Best artist Progressive of all time secondo DeBaser.

❝ My relationship with "Starless And Bible Black" is instead on another level of values, being the album that has most contributed to developing my way of perceiving music over the last twenty years.

❝ 53 minutes of real delight, of pure art exposed by those who know how to do art well.

❝ Beautiful cover by Hipgnosis studio.

❝ It’s difficult if not impossible to find a weak spot: the Genesis funeral is postponed indefinitely.

❝ The sound is completely smeared with dirty slime, muddied with dark substances, and covered by a gloomy imaginary.

❝ Peter Hammill is, in my opinion, one of the greatest geniuses of world prog music

❝ Gentlemen, this is truly the pinnacle of progressive.

❝ Brain Salad Surgery, in its vast power, in its meticulous rehearsing perfection, is in some ways a necessary evil.

❝ This album sucks. And it stinks, too.

❝ Emerson, Lake & Palmer concerts were simply overwhelming: perhaps rough, perhaps approximate, but overwhelming.

❝ I will have no other Floyds besides Syd!

❝ Goodbye Cruel World (of Business).

❝ The Dark Side Of The Moon is not only the compositional and musical climax of the post-Barrett group's experience

❝ Ian Anderson and the others have not yet stopped delighting the ears of connoisseurs with their very own progressive rock, based on the extraordinary versatility of an instrument more typical of classical music than rock: the flute.

❝ And in the introduction to this album, Ian Anderson states that Wight wasn't the best concert of their lives, and I sincerely remain perplexed because both in terms of sound quality andperformance, we are at absolute levels.

❝ Under Wraps is Jethro Tull's worst album: cold, too technological, not acoustic enough, not melodic enough, and especially lacking the flute that made the band famous.

❝ Undoubtedly, the Gentle Giant can boast of being prog 100%, like almost no other band, from the beginning to the end of their career, which ended in 1980 for reasons of coherence, as they were reluctant to steer towards other musical genres just to remain in the public’s sphere of interest.

❝ Guys, do yourselves a favor, buy this album. It’s worth it.

❝ if I had to choose an album that encapsulates all the best features of progressive music without any negative side, without hesitation I’d choose Octopus by Gentle Giant. A milestone.

❝ It's hard to separate the name of Procol Harum from the song that made them popular worldwide back in 1967, namely "A Whiter Shade of Pale"...

❝ A refined and elegant work, standing among the very first albums of progressive, then still in the womb of the groups that were giving birth to it, including Procol Harum.

❝ It is an unjustly overlooked work, which I consider worthy of a well-visible place among the usual titles reviewed here at the pace of a mushroom cultivation.

❝ “Take me Caravan…Yes, I know you can”.

❝ “dreams are always ending far too soon.”

❝ “IMPORTANT NOTICE: I KNOW, THIS IS THE FIFTH REVIEW OF THIS ALBUM. I TRIED TO BE MORE PERSONALIZED, LET’S SEE.”

❝ Thus "Third" is born, a superb monument of experimental music and the entire art of the Twentieth century, a swan herald of a sudden dawn, a rainbow framing an autumn sunset, a blazing comet in boundless skies.

❝ "Playing now is lovely here in the BBC"

❝ Hang your ears on the handles of your umbrellas, you will be hit by a rain of electric and reckless sounds!!

❝ 'Exit... Stage Left' is their second double live album and the best record ever made by the boys from Toronto, and I’m categorical about that.

❝ One of the most underrated rock albums is the right definition for 'Caress of Steel'.

❝ The Canadian band Rush is a trio with undeniable technical and compositional skills, and in this excellent 1988 live album, they provide a brilliant demonstration of them.

❝ An immortal album, considered by many to be the masterpiece of the '70s progressive scene, something no one will ever be able to match in ideas and creativity.

❝ It represents a unique sound document of great artistic value

❝ Area was a group that made music, Demetrio was also an instrument of the group besides being a singer who at that moment brought the word through the lyrics.

❝ ...lamentations of guitars, wrongly suspected, softly sighed...

