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    Posted: December 03 2016 at 05:41
I want to listen to epic, deep, mystical, and varied music .

Either concepts influenced by egyptian gods and ancient egyptian philosophy.

doesnt need to mentio bands i allready know, which are - Amon Düül II, Ash-Ra Temple, AshRa, Isis, Born of Osiris,

bands with egyptian names or themes drawn from ancient egypt is prefareable
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Points: 37575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 03 2016 at 05:47
Tonto's Expanding Head Band ~ It's About Time:

Tontos Expanding Head Band Its About Time album cover
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Points: 7951 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 03 2016 at 05:59
Two instantly come to mind:

US band K2's `Book of the Dead' from 2005, sound like UK mixed with IQ, Genesis, etc.



http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=7398



Japanese female trio Ars Nova also put out this one back in 1998:



http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=124



(that clip has a different cover to the CD version I've got though)

SO you may or may not enjoy either of these!
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I guess the most obvious, at least to me right this minute, is Utopia's Ra and perhaps not so much for it's Egyptian mythology but more for it's Egyptian feel, I'd say Flamen Dialis' Symptome Dei (just be prepared for an insane toddler vibe throwing a fit on e in a while).
Oh almost forgot about Igor Wakhevitch - Hathor. A sonic one way ticket to the valley of the kings.
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Heh...managed to forget THE album when we're talking Egyptian mythology: Nik Turner's Sphynx - Xitintoday
Just remember to go for the original album NOT the subsequent re-recording ie the one that features dear old Nik jamming it out on his flute inside the Great Pyramid Of Giza, which lends an enigmatic and entirely unique atmosphere to the proceedings.
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http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=2371



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Yup forgot about that one as well Good call Phideauxfan. Great album - I particularly adore the drummer Frank Niebel. The man has got to have a brain for each extremity, because the way he plays is quite simply insane...and he does it with such a sense of flow and feel. One of the finest "modern" drummers imho.
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Now that I think about it, didn't Eloy record an album called Ra as well?
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Originally posted by Guldbamsen Guldbamsen wrote:

Yup forgot about that one as well Good call Phideauxfan. Great album - I particularly adore the drummer Frank Niebel. The man has got to have a brain for each extremity, because the way he plays is quite simply insane...and he does it with such a sense of flow and feel. One of the finest "modern" drummers imho.

Yes, very good band !!! Wink
And also nice people: I remember that I was talking well, in French and in English, about Nil on Internet.
One musician contacted me and sent me two signed albums for 20 euros.
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Points: 34050 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 03 2016 at 07:34
Originally posted by Guldbamsen Guldbamsen wrote:

Now that I think about it, didn't Eloy record an album called Ra as well?
will check it out. 

plenty of krautrock seem to pull either band names, musical theme and chord sequences from egyptian myths,   can it be becouse of the pressence of the  museums insle and ancient relics
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Originally posted by Guldbamsen Guldbamsen wrote:


Oh almost forgot about Igor Wakhevitch - Hathor. A sonic one way ticket to the valley of the kings.

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But like all of Wakhevitch, comes with a health warning: this is way further out there than almost anything else that comes under the 'prog' rubric.  This is not necessarily a bad thing Cool 

Though I certainly only want a return ticket to Igor-land.  I'm not staying there forever!
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^  This thread inspired me to put Hathor on the stereo. I never noticed before how the third track, Rituel De Guerre Des Esprits De La Terre, pre-emptively rips off Future Sound of London.  In 1973.

Edited by Mascodagama - December 03 2016 at 12:33
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^ Egypt is inspiring
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Points: 10377 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 03 2016 at 17:21
Originally posted by Guldbamsen Guldbamsen wrote:

Heh...managed to forget THE album when we're talking Egyptian mythology: Nik Turner's Sphynx - Xitintoday
Just remember to go for the original album NOT the subsequent re-recording ie the one that features dear old Nik jamming it out on his flute inside the Great Pyramid Of Giza, which lends an enigmatic and entirely unique atmosphere to the proceedings.

and here it is in all it's glory. one of my absolute favorite ones


A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta
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Points: 12608 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 03 2016 at 23:55
Alan Parson's album Pyramid... though mostly the one I love here is "In the Lap of the Gods". Also, Therion has many mythological references through their albums, including egyptian. I particularly recall Theli having some of it.
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Points: 21 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 04 2016 at 08:36
Bands with egyptian names are Nyl ( France, 1976 - Space Rock, the other is from Russia, 2002 - Neo Prog )

http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=6772

http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=2334

Sun Ra also spring to mind   
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Originally posted by Guldbamsen Guldbamsen wrote:

I guess the most obvious, at least to me right this minute, is Utopia's Ra and perhaps not so much for it's Egyptian mythology but more for it's Egyptian feel, I'd say Flamen Dialis' Symptome Dei (just be prepared for an insane toddler vibe throwing a fit on e in a while).
Oh almost forgot about Igor Wakhevitch - Hathor. A sonic one way ticket to the valley of the kings.


I'll second Utopia's Ra, specifically the cut Overture: Mountaintop And Sunrise/Communion With The Sun.

Edited by SquonkHunter - December 04 2016 at 12:38
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Points: 20468 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 04 2016 at 13:44
Brainticket weren;t an Egyptian Myth band but this album has a nice feel related to some of those themes....
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ok - yet another occurrence of someone on PA mentioning something I plainly HAVE to hear (Igor Wakhevitch), and finding that it cannot be had for any reasonable amount of money

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Not prog, but Yngwie Malmsteen has an awesome song relating to ancient Egypt:
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