April 2014 ~ software for linux

Jellyroll - Jellyroll 1971

11:50:00 PM / by алеко / in J, Jazz Rock/Fusion, United States /

Jellyroll consisted of Roger Troy (lead vocals-bass), Tim Heding (keyboards-background vocals), Ed Setser (guitar), Stu Perry (drums-percussion), Lee Asch (alto-tenor-baritone saxophones), Dave Parkinson (tenor saxophone) and Bob Thorne (trumpet), also...

McLuhan - Anomaly 1971

11:44:00 PM / by алеко / in Jazz Rock/Fusion, m, United States /

McLuhan was a concept and a mixed-media group where no particular musical venue or style would necessarily prevail. The creator of the idea was David Wright who composed most of the music and wrote the lyrics on their only album, Anomaly. This sole album...

BIB Set - It Wasn't Meant to Happen 1969

11:21:00 PM / by алеко / in B, Jazz Rock/Fusion, Sweden /

This band was formed in Osby in the mid-60’s as BIB Rhythm & Blues Set by singer and guitarist Ingvar Björnson. The band made several line-up changes and also changed their musical direction. In January 1970 the three remaining members released the...

International Harvester - Sov Gott Rose-Marie 1968

11:16:00 PM / by алеко / in I, Psychedelic/Space Rock, Sweden /

International Harvester only played together for three years, the first under another name, but they were an influential group for Swedish progressive rock. While making sonic experiments and deep excursions into psychedelic rock, their biggest contribution...

Hoola Bandoola Band - Vem kan man lita på? 1972

7:06:00 AM / by алеко / in H, Prog Folk, Sweden /

Hoola Bandoola Band was, together with Nationalteatern, the biggest band of the Swedish prog rock movement. And where Nationalteatern put social realistic lyrics to rock songs, Hoola Bandoola had more political lyrics and swerved further from traditional...

Ping Pong - Ping Pong 1973

7:01:00 AM / by алеко / in Italy, P, ROCK PROGRESSIVO ITALIANO /

Little is known about this band from Emilia, which released no less than two albums and a couple of singles with this name, and others in later years as Bulldog. Both albums don't contain any information on the band and is likely that the record companies...

Karma - Karma 1972

2:25:00 AM / by алеко / in Brazil, K, Prog Folk /

The sole recording by this outfit featuring O Terco founding member Jorge Amiden, this gorgeous orchestrated folk psych obscurity, like so much of the best stuff coming out of Brazil back in those days, is like a full body immersion in a warm balm. Buttressed...

La Seconda Genesi - Tutto Deve Finire 1972

2:20:00 AM / by алеко / in Italy, L, ROCK PROGRESSIVO ITALIANO /

A band from near Viterbo, Seconda Genesi, have become famous among prog fans for one of the rarest (and much looked after) Italian albums of the 70's, Tutto deve finire, released in 1972 in just 200 copies, all with different painted covers, that has...

Jazz Q - Symbiosis 1974

3:54:00 AM / by алеко / in Czech Republic, J, Jazz Rock/Fusion /

JAZZ Q was formed in 1964 by Martin Kratochvil (piano) and Jiri Stivin (woodwinds). In their early years, they were inspired by the late 50s free jazz happening in America. By the late 60s though, after becoming familiar with the English rock scene,...

Eddie Henderson - Realization 1973

3:45:00 AM / by алеко / in E, Jazz Rock/Fusion, United States /

The trumpet and flugelhorn player Dr. EDDIE HENDERSON (born in 1940 and also known in Mwandishi circles as Mganga) received his first casual trumpet lesson from Louis Armstrong when he was nine years old, then went on, as a teenager, to study at the...

Alfredo Tisocco - Kátharsis 1975

10:21:00 PM / by алеко / in A, Italy, RIO/Avant-Prog /

This glorious modality-spanning magnum opus from Opus Avantra mastermind Tisocco was composed for a dance company and effortlessly fuses facets of the Battiato/ Pierrot Lunaire/ Stalteri Italo-kosmiche trajectory to contemporary classical strategies,...

Witthüser & Westrupp - Trips und Träume 1971

10:13:00 PM / by алеко / in Germany, Prog Folk, W /

Witthuser & Westrupp is a 70's psych folk duo from Munich. They are at the top of the German prog folk scene. Stylistically distinguishable, they have opted for a musical signature simultaneously "cosmic" and folk. The two musicians started their...

Toto Blanke - Spider's Dance 1975

3:59:00 AM / by алеко / in Germany, Jazz Rock/Fusion, T /

With his first group, “Association P.C.” Toto Blanke made many tours in Europe, Asia and Africa. In 1970 Toto decided to give up his profession as a graduate in architecture in favour of only working as a professional musician. He played on nearly all...

Air - Teilweise Kacke ... Aber Stereo 1973

3:53:00 AM / by алеко / in A, Germany, Krautrock /

Air’s sole album from 1973 is one of the most obscure albums from the vast Krautrock scene. Musically it could be categorized as instrumental rock, not that distant from what one would find on a sound library album. That is, generic incidental music...

Gash - A Young Man's Gash 1972

1:26:00 AM / by алеко / in G, Germany, Krautrock /

GASH is a 70s Krautrock band from Germany featuring the musical talents of Manfred Thiers on bass, Reinhard Schiemann on drums, percussion, Frank Feldhusen on guitars, vocals, and Jochen Peters on piano, organ, and lead vocals. The band have released...

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