❝ Why do you want to disturb me if I might be dreaming of a winged journey on a wheel-less cart pulled by mistral horses, in the mistral... flying.

❝ releases one of the most beautiful prog albums ever on the national scene.

❝ First, buy the record, it’s essential.

❝ Frank Zappa remains nevertheless one of the greatest Composers of the 20th century. Period.

❝ Sheik is essential; it’s true that the orchestral suites of The Grand Wazoo are a work of art, but Sheik is mandatory; it’s true that Over-nite sensation is a revolution, but Sheik is inevitable.

❝ One of the most pleasant qualities of "Mirage" is its fluidity without necessarily being simple, its immediate pleasantness without being trivially catchy.

❝ The album is inspired by the eponymous story by writer Paul Gallico.

❝ Before concluding, I just want to add two words for the great "CameLatimer": "DON'T GIVE UP!".

❝ "Dove...Quando... was a small personal mantra that I sang to myself. I felt like it was about me, even if I didn't exactly know why. Today I know. That serene princess was poetry in its first appearance. Singing it was my way of welcoming it."

❝ An album that, relying on already-tested tracks, acts as an elegant passe-partout (oooppss) towards the English and American markets with supremely competitive material, to which even Melody Maker and Billboard could do nothing but bow in front of what was and surely remains the crowning jewel of the first example of export rock Made in Italy.

❝ This characteristic, combined with an apparently inexhaustible compositional vein, leads me to think that this is their absolute masterpiece.

❝ Marillion delivers it in 1985 with "Misplaced Childhood," a concept album based on broken love stories and lost childhoods.

❝ One of the greatest masterpieces in the history of progressive.

❝ Marillion have returned to prog, it's not the early days of "Script for a Jester Tear" or "Fugazi"...it's something different, something no one had done before,

❝ Le Orme should be considered as one of the greatest Italian rock bands of all time.

❝ Are Le Orme no longer the fantastic trio Collage–Uomo Di Pezza–Felona e Sorona? Who cares!

❝ the four present themselves as a small orchestra in Piazza San Marco

❝ As their leader, Daevid Allen, said,
“a band that too few people love too much”.

❝ Suppose you are a brilliant personality, unconventional, an unabashed fan of more or less heavy drugs, but above all, suppose that you have contemplated a project that no one before had ever approached: summarizing EVERYTHING in three albums.

❝ Banana Nirvana Manana!

❝ A MUST not just for PROG-METAL enthusiasts but for all lovers of great music.

❝ Undoubtedly a little gem. However, the band will not succeed and will disband. S. House will later join Hawkwind.

❝ Guys, this is truly a gem of prog! Those who haven't should go out and buy it immediately!

❝ What is Frank Zappa doing in a kind of Arcadia? And why is he not rasping but smiling gently?

❝ Not easy music but with magic on its wings.

❝ For lovers of the Canterbury Sound, a must.

❝ “The music of Magma is like a mirror, where everyone can see a reflection of who he is”

❝ “the truest reflection of Magma's real atmosphere”

❝ “It can’t help but deserve the highest rating.”

❝ Zappa has no epigones. Yet, usually, anything in Popular Music that is extravagant or bizarre is immediately labeled as zappian. Zappism is a religion.

❝ “Uncle Meat” is his absolute masterpiece.

❝ The album is characterized by lush production, complex instrumentation, and high-quality vocal arrangements.

❝ “Like an underwater song sung by dolphins beneath the ocean surface.”

❝ “I am madly in love with pop music. Many great composers are inspired by folk, I am inspired by pop. I'm not saying I'm a great composer nor that pop is a form of folk. But for sure, pop has generated a never-ending flow. You can also build your little pond, but if the pond is not connected to the river, which in turn flows into the ocean, sooner or later it will dry up. It will become little more than a piss. And I have lived too long to be happy with a puddle” Robert Wyatt.

