Le Orme (Psychedelic Prog Recommendations)

I'd suggest Picchio Dal Pozzo, who released a great album with strong Canterbury/ psych vibes.
The track Seppia in particular is a stand-out.

if you want a band or album that has the "Ad Gloriam" sound, you aren't looking for anyone who sounds like Le Orme. Least of all Le Orme themselves. Ad Gloriam was made by a short-lived lineup of the band - one with chintzier keyboards - and it's by far the most US/West Coast psychedelic-sounding thing they ever did. the rest of their catalog is very proggy and full of ELP-type instrumental flashiness. i don't know how they hit on the so-simple-it's-genius repeating hook and proto-Big Beat rhythm of "Ad Gloriam" (the hardest part of David Holmes' work was basically done for him), but it's not something they ever recreated.

Canterbury Sound isn't quite right. I almost feel like you'd have to go back to the source, to something American, like The David, to get close.

need to sleep on this one.

xpost - thought about Supersister, but their music is so much more complex than "Ad Gloriam," and it lacks the propulsive repetition. same goes for PDP and Moving Gelatine Plates.

le orme's felona e serona is a monster. ys by il balleto di bronzo and the trip by atlantide are sort of similar. the first three or four nektar albums may do you right too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=545vO52c6L4

first time i'm hearing felona e serona with the english lyrics peter hammill (!) wrote. aldo tagliapietra is all of a sudden sounding a lot like benoît david (a good thing!)