Technical prog or fusion albums from before the 90

Hi!

This is my first post here, I am a 32 year old musician who lives in Montreal and I would like to have recommendations for prog or jazz fusion albums from before the 90s that are very technical. Bonus points if they experiment with atonality. I like the band Present a lot. I also like Gentle Giant, PFM and Lucifer's Friend. I listen to a lot of modern prog metal and extreme metal and lately I have been wondering if there were some older bands who were playing similar styles, but before metal blossomed. My favorite bands include Spiral Architect, Theory In Practice, Anomalous, The Crinn, Canvas Solaris, Blotted Science, Spawn Of Possession, The Helix Nebula, Irreversible Mechanism, Behold The Arctopus, Niacin, Journal, Citriniti and many others, I could go on and on. :p

Thanks in advance!


Edited by ChaoticEmergence - April 25 2015 at 22:25

I'd like to recommend Return to Forever's Where Have I Know Your Before and Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy and Steely Dan's Aja, as a great examples of 70s progressive Fusion / Jazz Rock as well.

Edited by Svetonio - April 25 2015 at 22:53

ChaoticEmergence wrote: Thank you! Nogbad: Turns out I already know your jazz fusion recs as well as Art Zoyd but I will give the others a listen! Svetonio: It's funny because I never gave Yes a chance. I always thought "But they wrote Owner Of A Lonely Heart!" even though it doesn't mean in any way that they can't have written technical albums.

Give a chance to Gates of Delirium

I'd like to add Wigwam's Nuclear Nightclub (1975) and Gong's Shamal (1975).

Wow thanks so much! My favorites so far have been Aksak Mahboul - Un Peu De L'Ames Des Bandits, Univers Zero, Henry Cow, Terje Rypdal, Sloche, Thinking Plague, Ponty and Hancock. There were some pretty good moments in the Yes song but I did not like the parts with vocals. :p I will need to listen more to all of these though.

Will try it. Anything similar to Gilgamesh?

EDIT: Le Orme seems to have pretty good parts!


Edited by ChaoticEmergence - April 25 2015 at 23:51

Svetonio wrote: ChaoticEmergence wrote: Will try it. Anything similar to Gilgamesh? (...) Well, try Gong's Gazeuse! (1976)

Wow!

Oh and don't forget to try, as an quite experimental and probably the best progressive fusion album from 80s, Cloud About Mercury by David Torn (with Mark Isham, Tony Levin, Bill Brufford).

Edited by Svetonio - April 26 2015 at 10:12

For 70s jazz rock fusion, don't miss out on Passport, especially their albums Doldinger ("71) , Looking Thru ("74) and Cross Collateral ("75).