Quasar - The Loreli (1989)

Quasar delivers a keyboard-based neo prog rock influenced by early Marillion and electronic elements. The vocals are held by Tracy Hitchings (now Landmarq).

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Language: English
Runtime: 38:12
Genre: Neo Prog Rock
CD reissue: 1989
Quality: 224-320 Kbps
Official website: http://www.tracyhitchings.com

Phoebe Snow - Phoebe Snow (1974)

"In the mid-'70s Phoebe Snow hit the charts running with her original mix of introspective, Joni Mitchell-style folk-jazz with a gorgeous set of soulful pipes. Snow was a good songwriter, but she also had a knack for covering good tunes. Family health problems forced her to put her career on the back burner for a while, but her latest album finds her in great form." (Rhapsody.com Review)

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Language: English
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Genre: Folk
CD reissue: 1995
Quality: 192 Kbps
Official website: http://www.phoebesnow.com
http://www.myspace.com/phoebesnowmusic

Om Shanti - We Are Home (1977)

"Those four phrases circulate the back-side of the cover on this private spiritual folk album headed by Oman Deal and Shanti Ess Rae, released in 1977 on the Solace Records label. There are 6 members of the band included on the back (including Oman and Shanti), with most of the extras covering the staple musical instruments (guitar, vocals, and bass) while Oman and Shanti use a wide variety of instruments (marimba, glockenspiel, vibraphone, autoharp, and accordion). Through this they deliver a very nice and consistent folk sound, psychedelic not in music but in "vibe"."

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Language: English
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Genre: Spiritual Folk
CD reissue: never reissued
Quality: 192-224 Kbps (vinyl rip)
Official website: NA

Mimi & Richard Fariña - Celebrations For a Grey Day (1965)

"This bold debut from the new folk duo featured mostly original compositions and a surprising number of instrumentals (seven out of the thirteen songs are instrumental) to showcase the more distinctive features of their style: Richard's inventive, percussive attack on the dulcimer, and the rhythmic flair of both performers that propelled folk toward the new sonic universe of sixties rock. Richard's playing inspired a whole generation of dulcimer players, and Mimi, who was 19 when the album was recorded, developed a beautifully expressive, winsome style on the guitar that complemented Richard's dulcimer perfectly." (Official review)

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Language: English
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Genre: Folk
CD reissue: 1995
Quality: 192 Kbps
Fan website: http://www.richardandmimi.com/

Leonda - Woman in the Sun (1968)

"This lost 1969 acid-folk collection makes its CD debut here. Featuring superb backing from Skip Prokop, Adam Mitchell and Brad Campbell (of psych favourites The Paupers), as well as long-time Muddy Waters sideman Sammy Lawhorn, Ted Irwin (renowned for his early collaborations with Jake Holmes) and Brad Cambell (The Paupers, Janis Joplin), it features haunting acoustic tunes and Native American-themed lyrics that are sure to appeal to fans of female hippie rock. Sad-tinged folk from Leonda -- an artist who appears to have some Native American affiliations, at least from the themes of the songs -- and who's working here with backings that are well-done, but never too professionally polished! The Paupers help out with a good deal of the instrumentation -- and backings are usually gentle, but with some slightly complicated phrasings in ways that almost remind us a bit of Tim Hardin at times, but which come off quite differently given Leonda's slightly bluesy vocal approach."

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Language: English
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Genre: Acid Folk
CD reissue: 2007
Quality: 256 Kbps
Official website: NA

Kathy McCord - Kathy McCord (1969)

Kathy McCord is an accomplished female singer songwriter. The album is a remarkable and beautiful and fragile acid folk psych with an incredible opening track called "Rainbow Ride" that has an amazing fuzz psych guitar work. Highly recommended.

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Language: English
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Genre: Acid Folk
CD reissue: 1999
Quality: 256 Kbps
Official website: NA

Joanna Cazden - The Greatest Illusion (1973)

Little-known female singer/songwriter with psych and Eastern moves and an unusual cerebral edge. Mainly piano and a serious feel like Carole King on acid, title track is a high point with trip-praising lyrics. Nowadays, she is a successful speech pathologist specializing in voice rehabilitation and a respected advocate for holistic, multi-disciplinary voice care.

