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Topic: A beautiful prog moment Posted: December 03 2017 at 08:07
Dellinger wrote:
Harmonium was already mentioned for Histoires sans Paroles, and indeed that song is just one wonderful melody after another, and I couldn't choose which one I would recommend. However, there's another bit from the band that shines just as brightly, and may even be closer to what I understand you love from that Bolero part (which I also love so much), and that's on the song called Harmonium, from their first album: the ending instrumental bit from that one is just beautiful too. Also, Mike Oldfield has many such moments. If you haven't yet, you should get his first four albums, plus the very last one (return to Ommadawn). Particularly, the opening moments of side 2 of Hergest Ridge, the opening for Ommadawn, the last minutes of side 4 of Incantations, as well as many moments through Tubular Bells (particularly on the Finale part of side 1, plus several parts on about the first half of side 2). Oh yeah, and the Africa 1 section from the Amarok album.
As i try to find any place on PA to spread the news and that on this post Harmonium is talked about, here would be my pick for a non prog album : Serge Fiori after 25 years of retirement had made a comeback. Self titled album of which "Seule" Laisse moi partir" and the double ending of "Si bien / Epilogue" would qualify for his uncomparable vocalese in falsetto way, strings added for Epilogue. Complete review on the "I recommend" post...
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Posted: October 06 2017 at 23:59
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Tom Ozric wrote:
One does not have to look too hard to find many, beautiful moments in Opeth songs. They are there, in between the brutal clutter, which most folks don't enjoy.
To name the most striking one for me, those guitars at the beginning of "The Drapery Falls"... just sublime. It took me a while to apreciate them, and in the live version from Lamentations, but it has become my favourite Opeth song, and the only one I like with growling from them.
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Posted: October 06 2017 at 20:48
Tom Ozric wrote:
One does not have to look too hard to find many, beautiful moments in Opeth songs. They are there, in between the brutal clutter, which most folks don't enjoy.
To name the most striking one for me, those guitars at the beginning of "The Drapery Falls"... just sublime. It took me a while to apreciate them, and in the live version from Lamentations, but it has become my favourite Opeth song, and the only one I like with growling from them.
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Posted: October 05 2017 at 23:24
One does not have to look too hard to find many, beautiful moments in Opeth songs. They are there, in between the brutal clutter, which most folks don't enjoy.
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Posted: October 05 2017 at 22:12
Of course there's so much beauty on Yes's music for me. But a few particularly memorable ones for me that may not often receive so much attention and that I might consider equivalent to that Bolero part are, on "The Revealing Science of God", an acoustic part that begins at 13 min. The intro to "That, that is" (called togetherness), and the intro to "Mind Drive". So... all Steve Howe acoustic moments...
Please help recommend some other songs/tracks like that. Also, the closing section of Gracious' Super Nova = simply wonderful as is their song "Heaven".
I'm hungry for more moments like that. Please feed my fat belly.
the beauty in that moment is in my opinion not the melody but that they kind of improvise a fugue upon that theme
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Posted: October 05 2017 at 13:19
Mr Fox 1970
A bit folky vocal-wise I know but there's some really gorgeous arrangements and a rich folk/ baroque/ psych feel.. Nearly as dark as Comus in places.. the track 'Mr Fox' just gets me every time!
My favourite Strawbs lp, the one which gives me the most goose-pimples!
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Posted: October 05 2017 at 11:34
SteveG wrote:
^yeah, a beautiful song Ken, with perhaps some of Cousins' best lyrics. He is an awesome songwriter that I feel is badly overlooked by the general public.
Hi Steve
True, and not just in the general public but in the prog community as well, where some consider them too "mainstream".
here is another beauty, which manages to be lyrical with almost no lyrics
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Posted: October 05 2017 at 10:58
^yeah, a beautiful song Ken, with perhaps some of Cousins' best lyrics. He is an awesome songwriter that I feel is badly overlooked by the general public.
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Posted: October 05 2017 at 10:17
Strawbs have so many beautiful moments, but one of them is the whole of this song, in this definitive version. Once you discover that it's both a love song and an ode to a 19th century lighthouse keeper's daughter named Grace, its beauty multiplies
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Posted: October 05 2017 at 10:14
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octopus-4 wrote:
Seeing Renaissance mentioned, I'd say Mother Russia
Huh? "Red blood, white snow, he knows frozen rivers won't flow." I'm not sure know about this one, Luka.
Pretty intense music and lyrics for such a baroque band.
specifically for me, it's the buildup after Annie's vocalise that is as beautiful as anything I've heard, mostly on piano but gathering steam with oboe and strings, leading right up to the repetitive flourish on harp. I'm looking forward to seeing them with the chamber orchestra in just 3 weeks!
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Posted: October 05 2017 at 09:59
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Seeing Renaissance mentioned, I'd say Mother Russia
Huh? "Red blood, white snow, he knows frozen rivers won't flow." I'm not sure know about this one, Luka.
Pretty intense music and lyrics for such a baroque band.
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