Releases by Yes, Porcupine Tree, Mike Oldfield, Emerson Lake & Palmer and Gong head up the prog-friendly releases which will be available for this year’s Record Store Day, which takes place on April 23 this year.
Among the stand out prog releases are a Yes live album on triple vinyl, recorded in the band’s Close To The Edge tour in 1972 from the Knoxville Civic Auditorium, a brand new Porcupine Tree EP on 180g vinyl including tracks previously unreleased on vinyl available from In Absentia and Deadwing, a 50th anniversary picture disc of Emerson, Lake & Palmer’s Brain Salad Surgery album, Mike Oldfield’s Opus One, the original demo that was later to become the global phenomenon, Tubular Bells and a 50th Anniversary – Abbey Road Half Speed Master of Gong’s 1973 album Angel’s Egg.
The full list of prog-related releases:
The Amorphous Androgynous – Tales Of Ephendrina LP/CD (UMC/Virgin)
The Baker Gurvitz Army – The Baker Gurvitz Army LP (Culture Factory USA, inc)
Bert Jansch – Toy Balloon LP (Earth)
Bert Jansch – When. The Circus Comes To Town LP (Earth)
Brian Eno – Forever Voiceless LP (UMC)
Edgar Froese – Ages 2LP (L.M.I.R.)
Emerson,Lake & Palmer – Brain Salad Surgery LP (BMG)
The Future Sound Of London – Life In Moments LP (FSOL Digital)
Goblin – Rarities (Film Versions And Alternates) LP (BTF)
Gong – Angel’s Egg LP (UMC/Virgin)
GTR – GTR LP (Esoteric)
Laibach – Nova Akropola 2LP (Cherry Red)
The Mars Volta – Frances The Mute + The Widow (Live) 12″ (Clouds Hill)
Mike Oldfield – Tubular Bells – Opus One LP
Porcupine Tree – IA / DW / XT 12″ (Transmission)
Sigur Ros – Kveikur 2LP (Krunk)
Sparks – Live At Record Plant ’74 12″ (Sound City Records)
Stewart Copeland – Klark Kent 12″ (BMG)
Sun Ra – Haverford College, January 25, 1980 LP (Modern Harmonic)
Tangerine Dream – Liv e In Paris, Palais des Congres 3LP (L.M.I.R.)
Tears For Fears – Saturnine Martial & Lunatic 2LP (UMC/Mercury)
xPropaganda – The Heart Is Strange – The Remixes LP (UMC)
Yes – Live At Knoxville Civic Auditorium 3LP (Rhino/Atlantic)
You can find a list of participating record stores using the official sore locator here.