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Language: English
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Genre: Acid Folk
CD reissue: 2009
Quality: 256 Kbps
Official website: http://www.voiceofyourlife.com

Heaven & Earth - Refuge (1973)

There'a almost nothing about them on Internet. They call Pat Gefell and Jo D. Andrews and perform a beaultiful folk/pop with psychedelic elements.

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Language: English
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Genre: Psychedelic Folk/Pop
CD reissue: never reissued
Quality: 192 Kbps (vinyl rip)
Official website: NA

Gringo - Gringo (1971)

Like many other short-lived prog-rock bands of the early 70's, Gringo's transmutation from the late 60's pop outfit, The Toast, heralded the birth of a new, exciting musical era whilst, at the same time, casting off for good, the shackles of their pseudo-psychedelic existence.In the spring of 1970 Toast abandoned the old, tired routine and changed their name to Gringo eager to explore the "new freedoms" offered by the burgeoning progressive movement. usically, Gringo work as a compact and tightly integrated unit. They write and arrange all their own material, each of them freely contributing ideas. Their songs are strongly melodic, with powerful, precise backing, and they make ex tensive use of swelling three part and four part harmonies and striking time changes, all three instrumentalists also sing solo. Casey distinctive voice and wide range fitted in perfectly, giving Gringo the extra richness and balance that characterise their style. And on stage she is an impressive sight fronting the band, demanding attention from her audience.

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Language: English
Runtime: 48:26
Genre: Canterbury Scene
CD reissue: 2000
Quality: 256 Kbps
Official website: NA

Fat Water - Fat Water (1969)

"Fat Water is the eponymous album from a rock act influenced by the San Francisco/Jefferson Airplane sound of the late '60s and early '70s. Fat Water probably hail from the west coast of America and fit very early '70s. The vocals are very much of the west coast San Francisco scene of that time and bring the Airplane's Grace Slick immediately to mind. Musically, the vocals are matched with acoustic guitars and swirling organ which gives a country rock feel that flows easily from full tilt boogie to slow blues."

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Language: English
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Genre: Psychedelic Blues Rock
CD reissue: 2007
Quality: 320 Kbps
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Earthen Vessel - Heavy Rock: Everlasting Life (1971)

"From Lansing, Michigan band, although their rare album is on a Tennessee label. The 45 cuts are on the album. Both records are undated, but sound circa 1970. The group played hard rock with male and female vocals (overtly religious lyrics) punctuated by loud fuzz guitar. The ultra- rare 1970 LP- Heavy Rock: Everlasting Life. Off the master tapes, this Jefferson Airplane/Cream inspired music is one of a kind. Spacey and very haunting vocals, distorted guitar, Farfisa Organ; it will take you to new limits of Psychedelia."

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Language: English
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Genre: Psychedelic Hard Rock
CD reissue: 1999
Quality: 256 Kbps
Official website: NA

Deena Webster - Tuesday's Child (1968)

"Deena Webster: Hurry, Tuesday Child (parlophone UK 68) very rare 6o's UK female folk/singer in her great and rare only album… Arthur Greenslade accompanied her on a few covers of Dylan, Paxton, Ochs, Donovan... Highly recommended if you're into female singer collection like Catherine Howe, Julie Covington, Ann Briggs, Barbara Dickson ..."

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Language: English
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Genre: Folk
CD reissue: 2008
Quality: 256 Kbps
Official website: NA

Chris Harwood - Nice to Meet Miss Christine (1970)

"Chris Harwood's debut LP for Miki Dallon's obscure British Birth label was the only record she ever made. No singles were ever released and it was seldom heard beyond these shores - the making of a record collector's holy grail. Alongside the obscure Vashti Bunyan LP, Shirley Collins and Julie Covington's early solo LP, "Nice to Meet Miss Christine" remains one of the most sought after English female folk records ever released. You just have to listen to her cover of CSN&Y's 'Wooden Ships' to realise why. Miss Christine's naked vocals ride a rock-solid back beat with clavinet funk and a wash of luscious strings sending you into a trance-like state."

