Sympathies to you and the family of your Brother-in-law. Thanks for high-lighting Egg. IMO, Dave Stewart can't get enough recognition. The strength of his compositional style puts him right alongside Keith Emerson, Rick Wakeman and other British keyboard luminaries. Hatfield and the North, National Health and Bruford are where I feel he made his greatest mark. Also the late, great Alan Gowen.

Terje Rypdal is indeed the best of the best... great video as always.

Great video. When you talked about Brian Auger, I immediately remembered his guitarist in Brian Auger And The Trinity Gary Boyle, who shortly afterwards formed the extraordinary Jazz Fusion band Isotope, together with Brian Miller, Jeff Clyne and Nigel Morris.

Another School of Prog night , and as usual we now have loads of home work, Thanks Andy for bringing these wonderful Albums to light.

Dave Stewart of Arzachel, Egg, Khan, Hatfield and the North, National Health, Bruford is the most underrated musician since the first bushman hit two sticks together.

I always appreciate you directing me to music I have never heard before. Thanks.

'The Hapless Child' is a Desert Island Disc for me! Everything about it is stunning. As well as being 'doom laden' it is also incredibly funny as Gorey's poems are shot through with pathos, irony and surrealism. 'The insect God' is like 'Quatermas and the Pit' meets 'Carry on Screaming'. Who better than Robert Wyatt to carry off such lyrical ambiguities and inject his own vocal identity on each song. On 'The Sinking Spell' he sings each verse in a progressively higher key as the titular 'whatever-it-is' descends through the narrative. The musicianship, especially Rypdal, is equally impressive, as is Mantler's writing. Witty, tragic, amazing!

50 is so young - I'm sorry to hear that Andy. My condolences to you and your family.

The Shadowfax album is great. It exists both as originally released in 1976, and in a later rerelease on Windham Hill, with some keyboard parts re-recorded. They toured as a real fusion band for years, before making the turn towards New Age in the early eighties. A compilation of bootlegs and other rarities also documented the early stuff. I’ve loved this album for a long time.

Shadowfax!!!! Love them.

Brian Auger plays still, here locally in Los Angeles, at The Baked Potato.

My condolences to you and your family on the loss of your brother-in-law.

I rememeber seeing Egg in about 1971/72. It was at Bold Street Workingmen's Club in Accrington. I won that album in the raffle during the interval, sold it later to a friend of mine, who was more into it than me, at the time. They made a pleasant change from the bands we used to get, who were mainly, heavy rock/blues groups. One band that stood out were Strife

Thank you for the entertaining and educational videos. God bless you and your family in this trying time.

Sorry for your loss. Dave Stewart National Health is also mandatory same for David Sancious and Tone, Area and Arti e Mestieri.

First Shadowfax album is a monster. My friend had it in the 1970s and I could never find a copy. Then years later they came out on Windham Hill and I wasn't even sure it was the same band. (Although in fairness, they did some lovely stuff for Windham Hill; just not fusion or prog). Solution's song "Divergence" (by Tom Barlage) is better known to most prog fans as "Tommy" in the Focus suite, Eruption, on Moving Waves.

Enjoyed the video. Very sorry to hear about your Brother-in-Law. Please accept my condolences.

nice discovery for me thanks

I've been a prog fan for many years. Recently I've been sniffing around for bands that I might have missed. A recent favourite discovery is German 1970's prog band "Hoelderlin" - their second, third and fourth albums are all amazing prog (the first album is more prog-folk and is pretty good if you like that kind of thing - Mellow Candle vibes but with German language singing from a short-lived female singer. The subsequent albums are male-vocals in English.) I'm also very much enjoying a recent find, Streetmark's "Eileen" album (again from Germany) from 1977. Thanks to Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs, for introducing me to this band via one of thier amazing compilation albums. I am also duty bound to mention (imo) one of the greatest 'lesser-known' prog bands, Crack The Sky (USA). Keep diggin' in those crates fellow sonic-adventurers ... there's a whole universe to explore! Klaatu, Ultimate Spinach, Circulus, East of Eden, I'd also recommend. "The only thing that's important is if it moves you or not." - Roger W ---- thanks for another great video Andy. So sorry for your loss. (glad I ferreted so I could add this) love & light mate

Hi Andy. I enjoy the lists, whether they're of undeniable classics or fairly obscure finds. In the latter category, I think you could easily do another list with one or all of the following: Agitation Free - Malesch Brainticket - Psychonaut Dzyan - Electric Silence Gila - Gila (a.k.a. Free Electric Sound) If - Waterfall Ikarus - Ikarus Sunbirds - Sunbirds Think - Variety T2 - It'll All Work Out in Boomland Xhol Caravan - Electrip Keep up the interesting work!

