Wishbone Ash - Illuminations

From in UK

Prog Related / Progressive Rock

Wishbone Ash - Illuminations - 1996

Tracks.

01. Mountainside (5:57)
02. On Your Own (5:29)
03. Top of the World (6:39)
04. No Joke (6:44)
05. Tales of the Wise (10:04)
06. Another Time (5:21)
07. A Thousand Years (4:03)
08. The Ring (4:33)
09. Comfort Zone (4:25)
10. Mystery Man (4:26)
11. Wait Out The Storm (3:42)
12. The Crack of the Dawn (bonus instrumental track) (3:14)

Members.

- Andy Powell / Lead vocals (No Joke), background vocals, electric & acoustic guitars, mandolin
- Roger Filgate / Background vocals, electric & acoustic guitars, lap steel, bass, Taurus bass pedals, keyboards
- Mike Sturgis / Drums
- Tony Kishman / Lead vocals (except No Joke), background vocals
Additional musicians:
- Mark Templeton & Mike Mindel / Keyboards
- Paul Avgerinos / Background vocals, keyboards, welding 

Godspeed!

Maxophone - Maxophone

From in Italy

Rock Progressivo Italiano

Maxophone - Maxophone - 1975

Maxophone, from Milan, formed in 1973 as a six-piece with an unusual assortment of instruments, due to their past experience as music students.

A band of great talents and musicianship, their only LP, released in 1975, came too late to compete with the most important Italian bands of the genre and went sadly unnoticed.

Maxophone, released on the Produttori Associati label (along with Duello Madre one of the few ventures in rock records by this label) is a marvellous album, full of dreamy atmospheres and complex horn arrangements, with good vocal parts in a Genesis style. The opening C'è un paese al mondo was even released as a single at the time, but they didn't reach the success they'd deserve with a better production and a good label promotion.
An English-sung version was also released to launch the group abroad, but this was an unsuccessful choice, and the Italian version is usually considered better.

The band disbanded after a final single in 1977.
Sax and flute player Leonardo Schiavone had a short collaboration with Stormy Six at the end of the 70's.

A wonderful release to celebrate the memory of such a band, is the From cocoon to butterfly box set, issued by BTF in 2005 and containing a CD with 10 tracks, demo and alternate versions with many unreleased cuts, and a DVD with 4 TV recordings, a new track recorded in 2005 and interviews with all the band members reunited in this occasion. Excellent!

Tracks.

01. C'e Un Paese Al Mondo
02. Fase
03. Al Mancato Compleanno Di Una Farfalla
04. Elzeviro
05. Mercanti Di Pazzi
06. Antiche Conclusioni Negre

Resemble
Genesis, Gentle Giant, P.F.M.

Jazz-Rock

Members.
- Sergio Lattuada - Keyboards, Vocals
- Roberto Giullani - Guitar, Piano, Vocals
- Leonardo Schiavone - Clarinet, Flute, Sax
- Maurizio Bianchini - Trumpet, Vibes, Percussion, Vocals
- Alberto Ravasini - Bass, Acoustic Guitar, Lead Vocals
- Sandro Lorenzetti - Drums

Godspeed!

  Maxophone (2010)

Museo Rosenbach - Live' 72

 Museo Rosenbach grew and developed side by side with rock music in the 2nd half of the 60s. The Kinks,The Animals, Spencer Davis group , Vanilla Fudge and Steppenwolf, but above all Jimi Hendrix were in its repertoire. Classics by R&B were also played at concerts: Sam and Dave, Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett e James Brown. This was the basic background. Around the 70s Pink Floyd galaxy started to be known and nothing was like it was before any longer. "Ummagumma" certainly marked an opening to new worlds. Museo Rosenbach, still under a different name, discovered the big label "Vertigo", Jethro Tull, Gentle Giant and Genesis.The choice of the name refers to 2 important Italian bands: Banco del Mutuo Soccorso and Premiata Forneria Marconi. If there was a bank and a bakery there could also be a museum dedicated to a German publisher, Otto Rosenbach, chosen because of the poetical Italian meaning of its name: brook of roses.
(museorosenbach)

From in Italy

Rock Progressivo Italianoa

Museo Rosenbach - Live' 72

Tracks.

01. Intro / Dell ´eterno ritorno (8:23)
02. Dopo (4:41)
03. Season of the witch / It´s a man´s man´s world (14:40)
04. Della natura (13:03)
Total Time: 40:47

Members.

- Enzo Merogno / guitar
- Alberto Moreno / bass
- Giancarlo Golzi / drums
- Pit Corradi / Mellotron, orgue (Hammond), e-piano (Farfiso)
- Stefano "Lupo" Galifi / vocals
- Leonardo Lagorio (Celeste) / saxophone, flute

Godspeed!