Category: Progressive Rock

Progressive rock, also known as prog rock or prog, is a rock music subgenre that originated in the United Kingdom, with further developments in Germany, Italy, and France, throughout the mid-to-late 1960s and 1970s. It developed from psychedelic rock and originated, similarly to art rock, as an attempt to give greater artistic weight and credibility to rock music.

Gandalf (with Steve Hackett)- Gallery of Dreams (2012)

With the advent of the New Year 2012 well past us, new age and popular artists of every genre are releasing their best new project for 2012. While brand new CD and mp3 album downloads are arriving daily at music stores, legendary new age artist Gandalf and popular rock music icon Steve Hackett, formerly of Genesis, have a new 2012, re-mastered release of an exquisite instrumental music classic.

 

Gandalf’s Gallery Of Dreams – Plus Live featuring Steve Hackett is the title given to this definitive 3 CD Anniversary Edition, that is progressive instrumental music at its finest! Also available as mp3 digital downloads, the first CD is an original studio Gallery Of Dreams album digitally re-mastered.

 

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Posted on July 31, 2012 by admin

Fire On Dawson – 7 Billion and a Nameless Somebody (2012)

Sitting in the Hard Rock Cafe in Warsaw, just hours before our CD Release Show, it is hard to believe that it has come this far. 2 years of ideas, 9 months of hard work and finally here it is. 7 Billion and a Nameless Somebody. This journey, this musical evolution has been an incredible experience for the 4 of us and we are thankful for it. We sincerely hope for your continued support because we cannot go on without it.

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Sula Bassana – Dark Days (2012)

A glimpse at the enviable discography of prolific German psychedelonautDave “Sula Bassana” Schmidt will result in a lifetime’s worth of albums, live releases and jamming lysergic sprawl. Both on his own under the Sula Bassana moniker and with bands like Liquid Visions, Südstern 44, Zone Six and most recently Electric Moon, Schmidt has overseen the creation of an entire scene’s worth of output, sustaining leads carving out a niche almost entirely his own within European heavy psych rock. His latest solo outing to be released through his own Sulatron Records is called Dark Days, and on it, Schmidt plays guitar, bass, drums, synth, organ, performs what little vocals there are and, on all but two of the tracks which feature live drumming (by Pablo Carneval, also formerly of Electric Moon), he programs the drum machine. Thus Dark Days is a solo record in the truest sense of being the

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Many Arms – Many Arms (2012)

Many Arms have written upon the wall of the progressive indie rock scene with a bold stroke. Equally indebted to Ornette Coleman, Mahavishnu Orchestra, and latter-day Black Flag, the band’s jagged songs hit hard and hit often while remaining willing to take a turn towards the pretty or the weird when occasionally inclined. Sophisticated and unpredictable, Many Arms creates music that will unite both rockers and music nerds.

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