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10/12/2024

A TRICK OF THE TAIL
Genesis 🇬🇧🧬✨ Studio Album, released in 1976

Songs
1. Dance on a Volcano (5:53)
2. Entangled (6:28)
3. Squonk (6:27)
4. Mad Man Moon (7:35)
5. Robbery, Assault and Battery (6:15)
6. Ripples (8:03)
7. A Trick of the Tail (4:34)
8. Los Endos (5:46)

Musicians
- Phil Collins / lead & backing vocals, drums, percussion
- Steve Hackett / electric & 12-string guitars
- Tony Banks / RMI Electra-Piano, ARP Pro Soloist synth, Hammond organ, Mellotron, Echoplex, Leslie cabinet, 12-string guitar, backing vocals
- Mike Rutherford / bass, bass pedals, 12-string guitar

Artwork: Colin Elgie / Hipgnosis

10/12/2024

Kate’s 1985 album, 🇬🇧🧬✨Hounds of Love, is widely regarded as her masterpiece. Featuring hits like "Running Up That Hill" and "Cloudbusting," the album combined innovative production techniques with deeply personal and experimental themes. It achieved international acclaim and brought her music to a wider audience

10/12/2024

VISIONS
Haken 🇬🇧🧬✨

Studio Album, released in 2011

Songs
1. Premonition (4:10)
2. Nocturnal Conspiracy (13:08)
3. Insomnia (6:06)
4. The Mind's Eye (4:05)
5. Portals (5:27)
6. Shapeshifter (8:08)
7. Deathless (8:04)
8. Visions (22:25)

Musicians
- Ross Jennings / vocals
- Charles Griffiths / guitars
- Richard Henshall / guitar, keyboards
- Diego Tejeida / keyboards, sound design, strings & horn arrangements
- Thomas MacLean / bass
- Raymond Hearne / drums, percussion, strings & horn arrangements

With:
- Jennifer Murphy / violin
- Aliso Comerford / violin
- Martin Wray / viola
- Lucy Butcher / cello
- Joey "Dah Lipz" Ryan / French horn
- Patrick Harrild / voice
- Christopher Currie / voice

Artwork: Dennis Sibeijn

09/12/2024

Jethro Tull 1984🇬🇧🧬✨

09/12/2024

Live at Hammersmith ‘84
Live album by Jethro Tull
Released 10 December 1990 🇬🇧UK

09/12/2024

10th December 1971, playing the first of two nights at London's Rainbow Theatre, in England, Frank Zappa was pushed off stage by Trevor Howell, the jealous boyfriend of an audience member. Zappa fell onto the concrete-floored orchestra pit - the band thought Zappa had been killed. He suffered serious fractures, head trauma and injuries to his back, leg, and neck, as well as a crushed larynx, which ultimately caused his voice to drop a third after healing. This accident resulted in him using a wheelchair for an extended period, forcing him off the road for over half a year.

09/12/2024

Oh, by the Way is a compilation boxed set by Pink Floyd released on 10 December 2007, by EMI Records in the United Kingdom and the following day in the United States through Capitol Records.
Happy 🎂Anniversary!

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Passport 🇩🇪 is the group of the German rock elite in the early 70s, less akin to the movement as a global part of it and more integrated in the Anglo-Saxon culture thanks to its brilliant, serious and balanced work within the margins of jazz prog-rock and later jazz-fusion. Although it was not among the key names of the German expansion, its longevity has exceeded that of all others; and, with time and with a solid work as a guarantee, its quality has finally prevailed, consecrating its leader, Klaus Doldinger, as one of the great German musicians of the 70s.Along with "Infinity Machine", this is probably the best of the German Jazz-Rock (actually more Rock-Jazz) combo's run of classic albums in the 1970s, all of them distinguished by the colorful surrealism of their cover art. PASSPORT was never in the same league as the MAHAVISHNU ORCHESTRA or WEATHER REPORT (the latter in particular an obvious influence), but the group nevertheless managed to carve their own distinctive niche in an overcrowded market: no small accomplishment at the time.
I love the way that jittery opening sequencer pattern (in what sounds like a hellishly complex time signature) suddenly gels into the easy Space-Jazz swing of "Homunculus", with Klaus Doldinger's saxophone dancing gracefully around a sparkling electric piano solo. And the 13+ minute title track covers a lot of territory, working almost like a Beginner's Guide medley to the music of PASSPORT.
In quick succession it moves from a kinetic start/stop introduction (featuring some primitive electronic percussion triggers) to a brief but lively drum solo by the incomparable Curt Cress, and from there into a relentless mid-tempo rocking section. A blast of rare high-amp electric guitar signals another change of pace, matching equal parts power and finesse before another saxophone freak-out reprise of the opening jam ends the track as it began: stopping on a dime.
Flipping the album over to Side Two (not recommended with a compact disc) doesn't offer any immediate relief, throwing the unwary listener headlong into the full-throttle punch of "Jadoo": three minutes of pure adrenalin guaranteed to raise your blood pressure a few notches. Kristian Schultze's distorted electric piano solo is totally haywire, and the whole thing is propelled by the monster beat of Cress, again proving (and not for the first time) that he was one of the most dynamic and creative drummers of the decade...at least until he later briefly joined TRIUMVIRAT in their declining years.

