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geekfreak 
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 Topic: Anekdoten Apprecition Thread
Posted: May 08 2015 at 14:03 |
cannot understand why Anekdoten as not gotten a thread here on progarchives.com so here I`ve started one so anyone else enjoy the heavy aggressive at times symphonic, moody, melancholy progressive rock band. six great albums filled with two mellotron players and cello. 
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Posted: May 17 2015 at 12:15 |
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I'm a big fan. The new album is stunning - as good as anything they've released in the past IMO with perhaps the exception of Nucleus.
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Posted: May 17 2015 at 18:46 |
I am also really enjoying the new album. Part heavy, part not; all good. The only downside of this one (and their last few) is no more cello! 
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Posted: May 17 2015 at 19:20 |
Their live albums are top notch. The mellotron is pretty much a bellowing lead instrument.
While their vocals can sometimes be tiresome, they're unique and fit the music perfectly.
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Posted: May 17 2015 at 20:30 |
 Horizons wrote:
Their live albums are top notch. The mellotron is pretty much a bellowing lead instrument.
While their vocals can sometimes be tiresome, they're unique and fit the music perfectly. |
Personally I am a fan of both of their singers.
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Posted: May 18 2015 at 06:55 |
infocat wrote:
I am also really enjoying the new album. Part heavy, part not; all good.
The only downside of this one (and their last few) is no more cello!
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if memory serves, there was a (small) bit of cello in the previous aToD album... Yeah, I also miss the cello, but I think ASD got some heat for not playing it well (it was fine enough forme, though) in their early albums. So she may be a bit psychologically blocked in that direction. But the new one is definitely in my faves after Nucleus and the debut... I adore the closing lengthy intrumental with theo Travis' sax and flute.
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Posted: May 18 2015 at 06:57 |
Nightfly wrote:
I'm a big fan. The new album is stunning - as good as anything they've released in the past IMO with perhaps the exception of Nucleus. |
Personally I find Gravity their lesser album, followed bu AtoD then From Within.
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Posted: May 18 2015 at 08:54 |
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All their albums are 4 stars and up, but I prefer their later work: Gravity, A Time of Day and Until All the Ghosts Are Gone, the latter being one of the best albums of 21st century prog.
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Posted: May 18 2015 at 12:17 |
Nucleus is a prog masterpiece in all respects. I lump the 1st 3 songs (Nucleus/Harvest/Book of Hours) together in what I like to call "The Nucleus Suite" 
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Posted: May 18 2015 at 12:24 |
From Within. Their best album.
FACT.
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Posted: May 18 2015 at 16:48 |
Sean Trane wrote:
Nightfly wrote:
I'm a big fan. The new album is stunning - as good as anything they've released in the past IMO with perhaps the exception of Nucleus. |
Personally I find Gravity their lesser album, followed bu AtoD then From Within. |
Oh definitely a notch above - no less than a 5 star album IMO. I'd probably have ATOD and Gravity the opposite way around to you but agree they are the weaker ones though only by comparison to the rest. Most bands would kill to have released 2 such good albums. 
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Posted: September 04 2016 at 04:51 |
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fabulous band new albums nearly never of my hi-fi
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Posted: September 05 2016 at 11:48 |
  Anekdoten I need to get them now on vinyl...
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Posted: September 08 2016 at 03:01 |
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I just cannot say which album is the top one Vemod, From Within and Until The Ghosts Are Out! are the first ones I`ll play first...
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Posted: September 08 2016 at 03:15 |
Anekdoten is one of those band, I forget and then play again and then forget.
Maybe because they take so long te record an album. A bit like Hidria Spacefolk.
The band is kind of dark, and difficult to swallow. Their first albums are King Crimson-Red-alike. Their later albums have an own sound.
Lots of mellotron, heavy stonerrock rhythms and melancholic vocals.
Long time my favorite was Gravity, then replaced by A Time of Day and recently by Until All the Ghosts are Gone.
The thing I like the least is the too heavy/noisey/chaotic stonerrock sections. Too loud and almost ugly. I like the flute and mellotron. Very nostalgic.
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Posted: September 08 2016 at 11:00 |
Kingsnake wrote:
Anekdoten is one of those band, I forget and then play again and then forget.
Maybe because they take so long te record an album. A bit like Hidria Spacefolk.
The band is kind of dark, and difficult to swallow. Their first albums are King Crimson-Red-alike. Their later albums have an own sound.
Lots of mellotron, heavy stonerrock rhythms and melancholic vocals.
Long time my favorite was Gravity, then replaced by A Time of Day and recently by Until All the Ghosts are Gone.
The thing I like the least is the too heavy/noisey/chaotic stonerrock sections. Too loud and almost ugly. I like the flute and mellotron. Very nostalgic. |
hmmm interesting view point yes there first album "Vemod" is very King Crimson-Red-alike the others imho are starting to be Anekdoten sound. the other point of alike is two or three cover artwork seem to have like a Black Sabbath Vibe...
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Posted: September 09 2016 at 01:56 |
You must be a Mellotron-fanatic? Am I right?
Moody Blues, Anekdoten, King Crimson :-)
Sometimes I hear very early Barclay James Harvest in the music of Anekdoten.
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Posted: September 13 2016 at 22:08 |
Kingsnake wrote:
You must be a Mellotron-fanatic? Am I right?
Moody Blues, Anekdoten, King Crimson :-)
Sometimes I hear very early Barclay James Harvest in the music of Anekdoten.
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ooh yes Mellotron-Fanatic to Right...Like Bigelf too |
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Posted: September 14 2016 at 01:53 |
Bigelf, I should try that out. (Y)
Also a very nice 70's band with Mellotron is Cressida. A little different but sounds like Moody Blues here and there....
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Posted: September 22 2016 at 08:03 |
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I scored a picture disc of Until All the Ghosts are Gone from this year's Record Store day. So happy, and such a great album.
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