Tabula Rasa - Ekkedien Tanssi (The Dance of the Ekkedies) (1976 Love Records, this re by Svart)

This their second album is kind of smooth prog. I think they don't try to express anything more than there is and happens to exist. And that is why they make it. I find their first album an immature effort trying to say something deep, they don't really get. In spite of the fact that i'm a finn and a prog lover too, i have never been a big fan of Tabula Rasa. I have usually thought it is ok and there may be one or some beautiful tracks but not much more. Now when older i have to say this prog musicbook sounds more than okay. And nice cover art too. Some people for example Tovan från Sverige? on RYM say this is too cheesy to be real prog, but i say their whole sound the keyboards and Silvennoinen's personal guitar (both sound and playing) and the base guitar and everything... is real...Tabula Rasa sound. Ok, after all "Ekkedien Tanssi" may be a bit like meeting Josef Knecht and Harry Haller the day after being the whole night at a Camembert party with Gala D. Ekkedien tanssi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbXKpbiNaIY
What languages sound like to foreigners, by a finnish girl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybcvlxivscw

Scott Walker - Scott 3

I found music of Scott Walker two weeks ago and... it was almost a same kind of moment as when i heard Frank Zappa, his song "Fifty-Fifty" first time in 1973. I've been a big Z fan after that. There was not much music for me for to decades. In 2001 i found Björk and her album "Vespertine". I was sold then too. Now i stumbled upon this fallacious simple music.  What is this Scott Walker! I think i now have a deep well of interestingly strange music to dive. Maybe...

This "farmer in the city" is not from Scott 3 but i like to begin with it and introduce Scott to you who have never heard his music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIJzTWk6bSw
It's raining today (Scott 3): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7D0O2zE8Nk
Montague Terrace (in blue) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLOTAJQF0Fo

Lollipop Shoppe - Just Colour (1968 Uni)

Funny, if i did not know i would say when listening to the opening track, this is a bit pretentious post punk (with not so modern studio technique), but the next track "Underground railroad" turns the whole thing over. Does this all confusion on my mind mean that they have been years ahead of their time? Or what? Considering all the facts in time and in one's mind: this record is not possible. It did not exist. It came to me wrom somewhere out there...though a wormhole, just to land.... Greeat disc! Ok...weeds...seeds...lollipop shoppe!
Underground railroad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEeTTnadd2s

Steve Hillage - Live Herald (1979 Virgin)

Skilfully playful live record from one of the canterbury heroes. Wonderful straight forward fireing the whole gig!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJU11TehLNg

Head (Nik Raicevic) - S/T (1970 Buddah)

Moog drug. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dO-ebNr3oXU

Tricycle - S/T (1969 abc)

America-Italian group. Mostly typical bubble gum pop (Kasenetz-Katz), but there are a couple of (three in fact) more interesting songs than the rest: a long version of Simon Says, It's a Game and Poor Old Mr Jensen. If the entire album were music like those three tracks, this might...   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Uw0ftRjruY

Dave Carlsen - Pale Horse (1973 Spark)

Sometimes this sounds a bit like David Bowie and Slade. Incoherent but some odd way interesting case.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdA3lvReSWc

Brothers - Rainbow Rider (1973 Windfall)

Magical Man, The Prophet and Mighty Ocean are nice soft psych songs. Cover art by Dennis Pohl.

Risa Potters - Half Woman Half Child (1970 National General Records)

It is easy to like both her voice and her songs.
Michael: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNmB2r1zal0

Billy Mysner aka William Misener - S/T (1973 Grit 2001)

A man with many faces? As Bill Marion he also is a member of a Canadian group The Paupers. Here he sounds a bit like Cat Stevens.

Jonathan Kelly - Twice Around The Houses (1972 RCA)

Quite nice folk music, but... i'm not yet sure what to say after the but?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFHM5msfP9o

Claire Hamill - October (1973 Island)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAVgGt2yV8I

Ethos - Ardour (1976 Emi/Capitol)

First i thought this is synth-prog and Bach-based four handed mellotron finger practice for Wakeman's twin brothers. But then i realized the truth. Yes, Ethos is somehow even cleverer than yes. They are not trying to be nothing more than they are and that lift them above the average and even higher. I have to confess i had a slight prejudice: Ethos may be one more a kind of a poort man's Yes, but NO! They really make it! And finally if there are some yesish moments to be heard, they cleverly overdo it to the jazz area. I now have to say this Ardour is very, very clever album. If you like Fire Ballet, no i don't mean anything from Stravinsky, you surely like this Ethos too. They sound much like King Crimson, when they ewere "Red" too on this "The Dimension Ran" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykTobW9m7bI

Bob Brown - Willoughby's Lament (1971 Stormy Forest)

Wow! The first side makes me think this is one hidden gem again. Hidden and hidden... maybe all Americans know Bob. I did not but now i do, at least a bit. The other side of his begins with a more countrish flavour than  the first but then he continues where the first side ended. Beautiful music! All compositions are his and good and there are no tracks just to fill the empty space. "For Pamela" reminds me slightly of that English guy...what was his name?...that orange bicycle man...yes...Will Malone.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhvZ3sthXtI

Jasper Wrath - S/T (1969 Sunflower/mgm)

Sounds very good., nice and softly streaming progressive psych rock. Is not at all as esoteric as the the cover art may imply. Nothing on this makes me uneasy. I have to listen this more before any  final statements.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-GCfxpynXQ

Höyry-Kone - Hyönteisiä Voi Rakastaa (1995 Ad perpetuam memoriam)

You can love insects, their second best album. J.E. Liljeström from Anekdoten (Sweden) brought H-K (Finland) and ADP (record label) together, when these two bands met in London at a pub after a David Allen concert. A short nice history behind to understand why this was recorded in Sweden, not in Finland.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ra-jJb7idVE

Thirsty Moon - S/T (1972 re 2006 Long Hair9

Nice jazz influenced krautrock.

