Latest updates to the Aural Moon Library (read only)

[progdirjim(Admin)]

Hopefully all the damage I did to the stream (shut it down twice, and seemingly caused a track to play in silence) whilst adding this batch of music has been forgotten. Maybe when you hear some of it this stuff, it will at least have been worth it.

Amon Duul II - Wolf Parade (weird psychedelic type stuff)
Art In America - Art In America (Kind of AOR/Prog, not bad)
Kate Bush - The Kick Inside (forum request)
D'Arcana - Premonitions (two disc of solid classic prog)
Mads Eriksen - ME (guitar hero type)
Flor De Loto - Madre Tierra (ethnic (Latin) prog)
Pamela Golden - Happens All The Time (a female Peter Gabriel)
Jane - III (jamming Krautrock)
Dave Kulju - Abstract Expression (nice arrangements, instrumental rock)
Nick May - Whimwise (ex-Enid mixes classical and prog)
Oskay-O'Domnhaill - Nighnoise (new-agey Celtic light prog)
Persephone's Dream - Pyre Of Dreams (prog/neo/metal mix)
Popol Vuh - City Raga (world music influences)
Porcupine Tree -Warszawa (live)
Zozimo Rech - Pictures Of A Solar System
Zozimo Rech - The Life Of A Star (killer space rock)
Adrianne Simioni - The Intelligible Sky (more space rock)
Speechless - Time Out Of Mind (brilliant new prog)
Paul Speer - Collection 991 - Music + Art (guitar classical prog rock mix)
Tinyfish - Tinyfish (see Keithie's review of the concert we attended)
Joe Walsh - two instrumental tracks from the 80's that may surprise you

[Avian]

Also on 9/9:

Pilotdrift - Water Sphere (2005)

[Avian]

One thing that is confusing the Moon a bit is these remasters. Currently, we have them listed by the year they were released, but does that work for you guys when you browse the playlist, which is listed chronologically? I think I'd rather see them listed with their original dates. What do ye think?

[Roger -Dot- Lee(Admin)]

In honor of 10/19/2006(*), We at Aural Moon have decided to stuff and mount a whole BUNCH of new stuff.

Aside to Jim: Two thumbs up on the Stereolab.

Anyway...

• Aphrodite's Child - 666
• Auroris - Cryogenic Dreams
• Auroris - Recycled Space Debris
• Ayreon - The Final Experiment
• Beardfish - Fran Es Plats Du Ej Kan Se
• Beardfish - The Sane Day
• Edenson - The Fruit Fallen
• Gentle Giant - Giant For A Day
• Gosta Berlings Saga - Tid Di Ljud
• James, Nell - Tempus
• Oriental Wind - Oriental Wind
• Patrik Sakntze and the Free Souls Society - Fiction At First View
• Proto-Kaw - Before Became After
• Ruins - Tzomborgha
• Stereolab - Cobra And Phases Group Play Voltage In The Milky Night
• Stereolab - Dots And Loops (One for ME! )
• Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Ketchup
• Stereolab - Sound-Dust
• Stereolab - The First Of The Microbe Hunters
• Villebrad - Alla Ar Har Utom Jag

Roger -Dot- Lee

(*) 10/19/2006: The 10th anniversary of 10/19/1996.

[progdirjim(Admin)]

Originally Posted by Avian

One thing that is confusing the Moon a bit is these remasters. Currently, we have them listed by the year they were released, but does that work for you guys when you browse the playlist, which is listed chronologically? I think I'd rather see them listed with their original dates. What do ye think?

Whenever I rip one of those remasters I always put the original year unless I'm sleep-ripping...

[Roger -Dot- Lee(Admin)]

Hokay, so work's been giving me more than ample excuse to slack in getting the new stuff ... er ... stuffed.

This has given Jim the opportunity to get quite the jump on me.

Quite the jump.

