*Leño (1977-1983) . Their first LP (same name, Leño, 1979) contains some prog tracks. These two are La nana ("The Lullaby") and Castigo ("Punishment"):


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*PFM: album Per un amico ("For a Friend", 1972). Two examples:



Album L'isola di niente ("The Island of Nothing", 1974):

I've scanned the thread and don't think I see any mention of Circus. They were a swizz prog-band that released three albums. Their second one, Movin' On (1977), is generally regarded a classic and is full of nice flutes and other cool stuff.

A couple of samples :



Dawn is an 8 minute instrumental from their album ..



The title track at 22 minutes something is the album's most ambitious piece.

It's scary how most of the time I will make an assessment about a band I've never heard based on the genre, description, and cover art without actually taking a listen. Both of those songs were fantastic and not at all what I expected a Swiss prog band from the mid 70's to sound like.

Do you know Gazpacho? No? OK, I'll show you:

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It's a vegetable soup........ ..... ....and a Norwegian prog band:

I'll add a few bands/albums I've been listening to lately...

Bo Hansson (Sweden) - Magician's Hat
Drum Circus (Switzerland) - Magic Theatre
Grovjobb (Sweden) - Vattarnas Fest
Kebnekaise (Sweden) - Kebnekaise II
Moving Gelatine Plates (France) - Moving Gelatine Plates
Out of Focus (Germany) - Palermo 1972
Xhol Caravan (Germany) - Electrip
Brainticket (Germany) - Psychonaut
Golem (Germany) - Orion Awakes

Would like to second this. It's a damn fine prog album.

You should check out the Greek band Aphrodite's child, their early stuff was more traditional psychedelic but the album 666 is more psych-prog and one of my favorite's in the genre.

Since that post put me over the limit and I'm itching to try out my newly earned posting rights here's some samples:

Golden Earring (Holland)
Focus (Holland)
Wigwam (Finland)
Neu (Germany)
Titanic (Norway/UK)
Jane, Novalis, Birth Control, Anyone's Daughter, SFF, Guru Guru Sunband, RMO, Anyone's Daughter (can't remember where these are from, some are German but not all)
Man (Wales)
Accept (Germany)

Another vote for Gazpacho: great band. But also try Hostsonaten, Italian classical/prog/ambient/whatever. This is "Entering the halls of winter", from their album "Winterthrough".