Best band 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.

❝ 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.

❝ 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

❝ 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.

❝ 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.

❝ 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.

❝ 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!!

❝ 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!".

❝ “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.”

❝ 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.

❝ '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.

❝ ...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.

❝ Are you kidding?

❝ “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.”

❝ 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

❝ "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.

❝ 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.

❝ 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,

❝ The Thoughts Of Emerlist Davjack is an utterly indispensable product for fans of British Progressive and Emerson, Lake & Palmer, especially for its seminal value.

❝ It is certain, however, that if one were to choose which five groups more than others have made progressive rock into what it has become, the Nice would be among the first to be mentioned.

❝ And the live performances are the highlight of the English combo, entirely acrobatic, with appearances even here in Italy.

❝ 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...

❝ 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.

❝ “Albert you were special, one of a kind
The stars in your eyes turned others blind.
Did the gods want you back or the goddess cry
Were the heavens alone without you?
Were the angels sworn to take you back home
To the halls of Valhalla where the brave can roam
And the horn of honour in tribute be blown?”

❝ I am surprised to find that there is no review of this album on the site, the debut from 1974 by Toni Esposito, one of the most important Italian percussionists of all time.

❝ Tony Esposito, perhaps you remember him for that Austro-Napolitan look and for Kalimba de luna. Some know that he was and is an incredibly skilled percussionist.

❝ Esposito, having paid the inevitable tribute of Kalimba de Luna, provided Laccone’s concert with that quid that expanded the sound spectrum, offering moments of wonder with each new sound...

❝ 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!

❝ 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.

❝ Incredibly ingenious, at the beginning of the '70s Focus established themselves as true Masters of progressive rock on the world stage.

❝ A true classic 100%.

❝ Already from the first listen, you'll be thrilled!

❝ The result is “Snow”, a double CD, the first concept album for Spock’s Beard, but most importantly, the last (for the moment) great masterpiece of progressive rock.

❝ Without a doubt, one of the most successful masterpieces in the progressive rock arena.

❝ It’s really worth it to listen to this album; I dedicate it to those who love music played as it should be and to those who don’t like superficiality.

❝ 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.

❝ 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.

❝ 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.

❝ 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.

❝ Among the various songs performed by Sandro, the Sanremo hits “Signora mia”, “Gli occhi verdi di tua madre”, ''Sarà la nostalgia'', couldn’t be missing, sung by everyone, men and women alike, in a nostalgic choir (pardon the pun).

❝ For nostalgia enthusiasts and lovers of the melodic/romantic genre, there couldn't be anyone missing but him, the legendary Sandro Giacobbe.

❝ 'Stop that damn Welshman', I shout at the improbable defenders as that devil in the red jersey forcefully approaches the penalty area after about 50 minutes of idleness.

❝ 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 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.

❝ 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.

❝ 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.

❝ 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

❝ 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 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.

❝ 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...

❝

What do you say, shall we take a trip to Finland? Yes, why not, there are so many beautiful things to see: forests that cover 70% of the territory, the countless glacial lakes (almost 188,000), the reindeer farms in the tundra inhabited by the Sami people... Oh, but we need to talk about music? OK, then let\u0027s start from 1967, the year when Blues Section was born, the first in their country to move away from the universally recognized beat-pop language and lean towards certain jazz sounds, without losing the accessibility of their musical proposal.

❝ There are often exercises of devotion to the vocal blend of Gentle Giant, certainly a reference group for the Band.

❝ Echolyn are undoubtedly one of the best bands crowding the diverse American progressive scene, and in the early '90s, they were one of the few groups to vie for the favor of enthusiasts alongside the now-mythical trio of Anglagard-Anekdoten-Landberk.

❝ The aspect that, in any case, stands out the most is the indecipherable, sumptuous amount of voices in canon.

❝ 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.

❝ With Dominion, IQ reasserts their status as legends on the 21st-century prog rock scene.

❝ Neo-prog is not a manifestation of nostalgia as is often said... but a new manifestation of creativity!

❝ IQ has the characteristic of coming closer than any other neoprog group to the sounds and style of Steve Hackett's solo albums, especially ‘Spectral Mornings’.

