10 Rare Progressive Rock Albums From The 70's 

Recommend legendary URIAH HEEP "Salisbury" 1971 Excellent Album

What about In Flight Of The Snow Goose by Camel?

Thanks for presenting me Atmosphera. All these bands are amazing, but I'm still spellbounded by Atmosphera.

McDonald & Giles, una Obra sin precedentes, nos transporta a los 70s inmediatamente con el primer acordé "Recordar es Vivir"...Pero "Filosofar es Revivir" Bonita Obra de Antaño, Un Saludo cordial desde México de un adicto a la buena música del Rock Prog de los 70s, Gracias por estos bellos recuerdos.

Missing Locomotiv GT or SBB, but off course they not singing in English.

Terreno baldio - terreno baldio (Brazil) u guys should try

Bubu gran banda prog Argentina pero habia muchas en esa epoca Crucis, Espiritu , La Maquina de hacer Pajaros

Bubu... sin palabras. Una obra maestra de principio a fin.

Ahh...McDonald and Giles post King Crimson. Listen to the melodic drumming of Michael Giles. His percussion drove the first KC record. Good stuff. Also the piano theme on Birdman stays with you for a while. One other obscure, but equally notable LP was Mark-Almond by Jon Mark and Johnny Almond Mark played with Marianne Faithful and John Mayall while Almond also played with Mayall. The two best songs are The Ghetto and The City. Gone but not forgotten

I agree about Atmosphera. Amazing album by brilliant players. It should have been a hit but coming from Israel was not an advantage in the seventies. I hope that the album will be released again. I really need it in my collection!

Try ASIA MINOR - Crossing the line(1979)

Thank you for that great exclusive prog music recommendation!!! Liked it

Damn. I knew there are countries out there with many only recently acclaimed prog artists from the past, but this list surprises me once more!

Underground prog rock rules

Atmosphera members are: Efrayim Barak - Vocals, Moti Fonseka - Guitar, Alon Nadel - Bass, Yuval Rivlin - Keyboards, Ami Lipner (later re-named himself Mi El-Ma) - Drums

These artists demand an indulgent listening at the beginning, then they lend their beauties and their intelligences flayed, until one is ineluctably caught in their respective worlds. Each listening unveils a little more of their mysteries and their fairies but most do not become timeless, far from it ! (except perhaps UK and SHADOWFAX ;)

Good compilation!! Thanks I don't consider Tull prog, also, and I still haven't found interest in Oldfield. But I also like: Druid Gong Magma ...

Hi I completely agree that Atmoshpera is a real gem !!! And how is was possible to be made in Isreal at that times ? If it was made in UK it would be as great as Genesis, King Crimson or VDGG. Greetings from Poland!

Aware of some of these groups. A big fan of Shadowfax and owns a copy of Watercourse Way- also try Folksongs For A Nuclear Village and The Odd Get Even. Also own the MacDonald & Giles record- an early King Crimson offshoot. Probably should have included Pete Sinfield’s Still. U.K.were a Prog. super group featuring Bill Bruford, John Wetton, Eddie Jobson and Allan Holdsworth. Other recommendations could include Wigwam and Tasavallan Presidentti and the wonderful Premiata Forneria Marconi.

I have Danger Money by UK on vinyl. And trust me, it's pretty hard to find

Wonderful, thanks! Great tasters of a bunch or artists I'd either never heard of, or knew by sound but couldn't recall the name. I'll get hours of pleasure hunting down and listening to these.

Atmosphera-Lady of Shallot (1975) ISRAELI band !!

All great records! Bubu, Islands, McDonald & Giles, UK ... gorgeous! But the greatest ist IMO Yezda Urfa! Incredible Mix between Yes & Gentle Giant with a great Sense of humour & incredible musicianship! Thanks & greetings from Würzburg.

very cool stuff , glad I stumbled across this thanks -

McDonald and Giles is a criminally overlooked masterpiece.

My favorite was Opus 5 - probably the most obscure band on here

Thanks for posting! I have to agree with everyone else about Atmosphera....what a great hidden gem that album is. There is also a live clip of them doing "Lady of Shallot" on YT. I'm excited to explore the other albums. PS: there are many others, but another gem is Druid's "Toward The Sun." It isn't quite as obscure as some of these but still is a great album.

Great music!!! Thanks for uploading (UK, with Jobson - Wetton & Bozzio is not "rare prog", ha-ha)

Dark Round of Edges.McDonald&Giles to album znany,do kupienia bez problemu.

Wow! I didn't know 3 of these (Atmosphera; Rainbow Theatre; Opus-5) and to my own shame I had forgotten about 2 (Circus; Bubu). I particularly loved finding out about Opus-5 and I thank you for it.

Did not know most of these bands and am intrigued by all of them. Thanks for the video!

McDonald and Giles; otherwise known as the best album King Crimson never made.

Thanks for the recommendations! Checking out all of these eventually.

Brazil's O Terço was great too!