Really sorry for your loss, Andy.

Hey, great video. Man, how do i make this psychologically not seem like its going to be another one of those dead end vintage prog recommendations. Because, after all, the people who make them never think they're doing it. Ha. Which statistically, i could be. Well here goes. And since we're on the subject of buddie's bands, i have an older musician friend that i had done many gigs with before discovering that he (drums) and his brother in law (keys/composer) were in a prog band in the late 70s/early 80s called Master Cylinder. Another friend had actually told me about it and played some for me back in the 90s. Was bliwn away, notnonly by how legit it sounded but also by how it transcended the town we are from, Ft. Worth TX. Where the west begins, and start of the Chisolm Trail cattle drive. Cant believe how naturally British it sounds. Canterbury, in fact. Could easily be a lost classic from that scene. They did one release called Elsewhere through a NYC label. They recorded a follow up but the label went bust and the next album sits unreleased to this day. Supposedly even better/proggier. Here's a link. I truly hopebyou read this, decide to listen and enjoy it. Thanks kzfaq.info/get/bejne/osVmndCiqry1aJ8.htmlsi=dPRU_cejJ1iTOs5f

Glad you mentioned Egg.. I remember working in the shipyard back in the mid 80s and a bloke was always going on about them. I only got around to hearing that Civil Surface LP a few years back... "A visit to Newport Hospital" is just incredible... also "I will be Absorbed" from their first LP is wonderful... I prefer them to any classic prog rock group. Two other LPs I like which I discovered via Napster are "Space Guerilla" by Missus Beastly and "We Keep On" from Embryo...

What a great selection, Andy - all totally new to me. I thought the Oblivion Express album - great, by the way - had a slightly ELP sound to it. I also greatly enjoyed the Shadowfax album and also 'Reality is my Play Thing'. I was sorry to hear about your brother-in-law passing away at such a young age.

Visitor 2035 is a fine album

In case no one has commented yet - Egg originally had Steve Hillage, but they were called Azrachel. They recorded 1 album, and Steve left for University. They released 2 albums and broke up. Meanwhile, Steve left school and formed Khan, which Dave Stewart guested on. Dave joined Hatfield and the North. After their first album, Egg reunited briefly just to record the third album, but there wasn't enough material, so they added Mont's Wind Quartets. I got Shadowfax right when it first came out, and saw them live later when they were prog/new age/jazz/folk. I was very impressed with Phi's stuff! Very cool, thanks!

Good video. Learned much per usual. Sorry for your loss.

This video is for me! Thanks you Andy! A great end to my day

This is going to take awhile, lots of stuff to check out. Thanks for the great list Andyb

Back about 10 Years Ago I checked out as much Records produced by Skip Drinkwater, who got his Start around Herbie Hancock in the early 70ties and became a very central Producer in the US American Jazzrock Fusion Scene. I was always stumped that this Band vanished without Traces.

Such a fun list!! I can't wait to go shopping. LOL! Thank you for sharring.

Thanks, Andy! Another musical adventure begins, tracking this stuff down - loving the Oblivion Express stuff so far.

Kazumi Watanabe ‎- Mobo II (1984), not obscure but forgotten. - Kazumi Watanabe / electric & acoustic guitars, synths, fake log drums, percussion, Robbie Shakespear / bass, Marcus Miller / bass, Sly Dunbar / drums, Omar Hakim / drums, Kei Akagi / piano, fake marimba, Don Grolnick / organ, synth, Michael Brecker / tenor sax, Shigeti Otani / brush

Dude I told you! That shadowfax is an absolute gem. Very special album for me. Just hope to god you mention yeast Urfa at some point. I will say Egg’s second album is by far their best and is reminiscent of some math rock ages in advance. The Polite Force is dark, intellectual, and timeless.

Great video. Delighted to see Watercourse Way in the list, what an awesome record that was.

My condolences for your loss, and congratulations for this selection - some of the albums I know quite well, some I need to revisit and others I barely knew. Inspired choices, and a lot of musical pleasure ahead.

Phi, wow, no words. (Bonus points awarded for bass clarinet on some tracks.)

What a brilliant video. I love Egg and Brian Auger/ Oblivion Express and have all their albums. All the other people you talk about I know but not any of the albums. Lots for me to check out and that's a great thing. Thank you.

