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'Igginbottom

'Igginbottom were an English progressive rock band, featuring Steven Robinson (guitar), Allan Holdsworth (guitar, vocals), Dave Freeman (drums) and Mick Skelly (bass).

Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe

Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe (sometimes referred to by the abbreviation ABWH) was a project of four progressive rock musicians: vocalist Jon Anderson, drummer Bill Bruford, keyboardist Rick Wakeman, and guitarist Steve Howe (with Tony Levin on bass).

Ansur

Ansur is a progressive extreme metal trio from Drammen, Norway with elements from both black and death metal, and 1970s progressive rock as well as other genres.

Bedside Manners Are Extra

Bedside Manners Are Extra is the second studio album of the British progressive rock band Greenslade, released in 1973 on Warner Bros. Records.

Bobby Rock

His second release, 1996's Out of Body, is a progressive rock album featuring guitarist Brett Garsed, whom Rock played with in the band Nelson, and bassist Carl "The Fox" Carter, who was a classmate of Rock's at Berklee.

Broderick Smith

Australian psychedelic and progressive rock band Tamam Shud were recording tracks for Albie Falzon's 1972 surf film Morning of the Earth including their song "First Things First".

Brother Where You Bound

Brother Where You Bound is the eighth studio album by progressive rock band Supertramp, released in 1985 (see 1985 in music).

Circa 2007

Circa 2007 (stylized as CIRCA: 2007) is the debut album by Circa, a progressive rock band consisting of former Yes members Billy Sherwood (bass, vocals), Tony Kaye (keyboards) and Alan White (drums), as well as Jimmy Haun (guitar).

City of Fear

City of Fear is the fourth album by FM, a progressive rock group from Toronto, Canada, released in 1980 on Passport Records and distributed in Canada by Capitol Records, catalogue number PB-2028, and in the USA on Passport distributed by Jem Records, catalogue number PB-6004.

Coma Divine II

"Coma Divine II" is a single released by British psychedelic rock/progressive rock Porcupine Tree, consisting of further music from the March 1997 concerts in Rome.

Dead Forever...

Considered by some to be the first Australian heavy metal album, Dead Forever... also strongly displayed the band's progressive rock and psychedelic influences.

Even in the Quietest Moments...

Even in the Quietest Moments… is the fifth album by progressive rock band Supertramp, released in April 1977.

Foto na Dans

Foto Na Dans (English: Photo After Dance) is a five piece Afrikaans progressive rock band from Bellville, South Africa, fronted by singer/songwriter Le-Roi Nel (vocals, guitar).

Four Chords That Made a Million

"Four Chords That Made a Million" is a single by British progressive rock band Porcupine Tree, released in April 2000, a month before the release of the album Lightbulb Sun, in order to promote it.

Freakbeat

The term was invented in the 1980s by the music journalist Phil Smee to retroactively describe a music style that has been described as a missing link between the early-to-mid-1960s mod R&B scene and the psychedelic rock and progressive rock genres that emerged in the late 1960s with bands such as Pink Floyd.

Il Castello di Atlante

Il Castello di Atlante ("Atlas' Castle") is an Italian progressive rock band based in Vercelli.

Intorno alla mia cattiva educazione

Intorno alla mia cattiva educazione is the first and only studio album by the Italian progressive rock band Alusa Fallax.

Ior Bock

In 1994, Kingston Wall, a Finnish progressive rock group included the core of Bock's mythic symbolism on their last album, Tri-Logy.

Janet 'Rusty' Skuse

It is commonly believed that it is Skuse who appears on the cover of the second album Indelibly Stamped (1971), by progressive rock group Supertramp, largely due to a tattoo on the left arm which names "Bill" and "Rusty"; however, a comparison between the album cover and photographs of Skuse's tattoos show that this is not the case.

Jean Ven Robert Hal

Jean Ven Robert Hal, stage name for Roberto D'Agostino Vendola born 11 May 1970 is an Italian musician, composer of Electronic Music, Kosmische Musik, Space music, Progressive, Ambient, Jazz, Synth pop and Orchestral music.

Jersey Tomato

2 (live at the Metlar Bodine Museum) is a live album by progressive rock band Echolyn.

John Erskine, 22nd Earl of Mar

The progressive rock band Genesis wrote a song, "Eleventh Earl of Mar" (found on their Wind & Wuthering album), about Mar and the 1715 Jacobite Rising.

Kasandrin Glas

Kasandrin Glas (Serbian Cyrillic: Касандрин Глас; trans. Cassandra's Voice) were a Serbian progressive/gothic rock band from Beočin.

