Osanna was one of the great Italian prog rock bands. Maybe not as well known as PFM, Le Orme, or even Banco for that matter, but definately worth looking in to. Palepoli is Osanna’s third album, and was the very first Italian prog album I ever heard and I was just totally amazed! It also […] Continue reading →

Things sure have changed big time with Zappa between the 1966 release of Freak Out! and the 1981 released of You Are What You Is. In that time span, he decided to bring an end of the Mothers of Invention name after the release of Bongo Fury in 1975 (because, after all, the Mothers existed […] Continue reading →

Things sure been looking up for Zappa by the time We’re Only In It For the Money came out at the beginning of 1968. He had already two albums under the belt (maybe three, as some sources say that Lumpy Gravy was released in December 1967, before We’re Only In It For the Money came […] Continue reading →

Starcastle is a band you’re either going to like, or you’re going to hate. Those who hate the band call them nothing more than Yes clones. Those who enjoy the band still call them Yes clones, but they’re flattered enough to still enjoy their music. This self-entitled album is the first of four albums this […] Continue reading →

I have already reviewed a bunch of Ozric Tentacles albums already, but what I hadn’t done is reviewed one of their live albums, so here goes. Live at the Pongmasters Ball is the band’s most recent live album, recorded March 29th (Friday), 2002 at the Shepherds Bush Empire in London. This was also their first […] Continue reading →

1971’s Galactic Zoo Dossier, Arthur Brown’s first album with his new band Kingdom Come proved that he still had more great material to give us. So a year later, he decided to record a second album, called Kingdom Come. By this point VCS-3 synthesizer player Julian Paul Brown and bassist Desmond Fisher left, replaced by […] Continue reading →

While many people most familiar with the German scene are familiar with bands such as Can, Faust, Neu, Amon Düül II, Tangerine Dream, Ash Ra Tempel, and the likes, the country had quite a few more or less conventional symphonic prog acts out there. Like Eloy, Novalis, Grobschnitt, Ramses, many of these bands of course, […] Continue reading →

Writing on the Wall, from Edinburgh, Scotland is the epitome of an underground rock band. Their one and only album was entitled The Power of the Picts, released in 1969 on a label called Middle Earth (the band also happened to perform at the Middle Earth Club as well). The label only had something like […] Continue reading →

Caravan, Soft Machine, Hatfield & the North, National Health, and Matching Mole are a few examples of the Canterbury rock scene. Many of these groups tended to be jazzy with bizarre experimentations thrown in. Another example is Khan, who only released this one and only album, Space Shanty in 1972 on Deram Records (same label […] Continue reading →

Nektar was one of those prog rock bands that people classify as German or Krautrock, when in reality, they were a British band who took residence in Germany. The band consisted of keyboardist Allan “Taff” Freeman, guitarist Roye Allbrighton, bassist Derek “Mo” Moore, and drummer Ron Howden. Journey to the Centre of the Eye is […] Continue reading →