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Topic: Recommend me ethereal flute music Posted: August 06 2010 at 19:11
I'm looking for flute music, please post anything that's as gentle, ethereal and spacey as possible. Not the bombastic stuff a la Jethro Tull or Focus and neither the energetic stuff a la Hawkwind or Hidria Spacefolk or ethnic music.
Here are some references:
Luup:
The new Fripp & Travis CD is also right on my alley, but there's no sample of it on the internet.
Also, I have a CD with 16th century music for flute, but I can't seem to find it so I upload you guys some tracks or to search for the authors. Mozart also has a flute concert, and it's wonderful.
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Posted: August 07 2010 at 10:40
It seems like Ex-Wise Heads free album had a bunch of flute on it and it was pretty gentle... I'll have to find that again. It's Colin Edwin and the flautist from Henry Cow I believe.
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Posted: August 07 2010 at 12:39
Nik Turner's "Xitintoday". Very different from the stuff he does with Hawkwind. You can't get more ethereal than that album. I sent you YouTube links to all nine tracks.
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Posted: August 07 2010 at 22:02
"Love Remembered" -- Focus
(Gentle, slow, and pretty.)
Folk, especially Irish folk, is full of lovely flute music. One such Irish trad band with a lot of flute is Altan. The track "Dobbin's Flowery Vale" is absolutely lovely (perhaps my favourite flute piece) with stately and beautiful flute (played by the late, great Frankie Kennedy) as the main instrument. Sadly, Kennedy died young, so only the earlier Altan albums feature him. That track is from their album Harvest Storm
If you want to explore another great trad Irish flautist, try Matt Molloy, of Chieftains fame. He covers all moods.
For some less obvious prog flute, Pete Sinfield's (Crimson, ELP, etc.) solo album Stillhas the lovely track "The Piper." Very nice, if you can find it!
I love the sound of a nicely-played flute -- very stirring and evocative!
Edited by Peter - August 07 2010 at 22:07
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Posted: August 08 2010 at 17:13
@Peter: Focus and Sinfield were great, thanks! If only I found full albums with this kind of stuff. Proggers mostly use it only to bring some diversity. I'll check the folk recommendations later. Cheers!
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Posted: August 08 2010 at 17:29
harmonium.ro wrote:
@richard: thanks! john's flute has a really interesting shape.
The shape of his flute is because of an accident he had. It hurt his
neck to play the flute the way it is usually built, so he had one
specially designed for him.
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Posted: August 08 2010 at 18:25
IONA (probably the best celtico folko proggy rock band of the last twenty years, well to put it simply the best rock band of the last twenty years) has some flute here and there. Will look in my discography to find back...
Fot the moment enjoy this wonderful song (note the drummer holds two sticks in each hand at the beginning of the song) :
Edited by lucas - August 08 2010 at 18:27
"Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood)
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Posted: August 08 2010 at 18:44
IONA with flute :
this is not an "ethereal" song but Iona released some very ethereal songs (you could swear that half 'the book of kells' (the instrumental songs) is by Jan Garbarek)
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