@47.00 Egg made three albums, Egg, The Polite Force and The Civil Surface. I saw them at birmingahm Town Hall supporting The groundhogs (Clive Brooks then replaced Ken Pustelnik on drums for the Hogs on the albums Hogwash and Solid). Solid Prog, i.e. classical music fused with Rock, Both Mont Campbell and Dave Stewart were classically trained musicians. Dave Stewart was the first guy I saw using a ribbon synth modulator which he used as he jumped into the audience and frightened young persons with wild screaming wailing synth.

Speaking of Carla Bley and obscure progressive jazz albums, how about "Kew Rhone" credited to Peter Blegvad, John Greaves and Lisa Herman. Carla Bley contributed. This album is a classic masterpiece.

One more. Big Red Rock (1974) by Ayers Rock. The first Australian band to play big USA stadiums. Probably my favourite fusion album. Its so fun you could play it at a party. Vocals some tracks. The most popular track, Boogie Woogie Waltz at just over 10 minutes.Weather Report cover.

Solution was one of the three more well known Canterbury influenced Dutch groups. The other two were Alquin and Supersister. Especially Supersister was spectacular. All their albums are great. Other Dutch progbands from high quality who did not reach the fame of Focus but were equally great imho are Finch and Trace. In America there is a band equally unknown than Good God. Very young guys whom made two albums in the mid seventies: Yezda Urfa. Check out their second album Sacred Babboon. In Indonesia there was a progband called Discus. Also in this case their second album is their best: Tot licht. And then there is the American band Pocket Orchestra. Insane Jazzrock/Rio/ progrock/ modern classical/ Zappa-esque stuff. And of course the greatest 'Canterbury'band from Wahington DC: The Muffins.

Thanks... all of the clips that you played were just my kind of thing, but despite the fact that I'm a real music hoarder, I never heard any of these things. Filed in memory, and perhaps I'll come across one or two of those in a bargain bin somewhere... that's where I've found some of my favorite records...

Thanks for another list of almost forgotten gems worth seeking out! I just recently saw Marco Minnemann, Brian Beller and the astonishing Guthrie Govan aka The Aristocrats in Hamburg, great show! Here's a suggestion for your next installment of obscure left-field albums: check out "Maltid" by Samla Mammas Manna from 1973 (or some of their other albums). Another interesting, if more conventional, Swedish fusion groups active in the mid-to-late 70 is Kornet.

1. Whatevershebringswesing : Kevin Ayers 2. Shazam : Move 3. Parachute : Pretty Things 4. A curieus feeling : Tony Banks 5. Song of the marching children : Earth & Fire 6. Paint a picture : Fantasy 7. Acid motherhood : Gong 8. Dark matter : IQ 9. A beacon from Mars : Kaleidoscope 10. Rainbow dome musick : Steve Hillage

Oh and forgot to add my lost classic. Ray Russell ...Rites and Rituals 1971. Stunning stuff! Thats what 99p in a charity shop 25 years ago buys you!

Phi Yaan-Zek's Reality... ordered from his site! 🎸

Great viv thx for sharing. And hey Reality Is MY thing!

Enjoy Solution's next album Codon Bleu as well. Worth a spin.

12:10 Really like this

Crossfire (1975). Australia. Chill moody, atmospheric tunes. They backed Lee Ritenour and Michael Franks on their Australian tours around 1980. The Franks tour produced a live album, Michael Franks with Crossfire. Apparently Ritenour commented that they knew his material better than he did.

I like to enjoy jazzy prog and proggy jazz..

Thank you Andy , im here the hepples child. There are some interesting noises taken from Pink Floyds Ummagumma on the album as well❤

We all know that one Egg is never enough! All three of their albums are worth checking out, but if you love The Civil Surface, you might like their 2nd album, The Polite Force, even more. It's the one I keep going back to more than the other two. Being a huge fan of The Canterbury scene, I want to give a bit of love to another band that often gets overlooked - Gilgamesh. Can't go wrong with them either. P.S. Egg's complete catalogue was beautifully re-mastered about a decade ago and the cd's are still reasonably priced and available. The vinyls are much harder to get and much more expensive. The Compact Discs sound much better anyway.

Michael Mantler .Happless child. "The insect god" conveys the frantic story of a child's disappearence and the dismay of a family who will never know the ghastly sacrefice for witch she has been taken. It's also one of the most disconcerting masterstrokes of Prog Rock these ears have ever encountered.(Tyran Grillo) Author of Between sound and space. The history of ECM records.

Zeno Sparkles indeed!