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Language: English
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Genre: Acid Folk
CD reissue: 2006
Quality: 192 Kbps
Official website: NA

Brenda Wootton - Carillon (1979)

"Until her death in 1994 Brenda Wootton was an ambassador for the Cornish tradition and culture. ‘The Voice of Cornwall’ is a worthy remembrance of a great Cornish talent. Active on the UK folk scene since the early 60s, her early albums were on the Sentinel label in the late 60s when her 'Pipers Folk Club' was at its height - often recording & appearing with her then partner John the Fish (later a regular contributor to Radio Cornwall). She almost single-handedly kept the Cornish folk song tradition alive for many years, but always mixed in versions of other UK folk music and even pop/rock adaptations."

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Language: English
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Genre: Cornish Folk
CD reissue: ??
Quality: 256 Kbps
Official website: NA

Albion - Wabiac Cienie (2005)

Neo Prog band from Poland with female vocals [Katarzyna Sobkowicz-Malec]. Very beautiful and melodic compositions in a nice atmosphere. "Albion" mixes short and long compositions, and sometimes the influence of bands like Marillion become very clear. Close to the powerful neo Progressive rock, Albion reminds of Marillion, IQ and Jadis, with a Steve Hackett style of guitar sound and subtle keyboard parts.

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Language: Polish
Runtime: 49:01
Genre: Neo Prog Rock
Quality: 226-320 Kbps
Official website: http://www.albion.art.pl/

Victoria Spivey - Complete Recorded Works Vol. 1 (1926-27) (1995)

The first volume of Document's essential overview of pianist/singer Victoria Spivey's 1926-1927 recordings shows that despite her shockingly tender age, Spivey's singular style was already in full bloom. She was all of 19 when the first four solo voice-and-piano tracks were recorded in St. Louis, Missouri during May 1926, including her outstanding debut single "Black Snake Blues." Her piano playing is, as it would remain throughout her career, sturdy but not especially flashy; what made Spivey special was her songwriting and, most importantly, her one-of-a-kind vocals.

As flirty as a dirty-minded Betty Boop, Spivey, employing her naughty little squeak of a voice, makes her songs--particularly the matter-of-fact "Steady Grind"--sound almost innocent, which, of course, actually makes them sound 10 times bawdier. About halfway through this 23-track collection, guitarist Lonnie Johnson makes his first appearance, marking the point where Spivey fully reaches her artistic maturity, leading to instant blues classics "The Alligator Pond Went Dry" and "Dope Head Blues."

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Language: English
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Genre: Blues
Quality: 192 Kbps
Official website: NA

Tower - Tales From a Book of Yestermorrow (1994)

"Tower is the brainchild of Arti & Mestieri's original keyboardist Beppe Crovella. He composed this collection of songs called "Tales from a Book of Yestermorrow" and it is an unusual progressive album to say the least. There is no guitarist or bass player to be found. Beppe on keys is joined only by drummer Elio Rivagli and famed Italian vocalist Paola Mei. The threesome manage such a well-rounded sound that even a guitar lover such as myself is able to appreciate the album. For keyboard fanatics this is a dream come true." (Progarchives.com)

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Language: English
Runtime: 44:08
Genre: Neo Prog Rock
Quality: 192 Kbps
Official website: NA

Sheila Jordan & Arild Andersen - Sheila (1977)

"One of the most consistently creative of all jazz singers, Sheila Jordan has a relatively small voice, but has done the maximum with her instrument. She is one of the few vocalists who can improvise logical lyrics (which often rhyme), she is a superb scat singer, and is also an emotional interpreter of ballads." (All Music Guidereview)

"Better Than Anything" video:


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Language: English
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Genre: Vocal Jazz
CD reissue: 1994
Quality: 192 Kbps
Official website: http://www.sheilajordanjazz.com/
http://www.myspace.com/sheilajordanjazz

R-U Kaiser - Ocelos (2007)

