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Onsegen Ensemble - Duel (2018)...Finland
Prog/Psychedelic/Kraut/Post Rock (instrumental)
Thanks, Noni! On my first listen
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Alex Carpani Band - The Sanctuary - 2010 .......Italy
Symphonic
Love this music from this band.....
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Clouds - Up Above Our Heads [Clouds 1966-71] (2010 Re-Mastered)....UK Scotland..
CD 1
Pop/Crossover/Prog Related/PROTO-PROG (Prog bands formed before the 70s)
This is a combined double CD of all three albums, that were re-mastered during 2010. It also offers bonus tracks that were not on the original albums... Clouds started as a band called 1-2-3 and changed their name later on. Apparently Keith Emerson was heavily influenced by this band and they supported bands such as The Nice and late Prog bands of the 60s era.
* Note:............. Drummer Harry Hughes gave lessons to Carl Palmer and Bill Buford *
This is a gem of those who love Prog music and is quite a forgotten band that should not be lost in our history books. .
This is a combination of pop and prog tracks
PA rate this band between 3 - 5 stars
COT, you will love this band!.....
10/10
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CD 2
10/10
David Bowie lauded them and they entranced prog rock royalty. Now Clouds, the greatest Scottish band you’ve never heard of, reform for Aidan Smith and explain how they snatched defeat from the jaws of victory
SOHO, London, 45 years ago, and the Marquee must have been an overpowering mix of cigarette smoke, sweat and warm English beer, laced with something stronger and illegal. Mostly though, the famous rock’n’roll club smelled of the future.
On stage were three young men, two from West Lothian and the other from Lanarkshire, and the music they were playing was daring, challenging and exciting. Many in the crowd were hostile to the tricky time changes and absence of guitars, but future members of Yes, Emerson Lake & Palmer and King Crimson were entranced.
And David Jones – the future David Bowie – was so moved by the experience that he wrote a letter to the Record Mirror to gush about “three thistle-and-haggis-voiced bairns who had the audacity to face a mob of self-opinioned hippies with a brand of unique pop music, which, because of its intolerance of mediocrity, floated as would a Hogarth cartoon in the Beano”.
So what became of the three bairns? Billy Ritchie, Ian Ellis and Harry Hughes haven’t been here in a while and in truth Hughes isn’t here yet. “He was our drummer, a brilliant timekeeper in the band, always late out of it,” says Ritchie before finally their old friend shows up. They can’t remember the last time they were together in the same place – somebody’s birthday, perhaps, a good few years ago – but Scotland on Sunday has reformed Clouds just for this Tuesday afternoon. Why? Because they were the greatest Scottish band you’ve never heard of; and maybe the most influential we’ve produced, ever.
Who’s been more influential? You could argue that the Sensational Alex Harvey Band were a big influence on the punks, that the Jesus and Mary Chain and Belle and Sebastian inspired many, and that ultimately everyone owes something to skiffle king Lonnie Donegan. But these guys were crucial to the development of progressive rock and all that came of it (concept albums, a juggernaut for each musician with your name on the roof, spectacular shows on ice). Whether they actually invented the genre is probably lost in the swirling mists of a Roger Dean dreamscape – the classic prog iconography – but I’m going to try to find out.
We walk up Wardour Street in search of a pub, passing an alleyway and disturbing some ghosts. “Remember that great little cafe?” says Ellis.
“Aye, we’d often meet Bowie there,” adds Hughes. Then Ritchie: “The funny thing was it had a coffin in the middle of the room. We should have seen that as a metaphor for what would happen to us.”
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Alex Carpani Band - The Sanctuary - 2010 .......Italy
Symphonic
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You can see why Keith Emerson was so impressed!... What about the drummer?.. No wonder Carl Palmer and Bill Bruford took lessons.
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Giving my first listen to
The Tangent - Proxy
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A blast from the past
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Love Rays work but not paying that price
Sadly, it's because you are a bit late to the party. I paid about £30, sold my 2 original Threshold CD's and made a very small profit.
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CD 2
10/10
David Bowie lauded them and they entranced prog rock royalty. Now Clouds, the greatest Scottish band you’ve never heard of, reform for Aidan Smith and explain how they snatched defeat from the jaws of victory
SOHO, London, 45 years ago, and the Marquee must have been an overpowering mix of cigarette smoke, sweat and warm English beer, laced with something stronger and illegal. Mostly though, the famous rock’n’roll club smelled of the future.
On stage were three young men, two from West Lothian and the other from Lanarkshire, and the music they were playing was daring, challenging and exciting. Many in the crowd were hostile to the tricky time changes and absence of guitars, but future members of Yes, Emerson Lake & Palmer and King Crimson were entranced.
And David Jones – the future David Bowie – was so moved by the experience that he wrote a letter to the Record Mirror to gush about “three thistle-and-haggis-voiced bairns who had the audacity to face a mob of self-opinioned hippies with a brand of unique pop music, which, because of its intolerance of mediocrity, floated as would a Hogarth cartoon in the Beano”.
So what became of the three bairns? Billy Ritchie, Ian Ellis and Harry Hughes haven’t been here in a while and in truth Hughes isn’t here yet. “He was our drummer, a brilliant timekeeper in the band, always late out of it,” says Ritchie before finally their old friend shows up. They can’t remember the last time they were together in the same place – somebody’s birthday, perhaps, a good few years ago – but Scotland on Sunday has reformed Clouds just for this Tuesday afternoon. Why? Because they were the greatest Scottish band you’ve never heard of; and maybe the most influential we’ve produced, ever.
Who’s been more influential? You could argue that the Sensational Alex Harvey Band were a big influence on the punks, that the Jesus and Mary Chain and Belle and Sebastian inspired many, and that ultimately everyone owes something to skiffle king Lonnie Donegan. But these guys were crucial to the development of progressive rock and all that came of it (concept albums, a juggernaut for each musician with your name on the roof, spectacular shows on ice). Whether they actually invented the genre is probably lost in the swirling mists of a Roger Dean dreamscape – the classic prog iconography – but I’m going to try to find out.
We walk up Wardour Street in search of a pub, passing an alleyway and disturbing some ghosts. “Remember that great little cafe?” says Ellis.
“Aye, we’d often meet Bowie there,” adds Hughes. Then Ritchie: “The funny thing was it had a coffin in the middle of the room. We should have seen that as a metaphor for what would happen to us.”
Billy Ritchie turned up on a BBC prog programme a while back, being rated by many as a father of the genre.
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Giving my first listen to
The Tangent - Proxy
Thanks genesis1964, just played this right now.
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Alan Simon – Big Bang (2018)
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Arena -The Visitor ..........Re-mastered 2018
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Metamorphosis - Nobody Cares
Haven't heard this in yonks. Good album though
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Metamorphosis - Nobody Cares
Haven't heard this in yonks. Good album though
I love this band
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...and now playing, just before going to bed:
Atomic Swing - The Broken Habanas
Great stuff, just wish they'd made more than four albums.
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Rainbow Theatre - The Armada (1975) re-mastered 2008.....Australia
Symphonic/Classical Prog
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Clouds - Up Above Our Head.......
Love this album....
Sing Sing Sing..... is probably the highlight for me
