Ring the Bells and Sing - Progressive Sounds of 1975

The next release in their series of compilations celebrating so-called Progressive rock music – Ring the Bells and Sing – Progressive Sounds of 1975 is a 4CD clamshell box set which gathers together over five hours of music from 1975. Sometimes dismissed in later years by some critics as a year when rock music was failing to progress, this compilation reveals that 1975 was indeed a year where a great deal of excellent, diverse and creative music continued to be produced by artists for an audience for whom the album was the important format and the iconic television series The Old Grey Whistle Test was essential viewing.

The compilation also features lesser-known acts who failed to make a wider known impression but produced excellent work of a wide breadth such as Druid, Fruupp, Global Village Trucking Company, Kestrel, Stackridge, String Drawn Thing and Wigwam. Ring the Bells and Sing is an opportunity to experience some diverse progressive sounds of 1975.

DISC ONE

1 "The Show of Our Lives – CARAVAN"

2 "In My Life – BARCLAY JAMES HARVEST"

3 "Maid in Heaven – BE BOP DELUXE"

4 "Assault & Battery / The Golden Void – HAWKWIND"

5 "Squire – ALAN HULL"

6 "Just the Same – GENTLE GIANT"

7 "Rufus T. Firefly – STACKRIDGE"

8 "Soon (single version) – YES"

9 "The Salmon Song – STEVE HILLAGE"

10 "Rhayader Goes to Town – CAMEL"

11 "Modern Times – AL STEWART"

12 "Ocean Gypsy – RENAISSANCE"

DISC TWO

1 "Spiral Galaxy 28948 – HAWKWIND"

2 "Star of Sirius – STEVE HACKETT"

3 "Time – BAKER GURVITZ ARMY"

4 "The Institute of Mental Health Burning – PETER HAMMILL"

5 "Pandora’s Box – PROCOL HARUM"

6 "Wind Cloud - KESTREL"

7 "Music in Dreamland – BE BOP DELUXE"

8 "Harlequin – PFM"

9 "Lucky Seven – CHRIS SQUIRE"

10 "Nightingales and Bombers – MANFRED MANN’S EARTHBAND"

11 "Sheba’s Song – FRUUPP"

12 "Solar Musick Suite – STEVE HILLAGE"

DISC THREE

1 "People – BAKER GURVITZ ARMY"

2 "From Under – PFM"

3 "It’s All Over – NEKTAR"

4 "Toward the Sun – DRUID"

5 "7171 551 – MAN"

6 "Free Hand – GENTLE GIANT"

7 "No One’s More Important Than The Earthworm – STACKRIDGE"

8 "Doldrums – GREENSLADE"

9 "Watch Out, There’s a Mind About – GLOBAL VILLAGE TRUCKING COMPANY"

10 "Pig Storm – WIGWAM"

11 "Give My Compliments to the Chef – SENSATIONAL ALEX HARVEY BAND"

12 "Starving in the Tropics – STRING DRIVEN THING"

13 "Out of My Tree – CLIVE JOHN"

DISC FOUR

1 "Hazard Profile – SOFT MACHINE"

2 "Didn’t Matter Anyway – HATFIELD & THE NORTH"

3 "Bless Your Lucky Stars – WIGWAM"

4 "Shadow of the Hierophant – STEVE HACKETT"

5 "Hymn for the Children – BARCLAY JAMES HARVEST"

6 "Trip to the Fair – RENAISSANCE"

7 "Arrow – VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR"

8 "Dancer – BABE RUTH"

9 "The Dabsong Conshirtoe – CARAVAN"