Andy. Check out a Japanese Fusion Band called Fragile. Their drummer passed away in 2021 so I don't think they exist anymore. They are kind of a like a more aggressive version of Tribal Tech but you might consider them too derivative. Nevertheless the musicianship is incredible. Also in case you haven't heard Chris Poland's band OHM.

You ever heard of Free Flight and specifically the album Soaring? Very unique jazz classical fusion.

My deepest condolences on the loss of your brother-in-law! Concerning your video, as always, great list! I just couldn't resist listing some rarely mentioned but great bands and musicians from the jazz fusion prog art rock genre from the seventies, eighties and early nineties (USA, Canada, England, France, Belgium, Spain, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Japan, Scandinavia, Netherlands, and Germany). Check them out and you won't be disappointed! BTW, I hope you enjoy browsing the still incomplete list...🖖🤓 Caldera, Happy The Man, Gamalon, The Code, Five after Four, UZEB, Proteus/Infinite Change, Streetdancer/Rising, Dr. Tree, The Section, Finneus Gauge, Hip Address“/ „Time is free“ David Earle Johnson with Jan Hammer, Stone Alliance (with Jan Hammer), Chad Wackerman, Ed Mann… The Jazz Sluts, PAZ, Morrisey/Mullen, Iguazu, Strange Fruit, Middleton/Ahwai, The Breakfast Band, Pacific Eardrum, Hummingbird, Isotope, Steve Topping, Alan Murphy, RMC, Network, Groon, Visitor 2035, Hubbert’s Cubboard, Pzazz, Zzebra, National Health, Gilgamesh, Turning Point, Roadside Picnic… Toto Blanke/Spider/Electric Circus, Joachim Kühn/Springfever/Hip Elegy, Information (Kühn, Nauseef, Kochbeck), Jasper Van’t hof Eyeball (Zbigniew Seifert, John Lee, Gerry Brown…), Eyeball (Van’t Hof, Lockwood, Stief, Malach, Romano), Charlie Mariano/October/Cristal Bells/Hellen 12 Trees, Volker Kriegel/Mild Maniac, Aera, Release Music Orchestra, Jazz Police, Passport, Kristian Schultze Set Recreation… Scope, Supersister, Aggressive Attack, U-Turn, One Spirit, On Impulse... Lubos Andrst/Capricornus, Jazz Q, Energit, SBB, Urbaniak, Laboratorium, Crash, Extra Ball, Modry Effect... Jukka Gustavson, The End/Matter of Fact, RUPHUS, Alpha Centauri,Tasavallan Presidentti, Kultivator, Von Zamla, Johansson Brothers, Samla Mammas Manna, Secret Oyster, Moose Loose, Heavy Joker, Entrance, Jukka Tolonen Band, Coste Apetrea, Balance,Tasavallan Presidentti, Finnforrest… Nova, Arti & Mestieri, Perigeo, PFM, Area, Accordo dei Contrari… Iceberg, Pegasus... Placebo, Univers Zero, Present, COS, Finnegans Wake… SURYA (the first and gigantic band of Didier Lockwood), ZAO, Neffesh Music, Transit Express, David Rose (Group), Michel Ripoche, Ripoche/Demay, Rhamann, Spheroe, Speed Limit, Synthesis, Benoit Wideman, Patrick Gauthier, Bernard Paganotti PAGA, Volkor, Francis Lockwood, Forgas, Potemkine, Cortex, Troc, Ceccarelli, C.C.P.P., Working Progress, Bad News Travel Fast, Chute Libre, Abus Dangereux, Eider Stellaire, Troll, Jaques Thollot/Cinq Hops, Edidtion Special, FUSION (Vander, Lockwood, Widemann Top), DLG/Didier Lockwood Group, Pierre Blanchard (Each one teach one), Clearlight, Pierre Moerlen’s Gong, Katapulse, Tryphon, Sixun, Ultramarine, One Shot… Mongol, Kenso, Quaser, Happy Family, Bi Kyo Ran, Ain Soph, W.I.N.S., Side Steps, Prism, Keep, ExHivision, KBB, Bondage Fruit, Bellaphon, Pryme Tyme, Mr. Sirius, Fragile, Tabu Jakubi, Trix...

Go with Winwood, Meola, Shriever and Yamashta.. What a cool group

18:00 Drumming wow!

Thank you, Andy. I’ll be seeking this music out. Speaking of overlooked Prog, has Jade Warrior ever come on your radar screen? Among other things, their percussion might intrigue you. I especially recommend their albums Released and Floating World. I’d love to see a deep dive on them, as there certainly isn’t much punditry out there on them. My condolences on your brother-in-law.

