CDG Project "Ascension"

Country: Argentina
Genre(s): Instrumental Progressive Metal
Label: Azafrán Media
Format: CD, digital
Release date: July 11, 2019 (digital), October 2019 (CD)
Tracklist: 
1. The Third Eye (3:49)
2. Ascension (6:31)
3. Princess Of The Swallows (2:03)
4. Must Be Luck! (3:41)
5. Night Fury (4:39)
6. Jewel Of The Sea (3:31)
7. Iridiscent (3:31)
8. The Prophecy, Pt. 1 (5:40)
9. The Prophecy, Pt. 2 (5:32)

Total Time 38:57

Line-up: 
Cristian del Giorgio (Retsam Surviv) - Keyboards
Lucas Migoya - Guitar
Patricio Sozzi Quadrini - Drums

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The Third Eye
Ascension

CDG Project "Ascension"

Country: Argentina
Genre(s): Instrumental Progressive Metal
Label: Azafrán Media
Format: CD, digital
Release date: July 11, 2019 (digital), October 2019 (CD)
Tracklist: 
1. The Third Eye (3:49)
2. Ascension (6:31)
3. Princess Of The Swallows (2:03)
4. Must Be Luck! (3:41)
5. Night Fury (4:39)
6. Jewel Of The Sea (3:31)
7. Iridiscent (3:31)
8. The Prophecy, Pt. 1 (5:40)
9. The Prophecy, Pt. 2 (5:32)

Total Time 38:57

Line-up: 
Cristian del Giorgio (Retsam Surviv) - Keyboards
Lucas Migoya - Guitar
Patricio Sozzi Quadrini - Drums

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The Third Eye
Ascension

La Société des Timides à la Parade des Oiseaux "L’Empreinte"

Country: France
Genre(s): Avant Prog
Label: Azafrán Media - AP 1834
Format: CD, digital
Release date: October 31, 2018
Tracklist: 
1. Offre Spéciale de Lancement de la Chute (13:55)
2. La Vallée des Empreintes (8:05)
3. 30 000  Fois (9:26)
4. Les Liquidateurs (27:59)

Total Time 59:25

Line-up: 
JimB : guitar, voice
Patrice Babin : drums, percussions
Benoît Delaune : bass (3), cello (3)
Guillaume Dubreu : bass (1,2,4), cello (1,4), trombone (4)
Christophe Gautheur : synth, clarinet, voice
Pascal Godjikian : vocals, lyrics
Johann Mazé : trumpet (2,3), piston flute (2)
Eric Roger : trumpet (4)

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The Orvalians "The Great Filter"

Country: France
Genre(s): Instrumental Eclectic, Avant Prog
Label: Azafran Media, Musea (FGBG 4980)
Format: CD, digital
Release date: June 16, 2017
Tracklist: 
1. Mother Of Your Fears (7:48)
2. Elephants Are Charging (4:18)
3. If (8:44)
4. The Dirty Song (7:21)
5. Whoze (9:12)
6. Zugunruhe (2:37)
7. Quiet Tree (12:33)
8. Wrong Way (11:00)

Total Time 63:33

Line-up: 
Ludal Le Chacal: voice & keyboards
Captain Flapattak (Rhùn): drums & voice
Thybo (Rhùn): guitar & voice
Fabien De Kerbaleck (Rhùn): bass & voice

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The Orvalians "The Great Filter"

Country: France
Genre(s): Instrumental Eclectic, Avant Prog
Label: Azafran Media, Musea (FGBG 4980)
Format: CD, digital
Release date: June 16, 2017
Tracklist: 
1. Mother Of Your Fears (7:48)
2. Elephants Are Charging (4:18)
3. If (8:44)
4. The Dirty Song (7:21)
5. Whoze (9:12)
6. Zugunruhe (2:37)
7. Quiet Tree (12:33)
8. Wrong Way (11:00)

