Flower Kings Appreciation Thread

A full day of music for me today

I started with an Ozric Tentacles double whammy, Strangeitude followed by Erpland. Me and the missus have tickets to see them in November, looking forward to that. Next Always Returning by Engineers, a classy slice of psych-indie with a prog twist and featuring Ulrich Schnauss on keys. Then disc 1 of Klaus Schulze's Farscape. I have to be in the mood for this one as Lisa Gerrard's vocals can be a bit much. Not today

Then, Colour Division by Ian Boddy and Markus Reuter, an excellent electronic prog album, fairly ambient but very modern with soaring guitars. And finally Contagion by Arena. Fantastic album, their best imho. How I miss Rob Sowden in Arena.

Edited by Roj - September 13 2014 at 12:57

that's totally your both friends within your friendship you have
PROG too!. that's too Roj are your own musical tastes outside of prog like... which footie team red or blue lol...

me you and M27Barney too. well back to the music of TFK my listening was SWA, SR, A&E with TA TW, Tangent APITQ, NAGATB, TMTDA. great listen of great PROG!...

when will there be some sort of happening progressive rock... help I`m bored...

I'm going to King Crimson in NYC tonight myself. I can't wait, I'm so excited!

King Crimson was fantastic. They played a lot of classics from the 70s, with a few of the better songs from the 90s and 2000s albums. I was captivated the entire time. I've been digging KC for a week or so now, so it was perfect time. I didn't know who to focus on, Fripp was Fripp, he might be 68, but he still nails all the songs, and played with such raw beauty. All 3 drummers were fantastic (one of them played Mellotron), Levin was solid as usual, Jacko works very well in the context of KC, his guitar playing was great, and his voice fit quite well with the Crimson classics.

The best thing about this lineup is Mel Collins. You have the post-modern King Crimson (think Power To Believe), but with horns like flute, sax, octave sax, etc.. (and mellotron) and this might be the ultimate King Crimson lineup (I know). Red got a nice treatment with horns added, VROOOM was updated with horns and it made for a better song. Even the Scarcity of Miracles material worked very well. But the best part f the show was Starless. I had chills down my back multiple times during that song, Mel Collins just destroyed it. I couldn't believe it. I hope this band records a new album, with new music, but hopefully this tour gets at least one official release.

The crowd was great too, when it got quiet in the music, the audience was dead silent. It was like attending a classical performance.


Edited by darkshade - September 20 2014 at 17:53

Full Flying Colors album is online now for streaming. I haven't listened to it all yet but the first track is most definately PROG

Edited by AlanB - September 22 2014 at 14:15

AlanB wrote: Full Flying Colors album is online now for streaming. I haven't listened to it all yet but the first track is most definately PROG http://classicrock.teamrock.com/news/2014-09-22/flying-colors-stream-second-nature-in-full-exclusive

I guess I should check this out.  The first album generated zero interest from me after 2 or 3 listens (on progstreaming.com...........never purchased it, so it's not in my collection to reassess).

zumacraig wrote: infandous wrote: AlanB wrote: Full Flying Colors album is online now for streaming. I haven't listened to it all yet but the first track is most definately PROG http://classicrock.teamrock.com/news/2014-09-22/flying-colors-stream-second-nature-in-full-exclusive I guess I should check this out.  The first album generated zero interest from me after 2 or 3 listens (on progstreaming.com...........never purchased it, so it's not in my collection to reassess). listening now.  not too bad.  already better than the last TA, at least instrumentally.  also listened to the snippet of the new Kaipa on their site.  production is incredible.  drums sound great.  still can't stand the singers.  also, not really interested in the new TA live set.   Edit-new Flying Colors is really good!

Yeah, for the first time I don't think I'll be bothering with the new TA live set.  Really just no interest.  I got basically nothing out of the new album, and I don't need any more versions of the older stuff.

I'll check out the Flying Colors.........seems like a lot more buzz than the last one.  With that lineup, you would think that they could come up with something mind blowing.

I like her logic. cool answer back. now its time to seek the music out. where is the start of the listing to prog...