Bands that sound like Gentle Giant, from '90 to 13

Thanks! So many suggestions. I will definitely listen to them, starting with Advent expecting that their name won't mean that they are trying too much to copy or emulate GG and moreso being influenced by them.

Funny you mentioned Gryphon and Jethro Tull (although I don't agree too much about them being like GG) as I have been recently to a prog rock festival where they were featured (and, also, were I discovered that italian band I mentioned, Promenade - listen to them, they are worth a try! - at Gouveia, Portugal. Some years ago, that same Gouveia festival hosted Three Friends (already without Kerry Minnear) and they were magnificent (pretty close to the original GG!!!!)

They still deliver, but their portfolio was too much in the past, very early albuns, I would prefer Thick as a Brick onwards, and Mushrumps onwards, but, alas, no... Well, I guess I already listened to JT too many times before...

I enjoyed more those newer bands (and I am an middle age geezer, so I surprised myself), Promenade, The Loomings and even Isildur Bane for the added diversity and originality...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEYJ_87x9EM&list=PLozD3aRiYtH6ukMXuCrghfYYwhJ89Aq4o



Edited by ratracer - May 22 2017 at 13:17

Aragon wrote:  and don't like  when the bands tends to be much exsperimental inserting weird instruments like cello, violin, horn(horrible) and vibraphone.

hellogoodbye wrote: Try this one  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDJpiz8PC0s

Edited by Kepler62 - May 21 2017 at 09:25

I would say 

jedzxor wrote: Wobbler! Gentle Giant could sue them. Their album "Rites at Dawn" could have been called "Freehand 2" especiially the song "In Orbit" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hans3jni6B8

Haha, glad to see someone compare them to GG rather than the usual "Yes clones" comment!
Totally agree, btw.

Wobbler! Gentle Giant could sue them. Their album "Rites at Dawn" could have been called "Freehand 2" especiially the song "In Orbit" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hans3jni6B8

try out Ritual - The Hemulic Voulentary Band, playfull, and full of GG esque instrumentation.

infandous wrote: Advent "Cantus Firmus" They have another album, but I've never heard it.  I understand it is also in the Gentle Giant style.

This. Great band, and a bunch of very nice guys to boot. Their new album should be out by June 2015.

fanprog1981 wrote: Canada: -Maneige (70's) -Opus 5   (70's) -Nathan Mahl (80's) -Sloche (70's) -Half Past Four (00's) -Druckfarben (10's) -Miriodor (80's) USA: -Zoldar & Clark (70's) -Pentwater (70's) -Hands (70's) -Mirthrandir (70's) -Yezda Urfa (70's) -AUDIOSYNCHROCY (00's) -Syzygy (00's) -French tv (80's) -Frogg Cafe (00's) -However (80's) -Thinking Plague (80's) -Shadowfax (70's) -Phideaux (00's) only in Snowtorch -Little atlas (00's) -A TRIGGERING MYTH (00's) -Babylon (70's) -Neal Morse (00's) -Birds And Buildings (00's) Brazil: -Octohpera (00's) -Cartoon (00's) Indonesia: -Discus (00's) -God Bless (70's) -Guruh Gipsy (70's) Italy: (this country is so particular because nearly all the bands sound like Gentle Giant, from PFM to Banco passing by Arti & Misteri and the likes) -Mosaic (90's) -Ske (10's) -Stereokimono (00s) -Yugen (00's)

I know all these bands you mention with exception of :Stereokimono and Half Past Four.

None of these bands sound like Gentle Giant (unless by Gentle Giant you SIMPLY mean it sounds complex.)


Well... okay, I seem to recall Octohpera-Bons Amigos DOES, but a bettewr choice from Brazil would be the already mentioned (2 lps ) by T. Baldio.


From Canada there was only one band sounding like GG : the Quebec band,  Etcetera with their sole self-titled lp.

Italian band Divae even featured Gary Green! Album called Determinazione  1995

Edited by tszirmay - November 17 2014 at 01:09