Anyway, without further ado:

• Ali, Azam - Elysium For The Brave
• Darwin's Radio - Eyes Of The World
• Fish - Vigil In A Wilderness Of Mirrors
• Forever Twelve - Remembrance Branch
• Forever Twelve - Spark Of Light
• Franke, Christopher - Pacific Coast Highway
• Headshear - Headshear
• Karde Estra - Misc.
• Kitaro - Best of Kitaro
• Kitaro - Dream
• Kmit, Mark - Umilenye
• Morse, Neal - Testimony
• OSI - re free
• Ozrick Tentacles - Spirals In Hyperspace
• Ozrick Tentacles - The Floor's Too Far Away
• Pendragon - The World (remaster)
• Progday - Encore discs 1-7
• Pure Reason Revolution - The Dark Third
• Rick Ray Band, The - Temporary World
• Rocket Scientists - Revolution Road
• Salem Hill - Different Worlds
• Salem Hill - Salem Hill
• Seven Reizh - Samsara
• Spock's Beard - Spock's Beard
• Stuermer, Daryl - Rewired The Electric Collection
• TAO - The Abnormal Observation
• Tortoise - A Lazarus Taxon
• Visaggio, Mike - Starship Universe
• Wilton Said - The View
• Zaza, Neil - Staring At The Sun

Note for the observant: that Progday Encore was SEVEN full CDs worth of proggy goodness.

So let's knock off the overrequesting crap, 'k?

Roger -Dot- Lee, like, trying to stay current with the vernacular, with mixed results.

[Roger -Dot- Lee(Admin)]

We've got a bunch of new stuff on the server. Next time you see Vax, thank him, since he's responsible for this latest update:

• Barclay James Harvest - Everyone is Everybody Else
• Codice - Alba Y Ocaso
• Fear of Flying - More Attempts at Perfection
• Iconoclasta - Suite Mexicana Soliloquio
• Interpose+ - Interpose+
• Marillion - Anoraknophobia
• Marillion - Holidays in Eden
• Marillion - Marillion.com
• Marillion - Radiation
• Paul Bremner - Wombsong
• Pinnacle - Meld
• Procol Harum - The Long Goodbye
• Spiraling - Challenging Stage
• Spiraling - Transmitter
• Spock's Beard - The Light
• Syd Barrett - Opel
• Syd Barrett - The Madcap Laughs
• Timothy Pure - Blood of the Berry
• Timothy Pure - Island of the Misfit Toys
• Warren Dale - The Burden of Duplicity

Roger -Dot- Lee, off to California here shortly.

[Roger -Dot- Lee(Admin)]

We now have over 650 hours of unique Prog Rock, contained in just shy of 20,000 individual tracks. No more overrequesting, 'k?

Oh, and the entries that put us up that high:

• Bouliane, Daniel
• Buckethead
• Combination Head
• Davis, Miles
• Deep Thought
• Eloy
• Far Corner
• Ferris Mudd
• If
• K2
• Larval
• Loving The Sun
• Main, Bruce
• Muffins, The
• Niacin
• No Rules
• Norlander, Erik
• Oresund Space Collective
• Ping
• Point Of View
• Sifu Stephen Doe
• Sight Unseen
• Sun Ra
• Synthology
• Wayward Monks
• Whalen, Michael
• Wyatt~Whitaker

Roger -Dot- Lee, 3am. I'm going to bed.

[Roger -Dot- Lee(Admin)]

I usually put in something witty/amusing (at least to me)/incoherent here. I'm going to break with tradition by letting the list speak for itself. This is a record, folks. 78 new albums by 64 different artists.

And Jim's still uploading. There will be more come tomorrow evening. Watch this space, since I'll just update this.