Total Time 63:33

Line-up: 
Ludal Le Chacal: voice & keyboards
Captain Flapattak (Rhùn): drums & voice
Thybo (Rhùn): guitar & voice
Fabien De Kerbaleck (Rhùn): bass & voice

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Amoeba Split "Second Split"

Country: Spain
Genre(s): Instrumental Canterbury
Label: Azafrán Media
Format: CD, digital
Release date: June 2, 2016
Tracklist: 
1. Clockwise (9:03)
2. Sundial Tick (4:48)
3. The Book Of Days (2:25)
4. Those Fading Hours (8:34)
5. Backwards All The Time (8:22)
6. About Life, Memories And Yesteryears (8:12)

Total time 41:24
Line-up: 
Ricardo Castro Varela - Hammond organ, mellotron, moog, piano.
Alberto Villarroya López - Bass, moog, electric piano, 12 string guitars.
Fernando Lamas - Drums and percussion.
Pablo Añón - Alto sax.
Eduardo "Dubi" Baamonde - Tenor sax and flute.
Rubén Salvador - Trumpet and flugelhorn.
    With
Israel Arranz - Vibraphone (3).
Risto Vuolanne - Double bass (3).
Elena Fernández - Viola (3).
Sara García - Violin (3).
Lucía Quinteiro - Cello (3).
Arantxa Vera - Violin (4).
Iago Mouriño - Hammond organ (1), moog (4), piano and moog (5) and electric piano (6).
Felix Arias - 12 string guitar (6).

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Amarok "Hayak Yolunda"

Country: Spain
Genre(s): Symphonic, Prog Folk
Label: Azafran Media
Format: CD
Release date: November 3, 2015
Tracklist: 

1. Universo  (8:06)
2. Revelacion  (6:02)
3. Gestacion  (6:00)
4. Despertar  (5:04)
5. Incertidumbre  (5:22)
6. Rubicon  (7:59)
7. Cenit  (6:28)
8. Camino De Vida - Hayat Yolunda  (3:36)
9. Principio  (8:55)
10. Imdhalaia  (4:47)
11. Trio  (2:13)
12. Nannania  (5:04)
13. Touts And Frogs  (5:26)
14. El Meu Petit Cel  (3:24)
15. La Vinyota's Jig  (2:00)
16. La Edad Avanzada  (7:10)
17. Norwegian Wood  (3:08)
18. Semillas  (5:03)
19. Goblin's Song  (2:40)
20. Stratosfear  (11:30)

Total time 109:57

Line-up: 
Robert Santamaría: Keyboards, 12 String Guitar, Glockenspiel, Bar Chimes, Bells, Vibraslap Kanun
Marta Segura: Vocals
Manel Mayol: Transverse Flute, Recorder
Alán Chehab: Bass
Pau Zañartu: Drums
Xavi Saiz: Electric Guitar

Description/Reviews: 

After almost 8 years of silence, a concept album seemed the perfect idea for coming back in business, and here it is: "Hayat Yolunda" - The Path of Life. On the other hand, the band also decided to make a record with a more consistent instrumentation with no elements from the World Music, a trademark of Amarok.

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Camino de Vida

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Living Stilts "Shipwreck"

Country: Italy
Sub Genre: Progressive Rock
Label: Azafrán Media
Release date: May 19, 2014
Tracklist: 
1 Introducing The Storm
2 Shipwreck At Dawn
3 A Woman Part I Intro
4 A Woman Part I
5 Facing The Winds Of Doom
6 Vertical Memories (Prelude)
7 Vertical Memories
8 A Woman Part II
9 A Dicer’s Oath
10 A Joutney Into The Light
11 A Woman Part III
12 The Traveller
13 Sirens
14 Death And The Merciful Gods

Line-up: 
Maria Tomasello - voice
Antonio Bella - voice
Alfredo Cassotta - drums and percussion
Luca Mavilia - keyboards, arrangements, voice, programming

Description/Reviews: 

