Welcome back my friends, to the song that never freaking ends...

Somehow ELP’s Tarkus made it onto my ipod and into a playlist I was listening to. My how my music preferences have broadened since my “if it’s not prog rock it sucks” days. Listening to Tarkus reminded me how incredibly tight prog is. You can hear engineers and musicians of the 60s/70s reveling in the control that new audio equipment gave them over sound. Nowadays I tend towards the fuzzy noise of acts like the Microphones.

In this brief prog reverie I turned to allmusic to look at two bands from the 90’s Swedish prog scene, Anglagard and Anekdoten. I’ve got to give the researchers at allmusic massive credit for knowing the history of Anglagard this well:

Anglagard got itself noticed in the small international circles of progressive rock fandom, and both of their albums were voted album of the year on internet prog newsgroups. Listening: The Fruit Bats - Magic Hour