Top 40 Progressive Albums of 2008 - Top 40 Albums Progresivos del 2008

Our 2008 picks are the best examples of what's new and exciting about the Progressive Music scene this year. The Autopoietican Team carefully looked for and listened to all these albums during the prior 12 months, and we can attest to their high quality, great musicianship, and in a few surprising cases, extraordinary musical creativity to bring the progressive genre to a new level of innovation.

En este post les presentamos la lista de nuestros albums progresivos favoritos del año 2008, sin ningun orden premeditado.

Prog Metalico/Prog Pesado:
IL BACIO DELLA MEDUSA – “Discesa dagl'Inferi d'un Giovane Amante” [Italia]
OCTOPUS - "Coda" [Chile]
CANVAS SOLARIS- "The Atomized Dream" [USA]
CYNIC – “Traced in Air” [USA]
EPHRAT - "No One's Words" [Israel]

Zeuhl
JANNICK TOP - "Infernal Machina" [Francia]
BBI - "BBI" [Francia]
AMYGDALA – “Complex Combat” [Japan]
ONE SHOT - "Dark Shot" [Francia]

Prog Eclectico
BEARDFISH - "Sleeping in Traffic (part II)" [Suecia]
FROMUZ - "Overlook" [Uzbekistan]
TÉMPANO - "Memoria Selectiva" [Venezuela]
HANDS - "Strangelet" [USA]
GURTH - "Tormentes" [España]
KHARMINA BURANNA - "El Arte de Seguir Vivos" [Peru]
MATTHEW PARMENTER - "Horror Express" [USA]

Psicodelico/Espacial
MAHOGANY FROG – “DO5” [Canada]
DUNGEN - "4" [Suecia]
ORESUND SPACE COLLECTIVE - "Inside your Head" [Dinamarca, Suecia, USA]
HONDURAS LIBREGRUPO - "La Única Posición es la Oposición" [Argentina]
POSEIDÓTICA - "La Distancia" [Argentina]

Prog Sinfonico:
KEITH EMERSON – “Keith Emerson Band featuring Marc Bonilla" [UK, USA]
BIRDS AND BUILDINGS - "Bantam to Behemoth" [USA]
SAENA - "Saena" [Mexico]
THIEVES KITCHEN - "Water Road" [UK]
VERSUS X - "Primordial Ocean" [Alemania]
HOSTSONATEN – “Winterthrough” [Italia]

RIO/Avant/Experimental:
OCTOBER EQUUS "Charybdis" [España]
NIK BARTSCH RONIN –“ Holon” [Suiza]
KAYO DOT- "Blue Lambency Downward" [USA]
GUAPO - "Elixirs" [UK]

Jazz Rock/Prog Fusion
D.F.A. - "4th" [Italia]
PLANETA IMAGINARIO - "Biomasa" [España]
ELEPHANT9 - "Dodovoodoo" [Noruega]
TÁNGER - "Mundos Paralelos" [Argentina]
LEPRECHAUN - "Leprechaun" [Chile]
TÓRAX - "Tórax" [Argentina]
MANUEL MIRANDA - "Brujos Voladores" [Peru]
DEUS EX MACHINA – “Imparis” [Italia]

Math Rock
AHLEUCHATISTAS – “The Same and the Other” [USA]
GIRAFFES? GIRAFFES! – “More Skin With Milk-Mouth” [USA]*
DON CABALLERO – “Punkgasm” [USA]
MAPS & ATLASES – “You, Me, and the Mountain” [USA]

* Releases in December 2007, but available for sales in January 2008.