Alex - Alex (kraut-prog 1973 )

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Alex - That's the Deal (1975)

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SUPERB SPAIN PROG!!!!
Canarios - Ciclos(spa superb prog)

Ancora un disco spettacolare di musica prog!

Los Canarios started off as a typical, run of the mill pop/rock band (probably not unlike Los Bravos, but I'm not sure) and released three albums from 1968 to 1972. I'm sure fans of the pop Canarios were in for a total rude awakening when they released this double album, Ciclos. The band totally went off the prog deep-end and went and adapted Antonio Vivaldi's The Four Seasons in a prog rock setting. The main guy of this band, Teddy Bautista included lots of great analog keyboards like the Moog II-P modular, Mini Moog, VCS-3, ARP 2600, Mellotron M400. Other members included Alain Richard on drums (and tons of percussion), guitarist Antonio Garcia de Diego, Mathias Sanvellian on additional keyboards (piano, organ, RMI electric piano, harpsichord, etc.), and bassist Christian Mellies. Add that with a choir (both male a female), a couple of male vocalists (I bet the not-so-great singer was Teddy Bautista himself), and a female soprano, provided by an Indonesian named Rudmini Sukmawati (in which photos of her make her look Gothic, one scary picture of her makes her look like Marylin Manson!). This is a totally complex and densely layered album which you're not likely to get on the first listen. Lots of really amazing analog synths. In between classical themes are rather bizarre and twisted use of synthesizers. One part finds the band being really silly by having a barbershop quartet sing "Plastic Christmas" with lyrics that go: "It's another plastic Christmas / Santa Claus has died / One more thing to celebrate", suggesting they felt Christmas had became a big load of crap (they should try Christmas here in America some 30 years later, which got so bad I tend to leave the radio and television off that time of year because of the hype and overcommercialization, not to mention worn-out Christmas carols). My only real complaint goes to "Himno a la Armonia Implacable del Fin" (on the fourth and final movement entitled "Cuarto Acto: El Eslabon Recobrado"), I think that piece downright sucks with the overly dramatic and cheesy male operatic vocals and choir. I can live without that, but the rest of the album demonstates why not only is this regarded as one of the best prog albums to come out of Spain, but one of the best prog adaptations of classical aside from Il Rovescio Della Medaglia's Contaminazione. My other complaint is Canarios never followed up Ciclos with perhaps another full-blown prog album, perhaps this time, original band compositions. This was unfortunately their only prog album. Aside from "Himno a la Armonia Implacable del Fin", I truly think this is one of the all-time great prog take on classical music. Totally essential album.

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Ibio - Cuevas de Altamira(1979 spa prog)

I hadn't quite warmed up to this album as some others had. Ibio is often regarded as one of Spain's better prog rock bands, but I can't see that myself. I own the LP, on the Movie Play label (the label with the green octagon). The problem I have most is Lily Alegria's singing. Although he sings on only two cuts, I find his wailing style a bit grating to me. But for the most part, this album reminds me of the Italian prog scene, some of the cuts remind me of Il Volo, especially in the string synth department. Also Mellotron is used from time to time, something Il Volo never used. Standard synthesizers are used to, but I haven't been too impressed by that. Forgot to mention it was Mario Gomez Calderon who was responsible for the keyboards. Side one (the first four cuts) tend to be the best, as, to me, side two seems just OK. Not quite essential in my book, but worth having if you collect obscure prog like me.

http://link-protector.com/513822/

Aucan - Aucan(1977 argentina- hard rock)

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Aucan - Brotes Del Alba (1980)

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Aeroblus - Aeroblus (1977 hard rock)

Kinda like a Bluesy Buffalo(AUS) combined with Sabbath moves, love the early tracks the best, lyrics in Spanish aswell. Well worth having! Pappo is a talented Hardrock guitarist/songwriter!
Heavy stuff!

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Thank you Fran for this gems!!!

The Lost Nation - Paradise Lost(1970 uk hard prog)

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Water-Great dutch prog
Water - The Second Day(1975)

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Water - Damburst(1976)

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Denmark stuff!!!

