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May 13, 2025

The third and final week of ‘proggy rock’ on Gulls Window Circus. The Dutch band Supersister provide the cover art and sound model for this week. Chicago’s Sidewalk also are perfect, with a Jackpot reissue of their sole 1975 private press LP. Simple Minds are the most recent artists, with a track from their 1983 Sparkle In The Rain LP. Well known artists Renaissance, The Soft Machine, Tangerine Dream, Traffic, Robin Trower, Uriah Heep, Utopia and Yes keep proginess going into the sky and above.

Supersister.

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Artist Song Release Label
Renaissance The Vultures Fly High Scheherazade And Other Stories Sire
Sidewalk Open Up Midnight Sidewalk Jackpot Records
Simple Minds White Hot Day Sparkle In The Rain Virgin Records Ltd.
The Soft Machine As Long As He Lies Perfectly Still Volume Two Sundazed Music
The Soft Machine Dedicated To You But You Weren’t Listening Volume Two Sundazed Music
Supersister Bagoas The Sound Of Music – The First Fifty Years 1970-2020 Music On Vinyl
Supersister Hope To See You There Again The Sound Of Music – The First Fifty Years 1970-2020 Music On Vinyl
Tangerine Dream Ultima Thule Part One Alpha Centauri Esoteric Recordings
Tangerine Dream Ultima Thule Part Two Alpha Centauri Esoteric Recordings
Traffic John Barleycorn John Barleycorn Must Die United Artists Records
Robin Trower A Tale Untold For Earth Below Chrysalis
Uriah Heep The Magician’s Birthday The Magician’s Birthday Mercury
Supersister Spiral Staircase The Sound Of Music – The First Fifty Years 1970-2020 Music On Vinyl

Artist Song Release Label
Todd Rundgren’s Utopia Utopia Todd Rundgren’s Utopia Rhino Records
A. Vuolo – E. Grande Drops In The Wind Desert Strut
Yes South Side Of The Sky Fragile Atlantic
Al Di Meola Elegant Gypsy Suite Elegant Gypsy mpex Records
Dixie Dregs Wages Of Weirdness The Great Spectacular Iconoclassic Records
Midori Takada Catastrophe Σ Through The Looking Glass We Release Whatever The F**k We Want Records

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May 6, 2025

The second week of ‘proggy rock’ on Gulls Window Circus. Only three USA artists this week [Holding Pattern, Moondog, Ram], so you get to travel around the world with the circus, enjoying prog sounds by bands typically associated with rock (Nektar and The Alan Parsons Project aside). Just as BOC gave us a prog-like moment on the Bad Channels soundtrack last week, Jimmy Page will make you say ‘wow’ on his Death Wish II soundtrack. Make sure to hear Connecticut’s Holding Pattern and Long Island’s Ram as well.

Holding Pattern

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Artist Song Release Label
Group 1850 Avant Les Pericles Polyandri Pseudonym
Holding Pattern Jigsaw Dream Holding Pattern Savy Records
Iron Butterfly You Can’t Win Heavy Rhino Records
King Crimson We’ll Let You Know Starless And Bible Black Discipline Global Mobile
Magma Theusz Hamtaahk (Part 1) BBC 1974 Londres Music On Vinyl
János Másik Trance Balance Trance Balance Foam On A Wave
Mahogany Rush Strange Universe Strange Universe 20th Century Records
Steve Maxwell Von Braund Shadowfax Monster Planet Dual Planet

Artist Song Release Label
Moondog Theme Moondog Columbia Masterworks
The Moody Blues The Actor In Search Of The Lost Chord Friday Music
Nektar Questions And Answers Remember The Future Passport Records
Nektar Tomorrow Never Comes Remember The Future Passport Records
Neu! Dänzing Neu! ’86 Grönland Records
Brian Auger’s Oblivion Express Fill Your Head With Laughter Complete Oblivion Soul Bank Music
Ozric Tentacles Tidal Convergence Erpland Kscope
Jimmy Page The Chase Death Wish II (The Original Soundtrack) Swan Song
The Alan Parsons Project The Voice I Robot Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab
Popera Cosmic La Chanson Du Lièvre De Mars Les Esclaves Finders Keepers Records
Ram The Mother’s Day Song Where? (In Conclusion) Polydor
Raw Material Ice Queen Time Is… Ethelion

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April 29, 2025

The first of the three week ‘proggy rock’ series on Gulls Window Circus, where we hear (mostly) 70s rock bands exercising their right to go prog on certain tracks. The Netherlands bring George Baker Selection and Focus, Australia brings Cybotron, Belfast brings Fruupp, Lisbon brings Gala Drop, Paris brings Gong, Germany brings Faust, Cardiff brings Budgie, plus we have lots of English and US bands as well.

David Axelrod

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Artist Song Release Label
David Axelrod The Warnings (Instrumental) Part I Earth Rot Now-Again Records
Arcadium I’m On My Way Breathe Awhile Sunbeam Records
George Baker Selection Pancake 6 Little Green Bag Music On Vinyl
Be-Bop Deluxe Superenigmatix (Lethal Appliances For The Home With Everything) Drastic Plastic Harvest
Blue Öyster Cult This Dude Is F****d Bad Channels – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Full Moon Records
Tommy Bolin Naked Edge Energy Friday Music
Budgie If I Were Brittania I’d Waive The Rules If I Were Brittania I’d Waive The Rules A&M Records
Camel Nimrodel / The Procession / The White Rider Mirage Decca
Cybotron Mumbo Jumbo Cybotron Dual Planet

Artist Song Release Label
Czar Tread Softly On My Dreams Czar Sunbeam Records
Deep Purple The Mule Fireball Harvest
Faust Jennifer Faust IV Virgin
Fifty Foot Hose If Not This Time Cauldron Aguirre Records
Focus Focus II Singles, Deep Cuts & BBC Live Music On Vinyl
Fruupp Seaward Sunset The Prince Of Heaven’s Eyes Music On Vinyl
Peter Gabriel We Do What We’re Told (Milgram’s 37) So Geffen Records
Gala Drop Dub Da Meia Noite Amizade GDRecords
Genesis The Return Of The Giant Hogweed Nursery Cryme Analogue Productions
Gong Oily Way (Home Rehearsal) Gong In The 70’s Culture Factory
HP Lovecraft At The Mountains Of Madness Live May 11, 1968 Sundazed Music