Living Stilts is a musical project conceived by the composer Luca Mavilia with the intention of creating evocative soundscapes and letting the listener’s imagination roam.
The project brings together artists, musicians and friends who share the same feelings and a love for the most visionary music. The compositions of Living Stilts are inspired by the fantastical, by the most imaginative art, by fiction and by poetry. The influences range from prog rock and hard rock to Classical music from the Romantic, Baroque and Renaissance periods.
Living Stilts’ creations don’t exhaust themselves over the course of the individual song but should be thought of as suites, and for this reason they favour the concept album form. Voices and instruments are chosen in relation to the colour to be given to the music, and so recited pieces, instrumentals and multiple male and female voices abound.
Living Stilts’ first concept album is called Shipwreck and centres around a vessel’s sinking. On the album various voices impersonate the voyagers, their tragedies and their stories. Shipwreck is a highly varied concept album as regards feel and influences, one where prog is married to more crystalline and rock sounds. 

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Gnu Quartet In Prog "Karma"

Country: Italy
Sub Genre: Jazz-Rock
Label: Azafrán Media
Release date: May 5, 2014
Tracklist: 

1. Peaches En Regalia - 3:16 
2. Roundabout - 8:27 
3. The Great Gig in the Sky (feat. Durga McBroom-Hudson)  - 4:34 
4. Stereotaxis - 9:18 
5. Hairless Heart - 2:36 
6. Concerto Grosso 1 - Iº Tempo - Allegro (feat. Andrea Maddalone) - 1:59

Line-up: 
Stefano Cabrera - cello
Francesca Rapetti - flute
Roberto Izzo - violin
Raffaele Rebaudengo - viola

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Flor de Loto "Nuevo Mesías"

Country: Peru
Sub Genre: Prog Folk
Label: Azafran Media
Release date: April 2014
Tracklist: 

1. Nuevo Mesías
2. La Tabla Esmeralda
3. Espejo Del Alma
4. Cumbemayo
5. En Otro Lugar
6. Caleidoscopio
7. Hipnotizame
8. Creados Del Fuego
9. Rumbo A La Eternidad

Line-up: 
Alonso Herrera - Guitar, Vocals
Alejandro Jarrin - Bass
Junior Pacora - Wind Instruments
Alvaro Escobar - Drums
Ignacio Flores - Guitar
Daniel López Guiterrez  - Keyboards

Agustina Gonzalez Gracia - Backing vocals

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Nuevo mesías
La tabla esmeralda

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Retsam Suriv “Danger”

Country: Argentina
Sub Genre: Symphonic Progressive Metal
Label: Azafrán Media
Release date: January 2014
Tracklist: 
1. Alto Voltaje (7:24)
2. Nuevos Tiempos (4:43)
3. 09:15 (11:58)
4. Siento (9:55)
5. Amenazas De Un Final (8:07)
6. Un Mondo Differente (9:15)
7. Transicion Final. Danger (2:51)

Line-up: 
Vilma Lilián Del Giorgio - vocals
Cristian del Giorgio - keyboard
Miguel Carrasco - guitars
Charly Palermo - bass
Javier Fraccione - drums

Description/Reviews: 

“Danger” is the second álbum by this Argentine symphonic prog band (led by virtuoso keyboardist Cristian Del Giorgio) with powerful female vocals (in Spanish), though much of their material is instrumental.

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Amenazas De Un Final
Mundo Diferente

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Alejandro Villalón Renaud "Simbiosis"

Country: Mexico
Sub Genre: Electronica
Label: Azafran Media
Release date: November 2013
Tracklist: 

1. Caos
2. Espectro
3. Foresta
4. Revelaciones
5. Suenos
6. Transmutaciones

Line-up: 
Alejandro Villalón Renaud

Description/Reviews: 

An imaginary soundtrack to a sci-fi movie. Not as cosmic as the Berlin school but definitely influenced by Tangerine Dream and Ashra. You may also find connections with Vangelis or Michel Huygens’ Neuronium, of course. The listener is invited to collaborate with Alejandro Villalón Renaud; a new name in the electronic scene in Mexico; in “Simbiosis” by contributing imagination and emotion to translate the recording’s six vibrant tracks into six personal images and experiences.

