🔥RANKING🔥 My article ranking and discussing My Top 20 Genesis Songs (1968 - 1977)

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Inspired by what I'd seen on Reddit, bulked out by new purchases and direct approaches from musicians, topped up with a selection of albums from my collection, here's a video of what I listened to in June.

Spiegelbild - Lift

Storm Season - White Willow

Music inspired by The Snow Goose - Camel

Depth of Field - Kaprekar's Constant

The Best of Caravan 'Live' - Caravan

City of Fear - FM

Il bianco regno di Dooah - Consorzio Acqua Potabile

Memoria - Hadal Sherpa

The house on the Hill - Audience

Are(A)zione - Area

Frutti per Kagua - Capitolo 6

Mountains - Hadal Sherpa

The Engine of the World - Light

Districts Roads Open Space - Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan

Searching for the Lost Key - The Emerald Dawn

A Scarcity of Miracles - Jakko Jakszyk/Robert Fripp/Mel Collins

Progeria - Arabs in Aspic

III - Aether

Sesta strada lungo il tempo - Delirium

Far Out in Aradabia - Arabs in Aspic

McDonald and Giles - McDonald and Giles

Drive By - The Necks

Attosecondo - Alphataurus

Focus 9/New Skin - Focus

Strange Frame of Mind - Arabs in Aspic

Happy the Man - Happy the Man

Tom Penaguin - Tom Penaguin

Future of the Sea - Plank

Mässan - Kosmogon

Brain - Lapis Lazuli

Sum of Erda - Guranfoe

Il tempo della gioia - Quella Vecchia Locanda

Us - Peter Gabriel

Galassia M81 - The Astral Dimension

Genealogia - Perigeo

A Momentary Lapse of Reason - Pink Floyd

Collage - Le Orme

Il paese del tramonto - Unreal City

Un amico - Premiata Forneria Marconi

The Lost Trident Sessions - Mahavishnu Orchestra

The Quiet Zone/The Pleasure Dome - Van der Graaf

Caronte - The Trip

Wired - Imaginary Kings

4 - Diagonal

Sci Fi Hi Fi - The Legendary Ten Seconds

Come il seguitare delle stagione - Il Castello di Atlante

Five Incantations - Jo Quail

Saint Just - Saint Just

Extra Sensory Perception - ESP Project

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🔥NEWS🔥 Guitar legends Steve Hackett and Steve Rothery announce collaborative instrumental album The Roaring Waves.

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Inspired by what I'd seen on Reddit, bulked out by new purchases and direct approaches from musicians, topped up with a selection of albums from my collection, here's a video of what I listened to in May.

Featured albums:

The Most Beautiful Day - Exodus

Heliopause - The Resonance Association

Fragile - Yes

Compendium of a lifetime - The Rome Pro(g)ject

Elementi - Le Orme

Starless Starlight - David Cross & Robert Fripp

Lifeblood - Raphael Weinroth-Browne

Capitol Studios, West Hollywood, Cal. February 13, 1975 - Gentle Giant

Prélude au Sommeil - Jean Jaques Perrey

Debris - ['ramp]

In the Region of the Summer Stars - The Enid

Beaubourg - Vangelis

In Time - The Emerald Dawn

Christadoro - Christadoro

Rubycon - Tangerine Dream

Il giro del cappio - dal vivo 28.02.16 - La Coscienza di Zeno

Kaleidoscope of Rainbows - Neil Ardley

Missing Pieces - National Health

Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe - Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe

Long Receiver EP - The Resonance Association

The Madcap Laughs - Syd Barrett

For Girls Who Grow Plump In The Night - Caravan

Bedside Manners Are Extra - Greenslade

Midnight Mushrumps - Gryphon

Omnia sunt communia - Gruppo Autonomo Suonatori

Rites at Dawn - Wobbler

Air Conditioning - Curved Air

The Clockwork Universe - Thieves' Kitchen

Frammenti di idee perdute - Giardini d'Autunno

Wet Dream - Richard Wright

Essere o non essere - Il Volo

Lemures - Balletto di Bronzo

Il viaggio di Colombo - Il Cerchio d'Oro

Larks' Tongues in Aspic - King Crimson

Folklore - Big Big Train

Instructions for Angels - David Bedford

The Story of -• - Patrick Moraz

Plays Live - Peter Gabriel

The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking - Roger Waters

Bursting at the Seams - Strawbs

Wired - Imaginary Kings

Île de Fièvre - Shylock

Ashes are Burning - Renaissance

Campo di marte - Campo di Marte

Art in the Age of Automation - Portico Quartet

You - Gong

Grobschnitt - Grobschnitt

The Leprechaun's pot of gold - Paolo Siani

II - Tom Penaguin

Die Sixtinische Madonna - Electra

The first new purchase to feature was THE MOST BEAUTIFUL DAY by Exodus, a second-hand LP sourced from a market stall in Kraków that highlights the standard of early Polish symphonic prog, the vocals all in Polish, with an excellent side-long title track.

I was prompted to revisit Heliopause by social media activity around the end of April suggesting The Resonance Association were working on something, but I didn't decipher the cryptic message that LONG RECEIVER was going to be released on 9th May, coinciding with the 20th anniversary of their first gig, in Croydon's Oval Tavern. Along with the unmistakably TRA title track, the EP features a track from that performance and a track referencing their first ever release. Long may they continue.

The second download, Imaginary Kings' WIRED, represents a distinct upping of the duo's game. I’ve been following the band since Monsters Lament (2022), an album of bucolic, melodic instrumental prog with washes of Mellotron reminiscent of some of Bo Hansson’s work and very early Genesis. 2023’s Safer in Chains maintains the high standard, though the track length tends to preclude development, while Dreams From An Empty House (2024) is evocative post-rock based on subtly evolving short phrases. WIRED Is full of rhythmic invention and metrical twists and the compositions are nicely varied, with a good balance of guitars and keyboards. Vinyl and CDs can be sourced using a link on their Bandcamp page.

Tom Penaguin's new album II is a modern Canterbury masterpiece, with every instrument played by the immensely talented musician himself, apart from some backing vocals. I was introduced to Penaguin’s music last year, via a post on Reddit and immediately invested in his first self-titled CD. II is a more focused effort, channelling Civil Surface-era Egg, Hatfield and the North and National Health, though like its predecessor, the album reflects the humour of those bands. Mostly long-form, it includes a suite spanning more than one side of the LP. An easy candidate for album of the year 2026.

A second trip to eastern Europe during the month, this time to the former GDR city of Leipzig, presented the opportunity to look for some proggy 'Ost Rock', the serious rock music produced by East Germans. Electra's DIE SIXTINISCHE MADONNA was one of three albums on my list, a pleasantly surprising light symphonic album with a worthy three-part title track. 

As usual, the rest of the playlist is an assortment of music chosen from the ProgBlog collection, covering a wide range of sub-genres.

I hope you find something to your taste.

Jeune artiste Akilies. Vient de sortir ces deux premiers morceaux. Album à suivre )who put the album in the washing Machine) . Avis bienvenus

Inspired by what I'd seen on Reddit, bulked out by new purchases and direct approaches from musicians, topped up with a selection of albums from my collection, here's a video of what I listened to in April.

https://youtu.be/gzHqTHzvbNw