Thanks to Thierry Sportouche, the editor of ACID DRAGON for sending me copies of extinct prog magazines, including the above. I don’t think the magazine is still in print but, as it was an outlet for CD sales in 1997, I am reliably informed that The Laser’s Edge continues to this day to discuss and market progressive music of all kinds. In this issue there are reviews of two Scandinavian bands, LANDBERK whose “Lonely Land” I remember buying at the time (prog with touches of folk, acoustic guitar, mellotron flutes, Hammond organ, sitar and some heavy guitar) and WHITE WILLOW with “Ignis Fatuus”, entering the world of fairies, sprites, demons and Pagan rituals goes the review, with synth and mellotron and prog, classical and folk influences and Gothic in places and a King Crimson feel to a number influenced by an H.P. Lovecraft story.
Several books are also reviewed: Vernon Joynson’s “Fuzz, Acid and Flowers” (I remember this book about U.S, psych between 1964 and 1975, and still have his two volumes hardback edition of “Tapestry of Delights”); Steven and Alan Freeman’s “The Crack in the Cosmic Egg”, published around the same time as “Cosmic Dreams At Play” by Dag Erik Asbjornsen, both on Kraut Rock I believe ,and Ed Macan’s seminal “Rocking the Classics” which I still have.
Other releases reviewed include the Czech Nice/ ELP Collegium Musicum and the scary Devil Doll (I had forgotten about them) who are compared to Banco and Van Der Graaf Generator.
I wrote for glossy prog magazines Colossus and Mellotron for a while and hope I have stirred up some nostalgia – anyone with memories of these publications and others please do get in touch! I am about to have a look back at i/e, the magazine of Progressive and Electronic Music, Eurock, Audion and others with a view to producing a short report, and, I hope, an agreeable trip down Nostalgia Lane.
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