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    Posted: May 18 2022 at 18:31
Zero vocals... pure music
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Here are 3 to start this off:

Anglagard - Jordrök
Shylock - Île de Fièvre
Colosseum - Valyntine Suite
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The Aristocrats - Culture Clash
Lyle Workman - North Star
Hiromi - Spark
Helmet of Gnats - Afternoon T
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King Crimson -- The Talking Drum & Larks' Tongues in Aspic pt II
Tangerine Dream - Ricochet
Ozric Tentacles - Psychic Chasm
SONAR - Orbit 5.7
The Psychedelic Ensemble - The Battle

With time, I can probably come up with more. A lot depends on what you consider "crazy and surreal".



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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote JD Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 19 2022 at 10:07
^Can't you discern that from the examples @ankhora provided? Wacko
BTW, That Anglagard tune Jordrök is one of my favs.



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tangerine Dream - Birth Of Liquid Pleiades
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Soft Machine - Slightly, All The Time
Clearlight - Clearlight Symphony
Camel - The Snow Goose

Not sure about crazy, but definately surreal masterpieces!
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote yogev Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 20 2022 at 08:01
I agree with Valentyne Suite, and also would add Nine Feet Underground by Caravan (have vocals tho). The Canterbury Scene at it finest.

*Anthony Phillips - Portraits From Tudor Times
*Plini - Selenium Forest

and on the other side: Mono - Pure as Snow, I urge anyone who hasn't listened to it yet to give it a listen.




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Frank Zappa - The Black Page
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Hi,

The one I like, but is a tough one for many folks on PA is Alan Stivell's bits in "SYMPHONIE CELTIQUE" when the last part in 2 sides of the four end up with an incredible cacophony of everything seemingly just ripping it all apart. 

It's a tough listen, but in reality one of my favorites, When the music of the classics, meets the music of the present ... you have ... a total marriage of value, idea and above all ... music!

BTW, seeing FZ mentioned so many times, just tells you how little people have heard and appreciate 200 MOTELS. It is by far, the most surreal, and crazy thing ever done, that rock folks will never learn to appreciate. The satires are incredible, and right on the money. And the ending is something to die for and hope to hear once in your life ... even if all you can get is the UCLA revival many years later, with a choir showing us how it is done ... it is totally outstanding and far out ... but too many folks here are just married to the cheap popular music out there and shown in so many examples.


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Slow Dance, by Anthony Phillips.
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An Invocation and Ritual Dance of the Young Pumpkin should qualify

this Astromonster too, but it's not like I'm trying to come up with the most crazy & surreal tunes I got. I find them wildly creative and fun - I just enjoy them a lot


This is actually genuinely surreal





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^ah... there's some ghostly worldess vocals in the SC3-track - it didn't really register as vocals while I was listening. Just think of it as a theremin or a saw:)
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One of my favorites...crazy and surreal..?  perhaps...certainly exquisite.


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Red Queen to Gryphon Three
The Waiting Room
Most Tangerine Dream
Igor's Boogie
Lark's Tongues in Aspic, all parts
Dangerous Curves
Level 5
Fracture
FraKCtured
The Heavenly Music Corporation
Swastika Girls
The Devil's Danceschool
Skeletons at the Feast
Sysiphus
The Grand Vizier's Garden Party
Five Percent for Nothing


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Perhaps no so crazy, but the four Mike Oldfield 70's albums are really magical. Also Histoires Sans Paroles from Harmonium. And perhaps a little bit crazier (just a little bit), Hamburger Concerto by Focus. Also, Judas Iscarios by Rick Wakeman. And a bit of Floyd, like Great Gig in the Sky, Careful with that Axe, Eugene, and Saucerful of Secrets.

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Originally posted by moshkito moshkito wrote:

Hi,

The one I like, but is a tough one for many folks on PA is Alan Stivell's bits in "SYMPHONIE CELTIQUE" when the last part in 2 sides of the four end up with an incredible cacophony of everything seemingly just ripping it all apart. 

It's a tough listen, but in reality one of my favorites, When the music of the classics, meets the music of the present ... you have ... a total marriage of value, idea and above all ... music!

BTW, seeing FZ mentioned so many times, just tells you how little people have heard and appreciate 200 MOTELS. It is by far, the most surreal, and crazy thing ever done, that rock folks will never learn to appreciate. The satires are incredible, and right on the money. And the ending is something to die for and hope to hear once in your life ... even if all you can get is the UCLA revival many years later, with a choir showing us how it is done ... it is totally outstanding and far out ... but too many folks here are just married to the cheap popular music out there and shown in so many examples.

Absolutely with you on Strictly Genteel, it's genius!!
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