Steppeulvene - Hip (1967 psych)

Essential. Here's a fine example of how expensive studio equipment and software are superfluous. At the bottom line, what really matters is talent, originality and good songs - this has it all and maybe more. The importance of this album can only be underrated.

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Isenkram - Isenkram (1974 psych folk)

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Heavy jocker - Cesar palace (1978-hard prog)

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2:Hair - Piece (1970 superb hard psych)

Thanks to Isabelbc for correction...you can find a wrong name in rar files (it's called Heavy Jocker 1970-pieces or something like that) but it's another album...if Someone of you have the first album of Heavy Jocker (1976) please SEND IT!!!

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Outeiro - Ollos de Marzal (1980-spanish prog)

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Goma - 14 Abril(1975 prog jazz prog-spa)

Very elegant and sometimes jazzy flamenco prog. Some of the quirky passages brings me to think of the italian band Picchio dal Pozzo, while the more fluent jazz moments sound like Argentina's Bubu (or actually the other way around). Even this record is a bit too sentimental here and there, but not as much as Triana's debut album. The track "Un Nuevo Abril Sin Sal" sounds a bit like Flea's "Topo u Uomini", and is probably the weakest track on the album (although still good), while the highlight is the second track, called "Aqui y Ahora".

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Aquarelle - Sous Un Arbre(1978)

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Aquarelle - Live at Montreux(1980)

A big thanks to Belan for this gem!

Thank you Belan!!!

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Tomorrow i'll have my degreese's discussion...i'm a little bit nervous!
see you tomorrow!

Hydravion - Hydravion (1977 fra prog-inst. prog)

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Hydravion - Stratos Airlines (1979)

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Midnight Sun - Walking Circles(1972 jazz prog dmk)

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Midnight Sun - Midnight Dream(1974)

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Rainman - Rainman (1971 holland prog)
Is a good prog album with some folk influence...very good!!!

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Voiz - Boanerges (1977 holl xian hard prog)

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Have a nice week end!!!

Triangle - Triangle(1970great hardrock prog - Fra)
Lo ammetto...gurardango la copertina di questo album ho sperato ad un fulminante hammon alla Deep Purple ma purtroppo non è così! tuttavia il sound richiama la tradizione britannica dell'hard rock anche se ci sono accenni della progressive francese...un ottimo lavoro anche se manca il classico colpo da K.o. per farlo entrare nella elite dei grandi classici!!

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Triangle - 2(1972)

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missing song...(track 5 & 9 not 2!!track 2 is already present!)
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Triangle - Homonymie(1972)

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The Moon - Without Earth and the Moon(68-69 psych folk)

One of the better interpretations on the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper, The Moons' first album, (the first 12 or so cuts on this CD), "Without Earth", is a psych/pop masterpiece. Horns, sitars, tape effects and studio-trickery abound on the album. The vocals by Moore are very much in the "British" vein as well, sometimes sounding remarkably like John Lennon's. The song-writing is also very solid, as are the backing vocals and melodies; quite a few of the tracks have backing "oohs and aahs" that could've been placed right on Sgt. Pepper and fit right in.

The bands 2nd self titled album included on this CD is a more trippy bluesy affair, and not nearly as exciting or meaningful as their wonderful first. For this reason I had to drop it from a 5 to a 4.5... still, it's a great CD and very much worth owning if you dig 60's psych/pop.

* If you like this album you might want to take a hint from the liner notes and track down a copy of the self-titled album "Colours", fronted by Montgomery and Dalton... 2 guys that contributed to some of the first album on this CD's tracks. *

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Mourning Phase - Mourning Phase(1971 folk)

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Lie Back and Enjoy It (1970 (hard rock/blues 1970)

Surprisingly excellent 1970 boogie rock album with as-good-as-it-gets sound quality. Bass, drums and guitar are all extremely strong. Its surprising this band wasn't more successful - the album only made UK 53. Mississippi Woman, Whiskey In The Jar and Willie the Pimp are the hot tracks here. My version has a much different track listing. Interesting to compare the huge fat sound here to the trebly weedy sound you get on many US albums by the Allman Brothers, Creedence and others around this time.