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Delta Red “Luz en El Sótano”

Country: Mexico
Sub Genre: Jazz-Rock
Label: Luna Negra, Azafran Media
Release date: June 13, 2013
Tracklist: 
1 - Ciempies
2 - Venus
3 - Cuadrafonia Lunatica
4 - Gravedad Cero
5 - Luz En El Sotano
6 - Opus 14
7 - Dia Fuera Del Tiempo
8 - Impro

Line-up: 
Julio Gandara - guitars
Arturo Olvera - drums, percussion
Roberto Petriciolet - bass
Javier Alba - keyboards

Description/Reviews: 

A Progressive jazz-rock quartet coming from the city of Querétaro, Mexico. The musicians' unconventional concept rises from collective improvisations where their influences converge: from classic Progressive rock to King Crimson's "Red"-era to Don Caballero or Mr. Bungle-like math-rock.
The new live CD+DVD set, “Luz en El Sótano”, which also includes interviews with the members of the band, is a co-joined production between Azafrán Media and Luna Negra, will please all fans of sophisticated Progressive rock music, jazz-rock lovers and real alternative music from the twenty-first Century.

Septum “Quiet...Listen!”

Country: Cuba
Sub Genre: Symphonic Progressive Metal
Label: Azafran Media
Release date: April 26, 2013
Tracklist: 
1. The Call Of The Ancients 01:28
2. Can You Hear Me Scream 04:25
3. Destiny I 04:25
4. Destiny II 04:58
5. Kingdom Of Lies 04:21
6. Just Step Aside 04:53
7. Alter Ego 01:24
8. The One You Loved 04:09
9. Are You Out There I 01:12
10. Are You Out There II 03:24
11. To Tame A Savage Soul (Instrumental) 03:21
12. Dark Angel 04:20
13. Quiet Listen 04:53
14. Aún Estoy Aqui 04:08
15. The Elves Song 01:01

Line-up: 
Katia Fernnandez - lead vocals
Bryan R. Villafurela - keyboards, choirs
David P. Quenedit - bass, choirs
Alejandro Yero - violin, choirs
Damian Campos - rhythm guitar, choirs
Fabiel Perez - lead guitar
Javier de la Torre - flute, bagpipes
Andry Alvarez - drums

Description/Reviews: 

Symphonic Progressive Metal at its best! Septum is a septet of professionally trained musicians and the instrumentation includes violin, bag pipes and an amazing female voice.
“Quiet... Listen!” is a real masterpiece within the realms of progressive and symphonic metal with great musicianship and lyricism.

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Kharmina Buranna "Seres Humanos"

Country: Peru
Sub Genre: Symphonic
Label: Azafrán Media
Release date: December 12, 2012
Tracklist: 
01. Pasta Mental (6:52)
02. Seres Humanos (10:18)
03. Sublime Muerte (4:37)
04. 10:27 (5:55)
05. Odisea (8:17)
06. Lenguas de Trapo (16:55)

Line-up: 
Luciana Derteano – Vocals
Mauricio Hooker – Bass, guitar, cello, back vocals
Juan Carlos Rodríguez – Guitars
Daniel Lopez – Keys
Victor Otárola – Drums
Diego Sue – Bass, back vocals

Description/Reviews: 

Following the steps of the great Italian Symphonic Porgressive bands like Banco or PFM with the addition of the Latin American feeling of Frágil or Serú Girán; Peruvian band Kharmina Buranna will become their true succesors. Symphonic Progressive rock at its best with lyrics in Spanish. A dynamic album that will delight you with its combination of exciting musicianship and remarkable compositions. 

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