❝ 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.

❝ No, this is not yet another Swedish prog metal band.

❝ "Winterthrough" is the third part of the Suite, while "Springsong" is the fourth.

❝ The backbone of the album is a mastodonical suite of over 40 minutes which, like a multi-headed hydra, branches into various melancholic scenes...

❝ Their blend of symphonic prog, acoustic folk, jazz, and psychedelia led them in 1976 to this splendid "Clowns & Clouds", their most complete, elegant, and engaging work.

❝ Sublime example of creativity and inventiveness, "Hölderlin's Traum", is the first and fundamental (master)piece by the ensemble Hoelderlin,creators of folk rock sprinkled with delicate exotic nuances, intangible Progressivestreaks(use of mellotron, breaks, time changes, "epic" atmospheres) and subtle psychedelic suggestions.

❝ From the hard rock of their eponymous debut, Eloy quickly moved towards a progressive space-rock with the lineup redesigned by the founder, guitarist Frank Bornemann.

❝ “Power and the Passion” is a dreamlike journey that unfolds between hypnotic bass lines and plentiful keyboards, with the Hammond always in great prominence.

❝ The German band also loved making each album a Concept, and this one tells the story and destruction of Atlantis.

❝ 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.

❝ The album "Grave New World" unquestionably marks the artistic and formal peak of the Strawbs, an English band led by Dave Cousins, which originally debuted with the flautus vocis Sandy Danny on vocals and Tony Hooper on guitar; the group also featured, for the span of two albums ("Just A Collection Of Antiques And Curious", 1970, "From The Witchwood", 1971) the collaboration of the virtuoso Rick Wakeman on keyboards.

❝ The Strawbs are an English band formed around the mid-sixties, mainly by the singer and guitarist Dave Cousins.

❝ 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.

❝ 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.

❝ SMPTe is undoubtedly an extraordinary work, both in listening and in realization, but perhaps its only flaw is the prolixity which, while not making this album tedious, annoying, or even less heavy, nevertheless makes it rather demanding to listen to.

❝ First of all, make yourselves comfortable, because here things get long (the live, not the review! Don’t worry!), in fact, we are faced with a monumental recording, spread over three optical discs and containing only (so to speak!) six tracks, with only the first one occupying the entire first disc, being the full, uninterrupted reproduction of the splendid "Whirlwind", a track that, in its nearly eighty-minute duration, condenses all the thought and musical attitude of these giants of the world neo-progressive scene!

❝ This colossal album, comprised of a single seventy-seven-minute song divided into twelve movements, is perhaps a small masterpiece.

❝ only (and I emphasize only) the bonus track is worth purchasing the album... You decide.

❝ Saga is Canadian, therefore their sound is neither fully American nor fully European.

❝ "Security..." is an album overflowing with energy applied to the usual commendable playing skills that have always distinguished this band.

❝ The album is, simply put, the worst in their lush discography:

❝ Asia Minor is a French band formed in the mid-70s, and their name is inspired by the origins of their founding members and multi-instrumentalists Setrak Bakirel and Eril Tekeli.

❝ 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.

❝ A brilliant, dynamic, essential group, majestic, terrifying: a group always underestimated, always mistreated, always relegated to the fringes of the music scene.

❝ they were Dario Argento and Goblin: never was a collaboration more fitting than this, never had a film been so frightening, and most importantly, never had a soundtrack like this been heard (and of course, that of Deep Red).

❝ The 1975 soundtrack album, "Profondo Rosso", launched the Goblin (a young Roman band previously known as Oliver that had narrowly missed releasing an album under the guidance, no less, of Eddie Offord) to the top of the Italian charts with that uniquely particular, enigmatic, and fascinating single.

❝ “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).

❝ With this second album, our roosters hit the mark.

❝ Atomic Rooster was an interesting band from the early seventies, perfectly balanced between hard rock and progressive.

❝ Atomic Rooster emerged at the dawn of Prog Rock.

❝ Discovery is the appearance of a world (*).

❝ Invisible, the greatest Argentinian rock band of all time,

❝ “Fedeli alla linea, even when there isn't one, When the emperor is sick when he dies or is doubtful or perplexed, Fedeli alla linea the line is not there.”