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Juicy Lucy - Pieces (hard rock/blues 1972)

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Placebo (belgium prog jazz)
Placebo - Ball Of Eyes (1971)

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Placebo - 1973 (1973)

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Placebo - Placebo 74 (1974)

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.....................more will follow.................

Hi folks! how are you? i hope fine!
I would like to promote this band, Tempano, and their new album (flavoured with 70's sunds!)
they decide to distribute for free their stuff, i think to avoid some prehystoircdogmatic-idiots...
at www.tempano.com (spanish-english) you can find all info and all catalougue of this great band! and below you can find the direct link to the album!
Selective_Memory_2008.zip

Surf to our friend tempano!
see ya!(...soon)

Hi to all! i still workin' for a new music blog (slowly, as usual) don't forget to send an email if you wish to join...but please give me one way to recognize you...if you are contributor/active reader in this or in another blog(s) or musicforum (p.n.frog, g.t.tribe for example) link me your posts/comments (i mean "previous" post) with your nickname! Let me know how can i recognize you!

a little note...i don't have prepared nothing, this is the reason why you don't recived nothing!!! I want proceed sloooooooowllllyyyy...

well i would like to remember the only way to get one access to private blog, send a simple mail at

musicloveragainstdeleter @ gmail.com

and tell me who you are...i don't need your personal info (obiviously) but only your nickname when you posted some comments here (i would like to add these people but i don't know how reach them... i talk about "Yann" "ummagumma" di cui ho perso l'email :x, "Thierry", "Slyefocks", "Regolo", "Quarkboy", "Pietre", "'orenoose", "misongod", "Mina", "Kosice", "Kingpossum", Jan, "Jargon King","Henry the 7/8","Gusfo", "Eduardo Martins", "Dicducfacfer",Barmaleyy, "RegEx"o RexGe sbaglio sempre, "Chris" from Greece, "Bri", "Mary"& "Sithlord"from hungary, "M.C.KE ","Chris C." from Los Angeles, CA., OldProgRocker, "Eric", "D.Moose ", "Lhasa Crawler ")
I would like to thanks these people for they words in the past year...

...Stay tuned...more info on the way...!

I would like to thank the big nahavanda from prognotfrog blog...an english translation can be found at the bottom of this post!!!!

From: la Repubblica

ROMA - La nuova legge sul diritto d'autore autorizzerebbe gli utenti a pubblicare mp3 di musica protetta dal diritto d'autore. Ciò che finora è stato pirateria diventerebbe legale, quindi, a causa di una svista del legislatore. È quanto ha appreso Repubblica.it parlando con Andrea Monti, avvocato massimo esperto di diritto d'autore e internet, e che ha partecipato in prima persona allo studio della nuova legge. Ha fatto parte dei gruppi di lavoro, presso il Ministero dei Beni Culturali, per lo studio alle modifiche da apportare alla legge sul diritto d'autore. Il tutto è finito in un nuovo comma, che attende ora solo di essere pubblicato in Gazzetta Ufficiale. Non è più modificabile, essendo stato approvato da Camera e Senato.

Nel nuovo comma si legge "È consentita la libera pubblicazione attraverso la rete internet, a titolo gratuito, di immagini e musiche a bassa risoluzione o degradate, per uso didattico o scientifico e solo nel caso in cui tale utilizzo non sia a scopo di lucro".
"Chi l'ha scritto non si è reso conto che il termine "degradate" è tecnico, ha un significato ben preciso, che comprende anche gli mp3, a pieno titolo", dice Monti. Come sanno tutti gli appassionati di musica su internet, infatti, gli mp3 sono una versione degradata (perché compressa) della musica originale. Dipende poi dal livello di compressione mp3 se questa degradazione è più o meno udibile dall'orecchio umano.

Di conseguenza, il comma permetterà "di pubblicare mp3 coperti da copyright, senza autorizzazione dai detentori di diritto d'autore: su siti web o anche su server peer to peer, il mezzo non conta. Lì si parla infatti solo di "pubblicazione su internet". L'importante - dice il comma - è che lo scopo sia didattico o scientifico, quindi per esempio posso immaginare un sito che pubblichi la discografia di un autore a scopo di commento e recensione. Oppure una rete peer to peer dei conservatori che mettono la musica a disposizione degli allievi, per studiarla. Tutti usi permessi, se si interpreta in modo letterale la legge".