Did anyone find the atmosphera album? Awesome stuff. To me, the best prog rock band is king crimson. But I also love gentle giant, elp, etc...

MARVELOSO - in any language -

now I truly know that we've only heard a very tiny small percentage of the music available in the world, most of it was kept from us all, and surely was the best music too they kept from us..

Great compilation. Atmosfera is now re-issued. As for recommendations, I think there are lots of gems which could be added Some examples would be Gryphon, Greenslade, , Strawbs (Grave new world), Fruup and many more ...

NEKTAR-A TAB IN THE OCEAN

Atmosphera israelense é espetacular!

Lady of Shallot is so good 👍 Such a pity they didn't continue

One of the songs from circus reminds me of the smash ultimate theme

What about “SUPERTRAMP” classic prog albums like:even in the quietest moments, etc. etc. 1970s group foundational to prog music! Breakfast in America includes some pop but mostly prog with sax songs. The list goes on and on…. Hooray for prog. Love it. However, my basic definition includes a requirement that has songs ranging to about 23 minutes which corresponds to the single side of an lip

The bubu one is amazing

great bands! although obscure. very underrated.

Yezda Urfa is a superior masterpiece. One of the greatest prog rock band. Completely unnoticed, under appreciated even on the same level from classics, Yes, ELP, King Crimson etc..

tengo entendido que Bubu saco luego otro disco.Anabelas un discazo

I have alot of these, on cd.if it weren't for cd's I wouldn't own these on vinyl.trying to find most would be very difficult.great video, very well done and informative.

Great stuff, but I really wouldn't have rated UK as "rare" or unknown... John Wetton, Bill Bruford (not on "Danger Money" though), Alan Holdsworth, Terry Bozio... Those guys were all at the top then!

Good job!

Happy the man🎶

Belíssima coletânea \o/

Só bandas boas.....ótima coletânea

good and rare stuff

Ouçam Bacamarte - Depois do Fim (Brasil)

What about. "Year One"?

It would be logical to substitute UK with Dr. Z

I hear a lot of Steve Vai style playing in some of these; Does anyone know if he was influenced by any of these artists?

Make a part 2 and include Babylon - Babylon (1978)

I have an extra copy of Danger Money. Maybe someone can buy it off me so I can expand my prog collection.

it's Giger work on Island cover?

Genial, un gran descubrimiento

Gypsy in the garden? Star Castle the strawbs hero and heroine? Hudson Ford?

I’ve known 9 out of 10. Great picks nevertheless.

de argentina recomiendo a Crucis y Alas . . .

Triumvarat SPARTACUS anyone?

I would like ear atmospheria

Para. Ti. ( Pais) Axis . swers down under. Grecia Atila. Reviure Spain High fidelity orchestra. Mexico Marsupilami. Inglaterra. Buon vechio Charly. Italia Samla Mama's mana. Clave Morse.

can anyone please recommend prog bands with alot of guitar? thank you.

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Two words: Gentle Giant.

There is good stuff here (UK, Rainbow Theathre, Islands, Anabelas- very good sound!), but there is no band like Gentle Giant, who influenced many others here... is the more creative, great orchestrations, and with a wide range of musical interests andserious music!! In the quite same league are King Crimson, Van der Graaf, Gryphon, Gnidrolog, Beatles, Cressida and some other obscurities...

Uk is amazing i have the 2 vynil

Iezda urza look like Yes

quel bonheur que ces sons-là....

Nektar down-to-earth? Armageddon?

Symphonic slam from Canada also prism

The only one I have not heard is the opus 5 one very excited to listen. I especially love atmosphera one in the list. Intresting gems I have found are bacamarte - depois do fim (not too rare by today)(Brasil) cathedral - stained glass stories - (England) arts and crafts - tilt (gets unfairly grouped with jazz fusion in my opinion - it's outright composed with little to no improv)(Italy) fire ballet - night on bald mountain, Hands - hands (self titled) (USA?) And of course u listed the epic greats such of tull genesis and yes. I am always on the hunt for truly epic and gorgeous artistic albums! Peace.

OMG, the Israeli band Atmosphere are so so bad...and Bubu are gr8, all the other are not wirth to mention...sorry, good video.

what about 'TOUCH'? WHY ISN'T ANYBODY TALKING ABOUT THEM?BETTER GET GOING ! RIGHT?

Island

PART TWO

All the bands since Island looks awesome. The first four look generic lol.

I bought my copy of Danger Money for like $5.

UK, man? I can't call it rare, sorry.

Danger Money rare??

Sólo conocía Anabelas de Bubu

UK's Danger Money is not particularly rare, as it contains one of the all time great progressive rock tracks in Carrying No Cross. The same is true of McDonald and Giles who were really the original King Crimson without the distinctive contributions of Greg Lake and Robert Fripp. Ian McDonald's role in ITCOTCK was very underrated, but Lake and Fripp are sorely missed.

UK rare ? it's almost mainstream

so many of these sound so king crimson-lite especially bubu

A bunch of obscure, non-relevant Italian releases.

Also check Focus, Santana,