"Martin Simpson is justifiably regarded as one of the finest finger-style guitarists in the world. Grinning In Your Face is one of his finest and most complete recordings. Originally released by Topic Records in 1983, now remastered from the original...

Richard Sinclair / vocals, guitar, bass
David Sinclair / Korg M1
Jimmy Hastings / flute, sax, piccolo
Alan Clarke / harmonica (2)
Michael Heupel / flute (5)
Rick Biddulph / bass (8,11,12)
Andy Ward / drums, percussion

Richard Sinclair, founding member of Caravan, one of the most important progressive bands in the Canterbury scene. After he played and sang in Hatfield and the North and Camel bands in the 90s he recorded these albums where he sings, plays and writes almo

"Single Celled Organism is the new progressive rock project of Jens Lueck. The attentive progVisions reader will recognize this name from my reviews of the albums of his musical partners Isgaard and Volker Kuinke. The later makes music under the moniker Syrinx Call. Jens Lueck has his own Art Of Music Studio and is a respected producer, composer and musician. My first acquaintance with Jens Lueck was at the time when he produced some albums of one of my favorite German bands, Sylvan. To stay with Sylvan...

“At hand are five compositions in a category somewhere between interesting and magical, originally recorded around 1993, remastered ten years after that, with a couple of the pieces (a purely electronic version of “Evon” and “Quert”) finding a home on a 1992 Auditorium soundtrack disc and a 2002 Margen label sampler respectively, and then finally released together on CD in 2007 on Hi Sound Records, and now reissued again on ADN in 2016. Sinigaglia is primarily known as an electronic musician, although...

Marco Giovannini – voice
Sauro Musi – guitar
Valerio Roda – bass
Maurizio Pezzoli – keyboards
Eleonora Montenegro – transverse flute
Nicola Alberghini – drums

"An elegant, poetic crossroads between italian progressive rock from the 70s, prog-folk tints and songwriting attitudes. Almost a concept album and as in the debut (“Il sole alle spalle” 2017) a splendid suite could not be missing, this time the 14 minutes of “Il Viaggio di Es”
About Sithonia, the sound is.

Great price on this now out of print disc from CMP. One of the most famous Sharki singers, Sipahi performs Turkish vocal msuic accompanied by the Kudsi Erguner Ensemble. [CMP]

When I was at the tail end of 8th grade, beginning of 9th grade, I had been playing guitar for about a year, I had my first electric guitar and amplifier and I was in my first band.
We covered as much of the first Sir Lord Baltimore album as I could muster and we were dreadful, which was a feature, not a bug.
This is totally great, loud, lunkhead metal circa 1970. They truly ARE what every stoner rock band merely aspires to be...

“When it comes to the birth of heavy metal and hard..

Yaw Tembe trumpet, voice
Monsieur Trinité percussion

"Two generations gather in this surprising project: from one side a young Swazi born trumpeter who is committed to bring Africa to the Portuguese free music scene, Yaw Tembe, and from the other a veteran percussionist / objects manipulator, Monsieur Trinité (Francisco Trindade), a former emigrant in Paris who brought home the Situationist concepts he discovered in France. Nothing on their respective careers prepared us for the music of...

"Listening to Asaf Sirkis at work, two things are immediately obvious: passion and commitment. Blessed with technical skills that are disarmingly under-played, his middle-Eastern sensibility balances the potentially volcanic with the meditative and reflective. A master of creative surprise, it’s on the edge of your seat listening when Asaf’s in town."-Bill Bruford ...

Jaume Sisa is a folk-rock artist with a very idiosyncratic style. His first album, Origa (1971), was a prime example of psychedelic folk the Spanish way, with Sisa following his whim much like Robin Williamson (Incredible String Band) in his heyday. Th...

"I first met Blaise Siwula back in January 2005, when I played at ABC NoRio (located in Lower East Side of Manhattan) with the superlative bassist Vytis Nivinskas from Lithuania. Since 1998, Blaise has been hosting C.O.M.A., a weekly creative music...

"From the opening red storm of 'Warsawa' to the sentinel strength of 'Even If You Knew' and the sensual lilt of 'Breathe,' the sound on this spaceship is that of a full-tilt rock band. The fun of classic-rock-sized Six Organs of Admittance (with Comets...

“With Time is Glass, Six Organs of Admittance is captured once again in the intricate tangle of the fretboards, soaring in open skies above. Like lens flare cutting through the speakers; spiderwebs cracking the windshield that holds back all the onrushing reality. Blowing the dust away, cutting a new path for cognition. After 20 years of living on the road in different places, Six Organs of Admittance had returned home to Humboldt County -- a far country, to some, but still part of the world through...

