Island

Pictures (1977) ...

Swiss progressives, very Van der Graaf Generator/Gentle Giant influenced with Genesis undertones and a Frank Zappa complexity ...

Pictures album ...
 

Benjamin Jäger / lead vocals, percussion
Güge Jürg Meier / drums, gongs, percussion
Peter Scherer / keyboards, pedal-bass, voices crotales
René Fisch / sax, flute, clarinet, triangle, voices

1. Introduction (1:28)
2. Zero (6:13)
3. Pictures (16:51)
4. Herold And King / Dloreh (12:13)
5. Here And Now (12:15)
 
Bonus track on cd...
6. Empty Bottles (23:35)

Flame Dream

Calatea (1978) ...

Flame dream were a Swiss progressive group, this was their debut with Yes harmonies and mellotron touches ...

Gate to Calatea ...

Peter Wolf - vocals, woodwinds
Roland Ruckstuhl - keyboards
Urs Waldispühl - guitar
Urs Hochuli - bass, vocals
Peter Furrer - drums, percussion

The band could have been compared to Genesis during the Peter Gabriel era (similar vocals, flutes and keyboards) with influences of Van Der Graaf Generator (dark climates and sax) and Gentle Giant (syncopated structures), however it was by no means a clone! The compositions were characterised by the stress on the keyboards and the virtuosity of the keyboards wizard playing tunes, always melodic and often melancholy, on top of a very dynamic and complex rhythm section, the whole stuff embroidered by superb flute and sax parts. The sound was characterised too by the absence of guitars, and by the singer's peculiar colour, often reminding Peter Gabriel and Phil Collins... ezhevika.blogspot.co.uk ...

Calatea on grooveshark ...

Volcano ... 

Rainer Brüninghaus

Continuum (1983) ...

German jazz pianist coming from a 'Kosmische' fusion direction ...This album features Markus Stockhausen (son of Karlheinz) on trumpet and flugelhorn ...

Strahlenspur ...

Eiliff (1971) ...

"References include SOFT MACHINE, early KING CRIMSON, COLOSSEUM, NUCLEUS, VDGG as well as Miles Davis and Frank Zappa."

Nature and Organisation

Beauty Reaps The Blood Of Solitude (1994) ...

An offshoot of Current 93, music by Michael Cashmore ...

The Wicker Man Song ...  Vocals by Rose McDowall

Overall a progressive folk sound (sometimes labelled 'Industrial' but much too pastoral for that) ...Hints of Spirogyra and This Mortal Coil ...

Agamemnon

Agamemnon (1981) ...

Swiss prog from Agamemnon ...their self produced album from 1981.   Pink Floydish in parts, nothing new but musically inventive ...

Dark side of the Alps ...

AGAMEMNON was a German band that recorded their only release back in 1980. There is some speculation that the band is actually from Switzerland, as that is where the original LP was privately released. Either way, AGAMEMNON S/T is keyboard dominated space/psych/prog music. The lyrics are in German. It is reminiscent of Minotaurus, Epidaurus and in some parts Kyrie Eleison. This album features the first two stories from the mythologic Greek hero. It is divided into 2 main tracks as Parts I and II . (Progarchives.com)

Matching Mole

Matching Mole's Little Red Record ...

'Machine Molle' ...a French pun on Robert Wyatt's former group Soft Machine ... 

Righteous Rumba and Brandy as in Benji ... 

Backing vocals by Julie Christie ...

Adelbert von Deyen

Adelbert von Deyen ...

 Icy German space electronics in a Klaus Schulze mode ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-VX9H_9XsE