Hello everyone,

I am Ciro Perrino, composer and founder of the Italian progressive rock band CELESTE.

In 1976, we released our debut album, "Principe di un giorno". What the international community might not know is that, in my original vision, the album was never meant to be sung in Italian by a male voice. It was carefully composed to be performed in English, featuring a female lead voice. However, our plans were completely revolutionized when our original female singer left the band at the very last minute. I had to step in, sing the tracks myself, and use the Italian lyrics I had prepared beforehand.

To mark the 50th anniversary (1976–2026), we decided to fulfill that original dream.

We recovered the original 1976 analog master tapes and backing tracks. We preserved that exact historical sound, and we finally found a native English female singer to perform the lyrics that had been written and locked in a drawer half a century ago.

The result is our brand new release: "Prince of One Day" (2026). It is not a modern re-recording; it is the authentic 1976 musical architecture finally completed with its original concept.

As progressive rock enthusiasts and collectors, how do you feel about this kind of archival restoration? Do you find it stimulating when a band uses original analog backing tracks from the 70s to complete a lost vision, or do you prefer historical albums to remain untouched?

I would genuinely love to hear your thoughts and discuss this structural evolution with you!

Best regards from Sanremo,

Ciro Perrino

I just had the realization that the album “In the Court of the Crimson King“ could be called such because of the famous classical piece “in the Hall of the Mountain King.”

Hearing how similar the names sound makes me feel stupid for realizing it “so late“ but I’m not seeing anyone talk about this, only the theory that the “Crimson King“ is meant to represent the devil or at least some broader form of evil.

I think this realization of mine could be possible, especially since part of the album’s inspiration came from classical music. Does anyone think this might be the case?

I’ve seen a lot of talk about 2nd and 3rd gen bands, and about sub-genres (punk, prog metal) and standouts like Mars Volta and Porcupine Tree… But I wanted to make a list of all the 21st century schizoid stuff that I think descends from Prog (more broadly encompassing fusion, folk, psyche, Kraut, experimental); so here it is, with some album/song reccs and categories. Note: I’m leaving out a few obvious artists like Radiohead, Les Claypool… also won’t touch on “post-rock” or “math rock”:

First off I want to list a short playlist of on-the-nose prog:

Mondo Drag - “Pillars of the Sky”
Unknown Mortal Orchestra - “Hanoi 6”
Dungen - “Fredag”
Thee Oh Sees - “Sticky Hulks”
Mastodon - “The Sparrow”
Floating Points - “Silurian Blue”

Onward to looser interpretation!!!

1. The post-Kraut/Eno ambient line

- Mount Kimbie — Cold Spring Faultless Youth (2013)
- Boards of Canada — “Dayvan Cowboy”
- certain hip-hop adjacent producers like El-P, Kanye, and on many recent rappers’ beat tracks (esp Kendrick’s production) as a result if their influence.

2. The psychedelic chamber-pop / folk-prog mutation

- Midlake — The Trials of Van Occupanther (2006)

- Midlake — Antiphon (2013)

- Sufjan Stevens — The Age of Adz (2010)
- Grizzly Bear — Veckatimest (2009)
- Dirty Projectors — Bitte Orca (2009)
- Fleet Foxes — Crack-Up (2017)

3. Progressive possibilities of shoegaze

- Sweet Trip — Velocity : Design : Comfort
- Animal Collective — Merriweather Post Pavilion
- Seefeel

4. Studio-composition gene escapes rock altogether.

- 0neohtrix Point Never

- Floating Points — Crush (2019)

- Max Cooper
- James Holden
- Amon Tobin
- Basically all of Warp Label (Aphex, SquarePusher, Prefuse 73, Autechre)

5. Fusion’s bastard children

- BADBADNOTGOOD
- Black Midi
+ Geordie Greep solo stuff
- Floating Points Ensemble (same guy + band)
- Esperanza Spalding
- Blake Mills, Sam Gendel, Pino Palladio project(?)

6. The rhythmic-progressive lineage

- Crumb*

* ANYTHING by the band Crumb - check out their live albums after you go through the studio releases!! they literally inspired this post!
- Poliça — Give You the Ghost (2012)
- Jim James - Eternally Even (2016)

7. Concept album execution

- Arctic Monkeys — Tranquility Base Hotel (2018)
- Arcade Fire — Reflektor (2013)
- Lupe Fiasco — The Cool (2007)

…What am I missing and what do you agree/disagree with?

What an amazing experience. Bill is still the GOAT & plays like a man half his age. It was in an intimate venue (75-85 people max), & they did a signing. Got their new CD signed & my son had Bill sign his copy of Bill’s autobiography. We even got to talk to Bill one-on-one for a few minutes.

Fantastic experience!!

Well, what is more avant garde than repurposing an isolated vocal track by Mariah Carey and having her sing on top of your doom/industrial/experimental metal track?

Anyone know any progressive rock songs that pause all the music for dramatic effect ? The only examples I can think of are Awaken by Yes before the halfway point and Utzp by Angine de Poitrine, but I’m curious to know what other examples you all have.

This is a modern prog playlist that I slowly built while promoting & doing research for our band.

Please let me know if you have any suggestions or a track of your own to add!

Some of the stuff is less obscure like Haken, Riverside, Thank You Scientist, Elder, Crown Lands, Porcupine Tree, etc.

Other bands are far less known. I actually found a bunch of them on this sub as well as on YouTube, Prog Magazine, Prog Radio, and Bandcamp.

Sometimes, you go to a concert without expecting very much. You just show up and hope to have a good time. And sometimes those concerts shows out to be one of the best you have ever seen.

This weekend I went to a festival in Norway. The Crazy World of Arthur Brown played on saturday. He is 84 years old, and I know he is kind of a legend. So I went there to witness what this old man could do at his age.

MAN, it is one of the best concerts I have ever seen. His voice, his energy his costumes, and most of all the music and his band! I have listened to his albums non stop the last two days, and I do not understand why I did not listen to him before??? Anyone here who have seen him?