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Posted: March 01 2015 at 16:38

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Posted: March 01 2015 at 16:47

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

http://theplasticacidband.bandcamp.com/ (name your price)

Favourite track: 7/8 Revolution

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Posted: March 01 2015 at 16:56

tricksiebzehn wrote:

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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

No tricksiebzehn, unfortunately I don't have a last.fm profile, but looking forward to, thanks for sharing yours, will check it out.

Yeah ELP (as well as The Nice) managed quite well this matter, but I don't know Trace, is it from Netherlands? I don't know where I read once something about this band, and forgot to look for their discography.

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Posted: March 01 2015 at 17:52

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.

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Posted: March 01 2015 at 20:20

Found this old thread.... http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=58527

The ones I thought of have been named but Yak is another recent one. I really like this album but no one ever mentions them. Kind of a cross between Pulsar, ELP, and TD.

http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=20233

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Posted: March 01 2015 at 21:37

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.

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Posted: March 01 2015 at 23:11

Try the RIO/Avant Prog band Far Corner

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Posted: March 02 2015 at 00:52

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!!

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Posted: March 02 2015 at 01:27

Dellinger wrote:

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.

Wives does have some lead guitar although not a lot admittedly. I couldn't remember how much of those other albums feature guitar if at all.

The band I suggested Refugee did a complete symphonic keyboard lead album with no guitar. Lee Jackson never played any lead guitar unlike Greg Lake in ELP who did occasionally use it.

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Posted: March 02 2015 at 01:51

Eclectic Prog band Esperanto from 1975. Two violins and a cello

but no guitar. XLNT cover of Eleanor Rigby.

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Posted: March 02 2015 at 03:02

Krunkelstiltskin from Amherst, Massachusetts, just cleared for PA.

http://krunkelstiltskin.bandcamp.com/album/into-the-aurifice

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Posted: March 02 2015 at 08:55

Hi,

Weird ... !!! I never really thought that a guitar was mandatory to make it progressive, as any instrument can perform that function well enough, but it is the listeners that do not see or understand that, and they are too comfy with a top ten rock music design to be able to listen to something without a guitar ... or a friend of mine that heard Ozric Tentacles for the 1st time 15 years ago, and 6 minutes into it, he goes ... "where's the lyrics?" ... and he never listened to it again!

It was kinda funny, when even something like "String Driven Thing" had a song about a band without a drummer!

Creativity is what makes it "progressive". Not anything else.

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Posted: March 02 2015 at 09:00

tricksiebzehn wrote:

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A whole lotta Krautrock!

I heard a lot of Krautrock, any favorite?

Autobahn by Kraftwark for starters as it's all straight synth, then early Popol Vuh which utilized minimal guitar and Neu! which heavily utilized guitar but in strange droning styles. Cheers!

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Posted: March 02 2015 at 09:01

UK: Danger Money

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Posted: March 02 2015 at 11:34

Hercules wrote:

Rare Bird

This.

As Tony says, they did use guitars rarely, but they also had two keyboarderists...

What?

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Posted: March 02 2015 at 11:55

MFP wrote:

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Posted: March 02 2015 at 12:29

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Posted: March 02 2015 at 16:57

micky wrote:

try these on for size...

two of my most favorite modern groups. .and damnit no one likes hard and heavy guitar orientated stuff more than me...

Ancestor's Tale: I like it, but the lyrics. Would be better without vocals for me. But will check this band out later.
Alec K. Redfearn and the Eyesores: Sounds ok, but the singer is not my cup of tea. Also, this is a bit to far from prog to me. But thanks anyways.

richardh wrote:

Refugee

Thanks, some nice moog sound in here.

Lear'sFool wrote:

Quatermass, big time.

Thanks, some really cool tracks and some medicore stuff. Definitly not bad, but also not great.

Hercules wrote:

Greenslade

Rare Bird

Solution

All rarely used guitar and all are brilliant at times.

Greenslade: I know this band and I love the hammond solos greenslade did for colosseum, but I just feel he doesn't perform at that level here. It's quite good, BUT: The vocals are... cruel. Another band that would be so much better without vocals. Sorry, they ruin it for me. Although "Sundance" is a really great track which I definitely listen to from time to time.
Rare Bird: Just heard the some tracks from "Sympathy", but it turned out that this album is just compilation. Was medicore in my opinion, but maybe "As your mind flies by" is better?
Solution: Great catch, many thanks! Seems like I missed a lot of good dutch stuff.

presdoug wrote:

Triade

Still Life

Aardvark

Triade: Wow, rare to hear a cello (or double bass?) in progressive rock with some nice hammond parts. Really like it, thanks!
Still Life: Hm, not the kind of music that amazes me, maybe not progressive or eclectic enough for me.
Aadvark: Know them before, but same as for Still Life.

So far.

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Posted: March 02 2015 at 22:03

richardh wrote:

Wives does have some lead guitar although not a lot admittedly. I couldn't remember how much of those other albums feature guitar if at all.

The band I suggested Refugee did a complete symphonic keyboard lead album with no guitar. Lee Jackson never played any lead guitar unlike Greg Lake in ELP who did occasionally use it.

I think he had guitars on most of his prog albums (I'm almost sure he has guitars on Wives, Journey, and Arthur), but the music is definitley keyboard driven, and the guitar is used as an extra instrument. Criminal Record has just about no guitars. I think it actually doesn't have any at all.

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Posted: March 02 2015 at 22:05

The-time-is-now wrote:

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!!

Actually, Renaissance might just as well qualify... at least the early classic albums. They do have guitars, but mainly acoustic simple guitars... the music is mainly suported by Annies voice, Tout's keyboards, and the orchestrations.