An Album A Day entry number thirty concludes week six of this project (the theme of which has been the Nurse With Wound List) with one final gasp of progressive rock from Czechoslovakia. That makes two Czech prog records in two days! And, like I said, I only have two or three such titles in my entire record collection, so I have emptied the coffers and will have to look elsewhere for unusual prog albums to share with you.
Do you like ELP? No? What about The Nice? I like the Nice! Which is why I took a chance on Live when it passed through my hands for the first time on August 8th, 2012. I had previously seen it in a prog collector’s house and knew of it from the Mutant-Sounds blog (well, I recalled that it was on the NWW List) but had never heard it. Although this was a German pressing (and not the more desirable original Czech pressing), I grabbed it anyway because…well…you never know. I might not see another copy again. In fact, that Mutant-Sounds entry dedicated to this record also compared it favorably to ELP. The author of that blurb wrote, “Fierce and fascinating classical prog with distinct Egg and ELP overtones thats laden with some seriously blasting distorted organ and booming bass which, especially in a live setting, gives their music a nasty rip roaring edge that I personally find delightful”.
Not bad, right?
Collegium Musicum
Live
(Jupiter – 89374 OU, 1976)
A1. Burlesque
A2. You Are Impossible, Part I
B1. You Are Impossible, Part II [MP3]
B2. Monument