• Agent Cooper - Beginner's Mind
• Ain Soph - 5 or 9 - Five Evolved from Nine
• Ain Soph - Marine Menagerie
• Ajalon - On The Threshold of Eternity
• Akihisa Tsuboy and Natsuki Kido Duo - Era
• Alias Eye - A Different Point of You
• Anekdoten - Gravity
• Asturias - Bird's Eye View
• Atlantis - Pray For Rain
• Atmosfear - Inside The Atmosphere
• Brother Ape - On The Other Side
• Budderfly - Budderfly
• Chain - Chain.exe
• Chain - Reconstruct
• Cross - Playgrounds
• Cryptic Vision - Live At Rosfest
• Dobson, Daryll - Reality Check
• Durant, Jon - Flood
• East Wind Pot - East Wind Pot
• Finch - Stage 76
• Flamborough Head - One For The Crow
• Fossil - Fossil
• Ghost Circus - Cycles
• Gilmour, Jim - Great Escape
• Goto, Tadashi - Soundscape
• Greaves, Martin - Time Melts Away
• Greylevel - Opus One
• Gutman, Pascal - Ed Rehm
• Hal and Ring - Alchemy
• Head Pop Up - Tokusen Burari Tabi
• Ixion - Talisman
• Kalo - Spiral Dream
• Liquid Scarlet - Liquid Scarlet
• Lizard - Tales From Artichoke Wood
• Lu7 - Efflorescence
• Lu7 - L'Esprit De L'Exil
• Lucas, White and Edsey - LWE
• Manning, Guy - A Matter of Life and Death
• Manning, Guy - Anser's Tree
• Manning, Guy - One Small Step
• Mitchell, Larry - Insatiable
• Naikaku - Shell
• Neural Mass - Descent Into The Lower World
• Neural Mass - Unbreakable Aquamask of Europa
• Osada Vida - Three Seats Behind a Triangle
• O-U - O-U
• Parmenter, Ryan - Helvetica
• Parmenter, Ryan - The Noble Knave
• Pauly, Henning - 13 Days
• Pauly, Henning - Babysteps
• Pauly, Henning - Credit Where Credit Is Due
• Planet P Project - 1931
• Pocket Orchestra - The Knebnaguaje Tape
• Pocket Orchestra - The Pocket Orchestra Tape
• Project Creation - Floating World
• Puppet Show - The Tale of Woe
• Ricocher - Cathedral of Emotions
• Ricocher - Chains
• Ricocher - Quest For The Heartland
• Ricochet - Zarah - A Teartown Story
• Round House - 3D
• Sadler, Michael - Clear
• Sevag Oystein and Lakki Patey - Visual
• SixNorth - Prayer
• Squonk Opera - You Are Here
• Sylvan - X-Rayed
• Sylvan - Presets
• Sylvan, David - Brilliant Trees
• The Source - All Along This Land
• The Third Ending - The Third Ending
• Thessera - Fooled Eyes
• Under The Sun - Schematism
• Van Der Graaf Generator - The Least We Can Do Is Wave To Each Other
• Violent Silence - Kinetic
• Wakeman, Oliver - Mothers Ruin
• Wappa Gappa - Gappa
• WithoutEnd - WithoutEnd
• Zen Rock and Roll - Birthright Circle

Roger -Dot- Lee, Nuff said.

[Roger -Dot- Lee(Admin)]

Greetings, folks. We've got 30+ additional albums. Enjoy!

• Brighteye Brison - Stories
• Brother Ape - Shangri-La
• Conventum - Les Bureau Central Des Utopie
• Eloy - Floating
• Eloy - Inside
• Eloy - Metromania
• Eloy - Performance
• Eloy - Planets
• Eloy - Time to Turn
• Engoulevent - Etoifilan
• Engoulevent - Lile Ou Vivent Les Loupes
• Hammil, Peter - In Camera
• High Wheel - Live Before the Storm
• Infront - Wordless
• Kaczynski, Charles - Lumiere de la Nuit
• Laferriere, Yves - Yves Laverriere
• Lasting Weep - Lasting Weep 1969-1971
• Maneige - Les Porches Live
• Maneige - Libre Service
• Maneige - Ni Vent Ni Nouvelle
• Morse, Alan - Four O'clock and Hystreria
• Rick Ray Band - Nothing to Lose
• Rivest, Jacques Tom - Rivest, Jacques Tom
• Sandstone - Looking for Myself
• Seismic Cry - REVErENCE
• Starcastle - Song of Times
• Stuermer, Daryl - Go
• Versus X - Disturbance
• Yeti Rain - Discarnate

