Flaming Bess - "Verlorene Welt" {Germany} [1980] (prog rock) (kindly submitted by Carlos)

"Flaming Bess is not your typical band. The oringinal band was formed in 1969, in Düsseldorf. There was the usual club gigs, and personnel changes, before finally recording an album. It just took them ten years. This was 1979's "Tanz Der Götter." A highly regarded album, and very much influenced by other symphonic music of it's time.
The second release, 1980's "Verlorene Welt," had a more rock-oriented approach, and featured Marlene Krükel on vocals. This would be the last recording from the band for 15 years.
In 1995, they resurfaced with "Fata Morgana." Apparently, this was not just an attempt at recapturing past glory. They had kept up with changes in the music scene, and produced a progressive album to fit the times.
Seemingly a pattern now, the next album was no...
Flaming Bess is not your typical band. The oringinal band was formed in 1969, in Düsseldorf. There was the usual club gigs, and personnel changes, before finally recording an album. It just took them ten years. This was 1979's "Tanz Der Götter." A highly regarded album, and very much influenced by other symphonic music of it's time.
The second release, 1980's "Verlorene Welt," had a more rock-oriented approach, and featured Marlene Krükel on vocals. This would be the last recording from the band for 15 years.
In 1995, they resurfaced with "Fata Morgana." Apparently, this was not just an attempt at recapturing past glory. They had kept up with changes in the music scene, and produced a progressive album to fit the times.
Seemingly a pattern now, the next album was not recorded for another ten years. "Finestere Sonne / Black Sun" was released in 2005. It is a double CD, with one in German and one in English.
Though adversity, changing trends, and music industry woes, this band has kept going. They remain true to their vision, without becoming antiquated. A truly admirable group, that shows no signs of giving up (ever)." (progarchives)

Official website: http://www.flaming-bess.de/

Line-up/Musicians- Joachim Jansen / keyboards- Hans Wende / bass- Hans Schweiss / drums- Barry Peeler / guitar

Guests:- Woh Galach / narration (words)- Achim Wierschem & Bruno Blättler / guitars- Valerie Kohlmetz / percussion- Marlene Krückel & Wolfgang Emperhoff / backing vocals- Herbert Ihle / backing vocals

Good Vibrations to Everyone
Carlos Harrison.

thank you Carlos! :)

Full Moon - "Moon Fools" {Netherlands} [1971] (psych folk)

I couldnt find a good information on net. A nice accoustic folk band with violin,guitar & bongo. Informations welcome.


Moondance..

thanks to hwabian ;)

Felix Lajko - "Egyetemi Szinpad" {Hungary} ['94/'95]

"Felix Lajko is a Magyar from Yugoslavia who started playing the zither and the violin at the age of 10. Largely self-taught, he is a highly accomplished experimenter: he is constantly exploring the limits of his instrument with a boundless passion. His interest in collaboration has led him to tour with Boban Markovic's gypsy band as well as performing a breathtaking duo with Romanian born violinist Alexander Balananesu. He defies stereotypes whilst wielding the skill of each musical idiom - jazz, classical as well as folk."

from 94 concert..

thanks to progdog :)

Bib Set - "It Wasn't Meant To Happen" {Sweden} [1969] (psych/prog)

Björn invar björn björnsson had during the 60’s founded the R’n’B group Bib Set in Osby in Sweden. With Ray Charles and Spencer Davis Group as models for the music. The name BIB comes from Björns initials. In 1967 they were suposed to record a 7” but it was never released. When groups like Led Zeppelin Hansson & Karlsson and Traffic were started to appear their way to play music was changed radical. The story about how they recorded their album goes like this: In 1969 they were supposed once again to record a 7” on yhe label ToniTon but the group never stoped playing.Just before the album was recorded Invar Björnsson he desert. He didnt want to play progressive music any more. Soon after they finished the recording of the album Roland Gärdh also desert and the gruop was history.

Members
Hans Eng Organ
Ingvar Björnsson Vocal, Guitar
Roland Gärdh Drums
Tommy Tillman Sång Vocal,Bass

Arrival in Time..

Our thanks goes to Ola! :)

Kudsi Erguner - "Ottomania" {Turkey} [1999]

"Kudsi Erguner's Ottomania is the first World Music project that integrates the classical music of the Ottoman Empire with Western jazz improvisations and rhythms. It documents the story of a remarkable musical encounter, and is a logical continuation of Erguner's eventful life. Kudsi Erguner was born in Diyarbakir, Turkey in 1952, and has lived in Paris since 1975. On his way to preserving the inheritance of the Sufis, Kudsi Erguner had to battle against those who opposed him, and travel down unfamiliar paths. The flutist (he plays the Ney, a Turkish reed flute) is also active as musicologist, author, teacher and artistic adviser. He has worked as a musician and composer on various film scores (Martin Scorsese, with Peter Gabriel), theater pieces (Peter Brook), and ballet productions (Maurice Béjart, Carolyn Carlson). He has fused the most varied styles and epochs of occidental music with traditional Turkish music. It was because of this intermingling of musical styles that he aroused so much attention with his participation in Mozart's The Abduction from the Seraglio at the Salzburg Festivals in 1997/98. Likewise with his solo improvisations during the performance of Guillaume de Machaut's Messe de Notre Dame with the Hilliard Ensemble at the London Royal Festival Hall in February 1999. "Listen to the reed how it tells a tale..." So wrote Sufi master Djalal Ed Din Rumi in his mystic 13th century poem about the Ney. Erguner believes that had Djalal Ed Din Rumi been alive today, he might well have anointed the saxophone as holy instrument. Kudsi Erguner is the only Turkish musician of his generation to have been taught the Ney-flute in the classic oral tradition by his father, Ulvi Erguner, the last great master of the Ney-flute, and the former director of Radio Istanbul. Hundreds of years of a musical culture which always strove towards freedom and ecstasy are reflected in his playing. By the soundtrack of Peter Brook's film Mahabharata, Erguner...." read more here

