Triumvirat - Illusions On A Double Dimple (1973 Harvest)

Sounds like ELP. Like it. They occasionally get, echo and use the "Tarkus" organ sound and that's a great achievement per se.

Wishbone Ash - New England 81976 MCA)

Hipgnosis cover meaning and telling what? Tell me you Englishmen. Is there a new England now?

Triumvirat - Mediterranean Tales Across The Waters (1972 Harvest)

Nice or ELP but very nice listening experience anyway. I like it.Here they occasionally catch the Brain salad Surgery Karn Evil sound even before ELP themselves did it. That''s funny.

Zager & Evans - The Early Writings of Zager & Evans And Others (White Whale )

Side one is Z&E but the other side in J.K. & Co. from album Suddenly One Summer. Maybe J.K. is the other. Or it is just a mispres? Mody Dick may know it. And Starbuck.

J.K. & Ko Suddenly One Summer is by the way one of the best American psych albums and i'm lucky to own an original vinyl copy of it.

Linda Hargrove - Music Is Your Mistress (1973 Electra)

One more pick at a flea today. The Electra Label is.. i used to t think.. is a kind of hippie music label.. Well maybe it is not and i have learnt isn't. But.. Linda's songs are .. Linda's songs. Good songs. The gatefold thick cardboard cover with the interesting cover photo with the lyrics inside and the songs itself are something i like to have. Sensitive and deep feelings. Good that you have made this album Linda. OK, I noticed now Linda is not here anymore, but anyway... through your music You will always be here.

I like these american album covers, because they mostly tell me more than most of those annoying artificial symbolistic English Hipgnosis covers.

Randy Burns and The Sky Dog band -Still On Our Feet (1973 Polydor)

Just another find today at flea. I already have their one other album but have never met this before. It was easy to decide to pick this for a couple of euros. This album as i audit it just now contains very well made folkish style music west coast music. The reason i pick up this kind of casual ones is to find something not a familiar to me. And this feels to be a real keeper. Well and seriously made moody music. A mixed bag in a good way.

Sassafras - Riding High (1976 Chrysalis)

An English band? Picked this one today at a flea. I already have their two previous albums and this sounds a bit different as far as i recall, more country or boogie style maybe. This is good music anyway, not the kind of music i usually listen to, but very good southern straight forward rural pub rock or something like that anyway Whatever genre or sub-genre this is they do and play it with style and skill. "Riding High" sounds a bit like Eagles's "Take it Easy".

Sepi Kuu - Rannan Usvassa (1980 HELP re Shadocks 2015)

After listening this first time I was not sure what to think about it. The more i spend time in the Fog of a Shore (Rannan Usvassa), the more it hypnotizes me.

I wonder if Mika Rättö from band Kuusumun Profeetta already knew this album.

Juu, tulipa ostettua, vaikka melko hintava levy onkin. Ensin aattelin, kerran kuunneltuani hieman pettyneitä ajatuksia, mutta jo toisella kerralla aloin päästä sisään. Jotain tutunomaista tässä musiikissa myös on, on vain vaikea keksiä mitä se tuttuus on. Väliin tulee musiikillisia muistumia Kuusumun Porofeetan Hiljaisuuden saliin ja heti perään vedestä nousee Peitsamon kasvi. Levyn kakkospuoli on mielestäni parempi ja olenkin kuunnellut pelkästään sitä useampaan kertaan. Pidän kovasti. Ymmärrän hyvin ettei tämä levy vuonna 1980 noussut yleisempään tietoisuuteen, olihan silloin valittavissa kaupan levyhyllyssä Pelle Miljoonaakin ja moottoritie oli paljon hotimpaa kuin hämyjen runojen kuuntelu puhelauluna rannan usvassa. Toisaalta puhelaulua lähellä Pellenkin laulu on. Ihme jos Rättö ei Kuusumun Profeettoineen ole saanut vaikutteita Sepi Kuulta. Levyn soundit on muuten erittäin hyvät. Johtuneeko siitä, en tiedä kun en ole koskaan kuullut alkuperäisen levyn soundeja, että se on äänitetty autiotalossa ja akustiikka natsaa yhteen Tolan runojen ja Sepin minimalistisen folktyylin kanssa. Perusasioissa ainakin ollaan ihan eri tavalla kuin vaikkapa Hectorin näennäis-perus-kokemusten kautta jossain lumi teki enkelin eteiseen linjalla. Musiikin kuunteluun liittyy paljon mystisyyttä. Tässä sitä on tarjolla, varmaan ihan tarkoituksellisestikin. Toisaalta tuskin kukaan tällä kukaan enää jälkikäteenkään rahoiksi pistää. Kulttuuriteko tämä on pikemminkin. Nykymusiikki on jo vuosia tehty samalla tylsällä kaavalla ja tuotannolla. Monet ovat kyllästyneet ja Sepi Kuun kaltainen löydös on silkkaa sisältöä ja rootsia tämän nykysteriilin massatuotannon keskelle. Autiotalossa äänitetty yhden miehen bändin akustinen suomi-folk, eihän tätä kamaa ainakaan liikaa ole tarjolla.

Gong - Radio Gnome Invisible Part 2 Angel's Egg (1973 Twin Virgin)

Is it just psychological effect that listening this original mint shape Angel's Egg vinyl the music sounds and feels quite different than if listening a CD version of it. Angel's Egg is clever music, occasionally a bit like zappaesque  playful. Excellent album and Gong's best album.

Wishbone Ash - S/T (1970 MCA)

SIDE 1
1. Rock'n roll with your blind eye
2. Prog'n roll and drink wiskey with a lady
3. Folk'n stroll with some errors on your ways
4. Hop'n holl with your tortoise queen
SIDE 2
1. Dexterous
2. Progxterous. Pnoenix for dinner.

A guitar album from Andy Powell except a nice drum solo by Steve Upton.  Better than i remembered, but too much straight forward rock'n roll.

Sparks - Kimono My House (1974 Island)

Does humor belong in music? Absolutely! I remember when i first time heard "This Town Ain't Big Enough For the both Of Us". I was sold right away. Kimono my house is artful and cheerful wag music.

Talent is an asset https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aM2IK1z8KIA