Roger -Dot- Lee

[progdirjim(Admin)]

Well I happen to know that RogerDOTLee is alive, since I received a correspondence from him. Otherwise, I can neither confirm nor deny the existence of his free time or mental health.

Completely off topic, here's some new music just added:
Ahleuchatistas - Even In The Midst... (crazy frenetic instrumentals)
Anekdoten - Vemod
Apple Pie - Crossroads
Dimension X - The Implicatios Of A Genetic Defense
Jack Foster iii - Tame Until Hungry (yes, our very own Jazzraptor)
Hamadryad - Live In France
Junk Farm - Ugly Little Thing (with that band name and album title, I bet you can't wait to request this.)
Little Tragedies - Chinese Songs Part One (there's no part two, and nary a Chinese sound on it, but what the hey?)
Moraz-Bruford - Music for Piano and Drums
Qwaarn - Aberrations
Radio Massacre International - Rain Falls In Grey
Bob Robertson - Into The Distance
Spaced Out - Live at Crescendo Festival
Strawbs - Deadlines (some poppier stuff, but some good moments too)
Taylor's Universe - Terra
Steve Tibbetts - Yr
Time Of Orchids - Namesake Caution
Trettioriga Kriget - I Borjan Och Slutet (no, I can't even pronounce it muchless tell you what it means.)
Versylus - Versylus

and I just might add a track or two from the new Beastie Boys album - you have been warned!

pdj

[progdirjim(Admin)]

I'm headed to Atlanta tomorrow, and hopefully some of Dot's wit and wisdom will rub off on me so future additions to the library will include some pithy commentary. Lacking quality, I tried to make up for it in quantity. Here's a bunch of new stuff including the 10T label (great stuff), a lot of OverHillandDale donations, and, well, a bunch of other stuff.

Alan Parsons Project - Ammonia Avenue
Alan Parsons Project - Eve
David Allen - Widescreen (no, not Daevid Allen from Gong)
Bolt - Movement And Detail
Capercaillie - To The Moon
Capercaillie - Beautiful Wasteland
Carmen - Fandangos In Space
Carmen - Dancing On A Cold Wind
Carmen - The Gypsies
Rhys Chatham - Die Donnergoter
Cronico - Delirium Room
Dead Can Dance - Toward The Within
El Retorno De Los Brujos - La Reforma
Fluttr Effect - Marking Time
Gino Foti - Sphere Of Influence
Gino Foti - Orbis Terrarum
Steve Hackett - The Tokyo Tapes
IQ - The Lost Attic
King Crimson - The Nightwatch
Little Atlas - Hollow
Kerry Livgren - One Of Several Possible Musiks
Pat Metheny - Imaginary Day
Moody Blues - The Present
Moody Blues - Simple Game (single B-side)
Rebel Wheel - Diagramma
RPWL - God Has Failed
RPWL - 9
Todd Rundgren - A Wizard, A True Star
Saga - 10,000 Days
Tempano - The Agony And The Ecstasy
Uriah Heep - Demons And Wizards
Uriah Heep - The Magician's Birthday
Roger Waters - Radio K.A.O.S.
Roger Waters - The Wall Live In Berlin
Yes - Open Your Eyes
Yes - Friends And Relatives
Frank Zappa - Make A Jazz Noise Here

counting double disc sets as 2, that's 40 CDs worth of new music. Go get 'em tiger!

