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CD/DVD Releases: New Titles Available From Wayside Music

Posted on Saturday, September 24 @ 15:00:00 UTC by nightowl

Wayside Music shared in their September 19th missive that they have available for purchase the following new titles, beginning with the new CD from D'Accord, Helike (Karisma, $16.00); says the blurb: "Despite a French-sounding name, D'Accord are a Norwegian prog-rock sextet (vocals and flute, dual keyboards, guitar, bass and drums) and this is their second album. They combine elements of classic progressive rock (I hear Jethro Tull, King Crimson) with a hard-rock edge, and the overall sound is like a 1971 UK progressive/progressive hard rock band, although, unlike, say, Diagonal, this won't actually fool you into thinking it's from 1971! And to further bring us back to 70s esthetics, this is two huge, over 20' long tracks."

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Greenslade - Live 1973-1975 (Angel Air, $17.00): This was previously available some years ago, but has been unavailable for quite some time. It's pretty much what you would expect of something released so much after the fact: a very good to excellent bootleg sounding of some pretty great material by this dual keyboard + rhythm section prog band from the early 70s.

"After the demise of Colosseum in '71, keyboard player Dave Greenslade founded his own band Greenslade, featuring Tony Reeves (bass), Dave Lawson (keyboards, clarinet, flute) and Andrew McCulloch (drums), he had left King Crimson. The best introduction to their excellent blend of classic, jazz, rock, blues and symphonic rock is the live-album Live (with tracks from '73 and '75) containing their best material: elaborate compositions like "Sundance," "Feathered Friends," "Bedside Manners Are Extra" and "Joie De Vivre" and lots of inventive and exciting dual-keyboard play by Greenslade and Lawson. The omnipresence of the Mellotron is very pleasant with majestic waves of the violin-Mellotron (like early King Crimson) and glorious eruptions of the sumptuous choir- Mellotron. This live-CD also features some spectacular play on the Minimoog (with pitch bend). It's the most keyboard-loaded album with hints from Wakeman, Manfred Mann'sEarth Band and Supertramp. In my opinion Greenslade deserves more appreciation by the prog rock aficionados, it's a wonderful band to discover!" -Erik Neuteboom/progarchives.com

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Various - Stonehenge 1984 - A Midsummer Night Rock Show (Voiceprint/Floating World, NTSC (all regions) DVD, $17.00): Featuring Hawkwind, Roy Harper, The Enid, and HEre & Now... the blurb reads: "You get one track by Roy, 3 by the Hawks, 3 by Here & Now and - possibly most interestingly - 2 by The Enid, not so far removed from their late 70s glory and the earliest film footage of them that I am aware of."

"This film captures performances from the 1984 Summer Solstice Festival at the historic Stonehenge. This film truly captures the essence of the festival in what proved to be the final time the festival was allowed to take place on the historic site. Some of the tracks included on this DVD are 'Rock N Roll Man' by Roy Harper, 'Ghost Dance' and 'Watching The Grass Grow' by Hawkwind, 'Secrets' and 'Theatre' by Here and Now, and 'Jessica' and 'Something Wicked This Way Comes' by The Enid."

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[Source: Wayside Music]

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