"Their music reamined well rooted in the symphonic prog trend with its "constrained" instrumentation of guitar-bass-drums-2 keyboards. With the entrance of Bárbara Wilson as a second female singer (a contralto who complements Pilar's soprano range) and Pablo doubling on guitar and bass, R-U Kaiser finally achieved the line-up set to record their debut concept-album "Ocelos" []" Progarchives.org review)

"Dioscuro" video:


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Language: Spanish
Runtime: 35:40
Genre: Symphonic Prog Rock
Quality: 256 Kbps
Official website: http://www.myspace.com/rukaiser
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=58554302222

Peggy Seeger - Folk Songs of Courting and Complaint (1955)

The half-sister of Pete Seeger and the widow of Ewan MacColl, singer/songwriter Peggy Seeger continued her family's long history of championing and preserving traditional music, most notably emerging as a seminal figure in the British folk song revival of the 1960s. From the mid-'50s onward, Seeger recorded regularly, cutting both original material and traditional compositions as a solo artist and in collaboration with MacColl as well as artists including Guy Carawan, Ralph Rinzler, and siblings Mike and Penny. In 1959 she settled in London, where she became involved with MacColl, the famed British musician and playwright. In the decades that followed prior to MacColl's 1989 death, the couple toured the world singing, lecturing, and preaching the importance of the British folk song tradition, typically emphasizing the connections between roots music and sociopolitical activism.

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Language: English
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Genre: Traditional Folk
CD reissue: 2004
Quality: 192 Kbps
Official website: http://www.peggyseeger.com/

The New Creation - Troubled (1970)

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CD Reissue cover

"The New Creation was born in 1970 when Chris Towers, an unknown guitarist from Vancouver, decided to form a Christian rock group with Lorna Towers as lead singer and Janet Tiessen on drums. Scared by reports of the hippie excesses of the Manson/Altamont era, Lorna Towers wrote doom-laden, apocalyptic lyrics for the New Creation's aptly titled album, Troubled. The band was unpolished, yet somehow captured a unique lo-fi sound comparable to a hybrid of the Velvet Underground and the Shaggs."

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Language: English
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Genre: Psychedelic Folk
CD reissue: 2003
Quality: 192 Kbps
Official website: NA

Moonstone - Moonstone (1973)

"Moonstone released a completely left unnoticed LP on the private Canadian label Kot’Ai somewhere in the early ‘70’s, and, like the label says, what a great discovery this is indeed. On the first track, female singer Carolyn Maclead sounds like a cross between Vasthi Bunyan and perhaps Linda Perhacs. All tracks have delicate and gentle fingerpicking guitar." (psychedelicfolk.com review)

Don't confuse with many other bands called Moonstone.

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Language: English
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Genre: Psychedelic Folk
CD reissue: 2006
Quality: 192 Kbps
Official website: NA

Lulu & The Luvvers - Something to Shout About (1965)

2008 digitally remastered collection of the Scottish vocalist's early hit-laden years featuring her debut album and more. Since storming the charts at the tender age of 15 with The Isley Brothers' classic 'Shout!', reinvented in a Brenda Lee-like rasp of amazing power, Lulu has been a star. Collaborations with David Bowie, Jennifer Saunders, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Duane Allman, Bert Berns, Take That and the star is always Lulu! Unbelievably, she has charted in five decades. With notes by Brian Hogg, author of All That Ever Mattered, the definitive history of Scottish Rock and Pop, this will be a pretty definitive take on Lulu's first hit-making couple of years. Rev-Ola.

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Language: English
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Genre: Oldies
CD reissue: 2008
Quality: 160-256 Kbps
Official website: http://www.lulu.co.uk/

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Kathy Smith - Some Songs I've Saved (1970)

"This wonderful album will appeal to fans of Carole King, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell and James Taylor. Originally released in 1970 & making its CD debut here.Uncut (p.102) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]his inhabits the deep, searching melancholy floating through the post-Manson, post-Altamont counterculture of 1970."

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Language: English
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Genre: Folk
CD reissue: 2007
Quality: 192 Kbps
Official website: NA

Inner Dialogue - Inner Dialogue (1969)

"A superb sunshine pop album, with some baroque touches. Two women singers and their intertwining vocals weave complex vocal parts around top rate arrangements."

