[Hidden Rarities #49] Pangea (ITA)
Pangea were an Italian quintet active during the mid-1970s, formed in Lombardy and ultimately destined to remain a brief yet noteworthy presence within the extensive underground landscape of Italian Progressive…
[Hidden Rarities #48] CWT (UK)
Among the many shadows cast by the British Progressive and Heavy underground of the early Seventies, CWT remain one of the most elusive and paradoxical cases. Documentary sources on the…
[Hidden Rarities #47] Dark (Northampton, UK)
Dark, originating from Northampton in the United Kingdom, represent one of the most elusive and fascinating cases in early-Seventies British Psychedelic and Progressive Rock. A band that left behind a…
[Hidden Rarities #46] Eternidad (ARG)
Hidden within the folds of Argentina’s vast Progressive Rock legacy lies Eternidad, a short-lived ensemble whose only album, “Apertura,” remains one of the most refined and elusive recordings of the…
[Hidden Rarities #45] Leviathan (UK)
In the dying months of 1969, while the BBC was broadcasting a documentary celebrating their rise, Leviathan had already ceased to exist. Their debut album — recorded at the legendary…
[Hidden Rarities #44] Bodkin
Bodkin were a Scottish quintet who released a self-titled Heavy Prog album in 1972. It is the only release by the band that has been reissued several times over the…
Hidden Rarities #56: Aquila — The Visionary Architecture of Chilean Fusión and Guillermo Rifo’s Interrupted Flight
Santiago, Chile, 1973. In the vast and often fragmentary historiography of Progressive Rock and South American jazz, the name Aquila shines like a precious artefact — a kind of sonic…
[Hidden Rarities #42] Skryvania
In the mid-1970s, from the suburban outskirts of Paris, a group of teenage friends and high school classmates set out to do the unthinkable: dethrone Yes and Genesis. Skryvania, an…
[Hidden Rarities #41] Hands
Hands was an American, a short-lived symphonic American band from Texas – Progressive Rock band who existed from 1977 disbanded in 1980 – Reformed in 1997, and became known through…
[Hidden Rarities #52] Màquina! — The Big Bang of Spanish Progressive Rock
Barcelona, 1969. A group of young musicians emerging from the city’s folk-protest underground makes a decision that, in hindsight, will reverberate through the entire history of Spanish rock: to plug…