Il comma è stato scritto dalla Commissione alla Cultura presso la Camera, il cui presidente (Pietro Folena) ha spesso ribadito di voler rendere più libera dai paletti del diritto d'autore la circolazione della musica. Però di fatto il nuovo comma si spinge troppo avanti con la liberalizzazione degli mp3 "e quindi - aggiunge Monti - credo sia una svista, dovuta al fatto che il legislatore non sa che anche gli mp3 rientrano nel concetto di musica degradata".

Che succederà ora? Perché scattino gli effetti della legge, si attende un decreto del Ministero, che fissi i criteri delimitanti gli usi didattici e scientifici (si noti bene, non i criteri relativi al termine degradato, che quindi non è più discutibile). Il comma infatti dice "Con decreto del Ministro per i beni e le attività culturali, sentiti il Ministro della pubblica istruzione e il Ministro dell'università e della ricerca, previo parere delle Commissioni parlamentari competenti, sono definiti i limiti all'uso didattico o scientifico di cui al presente comma".

Dopo il decreto del Ministero, la nuova legge porterà caos nelle cause sul peer to peer, "sarà difficile per un magistrato dare seguito a una denuncia penale o a un sequestro contro chi è accusato di violare il diritto d'autore su internet, visto che il comma autorizza molti scenari". È possibile però che si corra ai ripari, "che l'iter del decreto ministeriale sia rallentato e nel frattempo si affrettino di modificare la legge".

Pare l'ennesimo caso di legge che si occupa di questioni tecnologiche sconvolgendo, senza volere, gli esistenti paletti, per l'uso improprio di termini tecnici. "C'è un precedente: quando nel 2000 una legge autorizzava, per un errore terminologico, le smart card pirata della tv satellitare. Poi è stata modificata, ma nel frattempo nei processi sono stati assolti i pirati del satellite".

"La legge non ci preoccupa perché sappiamo già come sarà il decreto che fisserà i paletti", dice Enzo Mazza, presidente Fimi (Federazione dell'industria musicale italiana). "E per uso didattico si intenderanno solo i siti che si occupano ufficialmente di didattica, quindi istituzioni accademiche. Nemmeno i siti personali di professori". "Impossibile limitare così - ribatte Monti - perché la costituzione italiana consente a tutti i cittadini di fare divulgazione didattica e scientifica".

New Italian law may have unintentionally legalized MP3 sharing

By Ed Oswald, BetaNews

February 1, 2008, 4:58 PM

A new copyright law in Italy making its way through Parliament seems to suggest that trading in MP3s would become legal so long as no profit is made from its distribution.

The law states that music or images that are at "degraded or low resolution" can be distributed on the Internet "for scientific or educational use, and only when such use is not for profit," according to a rough translation.

Experts that have reviewed the law told the Italian daily La Repubblica that even though MP3's are not specifically mentioned, the fact that the word degraded is used implies the existence of that format, which is by technical definition a "lossy" format that loses some fidelity through degradation. An MP3 is essentially a lower-quality form of the original recording.

While to the untrained ear this difference may not be heard, there is still some degree of loss of quality. As to the scientific and educational use requirements, experts say that a literal reading of the law would make an education-based P2P system or a discussion group on the music of an artist as permissible uses.

Politicians may have not intended to make MP3s legal, Italian internet copyright lawyer Andrea Monti told the paper, but may have not necessarily realized that MP3 is indeed a 'degraded format.'

Regardless, with it already approved by both the Italian chamber and Senate, it would take effect as soon as it is published in the Gazzetta Ufficiale. According to Wikipedia, the newspaper holds special regard because a law must be published in it in order to take effect.

The head of the Federation of Italian Music, Enzo Mazza, says the group is not concerned by the law because he expects the government to set strict guidelines as to who can qualify for those scientific and educational purposes.

But Monti disagrees, saying that the constitution would allow any Italian citizen to claim that purpose in the use of music.

This is a wrong place for deleter!!!