Torpor is squarely an attempt to recapture early ’70s English folky progressive rock. With vaguely sci-fi lyrics.
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Category: Prog
Yours Is No Disgrace: A Small Selection Of ‘Yes’ Trivia
A small selection of oddities as a potted history in the “Yes” story, some of which are well known to aficionados, but nevertheless will give all a taste of the flights of these starship troopers.
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65daysofstatic: Wild Light (2013)
It’s a cute fashion for the originators of subcultures to declare its ‘death’ just as it is starting; thus the hippies of Haight-Ashbury declared
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Archive: Axiom (2014)
Archive are a pretty superb combination of electronica, trip-hop, with progressive elements, something like a fusion of 65daysofstatic and Portishead. To say that they’ve
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Daniel Miller from Mute’s top five German prog rock albums.
Miller is not quite comfortable with the term “Krautrock”, and neither am I. But this is a delight for any decent record nerd, and
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The history of prog.
David Weigel, a political reporter for Slate, is in the midst of a series on the history of prog rock. It’s really quite frightening.
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Hawkwind, Billboard, Melbourne March 12, 2011
As they announced, these are the warriors on the edge of space and time. Now in their forty-second year of performance and correlating with
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Danny Ben Israel: Bullshit 3¼ (1970).
Today’s music is Bullshit 3¼, a 1970 psychedelic prog album in Hebrew (with titles in English) by Danny ben Israel. The music is deeply
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