[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…
Hidden Rarities #39: Mashmakhan — The Forgotten Giants of Canadian Prog-Psych
Montréal, Canada, 1969. As the psychedelic wave of the late 1960s began to recede, giving way to the more complex and ambitious structures of Progressive Rock, Canada produced one of…
Hidden Rarities #38: Captain Marryat — The Glasgow Monster and the Sacred Grail of Scottish Heavy Prog
Glasgow, Scotland, 1971. In the vast and often impenetrable labyrinth of private press collectibles, few names carry the same mythological weight as Captain Marryat. In the world of rare vinyl…
[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 — Debon (Japan, 1975)
Japan, 1975. A record appears with no biography, no press release, no promotional campaign, no faces behind it. A record shop in the Nakano district of Tokyo — specialized in…