Songs that have great VOCAL melodies |
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cstack3
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Ian Gillian from Deep Purple had some amazing vocal performances. Some of my favorite work by him was on "Jesus Christ Superstar." What pipes!
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One particular song. Histoires Sans Paroles, from Harmonium. It's instrumental, but it's got some really beautiful wordless vocalisations.
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Dellinger
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The final segment of the fourth track on Mike Oldfield's Incantations album.
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Skybird
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70's, with a prominent vocalist, perfectly married to the instrumental section, and not one of the usual suspects? Hold my beer. :-)
Banco has already been mentioned I think, but, if you're ready for some goosebumps, grab nice headphones and turn off the lights and your phone. Banco, album "Darwin!", track "750.000 Anni Fa... L'Amore", 1972: Anything by PFM from that era also! For instance, Premiata Forneria Marconi, album "Per Un Amico", track "Appena Un Po", 1972: To complete the RPI trifecta, something by Le Orme: album "Uomo Di Pezza", track "Figure Di Cartone", 1972: Now, to cleanse your palate from all that sugary, beautiful RPI, some Zeuhl. Something restrained to start with. Magma, album "Attahk", track "Nono", 1978 (live version of 2005, because why not): One Eskaton track to close things off. Eskaton, album "Ardeur", track "Attente", 1980 (there's a longer, slower version in their previous album, 4 Visions, that is easier to find): Now I realize that you mentioned being a vocalist yourself; if you wanted to learn these and sing them, it might difficult without knowing Italian or French... :-/ Kobaïan's your best bet, then. ;-) Outside of the 70's, I'm surprised no one mentioned Pure Reason Revolution, Anubis, or even Dead Can Dance, for that matter. Not all singers in prog are bad! (source: subjective, anecdotal evidence of a prog enthusiast with 0 musical training whatsoever).
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moshkito
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I'm not sure that MAGMA's work (any of it) is about "melodies" at all.
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Skybird
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Just remembered one of the biggest "slap in the face" I received, musically speaking. That was live in Orthez (France), in 2003, when Ange performed. I'm not into Ange specifically, that was the fourth act or so of a long day of festival (started with Seven Reizh and ended with Pendragon!), so my wife and I decided to take a step back and listen with one ear only. Except that the Descamps son, Tristan, at some point, had a solo song. Piano and voice only, reprising a 1968 Polnareff song, "Le bal des Laze". Let's say he got our attention quickly... Here's a video of another performance of this song.
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Dellinger
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I was just listening to Museo Rosenbach's Zarathrustra, and, even though I wouldn't say it's got a particularly great singer (not bad either at all, though), past half the song there's some really wonderful vocal melodies... once again, not so much the voice, but the melody sung.
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verslibre
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I concur. |
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Wow, that comes from way ago but surely rings a bell - and Yvone Elliman, if I remember well, was terrific too.
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noni
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Peter Nichols - IQ
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Love this band
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Skybird, I think that those are all awesome choices.
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so many great ones.. but got to give up.. and baby.. you bet you I would in a NY minute for either of them.. for these two.
both non prog artists who guested on prog albums and both completely blew me away.. so much so that one inspired me to drop my 20 odd year dope sobriety when we met and she offered me a joint... that I was later inspired to explore their work as artists on their own. Great stuff.. and what voices... Shara Worden Cheyenne Mize |
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The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip
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GrafHaarschnitt
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I am not quite sure how to react on that, cause I am not sure where you´re coming from. They may be very staccato like melodies often but not only. Especially wurdah itah is melodious as all hell and there are beautiful melodic parts.. like ima suri dondai everywhere over their musical body.
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GrafHaarschnitt
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Also magma has a lot of nice rich dischordant (I am not quite sure about the english term, correct me if you want) and chromatic melodies
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GrafHaarschnitt
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Also and you cant deny that. The heavy use of different vocal chants (in a language that was built to be musical) gives the more or less two tone variation sections a whole new richness. The overtones built their own brilliant melodies.
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GrafHaarschnitt
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Slightly more conventional recommendation:
If you cant play it. Its Trittico from Melos from Cervello. Try höyry-kones huono parturi, kala and the last one laina ajalla. Or what I absolutely adore recently: haikara - Manala the singing in the beginning I have to admit. I prefer slow melodies with a rhythmic twist. Am gonna think about Magma again. You sparked a fire in me pedro. But I think I am gonna stay with my opinion bout overtone melodies. Edited by GrafHaarschnitt - November 25 2018 at 07:25 |
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"It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno
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Oh, yeah. Can Utility and the Coastliners.
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"It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno
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