Khan - Space Shanty (1972 Decca this CD Esoteric)

So big positive surprise! Key words: Great Steve Hillage, National Health, egg, Hatfiled & North, Canterbury. It is a shame this album was once ignored by those who had money enough to buy albums and still is. This is better than many of those big English prog bands albums of 70s.  Canterbury!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQ_toJNTEvQ

Anekdoten - From Within (1999)

Heja Sverige! Anekdoten sounds a bit like Coldplay or Radiohead but it does not disturb me too much. I used to like Coldplay and Radiohead but have got a bit bored with them lately. Anyway Anekdoten is not just an anecdote. On the whole they are a very classy group. There may be something KC -like sound scene too but not until their "Red", which btw is the top where KC finally grew and ended. There is one excellent track over the others on the album: "Hole". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DE-ua2gwWfw

Uzva - Uoma (2006 Silenze CD)

Can't say which one is better Uoma or Niittoaika. They continue where they got it with Niittoaika and at first they sound a bit too smooth lounge music for my taste, but the two long pieces Arabian Ranta and Vesikko rise it on more interesting level and as a big Zappa fan i'm glad to hear there some sophisticated Zappa passages without sounding like aping Zappa at all. At times there are some Santana effects too.
Arabian ranta http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erNMw-xOP8A
Vesikko http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvvbFPxlP2U

Uzva - Niittoaika (2002 Silence CD)

Niittoaika=Harvest time is high quality Finnish canterbury scene music. They don't try to ape that style but make it sound fresh and modern. Along with Höyry-Kone, Uzva is one of the best jazz-folk-prog groups from Finland. In some passages Niittoaika unfortunately goes too near lounge music but even then it is very listenable lounge. People seem to hear there Mahavisnu, Zappa, KC, GG to mention some, but i hear just Uzva. Mostly fresh and clean.
Afrodite http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScWXu3Slz-E

Brainchild - Healing Of The Lunatic Owl (1970 A&M this CD Aurora)

Smooth and classy Chicago -style brass-prog for my taste. They were from Britain.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZn81lXJvz4

Höyry-Kone - Huono Parturi (1995 Ad Perpetuam Memoriam)

Höyry-Kone's Huono Parturi is no doubt one of the best Finnish progressive rock albums. Tenor Topi Lehtipuu has later gained international reputation as one of Finlands huighly individual artists in the fields of opera. On this album they do their very own music even one may hear there some King Crimson echoes too. There are no weak passages on this slightly eccentic but solid masterpiece. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHMkPsRKme8

Shadow Mann - Come Live With Me (1969 Tomorrow's Productions)

Never before heard of label "Tomorrows productions"  These kind of record albums are interesting mostly because of their "obscurity". It seems that Shadow Mann made an album a year before this in 1968 but nobody seems to know even the title title. Does it exist?  Would it be better it even didn't? Was it just a preshadow of this one? Mann, who knows? Who cares? Maybe Lotti Golden, whon The Shadow Mann thanks for the Soul. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11xvtrmRuM8

Forever More - Words On Black Plastic (1970 RCA)

This their second album sounds better that their first one, as far as i can recall.

promises of spring: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmAD48jpMVo

From RYM: Incredible, eclectic music which, like its predecessor, "Yours", is familiar yet almost otherworldly, incorporating so many existing elements that it creates a whole other universe. Both albums, which came and went to the cut-out bins, were not promoted in America by RCA, so I'm not even sure why the 2nd album was released, but in their own ways, these two records may as well have been Forever More's "Rubber Soul" and "Revolver". Musically, they used every instrument they seemed to be able to get their hands on , (even a Jews harp), and had shades of jazz, folk, country, psychedelic guitar music, and seemed like a little Beatles, a little Family, a little Traffic, a fair amount of Scotland, (where they hailed from), all mixed into something that was everything, (to me), that music should be. No one who likes music should be less than impressed with either record. (Good luck finding them!!)

Back Door - 8th Street Nites (1973 WB)

These blues and jazz-rock guys don't offer any compromises. Their music sounds quite original. Bassist Colin Hodgkinson plays his instrument personal way and i tend to hear and think the whole music on this album conforms his instrument and that is unusual. The first side is blues based rock and the flip side more fusion kind. It is not usual that the bassist is the motor of the music but i think Colin H is more than an assistant of the group. I red recently music magazine "Soundi" 1973 (a late Finnish music paper) and found that some editors back then where sure "Back Door" was to be the next next great fusion band.

Dianne Davidson - Backwoods Woman (1971 Janus)

Smoothly flowing country rock. Four of the songs by Dianne D herself. The others by Cat Stevens, Elton (Country Comfort), Harvey/Collins (Delta Dawn) and J. Drummond for example. "Recorded on one warm December late '71 and early '72". Okay,  December in America happened to appear late that year... Smiley
delta dawn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGMNsHGcqzQ