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"The Japanese improvising rock trio of Kazuto Shimizu on keyboards, Nasyuno Mitsuru on bass, and Yoshida Tatsuya on drums performing live at Club Goodman in Akihabara, Japan, 2016 for technically superb, fast paced, turn-on-a-dime, joyful prog-oriented playing."

The talented singer from After Dinner, an environmental composer now living in New York, a legendary pioneer of laptop electronics and a multi-instrumentalist from Kansai come together to create a beautiful CD of experimental pop songs. Working togethe...


Nik Comoglio: composition, orchestration, hammond, juno dist. moog, mellotron, keyboards
Riccardo Ruggeri: composition, vocals, lyrics
Marta Caldara: vibraphone, marimba, keyboards
Gigi Rivetti: acoustic Piano, electric piano. clavinet, hammond, moog, accordion
Simone Rubinato: Bass, fretless bass, electric baritone guitar
Ciro Iavarone: drums, percussion
Guest:
Rebecca Onyeji e Charlie Poma: backing Vocals

"Sit down, make yourself comfortable. This is the story o

Eros & Thanatos is the sixth album of the revived progressive rock band Syndone, a band active during the early ’90s, andnow back in action with their reunion in 2010.

"The sixth work from this band from Torino is once again a concept album, inspired by the Song of Songs with translation of Guido Ceronetti, with the participation of two extraordinary special guests, the legendary Steve Hackett and Ray Thomas, guitar, flute and voice of the Moody Blues. Melody and groove, pathos and changing....

“Syndone's "Kama Sutra" is not only a masterpiece of progressive rock, but a masterpiece of music in general that addresses a very taboo yet incredibly important topic that is rarely so openly discussed in any form of popular music, let alone progressive rock: sex. Sex is an incredibly natural, important, and beautiful part of life, and yet it has become such a sensitive thing to talk about in our society. Syndone completely discards our usual reservations and dives right into the topic, using the...

This is an expanded (one bonus song), remastered, deluxe-sleeve, re-edition of Syndone's 2010 third album, and their come-back, as their first two albums were both issued in the early 1990s!

The group as featured here is
Nik Comoglio : piano

“The new beautiful work of the Syndone group. Great guests (Viola Nocenzi, Vittorio De Scalzi, Gigi Venegoni) a great orchestra (Budapest Symphony Orchestra conducted by Francesco Zago) a great ensable for the best work of all time .... A current concept to not forget ... Misogyny.
It already emerges from the word alone, from a term, from certain looks and reactions, from a grimace. Humanity and its struggle with the female sex. Misogyny - of men and women - to those who can crack power, to those...

Nik Comoglio : keyboards
Riccardo Ruggeri : vocals
Francesco Pinetti : vibraphone
With
Marco Minnemann: drums
John Hackett: flute

"Odysseas is the fifth album of the renewed Syndone, a new progressive/progressive folk ban

"Syndromeda (www.syndromeda.be) is the pseudonym of a Belgian musician named Danny Budts. He has released several CD's over the years on various labels in Europe and the UK, and his latest, entitled "Mythical Pursuit" is now available from Horizon...

"As a fan of Larry Fast from his "Sequencer" album, I was even more delighted to hear this album. His arrangements are expanded beyond the mere emulation of symphony orchestration through the use of analog and digital synthesis, which offers seemingly...

"There's a lot that's great and some not so great on this compilation. Great as in all the "Delta" titles, the Strausslike waltz "To the Edge and Back" (a rarity not on the regular albums), "Launch At Dawn" (another rarity) and "Metropolitan Theme"....

"Beginning with the 1975 landmark Electronic Realizations for Rock Orchestra, Synergy explored the possibilities inherent in synthesizer/sequencer technology and digital-studio production techniques, resulting in some of the most inventive electronic music of the '70s. It was mostly the work of synthesizer expert Larry Fast, who also brought electronics to the mainstream by coordinating synthesized passages for dozens of pop acts during the '70s and '80s, including Yes, Peter Gabriel, Meatloaf...

"Syrinx's path veered from the dominant modes of '70s subculture, their version of chamber pop hybridized with wild, whimsical electronic experimentation charting new territory in the under and overground.
Formed by composer John Mills-Cockell after the dissolution of Intersystems, Syrinx's two adventurous albums, Syrinx and Long Lost Relatives, endorsed the poetic potential of the avant-garde, subverting a turn of the '60s trend toward technological pageantry.
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Very well produced self-released album by three musicians on a huge amount of gear, which mostly boils down to zillions of keyboards, computer/sequenced drumming (very well done), guitars, bass and various effects. At its best, this combines the motori...

This was the first album by the band later known as Syzygy, who released this under the name Witsend.

For its time, this was a great album of progressive rock and the new version of the band have gone back to it and re-worked it....

This is 2 Japanese women who have been working since 1985. I believe this is their 1st release, & it is reminiscent of an updated Young Marble Giants (due to the drum machines & general combination of simplicity with tunefulness) with microtones! This ...

Showcasing the inspired, quirky lunacy that seems to only be possible in Japan, Syzygys was a remarkable instrumental duo of two women who performed original pop songs...built upon the framework of Harry Partch's 43 notes to the octave microtonal organ...

As someone who has heard many of Gabor’s studio releases of the period and was not particularly impressed, this is a revelation. As they say below: “Gone are the strings, vocals and concessions to commercial consideration so prevalent on so many of Szabo’s studio records at the time. What is present, though, is fine craftsmanship, tremendous interplay, and the exciting improvisation that good jazz always yields.”
Well worth hearing if you (like me) didn’t think much of his recorded work, and...

Penas Argentinas is Jorge Szajkos second CD released on SLAM (following Orquestra Salvaje, SLAMCD 246). His first CD attracted some of the best critiques of any SLAM release: I'm sorry, Jorge, but I cannot afford a genius grant for you. I would if I c...

Multi-instrumentalist and composer Szajko, born in Buenos Aires in 1956, began piano studies at the age of 6. He has worked across Europe with such stars as Dizzy Gillespie, Dino Saluzzi and Wayne Shorter. His Orquesta plays an eclectic collection of h...

Originally released in 1980, this, Szajner's first album, was a very late period addition to the impressive French electronic scene. It has appearances by vocalist Klaus Blasquiz (Magma) and bassist Bernard Paganotti (Weidorje, Magma) along with guitars..




“Sometimes in improvised music there can be a distance between listener and players, a sense you're sitting back and admiring their interplay and abstraction but with Szun Waves second album, you're right in there with them, inside the playing, experiencing the absolute joy the three musicians feel as they circle around each other, exploring the spaces they've opened up.
The three members already have sparkling pedigrees of their own. Norfolk's Luke Abbott is well known for his explorations of the...

Samla Mammas Manna was the original band of keyboardist/composer Lars Hollmer. They blended progressive with bits of folk elements & more. This was their last in their original lifetime, & has some simply amazing playing from all, including under-heralded guitar genius Eino Haapala.

"Their second album under their second band name, originally issued by Silence in 1980, now reissued.
Familjesprickor (Family Cracks) was the last album recorded by Zamla Mammaz Manna, until the group went back...