Tangerine Dream has Thermal Inversion to Your Kiew Mission at Newcastle’s City Hall in ’81

“Tangerine Dream“, the name is synonymous with space itself and generally the first name one thinks of when electronic music is mentioned aside from Kraftwerk. Formed in Berlin in 1967 at the height of the psychedelic movement by Edgar Froese(whom we lost in 2015)  along with Chris Franke and Peter Baumann became “The Ones” two…

Dive in to the Ocean with Eloy from 1977

The album cover alone screams PROG!, and worth the price of admission alone just for the stellar artwork presented here. Now does the music match the album cover? Absolutely right it does! An equally stellar record of outstanding musicianship from Germany in the late 70’s. We speak of Hanover, West German band , ELOY. Like…

Experimentalism Extreme with Sand the Ultrasonic Seraphim

For a band to release one album then disappear off the radar almost entirely is really quite common. How many bands put out one record and break up or just vanish? Thousands by today’s standards probably, kids putting out albums with the advent of easy to use technology and cheap gear to record right there…

So, Three Eva Brauns and Two Herman Goerrings. Oh Right, Don’t Mention The War! Ooooh The Germans are Coming! Nevermind, Here’s Triumvirat

So for those of you who got the title, enjoy your chuckle at that. You’re welcome ; ) Those who don’t should watch the episode, “The Germans” in the series Fawlty Towers. And now for something completely different with Triumvirat from Koln, West Germany formed in 1969. The band name coming from the Latin word,…

Prog Rock Magazine’s Top 100 Artists of All Time, Selected Review

I have always been opposed to “lists” of the Top 100 this or Top 10 that, whatever it may be because every band has a different spin on what their Progginess exudes. It’s like comparing apples to tires and oranges to diamonds in a fish’s stomach. It just doesn’t make sense to me, never has,…