Esoteric King

2CD set. Remastered in 2015, and on CD for the first time ever officially with rare bonus track "Treetrunk"! Two post-Jim Morrison albums from 1971 and 1972 by the surviving three members.

Deluxe reissue of the classic 1979 album "Sides" by Genesis founder member Anthony Phillips. Produced by Rupert Hine, Sides was Anthony's third solo album and was a superb blend of instrumental music and songs. The record saw Anthony supported by an able cast of musicians that included Mike Giles and Mel Collins (King Crimson), John G. Perry (Caravan, Quantum Jump) and John Hackett (a member of his brother Steve's band). Featuring such wonderful compositions as 'Um & Aargh', 'Sisters of Remindum', 'Bleak House', 'Lucy Will' and 'Nightmare', Sides is a classic album of the late 70s Progressive era. This deluxe edition features a new stereo mix of the album by Andy Miles & Simon Heyworth.

Louis Markos
Houston Baptist University
Ph.D., University of Michigan


Louis Markos is Professor of English at Houston Baptist University where he has been teaching since 1991. He received his B.A. in English and history from Colgate University and his M.A. and Ph.D. in English from the University of Michigan…

It is an allegoric romance (story) divided into Seven Days, or Seven Journeys, like Genesis, and tells us about the way Christian Rosenkreuz was invited to go to a wonderful castle full of miracles, in order to assist the Chymical Wedding of the king and the queen, that is, the husband and the bride.

Without doubt, the recordings of Tangerine Dream have made the greatest impact on the widest variety of instrumental music during the 1980s and '90s, ranging from the most atmospheric new age and space music to the harshest abrasions of electronic dance. Founded in 1967 by Edgar Froese in Berlin, the group has progressed through a full three dozen lineups (Froese being the only continuous member with staying power) and four distinct stages of development: the experimentalist minimalism of the late '60s and early '70s; stark sequencer trance during the mid- to late '70s, the group's most influential period; an organic form of instrumental music on their frequent film and studio work during the 1980s; and, finally, a more propulsive dance style, which showed Tangerine Dream with a sound quite similar to their electronic inheritors in the field of dance music.