Prog rock from mountains and forests

tuxon wrote: Caravan - In the land of Grey and Pink, it's whimsical folksy and I envision central England landscapes with that music.   other is Rush's - A Farewell to Kings, only the final Cygnus is spacy, the rest pretty much fits the bill IMO

I know and love these two albums :)

Who will find the perfect album?

Hirgwath wrote: Mastodon - Blood Mountain. Part of a series of albums inspired by the 4* classical elements...this one is Earth. *Update: 5, if Mastodon is going by the historical Greek elements. My mistake.

I have this album, I like it but I don't feel the Nature thing so much... But it's a great album!

Hi!

I just returned from Ireland and my  need for forest and mountain prog rock has just grown bigger Any new ideas?

Feld-, Wald- und Wiesenprog?

You might want to check out Waterclime: http://www.myspace.com/waterclime, which oddly enough is not in the archives. It's the prog rock project of Vintersorg, a metal guy who has done a lot of stuff on this very subject. I'm not actually that familiar with the Waterclime project but I think it should fit the bill. There's even a song called "Mountains" on the myspace. :)

I'd been thinking there should be a lot to recommend, but I haven't been able to think of anything else besides the very obvious ones. Metal, on the other hand, is full of this kind of stuff; one notable album I can think of that you might or might not like is Empyrium's "Weiland"; it's their final album and they were a "former" metal band at the time, the album is largely acoustic and even has mellotron (as well as bassoon and a classical chamber music-type singer), but it's still very "dark" in atmosphere. An acquired taste I guess, still not sure whether I like it myself, but it certainly has the "nature" vibe.

In a similar vein, Ulver's "Kveldssanger" is a rather popular acoustic effort from an at-the-time black metal band, but personally I don't find it to be very strong on the songwriting side. But again, it does have that nature vibe. I'd certainly recommend the Empyrium over it though.

Edit: and The 3rd And The Mortal, particularly the first two releases. Very different from the aforementioned albums, but very good!

As for actual prog... Tom Newman's Faerie Symphony would probably fit the bill. Mike Oldfield guests on it. I'll have to think some more though... I know there must be more! :)


Edited by splyu - September 22 2008 at 10:52

A big bump for this thread :)

I really like Dead Can Dance!

Well, I'ms still searching for albums inspiring me forests, mountains. Actually, I find that the best example is Epsilon In Malaysian Pale" by Edgar Froese. It's just perfect!!

Bo Hansson is great too!

Hirgwath wrote: Mastodon - Blood Mountain. Part of a series of albums inspired by the 4* classical elements...this one is Earth. *Update: 5, if Mastodon is going by the historical Greek elements. My mistake.

They are, because Crack the Skye is about Aether, among other things.

I don't know Comus, thanks :)

You're right about Agalloch, I love The Mantle and Ashes Against the Grain too ;)

Tai Shan - Rush

Edited by StyLaZyn - May 28 2009 at 19:03

Roland113 wrote: "Culture of Ascent" by Glass Hammer is all about mountains, climbing and the wilderness. Enjoy.

Well I love the artwork of this album but I don't really like the music... When I listened to it, I remember feeling that I didn't like the guitar work.