🧬✨🇩🇪

09/12/2024

Derek William Dick, better known by his stage name Fish. Is a Scottish singer, songwriter and occasional actor. Fish became widely knonw as the lead singer and lyricist of the neo-progressive rock band Marillion, from 1981 until 1988.

09/12/2024

WIGWAM 🧬✨ 🇫🇮
Fairyport

Studio Album, released in December 1971

Tracks Listing
1. Losing Hold (7:06)
2. Lost Without A Trace (2:29)
3. Fairyport (6:53)
4. Gray Traitors (2:48)
5. Caffkaff, The Country Psychologist (5:22)
6. May Your Will Be Done Dear Lord (5:28)
7. How To Make It Big In Hospital (3:01)
8. Hot Mice (3:19)
9. P.K.’s Supermarket (2:20)
10. One More Try (3:26)
11. Rockin’ Ol’ Galway (2:27)
12. Every Fold (3:07)
13. Rave-Up For The Roadies (17:20) *
* Recorded Live at Hämis Club, Helsinki, 6th June 1971

Musicians
- Jukka Gustavson / vocals, acoustic & electric pianos, organ
- Jim Pembroke / vocals, harmonica, piano (2,12), electric piano (14)
- Pekka Pohjola / bass, violins, acoustic guitar (10), piano (8-9), celeste & harpsichord (9), backing vocals (3)
- Ronnie Österberg / drums, congas, percussion, backing vocals (3)
With:
- Jukka Tolonen / guitar (2,7,13)
- Eero Koivistoinen / soprano saxophone
- Pekka Pöyry / soprano saxophone
- Tapio Louhensalo / bassoon
- Risto Pensola / clarinet
- Hannu Sexelin / clarinet
- Unto Haapa-aho / bass clarinet
- Ilmari Varila / oboe

09/12/2024

TANTOR
Tantor • Jazz Rock/Fusion 🧬✨🇦🇷 Studio Album, released in 1979

Songs / Tracks Listing
1. Guerreras Club (4:25)
2. Niedernwohren (5:40)
3. Llama Siempre (3:15)
4. Oreja Y Vuelta Al Ruedo (6:29)
5. Halitos (6:58)
6. El Sol De La Pobreza (4:38)
7. Carrera De Chanchos (7:40)

Musicians
- Héctor Starc / guitars
- Carlos Alberto "Machi" Rufino / bass and vocals
- Rodolfo García / drums

Guest musicians:
- Lito Vitale / keyboards
- Leo Sujatovich / keyboards

09/12/2024

A gem of progressive rock, without a doubt ✨✨✨✨✨🧬

Provided to YouTube by Parlophone UKThick as a Brick (Pt. I) (1997 Remaster) · Jethro TullThick as a Brick℗ 1972, 1997 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music...

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Jethro Tull Free Prog Rock

08/12/2024

Today we remember Jim Morrison 🧬🇺🇸✨his birthday.
leader of The Doors. “El Rey Lagarto”
JIM MORRISON - (December 8, 1943 - July 3, 1971)

08/12/2024

Pink Floyd A momentary lapse of Reason ~- Although David Gilmour takes over the band in a perfect way, the participation of the rest of the musicians is moderate but accurate, Nick Mason and Rick Wright have good participation, Tony Levin, Carmine Appice and the rest of the band, as guest members, complement the album to make it sound very different from the others.
This Pink Floyd album is VERY underrated! Roger Waters is NOT anymore on this album. There are 5 keyboardists including Rick Wright himself + ex-Madonna Pat Leonard, THE keyboardist on the "Amused to death" album. So, you have to expect a very keyboards and guitars oriented album.