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Posted: May 02 2012 at 13:32
iTunes biography excerpt:
One of the most well-known rock groups from Continental Europe, Denmark's Savage Rose recorded a wealth of intriguing and eclectic progressive rock in the late '60s and '70s. In their early work, one hears faint echoes of the Airplane, Doors, Pink Floyd, and other psychedelic heavyweights combined with classical jazz and Danish-Euro folk elements. Their arrangements rely heavily on an incandescent, watery organ that sounds like nothing so much as psychedelic aquarium music. The most striking aspect of the band's sound, however, was the vocals of lead singer Annisette. Her childish wispy and sensual phrasing can suddenly break into jarring, almost histrionic wailing, like a Janis Joplin with Yoko Ono-isms, and eerily foreshadows Kate Bush's style.
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Posted: May 02 2012 at 14:38
A rough sketch of the music of Savage Rose:
Despite excursions into Blues/Gospel (2 albums in mid-70's) and folk - at best prog folk - (2 albums in the early 80's) they have continuously had an underlying crossover prog approach starting with "Your Daily Gift" (1970) and reinvented on "Solen var også din" (1978) continuing until mid-90's (?). Everything from '68 to '70 culminating with "Triumph of the Death" (composed 1970, released '72) is proto-prog, the latter perhaps even symphonic prog.
I will be more concise in a subsequent reply and in the meantime provide tube samples of their crossover prog.
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Posted: May 03 2012 at 08:57
An attempt at presenting some crossover prog by Savage Rose with the limitations of Youtube.
The albums best representing their crossover prog are the albums "Solen var også Din" (1978), "Gadens Dronning" (1985), "Your Daily Gift" (1970) and the most recent "Universal Daughter" (2007).
One question - where do you see Prog in this Dod. concept album ? Can you please elaborate a bit ? Except its wordless story telling (in terms of moods + song names), it can be tricky.
Their other albums - Too many directions and genres, too little consistency. That shouldn't be a problem, that should only help in theory, but in the end, it's very difficult to categorize such bands into our ar-chi-ves. Too Prog indeed.
Edited by Marty McFly - May 03 2012 at 17:07
There's a point where "avant-garde" and "experimental" becomes "terrible" and "pointless,"
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Posted: May 04 2012 at 04:09
Marty McFly wrote:
...Too many directions and genres, too little consistency. That shouldn't be a problem, that should only help in theory, but in the end, it's very difficult to categorize such bands into our ar-chi-ves.
Savage Rose are consistent in the sense that they always return to crossover prog, beginning in 1970 with "Your Daily Gift" followed by a departure into R&B/soul/gospel and then 5 year hiatus followed by the crossovered "Solen var også Din" in 1978. Subsequent albums were centered on (prog) folk before returning to crossover in the 80's. The 90's: rock, R&B and most recently (2007's "Universal Daughter") a return to crossover.
They have released two 'concept' albums. You refer to Triumph of the Death (Dod?). The other is "The Emperor's new Clothes" (circa 1985). Be aware that the former exists in a one-album version and a double album version. Which one do you refer to? (For clarity: In my opinion, it is contained in their proto-prog period.)
Being a long time fan of this band, I think it's safe to say that psychedelic is pushing things a bit Their first album might be categorised as proto prog late psych rock, but the emphasis later on was always on the splicing of huge melodically pompous and the powerful vocals of Anisette. X-over seems to be the safest bet imo.
Let's see what they say.
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Posted: June 25 2013 at 05:24
Find it very it scary, that we do not include this band, that everyone seems to want on PA, because they are hard to put in a box. But if it was someone sounding as a Yes copy, they would be here long ago.
Its sad that You can be too Prog, to get into prog arcives.
I cant imagine any band that would fit better than Savage Rose on our defination of prog :
Progressive rock (often shortened to prog or prog rock) is a form of rock music that evolved in the late 1960s and early 1970s as part of a "mostly British attempt to elevate rock music to new levels of artistic credibility." ..........Progressive rock bands pushed "rock's technical and compositional boundaries" by going beyond the standard rock or popular verse-chorus-based song structures. Additionally, the arrangements often incorporated elements drawn from classical, jazz, and world music. Instrumentals were common, while songs with lyrics were sometimes conceptual, abstract, or based in fantasy. Progressive rock bands sometimes used "concept albums that made unified statements, usually telling an epic story or tackling a grand overarching theme."
It all comes down to them not fitting well into our sub genres, because they did what they had to do, not conserned with the trends of the times.
Prog is whatevey you want it to be. So dont diss other peoples prog, and they wont diss yours
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Marty McFly wrote:
Their first album might be categorised as proto prog late psych rock, but the emphasis later on was always on the splicing of huge melodically pompous and the powerful vocals of Anisette. X-over seems to be the safest bet imo.
