Jym Young's San Francisco Avantgarde - Puzzle Box 81966 International)

If music could describe eternal i think the first side is manages it well. If music ever could describe this just moment, the other sides does it well.

Sallyange - Children Of the Sun (1968 this re much later)

I purchased this by intuition for 10 euros just because i was curious. It is not bad but occasionally almost good folk music but sorry you two, i'm sure you are wonderful people but i'm not very ... with your way of using your voice and singing together. Sorry. Sorry again. Now... the further i listen to your album the nicer it becomes. And now when i realize you are Mike and Sally Oldfield... I did not know. Tubular Bells was one the first records i bought in early 70s.

The Keith Tippet Group - Dedicated To You - But You Weren't Listening (1971 Vertigo this re by Akarma)

Nice cover art. The album title itself is the best i have ever seen. The music is naturally flowing avant-garde without causing any headache. If it is right to say Zappa did some avant-garde i'd say this Tippett is occasionally close to Zappa's. Great music. One of the best albums i happily have purchased by intuition these days. I'm not any specialist of anything and not the jazz at all but i dare to say this better than any other i have heard till now. This time Vertigo hit the Bull's eye, maybe not financially but musically. Colosseum / Valentyne's Suite nad Tippet / Dedicated To You... A Perfect pair?

Sir Lord Baltimore - S/T (1971 Mercury this re)

On this their firsy album American band SLB sounds to me a bit like UK band Uriah Heep. I happen to own an original copy of their second album "Kingdom Come" too but I can't recall exactly how they sounded on that, but this their second sounds a bit like prototype of whatever hard rock and i like prototypes.

Man from manhattan:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP3eBCBuiu4

Tonton Macoute - S/T (1971 Neon this CD)

This papa doc's band plays the kind of fusion music i like a lot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Rn8W6-1P8w

Formerly Fat Harry - S/T (1971 Harvest and Capitol this re by Prog Temple)

This is The Beatles playing country music. I mean if The Beatles were from Texas or SF they would probably have sounded like this. Nice and friendly mellow country tinged rock. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oxtPdRtX9U

Saint Just - S/T (1973 Harvest this re by AMS)

I was thinking which one of their two albums are better and now i feel it is not even hard to decide. This is it.
It sounds more authentic, flowing and jammy. The first half minute of the first track "Quando nel mondo..." begins like some gnoissienne or gymnopedie by Eric Satie. On the whole the first song is great. Jenni Sorrenti sings much better on this their first album than on their second an final one. Some tend to say she sounds like Annie Haslam, but i'd say it is a bit too wide heard. Aniie's vocals is sometimes too clinical to me and Jenni sounds a bit too raw, but at the same time real,  true and alive.The more i listen to this the more sure i am this is a significant record of music by young Italians. The combination of the instruments played here fits perfectly in their music. And Italian language fits too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0VF-R_ynuM

Saint Just - La Casa Del Lago (1974 Harvest this re by Akarma)

I'm not sure which of their two albums are better. Most people would not listen Jenny Sorrenti's singing even 10 seconds and i have to admit it sometimes  makes me feel a bit embarrassed too but when i listen to the best flow parts of the album such as "La casa del lago" i forget the worse parts and get sublimated to another level of feeling through music. Casa del lago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5OyHA2pQD0

Virtanen - Hal-00 (1974 Love Records)

HAL-00 is strange proto punk from Finland. Pertti "Veltto"("Slothful") Virtanen the leader of the group named after him (Virtanen is one of the most common names in Finland by the way) is a psychologist, a hypnotist, a rock musician, a multiple member of Finnish Parliament (True Finns), the official Shaman of the Year 1996 etc...

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

Gentlehood - S/T (1973 Columbia)

This is told to be progressive rock. Maybe so. Anyway it is an album that takes time to get in.
Oh My: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9qNl2ooQns

Marsha Malamet - Coney Island Winter (1969 Decca)

When listening this i get filled by a feeling i would love to spend a day on Coney Island in winter in 1969.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1Tq1SeQuJo

Crabby Appleton - Rotten To The Core (1971 Elektra)

The other of their two lps and not the better one but ok. Not any typical Elektra album, i think.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSMciN-R8NM

Jeffrey Cain - Whispering Thunder (1972 WB)

Country blues with nice sounding harmonica. Produced by Jesse Colin Young from Youngbloods.

Texas - S/T (1973 Bell)

A low price record fair find."Over 8 minutes long "Don't Love Have a Funny Way" begins promisingly turning abruptly to rock jam, including some passages typical to progressive rock.

Mama's Pride - S/T (1975 Atco)

Now it is so that i don't much like southern rock but this hears to be one of those exceptions. Mama's Pride is very listenable mixture of music which reminds me of  Eagles, Deep Purple (at least one of them looks like Ian Paice), Johnny Winter, and some others i can't recall just now. "In the morning" is a superb song which would bee good enough for any of those better known contemporay bands doing bluesy soulful rural rock.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y210XJuRVhE

Giles, Giles & Fripp - The Brondesbury Tapes 1968

How i got this CD: It was about a month ago when i found on YT a singer named Judy Dyble (Fairport Convention) singing the well known King Crimson song "I Talk To The Wind". I called my friend Jukka who knows everything about KC and asked if he knew who Judy Dyble is and of course he knew, but unexpectedly  he didn't know she had sang "ITTTW" because she does not perform on the first album of KC where the song is found.