❝ “I was deeply struck by something I had read about the organogenic marine mud on the ocean floors: in the abysses there are things just as strange and bizarre as those we imagine on Mars” (Robert Wyatt)

❝ In the realm of a completely English genre like progressive, the Americans Pavlov's Dog took their first steps, a group that, despite releasing only two good-level records (besides this one, the subsequent and inferior "At The Sound Of The Bell"), can boast a respectable place in rock history, enhanced by an unexpected and rapid success that, due to various misunderstandings and the genre's decline, led to the band's swift disappearance.

❝ That gem was "Pampered Menial," a spectacular debut LP from the large American band—seven members, an atypical lineup for the scene at the time, also seen in variant form with the phenomenal Kansas.

❝ What you hear on this album - and perhaps this is the most important thing, the first thing to say - is a performer with no more limits, a singer with a stratospheric command of his technical means.

❝ And I hate you Romans, I hate you all, a nasty gang of sycophants and intriguers, poorly or well disguised, as intellectuals and saints, I hate you Romans all of you.

❝ "Dedicated to John Lennon, sung in room 2 of Abbey Road Studios in London, the favorite room of The Beatles, with the valve microphone used for Strawberry Field. In the string quartet of Fragole infinite, summoned by Sir George Martin, the viola and first violin played in Sgt. Pepper... For me, these are great satisfactions"

❝ “Anyone who has intelligence

May interpret the number of the beast.

It is a man’s number.

This number is 666”

❝ A Greek band, Aphrodite's Child, which boasted the fantastic and poetic voice of Artemios Ventouris Roussos (Demis), the great drumming of Lucas Sideras, and the lucid madness of that genius Evangelos Odyssey Papathanassiou (that is, the great Vangelis).

❝ The Captain Beyond are a genuine Californian prog-rock musical meteor formed way back in 1972

❝ One of the most beautiful albums of the 60s.

❝ The music of Traffic is one that makes you feel good about yourself.

❝ This masterpiece, to which no one would give 35 years, was born during yet another reunion of a band with a short and troubled history, full of breakups, departures, and reunions, and yet capable of leaving a beautiful mark in the history of music.

❝ Are you kidding?

❝ Rick Wakeman is the greatest keyboardist in the world, perhaps only matched by Keith Emerson.

❝ The fingers – those fingers – flew as they did many years ago, skipping faster than the eye over the black and white ivory.

❝ Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1974), inspired by the writings of Jules Verne, is the album of his consecration as a leading figure in English symphonic pop.

❝ have crafted another excellent example of pioneering avant-progressive pushed to the limit of experimentalism, which, just like its (although of a different genre) Crimson cousin, makes improvisation and the relative lack of melody a decisive strength and creative charge.

❝ The epilogue of Henry Cow remains the true and only example of RIO not only musically understood but, due to its strong social and political charge, also as a banner of the movement.

❝ The great step has been taken, the great gift for humanity given.

❝ I am lost, I am silenced, I am blind - I am drunk with sadness, drowned by madness - the wave engulfs me, the mirror repels me - the echo of your laughter crosses the mirror - and I am alone - no friendship, no comfort, no future, no home - the past freezes inside me.

❝ Over is the ultimate expression of the Manchester artist, Over is a record that has always existed (how many works exist on the theme?) that was just waiting to find the right artist to crystallize it in the best form in which it could be conceived, and that is Peter Hammill, as few are skilled with human torment and feelings

❝ Peter Hammill – PH7 – 1979

❝ This is the best album ever composed by a band of semi-deities, and anyone who denies it doesn’t understand a damn thing about True Music!

❝ Tool is a group that undeniably has managed to create a style distinctly different from any other.

❝ The album starts immediately rough, hard, and uncensored: "Stinkfist" is a perhaps ambiguous metaphor in which the "sweet" experience of fist-fucking symbolizes the desensitization of the spirit and the constant pushing of boundaries to continue feeling emotions.

❝ It is not jazz, it is not rock, it is not psychedelia, it is pure progressive, it is history taking sound and form.

❝ All these people are assembled by the bandleader Jon Hiseman, an absolute drum superstar at ease in rock, jazz, blues, progressive...in everything basically: a true rhythm god!

