Musea Records is a non-profit [for the label's bands] musician-owned French

France

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 record label

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 dedicated to progressive rock

Progressive rock

Progressive rock is a subgenre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s as part of a "mostly British attempt to elevate rock music to new levels of artistic credibility." John Covach, in Contemporary Music Review, says that many thought it would not just "succeed the pop of...

. It was founded in 1985

1985 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1985.-January–March:*January 1 - The newest music video channel, VH-1, debuts on American cable. It is aimed at an older demographic than its sister station, MTV...

 by Bernard Gueffier and Francis Grosse, along with a small team of friends - Daniel Adt, Alain Juliac, Alain Robert, Thierry Sportouche, Jean-Claude Granjeon, Pascal Ferry, Thierry Moreau and François Arnold.

Musea's recording artists (partial list)

• Apocalypse
  Apocalypse (band)
  Apocalypse is a progressive rock band from Brazil that plays symphonic rock with strong electronic keyboard orientation. Many influences can be noticed among their discography, but Genesis, Yes, ELP, Pink Floyd, Rush and Marillion are the most present....
  
  
• Arachnoid
• Asia Minor
• Atoll
  Atoll (band)
  Atoll is a French progressive rock band.-Discography:* 1974 : Musiciens Magiciens* 1975 : L'Araignée-Mal* 1977 : Tertio* 1979 : Rock Puzzle* 1989 : L'Océan* 1990 : Tokyo, C'est Fini * 2003 : Illian - J'entends Gronder La Terre...
  
  
• Glass
  Glass (band)
  Glass is a progressive rock trio from the Pacific Northwest who play complex original instrumental symphonic jazz-rock. The group consists of Greg Sherman on keyboards, vibes & Mellotron, his brother Jeff Sherman on bass guitar, guitar, bass pedals and keyboards, and their childhood friend Jerry...
  
  
• Hemmelig Tempo
  Hemmelig tempo
  Hemmelig Tempo is a Norwegian experimental musical improvisation trio formed in Bergen in 2007. Preferring the label "research group", the trio mixes quasi-scientific sound experiments with performance art, installation art, free improvisation, instrument-making and satire.- Members :Professor...
  
  
• Jack Dupon
  Jack Dupon
  Jack Dupon is a French progressive rock band. Their musical style is classified as RIO or Rock in Opposition / Avant-Prog, as described by the site-ProgArchives.com....
  
  
• Komintern
• Level Pi
  Level Pi
  -Biography:Level π is the German musician Uwe Cremer , whose musical style is in the context of Krautrock but includes elements of Electronic and Experimental music....
  
  
• Jean Pascal Boffo
• Little Tragedies
  Little Tragedies
  Little Tragedies are a Russian language progressive rock, art-rock and symphonic rock band from Russia. Arguably the most important Russian progressive rock band.-Style:...
  
  
• Magma
  Magma (band)
  Magma is a French progressive rock band founded in Paris in 1969 by classically trained drummer Christian Vander, who claimed as his inspiration a "vision of humanity's spiritual and ecological future" that profoundly disturbed him. In the course of their first album, the band tells the story of a...
  
  
• Minimum Vital
• Nemrud
• Opus 3
• Pulsar
  Pulsar (band)
  Pulsar is a French progressive rock band whose influences include Pink Floyd and King Crimson, plus classical musicians such as Gustav Mahler.During the early 1980s, the group performed and composed the music for a Franco‑Austrian musical theatre production...
  
  
• Qui
• Quidam
  Quidam (band)
  Quidam is a Polish Progressive rock band, evolving from the hard rock/blues trio Deep River, a band formed by Maciek Meller, Radek Scholl and Rafał Jermakow. When Zbyszek Florek and Ewa Smarzyńska joined the band, the original Quidam line up was complete. In this line-up the debut album Quidam was...
  
  
• Jeff Sherman
  Jeff Sherman (musician)
  Jeffrey Edward Sherman is an American musician . He is a founding member of the band Glass, as well as a solo artist who has released both under his own name and under the pseudonym Jeff Joad.-Early career:Four years after Jeff Sherman was born in Seattle, his father, an electrical engineer for...
  
  
• Shingetsu
  Shingetsu
  "Shingetsu" was a Japanese progressive rock band from the decade of the 70's. Seminal band with a short career, they have typically been categorised as one of the most notable exponents of Progressive Rock music.- Shingetsu :...
  
  
• Shub-Niggurath (band)
  Shub-Niggurath (band)
  Shub-Niggurath was an avant-rock/zeuhl band from France founded in 1983 by Allan Baullaud, and remained active until Baullaud's death from cancer in 1995. The band is named after one of the deities in Cthulhu Mythos created by the American horror writer H. P...
  
  
• Shylock
  Shylock
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• Terpandre
• La Théorie des Cordes
• Versailles
  Versailles (French band)
  Versailles is a French progressive rock band based in Lille, France and formed in 1985. They released their first single, "Le Sang Bleu", in 1988.They have released four albums from 1991 till 1998....
  
  
• Vital Duo
• Yesterdays
  Yesterdays (band)
  Yesterdays is a Hungarian symphonic progressive rock band based in Cluj Napoca, Romania.Its musical style has been compared by various reviewers to Yes , Quidam , Pat Metheny, Anna Maria Jopek , Eclipse and Genesis - Biography :...
  
  
• Zao
  Zao (French band)
  Zao was a progressive rock/zeuhl band that was founded by Yochk'o Seffer and François Cahen . They were active from 1971 to 1994 and released 6 studio albums. Both Seffer and Cahen were ex-members of Magma...