So Jukka had purchased two copies of this pre KC music by Giles, Giles & Fripp (McDonald). The other was for me.

A quote from MDE 2001:  "The bondesbury Tapes is presented to you as a detailed musical sketch of the transmutation of GG&F into the seed-vision of King Crimson during the spliff-end of the 1960's"

If you like to know how King Crimson became King Crimson this CD may explain something. But as it is true that these early tapes don't mostly sound like KC at all it is interesting to speculate what was the role of those two guys Greg Lake and Pete Sinfield when founding KC. Or maybe it was the extra member of the group i psychedelic drugs that showed the new perspective. Fripp has said making In Court of... was an "instant mash". He on the other hand has said the band never used any drugs. Or maybe it was so that the combination chemistry of the grounding members and those two new ones created whole new visions and music?

I talk to the wind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQIs07vvQHk
Erudite eyes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZRCbd2D14Y

Rain - S/T (1971 Project 3 / CD 2008)

It rains harmoniously, varying from drizzly soft and dreamy to more straightforward pit-patter. Nice sounding keyboards. The music is well written and played pop with some prog aspects. Produced by Enoch Light.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAWGmc1y7q8

Fireballet - Two, Too... (1976 Passport)

Imagine combining Zappa and Yes and if you think you would like it add still a pinch of Gentle Giant and Genesis and you get Fireballet. "Two too" is vainly put and left in the shadow of their first and better known album. Maybe someone would say "Two,too..." is a collection of rip-offs from English prog bands and Zappa and even Stravinsky (on "Carroon" great guitarist Ryche Chlanda occasionally even plays his guitar in the style of Frank Zappa) but actually this album is much deeper in many ways than one can imaging at the first sight or hearing. I hate AOR and this basicly is something like it but they don't take themselves and the music too seriously and that can be heard too, even their playing sounds constant fireworks and endless twiddling. I'm not sure if they do this somewhat tongue in cheek or not and it does not matter after all. For me this album is one of the few (AOR oriented) pomp-prog albums made after 1975 that i like. Great musicianship, very talented group.

Ryche Chandla seems to play with Rennaissance nowadays. http://renaissancetouring.com/2013/02/renaissance-announces-new-guitarist/

This keeps me in good mood and it seldom happens that i smile when listening to music but this makes me do it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fy57LXRVjBQ

In addtion to previous: I got their first album "...Bald Mountain" yesterday (thanks to Jukka) and after listening it a couple of times for now i find it mostly a bit dilute mellotron and moog gruel except the 18 minute long main track "Night on bald Mountain" which is very good (even occasionally maybe too ELP/Genesis/VDGG-esque) classic prog rock.

To sum up: "Night on bald Mountin" is a serious and ambitious prog effort from young musicians and McDonald behind them. Unfortunately they sound too much like their idols in English progressive rock ELP, Genesis etc.. On "Two, too" they seem to relax and go nuts without losing any of their musicianship and with that attitude they manage to reveal some funny side of serious prog rock. The attitude is a bit like Zappa's in some of his works and at the same time get reminiscences of such as Sparks and Todd Rundgren too.

I just found a term ZOLO concerning a music genre that descries such tracks on "Two, too..." as "Chinatown Boulevards", "It's about time" and "Carollon". They make the backbone of the record and "Flash" is interesting too. It makes me think if there is some self irony by them as "serious" progressive rock musicians in the lyrics of "Flash". "Flash" discreetly and boldly culminates the whole naive and cosy New Age filosophy of the most of the early prog rock.

ZOLO: The term "zolo" was first coined by Terry Sharkie via his "Zany Zolo Muzik Hour" radio show to describe a cross-section of bands and artists with similar approaches to music. Zolo is characterized by hyper, jerky rhythms, synthesized bleeps and boings, polka-dot percussion, chipper falsettos, zany imagery, and aZappa-esque sense of humor. While Zolo contains elements associated with Progressive Rock or New Wave, Zolo itself is a creative thread that runs independently of both of these genres. 

Sailcat - Motorcycle Mama (1972 Elektra)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GH7IqnxheTs

Egg - Egg (1969-1970 Decca this CD 2004)

I find this album very solid and pleasant. Yet there are some adaptations to well known classical composers, they work quite well and fit almost seamlessly to their own material. The more i listen to for example such tracks as "I will be absorbed", "The song of McGillicudie The Pusillanimous...", and "Symphony No. 2" the more i enjoy this original art work. Egg will long feed my body and soul and what is the best: without any cholesterol. By the way i was happy to get to know there is such a nice and cute word "pusillanimous" in English language.  If elbow is the most beautiful word in English, pusillanimous must be one of the cutest. Excellent album!