❝ Two stars for this damn album is an insult to music, dear dictionary of my boots.

❝ Rock is necessary in life, no kidding, tell my father, tell him.

❝ This album should be reviewing me rather than the other way around...

❝ Calling it a "group" would actually be incorrect, for the Alan Parsons Project was already bizarre in itself, breaking the standard of a group, the "bass - drums - guitar" triangle:

❝ a few guitar chords and fleeting keyboard, spine-tingling singing; "Carpet Of The Sun" is a ballad that must be listened to, at least once.

❝ "Prologue" is the third album released by Renaissance, a group born from the ashes of the Yardbirds.

❝ nevertheless, there is the exception that proves the rule: Renaissance.

❝ “Delay” is the great lost album of Can.

❝ “Packaged at the Inner Space facilities in Cologne (Germany) in 1972.”

❝ The perfect album.

❝ Swallows in formation playing at swapping places; geometries of flocks that tirelessly change the perimeter.

❝ "Little Red Record" is the second and final studio work of Matching Mole, a group founded in 1971 by the illustrious musician and composer Robert Wyatt following his departure from the historic band Soft Machine.

❝ “Signed Curtain”, whose lyrics simply state the part of the song being played at that moment: "this is the first verse... and this is the chorus, or maybe it's the bridge..."

❝ The album, in my opinion, is splendid; the technical ability of the musicians is astonishing, yet Greenslade and Lawson do not get carried away by cloying virtuosity, perhaps because unlike, for example, Keith Emerson, of a cultured-academic tradition, the jazz approach allows for less redundancy and heaviness.

❝ when a group is having fun, you can feel it.

❝ The strange and peculiar thing about this band is the presence of two keyboardists and the absence of a guitar, which allows for very intriguing musical solutions.

❝ This, along with very few others, is one of those I consider the TRUE masterpieces of Italian progressive rock.

❝ In "Sirio 2222", Beat, Hard Rock, Psychedelia, Experimentation, and some shades of Symphonic Rock blend together.

❝ The wait has been long (let's hope we won't have to wait another 51 years!), but the final product has not disappointed expectations.

❝ Hawkwind's songs are perpetual motion sonic magma.

❝ In a word: House brought "order" where there was chaos before.

❝ What a CD you missed, what a fool you are.

❝ Silence the detractors of this flight of fancy! We’re talking about PASSION!

❝ Pure emotions. That’s all you can expect when Steven Wilson is involved, one of the many misunderstood geniuses of today’s music scene, on par with the likes of Daniel Gildenlow, Roine Stolt, Neal Morse, and the rest...

❝ Alphataurus is one of those many bands with a very short discographic life that have been placed in the progressive category.

❝ “Buried Alive” is the last testament left to us by this wonderful band.

❝ «This music is built on a very human base... ...through conflict.»

❝ And here is the young John McLaughlin, having separated from Davis, forming with the great and energetic Billy Cobham what is perhaps the main fusion group of the 70s, the Mahavishnu Orchestra.

❝ the Orchestra was truly a war machine, very powerful and fiery, and here you can feel all their impact on stage.

❝ “Apocalypse” cannot be called the band's best record, but it remains a highly recommended, intriguing work that can be savored for the great and warm mastery of McLaughlin and company and for the great and positive symphonic openings that often illuminate and temper the typical sharpness of the jazz rock of the Mahavishnu.

❝ Picchio Dal Pozzo, one of the greatest Italian progressive bands,

❝ You’ll understand that if an album makes me live this adventure without the aid of drugs, it is certainly a masterpiece.

❝ Absurd and borderline nonsense lyrics, tracks at times repetitive, at times always shifting, “messed up” rhythms, delirious brass.

❝ Four tracks, a short half-hour (the shortest playing time in prog history), and a concept about Hegel.

❝ Whoever approaches this album with patience and a bit of optimism will discover a Masterpiece with a capital M.

❝ Recorded entirely live, it was made completely without keyboards, a typical prog element, to make room for a mad guitar reflecting the examples of UK-made blues and hard rock.

