Pangea, “Invasori”, 1976. This was one of those legends of Italian prog so rare that some didn’t believe it really existed. Apparently after the album was cut the label changed their mind and decided to stop some of their “progressive” projects in their tracks. So the original vinyl run was limited to a few boxes of promos with plain white covers and the legend grew.

The album is a sound painting, an avant-garde work covering a variety of styles. It veers from just a bit of symphonic to pop to jazz-rock to ambient to space, with a curiosity and desire to try a bit of everything. It is precisely the goal of wide-open experimentation that makes “Invasori” so difficult to categorize and yet so thrilling to discover. (via Progarchives.com)

Pangea 07 Al Bazaar (par RaulGordonG)