Space Rock Explosion

AGAMEMNON      Agamemnon was a hero of Greek mythology in the Trojan Wars and Agamemnon the band are one-time heroes of Swiss prog, having released just one amazing album in 1981 and then just as quickly disappeared - presumably to go and fight a war somewhere. Agamemnon have sometimes been compared to the German bands Minotaurus and Epidaurus (no, me neither), but this band are no prog dinosaurs! No, this is wonderful, melodic Symphonic Prog at its best (although bizarrely, they're categorised as Psychedelic/Space Rock here on PA). Anyway, I hope you enjoy the album, and if you do, go tell the Spartans, and go tell all of your friends too. 

AQUELARRE      Argentinian Psychedelic Rock for admirers of Goya's "Black Paintings" period. 

ANALOGY      A quirky Italo-German Psychedelic Rock band, and if you're wondering who Analogy are most analogous to, they should appeal to fans of Catherine Ribeiro + Alpes and especially Curved Air, bearing in mind Sonja Kristina's dark velvet tones strongly resemble that of Analogy's lovely lead singer Jutta Nienhaus, although Jutta's loveliness has nothing to do with her being portrayed stark naked on the album cover, honestly. 

ALICE      Living in the Past with Alice, who doesn't live here any more. French band Alice are as far removed from Space Rock as Alpha Centauri, but if Jethro Tull were French, then this is what they would sound like. 

Talking of the Far East Family Band, the related Far Out Nihonjin album is one of my all-time favourite Space Rock albums, regardless of the uninspiring album cover. 

The ever-expanding Space Rock universe is filled with billions and billions of stars and galaxies, all moving immutably through the interstellar stuff, and should I ever manage to explore the entire Space Rock universe (very unlikely in one lifetime), then I'll eventually arrive back at my starting point. Meanwhile, in the real universe, Riemannian geometry posits that four-dimensional spacetime is curved, meaning the universe is finite in volume, but at the same time endless with no boundary beyond which you cannot go. For instance, if a space traveller were to travel billions and billions of light years through the four-dimensional universe (again unlikely) they would eventually arrive back at their starting point from the direction opposite to that in which they set out, just as a spacecraft travelling at 17,500 m.p.h. in orbit around planet Earth in three dimensions arrives back at its starting point every 90 minutes. Here's Professor Carl Sagan (Johnny Carson) to explain more.