❝ After a suffocating intro, the last track opens with blunt words: “Around your body there’s a halo of death.”

❝ “Listen to me, father, and tell me if this, you call sin or a noble act, I took money from a rich gentleman to feed a dying man... what do you say brother you have killed, in the fifth remember you have been forbidden, I cannot save you from eternal fire, you only have a TICKET TO HELL”.

❝ The Biglietto Per L'Inferno was born in Lecco in 1972 from the fusion of two groups (Mako Sharks and The Gee).

❝ a unique work by Quatermass, a short-lived English trio consisting of John Gustafson (bass, vocals), Peter Robinson (keyboards), and Mick Underwood (drums).

❝ About an album, or rather a band, because this band made only one album, but what an album!

❝ P.S. Be careful not to purchase "Quatermass II," a posthumous project without pretensions...

❝ It is impossible not to be swept away by the drive of "Carry on Wayward Son".

❝ Kansas means great hard rock with progressive virtuosity and hints of country, also thanks to the presence of the violin.

❝ This sublime album represents one of the cornerstones of 70s rock, with ten tracks marking one of the last worthy events of Progressive ROCK, and I write in capital letters ROCK because subsequently Prog Metal will be born.

❝ It is 1978, John Wetton and Bill Bruford are fresh from the crimson experience, Allan Holdsworth is, as always, trying to get by with his six-string companion, and Eddie Jobson is playing comfortably with Frank Zappa, from whose band he is literally stolen.

❝ The question here isn’t whether you own 'Made In Japan', but: which version do you have?

❝ The Deep Purple, then! Even though they are all more or less in their sixties, except for Steve Morse, our guys manage to rock like never before.

❝ I am "selfish," I wish that Deep Purple had stopped making records after "Perfect Stranger";

❝ In conclusion, an exceptional double album, highly recommended to all fans of this musical genre. A progressive greeting to everyone.

❝ Metamorpheus is a timeless masterpiece, the ideal follow-up to the previous work "A midsummer night's dream".

❝ He cannot create that kind of nuance, that atmosphere that is the essence of blues.

❝ One of the most beautiful of those years, an example of high-level symphonic rock, on par with the great classics.

❝ Locanda delle Fate declared they wanted to aim, without tricks and gimmicks, at an ordinary pop-rock…

❝ Sasso confirms himself as a charismatic and expressive singer, an excellent performer of that romantic progressive that has always been the group’s trademark.

❝ Sergio Caputo is one of the most underrated Italian artists ever

❝ Pop from a lounge bar, there you go.

❝ This is Sergio Caputo, an enticing mix of talent and fun. Try it to believe it.

❝ Make it yours, knowing that you have in your hands one of the definitive rock masterpieces of the seventies.

❝ If this group makes it, I'll have to kill myself!

❝ “Aria” is certainly one of the highest points reached by Italian singer-songwriter Art. Of all time.

❝ "Aria," the title track, is absolutely the pinnacle of vocal expressiveness in Italian music in general, along with Francesco Di Giacomo (Banco) and Demetrio Stratos (Area).

❝ The marginality of the lyrics becomes central when in the lyrical spasms of the title track, addressing the princess of his dream, he sings "Aria, mybody on your body moves slowly, Aria my body on your body sinks gently, ...I have entered your body... in your river I am gliding... Aria I am going mad"

❝ Kevin Ayers, in other words, a genius who pretended to be dumb to avoid going to war....

❝ Kevin Ayers is missed, and it’s absolutely worth rediscovering him.

❝ Kevin Ayers was the king of the realm of laziness.

❝ Not many are aware that in 1973, a Roman Progressive Rock Group made a Rock adaptation of Dante’s “Inferno”; this group is called Metamorfosi, centered around the two musicians Davide “Jimmy” Spitalieri (Composer, Voice, and Flute) and Enrico Olivieri (Composer and Keyboards).

❝ Inferno is their second album and was released in 1973 by the record label Vedette.

❝ Inferno, released the following year, is among the great classics of that distant era and should be in the discography of any enthusiast.

