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    Posted: November 12 2008 at 23:56
Please make a list of good 3 obscure bands.
 
Don't come me with Camel, Gong or VDGG, I want really obscure PROG bands:
 
  1. Abbhama: Excellent Indonesian band leaded by the talented multi instrumentalist Ywan Madjid, released only one album called Alam Raya, sounds like a soundtrack made in Bollywood, but extremely addictive.
  2. Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera: Another good British Psyche band, rather unkown, the lead guitarist Dave Terry legally took Sinclair Lewis fictional character Elmer Gantry's name, so when he left the band, they had to change the name.
  3. Osiris: Neo Prog band born in Bahrain, strong Genesis and Camel influence, I believe could be moved to Symphonic.

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sorry if those are not obscure enough. probably they were just not accepted by wider audience at the time,  but  they were really good bands, no doubt!  (not in order):
 
Tonton Macoute
 
Mallard
 
Toe Fat


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Jonesy  Zoldar and Clark   Coven
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  1. Emeraude: french space-folk band with a single album released in 1981. Very amateurish but whatever the production and composition flaws, they just fly past you due to the sheer beauty of the music Heart;
  2. Al Basim's Revival: excellent jazz-fusion combo gathered around iranian guitarrist Al Basim, released an excellent self-titled album in the late 70's. Takeshi Kovacs uses it as avatar Clap;
  3. Banda do Casaco: finaly, something closer to me - more or less known in Portugal, pretty much obscure everywhere else, this is an adventurous grouping of Jazz and Avant-Garde composers and musicians applying their know-how to traditional folk music. The result is a great mix of wyrd folk, jazz, chamber music and sometimes space-rock. First three albums highly recommended.  Star
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Thanks for advice Kotro,I feel like thinking I've lots of things to learn!
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1) SCHICKE ,FUHRS & FROELING...........great German pastoral symph.
 
2)WITTHUSER & WESTRUPP...................German prof folk
 
3) GRACIOUS................................................English symph/rock
 
All these bands have produced some great albums, but never really made it big!.....
 
You can check them out on PA database...worth it!.
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Rousseau - Flowers in Asphalt (Camel-like instrumental bliss)

Alquin - Marks

Chaos Code - Tapestry

Gotic - Escenes

Hero

Marsupilami - Arena

Pentacle - Le Clef Des Songes

Pererin - Haul Ar Yr

Pollen - s/t

Ragnarok (sweden)

Ripaille - La Vieille

Arachnoid


Whoops!!!   Just saw the original message asking for 3.....Sorry Ivan!!!  Embarrassed


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for quality I'd say some of our obscure recent additions as Accent, Automatic Fine Tuning, and ExCubus  ..also great English band Room, and Little Big Horn, both circa 1970

for lesser bands but good..
Breakout  -    very rare Polish prog
Climax -   Bolivian heavy prog band almost unknown outside that country
Incredible Hog -   obscure but known English heavy blues/prog







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Originally posted by febus febus wrote:

1) SCHICKE ,FUHRS & FROELING...........great German pastoral symph.
 
I got the chance to be familiar with SCHICKE ,FUHRS & FROELING and also with FUHRS & FROELING, because Cesar Inca pissed me a lot to change the bios.....Thanks Cesar.
 
My intention with this thread is to impulse people to search this obscure bands (some really outstanding) instead of continue to focus in barely Prog Related bands being added.
 
If we haven't heard at least 10% of this really Prog bands, there's no case to lose our time adding bands that should not be our priority.
 
My two cents.
 
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BTW: I'm checking WITTHUSER & WESTRUPP
            
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Just 3? now in my mind:

Willowglass: Pure symphonic bliss, the 2008 album is in my top so far
Gatto Marte: RIO/avant from Italy, a great band
Itoiz: Basque prog, at it's best!

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Jazz rock:
 
Whoopgnash - try their first, self-titled album (strong early 80's Holdsworth influence)
McHacek: Featuring Ourselves (partly in the mode: 'modern day Holdsworth meets the Mothers Of Invention from around 1983')
Conrad Schrenk & Extravaganza: Save The Robots (said by many who have heard it, 'the best jazz rock album of the 90's' - sor tof Steve Vai with jazz chords and a Tower of Power backing).
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Originally posted by Atavachron Atavachron wrote:


Climax -   Bolivian heavy prog band almost unknown outside that country


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Baby Grandmothers:
Swedish late 60's hard/blues rock with occasional psychedelic influences.
 
