Patty Pravo from 1976

Patty Pavro:

Real Name: Nicoletta Strambelli

Profile: Italian singer born 9 April 1948 in Venice, Italy.

Diva, counted since the sixties as one of the greatest interpreters of Italian music, boasts a chameleon-like career that has seen her go through various musical styles, continually reinventing her image: from idol beat to sophisticated interpreter of Italian and French songwriters, then experimenter of rock in its various forms. The album "Biafra" (1976) brought unknown genres to Italy such as the Funk and the new wave. Successes like La bambola (1968), Pazza idea (1973), Pensiero stupendo (1978) and ... E dimmi che non vuoi morire (1997) have marked the history of European pop.

The contrast between the peculiar low and sensual timbre and the filiform beauty, the imperious force of the personality, the provocations and the excesses have made her an icon of elegance and transgression, which has contributed to the evolution of the costume by distorting every canon linked to the figure of the female interpreter in Italy.

I am not so sure there is much for the prog rock fan to cling to here, as her output seems to me to be mostly basic singer songwriter stuff.  Perhaps the 1976 album is the most proggy, consider Sconosciuti Cieli:

Note the highly emotional songwriting, with the 'trappings' of a prog basis, eg synths + allied instrumentation, etc. but lacking a bit of the complexity.

Leo Nero's Vero from 1977 [flac limited time only]

Info on this dude here.  Note he had a follow up album in 1980, described as new wave.

It was recommended by a commenter and I finally got a chance to listen, definitely I would recommend hearing it.  Most of it is straightforward late 1970s singer songwriter stuff very emotional, piano based, along the lines of David Bowie circa. Young Americans, but without the guitar and funk, or Lou Reed as on the Berlin album, some of it quite ordinary.

A lovely instrumental called La Bambola Rota:

Some lovely Gentle Giant style dissonance in the Tastiere Isteriche:

Multiple Chikara Ueda albums [17 total]

 

Many thanks to the commenter who uploaded all these.  Of the ones that I recognize as not available before there's the Funk Beethoven, the Disco ones, Mellow Wonder, and Funpico, but I'm not a Chikara Ueda expert and I wouldn't know if these were common or rare.  I think there have been multiple posts on him on this blog before as well (4 before this one).

Anyways, thanks a million for assembling these and sharing them!  I will listen to them a few at a time, or even fewer, because I find it a bit generic and therefore exhausting but I know there are plenty of fans out there.

The link will probably expire quickly, go ahead and request reups.

Obviously, I didn't bother to post all the album covers since there are 17 in total in the package.

More of the crazy Tie Break from 1995, with Jorgos Skolias, cassette

 

I posted their stuff in 3 separate installments, here with 1989, here with 1990's cassette Duch, here with 1991's Gin Gi Lob.  They never strayed from the wild progressive mixture of uptempo nuttiness vocals plus angular dissonant music.  I think this one completes their 1990s oeuvre, assuming the Retrospective is a compilation.

A track called odszukany w cieniu gives you a clear idea of the totality, and note that the music accompanies spoken poetry from Polish poet / priest Jan Twardowski:

A track called Telefon milczy sounds like the Super Freego from recently:

Shockingly uncompromising music for 1995, I'd say.

Richard Hill's Chanctonbury Ring, from 1978 by request, FLAC limited time only

 

Richard Hill made quite a bit of library music back in the day, I would love to know the quality of that material.  This LP is from 1978 and is not really library, being more concept album I would presume.

It's a bit of an odd mix of classical composition plus orchestral plus commercial songs plus Mike Oldfield type instrumentals.  Despite the cover and the impression you might get, it's definitely NOT Oldfield-style progressive music.

The track called Sisters of the Moon gives you a reasonable idea of the contents, note the mix of orchestra and simple melody with bizarre background (orgiastic?) chanting: