PRE - Progressive Rock Experience (Remastered 2026)

"...Continuing our project to rescue and restore outstanding examples of the American prog scene of the 70s, we present to you the only album by the Kentucky band PRE (short for PROGRESSIVE ROCK EXPERIENCE), recorded in 1973. And just when you thought that you had already become sufficiently versed in the world of prog music, we offer you another pearl that will broaden your horizons and expand your collection. This album, which can safely be called unique, leaves no room for vague and meaningless simplifications. With the PRE album, which will be spinning on your turntable (accompanied by three equally tempting bonus tracks), you will go on a journey through first-class, ultra-dense symphonic compositions, which regularly contain long psychedelic passages. Beginning with the opening 9-minute “Ascetic Eros”, in which Brian Paulson has a unique ability to transfer groovy keyboards into the ethereal dimension, further enhanced by Al Collinsworth's vocals, and ending with the 19-minute "Ballet for the Blind," which could have been included in a top-notch British-Italian prog consortium, marked by exemplary transitions from Larry Collinsworth's heavy psychedelic guitar solos to mesmerizing drum beats and tranquil symphonic themes, is an endless stream of richly textured fragments that alternate like rapid-fire gunfire..."