Kingfisher Sky

Ivar's progressive rock and traditional folk influences collided with Judith's classical conservatory background, and also her preference for soul and artists like Aretha Franklin.

Larks' Tongues in Aspic

Larks' Tongues in Aspic is the fifth studio album by the English progressive rock group King Crimson, originally released in 1973.

Live at High Voltage Festival

Live At High Voltage is a 2 CD set released by the progressive rock band Spock's Beard recorded by Concert Live.

Love Beach

Love Beach is the seventh studio album by English progressive rock group Emerson, Lake & Palmer, released in 1978.

Master of the Rings

The album is known as a turning point in Helloween's career, as it marks the band's return to their power metal roots after a commercial failure in their previous album, the progressive rock and pop-influenced Chameleon.

Mëkanïk Dëstruktïẁ Kömmandöh

Mëkanïk Dëstruktïẁ Kömmandöh (MDK) is an album released by French progressive rock band Magma in 1973.

Michael Nicolella

He has been collaborating with rock singer Jon Anderson, best known for his work as lead vocalist in the progressive rock band Yes.

Never Is Forever

On the CD-version there are three hidden tracks in the end of the final track: Bingo singing Staten och kapitalet, a 70's radical left-wing progressive rock tune by Blå Tåget made into a national hit song in Sweden in 1980 by punk rock band Ebba Grön, Evel Knievel performing a poem named Why? and John Culliton Mahoney performing his song The Ballad of Evel Knievel.

Orchestron

Swedish record producer and progressive rock musician Mattias Olsson has since the late 90s recorded several albums that features the Orchestron and Optigan prominently.

PBA-FM

Each night specialist programs broadcast a specific genre of music, ranging from Classical, World, Rock & Roll, Jazz, Country, Progressive Rock and Rhythm & Blues.

Portuguese rock

During the 1970s, and particularly after democracy was established after the 1974 Carnation Revolution, Portugal became home to an active progressive rock scene, which included bands like Tantra, Petrus Castrus, Banda do Casaco and the highly successful Quarteto 1111.

Prognosis Show

The title 'Prognosis' was derived from the obvious medical term and from the genre Progressive rock but it also featured many other genres including Space music, Krautrock, Psychedelic music, Electronic music and Experimental Music.

The Prognosis Show was a Progressive rock radio show hosted by Richard Stockwell which aired on Contact 89 FM, a student radio station based at the University of Waikato in Hamilton, New Zealand.

Rivers Jobe

Rivers Jobe (1950 – 1979) was a British bass player known for being a member of The Anon, one of the two bands which merged to form the progressive rock band Genesis; and for playing on the Savoy Brown album Getting to the Point, as well as on the tracks "Vicksburg Blues", "Train to Nowhere", and "Tolling Bells" on the following Blue Matter album.

Shesmovedon

Shesmovedon (which stands for "She's Moved On") is a single by British progressive rock band Porcupine Tree, released in July 2000, from the Lightbulb Sun album.

Some Things Never Change

Some Things Never Change is the tenth album by progressive rock band Supertramp, released in 1997 (see 1997 in music).

Songs for Older Women

Songs for Older Women is the first live album by progressive rock band Umphrey's McGee, recorded over a two-night stand in Indiana in November 1998 and released in 1999.

Soundstage: Umphrey's McGee – Live

Soundstage: Umphrey's McGee – Live is the third DVD release from progressive rock band Umphrey's McGee.

Starlight Dancer

Starlight Dancer is a 1977 album by Dutch progressive rock band Kayak.

Swiss rock

In the beginning of the 1990s, in Southern Switzerland (canton of Ticino) a very active neo-progressive rock scene produced two bands with world wide footprint: Clepsydra (InsideOut Music) and Shakary (SHK Records).

The Dark Secret

Track 5 is a cover of a song by Italian progressive rock band Goblin, composed as part of the soundtrack for the 2001 giallo movie Sleepless, directed by Dario Argento.

The Kimberly Trip

The two began playing in bands together in junior high school, such as Thin Ice, a progressive rock band influenced by groups such as Marillion and Rush.

The Mooseheart Faith Stellar Groove Band

The Mooseheart Faith Stellar Groove Band, sometimes known as Mooseheart Faith, is a Los Angeles based rock band blending 1960s folk rock and psychedelia, 1970s space rock and progressive rock and a variety of influences from world music and jazz.

