More medieval-influenced prog, please

BrufordFreak wrote: aginor wrote: i feel tjos is obvous and also redundunt, but gotta do i Gentle Giant, are one of the contenders of medeval influenced prog GG goes without saying. I LOVE them--especially the medieval-sounding stuff. "Edge of Twilight," "Raconteur, Troubadour," "Dog's Life," "Think of Me With Kindness," "No God's a Man," "On Reflection," His Last Voyage," "Talybont, "A Reunion," and "Empty City" are all awesome.

I haven't really been able to find so much of medieval sounds in the Gentle Giant albums I've got. Perhaps just a bit on a few songs, but I would have liked more. Still, I love their first 2 albums.

Secret Green and Francis Lickerish are ones you should check out. Francis Lickerish is the lead guitar player and main songwriter for Secret Green, but instead of releasing a second album under the Secret Green moniker he released it under his own name, but it's still essentially Secret Green.

aginor wrote: BrufordFreak wrote: aginor wrote: i feel tjos is obvous and also redundunt, but gotta do i Gentle Giant, are one of the contenders of medeval influenced prog GG goes without saying. I LOVE them--especially the medieval-sounding stuff. "Edge of Twilight," "Raconteur, Troubadour," "Dog's Life," "Think of Me With Kindness," "No God's a Man," "On Reflection," His Last Voyage," "Talybont, "A Reunion," and "Empty City" are all awesome. I will urge you to check out Lumsk, the play a heavy folk metal, but their influences are medivaml norwegian fairytales , medival sagas, the first two albums espessially deals with fairytales about Trolls ( album is named Troll), and their first album is a medieval legend/saga. so if you want a slight different culural version of medieval,music with rock check out Norwegian medieval influenced music and the band Lumsk who,os mastering the artform oøof blending it with rock, prog, metal, folk and medieval.

aginor wrote: i feel tjos is obvous and also redundunt, but gotta do i Gentle Giant, are one of the contenders of medeval influenced prog

Barbu wrote: BrufordFreak wrote: ^I'm really enjoying the Almanach stuff the most. So far. Almanach is awesome. You can also try Malicorne IV and L'extraordinaire Tour de France, both excellent. Terrific band!

For me Gryphon's first two albums were the empitome of prog medeival\renaissance, midnight Mushrumps (Which was originally written as incidental music for Shakespeare's "The Tempest" remains in my top favourite albums of all time.

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Edited by Colin Masson - September 26 2013 at 19:22

Try Bededeum, both albums are amazing, as well as the 2 from Gian Castello. 

ghost_of_morphy wrote: BrufordFreak wrote: I am so ready for more simple, pastoral music but still want my prog. Any more suggestions for medieval/renaissance/baroque-influenced prog. I've got The Geese and The Ghost, Fruupp, Fauns, Eden, Ragnarök, Pererin, Dunwich, Iona, Seven Reizh (to name a few) but want more! I know they're out there! I just need help finding them. P.S. If there are any other older threads of a similar nature, please clue me in. You are to be applauded for recognizing the brilliance of Seven Reizh.

Vital Duo (France).



Motis (France).

Oh, I really love medieval sounding music, but I'm afraid I'm not up to looking into everything that has been named in this thread... at least yet. I just got the last "Blackmore's Night" album a few weeks ago, and I have really been enjoying that a lot... though I wouldn't call it prog by any stretch of imagination. I see Focus hasn't been mentioned yet, so a few songs from them might fit the criteria. The Hamburger Concerto album has several medieval sounding moments, plus some other songs from other albums (I at least remember "Elspeth of Nottingham").