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Terra Australis
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Enjoyed these guys too! Thanks.
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Thanks, but link didn't work....
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Thanks. These guys are very good. Enjoyed it... Schizoid Man is Great!
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There's the Gnu Quartet, from Italy, that cover several prog songs. They performed at the last Baja Prog festival in 2014. Edited by zwordser - April 22 2019 at 10:55 |
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Big fan of these guys playing an assortment of prog classics. I've always appreciated the intensity they play with, sometimes classical musicians are just too restrained. |
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Terra Australis
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Thanks for this. Had a listen to them and I enjoyed it. Great version of Highway Star and Show me Your hand is very cool.
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Not a quartet as they have 3 strings, a sax and a vocalist...but try Quintorigo. Lots of covers from Deep Purple, Hendrix, Kraftwerk, Bowie, Mingus, but their own material, in particular the first albums with John De Leo deserve to be listened in front of translated lyrics. |
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As much as I like the idea, the results often are not as inspiring and neat as original music that actually gives a solid tip of the hat to something that is "idealistic" at best. Personally, I don't like to see classical musicians doing anything, but their "written and accepted" material ... and the reason is that most of those folks are not very good at improvising and adding to the space in the music ... and it takes away some of the beauty of the work for me ... I got to see Jean Pierre Rampal try to do some of this stuff many years ago, and it was terrible ... absolutely awful ... and of all the classical folks doing pop ... it's even hard to find folks that are solid on it ... maybe with the exception of Rachel Flowers, but she is almost the opposite ... she's more about showing us what GREAT compositions sound like on a piano (specially Keith), and so on. Part of the problem might just be that "popular music" and a "top ten scenario" will not accept something different and a classical this or that becomes a freak ... a total freak that only a handful of people will see and it won't be recorded. My best example for how some folks that do classical music can do rock music, will always be CARAVAN and the NEW SINFONIA ... a wonderful album ... where the orchestra almost walked out because they wanted to get paid more for something that was already losing money ... but was magnificent in its design and performance. AND, of course, the rock/pop fans hate it because it is not "progressive" like the top 5! And in so many ways, this band was showing how classically oriented and intelligent musically they really were ... but that idea is not progressive because it does not have some show'y person in a cloak ... of fake gold! Oh wait ... another version of STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN ... this time by Pink Martini in Portland ... so you can fall asleep on it! Just sad and sick at the same time!
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Good idea too. However, I am more interested in Classical musicians playing Prog stuff at the minute. I still would love to hear Fracture performed by a quartet.
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This is pretty cool. Thanks!
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Hi,
How about the reverse? Groups playing actual string quartets or equivalent? Like Gryphon, Terje Rypdal (check out EOS), Third Ear Band, and many others?
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Check this out on AltRock
A Chamber Quartet playing Avant covers.
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Terra Australis
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Ahhhh! Now I want to hear it... No need to apologise. As you say, at least we know of its existence. Maybe someone else will find it.
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Terra Australis
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Thanks Manuel. I would be interested in this too if not for Ian's vocals...
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Terra Australis
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^ Thanks Logan for the ones you posted, these are great!
I did find the version of Frakctured too: But I would love Fracture! Edited by Terra Australis - April 13 2019 at 04:02 |
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Thanks for reminding me. I have these and they are great! Have to get them out for another listen!
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This isn't going to be very helpful but there is a Japanese cellist who did a fine cover of Larks Tongues In Aspic, Pt.2.
Heard it late at night on the radio here at work a couple of years ago. No more than three of four years. I was stunned. Stunned to hear it, and then at how good it was. It came second, I believe, in a series of covers by this same artist. The first was Purple Haze, and that was good, too. But almost fell off my chair when Larks followed. "Hey! This is...!" Sadly, and I apologize; I am sorry - I do not remember who did it. I cannot find any info regarding the work. I hesitated even posting to mention anything about it, and am even now questioning doing so. Except I know it exists. And, that it's good! Again, apologies for my ignorance, Frank |
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Perhaps finding the happy medium is harder than we know.
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Manuel
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There's a "Jethro Tull The String Quartet" album, which unfortunately, was not as good as it could have been, maybe because Ian Anderson insisted in singing a few songs, and his voice is quite gone by now, or maybe because some of the arrangements were sub par for the potential the songs had. However, there are a few interesting tunes on that CD.
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Here's FraKcTured arranged for strings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDj-zmNfwXM Keing Crimson arranged for cello and piano: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FE73_V31Mpo Edited by Logan - April 12 2019 at 12:16 |
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