The Silmarillion

The English progressive rock band Marillion were formed in 1979 as Silmarillion but shortened their name in 1981 to avoid any copyright conflict.

Waited Up 'til It Was Light

It was recorded in Hoboken, New Jersey with producer Machine, whose previous credits include work with notable contemporary hard rock acts as well as the progressive rock group King Crimson.

Zalmoxis

Romanian rock band Sfinx worked from around 1975 through 1978 on what became one of the most appreciated Romanian progressive rock LPs, Zalmoxe.


see also

33 Jazz Records

The label was founded by musician/producer Paul Jolly, whose previous work includes playing with '70's progressive rock band Sweet Slag, and leading improvising musicians such as Maggie Nicols, the Loverly Band, the People Band and EAWO. His professional work included tours of Europe and the Far East. He also appeared, playing as a member of the Kraków Jazz Ensemble, in the Mike Figgis film 'Stormy Monday' which featured Sting, Melanie Griffiths & Tommy Lee Jones.

64 Spoons

As a project partner, he’s played with the jazz/songwriter/Indian music project Dizrhythmia (with Danny Thompson, Gavin Harrison and Pandit Dinesh ), the Henry Cow spin-off project The Lodge (with John Greaves and Peter Blegvad) and the British progressive rock band The Tangent.

Alan Kendall

His next known appearances were with Glass Menagerie, In 1970, he joined the bluesy progressive rock band Toe Fat who had released one album called Toe Fat.

Amon Düül UK

The band was formed in 1981 by guitarist John Weinzerl and bassist Dave Anderson in Wales, both of whom had been members of Amon Düül II, and featured drummer Guy Evans from the British progressive rock band Van der Graaf Generator, with Julie Waring on vocals.

Andrew Spence

He performed briefly with New Zealand progressive rock group, Agent and has also performed and recorded with Hip-Hop Crossover band The Spindle Sect.

Änglagård

Hybris, the debut release, and the follow-on instrumental Epilog of 1994, were both voted "album of the year" in polls of progressive rock fans.

Armenian Argentine

Ara Tokatlian, musician, founder of Argentine folk/progressive rock Arco Iris

Ashes Are Burning

Ashes Are Burning is an album by progressive rock band Renaissance, released in 1973 (see 1973 in music).

Blue Rondo à la Turk

Keith Emerson used this piece (uncredited) when he was with progressive rock band The Nice, using it as the basis of "Rondo" from the album The Thoughts of Emerlist Davjack.

Bornemann

Frank Bornemann (born 1949), the guitarist for German progressive rock band Eloy

Carlos E. Vela

Musically, he is mostly influenced by drummers Bobby Jarzombek, Vinnie Paul and Phil Collins and by bands like Necrophagist, Spastic Ink, Bottled Science and Megadeth defining his style as mixture between Thrash Metal, Progressive Metal, Death Metal and Progressive Rock.

CJ Tingler

The actual band The Sea and Cake was later founded in reality and performed mostly as a progressive-rock band with jazz influences.

Clive Nolan

Besides his Progressive Rock ventures Nolan has written a rock-opera, 'She' based upon the novel by Sir H Rider Haggard.

Danny Ben-Israel

Danny Ben-Israel was a notable Israeli musician of the late 1960s and early 1970s, producing psychedelic progressive rock with socially concerned lyrics in Hebrew.

Din Within

In 2012, a new tribute album to Yes (band), featuring "cover" versions from across the discography of the popular long-running band, featured Din Within's unique take on the song "Changes" (from 90125.) Released by Mellow Records (Italy) in May 2012, it is a two-disc compilation featuring progressive rock bands from around the world.

The band's style, a blend of styles such as Symphonic rock, neo-prog, Album-oriented rock (AOR) and traditional Progressive rock, is heavily influenced by a large variety of progressive rock groups from both sides of the Atlantic and several decades, including the likes of Spock's Beard, Genesis, Porcupine Tree, Pink Floyd, Dream Theater, Kansas and many more.

Direct to disc

Direct to Disc, a 1978 music recording by Canadian progressive rock group, FM

Douglas Thomson

Dougie Thomson (born 1951), Scottish bass guitarist, formerly of the progressive rock band Supertramp

Gonzalo Carrera

Carrera has also previously worked with Spanish progressive rock band Galadriel and British-American progressive rock band Quasar, as well as on solo projects by former members of Hawkwind (Huw Lloyd-Langton), Jethro Tull (Clive Bunker and Glenn Cornick), Karnataka (Nick May), The Nice (David O'List), and Yes (Peter Banks).

