nos anos 70.
Mas as qualidades da banda foram muito mais significantes.
Suas extensas e quase exclusivas composições instrumentais e improvisações continham várias referências à música erudita.
Um exemplo é a referência a ópera de Monteverdi na canção Eruption, do álbum Moving Waves.
Outra demonstração está na referência à Johann Sebastian Bach em Carnival Fugue, do álbum Focus 3, ou ainda das referências ao Renascimento de Anonymus II, do mesmo álbum.

Ainda em 1977 a banda retornou com o vocalista P. J. Proby se integrando à banda, que nessa época contava com Thijs Van Leer, Bert Ruiter, o guitarrista Eef Albers, o também guitarrista Phillip Catherine e o baterista Steve Smith.

David Cross - Exiles

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1 Exiles
2 Tonk
3 Slippy
4 Duo
5 This is your life
6 Fast
7 Troppo
8 Here

Clear Light - Symphony II

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Essentially French keyboardist Cyrille Verdeaux and an ever-changing list of collaborators, among them Christian Boule and Gilbert Artman, Clearlight was among the most well-known French symphonic progressive rock bands of the 1970s.

Their massive, occasionally psychedelic sound showed a different side to Verdeaux than his later, more new age records.

One of the first bands signed to the fledgling Virgin Records in the early 1970s, Clearlight has been compared to such progressive bands as Yes and Genesis as well as more experimental groups like Gong.

The first Clearlight album, 1973's Symphony, presents the band at the height of their grandeur, pursuing everything from modern experimentalism to more classically styled pieces.

For the project, Verdeaux took on several members of Gong as collaborators. It was later re-recorded with a great deal of new material in 1990 and released as Symphony II.

Forever Blowing Bubbles was released in 1975 and found Clearlight slightly toning down the symphonic excess of Symphony with the addition of some jazz influences.

1977's Les Contes du Singe Fou was a collaboration with British vocalist/lyricist Ian Bellamy and was among the group's more psychedelic works. Clearlight Visions (1978) incorporated sitars and tablas and pointed the way toward Verdeaux's Indian-influenced solo career.

In Your Hands, a remake of Les Contes du Singe Fou with vocalist/keyboardist Gunnar Amundson, was released in 1996.

Capsicum Red - Appunti Per Un'idea Fissa

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Progressivo italiano de primeira !


Formed in Treviso, Italy, in 1970, Capsicum Red were destined to become one of the era's most adventurous (albeit shortlived) bands, although few people could have guessed that from listening to their earliest releases.

Signing to Bla Bla, the band issued their first single, the delightfully pop-flavored "Ocean"/"She's A Stranger", early the following year and promptly scored a hit - intriguingly, but certainly successfully, Bla Bla promoted Capsicum Red as a British import! "Tarzan"/"Shangri-La", the band's second single, was similarly styled (and similarly successful), and it was 1973 before Capsicum Red truly revealed their musical intentions, across an astonishing debut album.

Appunti per un'idea fissa was unrelentingly progressive, layered with classical overtones - among them a 15 minute interpretation of Beethoven's Pathetique piano sonata - but also punctuated by the band's own gripping songwriting. Unfortunately, the stylistic shift was too vast for the group's proven audience. Appunti per un'idea fissa sank like a stone and, by the end of the year, Capsicum Red had folded.

Canzian promptly formed a new band, Pooh, and launched an immediate (and lucrative) return to the pop-based glories of early Capsicum Red; bassist Paolo Steffan later resurfaced as one half of the country rock duo Genova & Steffan.

Camel - Moonmadness

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1 Aristillus
2 Song Within a Song
3 Chord Change
4 Spirit of the Water
5 Another Night
6 Air Born
7 Lunar Sea

Camel é uma banda britânica de rock progressivo formada em 1971.

O grupo lançou seu primeiro álbum em 1973 pela MCA Records.

Desbandaram por um breve período em 1981 mas retornaram com mudanças na formação.

Em 2003 o Camel fez sua turnê de despedida.

Camel quer dizer camelo em inglês e como o período do auge da banda também coincidiu com o auge da propaganda de uma marca de cigarros que empregava a figura de um camelo fumando, os discos da banda foram boicotados pelos antitabagistas, o que precipitou sua decadência.

