Reading the prog distributor's new releases email...

I think I'll just make this a regular series. Some of the quotes come from press releases...unfortunately one person doesn't write all of this.

"about 3/5ths instrumental and 2/5ths vocal"

"possibly provides an answer to the question, 'Why didn't he join the Genesis reunion tour?'"

"This is for folks who like groups like Morglbl...but with an even crunchier vibe."

"a triple album telling in 22 songs and 30 instrumentals Darwin's life, concepts and works"

"a 34 minute suite of impassioned ferocity"

"Are you ready for Kalabalik!?!"

"although Fripp is not physically present on this recording"

"the aye-aye, the blue-footed booby, the magnapinna squid, the blobfish, the elephant shrew, the anglerfish, the solenodon, and the tardigrade"

"a daxophone, the glass armonica, the theremin, the stylophone, the claviola, and the League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots."

"glowering, sepulchral brass undertows"

"If you like symphonic progressive, you probably will feel undernourished with this album"

"As Hot Casa explains"

"Force them to use only original instruments as mellotron, minimoog, hammond, theremin, fender rhodes."

"Everybody except Hildegard, who watches over Can and its work like the dragon over the gold of the Nibelungen and doesn’t allow forgetting."

"Each LP comes with a demon mask..."

We Love Our Queen

Thanks, Stormy, for inspiration.  

Reading the prog distributor's new releases email...

...is one of my favorite activities


"this is pretty great for fans of drummerless chamber rock"

"this would have blown my mind had I actually heard it in 1981"

"It's a heady mixture of pub rock..."

"Included here are Aqua, Epsilon In Malaysian Pale, Ages, Stuntman and Pinnacles plus..."

"The Minimoog playing of Benoit Widemann is what really makes this for me"

"shuttling between jazz and rock with furious instrumentals with lots of flute and violin"

"pretty utterly fantastic big band Zeuhl album"

"In Kabbalah the samech represents the infinite power of the Ein Sof, G-d’s infinite light."

"this is not a skronk disc"

"sometimes festive and sometimes tortured"

"Think of the great, under-recognized early 70s trio Back Door brought completely and utterly up to date as a jazz/rock outfit."

"terminally unhip but great stringed instruments"

"an amusing undercurrent of reggae and rock rhythms"

"the song St Pancake uses a local press report about the appearance of the Virgin Mary in a pancake!"

"Romantic ballads, ambient soundscapes and hardcore intensity!"

"Some really great synthesizer work here, plus it's nice to see Kaske not abandon the flute"

And yes, I'm buying some of these albums. The seller really knows his clientele.

Henry Cow

This one embodies everything good about everything:



This one has their names:

I can feel you crawling in my hair tonight

"symmetrical phil collins"

Like they're fronted by a singing moose

From Mutant Sounds: "Dag Erik Asbjornsen described this extraordinary acid rock/proto prog crew in Scented Garden's Of The Mind as sounding 'like they're fronted by a singing moose.'"

The suspense is killing me as I hope it is you.