Esoteric Recordings August/September Releases

August 12th, 2009

Esoteric Recordings, purveyors of fine prog and psychedelic rock reissues have announced their releases for August – okay, I’m a little late on this one, but things have been hectic of late – and September.

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Esoteric really has some good stuff on its books, some of which hasn’t seen the light of day since the late sixties and seventies – the heyday of progressive rock.

Just a peek at some of the acts whose albums Esoteric Recordings have reissued thus far reads like a who’s who of the spaced out, progressive underground from those glory days of the multicoloured musical meandering. Acts such as Barclay James Harvest; The Deviants; Egg; Fire; Giles, Giles and Fripp; Hatfield and the North; Mick Farren; Quintessence; Rare Bird; Spooky Tooth; Supersister and Web amongst others, as well as setting up the Atomhenge label to reissue the multitude of second phase Hawkwind recordings.

All good stuff! As for what’s out this month:

Thunderclap Newman – Hollywood Dreams (1969 sole release from the Pete Townshend produced group)
Alquin – Marks (1972 debut album from Dutch Floydesque prog rockers)
Alquin – Mountain Queen (1973)
Earth and Fire – Earth and Fire (More prog from the Netherlands – the 1969 debut)
Earth and Fire – Song of the Marching Children (1971)
Earth and Fire – Atlantis (1973)

September’s schedule is as follows:

Hawkwind – Levitation (1980 – 3CD deluxe boxset from Atomhenge)
Camel – Breathless (1978 album from the UK prog rock stalwarts)
Camel – The Single Factor (1982)
Camel – Stationary Traveller (1984)
Armageddon – Armageddon (Unsure whether this is a 1969 album or a 1975 album from the shortlived supergroup of the same name)
Stomu Yamashta – Go Too (1977 avante gardery)
Morgan – Nova Solis (1972 prog rock debut from the band with an ELP sound)