(((O))) Category: Past Echoes

Echoes of the Past: Bill Nelson – Quit Dreaming and Get on the Beam

This album deserves a lot of recognition for the way Bill wanted to prove his fans that he was more than just a founder of Be-Bop Deluxe and Red Noise.

Echoes of the Past: White Willow – Signal to Noise

White Willow’s Signal to Noise deserves to be on top of the list of albums with repeatable, desirable listens.

Echoes of the Past: John Cale – Paris 1919

One of those albums that’ll be played for a long, long time and keeping the sound, vision, and wonders John brought to the table with its storytelling and poetic structures that is like a movie set in the 1950s with gorgeous and chamber-like arrangements.

Echoes of the Past: White Willow – Storm Season

It remains one of those albums that you keep going back to see what kind of mysteries and hidden clues that Lupo has left behind for listeners to discover.

Echoes of the Past: Jack Bruce – Songs for a Tailor (Expanded Edition)

A start for anyone who wants to go beyond the work to prove how much Bruce can take it a step further from his psychedelic and hard rock boundaries into something brilliant and poetic that you need to take notice of.

Echoes of the Past: Solstice – Light Up

Light Up isn’t just an incredible album, its an album that fills your heart with joy. Solstice have proven once more that they can really deliver the goods by being the guardians of a brave new world in all of its true form. And we got to experience the adventure in all of its glory!

Echoes of the Past: Greenslade – Bedside Manners are Extra

It does feel like a live album when you listen to Bedside, but the way that Greenslade, Lawson, Tony Reeves, and Andy McCulloch have done is to create a mystical, majestic, and symphonic adventure that’s stuck inside your brain for a very long time.

White Willow – Sacrament

Sacrament is the album that puts you right in the middle of danger, horror, eerie stories coming to life, and the ascending nightmare that’ll take you closer to the edge and descend into madness.

Echoes of the Past: Stackridge – The Man in the Bowler Hat

Yes, they were often under the radar during prog’s golden-era, but man, Stackridge can really play. And if you’re very new to their music, The Man in the Bowler Hat is the one to start off. If you want proof, just ask Rosalie Cunningham.

Echoes of the Past: Van der Graaf Generator – Vital

With Vital, you feel the intensity, the vibes, the heat, and the power that was struck on that recording. Most of the mind-blowing live takes are like shivers down your spine.

Echoes of the Past: Tangerine Dream – Phaedra

50 years later, Phaedra is an album that refuses to die.

Echoes of the Past: White Willow – Ex Tenebris

Going through the second album is like looking through an old scrapbook, reflecting the wonderful memories you had.

White Willow – Ignis Fatuus

With Jacob Holm-Lupo’s remastering sound on Ignis Fatuus, he brings in these vibrant textures to make it sound crisp, up to date, and respectable to the original.

John Howard – Kid in a Big World

Howard’s the unsung hero that would have given the ‘70s singer-songwriting genre, a real massive kick in the gut.

Echoes of the Past: Black Sabbath – Live Evil (Super Deluxe)

If you’re very new to Sabbath after discovering the Ozzy-era and want to embark on the Dio years, this is the one that is highly recommended.

Echoes of the Past: Andrew Gold – The Fraternal Order of the All: Greetings from Planet Love

Throughout the passages of time, Andrew Gold’s fraternity is worth exploring.

Echoes of the Past: Renaissance – Azure d’Or (Expanded Edition)

It’s time to give this album another chance, and understand why it was so far ahead of its time.

Echoes of the Past: Brian Davison’s Every Which Way – Brian Davison’s Every Which Way

…..it’s time to give Every Which Way, the proper recognition it deserves, and the amount of respect for Brian’s legacy that Esoteric has unleashed three years ago during those tricky times when the world shut down due to the pandemic.

Echoes of the Past: John McLaughlin, John Surman, Karl Berger, Stu Martin, and Dave Holland – Where Fortune Smiles

While the album was released in 1971, it remains one of the true unsung gems in the history of free-jazz.

Pink Floyd – Dark Side of the Moon… 50 Years On

Pink Floyd was, and still is the joy, that carries with us from the past, present, and now.

Echoes of the Past: Andrew Gold – Lonely Boy: The Asylum Years Anthology

This here is a must-have if you want to get into Gold’s music and understand why he was ahead of his time and often under the radar. It is time to give Andrew, the proper recognition he deserves.

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