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Klossa Knapitatet
Their third album, originally issued by Silence in 1974, now reissued. Klossa Knapitatet is one of Samla's most exuberant excursions into fusion/avant-garde jazz-prog. A heady mix of Zappa-esque ridiculousness, Scandinavian folk, bent guitar, tinkering piano, circus music, cheeky accordion serenades and yodeling, this is Samla bending all rules and being totally bonkers. For fans of Måltid, but with more electric guitars and high-pitched vocals.
Clearlight Symphony
A long overdue gathering. For more than half a century, Cyrille Verdeaux's Clearlight project has occupied one of the strangest and most overlooked positions in the landscape of 1970s European progressive music - a French ensemble whose foundational works were recorded in England, issued by Virgin, and shaped, in no small part, by the orbit of Gong. Now, for the first time, Esoteric collects the five essential Clearlight albums into a single remastered 5CD clamshell box, with a new booklet essay…
March
Matching Mole was the band that drummer/vocalist Robert Wyatt formed after he left the pioneering UK outfit Soft Machine in July, 1971. Over the course of its brief, one-year existence, Matching Mole would develop a characteristic sound, a unique take on fusion, with interesting structures that encouraged individualistic expression through solos. When one of the members came across a forgotten live show on tape -- identified simply as 'March, 1972', they immediately contacted us, and this album …
Ipotesi
Another great italian avantgarde progressive rarity from 1972! Complex and excellent album, with classic moments, jazz-rock influences in the Canterbury vein, acoustic parts, sudden rhythm changes and complex arrangements, in a few words everything we love from vintage italian prog! The nine tracks of the CD are connected to form two long suites. Great and never seen on CD before!