GÄA:
Don't know much at all about this band, but i'd say Geman-sung Hard/Blues/Psych rock.
 
 
Älgarnas Trädgård:
Their songs vary from Extended Folk-influenced Space-rock jams, to Pure folk, to Experimental stuff, to pure Psychedelic/space rock.
Highly recommended if you like 60's Zappa, Gong & folk-music!
 
Öresund Space Collective:
A very interesting group (FROM MY AREA!!!) who specialises in long, drawn-out improvised space-rock jams, with influences that vary from Reggea, Ambient, Funk & Heavy Rock.
Influenced by Ozric tentacles, Hawkwind, Gong, Pink Floyd, Miles Davis...


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White Hills:Psych/space/kraut,Check Heads of fire out,a very heavy Hawkwind meets Can!
Danava:Heavy/Psych/Prog for their self titled,second is good(Unonou)but more classic prog.
Morkobot:Morto(3rd album)heavy psychedelic space rock,2 bassists and 1 drummer,very good!
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One of the more recent additions to Crossover, dating back to 1972: Capability Brown - a relic of the era where the distinction between Prog and Pop was still being defined and people were more open to those crossovers. Released on Tony Stratton-Smith's famous Charisma label, Capability Brown were one of the forgotten bands that were overshadowed by Charisma's more popular artists that, like Rare Bird and Audience, have only been re-discovered as their long-deleted back catalogues have become available on CD. The album Voice is a classic example - one side is a collection of short songs reminicent of their debut album, while the flip-side is a 20 minute symphonic epic that would have been hailed masterpiece if they had followed that direction instead of vanishing into obscurity.
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I was buying all kinds of weird s**** on vinyl back in the seventies and especially in the mid to late eighties when vinyl and progrock were on the way out. I`d buy something just because it looked weird and if it was from some far off place like Finland, Denmark or Norway I would jump at it. I even had some second hand record shops which sadly don`t exist anymore saving stuff for me that looked weird. And it was CHEAP CHEAP CHEAP. I bought 8 Amon Duul II albums for about $40 once off a guy who was on his way into a shop to sell his collection. I`ve even got a sort of prog album from a freakin` band from Greenland! Some of it was suprisingly great and I`ve seen some of it for sale on the bloody internet asking  freakin` ludicrous prices.
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Pierrot Lunaire (Italy)
Circus (Switzerland)
PLJ Band (Greece)
Octohpera (Brasil)
Artsruni (Armenia)
 
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Not exactly up your street, but I find that Rosetta, Unexpect and Galliard (70s band) are the most obscure I know of. All are pretty damn amazing.
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One great obscure band is Amarok. Quentadharken is a fantastic album.
Oh you want 3?
Add Everything is Made in China and Conqueror to that list as well.


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Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

One of the more recent additions to Crossover, dating back to 1972: Capability Brown - a relic of the era where the distinction between Prog and Pop was still being defined and people were more open to those crossovers. Released on Tony Stratton-Smith's famous Charisma label, Capability Brown were one of the forgotten bands that were overshadowed by Charisma's more popular artists that, like Rare Bird and Audience, have only been re-discovered as their long-deleted back catalogues have become available on CD. The album Voice is a classic example - one side is a collection of short songs reminicent of their debut album, while the flip-side is a 20 minute symphonic epic that would have been hailed masterpiece if they had followed that direction instead of vanishing into obscurity.
 
Good call - specialised in close harmony: seem to remember some rock journalists comparing them with the Hollies..... although some of their close harmonies on the shorter songs were closer to what The Sweet did a few years later.  I have Voice, but ex.radio LP copy scratched to hell, so alas my fav,  Keep Death Off Road, Drive On The Pavement skips badly. Also have the Charisma issued CB album on the 99p cheapo label.  Glad to hear they've got CD issues.
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