Food Brain - Bansan (Social Gathering) 1970

FOOD BRAIN was named by Shinki Chen - a charismatic Japanese guitarist - and is known as a novel rock project by Polydor Japan (according to rumor the project was originally to be named Brain Food - but Shinki made a mistake). Ikuzo Orita, a director...

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Bloque - Hombre, Tierra y Alma 1979

A Spanish Progressive band with a few albums out. BLOQUE blend synth and Spanish vocals with electric and acoustic guitar (lots of electric) in a wide variety of styles (some people dislike this). They were strongly influenced by the jazz, flamenco,...

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Ave Rock - Ave Rock 1974

AVE ROCK is a classic example of Art Rock in the form of a progressive band that demonstrates a variety of genre sounds without any one of them being dominant. The guitar on “Dejenme Seguir” is definitely blues-inspired, and would not have been out-of-place...

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Flied Egg - Good Bye Flied Egg 1972

FLIED EGG / STRAWBERRY PATH was a series of Japanese progressive rock projects in early seventies carried out by two key players Shigeru NARUMO (guitars, keyboards) and Hiro TSUNODA (drums). In the late sixties, Shigeru has already been famous and charismatic...

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Daniel Vega - La Noche Que Precede A La Batalla 1976

Daniel Vega singer and song writer. Probably his only work is La Noche Que Precede A La Batalla which was released in 1976. At that time there were a number of outstanding progressive masterpieces produced by the Spanish label 'Movie Play' between 1975...

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Terry Riley - A Rainbow In Curved Air 1969

Terry Riley was born on June 6 1935 in Colfax California. He attended various California universities and finally earned a masters in composition from UC Berkeley. One of the earliest electronic composers, Riley was one of the initial participants in...

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Alameda - Alameda 1979

Alameda were part of the 70's Andalusian Rock movement in Spain.They came from Sevilla and were led by Marinelli brothers, keyboardists Rafael and Manuel, along with guitarist/singer Jose Roca (Jose and Rafael played formerly with Tartessos), bassist...

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Alas - Alas 1976

ALAS was one of the most exquisite progressive bands in Argentina. The effective way in which they infused airs of Creole Argentinean folklore into their main prog sound - influenced by the massive energy of ELP (30 %) and the exuberant magic of WEATHER...

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Egba - Egba 1974

One of the first Swedish bands to fuse jazz and rock (and occasionally African and Latin-American music as well) was Egba (photo: Pawel Lucki), led by trumpeter Ulf Adåker (b. 1945) and saxophonist Ulf Andersson (b. 1940), two musicians with roots in...

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Far Out - Nihonjin 1973

This early 70's psychedelic Japanese quartet were more or less the precursors of The FAR EAST FAMILY BAND, guitarist/vocalist Fumio Miyashita being the only link between the two. Miyashita would later join other musicians on FEFB which included among...

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Gualberto - A La Vida, Al Dolor 1975

Gualberto (Garcia Perez) has developed a unique manner to play a mix between flamenco and fusion rock music. He created flamenco sitar which consists to perform flamenco basic scales on sitar. He first introduced his musical "fusion" approach in his...

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Bubu - Anabelas 1978

Bubu are an outstanding representative of Argentinian Progressive Rock. Anabelas consists of three long epic compositions, and features mostly instrumental music that sounds like a cross of early King Crimson, Magma and Anglagard. Bubu was quite a large...

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Azahar - Azahar 1979

AZAHAR are a Spanish / Uruguayan / Egyptian quintet who play an exotic mixture of keyboards and electric/acoustic guitars reminiscent of MEZQUITA and TRIANA. You could call it Flamenco rock with some Middle Eastern flavour. The vocals are all in Spanish,...

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Toncho Pilatos - Toncho Pilatos 1971

In spite of their Rolling Stones influence, Toncho Pilatos interpreted original instrumentation. Polydor issued their first album, with a double cover, within its 'Power Rock' series, something of a first for a Mexican band. The Toncho Pilatos album...

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Quinteplus - Quinteplus 1971

Quinteplus, the Argentine jazz quintet represented on this killer reissue of material dating back to 1972, had their roots in the country's New Jazz Collective, which was founded in the early '60s. Gato Barbieri, his brother Reuben, Jorge "Negro" Gonzalez,...

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Far East Family Band - Parallel World 1976

Regarded by many as the first Japanese progressive rock group, the Far East Family Band featured the keyboardist and future new age composer, Kitaro. A keyboard-dominated space rock band, the Far East Family Band played extended compositions that brought...

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