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We'll also track the excellent new release from the 36 Records label in the legendary German fusion band Kraan and their 2026 offering titled All In. This new release that debuts at number ten in the WEEKLYTOP20 this week and features Peter Wolbrandt on electric & acoustic guitars and vocals, Hellmut Hattler on bass and also does the vocals on the track we're going to feature titled Tadpole. The new release features the great Martin Kasper on keyboards, and Jan Fride on the drums. Kraan hits it perfectly on this new album and may be my personal favorite or at least in my top ten of the year. This new album is the first since their late 2023 offering titled Zoup and now their fifty-fifth year since the group came together in the early seventies. And this wait was totally worth it! Just following your weekly installment of The Stargazer's Handbook, your guide to all the heavenly items to see in the sky this week, we'll track the excellent new release from Dutch progressive rock band Trion and their new offering on the Oskar Records label that debuts at number eighteen in the WEEKLYTOP20 this week titled Terra Tiempo. This marks the return of the band after a thirteen year break, and they pick up right where they left off but only this time with a slightly darker edge. With this new release Terra Tiempo, they continue their style layered guitar and keyboard foundations with the wonderful taste of 1970's rock. They blend the balance of nostalgia with beautiful and concise modern sensibilities. What a way to come back. Our Philadelphia Progressive Rock Concert Update spotlights the incredible and legendary vocalist Jon Anderson along with The Band Geeks as they make their way to the wonderful Lansdowne Theater in Lansdowne, Pennsylvania on Thursday, April 30th, and Saturday May 2nd. Our
4th Set Space Out this week tracks the
new reissue from the Inner City Music label
and an album that was originally released in 1974 on the Strata-East
record label but then got a reissue two years later in 1976 on the famed
fusion label Inner City. The artist is the great Charles Sullivan now
known as Kamau Adilifu and his
then album that truly hits the title name perfectly in, Genesis.
Re-released on 4/17/26, this new reissue shows an incredible trumpet
player truly shining with incredible artists such as Sonny
Fortune, Alphonse Mouzon, Stanley Cowell, Billy Hart, Lawrence Killian,
and many, many more. If you love fusion they way I do, or in the same way
Ken Golden & I did our Kozmigroov show many moons ago, THIS is the
album to get. We'll also track music from the newly reissued French album
in our 5th & final set from Tai Phong,
and their self titled release from 1975. This album featured two
Vietnamese brothers in Khanh Mai & Tai Sinh, and were also joined by
French keyboardist Jean-Alain Gardet, guitarist Jean-Jacques Goldman, and
drummer Stephan Caussarieu. This outstanding project that went on to
release three albums i As we continue on with our weekly spotlight on each number one album in our history, this week for Program 1993, we spotlight the YEAR 1993 and what became the top album in The Lost Satellite Top 30 of 1993 from U.K. space rockers Ozric Tentacles and the 1993 offering titled Jurassic Shift. Now to set the scene for you, I was just young radio disc jockey now into my third year in radio at 91.5FM WDBK and would frequent on my class breaks, the record store up the street called, Full Circle Records in Blackwood, New Jersey. As I entered the store that mid year weekend, there was a sound coming through the speakers I had never quite heard before but like a moth to a lamp, I joined 7 other people and stood by the speakers and listened in pure memorizing behavior wondering JUST WHAT I was hearing. Finally I walked over to the owner Mike, and his co-worker Dave, and they went on to explain the history of the band I was hearing warm my inner ears with their incredible tightness and musical depth. The band? Why yes, they were Ozric Tentacles and the album was Jurassic Shift from the Dovetail Records label. I would later connect with Scotty who worked there because he had a real hard fought knowledge of 'pre internet' progressive rock history in the newer styles. I would buy that import disc that was literally brand new at 26$, run back to the radio station, and feature it on my Wednesday night program. The rest is history. This then new release would go on to show me that there were FAR more bands then I could imagine that played progressive rock. I fell in love with Ozric Tentacles including their 1995 release Become The Other which I still say is the best album that they ever made. But Jurassic Shift holds a special place for me and our then budding radio program. Later that year, fans would vote it to be the number one album in our Lost Satellite Top 30 of 1993. So our spotlight in our SECOND SET kicks off with what became the number one album of 1993 in Ozric Tentacles Jurassic Shift! We'll celebrate the 50th anniversaries of classics from Caravan and their 1976 release titled Blind Dog At St. Dunstans from the BTM Records label, along with the 1971 Warner Brothers release from the great Herbie Hancock and his David Robinson produced release titled Mwandishi. We'll also celebrate the 50th anniversary of German band Hoelderlin and their Clowns And Clouds release from 1976 along with the late-great Klaus Schulze and his 1976 powerful release titled Moondawn from the Brain Records label that also features the first recording with drummer Harald Grosskopf. We'll feature a bonus cut as well! We'll also kick off Program 1993 with the 50th anniversary of the utterly excellent Gentle Giant release titled Interview from the Chrysalis Records label.
You can now check us out 24 hours a day at our new Gagliarchives Radio station at RadioKing. Visit us at https://play.radioking.com/radio/gagliarchives-radio where you can hear bits and pieces of recent programming and a special nod back to our spin-off radio program known as The Analogue Tapes Series! Stay tuned for more updates! Again we thank ALL of you for continuing on a daily basis to email us your suggestions, your lists, and ideas for future programming. THANKS TO ALL OF YOU FOR MAKING THIS SO MUCH FUN!! Also friends, North Thirteenth Studios has launched the new Lost Satellite Records Bandcamp page to celebrate the many unearthed recordings of Philadelphia jazz guitar legend Sonny Troy who sadly left us this year. This prodigious and beloved
musician Visit the site at https://sonnytroy.bandcamp.com/ Sonny Troy - 1938-2021
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