Yes - Close To The Edge - Live

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1 Close to the Edge: The Solid Time of Change/Total Mass Retain/I Get Up
2 And You and I/Cord of Life/Eclipse/The Preacher the Teacher/Apocalypse
3 Siberian Khatru
4 America [*]
5 Total Mass Retain [*]
6 And You and I: Cord of Life/Eclipse/The Preacher the Teacher/Apoca ...
7 Siberia [#/*]

Le Orme - Uomo di Pezza (72)

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01 - Una Dolcezza Nuova
02 - Gioco Di Bimba
03 - La Porta Chiusa
04 - Breve Immagine
05 - Figure Di Cartone
06 - Aspettando L'alba
07 - Alienazione

Le Orme - In Concerto (74)

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01 - Truck Of Fire, pt 1
02 - Truck Of Fire, pt 2
03 - Sguardo verso il cielo
04 - Preludio a 'Era inverno'
05 - Era inverno
06 - Ritorno al nulla
07 - Collage (sigla)
08 - Collage

Le Orme - Elementi (02)

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01.Danza del vento (prima parte)
02.Il vento, il cielo e la notte
03.Danza del vento (seconda parte)
04.Danza della terra
05..Risveglio
06.Canto di preghiera
07.Lord of Dance
08.Danza della pioggia
09.Dove tutto è!
10.Luce dorata
11.Danza del fuoco
12.Il respiro
13.Danza del vento (terza parte)
14.Risveglio (ripresa)

Le Orme - Live (93)

Disco 1
01 - Contrappunti
02 - Maggio
03 - India
04 - Premessa a Gioco di Bimba
05 - Gioco di Bimba
06 - Era Inverno
07 - Introduzione - A Truck of Fire
09 - Preludio a Frutto Acerbo
10 - Frutto Acerbo
12 - Clemento Armato
13 - Era Inverno
14 - La Porta Chiusa
15 - Collage


Disco 2
01 - Whole Lotta Love
02 - Aqualung
03 - Felona e Sorona- Sopesi Nell'Incredible
04 - Felona e Sorona- I Due Pianeti
05 - Felona e Sorona- Ritorno al Nulla
06 - Regina al Troubadour
07 - Radio Felicita
08 - Laserium Floyd
09 - Aspettando L'Alba
10 - Sguardo Verso il Cielo
11 - Collage
12 - Maggio


O Le Orme é uma das mais antigas bandas de rock progressivo italiano, tendo sido criada no fim de década de sessenta.

Saga - Worlds Apart (81)

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01 On The Loose
02 Wind Him Up
03 Amnesia
04 Framed
05 Time's Up
06 The Interview
07 No Regrets (Chapter V)
08 Conversations
09 No Stranger (Chapter VIII)

Saga's first major-label release was also the band's commercial breakthrough; the single "On the Loose" was not only a radio hit, but one of the first videos to be featured on the fledgling MTV network.

Fortunately, the rest of the album holds up nearly as well as that fine single; fleshing out the songs' arrangements with lots of interesting instrumental detail, the band manages to maintain their progressive rock roots while producing strong, effective pop tunes.

The lyrics are interesting and intelligent without being pretentious or eggheaded. World's Apart is the work of a band at the peak of its skill and inspiration, and may be Saga's best album.

Ramses - La Leyla - Eternity Rise

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Studio Album, released in 1993

Track Listings
1. Devil inside (4:49)
2. La Leyla (7:25)
3. Garden (5:03)
4. Noise (6:25)
5. Someone like you (8:13)
6. American dream (5:00)
7. City life (4:17)
8. Only yesterday (6:00)
9. Time (5:10)
10. Windy (4:27)
11. Agitation play (4:56)
12. Eternity rise (10:59)

Total Time: 72:44

Line-up/Musicians
- Hans-Dieter Klinkhammer / bass
- Norbert Langhorst / acoustic & electric guitars
- Winfried Langhorst / keyboards, vocals
- Herbert Natho / lead vocals
- Reinhard Schröter / drums, percussion, backing vocals

Quidam - Sny Aniolów Angels' Dream (98)

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1 Przebudzenie
2 Moje Anioly
3 Morelowy Sen
4 Wesola
5 Beznogi Maly Ptak
6 Lza
7 Pod Powieka
8 Przebudzenie (Swit Nadziei)
9 Jest Taki Samotny Dom

Quaterna Réquiem - Velha Gravura (90)

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1 Ramoniana
2 Aquartha
3 Velha Gravura
4 Tempestade
5 Madrugada
6 Toccata

Premiata Forneria Marconi - World Became The World (74)

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01 The Mountain
02 Just Look Away
03 The world Became The World
04 Four Holes In The Ground
05 Is My Face On Straight
06 Have Your Cake And Beat It

Pink Fairies - Kings Of Oblivion (73)

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1 City Kids
2 I Wish I Was a Girl
3 When's the Fun Begin?
4 Chromium Plating
5 Raceway
6 Chambermaid
7 Street Urchin

Novalis - Novalis (75)

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1 Sonnengeflecht
2 Wer Schmetterlinge Lachen Hört
3 Dronsz
4 Impressionen
5 Es Färbte Sich Die Wiese Grün
6 Impressionen [live/*]

Family - Anyway (70)

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01 - good news bad news
02 - willow tree
03 - holding the compass
04 - strange band
05 - part of the load
06 - anyway
07 - normans
08 - lives and ladies
09 - today
10 - song for lots
11 - today (edit)

Embryo - Invisible Documents (74)

Parte 1
Parte 2


01 invisible documents 20:04
02 minaret 31:40
03 singing 38:51
04 riad 9:12
05 shine of walt dickerson 13:28