Love these forgotten or unknown bands. Are you familiar with the band Clearlight Symphony. Steve Hillage , Tim Blake. Didier Malherbe and some other GONG members. David Cross is allso on one off the albums. Sorry for your Loss Andy.🙏

I have a great idea for a video you should do Zappa VS Zorn

Shadowfax is very good....

Sorry to hear the loss of your brother in law

I have Good God on vinyl. Its a mystery alright. I like Auger's 1974 LP. The Section is a good listen - session musicians for James Taylor, etc including Leland Sklar.

Cheers Andy. I actually have 3 of the albums , Brian Auger, Egg and Solution (their s/t 1st is excellent too) and have been chasing a copy of Good God for years! Have the first Mythos too but not the one you mentioned. Asa big Robert Wyatt fan am off to search for the Michael Mantler album as brand new to me!

Have you ever done a video on all the Canterbury scene bands from the 70s, such as National Health, Egg, Gilgamesh, etc....

Try some Polish music albums: Ewa Demarczyk śpiewa piosenki Zygmunta Koniecznego (1967) Czesław Niemen - Dziwny jest ten świat (1967) Breakout - Na drugim brzegu tęczy (1969) Czesław Niemen - Enigmatic (1970) Marek Grechuta - Korowód (1971) Skaldowie - Krywań Krywań (1972) Kurylewicz Warska Niemen - Muzyka teatralna i telewizyjna (1972) Republika - Nowe Sytuacje (1982) Maanam - Nocny patrol / Night Patrol (1983) Obywatel GC (1986) and jazz: Krzysztof Komeda - Astigmatic (1966) Zbigniew Namysłowski - Kujaviak goes funky (1974) Michał Urbaniak - Constellation in concert (1975)

Mythos were pretty good, but the first Oblivion, Shadowfax and Good God albums are great. Egg is just classic, very early pioneers of the Canterbury scene and I'm sure you know of Arzachel which is pre-Egg with Hillage.

The first Ginger Bakers Air Force. Recorded live with Steve Winwood, Graham Bond, Rick Grech and a bunch of others. Probably more jazzy than prog. If you think Neil Peart is a great drummer listen to this.

Great video. Checked shadowfax and thought it was brilliant. Do you know Janne schaffer, Earmeal album its great jazzrock fusion from sweden 70s. Its classic.

With the chance for repeating myself, but I know you get so many messages, I was wondering if you Andy ever have heard the Charlie Mariano album “12 Helen trees”? It got a who’s who of Jazz-rock on it, as; Jan Hammer, Jack Bruce, the late John Marshall and Zbigniew Seifert. It’s worth listening to anyway. Thank you for all the great and sometime silly content. Good day to you Sir!

Andy, are you familiar with the album Lady Lake, by Gridnolog? That's good 'un.

energit debut and 2nd piknik,volto incitare,nik turner space fusion odyssey

I love your videos Andy but I can't get into prog (not yet anyway...) Liked the #KrautRock more... 😎

GE Stinson of shadowfax played on Nels Cline album destroy all nels cline. Top album. Nels best

What about Moving Gelatin Plates? You might like U Totem?😀❤️🎼

Great list! I have not heard several of these...I guess I have some homework to do. I'd like to add one of my favorites: Avant Garden - "Maelstrom" (2001) Do yourself a favor and check this great album out.

Have you heard the Russian jazz rock band Arsenal ? Well worth checking out

I tried the Mantler thing, just couldn't get it.. Sounded like stoned people noodling away, while some guy from down the pub tries to sing..phi yaan zek is real good.. your Playlist are on Spotify, we don't get it in my country and I won't piss around trying to get it to work when it's only aac 256kbps.. Can you publish your playlists as a spreadsheet?

I saw good god open for mahavishnu-memorable.

Not obscure, but I wonder what you thought of Spinetta from Argentina? Never seen you talk about him

Anthony doesn't know what Prog Rock is!

Did you ever listen to the best prog album ever made: Shintokumaru by J.A.Caesar? I'm curious?

The Brian Auger clip had a few bars that were almost exactly the same as Mahavishnu " One Word".. Am I wrong?

What about Gong or Brand x?

@27.40 This sounds like the Cardiacs to me. Do you know them ? Really undefinable, a bit prog, a bit pop a bit KC a bit XTC.....

Aren't you being demonetized by including the audio samples?

What?