Agora - Ichinen (ITA - 2014), limited time only

 

From discogs:

Italian 1970's jazz-rock group who debuted at the prestigious Montreux Jazz Festival. Agorà means "open space" which typified their floaty open style, partly influenced by Weather Report, but also typically Italian, akin to Perigeo or the jazzier moments of PFM.

What a remarkable and beautiful thing to find that this old band, presumably familiar to everyone who knows prog, put out an album so recently that is as good as their old material, with original music!  

It's mostly instrumental, wonderfully crafted progressive, energetic in places, meditative and thoughtful in others, always reaching creatively for new ideas and sounds.

The wonderfully titled Progressive Suite, is exactly that:

I put the other albums from them here too. The Agora 2 album with its surrealistic black and white drawing is just a magnificent slice of seventies progressive fusion, always stunning.

Note that the live Bombook album, with its very awkward word, is also well worth the close listening to.