Friday 25 December 2020

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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.

12 comments:


  1. Ring - The Empire Of Necromancers [Japan 1975]

    https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/2j4fp4

    -Takeshi Terauchi & The Blue Jeans - Rashomon [Japan 1972]

    https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/m9f72n

    -Georges Grunblatt - K-Priss [France 1980]

    https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/43txt7

    -E.A. Poe - Generazioni [Italy 1974]

    https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/j1tf0e

    -Climax - Gusano Mecanico [Bolivia 1974]

    https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/u19v33

    -Fernando Yvosky - Dos Mundos [Venezuela 1975]

    https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/9randn

    -Estructura - Mas Alla De Tu Mente + -Estructura - Estructura [Venezuela 1980].

    https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/qhadol

    -Hermann Szobel

    https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/qhfgeq

    -Horn - On The People's Side [Canada 1972]

    This rip is really bad, anyone have a better to share with us?

    https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/e45twr

    Cargo - Simple Things [Canada 1970]

    https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/wri535

    Drama - Loneliness [Toronto Canada 1979]

    https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/aeipet

    -Angelo Noce Santora - Land Of The Pharoah

    never heard of it / cannot find this, anyone have it?

    -Madrigal - School Of Time [France 1977]

    https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/hp70co

    A Sea for Yourself from OC, many many thanks

    https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/ehuk46

    PLUS MORE

    Nuevos Aires 1 by request reupped

    https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/7lot5h

    two Dirty Tricks albums

    https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/drsry5

    Rod Argent Moving Home

    https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/qak0gi

    Christmas never ends here on this blog?

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  2. Congratulations for this wonderful blog. Indeed of the best of the Web!
    One suggestion: O Terço - Time Travellers (an album focused in the international market) - Surely an amazing album: https://youtu.be/eV5oHit3RrM

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  3. Santoro : https://www.sendspace.com/file/w2jiq9

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    1. Double oh Wow!! Thank You so much Misongod!!!!
      What a great Lp, such a fun and rewarding collection of gems :)
      Happy Holidays my friends!!!

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  4. Horn : https://www.sendspace.com/file/orjaod

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  5. Many thanks for this, and for all your efforts over the past year. Happy holidays.

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  6. And once again I am awed by your magnificent generosity my friend :)
    Absolutely mind-blowing!! By far the best gift of the holiday season for me, what a treat!
    Thank You so much brother, you made the season bright, for real.
    Ha! I have about every other Musea cd, but somehow missed that we wouldn't even know of Ring if it wasn't for their re-release...alas the once common and cheap musea cds are now becoming increasingly rare...
    Got the K-Priss Lp turned up loud :) sounds fantastic!!!
    Your comment "though it's not as good as the really good Italians" got my interest....would love to see your top ten best Italian prog psych whatever Lp list :) ....the Final Frontier hahaha
    Yeah I had low quality rips of Drama, Madrigal, & and some of Land Of Pharoa, but am so pleased to see great upgrades for all :) that Drama Lp is really sweet, especially the last few instrumentals kicked off by their fantastic version of Pink Panther theme!!!
    Big Thanks again bro :)
    like that great track from A Sea For Yourself,
    "Cross the bridges, poll your toll.....
    ....give me Food For My Soul...."
    One-one-wonderful

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    1. haha just noticed HAL totally sabotaged me! (sorry Dave!)
      it was meant to say,

      "Cross the Bridges, Pay your Toll.....
      .....give me Food For My Soul......"
      :)
      much better
      :)

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  7. I am lagging behind in listening, so I stumbled upon Hermann Szobel only yesterday. What an unbelievable album!
    I found out that it is still available as CD (eg on Amazon). The artist himself got amiss in the late 80s and nobody knows of his whereabouts. What a pity.

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    1. that guy blows my mind every time I listen to that album...

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