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Van der Graaf Generator: A Grounding in Numbers
by John Kelman
When, in 2005, Van Der Graaf Generator released its first album in over 25 years, the reunited group proved it was not only possible to go back, but that it could be done without sacrificing forward-thinking modernity. Inconsistent, perhaps, but Present (Charisma/Virgin) demonstrated, with “Every Bloody Emperor," a group still capable of soaring majesty and nightmare-inducing ...
Soft Machine: Alive & Well: Recorded in Paris
by John Kelman
Despite the controversy that plagued the ever-shifting musical persona of Soft Machine during its 15-year run, the benefits of time and hindsight have largely proven the value of every incarnation--albeit best assessed independently, rather than as part of a single continuum. 1978's Alive & Well: Recorded in Paris was the last of a three-record run on ...
P.F.M.: Cook (Expanded Deluxe Edition)
by John Kelman
Wrapping up Esoteric Recordings' ambitious, thorough and definitive reissue series of Premiata Forneria Marconi's 1970s English-language releases on Emerson, Lake and Palmer's Manticore label, the Italian progressive rock group's sole commercial live recording from the time, Cook (1975), gets a facelift and significant upgrade. The original release was marred by poor sound and energetic but sloppy ...
Bundles
By Soft Machine
Label: Esoteric Recordings
Released: 2010
Track listing: Hazard Profile Part One; Hazard Profile Part Two (Toccatina); Hazard Profile Part Three;
Hazard Profile Part Four; Hazard Profile Part Five; Gone Sailing; Bundles; Land of the Bag
Snake; The Man Who Waved at Trains; Peff; Four Gongs Two Drums; The Floating World.
Softs
By Soft Machine
Label: Esoteric Recordings
Released: 2010
Track listing: Aubade; The Tale of Taliesin; Ban-Ban Caliban; Song of Aeolus; Out of Season; Second Bundle;Kayoo; The Camden Tandem; Nexus; One Over the Eight; Etika.
Land of Cockayne
By Soft Machine
Label: Esoteric Recordings
Released: 2010
Track listing: Over 'n' Above; Lotus Groves; Isle of the Blessed; Panoramania; Behind the Crystal Curtain; Palace of Glass; Hot-Biscuit Slim; (Black) Velvet Mountain; Sly Monkey; A Lot of What You Fancy.
Cook (Expanded Deluxe Edition)
Label: Esoteric Recordings
Released: 2010
Track listing: CD1 (Original album mix remastered): Four Holes in the Ground; Dove...Quando...; Just Look Away; Celebration, including The World Became the World; Mr. Nine 'till Five; Alto Loma Five 'Till Nine (including PFM's arrangement of Rossini's William Tell Overture). CD2 (Live in Central Park, 31st August 1974 Part 1): River of Life; Four Holes in the Ground; Is My Face on Straight; Dove...Quando...; Guitar Solo; Just Look Away. CD3 (Live in Central Park, 31st August 1974 Part 2): Mr. Nine 'till Five; Alto Loma Five 'Till Nine (including PFM's arrangement of Rossini's William Tell Overture); Celebration/Drum Solo/The World Became the World.
Open Music
By Bob Downes
Label: Esoteric Recordings
Released: 2010
Track listing: Dream Journey: Score For "Blind Sight" (commissioned for) Ballet
Rambert; Birth Of A Forest; Integration; Contact; Ghosts In Space;
Desert Haze; Electric City.
Still (Expanded Edition)
Label: Esoteric Recordings
Released: 2010
Track listing: CD1: Song of the Sea Goat; Under the Sky; Will It Be You; Wholefood Boogie; Still;
Envelopes of Yesterday; The Piper; A House of Hopes and Dreams; The Night People. CD2:
Hanging Fire (1973); Still (first mix); The Song of the Sea Goat (early mix); Under the Sky
(early mix); Wholefood Boogie (early mix); Envelopes of Yesterday (early mix); The Piper
(early mix); A House of Hopes and Dreams (early mix); The Night People (early mix); Still
(second mix); Can You Forgive a Fool? (1975).
Two Sides of Peter Banks
By Peter Banks
Label: Esoteric Recordings
Released: 2010
Track listing: Vision of the King; The White House Vale: On the Hill, Lord of the Dragon; Knights: The Falcon, The Bear, Battles; Knights (Reprise); Last Eclipse; Beyond the Loneliest Sea; Stop That!; Get Out of My Fridge.
