Here’s an interesting topic: albums that use Mellotron, a strange, organ-like keyboard capable creating orchestral-like sounds through a rack of tapes. The Moody Blues is best known for using one. The Beatles used one even before the Moody Blues (“Strawberry Fields Forever” was released in February 1967, while the British release of Days of Future […] Continue reading →

Most psychedelic bands one thinks of (particularly California bands of the 1960s) tend to record music under the influence of a really pleasant LSD trip, or at least it sounds like that. So the music ends up with a lot of “flowers and beads” type of lyrics. Flash forward to 1971, and a band full […] 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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

I don’t know much of who José Cid is. Apparently he’s a big pop star in his native Portugal. What I do know was he’s been around the music business since the mid 1950s, being in several bands, including Quarteto 1111 (which existed in the late 1960s to mid 1970s). But in the mid to […] Continue reading →

Camel, unlike Yes, ELP, Genesis, etc., was a British prog rock band that never really got the fame they deserved, but they made some great music that’s truly worth having. Certainly Camel might have not been the most original band on the face of the planet, as influences from such bands as Genesis, Pink Floyd, […] Continue reading →

Museo Rosenbach was one of those Italian prog bands that proceeded to give us one album then vanished (although Mellow Records did release some live material and rare and previously unreleased material in the 1990s, and the band did reunite in 1999 and released a CD called Exit). Zarathustra (1973) was the only album Museo […] Continue reading →