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    Posted: January 20 2011 at 11:48
Obviously the word obscure will mean different things to different people, but what are your favorite obscure prog albums from the 1970's? In this context of obscure, I mean none of the major 5 (Floyd, Crimson, Genesis, Yes, Tull, and/or ELP) or second tier (Gentle Giant, Camel, VDGG, PFM, Magma, and the like) or bands that are highly revered and popular in general such as Frank Zappa, Miles Davis, Santana, Radiohead, Kraftwerk, etc, etc, etc. 

I love Univers Zero, Il Balleto di Bronzo, Jacula, Esperanto, Flasket Brinner, Trettioariga Kriget, and plenty of others. Please share! 


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Magna Carta: Seasons. I love that soft hippie feel. 
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Geinoh Yamashirogumi, Cluster/Kluster, Far East Family Band (check out the album Parallel World), A.R. & Machines, Heldon (are they obscure enough?), Julian Priester, Kraan, Organisation (almost Kraftwerk, but not quite Wink), Satoh Masahiko and the Soundbreakers

Oh, albums?  Probably some stuff by them and others, but these are some of the more obscure groups I could think of at the moment.


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Gnidrolog probably isn't really so much obscure around here, but I do remember recently seeing a facebook group called "I bet I can find 8 people that own In Spite of Harry's Toe-Nail"
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From Italy-Triade, IL Baricentro, Dedalus, The Trip, Latte e Miele, Libra

From elsewhere in Europe and UK-Dirk Steffens, Midnight Circus, Alquin, Vita Nova, Giger, Lenz, and Marron, Silver Metre, Sun Treader, Helmut Koellen, Broken Glass, Solution, Andromeda (both the UK and  German ones)

USA-Contraband

Canada-Rose, Teaze, Terence


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Hi,
 
Capability Brown - Voice
Refugee
Edgar Broughton Band - Oora
Eno - Here Come the Warm Jets (... you really wanna dig Robert Fripp? ... you should listen!)
Terje Rypdal/David Darling - Eos
Egberto Gismonti - No Caipira
Keith Jarrett - The Koln Concert
Darryl Way's Wolf - Night Music
Ange - Tome VI (Six)
Eberhard Schoenner - Tranceformation (ever wonder where The Police really met?)
Richard Vimal - Aquarythms
Colin Towns - Full Circle
Neutrons - Black Hole Star
M. Frog - First album (Jean Yves Labat)
Lou Reed - Rock'n'Roll Animal (I can do without the rest, really!)
Ryuichi Sakamoto - Beauty
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Just for starters
 


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OK, here's my 5 for tonight.  Enjoy my friends...Beer

Surprise - wonderful lost symph band with great concept album

Gotic - from Spain, warm instrumental music, symph/fusion

Mario Cottarelli - here's a nice album that deserves more than my one review!  Cheating a little because the album was recorded recently, but the composition was written in 1975 as i recall.  It has the spirit of 70s symph but with the production of today.

Paradiso a Basso Prezzo - here's a relic for those who like the wild RPI, plenty of Zappa/VDGG influence as I recall.  The sound quality kinda sucks by todays standards but the music is cool.  I have an extensive review here for those interested in this rarity.

Alphataurus - not totally obscure, but a real gem not too well known outside of RPI circles.

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In no order
  1. Petrus Castrus (Portugal) - Mestre  - 1973
  2. Nautilus (Switzerland) - 20,000 Miles Under the Sea - 1978
  3. Pavlov's Dog (USA) - Pampered Menial - 1974
  4. Titanic (Norway) - Eagle Rock - 1973
  5. The Pink Mice (Germany) - In Action -1971
Five to start.

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Originally posted by Ivan_Melgar_M Ivan_Melgar_M wrote:

In no order
  1. Petrus Castrus (Portugal) - Mestre  - 1973
  2. Nautilus (Switzerland) - 20,000 Miles Under the Sea - 1978
  3. Pavlov's Dog (USA) - Pampered Menial - 1974
  4. Titanic (Norway) - Eagle Rock - 1973
  5. The Pink Mice (Germany) - In Action -1971
Five to start.

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Interesting list, Ivan. The only one i have even heard of is Pavlov's Dog
        I am especially interested in The Pink Mice-can you tell me a bit more about them?
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Originally posted by silverpot silverpot wrote:

Magna Carta: Seasons. I love that soft hippie feel. 
       quite agree, love that band seasons and lord of the age Thumbs Up
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Aphrodite's child 666 and first album  end of the worldWink
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Originally posted by jean-marie jean-marie wrote:

Aphrodite's child 666 and first album  end of the worldWink
 
TOTALLY!
 
(Sorry ... can't have it ... it's not london sounding and is way too weird and funky and has a chick doing weird things and having an orgasm (with applause I might add!) in it, that ... prevents it from being progressive!) LOL  Wink  Tongue  Smile


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Originally posted by presdoug presdoug wrote:

Originally posted by Ivan_Melgar_M Ivan_Melgar_M wrote:

In no order
  1. Petrus Castrus (Portugal) - Mestre  - 1973
  2. Nautilus (Switzerland) - 20,000 Miles Under the Sea - 1978
  3. Pavlov's Dog (USA) - Pampered Menial - 1974
  4. Titanic (Norway) - Eagle Rock - 1973
  5. The Pink Mice (Germany) - In Action -1971
Five to start.

Iván
Interesting list, Ivan. The only one i have even heard of is Pavlov's Dog
        I am especially interested in The Pink Mice-can you tell me a bit more about them?

The Pink Mice is the Symphonic version of Lucifer's Friend (Heavy Prog band in the vein of Uriah Heep), as a fact both have the same formation except that they didn't included John Lawton in The Pink Mice.

Their albums have a sound similar to Triumvirat , but only play Prog versions of clasicc composers (more or less like Fireballet).

I recommend their debut "In Action", because their second album "In Synthesizer" is less original.

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I'd have to say my current favorites from that glorious time are of the Surrey school; Morgan Fisher, David Greenslade, Quatermass, Dave Lawson
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