The leader and main force behind Beardfish and also now a member of the current lineup of Big Big Train. This is his second solo album.

"Swedish progressive rock purveyors, Beardfish have been one of the most prolific bands on the scene for almost two decades. Founded by multi-instrumentalist Rikard Sjöblom, the band has been on a winning streak since 2001.

However, Sjöblom has been a part of different music projects over the years, most notably he released albums under the name...

Fredrik Ljungkvist tenor saxophone, clarinet
Kris Davis piano
Ole Morten Vågan double bass
Øyvind Skarbø drums

"This is the happy result of the international partnership of one of America's top pianists today, Kris Davis, with three of the most in demand musicians on the Scandinavian creative jazz scene; Fredrik Ljungkvist, Ole Morten Vågan and Øyvind Skarbø, who is also the producer and the mixer. In the Inland Empire, compositions by all members are treated democratically...

Isach Skeidsvoll piano & melodica
Lauritz Heitmann Skeidsvoll saxophones

"Having improvised together since they were kids, the brothers Lauritz and Isach Skeidsvoll have developed a strong musical connection which they constantly seek to evolve, challenge and explore.
Here comes their latest release; a live recording from their hometown Molde and the Molde International Jazz Festival. All free improvised music, moving from high energetic shrieks of bliss to calm soundscapes and everything

This is very great to see; Skeleton Crew went through a number of permutations in their four years of existence (1982-1986) and this collection of unreleased live recordings shows us all aspects of this great band; I saw them three times and they were always hugely entertaining!

“Skeleton Crew was founded in the early 1980s by Fred Frith and Tom Cora. The original idea was to create a new group out of the ashes of Massacre, but medical issues of several potential members saw Frith & Cora end up...

"Stellar electric instrumental folk rock. Skenet are four young musicians who grew up in rural Sweden and started playing the fiddle when they were kids. They stand for the renewal of the genre and take it in new and truly exciting directions with electric guitars and Mellotrons, among other instrumentation. Members Lena and Staffan, who both are also legitimate riksspelmän (National Folk Musicians of Sweden), have previously worked with bands like Dungen. Now they present their own musical vision. If...

First and for me the best of this short-lived Irish band's two albums (but then again, this is the one I grew up with, so I would think that. YMMV). This came out in 1970 and was recorded in 11 hours, as detailed in the small but very informative...

Stephen Gauci tenor saxophone / Kris Davis piano / Michael Bisio double bass.

"Paul Bley once said that, if you want to change the music, you have to change the conventional jazz instrumentation. Jummy Giuffre did it excluding the drumkit...

Harry Skoler - clarinet
Kenny Barron - piano
Christian McBride - bass
Johnathan Blake - drums
Jazzmeia Horn - vocals
Nicholas Payton - trumpet
Megan Gould - violin I
Tomoto Omura - violin II
Karen Waltuch - viola
Noah Hoffeld - cello

“The righteous and bombastic nature of the great bassist/composer Charles Mingus made him a polarizing personality. His unique personality, combined with his groundbreaking music, were magnetic for open-minded list

"Causa Sui drummer Jakob Skøtt is back with the third installment in his "drums versus synthesizers" explorations. Fully indulging in this strange form of layered solo jams, these tracks are alive in a very real sense -- there's an organic vibe present in which monophonic synthesizers and polyphonic rhythms merge in a way you've never heard before. Any reference to other music and genres gets warped and turned on its head, quicker than you can catch onto it, as everything is weaved together in a...

This has that heavy stoner/psych/early metal vibe that some Swedish bands (and the Transubstans label) do so well! Vocals, guitars, bass and drums. You can hear the inspirations from Black Sabbath & Captain Beyond as well as from Mastodon and High on...

"After thirteen years as one of the centerpieces of Sweden’s experimental rock scene The Skull Defekts return with their final, self-titled album. The Skull Defekts are known for merging the coarse vitality of punk with the ritualism of folk dances to create music that is addictive, wondrously discordant, and rooted in a belief in the overwhelming power of pure sound.
Their final self-titled album is the band’s most composed effort to date and features new member Mariam Wallentin (Wildbirds &....

In the late 1970s, Sky emerged as sort of a musician's musicians supergroup, consisting of musicians from the classical and (progressive) rock worlds. While they weren't touted as a progressive rock band, they were a progressive rock band in the same...