❝ Not having this album in your discography is truly a musical shame.

❝ Thus presents the album by the New Trolls: "Searching For A Land", a double album, the first in the history of Italian rock.

❝ A million copies sold and a forceful entry into the history of Italian music

❝ In the end, disparate elements and a lot of eccentricity perfectly amalgamated make this album worthy of entering the Olympus of Progressive.

❝ The East Of Eden can be considered among the pioneers of Jazz-rock fusion in its most progressive form.

❝ The best track? Definitely "Communion", a reinterpretation of Béla Bartók in ethnic sauce.

❝ This is music to listen to, not to dance to, harmonically and rhythmically complex, created to be as original as possible, requiring the listener's utmost attention.

❝ They managed to bring chamber music into jazz rock and the Canterbury Sound.

❝ For those who love the Canterbury sound, this piece is one of its undeniable peaks.

❝ O God of Progressive Metal, give me the strength to properly celebrate this immortal, powerful, heartbreaking, rocky, emotional, deeply suffered MASTERPIECE.

❝ Dream Theater is either loved or hated, there are no middle grounds, almost like Juventus.

❝ The void. The nothingness.

❝ We should all remain silent.

❝ Yoga is not an album that strikes immediately, but over time it has achieved a cult status among fans of the German group and Eastern philosophies.

❝ Hey you… Yes you. Look at yourself in the mirror.

❝ An excellent debut for one of the most original formations in the Italian scene.

❝ "Abbiamo Tutti un Blues da Piangere" ("We All Have a Blues to Cry") is a pivotal moment for the group, for jazz-rock, and for Italian music as a whole.

❝ The title track, on the other hand, is introduced by a mysterious and spectral musical theme that suits the cover well and is a masterpiece that fully immerses you in the atmosphere of this work.

❝ A great album to discover and love.

❝ 1973 was for Osanna primarily the year of the unbeatable "Palepoli" but also the year of the economic disaster at the Be-In, a pop festival they organized in Naples.

❝ Rosso Rock, besides having the merit of being excellently played and recorded, has the quality of managing to condense in a little over forty minutes the entire sound of the group, no easy feat.

❝ If a bunch of music critics got together, watched, selected, evaluated, left the room, and said, "Ladies and gentlemen, this is the best rock music performance of all time," then there is clearly a reason.

❝ Your life is your own You're in charge of yourself Master of your home In the end In the end You have to face it alone

❝ "A night at the Opera" is Queen's masterpiece.

❝ Within minutes, I realized I was experiencing (again) sensations that only the great prog masterpieces had been able to give me.

❝ This little contemporary music jewel with an unpronounceable title stands as a work never an end in itself.

❝ I don't know what else to say except: MASTERPIECE!!! BUY IT!

❝ This work, predominantly built on brilliant but deliberately disordered medieval metrics, represents the possibility of dazzling any musical score that a normal staff could contain.

❝ Indisputably, Out of the Coma is a welcome and unmissable return for all the devotees of this great and influential band that resurfaces from oblivion with a renewed and mad artistic charge.

❝ It is easy to get carried away by emotions.

❝ a sort of dada-baroque prog: a music rich in cues and surprises, but which can give vertigo at the first listen

❝ An instrumental fierceness made of compound times and dissonances, nervous guitars like the times we live in, with the mellotron always present to paint frescoes of inexorable beauty.

❝ As far as I am concerned, Anekdoten are among the most original bands of the '90s scene and the current one.

❝ The Anekdoten are the only survivors, musically speaking, of the Swedish triad (completed by Anglagard and Landberk) that contributed to reviving the progressive movement in the early nineties.

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Il Paese dei Balocchi which, if possible, in their self-titled — and only — concept album did even more, blending metaphysics with evident references to philosophy and visionary dreamscapes — attempting to give shape and substance to a place of fantasy, the Paese dei Balocchi, precisely.

❝ Just one word: MAMMOTH!

❝ As often happens, life is short and success a smoky chimera...