[progdirjim(Admin)]

Another small but potent add:
Adiemus - II Cantata Mundi
Boud Deun - Fiction & Several Days
Boud Deun - The Stolen Bicycle
Steve Hillman - Opener Of The Ways
Steve Hillman - Riding The Storm (no relation to REO Speedwagon)
Koenji Hyakkei - Two tracks
Loving The Sun - Dreaming Of More
Happy Rhodes - Find Me
Synergy - Two tracks

[progdirjim(Admin)]

I'm willing to bet that a) you have not heard of several of these bands, and b) there's a few countries this music is from you have not been to.

Ako Doma - Aliens Are Good For Sale (Slovakia)
Circles End - Circles End (Norway)
Echosilence - Distorted Horizon (Estonia)
Fermata - Fermata (Czech Republic)
Fermata - Piesen Z Hol (That sure sounds dirty)
Gunesh Ensemble - Gunesh Ensemble (Turkmenistan)
Steve Hillman - Convergence (England)
Indigo - A Collection Of Tales From Past To Present (Austria)
Jaen Kief - Las Hadas No Vuelen Mas... (Colombia)
Menayeri - Futura Historia (Puerto Rico)
Ovni - Entre Seres Y Sus Raices (El Salvador)
Ra - Wake (England)
Revival - Revival (Iran)
Secret Oyster - Secret Oyster (Denmark)
Stromboli - Shutdown (Slovenia)
Stromboli - In Quartet

Take a trip around the world by requesting some new stuff...

[progdirjim(Admin)]

Hope this add is worth the SAM reboot it caused:

Dean De Benedictis - Salvaging The Past
Delta Cyphei Project - Virtual World
Al DiMeola - Consequence Of Chaos
Expedition Delta - Expedition Delta
Fairport Convention - Liege & Lief
Galahad - Empires Never Last
Green Isac - Etnotronica
David Helping & Jon Jenkins - Treasure
Jon Jenkins - Beyond City Light
Lana Lane - Red Planet Boulevard
Might Could - Wood Knot
Moongarden - Songs From The Lighthouse
Thanatopsis - Anatomize
The Gourishankar - Close Grip
Steve Unruh - The Great Divide

Pretty wide variety there - something for everyone

[progdirjim(Admin)]

Anybody want to join me in an intervention? OverHillandDale mailed me 67 CDs!! A few of them were not intended for the Moon, and some I'm still deciding on, but most of this update is from him. There's a few from your's truly as well.

Peter Banks - Self-Contained
Big Big Train - Gathering Speed
Stanley Clarke - Children Of Forever
Stanley Clarke - Est River Drive
Dead Can Dance - Garden of the Arcane Delights
Dead Can Dance - Into The Labyrinth
Electric Light Orchestra - No Answer
Al Dimeola World Sinfonia - Heart of the Immigrant
Al Dimeola - Orange And Blue
Al Dimeola - The Infinite Desire
Al Dimeola - Flesh on Flesh
Garaj Mahal - Mondo Garaj
Garaj Mahal - Blue Caravan
Ron Geesin & Roger Waters - Music From "The Body"
General Fuzz - General Fuzz
General Fuzz - Inner Sunset
General Fuzz - Messy's Place
General Fuzz - Cool Aberrations
Lisa Gerrard - The Silver Tree
Herbie Hancock - Head Hunters
Herbie Hancock - Secrets
Steve Hillage - L
Illusion - Illusion
Illusion - Out Of The Mist
IQ - Are You Sitting Comfortably?
Kitaro - Kojiki
Kraftwerk - The Man Machine
Tony Levin - Prime Cuts
Magenta with Annie Haslam - Night And Day
Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Somewhere in Afrika
Manfred Mann's Earth Band - The Roaring Silence
Martini Henry - End Of The Beginning
Moebius Brain - Moebius Brain
Steve Morse Band - Coast To Coast
The Move - Message From The Country
Mike Oldfield - Heaven's Open
Jean-Luc Ponty - Live At Semper Opera
Quartermass - Quartermass
Renaissance - King Biscuit Flower Hour
Riverside - One
Todd Rundgren - 2nd Wind
Todd Rundgren - Nearly Human
Todd Rundgren - No World Order
Secret Oyster - Sea Son
Shadowfax - The Odd Get Even
John Scofield & Pat Metheny - I Can See Your House From Here
The Strawbs - Live at Nearfest 2004
Talamasca - Rights Of Passage
Trio Of Doom (McLaughlin, Pastorius, Williams) - Trio of Doom
Uriah Heep - Live
Uriah Heep - Sea Of Light
Roger Waters - Amused To Death
Various Artists - New Age Babel

