Great prog without guitars

From Yes, Magnification. No keys but an orchestra. The result is really good.
And a recent discovery, Syymphony of light by Renaissance. You reneed to listen to that!!

So, no one's mentioned Rick Wakeman yet? Of course he should be checked out, specially 6 Wives, Journey, Arthur, and Criminal Record too. I guess Iamthemorning would be a good choice to check out from the new bands.

tricksiebzehn wrote: What do you mean by "EM"? Is that the full name?

FM not EM



Good call on the Island, Egg and that Koenji album...those are ones I should have remembered.

Plastic Acid Band from Vancouver. Cello, drums, piano and voice.. Sadly rejected for PA  but it still to be a great prog (without guitars) to these ears

Edited by Svetonio - March 01 2015 at 21:30

Chamber prog might be an interesting area to explore for you, especially if you like classical music. Bands such as Aranis or Five-Storey Ensemble use a largely acoustic instrumentation, with strings, accordion and other unusual instruments as well as piano - and definitely no distorted electric guitars.

The first two Yes releases come to mind...Peter Banks's role was downplayed compared to Howe's later contributions, and the Hammond was the primary keyboard instrument.  Tony Kaye's subsequent band "Badger" was also Hammond-heavy.

Rick Robson wrote: Thanks for your suggestions Tricksiebzehn!  Cannabis India is a great band, catchy music indeed! And I'm loving too the dynamic way the melodies flow from those beautiful keyboards sounds, great indeed. Lapis turned out to be one of my highlights so far, couldn't listen to "Beethoven's 9th" yet, how does it feel like? Because personally I didn't like the Yes version of Brahms Symphony 4 - 3rd. movement (Cans And Brahms), somewhat cheesy for me, I think they wanted more make some homage to their inspiring idols.   Recently discovered a "one album" band that have much to with what you are looking for - Cherry Five, they soon turned out to be one of my fave bands (their photo is right above my sig below). I'm pretty sure you are going to like it.

Glad you like it :) "Beethoven's 9th" is good, but not great in my opinion. The best tracks are probably "Hand of the King" and "Lapis" which are great. Don't like the Yes version too, I think they tried to simulate an orchestra to much rahter then just taking the melody like ELP, Trace and some other did.

Cherry Five: I already know them, but it's a great band and album, excaclty what I like. Seems we have some taste in common (at least prog related), do you have a last.fm profile? Mine would be http://www.last.fm/user/tricksiebzehn

octopus-4 wrote: A lot of Progressive Electronic. Berlin School for example.

I checked Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze and Ashra, which I like. But it's not the grenre I'm searching for, can't hear that stuff so often. But would appreciate a suggestion nevertheless!



To other: Will definitely check the suggested music, many thanks to all!


Edited by tricksiebzehn - March 01 2015 at 15:02

A lot of Progressive Electronic. Berlin School for example.

Quatermass, big time.