❝ "The inheritance of future sinners and the writings of future revelations will be our final downfall. We can all worship the devil if we please but there is still time just let us breathe awhile..."

❝ Vivaldi is certainly the highest point ever reached by Curved Air in terms of composition and emotion and will become their signature song.

❝ Blessed be the English tax authorities for allowing Curved Air to record this most worthy live epitaph.

❝ In the end, the first three albums remain a testament to one of the most original sounds of the era.

❝ A relatively little-known band, awarded far below their real merits.

❝ This sonic fluid is sap for attentive brains; a unique album that rediscovers itself, and you, every time.

❝ Solar Plexus, an excellent album entirely permeated with jazz rock/fusion with sporadic experimental elements ("Elements I & II"), is the third (master)piece by the British band Nucleus.

❝ We are faced with a true progressive treasure that blossomed during the "troubled times" of the Brazilian military dictatorship, frozen and then unearthed only in 1983, in safer times.

❝ Dixie Dregs is a quintet of instrumental virtuosos dedicated to the fusion genre in their own unique way, characterized by the fact that the leader and almost exclusive composer of the group, guitarist Steve Morse, loves to vary his inspiration a great deal, working with equal competence and skill in at least four or five different musical genres: rock, country, funk, jazz, classical.

❝ Sometimes even machines cry...

❝ With this (non) review, I would like to (re)invite you, without too much chatter, to listen to this immense (and underappreciated) 70s Prog masterpiece, conceived by a one-of-a-kind band that undoubtedly deserved greater attention.

❝ Doomsday Afternoon is the synthesis of the perfect balance between musical elements.

❝ A gravitational collapse spurred by analog instrumentation that could be the loot from a "heist" at Abbey Road.

❝ Art Zoyd and Univers Zero represent the finest answers to Henry Cow. A miracle.

❝ What else to add? ... Highly recommended.

❝ Nothing, in the end, outstanding; nothing truly new, nothing banal or easy.

❝ If there were a need for a fifth season, we could find a perfect description of it in this album.

❝ Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) is universally considered a genius, if not THE genius.

❝ «If I decide to be an idiot, then I will be an idiot on my own initiative.» (Johann Sebastian Bach)

❝ They are just voices.

❝ And at a certain point, Darkness will surround us... all.

❝ Creating a 49-minute instrumental track, even in the "progressive" early '70s, was certainly a gamble.

❝ "Ommadawn" marks the end of Mike Oldfield's most creative phase.

❝ The main flaw of this record is that it induces a state of boredom-induced torpor.

❝ From the very first chord, Zarathustra envelops you with a power that few Italian prog albums can boast.

❝ An album with epic, almost Wagnerian tones, where the technical skills of a truly extraordinary drummer (Giancarlo Golzi, future drummer of Matia Bazar) stand out.

❝ Barbarica (2013, Immaginifica) resumes the musical style of Zarathustra in a perhaps less inspired and organic manner, but the result is still of excellent quality: the album is well played, and the lyrics, even if they partly give the impression of being saturated with perhaps excessive rhetoric, exude poetry from every pore, with never trivial themes.

❝ Without a doubt, this is the best solo work from that incredible and relentless group called Yes.

❝ Among the various creatures spawned by the children of Canterbury, the National Health are generally among the most overlooked; quite unjustly, I might add.

❝ I have never understood why the Canterbury Sound has always had such a colossal difficulty being appreciated.

❝ It seems truly extraordinary how this band, in its fleeting existence, managed to fashion masterpiece after masterpiece without ever putting a foot wrong.

❝ three and a half hours of "Total Music," free, wild, without limits and patterns.

❝ The Mars Volta are without a doubt one of the greatest novelties in the current global Rock scene.

❝ I belong to a third group: "A nail right in the face for me"

❝ De De Lind was an Italian quintet formed in 1969, consisting of Vito Paradiso (vocals, acoustic guitar), Gilberto Trama (flute, sax, keyboards), Matteo Vitolli (guitar, piano, flute), Eddy Lorigiola (bass), Ricky Rebajoli (drums).