Buy This CD! We all know the history of Deep Purple. Many of the band members had played with other people, Ritchie Blackmore, for example, played for Screaming Lord Sutch, and was an early member of a band called The Trip (which was a British band at the time, but then moved to Italy and […] Continue reading →

Alan Stivell, from Brittany, is by far one of my all-time favorite Celtic artists, and he had quite a varied career from rock-oriented material to New Age and everything in between. Renaissance of the Celtic Harp, known in France as Renaissance de la Harpe Celtique, obviously focuses on the Celtic harp. This out of the […] Continue reading →

Eloy was one of Germany’s top prog rock bands, but at the same time, they often received a lot of criticisms as well, especially with leader Frank Bornemann, and the fact he always sung in English. Anyway, here’s a discography of the band, and my reviews on each on them: – Eloy (1971) Debut with […] Continue reading →

Sensations’ Fix has already been covered here through Fragments of Light and Finest Finger. Now here’s a review for their second album, Portable Madness, released later the same year as the amazing Fragments of Light. While Fragments of Light was mainly a Franco Falsini project with only Richard Ursillo and Keith Edwards contributing only the […] Continue reading →

The first thing I reviewed here was Älgarnas Trädgård’s Framtiden Är Ett Svävande Skepp, which is a truly wonderful example of what the Swedish underground psychedelic/experimental scene had gave us in the late ’60s and early ’70s. Another band worth looking in to is International Harvester. This band was the brainchild of guitarist/vocalist Bo Anders […] Continue reading →

I wasn’t alive in the 1960s, so I really couldn’t experience firsthand what kind of impact the Whole Earth Catalog had on the countercultural movement. My mother, on the other hand, was there, and she had read issues of the Whole Earth Catalog front and back. Out of pure curiosity, I went and bought the […] Continue reading →

This 1970 adaptation of HP Lovecraft’s The Dunwich Horror has often been unjustly maligned. No, I wouldn’t call it a masterpiece of cinema, but a pretty unintentionally silly and amusing adaptation of the Lovecraft story. Don’t expect the movie to be 100% true to the story, in fact Lovecraft stories weren’t supposed to translate too […] Continue reading →

Another totally obscure and forgotten gem of Italian prog rock, Pholas Dactylus released this one and only album, and then vanished. Unlike other Italian prog bands where the vocalist would sing, and there might be a few seconds of narration on occasions (like on Banco del Mutuo Soccorso’s Io Sono Nato Libero), the vocalist here […] Continue reading →

Family’s Music in a Doll’s House (1968) is perhaps one of the finest examples of psychedelia I know of. But of course, the band couldn’t stay on the psychedelic route forever. Between Music in a Doll’s House and this one, Fearless, the band had released three more albums, Family Entertainment (1969), A Song For Me […] Continue reading →

In December 1972, the original lineup of Ash Ra Tempel, that consisted of guitarist Manuel Göttsching, bassist Hartmut Enke, and drummer/keyboardist Klaus Schulze (who just came back after recording his first solo album, Irrlicht in 1972) made their return and got to work recording Join Inn, which was released in April, 1973. After experimenting with […] Continue reading →