The Professor’s Picks: New Prog, Fusion, and Metal Releases for June 28, 2024
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April 19, 2026 at 4:02 pm
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Ken Golden
CDs and Video
Axxis – Coming Home
Can – Live In Aston 1977
Causa Sui – From The Source
Terumasa Hino – Double Rainbow
Hourglass – Voids And Visions
Kaipa – Sommargryningsljus (CD and CD mediabook)
Kama Loka – Kama Loka
Krokodil – Swamp
Maya – Fading Tomorrow
Speck – Eine Gute Reise
Speck – Unkraut
White Willow – Sacrament
Vinyl
Kaipa – Sommargryningsljus
Nightingale – Nightfall Overture (blue vinyl)
White Willow – Sacrament (white vinyl)
Garden Of Delights
Dhope – Musical Exhibitions
Embryo – Bremen 1971
Embryo – Live
Embryo – Apo Calypso
Embryo – Surfin’
Embryo – Bad Heads And Bad Cats
Embryo – Father Son And Holy Ghosts
Epidaurus – Earthly Paradise
Epidermis – Genius Of Original Force
Epidermis – June 1975
Eulenspygel – Ausschuss
Exponent – Upside Down
Faithful Breath – Fading Beauty
Faithful Breath – Back On My Hill
Frob – Frob
Minotaurus – Fly Away
Missus Beastly – Space Guerilla
Missus Beastly – Dr. Aftershave And The Mixed-Pickles
Missus Beastly – Missus Beastly
Missus Beastly – Minden 1976
Missus Beastly – Missus Beastly
Necronomicon – Tips Zum Selbstmord
Release Music Orchestra – Vlotho 1977
Release Music Orchestra – Bremen 1978
Sun – S.U.N.
Sunbirds – Sunbirds
Sunbirds – Zagara
Surgery – Ubermorgen
@saialAUT
April 19, 2026 at 4:02 pm
Hej 🙂 drummer of speck here.
Thanks for the very kind words! Really made a great sunday morning!
We will have a new split album out soon on the International Space Station Vol 2. on Worst Bassist Records together with Sarkh, Verstärker and Kombynat Robotron 🙂
@ralfwalter3923
April 19, 2026 at 4:02 pm
Hi Ken! Good to see you.
@brotherhoodoflightshowcurr3318
April 19, 2026 at 4:02 pm
Great job on the presentation to be able to see the album covers in a large format with a black background actually see what you’re possibly gonna purchase. I often thought Ken Lasers Edge had such a great platform with Sea of Tranquility to sell his product and now you’re actually presenting the products for the customers to see instead of just holding them up. Shaking them around looks fantastic. Very professional much appreciated.- I’m sure that the graphic designer art and artist for the album covers appreciated the large look .Kudos to the producer.
@Peekay9
April 19, 2026 at 4:02 pm
Hi Pete, was just wondering what your favorite five year period for music is.
@JoeChewBaca
April 19, 2026 at 4:02 pm
WHOA!!!! That J-Jazz book is HUGE! Looking forward to that arriving. That Hino album sounds interesting, but the cover makes it look like a City Pop album😂😅
@arnaudb.7669
April 19, 2026 at 4:02 pm
I will check out the new Kaipa.
@ace_gaming-y1v
April 19, 2026 at 4:02 pm
Speck 🥓 are great, space rock galore! Nice to see them mentioned here
@DarkSideOfTheMoule
April 19, 2026 at 4:02 pm
I can vouch for the 2 Speck albums as I have them both and they are as you say a bit of spacerock and a bit of Kraurock (in addition to Ash Ra Tempel I can detect Can's influence in some of the drumming and a bit of Neu). The one with the cats on the cover is slightly better.
@jeffreyrobinson9120
April 19, 2026 at 4:02 pm
Love the Garden of Delights label, so many great Krautrock and psych releases. Also, those two Speck albums sound very cool.
@johnhenfrey5936
April 19, 2026 at 4:02 pm
Thanks a lot Pete & Ken some great stuff there, the Japanese Jazz Book, looks like it’s a Killer.
@stephenjefferies5101
April 19, 2026 at 4:02 pm
I listened to Speck Unkraut after the show, really enjoyed the album, thought it was very much space rock in the Hawkwind Masters of the Universe vein. Hawkwind fans would love this.
@johnmichaelwilliams6694
April 19, 2026 at 4:02 pm
Another epic episode, another epic order already made. Many thanks to The Professor and Pete for another great Picks episode.
@jimmypage2843
April 19, 2026 at 4:02 pm
I was surprised to see Hourglass the other day it's been fifteen years! All of their albums have been good, and all with different singers. I see this one has yet another new singer, but I still expect it to be good.