Tarbox Ramblers (The Official Site) HAPPY FAMILY / CUNEIFORM RECORDS. Toscco is the much anticipated 2nd release from Japan's premier Zeuhl smokers. Still an instrumental quartet of keyboards, guitar, bass & drums, the years of work & playing since their 1st release have given them even more confidence & a more "gritty" sound. The addition of new guitarist Takahiro Izutani has also notched up the energy level. He's also a fine songwriter, & has contributed a new slant to their sound. This is a big step forward from their much appreciated first. "Monster Japanese Zeuhl; the spirit of Magma, Unives Zero, Weidorje and King Crimson locked together in a furious fusion...
" - Audion "Happy Family are one of the best Japanese bands to have played in the past decade. Progressive Rock Music Ultimate Discography. KING CRIMSON music. " When you want to hear where music is going in the future, you put on a King Crimson album. " - Bill Bruford, 1995 For all its break-ups, periods of non-existence and fluctuating methodology, King Crimson remains one of the interminably compelling bands playing within the domain of rock music to this day. Widely acknowledged as being the harbingers of the art-rock genre with their monumental 1969 album "In The Court Of The Crimson King", they paved the way for innovative art-rock/progressive rock bands such as Yes, ELP etc etc. in the early '70s as well as providing a stimulus for more recent neo-progressive bands like Tool and The Mars Volta through their post-progressive work in the early '80s and '90s.
From its formative years in Bournemouth, England in the late '60s, King Crimson's unwavering guiding light has constantly emanated from the abstruse intellect of guitarist Robert Fripp (b. May 16, 1946). Fripp began almost immediately to fill the gaps left by Haskell and McCulloch. Van Der Graaf Generator. VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR is an English eclectic progressive rock band with front man Peter HAMMILL from 'the classic period' that has proven be one of the most important bands of the progressive genre. In England, 1967 Chris Judge SMITH formed 'VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR', but after his departure it was up to Peter HAMMILL (vocals, keyboards, guitar), Hugh BANTON (organ, bass on organ), David JACKSON (sax, flute) and Guy EVANS (drums) to become one of progressive rock most proliferate and unique bands as well as the first band to be signed to the Famous Charisma Label.
The band was named after the scientific instrument 'the Van de Graaff generator', which is used for accumulating high voltage bolts. The band had a leading role in the very first progressive phase releasing high-rated albums from 1970 to 1975. The band had a leading role in the very first progressive phase releasing high-rated albums from 1970 to 1975. Retrospection. Bio by friso.