Progressreview.blogspot.com Website Review

First of all I would really need to apologize for the record cover just above.. surely one of the worst ever considering the contents, but a good representation of the sickening stupidity that descended on the cultural world in the 80s. be a little less enjoyable to me due to the overabundance of free jazz, which I don't mind in small doses, but can't stand when it inflates to occupy two thirds of an hour of my limited time. So for me polyawful Unisono Quartet, whose 1975 album I detested (1), ethnic 'migrant invasion' Piirpauke (15), ramblin' Aaltonen (17), never-ending Vesala (18)-- these are artists others love but I hate, and I'll give 'em some Trumpian nicknames for the hell of it. Interestingly, Otto Donner (10) plays his songs from the famous and much-loved and requested Strings fact 4 and a half years back.  Believe it or not, that Strings post is one of the most popular ever for this blog, with literally Now I'll discuss the rest, which are a mixed bag. The 2 presents a band I never heard of, but they are surely (the name is annoying and has too many vowels).  Jukka Tolonen is back in round 3 with long, very rambling, and to me boring with Jukka Hauru were the masters of Finnish progressive fusion.  In fact, the KOM quartet Linkola.)  Evidently he had a golden touch, like German Wolfgang Dauner.  He shares compositional credits with a Finnish composer featured on some of the tracks, making it sound a bit like for ex. the Gerardo Batiz album Arlequin. side, a band that made some great folky fusion with ethnic components like so many other bands I've posted here (e.g. Membrillar It doesn't get any more emotional and beautiful than that. Sadly they never released a full LP. For Wasama, their second album called Di*ty Date with the awful cover above, surprisingly, has progressive fusion in the later German style pas*ably good but a bit too much into big band territory (unlike his 1976 well-known album Sunwebs) same with 16, Pori Big Band.  Pentti