❝ “Live in Moscow, live in Budapest, live in Warsaw, live in Sofia, live in Prague, live in Pankow!”

❝ “CCCP is a segment in the life of each of us, very significant, decisive, and often illuminating. We have already written somewhere that before CCCP we lived and we will live even after. It will end, of course, we neither feel nor have ever been rock'n'roll stars, nor are we interested in a musical career. On the contrary, if it were so, perhaps there would be reason to worry...”

❝ A man, a name, a voice, Roger Chapman. I consider him, in the international music scene of those years, second only to Tim Buckley.

❝ A great and forgotten ensemble was the Family, who possessed great qualities increasingly rare in the years to come: imagination, instrumental talent, emotionality.

❝ Chappo’s throat gargles like a teapot boiling full of nails and bolts.

❝ Exuberant and surprising, cohesive and blended, jagged and evocative, they also know how to be delicate and dreamy, they certainly should not be missing from your collections.

❝ "Do you hear the music of the Sun? Do you hear the music of the Sun? Do you hear the music of the Sun? Do you hear the music of the Sun? Do you hear the music of the Sun? Do you hear the music of the Sun?"

❝ “Ballermann” is a historic album that has made (and will make) fans of all these historic musical genres happy.

❝ 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.

❝ Tangent can be serenely considered the new heralds of progressive rock, understood in its purest and most traditional sense, a moral slap to those who believed the genre was now definitively deceased.

❝ Not just rock. Not just prog. In short, a well-executed ensemble, fascinating and intriguing music that touches many genres.

❝ 20 minutes that flow by like spring water, fresh and regenerating.

❝ 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.

❝ 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.

❝ Few Italian albums are so genuine and intense as 'Linea Gotica', and if you do not yet have it in your collection, this is definitely the time to seize it.

❝ “Linea gotica” is a difficult, intense, painful record, but also radiant and fascinating. An album to strongly discourage anyone who considers music a mere diversion, a harmless pastime.

❝ One of the best works of one of the best Italian rock bands.

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

❝ “Nobody knows / if it really happened.”

❝ “Are we supposed to be or not to be..”

❝ “Going places, smashing faces / What else could we do?”

❝ Hansson was a virtuoso of the organ and moog and in this album also plays electric guitar and bass, accompanied by the talented percussionist Rune Carlsson and a saxophonist and a flutist.

❝ 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!

❝ “The Quintorigo represented, towards the end of the ’90s, the most interesting and innovative musical ensemble on the Italian scene, a striking case of a liberating explosion of creativity.”

❝ “Everything is incredibly Real.”

❝ “One of the defining traits of this quintet is the distinctive voice of John De Leo, a nervous, sharp, and vibrant voice that often rises in prolonged falsetto.”

❝ Amon Düul II. Eh, not easy to talk about. A huge, multicolored, shapeshifting, indefinable, free group. Virulently free.

❝ "Tanz Der Lemminge" (1971), the third and final part of an unrivaled "triptych" (with "Phallus Dei" and "Yeti"), is an inexhaustible source of ideas and innovations, contaminations, a milestone of rock overall.

❝ The Amon Düul II had the intuition to merge American psychedelia with Stockhausen, and the result is epic, dark, pagan, and completely insane yet, at the same time, original and musical, unlike the senseless sessions of their little brothers, Amon Düul.

❝ 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.

❝ 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.

❝ Mostly remote, partly in the studio, with a maximum of two people at a time, at least 2 meters apart and wearing masks.

❝ Following in the footsteps of Shockin' Blue, Earth & Fire also tried their luck in Holland along the same path.

❝ It is the mist that dominates this work.

❝ The story of Supersister is a typical one of the myriad high school bands that somehow make it.

❝ The album's main theme is that of schizophrenia; in fact, the opening "Retroschizive (Introduction Schizo)" introduces, with sinister calm, a spiral of stylistic extravagance.

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

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

❝ The perfect album.

❝ 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.

❝ “Furio’s way of playing is extraordinary” (Bill Bruford)

❝ An album that rightfully enters the history of Italian music.