| # | Artist | Song (click to play) | Album | Year | CD label |
| 1 | Gerard | Chaos | Pandora's Box | 1997 | Musea |
| Bombastic keyboard/bass/drums trio. Not unlike Ars Nova or Social Tension. The keyboardist is from the band Novalla, but, I do not know that this has always been the case, because the band's first album came out in 1983 or so. The band maybe nearly completely different from the initial line-up. The vocals on the album are really cheesy but, luckily there is very little of them. | |||||
| 2 | Korekyojin | On Reflection | Korekyojin | 1999 | Tzadik |
| This is a new band by the leader (drummer) of Ruins. Also featuring the guitarist of Bondage Fruit. Some songs are like the last 30 crazy seconds of "21st Century Schizoid Man", except that Korekyokin does it for several minutes. If you have a heart condition, or are pregnant, you should not listen to this album. | |||||
| 3 | Ars Nova | Sahara 2301 | Transi | 1994 | Made In Japan Records |
| Three pretty little ladies from Japan playing hard-edged instrumental keyboard-trio progressive. Many consider this to be their best album. They are deservedly one of the more well known and popular progressive bands from Japan today. After the bass player left the band, they seem to have opted to have a second keyboardist instead of finding a replacement bassist. | |||||
| 4 | hi-speed | et moocong palse | Erioka Con Animac Planetico | 1996 | Creativeman Disc |
| Avant prog. The music is carried along mostly by saxophone, clarinets and wild guitar. The band is influenced by Picchio dal Pozzo, which is especially apparent on the album cover art-work which is a mimic of PdP's _ Abbiamo Tutti i Suoi Problemi_. The last minute of the song featured here has a guitar/drums rave-up seemingly in homage to John McLaughlin & Billy Cobham's on "Phenomenon: Compulsion" from the album _Electric Guitarist_. Most of the songs are very short, and cover a lot of ideas. Good stuff. | |||||
| 5 | Ain Soph | The Swan Lake | Hat and Fields | 1986 | King Record |
| It took Ain Soph 6 years to release their second album after _A Story of Mysterious Forest_. The music is an instrumental Canterbury influenced symphonic/fusion. Primary influences seem to be Camel and Caravan, as well as American fusion. | |||||
| 6 | Aquapolis | Aquapolis Suite | Tokyo Symphonic Syndrome | 1981 | Belle Antique |
| From the liner notes of the CD: "A compilation album by four symphonic rock bands. They were famous in Tokyo-scene, but, unfortunately they could not release any albums because time was early yet. Tunes are taken from self-made master or live performance." The track here is about 1/2 of a very long excellent track by Aquapolis. | |||||