Battlegods

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Osanna - Variazione II (My Mind Flies)
Osanna - Variazione I (To Plinius)
What a show the bassist and the drummer!
 
Sensations' Fix - Vision Fugitives
The album that closes the career of this magical band to whom we must say thank you too many times. The subsequent and last "Vision's fugitives" (with an avoidable reworking of this piece and lackluster episodes like "Fortune teller" or "Barnhaus effect") shows the end of their space rock magic.
 
Camel - Earthrise
Magic up to Moonmadness. The next phase, a bit too soft (most of the tracks could come from an America album) I summarize with three pieces that could perfectly fit on Moonmadness in terms of sound (Echoes from Breathless, Tell me from Rain dances, and Ice from I can see your house ... Nude and Stationary Traveller are too light).
 
Terry Riley - Performance One - Part 2
Forget about techno and raves!
 
Cabaret Voltaire - Western Mantra
The track that encapsulates the industrial noise developed after the magical beginnings and the sublime Mix Up (only "Capsules," "Eyeless sight," and "On every other street" are the lesser pieces). A perfect 20 minutes of obsession, bis that will never reach the static heights of "Red Mask" on "Red Mecca," "Sluggin for jesus," or "This entertainment" on "The voice of america." Not to mention when they started making Body music tracks with the same rhythm as Sensoria.
 
Suicide, "Che"
My favorite track along with Ghost rider, Rocket USA, and Frankie (of course).
 
Atomic Rooster - Banstead
The first two albums are perfect. From the third one onward, I was expecting some badass stuff, but I find less dark prog and more standard rock.
 
Nektar - Countenance
Pink Floyd? Nah!
 
Nektar - Astronaut's Nightmare
I present to you another band with a delightful sound: a prog straight from Andromeda, brushed with space and symphonic elements. Three wonderful albums.
 
That Old Inn - Un giorno, un amico
A more challenging work than the debut but equally captivating.
 
King Crimson - Larks' Tongues In Aspic, Pt. III
Discipline is a masterpiece, that’s for sure. Beat and Three, however, don’t thrill me when the Crimson "lower" themselves to the song format (a sort of Talking Heads post Speaking Tongues... see Model Man, Man with an Open Heart, Heartbeat...). The masterpieces that continue the magic of Discipline are Neal and Jack and Me, Sartori in Tangier, and Waiting Man on Beat, while on Three, the title track, Sleepless, and Larks’ 6 shine gloriously. After this album, we enter the 90s of neo-prog, with repeated renditions of the riffs from Red and Larks and those pseudo-metallic distortions, all stuff that depresses me, to say the least.