Tag Archives: Ivan Zagni

This electric guitarist do some fine work in obscure British progressive rock bands from the ’60s, became mixed up in European free improvisation scene in the next decade, and returned towards the music scene of his native New Zealand in the ’80s. The Continentals, rising in the hinterlands of Norwich …

British progressive rock-band Jody Grind issued two obscure albums combining hard rock, jazz, blues, and traditional influences with lineups emphasizing Hammond organ, guitar, and drums. Susceptible to lengthy instrumental riffing and rather ponderous, stern primary material, these were similar to various other extremely early organ-oriented U.K. intensifying rock acts. However …