Looking for fantasy Prog Rock

Dellinger wrote: Gugliemo wrote: Hehe, I absolutely adore Ayreon. I listened to The Final Experiment about 20 times when i first discovered it last year. :)In regards to this project, at the moment I'm very much liking the sound of both Olias of Sunhillow and Relayer. Having skimmed through most of the Yes discography tonight I can't really find anything in their cataglogue that works as well as these two. I listened to some of Anderson's Toltec (a similar native american vibe which sits with Avatar's visuals nicely) but really didn't like it, he seems to have moved away from a lot of what I like about his music and towards something too lyrical and more pop-ish. Any suggestions for other albums with a similar sound to Sunhillow/ Relayer? For me, the movie Avatar should be matched to Yes and Yes related music, indeed. I mean, just look at their covers. However, I would say that the album that would fit the movie the best would be Close to the Edge (even the name goed well with the floating iselands), though I must confess I haven't heard Olias yet, so I wouldn't know if it would fit better. My feeling is that it would work nicely to use more than one album, I may suggest to try using Close to the Edge, Olias, and the song "The Gates of Delirium" from relayer, at least. Oh yeah, and perhaps the song "Starship Trooper" would work nicely too, check it out. I feel the parts of the song "Close to the Edge" where the "I get up, I get down" parts are being sung would work nicely on the parts in which the main character is learning to fly (just forgot his name). And you and I may work nicely with the parts that are somewhat more romantic. "Gates of Delirium" would be perfect for the battle scenes. "Starship Trooper" for the parts in which the human army arrive. Of course, I don't have any idea about how to use the Olias parts.

That would cool as sh*t! Make the movie so much better. Beautiful idea!

Dellinger wrote: ... For me, the movie Avatar should be matched to Yes and Yes related music, indeed. I mean, just look at their covers.   ...

Gugliemo wrote: Hehe, I absolutely adore Ayreon. I listened to The Final Experiment about 20 times when i first discovered it last year. :)In regards to this project, at the moment I'm very much liking the sound of both Olias of Sunhillow and Relayer. Having skimmed through most of the Yes discography tonight I can't really find anything in their cataglogue that works as well as these two. I listened to some of Anderson's Toltec (a similar native american vibe which sits with Avatar's visuals nicely) but really didn't like it, he seems to have moved away from a lot of what I like about his music and towards something too lyrical and more pop-ish. Any suggestions for other albums with a similar sound to Sunhillow/ Relayer?

For me, the movie Avatar should be matched to Yes and Yes related music, indeed. I mean, just look at their covers. However, I would say that the album that would fit the movie the best would be Close to the Edge (even the name goed well with the floating iselands), though I must confess I haven't heard Olias yet, so I wouldn't know if it would fit better. My feeling is that it would work nicely to use more than one album, I may suggest to try using Close to the Edge, Olias, and the song "The Gates of Delirium" from relayer, at least. Oh yeah, and perhaps the song "Starship Trooper" would work nicely too, check it out. I feel the parts of the song "Close to the Edge" where the "I get up, I get down" parts are being sung would work nicely on the parts in which the main character is learning to fly (just forgot his name). And you and I may work nicely with the parts that are somewhat more romantic. "Gates of Delirium" would be perfect for the battle scenes. "Starship Trooper" for the parts in which the human army arrive. Of course, I don't have any idea about how to use the Olias parts.

Quirky Turkey wrote: ... I friend of mine was browsing 'vintage porn' and came across Ommadawn playing in the background of a video. Thought I'd just put that out there, since you brought it up.

Hi,

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The first one "Beyond the Horizon" features James Labrie quite a bit.

Side Black of Queen II has an awful lot about fairies and ogres and kings and queens. 

I have two albums by Terra Incognita (which is basically a vehicle for sci-fi/fantasy author Kevin J. Anderson to write some fantasy-oriented lyrics - with Erik Norlander writing the music for the first one and Henning Pauly writing the music for the second one).

Has anyone mentioned Glass Hammer? (I read page one) 

Oh yeah!!! RELAYER! That's an excellent choice. Sometimes I stare at the album cover while listening to the Gates Of Delerium. it's quite a nice headspace I must say. Good choice.

one more artist you should look into is AYREON. major fantasy themed albums with a little bit of a space rock element to the overall sound. Albums like 0110010100, the electric castle and star 1 are your best bet for what you are looking for sound wise and adventure wise as well. Take care progger!

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