[Hidden Rarities #40] Màquina!
Màquina! were a Spanish band active from 1969 until 1972, considered pioneering and seminal for Progressive Rock in the country. Born in a period where making music with Franco’s dictatorship…
[Hidden Rarities #39] Mashmakhan (CAN)
Mashmakhan was a band from Montreal, Canada whose lineup included artists from other 60s projects such as the Phantoms, Dominoes and Triangle. Original lineup included singer-songwriter Pierre Sénécal (vocals, keyboards,…
[Hidden Rarities #38] Captain Marryat (SCO)
Captain Marryat was a Scottish band active from 1971 to 1975, with only one self-titled album to their credit, and an intense live activity almost exclusively in Scotland. The band…
[Hidden Rarities #37] Cornucopia (GER)
Cornucopia were a German band born in 1972 in Hamburg and dissolved in 1974, which in their short period of activity have released an excellent album. Titled “Full Horn” was…
[Hidden Rarities #36] St. Helena (NOR)
Dear readers I have the pleasure of proposing to you in this editorial a Scandinavian band, precisely from Norway formed at Hammerfest in 1971, St. Helena. The news about this…
[Hidden Rarities #35] Oko (Yug)
Oko was a band formed in 1972 in Ljubljana in Slovenia, at the time belonging to the Yugoslav Federation united by singer and guitarist Pavel Kavec. Initially the trio was…
[Hidden Rarities #34] Freedom’s Children (South Africa)
Freedom’s Children were one of the most important bands of the South African scene of the late 60’s and early 70’s, pioneers of Acid and then Prog sounds in the…
[Hidden Rarities #33] Northwind (USA)
The original Northwind band was founded in 1968 by Roland Ernest and me (Jan Stepka). We were inspired originally by bands such as the Doors, Cream, the Moody Blues, the…
[Hidden Rarities #32] Brast Burn (JAP)
Brast Burn was one of the most mysterious projects to come out of Japan, whose information is really very difficult to find. One of the few things that is known…
[Hidden Rarities #31] Missing Link (GER)
Missing Link was a German band that had a short life in the early 1970s, releasing a single album that mixes Prog and Jazz with a Kraut twist. The band…