Various Artists – Cosmarama: Fabulous 20 Top Prog : Psych Behemoths From The UK And Europe – Flac


Mais uma compilação com fabulosos sons "perdidos" em gravações de 45 RPM (single), mas graças a Deus reunidos em coletâneas como essa, para o nosso deleite! Desfrutem!


Seems like only yesterday (probably because it was) that we explored some of the uncharted depths of British and European psychoprog on Blow Your Cool. Well, here we are with another voyage into that dazzling star system. Once again we’ve pulled in tracks from the UK and across Europe, and once again we shall attempt to thrill you with as yet unheard treasures from the patchouli-scented vaults of freaked musical excess.

Tasty psych/hardrock/protoglam songs compiled by the Bevis Frond. Salomon, aka the Bevis, is an older English gent & can therefore be fully forgiven for calling these various subgenres 'prog'.





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  1. EAC>Flac+.cue+log+scans (Full set at 600 dpi):

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  2. Thanks Nelwizard, I searched for a long time the second chapter of this disc compilation Blow Your Cool and I never found it. I decided to buy it on Amazon.it for a particular song: Distant Jim - Cosmarama. thank you

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  3. Good to see my friend in good shape...Nel a lot of health!

    This is a true adventure of the unheard bands and the possibilities of how prog rock stays alive and never dies.

    It should be noted that the set is liberally populated with Euro progsters, with half a dozen representatives from Holland and another half-dozen from Belgium and Germany. The set opens with the title track from the UK band, Distant Jim, who only released albums on the continent. They were a sort of supergroup whose family tree included members of Methuselah, Amazing Blondel, Junior’s Eyes and The Smoke. The unusual time signatures and syncopated beats are pure prog, highlighted by some firebreathing soloing from guitarist Les Nicol. Saloman, one of today’s premiere guitarists, is a sucker for flashy stringbenders, which may explain the inclusion of Belgian rockers, Carriage Company’s ‘In Your Room.’ Guitar licks abound, but besides a few organ flourishes, the track is more akin to heavy metal than prog.

    Saloman flips Dutch band, The Tower’s oft-comped ‘Slow Motion Mind’ over for the dreamy B-side, ‘In Your Life,’ a wonderful, Procol Harum-ish floater. The Liverpudlian Back Street Band take liberties with the melody from Lennon’s ‘Come Together’ on their 1969 B-side, ‘Daybreak’ and Family completists may enjoy the Dutch supergroup (including members of Q65 and Focus), Big Wheel’s chugging, boogie bar blues rendition of ‘Old Songs New Songs,’ but I fail to hear the prog connection.

    Holland’s Silence give us the hard rocking ‘Devil Woman,’ which takes a familiar Led Zep riff and morphs it into an enjoyable amalgam of Black Sabbath and Jethro Tull – imagine ‘Immigrant Song’ tagteaming with ‘Paranoid’ and ‘Locomotive Breath.’ Another prolific Dutch band, Ginger Ale check in with ‘Get Off My Life Woman,’ wherein Roek Williams’ credible Jim Morrison impersonation leaves this listener thinking “The Doors with horns.”

    Pussy formed out of the ashes of Jerusalem, so I don’t think it’s the same outfit that released the Pussy Plays album. Like the Jerusalem album, ‘Feline Woman’ was produced by Deep Purple’s Ian Gillan, so once again you can expect more heavy metal than prog results. German heavy rockers, Electric Food’s family tree includes branches to Lucifer’s Friend and Uriah Heep, so you know what to expect from ‘I’ll Try.’ And although there are no women in the Dutch band, Mr. Albert Show, the vocalist on ‘Kings of Galaxy’ sounds like Suzi Quatro. Do with that information what you will! Castle Farm’s self-released ‘Hot Rod Queen’ is a stomping little rocker that successfully mines the Mott The Hoople oeuvre with a title that seems ripped straight off an old Marc Bolan album! And finally, and quite surprisingly, the Irish showband, Chips (from Sligo) turn in the most traditional prog track in the bunch with ‘Earth,’ which is full of swirling keyboards, multi-layered vocals, and astrological themes that all combined to remind me of the German prog/kraut band, Triumvirat. But other than that, despite the fact that many of the songs provide varying degrees of entertainment in their own right, prog purists should be cautioned that, to these ears, most of these tracks lean more towards the heavy, power blues end of the spectrum.

    @Nel, as always, thanks for sharing :)

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