Now here’s an odd album. Odd, only because it’s a dance album I actually like. I generally don’t go for dance music, but Enigma was that rare example of making dance music actually interesting! Actually Enigma was less a band and more the brainchild of Romanian-born Michael Cretu. He had already released a few albums […] Continue reading →

Fleetwood Mac is one of those bands that received so much hype and they had so many songs overplayed on the radio it’s not even funny. But of course, this was the post-1975 Fleetwood Mac with Lindsay Buckingham and Stevie Nicks. To be frank, I’m not really much a fan of that era of Fleetwood […] Continue reading →

Music in a Doll’s House is the debut album from this eclectic British rock band, Family, and is by far their most psychedelic. It’s also one of my all-time favorite psychedelic albums ever. This band never made it in America (they were quite a bit more popular in their native England) which is a real […] Continue reading →

Apparently Brazil was a real hotbead of progressive rock. O Terço, Bacamarte, Sagrado Coração da Terra, III Milenio, and latter-day Os Mutantes (most people are familiar with them as a psychedelic pop band, but they went prog after 1972 or thereabout) are a few examples. Acidente was another. Apparently there were two different versions of […] Continue reading →

If you’re a fan of horror movies and seen films such as Dawn of the Dead (aka Zombi) or Suspiria, chanches are you’ve heard some music from Goblin, one of the top Italian prog bands. While bands like PFM, Banco, Le Orme, Il Balletto di Bronzo, Museo Rosenbach, and the likes are mostly known to […] Continue reading →

Germany is even a bigger hotbed of prog rock than one might imagine. Sure everyone knows bands like Can, Ash Ra Tempel, Tangerine Dream, Amon Düül II, Faust, Neu, Kraftwerk, and similar bands (bands that might not always be considered prog, but are of interest to prog fans). But the countries was also full of […] Continue reading →

Back in 1967, there was a California psychedelic band called The Electric Prunes that released an album called Mass in F Minor. They had the idea of recording a Rock Mass, using religious text to the (then contemporary) psychedelic rock sound. The results, might not have been entirely successful, but still an interesting listen. 11 […] Continue reading →

Eela Craig gave it all they could with One Niter and try as they might, their following album Hats of Glass doesn’t quite match the heights of that album, but then I didn’t expect it to be. But don’t let that scare you off, as it’s another great album. And if you’re wondering why they […] Continue reading →

Austria isn’t exactly a hotbead of prog rock, but a few bands did come out of that country. One was Paternoster who released a self-entitled album in 1972, and then Eela Craig who released a total of five albums between 1971 and 1980. One Niter is their second album, and it was a long five […] Continue reading →

Sensations’ Fix was an Italian band that gave us the ever wonderful and mindblowing electronic/prog album Fragments of Light in 1974. Two albums later, they gave us Finest Finger. The band still consists of guitarist/synthesist/vocalist Franco Falsini, bassist Richard Ursillo, and drummer Keith Edwards, but now they added a second keyboardist named Steve Head. Now […] Continue reading →