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    Posted: October 14 2004 at 14:24
Hi folks,
could someone recommend me some good prog band/CD width an essential acoustic piano passages?

Thanks a lot
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try Yes Acoustic....new DVD from Yes and its all acoustic, with some great acoustic piano playing from Rick Wakeman
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I was on concert in Prague and I really enjoy acoustic set, but Im looking for something new for me. Try something else.
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I think Tony Banks played some great piano with Genesis. Notably the intro to 'Firth of fifth' on 'Selling england by the pound' as well as 'Anyway' and 'The Lamia' from 'The lamb..' 
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Originally posted by Garofano Garofano wrote:

Hi folks,
could someone recommend me some good prog band/CD width an essential acoustic piano passages?

Thanks a lot

 

 

Check out Ed Macan's band Hermetic Science's second album for the whole of Tarkus transcribed for grande piano. BTW Macan wrote the book Rocking The Classics - which had some interesting ideas about prog.



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TOTALLY AGREE WITH BLACKSWORD TONY BANKS' WORK WITH GENESIS IS SIMPLY SUPERB AND I WOULD INCLUDE A TRICK OF THE TAIL ALBUM TOO 
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I think the first album by ELP.... it has the most beautiful acoustic piano passages ever... which I named myself after... The Three Fates...(parts 2 & 3)  Also the piano solo on Take A Pebble...

Then there's ELP's Trilogy.... The Endless Enigma....

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threefates:

I'm shocked - shocked! - that you forgot the best of all: Piano Improvisations from Welcome Back My Friends...  One of the greatest acoustic piano solos ever put on record.

Also, for those who consider Supertramp "prog" (they are on the site, after all), they have some really great acoustic piano parts, including the eerie echo piano on Crime of the Century.

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A few suggestions of mine:

Tangerine Dream's 'Underwater Sunlight' has some lovely piano at the beginning of 'Song Of The Whale Pt2'.

The Dutch prog band Kayak used piano really well - 'Royal Bed Bouncer' is the one to get.

Par Lindh Project's 'Veni Vidi Vici' has some excellent use of piano as well. 

 

 
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Of course i know beautiful music of ELP and Genesis, but this:

Originally posted by Dick Heath Dick Heath wrote:

Check out Ed Macan's band Hermetic Science's second album for the whole of Tarkus transcribed for grande piano. BTW Macan wrote the book Rocking The Classics - which had some interesting ideas about prog.

sounds really interesting.
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Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

A few suggestions of mine:

Tangerine Dream's 'Underwater Sunlight' has some lovely piano at the beginning of 'Song Of The Whale Pt2'.

The Dutch prog band Kayak used piano really well - 'Royal Bed Bouncer' is the one to get.

Par Lindh Project's 'Veni Vidi Vici' has some excellent use of piano as well. 

Also i will try to listen to something from that.

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Originally posted by threefates threefates wrote:

I think the first album by ELP.... it has the most beautiful acoustic piano passages ever... which I named myself after... The Three Fates...(parts 2 & 3)  Also the piano solo on Take A Pebble...

Then there's ELP's Trilogy.... The Endless Enigma....

Take a Pebble, I love that !
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Hi:

I suggest you check the first Renaissance albums and the two Illusion LPs. John Hawken is particulary good in the use of piano as the main instrument of a prog song.

Also, 'Antiques and Curios' of Strawbs have some pretty good piano parts by Rick Wakeman.

Not to mention pure piano albums by Wakeman and Anthony Phillips.
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Originally posted by Paco Fox Paco Fox wrote:

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I suggest you check the first Renaissance albums and the two Illusion LPs. John Hawken is particulary good in the use of piano as the main instrument of a prog song.

 

 

I endorse this recommendation wholeheartedly. Hawken, sometime Beethovian piano concerto style - which lends itself to heavier rock, made the straights of the arts fraternity in the UK sit up and take notice prog rock for the first time. The first generation Renaissance were the darlings of both the overground and underground at the end of the 60's.
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Actually I always preferred John Tout's playing in Renaissance to John Hawken.  He was less harsh, I guess you could say, more romantic...

For Renaissance... Ashes are Burning or Can You Understand..

Thanks to Maani for reminding me I left out some great Emerson pieces... besides the Piano Improvs... "An Officer & a Gentleman"  on Love Beach has one of the most beautiful piano solos ever... it also includes a great acoustic guitar solo from Greg...
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-Renaissance
-Popol vuh
and others as soon as i remember
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If all you care about is a beautiful sound rather than technical brilliance, I would recommend the French Composer/pianist Didier Squiban - if you can track his material down! I'm particularly keen on his album "Molene", and would recommend it as a starting point - but I also like "Ballades" and "Rozbras", although these are more textural.

As an idea, think simplified Debussy, Poulenc, lounge-bar jazz with a Celtic seasoning - and the occasional nod towards Tony Banks.

:Music to float downstream to, rather than music to blow you away

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Originally posted by Paco Fox Paco Fox wrote:

Hi:

I suggest you check the first Renaissance albums and the two Illusion LPs. John Hawken is particulary good in the use of piano as the main instrument of a prog song.

Also, 'Antiques and Curios' of Strawbs have some pretty good piano parts by Rick Wakeman.

Not to mention pure piano albums by Wakeman and Anthony Phillips.

Excellent suggestions PF, the early Renaissance albums did indeed have great piano. The latter part of "Island" from their first album is superb, and the "Prologue" album is one of my favourites.

Wakeman's solo track "temperament of mind" on the Strawbs A&C was the first real indication most of us had of the extent of his talent.
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LOCANDA DELLE FATE's Forse le Lucciole non si Amano Piú has lots of piano passages.

Somewhere in the frontier between pomp symphonic prog and prg metal, SHADOW GALLERY's Carved in Stone and Tyranny contain lost of piano passages, too, all of them played with greatness and passion.
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Originally posted by threefates threefates wrote:

Actually I always preferred John Tout's playing in Renaissance to John Hawken.  He was less harsh, I guess you could say, more romantic...



Sorry TF that's my preferrence and perhaps explains why I never followed edition 2 to any extent, and I still have a preference for the heavier end of progression music and rock.  I was there when the original Renaissance appeared on the scene and bought that album within a few days of its original release by Island Records (and the 12" gate fold sleeve does justice to the painting on the front).  Hawken's piano has always been the sound of Renaissance for me. The second edition of Renaissance was/is a far more vocalist-lead band, with a softener/romantic sound probably because it is Mrs Roy Wood's (nae Haslam) voice.
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