[progdirjim(Admin)]

Finally, an update with no listener contributions. This one is all mine...

Ars Nova - Biogenesis Project
Terry Bozzio - Chamber Works
Buckethead - Electric Tears
Coheed & Cambria - Second Stage Turbine Blade
Earth And Fire - Song Of The Marching Children
Brian Eno - Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy
Gary Burton Quartet & Eberhard Weber -Passengers
Happy Family - Happy Family
Quidam - Surrevival
Uriah Heep - Greatest Hits (1 or 2 cuts each from S/T, Salisbury, Look At Yourself)
Uriah Heep - Innocent Victim
Volapuk - Polyglot
White Willow - Ignis Fatuus

I had the strangest sense of deja vu typing this, so if I'm repeating myself, I apologize - I couldn't see where I had mentioned any of these previously - maybe while in the shoutbox...

[progdirjim(Admin)]

'tis better to give than receive - but I really scored because I RECEIVED these CDs and I'm GIVING them to you:

Alan Parsons Project - Gaudi
Alhambra - Luna Nova
Alhambra - Temporale
Astral Project - VoodooBop
Dream Theater - Systematic Chaos (about 2/3 of it anyway)
Bennie Mauper Group - Penumbra
Pendragon - The Jewel
Rocket Scientists - Looking Backward

[progdirjim(Admin)]

I'll save the excuses for work and just get into the latest updates (at least two):

Abel Ganz - The Danger Of Strangers (nice disc donated by someone. I have the accompanying letter somewhere on my desk, when I find it I'll properly give thanks)
Battles - Mirrored (crazy stuff. Mind boggling, tight playing but kind of frenetic so recommended in small doses until tolerance increases)
Captain Beyond - Sufficiently Breathless (varies between jamming straight rock and beautiful prog - nice donation from OverHillandDale)
Flower Kings - The Sum Of No Evil (Roine Stolt finally comes out with a new album - what's it been ,a few months since his last double CD?)
Peter Hammill - And Close As This
Hawkwind - Live Chronicles
Allan Holdsworth - 16 Men Of Tain (three more from OHD)
Horslips - Greatest Hits - (you may remember them from 70's radio - crossover Celtic prog)
Iceberg - (three discs of Spanish fusion from OHD - nice stuff)
Metaphor - The Sparrow (latest from the former Genesis tribute band - edgier than Genesis)
Moody Blues - Long Distance Voyager (another hole filled by OHD)
Steve Morse - Major Impacts (re-add of this one, we used to have it)
Jaco Pastorius - The Birthday Concert (this guy sure can play the bass)
Ritual - The Hemulic Voluntary Band (I don't know what Hemulic means unless it's "killer CD")
Riverside - Rapid Eye Movement (I just got Riverside, Ritual and Flower Kings a few hours ago so do you really expect any meaningful comments on this one too?)
Senogul - Senogul (pretty disc from Spain)
Simak Dialog - Patahan (jazzy and nice)
Soft Machine Legacy - Steam (self-explanatory)
Joe Zawinul - Zawinul (say thanks to OHD again)

Just in time for theming Thursday!

[VAXman(Admin)]

Originally Posted by progdirjim

Hawkwind - Live Chronicles

Moody Blues - Long Distance Voyager (another hole filled by OHD)

Both of which I have and could have provided.