VA - Hogan, The Hawk And Dirty John Crown from 1972 [FLAC limited time]

 

A mixed bag with a great title of course, sounding quite a bit like the soundtrack of a blaxploitation movie from the early 1970s with the funky fusion and smoother orchestral numbers.  Information can be found here.

Gordon Grant's great Scorch:

For a lighter number, Simon Haseley's Hogan Baby sounds more than a little indebted to B. Bacharach to my ears (he appeared on the Electric Bird album too):

Alan Parker appears here too, remember he made the brilliant Rock Machine (with Hawkshaw) I posted here.

VA - The All-American Powerhouse (1976) [FLAC limited time only]

 

Back again with more of the amazing Alan Hawkshaw.  Info here. His Speed Run:

Listen all the way to the stunning closing out of the song.

Unfortunately not all good tracks on this typical library, though there are other really interesting compositions, mostly from the aforementioned Hawkshaw.

VA - New Blood (1973) [FLAC limited time only]

 

Unusually, no back cover scan.  One of the first times this has happened, not that it necessarily matters much for these libraries.  Information can be found here, and you will be delighted to see Alan Parker and Hawkshaw appear.  The latter is like Francis Monkman or J. Fukumachi, whereby I always say everything they touched turned to gold.  True geniuses.  I've mentioned Hawkshaw here and there quite frequently, most recently here when he passed away, RIP.

Anyways, on this LP Alan (the Hawkshaw!) again knocks it out of the ballpark with his beautiful contribution called High Driver:

There's so much interesting sound and complexity to that little 3 minute plus composition, it just astounds.  What a creative genius!

Subsequently found back cover, thanks to commenter (on the left)

Piranha Gundan 1977, by request, FLAC limited time only

 

Info appears in Japanese here.   Kind of a glimpse of some information on this alt. release page.

Overall I found this to be relatively ordinary rock songwriting, opener here as a sample:

Track 8 present some interesting sounds and dimensionality:

There is a lot of weird shouting / odd Japanese cultural oddity in here too, appealing presumably to the native audience, as if we were watching either sumo or kabuki.

Francesco Cabiati's Mirage, 1979, by request

 

Info here on this page. You can see there is not a lot of material from him apart from this LP.

Typical Italian prog along the lines of F. Battiato, or Sensations Fix.

Sample, Chok: