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  DAVE GREENSLADE  The Pentateuch Of Cosmogony  (EMI,1979) - Progressive rock       Grand epic fantasy concept album dominated with the keyboard genius of Dave GREENSLADE. Based on the wonderful world created and inked by artist Patrick Woodroffe, GREENSLADE transports us musically into his wonderful world. GREENSLADE is assisted throughout by both Phil Collins and John Lingwood on the drums and daughter Kate Greenslade who was 2 years old at the time. In many ways "Pentateuch" plays like a childhood nursery rhyme with GREENSLADE's choice of colorful themes and passages. Along the way we are treated to some nice varieties of keyboards with Mellotron, Church Organ, Polymoog, Tubular Bells, Minimoog, Clavinet, Vibraphone to name a few. TRACKLIST LP1: Introit / Moondance / Beltempest / Glass / Three Birds / Birds & Bats & Dragonflies / Nursery                                     Hymn / The Minstrel / Fresco-Kashrinn / Barcarole / Dry Land                      LP2: Fo

  LODESTONE  Time Flies  (Philips,1971) - Progressive rock       It’s more than a little hard to find details about this lost corner of the transition from psychedelic rock to progressive rock. Lodestone never released anything aside from  Time Flies , and it was only available on the German Philips label, apparently in very limited quantity. The musicians credited were Gerry Morris (guitar, bass, vocals), Phil Chesterton (drums, percussion, guitar, vocals), John Da Costa (keyboards, guitar, vocals), and John Hollis (lead vocals, guitar, percussion), all of whom had worked with each other in various other bands.  TRACKLIST : Overture                     Link / Theme                     Castle / The Fault                     I Awake                     Crash Landing                     We've Made It                     World Wall One                     Liberation                     The Observer / We Arrive Pt.1                     We Arrive Pt.2 / The Space Shanty                

  HARLIS  Night Meets The Day  (Sky,1977) - Kraut/Prog rock       “Night Meets The Day” is a conceptal album. It tells the story of a shipwrecked person who lures a ship on a deserted island by means of a beacon, makes a short career as a pirate, and finally ends up as a shipwreck after a lost battle.       Musically, Harlis offer a mixture of progressive rock and melodic hard rock. In the foreground is the guitar with some nice solos, some songs are dominated by simple, hard riffs (“Ruler of the Island”, “King of the Pirates”). The keyboards always remain in the background and are limited to atmospheric background as in the beautiful instrumental “Endless Sea”.       “Night Meets The Day” is not an essential album, but it is too much for simple hard rock.   TRACKLIST : Night Meets The Day                        Shipwrecked Stranded                        Ruler Of The Island                        King Of The Pirates                        Narrow Escape                        The Last

  FLAKE  How's Your Mother  (Violet's Holiday,1971) - Psych/Prog pop       Aided by their friends, singer and lyricist Gary Paige and guitarist Hubert Williams. The LP's lavish gatefold sleeve was Sporting a 'trippy' cover design, the album featured lighter pop-soul material on Side 1, with Side 2 featuring the band's heavier and more psychedelic side, highlighted by the epic 12-minute track "Violet Jam" (the second part of which was the Vanda-Young track "Quick Reaction"). Like many independent LP releases that came out during this  period the Flake LP had no commercial success at all and it has become a rare collector's item. Just before the album came out Billy Taylor left the group and he was replaced by Mick Meehan (ex Cinnamon). The album track "Under The Silent Tree" was released as the group's fourth single and it did moderately well, reaching #35 in Sydney in November 1971. TRACKLIST :  Under The Silent Tree        

  PENGUIN CAFE ORCHESTRA  Music From The Penguin Cafe  (EG,1976) - Chamber jazz       Multi-instrumentalist Simon Jeffes is joined by a collection of guests on eclectic backing instruments for this weird, occasionally folk-tinged slice of abstract avant-garde art-muzak. Presenting chamber music with no apparent connection to any pre-existing musical tradition, in retrospect (thanks in part to the Penguin Cafe's early championing by Brian Eno) we can see this as a sort of mellow, more acoustically-oriented cousin to the sort of ambient pop that Eno and Brand X cooked up on Another Green World. Minimalistic, yes, but never boring, the Penguin Cafe flock are always doing something interesting which sounds like little before or since. Followers of the more abstract jazz, folk, or pop tendencies will likely find it worth their time. TRACKLIST : Penguin Cafe Single                       From The Colonies                       In A Sydney Motel                       Surface Tension      

  SCOPE  Scope  (Atlantic,1974) - Jazz/Progressive rock       Scope  was a Dutch  jazz rock  group that was active from 1971 to 1976. It was founded in the city of Zwolle  by keyboardist/flutist Rik Elings and drummer Henk Zomer as a successor to their band Strange Power. Their compositions utilize elements of jazz  as well as progressive rock  combined with the prominent use of sounds that are typical of the decade such as the use of the wah-wah pedal . During their period of activity they were popular in the jazz rock scene in the Netherlands and often compared by Dutch publications to other jazz fusion groups, mostly those that originated in the United States. TRACKLIST : Watch Your Step                        Can You Follow Me                        Kayakokolishi                        Yesternight's Dream                        Description                        Walpurgis Night                        Chewing Gum Telegram                        The Queen Can Do No Wrong https://