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Egil Straume Jazz Combo - "Fiesta" {Latvia} [1977] (jazz fusion)

Welcome this fine album by Latvian jazz septet led by Egil Straume, a prominent saxophone player and a respected figure at the Soviet jazz scene. Besides his collaboration with Gunnar Rozenbergs Band and his work with National TV and Radio Band of Latvia, Straume is known as a pioneer of experimental jazz in Latvia. "Fiesta" is probably the only officially released account of Straume's early efforts with a chamber jazz outfit that he organized in 1977. The album features slightly above half an hour of well structured, extremely rich in themes, dense and emotional quirky fusion with complex rhythmic patterns and masterful interplay between a strong four-piece brass section and swirling keyboards. To me, it is excellent by any standard existing in what we call progressive music. I don't have much information about the band's background and history. Egil Straume is known to have been working mostly in the format of trio with different musicians since 1980s and on, but I don't know of any other releases by him apart from a brief appearance on a "Red Square Groove" jazz compilation.
Tracklist:

1. Ekstraversija
2. Koralis
3. 1:07
4. Introversija
5. Fiesta
6. Zoria - Moria
7. Aditi

Line-up:

E. Straume - clarinet, saxophones, acoustic piano
H. Kiops - bass
K. Rutentals - electric organ
I. Birkans - flute, saxophones
U. Stabulnieks - keyboards
P. Mierlejs - trombone
G. Rozenbergs - trumpet, harmonica, flutes, percussion
M. Briezkalns - drums, percussion

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Sato - "Efsane" {Uzbekistan} [1986] (folk fusion)

From Uzbekistan comes this somewhat forgotten album of exquisite and delicate folk fusion. Driven mostly by acoustic guitar and woodwinds, the albums' six tracks stretch somewhere between the territories of acoustic jazz and the realm of odd guitar experimentation, yet all have a strong and dense flavour of the traditional music of Uzbeks and Tatars. The band I believe to have originated from the Fergana Valley - which was a melting pot of the Soviet Middle Asia - and the cultural and ethnic diversity of the group members has obviously contributed to the polystilistic character of the music. Enver Izmailov, Sato's guitar player who is said to have independently discovered the touch/tapping technique in the late 70s (i.e. simultaneously with Stanley Jordan), has made a succesful solo career after the group disbanded. His later works were more along the lines of 'Legend' and 'Boyna' and featured multilayered guitar improvisations on Eastern folklore themes.

Line-Up:

Leonid Atabekov - bass
Enver Izmailov - guitar
Narket Ramazanov - flute, soprano saxophone
Riza Bekirov - keyboards
David Matatov - percussion
Andrei Atabekov - drums

Trackist:

1. Kizilchiklar (trad.)
2. Legend
3. Boyna
4. Paraphrazes of Arbalar and Horo
5. Gulmira's Dance
6. Tym-Tym

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East Bionic Symphonia - Live (July 13, 1976)(psychedelic, drone, fluxus)

East Bionic Symphonia were a group of improvisers and artists who studied together under Takehisa Kosugi at the Bigakko artschool in Tokyo in the mid-1970s. As a graduation project they recorded an album of free improvisation that was edited by Kosugi and released on the ALM label in 1976. Several of the members went on to have careers in underground music and the visual arts. The remnants of the group reconvened in 1997 under the name Marginal Consort and continue to play annually.
The original members were Kazuo Imai, Kaoru Okabe, Yasushi Ozawa, Tomonao Koshikawa, Hiroshi Shii, Masami Tada, Tatsuo Hattori, Kazuaki Hamada, Masaharu Minegishi, & Chie Mukai.

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Brainticket - "Voyage" {Switzerland} [1982] (Psychedelic/Space Rock) (VBR)

Basically, BRAINTICKET were born out of a 60's jazz group featuring Belgian born keyboardist Joel VANDROOGENBROECK, and as history was made, BRAINTICKET became the project of a visionary talent. They were among the important pioneers of early psychedelic and spaced out cosmic.

