Requests

A few notes about some of these rips/requests.

The Ring - Necromancers CD is just superb, classic prog everyone should know. Oddly it wasn't released back in the day, but only rediscovered/unearthed by Musea in the recent 'prog renaissanance' era. Information here.  Even more odd to me is that the best track is a 'bonus track' (Charnades) though I guess because it's the most 'proggy' or dissonant track, it makes sense it would be an artist leftover.

The George Grunblatt K-Priss album is a masterpiece of the French keyboard zeuhl style, the later style, when it became far more accessible.  Note that a bad and old mono rip was circulating online and was the only thing you could get your hands on-- up until now, or at least I think.  This rip is stereo and is fresh and sounds wonderful.  I was going to post it in this blog last year until I saw it was rereleased only 3 years ago (but only to LP).

The Estructura albums are classics I guess, as is E.A. Poe, though it's not as good as the really good Italians, and Yvosky's Dos Mundos is also classic. The one-off French Madrigal's School of Time LP is, in addition to classic, also, some of the most eerily Queen-like rock music you'll ever hear, complete with the patented triad-harmony-voices guitar lead playing Brian May mastered so completely.

Hermann Szobel is one of the best piano-based prog albums ever made, ever, but I think the artist hates it when his work is 'pirated' online, so be careful with that one: better delete it the minute you get it.

Horn On The People's Side is a fantastic album, but does anyone have a better rip?  I have the old one that sounds terrible but the music clearly deserves better.  The also Canadian Drama Loneliness album from 1979 I must say really grew on me, it resembles very much the fellow Canadian band Terraced Garden but transplanted into electronic with no guitars, or a very dark version of the German band Luna Set. Note that this artist was also responsible for the well-known ep 7th Temple Under the Burning Sun.

Finally, The Sea for Yourself-- thanks a million to OC for sharing this one completely out of left field and knocking out a homerun and making me acquainted with it. As I said, it's brought me no end of joy and happiness because I listened to it mostly after the lockdown period in March, particularly the instrumentals written by Richard Henn And Co. These range all over the different emotions and are so beautiful I just can't believe there isn't more to discover in his oeuvre.  It's just perfect music, combining electric instruments into wonderful ideas, similar maybe to the best of the Screamin' Gypsy Bandits stuff, remember back here.  And the cover is just magnificent too, again, sadly putting to shame the CD era garbage-- maybe all the covers of the last 35 years.