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 →

Ozric Tentacles is one of those bands that has its admirers and detractors. Detractors like to point out that all their albums sound alike. I have to disagree about that, because they do evolve through the ages. They were a fixture on the British Free Festival scene, and even performed at Stonehenge, before the authorities […] Continue reading →

Ash Ra Tempel, as well as Can, Faust, Neu, Amon Düül II, Tangerine Dream, and Kraftwerk, were regarded as the greats in the Krautrock scene. In 1970, Tangerine Dream released their debut album, Electronic Meditation. It was very untypical of their releases as it was a very guitar heavy psychedelic album with an underground feel. […] Continue reading →

By the time Weasels Ripped My Flesh came out in 1970, the first edition of the Mothers of Invention had already been gone for a year. So this album, as well as 1969’s Burnt Weeny Sandwich were mainly leftover recordings that existed before the Mothers’ breakup. Weasels Ripped My Flesh is often regarded as either […] Continue reading →

By 1971, Frank Zappa had formed a new edition of the Mothers of Invention (now simply called The Mothers, as Zappa wanted to all along). Already several albums with the original Mothers of Invention had surfaced from 1966 to 1970, plus he already released a couple of albums simply under his own name, Hot Rats […] Continue reading →

In 1970, Tangerine Dream released Electronic Meditation, which has got to be the least typical sounding album you’ll ever hear from those guys, as it was guitar and drum-oriented Krautrock with an underground feel. That album featured Edgar Froese, Conrad Schnitzler, and Klaus Schulze. Schnitzler and Schulze quickly left the band, with Schnitzler releasing a […] Continue reading →