Their musical experience of four decades:
1 - HALLUCINATIONS OF REALITY:BRAINTICKET's debut album is perhaps one of the most psychedelic recordings of all time. Their second "Psychonaut" is far more pleasant and an ethnic type of early German rock!
2 - ERA OF TECHNOLOGY:On "Celestial Ocean", music is really early Krautrock mixed with a fair amount of analog and spacey keyboards. A bizarre mystical concept based on Egyptian mythology.
3 - OTHER ADVENTURES: "Adventure" is a heavy cosmic voyage into the epicenter of your mind. "Voyage" continues where "Adventure" left off with more strange sonic cosmos and amazing percussive tones and moods.
4 - SPACE TRAVEL:"Alchemic Universe" blends the finer aspects of space travel more in a TANGERINE DREAM'ish/ of KRAFTWERK sytle. If your into the psychedelia then BRAINTICKET is your long lost grandfather.
http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=684

01. Voyage part one (19:08)
02. Voyage part two (18:07)
03. Skyline (analog 1970) (8:12)
04. Underworld paths (7:21)
05. Brainticket - Nebula (4:46)

Line-up
- Hans Deyssenrath / keyboards, synths, computer
- Barney Palm / drums, percussion, strange sounds
- Wilhelm Seefeldt / synths, computer
- Joel Vandroogenbroek / keyboards, flute, guitar, vocals

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Erkin Koray - "Erkin Koray" {Turkey} [1969] (1st LP) (Psych Rock) (VBR)

Erkin Koray is the pioneer in Turkish psychedelic music and is in the rock'n roll era since 1962. His songs and guitar style are still very influential for both Turkish and foreign bands and musicians focusing on the psychedelic genre. http://rateyourmusic.com/artist/erkin_koray

01 - Mesafeler (3:37)
02 - Askimiz Bitecek (3:18)
03 - Yadmur (3:37)
04 - Silinmeyen Hatyralar (4:07)
05 - Istemem (3:25)
06 - Cicek Dagi (2:36)
07 - Nihansin Dideden (3:59)
08 - Sana Bir Seyler Olmus (3:04)
09 - Seni Her Gordudumde (3:19)
10 - Apka Ynamyyorum (3:30)
11 - Kyzlaryda Alyn Askere (3:30)
12 - Anma Arkadas (4:05)

01 - Mesafeler .......
02 - Askimiz Bitecek ....
10 - Apka Ynamyyorum .....

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Kleptomania - "Elephants Lost" {Belgium} [1972] (Blues Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Prog Rock ) (@256)

Kleptomania came from Belgium and was founded in 1969 by Dany Lademacher, Roger Vollaert and Charlie DeRademaeker, who made experiences in other belgian groups before. They played progressive rock with two guitars, bass, vocals and drums and were an important live-band in Belgium at that time. It´s only selftitled album was recorded in 1971 at Flame-Records, Hilversum, but could not be released, because Flame-Records broke at this
time. In 1979 the record was released in Nehterlands without the consent of the band in a very small quantity. Between 1969 and 1975 the band made also five singles, all very well done. This official reissue now includes the complete work of the LP and all five singles. It comes as double-album as 180 gram vinyl and is limited to 500 copies. http://www.lpcdreissues.com/catalogue/viewItem.php?idProduct=12661

More info http://www.belgianmetalhistory.be/html/bands/klepto/klepto.html

01 - Intro (2:54)
02 - Improve (5:52)
03 - Moonchild (4:15)
04 - Stop (4:45)
05 - Eligie (5:32)
06 - Thema (5:31)
07 - Cadens (1:40)
08 - Travel (4:02)
09 - Intrude (6:23)
10 - Visit For Above (6:00)
11 - Divertimentos (11:01)
12 - Sign On My Head (3:54)
13 - From The Beginning (4:37)
14 - The Band (3:17)

Line-up
- Danny Lademacher (guitar, vocals)
- Wim Hombergen (guitar, vocals)
- Roger Wollaert (drums)
- Charlie Deraedemaeker (bass, “ex-les eagles”)
- John(?!?) on drums
- Francis Goya (guitar,“ex-Liberty Six”)
- Lou Deprijck (guitar, vocals, “ex-Liberty Six”)

02 - Improve .....
03 - Moonchild ......
10 - Visit For Above ...

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FFN - Formatia Fara Nume - "Zece Pasi" {Romania} [1975] (Hard-Progressive)

The album name - Zece Pise means Ten Steps in English.

Excellent mid 70's Rumanian heavy progressive with Strong Guitar and Flute interplay in the vein of Jethro Tull and Gravy Train. http://popsike.com/php/detaildata.php?itemnr=4740540842

01 - Cetatea noastră (4:14)
02 - Definiţie (3:29)
03 - Speranţa (3:32)
04 - Omagiu (5:39)
05 - Interludiu (2:16)
06 - Povestea ploii (3:17)
07 - Vântul (5:23)
08 - Poluare (3:39)
09 - Soare de-aş avea (3:26)
10 - La răscruce de vânt (3:21)

Line-up
- Gabriel Litvin (guitar, vocals, synthesizer) (ex:Mondial,Romanticii)
- Silviu Olaru (bass)
- Cristian Madolciu (vocals, percussion)
- Doru Donciu (flute, harmonica)
- Florin Dumitru (drums) (ex:Mondial)

03 - Speranţa .......
04 - Omagiu ...
05 - Interludiu ......

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