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Language: English
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Genre: Sunshine Pop
CD reissue: ??
Quality: 192 Kbps
Official website: NA

Harlequin Mass - Harlequin Mass (1978)

"Formed in Portland, Oregon in the mid-seventies, Harlequin Mass was part of a brief and modest wave of bands coming from American Northwest in that decade. Unlike most of their contemporaries though, Harlequin Mass were largely influenced by progressive bands such as the Moody Blues, Yes, and Genesis The band has pointed to the release of 'Close to the Edge' as the pivotal moment in the maturation of their sound, and their sound has been compared to a folk-influenced version of Yes and ELP." (ProgArchives review)

Vocals and bass synthesizer by Nancy Deaver (aka Nancy Kaye)

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Language: English
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Genre: Symphonic Prog Rock
CD reissue: 2000
Quality: 256 Kbps
website: http://www.silentera.com/family/carl/music/HarlequinMass/index.html
http://www.myspace.com/harlequinmasspdxprog

The Grodeck Whipperjenny - The Grodeck Whipperjenny (1970)

"The Grodeck Whipperjenny, recorded in 1970 in Cincinnati, is an album that won universal critical claim but still failed to propel the highly talented outfit into the big time. Described by one critic as 'a superb psychedelic/progressive effort -- full of imagination and fresh ideas,' others locked into the album's abundant funky rhythms, prompting another pundit to excitedly proclaim Grodeck as 'an acid funk monster of an album which will blow the flavor saver right off your mug!' Every track is excellent in its own right which makes it difficult to single out particular highlights, but 'Conclusions' is a superb instrumental of jaw-dropping strings, heavy Hammond and stinging guitar, while 'Evidence For The Existence Of The Unconscious' features fine keyboards, echoed vocal and fuzz guitar."
Vocals by Mary Ellen Bell

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Language: English
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Genre: Psychedelic Rock
CD reissue: 2005
Quality: 256 Kbps
Official website: NA

Folkal Point - Folkal Point (1971)

"This acoustic group's main asset is Cherie Musialik's voice, which like the best British woman folk singers of the late '60s and early '70s has a high, pristine timbre -- not on the level of Jacqui McShee and Sandy Denny, but closer to their level than most singers in the same territory. Her voice is backed with sensitive accompaniment on acoustic guitar and bass, as well as occasional male backup vocal. The main flaw is that much of the material presented consists of basic and well-played, but not extremely inventive, covers of folk songs and more recent singer/songwriter compositions in the same style." (All Music Guide review)

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Language: English
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Genre: British Folk
CD reissue: never reissued
Quality: 256 Kbps (vinyl rip)
Official website: NA

Deirdre - Deirdre (1977)

"The folk-rock band Deirdre from South-East Brabant started in 1975 and played current arrangements of traditional British songs and Celtic and Dutch melodies in the style of Albion Country Band, Fairport Convention and Steeleye Span. The one and only self-titled album presents Frank 'Ollie' Overzier (guitar / mandolin), Geert Hoes (fiddle), Ad van Meurs (keyboards), Mik Boes (drums), Jopie Jonker (vocals, guitar), Hans Jansen ( guitar, mandolin) and Pieter Thijssen (cittern)."

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Language: English, Dutch
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Genre: Folk Rock
CD reissue: never reissued
Quality: 224 Kbps (vinyl rip)
Official website: http://www.jopiejonkers.com/

Conqueror - Istinto (2003)

"The debut album Istinto was released in 2003. It is an excellent album in the seventies tradition, but with a modern and personal sound. The group manages to produce beautiful melodic lines continuously with nice arrangements. The music is mostly driven by the excellent keyboard/guitar interplay. Also, the mesmerizing voice of Simona Rigano can't be overlooked because the female vocals do set them apart from the majority of similar groups." (Prog Archives review)

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Language: Italian
Runtime: 54:24
Genre: Italian Prog Rock
Quality: 256 Kbps
Official website: http://www.conqueror.it/