More Uriah Heep…I’d say I have a problem but damn if Wake The Sleeper isn’t a great rock album. And the new Steven Wilson mix of Deep Purple’s Made in Japan sounds incredible, especially in Dolby Atmos. But I’ll spare you those this week, because my lack of sleep and concentration found me wandering the YouTube videos and magazine articles (yeah, I subscribe to Prog Magazine) for new and old bands to discover, so this week’s playlist acts a reminder for me to dig deeper in these new to me bands and artists.

• Agitation Free – “You Play For Us Today”
• La Nouvelle Musique – “The Mirror”
• Amoeba Split – “Clockwise”
• Back Door – “Vienna Breakdown”
• Apewards – “Becoming”
• Marcus – “Black Magic”
• Gwenno – “Utopia”
• Harrison/Johnston – “Sorcerer”
• Hats Off Gentlemen It’s Adequate – “Everything Changes”
• Kvartetten som sprängde – “Sudden Grace”
• Zach Tabori – “End of the F*****g World”

Random notes…Zach Tabori was the only name I was familiar with: he was/is Dweezil Zappa’s multi-instrumentalist sideman in his touring band, so the news of a solo album was welcome…I took a krautrock detour earlier in the week and discovered Agitation Free as well as the Kvartetten som sprängde which might be the most obscure group I’ve ever put in here…

Elsewhere La Nouvelle Musique scratches that relaxing, ambient torch music I sometimes need late at night, and the Marcus was a blind buy from the Rock Candy website, who specialize in remastered packages of obscure hard rock from the 70s and 80s. Back Door nails that early 70s funk boogie with horns, but that’s probably because the album came out in 1972, while Amoeba Split and the Harrison/Johnston collaboration give good modern progressive instrumental jazz rock.

And honestly I know nothing about Hats Off Gentlemen It’s Adequate except it’s a cool band name, so we’ll see.

Be safe, be good to each other. See you next week.