He is best known as a former member of the British progressive rock bands Landmarq (2002-2005) and more recently Karnataka (2005-2010).

Goodbye Stranger

"Goodbye Stranger" is a song by British progressive rock band Supertramp, which first appeared on their 1979 album Breakfast in America.

Greg Voelker Rack System

The Greg Voelker Rack System is a unique drum rack used by former Megadeth drummer Nick Menza, David Beal drummer for Joe Cocker, Julian Lennon, Honeymoon Suite, Rod Morgenstein drummer for Dixie Dregs and Winger and was voted by Modern Drummer Magazine's "Most Popular Progressive Rock Drummer", Michael Foster, drummer for FireHouse, and Whitesnake drummer Tommy Aldridge.

Guitar Garden

Guitar Garden's latest album is Secret Space (2006), inspired by the many progressive rock and jazz-rock bands of the 1970s, such as Yes, ELP, and Mahavishnu Orchestra, as well as contemporary acts like The Flower Kings.

Hitoshi Sakimoto

He has stated that his biggest musical influences are "old techno and progressive rock" groups such as the Japanese electropop group Yellow Magic Orchestra.

Howard Gable

Other notable productions for EMI Australia in this period include the hit singles "5:10 Man" and "Turn Up Your Radio" by The Masters Apprentices and "I'll Be Gone", the debut single by progressive rock group Spectrum, which was a national #1 hit in Australia in 1970.

Isn't Life Strange

"Isn't Life Strange" is a 1972 single by the English progressive rock band The Moody Blues, which was based on Pachelbel's Canon In D.

Jon Poole

By the mid-to-late 80s, when he was beginning to play in bands, he was listening to maverick American art-rock heroes such as Captain Beefheart, Tom Waits, Frank Zappa and also to British progressive rock from the 1970s (as well as contemporary prog-inspired bands - most notably Cardiacs).

Jonas Reingold

Reingold played bass as special guest on the Musea/Colossus release: Dante's Inferno with a Hungarian progressive rock band called Yesterdays.

Mike Westhues

In 1971, Westhues set off to see the world, ending up in Finland, where he was extremely active in the Finnish music scene, working with such groups as the Finnish progressive rock band Wigwam, its lead vocalist Jim Pembroke and Finnish blues artist Dave Lindholm.

Motoi Sakuraba

The band later disbanded, and Sakuraba went on to release a solo progressive rock album, "Gikyokuonsou", in 1991.

Osanna

Their next production was Prog Family, under the name of Osanna/Jackson, featuring notable figures of progressive rock history, such as Van der Graaf Generator's saxophonist David Jackson (as per name), King Crimson's David Cross, Balletto di Bronzo's Gianni Leone and others.

Oscar Prudente

The turning point of his career was the encounter with Ivano Fossati, with whom he composed several hits of the progressive rock group Delirium and with whom, after that Fossati left the group, he released the album Poco prima dell'aurora.

Seven rays

Another progressive rock band, Hawkwind, have a song about the seven rays titled Seven by Seven.

Sidera

Loukas Sideras, drummer of the Greek progressive rock band Aphrodite's Child

Stephen Wilson

Steven Wilson (born 1967), founder of progressive rock band Porcupine Tree

Sunshine Day

Sunshine Day is the title of British progressive rock group Jethro Tull's debut single, produced by Derek Lawrence, released in 1968 by MGM Records.

The Afterman: Ascension

The Afterman: Ascension is the sixth studio album by progressive rock band Coheed and Cambria.

The Big Red Spark

The Big Red Spark is the second full-length album by the English progressive rock band Tinyfish.

The Broken

The Broken, a 2010 single by progressive rock group Coheed and Cambria

Third Harvest

Third Harvest are a progressive rock or metal band from Keady in County Armagh in Northern Ireland.

Tinyfish Album

Tinyfish is the debut album by the English progressive rock band Tinyfish.

VHF Records

Since then, Youngs has released a dozen collaborative albums on the label, including 6 with Simon Wickham-Smith (who has also essayed two solo sets for the imprint), 3 with Alex Neilson, one from his progressive rock unit Ilk (with Andrew Paine) and one with Makoto Kawabata.

Vitalij Kuprij

In 2009 he joined the progressive rock band Trans-Siberian Orchestra as a pianist/keyboard player and has remained a permanent member ever since.

Warner Brothers Presents... Montrose!

Side One closes with the long progressive-rock influenced "Whaler", pairing Ronnie Montrose's acoustic guitar alongside Novi Novog's viola.