Franco Battiato - "Clic" (1974)

"Clic" is my favorite album by Spanish Progressive Rock legend Franco Battiato. Recorded in 1974, it carries the subtitle "Dedicato A Karlheinz Stockhausen." There is some really amazing use of found and sampled sounds here, including a great deal of musique concrète-style mixing. On "Ethika Fon Ethica," he uses a snippet of one of my all-time favorite pieces of music, Hiran'ny Tanoran'ny Ntao Lo's "Oay Lahy E" (originally recorded in Madagascar in the early 1930's, issued by both Yazoo and Fremeaux on collections of Malagassy music and also recently included on Mississippi Records' fabulous LP collection entitled Mata La Pena.

A version of the album was released on CD in 1998, and it features a different tracklisting than the original LP. Not sure if the original four tracks were broken up into the seven cuts contained here, or if the music itself was somehow different on that release, so if anyone can shed some light on this mystery (or has the original LP version to share), please feel free to post in the comments section. Thanks!

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Galactic Explorers - Epitaph For Venus

Classic 1972 Krautrock ambient/synthesizer album with some similarities to Tangerine Dream's early 1970's work (particularly the spacier textures of Zeit, Atem, and Alpha Centauri). Apparently one member of this trio was also in Dzyan, another great band from around the same time who made a few excellent progressive rock albums.

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Emeralds S/T LP on Wagon / Gneiss Things

This LP has been a recent favorite, spending lots of time on my turntable over the last few months. Ohio space drone psychedelia, anyone?

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