Similiar albums to Eloy - Ocean

Hi Jinx!
I'd recommend you such bands as Minotaurus, Agamemnon, Trilogy

Perhaps mid-period Jane - Between Heaven And Hell is very good, features original Eloy keyboardist Manfred Weiczorke.

Novalis - Sommerabend

Possibly this one:

I was a huge Eloy fan as a teenager but not really anymore. Still I believe that they were pretty unique and top of the pack in what they were doing, so it's difficult to find similar things that are worthy. In their reviews there are a number of references to Pink Floyd but I don't think these are really appropriate. They used some musical ideas from elsewhere (quite a few actually) but produced a very individual blend. Novalis and Anyone's Daughter are probably much too "down to earth"; I wonder why many think that these are "similar to Eloy". In my mind, in terms of the atmosphere and the specific qualities that one could find in "Ocean" and the best work of Eloy, Yes's Relayer comes next, although by this I obviously break the rule: "don't bother reccommending known bands".
To mention something slightly less known, if you're fine with instrumental, you can try out SFF's "Symphonic Pictures". (Actually these days I'd prefer both Symphonic Pictures and Relayer to Ocean, but that's probably because I listened to so much Eloy in the past that I've somehow ruined them for me.)

kenethlevine wrote: Lewian wrote: I was a huge Eloy fan as a teenager but not really anymore. Still I believe that they were pretty unique and top of the pack in what they were doing, so it's difficult to find similar things that are worthy. In their reviews there are a number of references to Pink Floyd but I don't think these are really appropriate. They used some musical ideas from elsewhere (quite a few actually) but produced a very individual blend. Novalis and Anyone's Daughter are probably much too "down to earth"; I wonder why many think that these are "similar to Eloy". In my mind, in terms of the atmosphere and the specific qualities that one could find in "Ocean" and the best work of Eloy, Yes's Relayer comes next, although by this I obviously break the rule: "don't bother reccommending known bands". To mention something slightly less known, if you're fine with instrumental, you can try out SFF's "Symphonic Pictures". (Actually these days I'd prefer both Symphonic Pictures and Relayer to Ocean, but that's probably because I listened to so much Eloy in the past that I've somehow ruined them for me.) I actually prefer Anyone's Daughter to Eloy - the string of albums they made from 1979-1983, when prog was practically dead, is really impressive.  I do think the Adonis suite does conjure up Eloy a bit but also KC and Genesis.  But you are right that they were more down to earth - still, if you like Eloy there is a good chance you will like AD.  SFF were much more of a fusion, but definitely worth mentioning.  Re Jane, I could also add "Fire, Water, Earth and Air" to those that approximate Eloy in spaciness

OK, yes, actually Adonis from Anyone's Daughter makes sense to me here; not much of their other stuff, though. (I like them a lot, too, but for reasons very different to my former passion for Eloy.)

Omega's albums "Idorablo", "Csillagok utjan" and "Gammapolisz", great Hungarian space rock from the same period. As a long time Eloy fan, I was very thrilled after discovering them. Also, Ain Soph had some tracks that remind me of Eloy, especially on their debut "A Story of a Mysterious Forest", although they're mostly instrumental.