Logan wrote: Sorry for the digression, butt are there are any prog rock flatulists that people can recommend?

 

My favorite would be Jimmy Hastings, who already has been mentioned a few times.

the new ERIS PLUVIA album "Third Eye Light" has loads of great flute played in a softer vein by Roberta Piras.   PERERIN's Aneurin Owen plays plenty of fine flutes on their first 2 albums.  HORSLIPS' Jim Lockhart plays well, sometimes in the Ian Anderson style.   Then there's

ROUSSEAU's Christoph Huste,
NOVALIS'  Fred Mühlböck,
ASIA MINOR's Eril Tekeli,
FOREVER TWELVE's Cat Ellen,
GRACE's Harry Davies,
GROOVECTOR's Teemu Huunonen,
HOELDERLIN who had several on their debut at least,
HOSTSONATEN had several,
ITOIZ's Joseba Erkiaga,
KERRS PINK's Harald Lytom,
LETHE's Stefano Fornaroli,
MADISON DYKE's Burkhard Ritter,
Basque group MAGDALENA's Mikel Landa,
MOSTLY AUTUMN's Angela Goldthorpe,
OLOFERNE's Alessandro Piccioni,
PELL MELL"s Thomas Schmitt
SOLARIS' and solo work Attila Kollar
TAMALONE had several, one off like Jethro Tull
VIIMA's Mikko Uusi-Oukari
WHITE WILLOW's Audun Kjus
SEVEN REIZH's Gwendall Mével

moshkito wrote: Hi,   Hard to discuss this in here since you guys tend to limit the instrument and the so many other folks out there that can blow off more than a third of the list here. But there are some that would fit in other areas that also expand the value of that instrument.   I don't like to compare Ian to anyone else. Except that he is stuck in a time warp and is not willing/capable of doing anything else but the stuff that ends up on radio with 25 second solos by him, before he runs out of breath!   But the list for these is massive. Incidentally, I just got Thiij's first 2 albums (Introspection 1 and 2) as they had been on my want list for a long time. Pretty much all classical music.   A couple of others that also stand out ...  Stephen Micus ... Jan Garbarek (though he is better known for saxophone).   In classical music Rampal was the standard, but I never thought he was any better than a buffon. In jazz there are a couple others that deserve mention and probably could blow Ian under the carpet with his 4 minute songs! ... folks like Herbie Flowers comes to mind.

John Hackett

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Ketil Vestrum Einarson (White Willow). An excellent flautist.

1. Thijs van Leer (Focus)

Thijs Van Leer. I like him even more than Ian.

Ruben Izarrualde (Anacrusa)

David Fitzgerald (Iona)

Bimbo Acock (Gordon Giltrap)

Devon Graves (Dead Soul Tribe), Ian Anderson's clone when it comes to flute soloing

John Hackett (Steve Hackett)

Martin Orford (cf the opening track on his first solo album and the flute solo on one of the tracks of Jadis' 'more than meets the eye')

Hugues de Courson (Malicorne)

Czesław Niemen (cf on the song "sprzedaj mnie wiatrowi" [sell me to the wind])

Dóra Kováts (Kolinda)


and of course Didier Malherbe who was already cited 3 or 4 times.


Edited by lucas - July 04 2010 at 09:24