Progressive Keyboards

Number three in a string of projects produced by the French label Musea and the Finnish magazine Colossus, The Colossus of Rhodes is The Spaghetti Epic's twin. Both albums were started at the same time, both are two-CD sets consisting of six epics, both are based on movies by Sergio Leone. But this time around, the Colossus team opted for a rather obscure Leone work, a peplum movie that predates his spaghetti Western years…

Three Man Army - Mahesha (1974) (Progressive Line PL593 rel 2003)
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC (tracks)+CUE+LOG -> 200 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 84 Mb
Full Artwork @ 600 dpi (jpg) -> 33 Mb | 5% repair rar
© 1974, 2003 Polydor / Progressive Line | PL 593 | 24 Bit Digitally Remastered
Rock / Classic Rock / Hard Rock

For Three Man Army's second album, their power trio lineup stabilized with the recruitment of Tony Newman for the drummer's chair (the first album, A Third of a Lifetime, had featured several drummers). A Third of a Lifetime had been journeyman early British hard rock with a few glimpses of more satisfyingly gentle and melodic moods. Unfortunately, Mahesha put even greater emphasis on their pedestrian hard rock chops and even more pedestrian material, which at its best could only approximate a sub-Led Zeppelin (as the chorus of "Come Down to Earth" certainly does).

Sun Ra - Solo Keyboards, Minnesota 1978 (2019) {Enterplanetary Koncepts}
FLAC (tracks) - 16bit/44kHz - Official Digital Download (bandcamp.com) -> 337 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 169 Mb | Cover | 5% repair rar
© 1978, 2019 Enterplanetary Koncepts / Sun Ra LLC
Jazz / Avant-Garde Jazz / Progressive Jazz / Piano / Crumar Mainman

Sun Ra presented quite a few solo piano shows between 1977 and 1980 in the US and Europe, and several have been issued commercially. From a solo keyboard standpoint, it was one of Sunny's most prolific periods. At each gig he customarily offered three categories of works: 1) Tin Pan Alley standards he had revered since his pre-Chicago days (e.g. "Over the Rainbow," "Don't Blame Me," and "Honeysuckle Rose"); 2) Ra originals, though he drew from a limited selection of his voluminous catalog ("Love in Outer Space" seemed obligatory); and 3) improvisations, perhaps a blues, which sometimes included stray riffs from categories 1 and 2.