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The.Crimson.King
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I don't have much purely instrumental prog in my collection so wanted to find out what others favourites are...my list: 1) Pictures at an Exhibition - Tomita 2) Symphonic Pictures - SFF 3) Phaedra - Tangerine Dream 4) Sketches of Satie - Steve & John Hackett 5) Symphonic Holocaust - Morte Macabre 6) UZED - Univers Zero 7) Red Queen to Gryphon Three - Gryphon 8) Marscape - s/t 10) The Snow Goose - Camel |
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richardh
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Sphere 3 - Comeuppance Gerard - Live in Marseile Tangerine Dream - Force Majeure Mike Oldfield - Incantations** Vangelis - Direct** The Enid - Aerie Fairie Nonsense Rick Wakeman - Six Wives Of Henry VIII Stephen Caudel -Wine Dark Sea edit - just realised those top two have one song each with Gary Moore singing (bugger! , although he sings well) off the substitutes bench: The Enid - In The Region Of The Summer Stars Edgar Froese - Stuntman edit again - I've double asterixed a couple as they do have some vocals. On Incantations Maddy Prior sings the poem Hiawatha and there is another song called 'Diana' but both are weaved into the music not separately included . Most Mike Oldifeld albums could be ruled out on this basis annoyingly but I'm struggling to find other albums. The Vangelis does have some operatic style vocal on one of the tracks and there is a speaking voice on Intergalactic Radio Station. Maybe I could substitute Antartica as I'm sure that doesn't have vocal. Edited by richardh - October 24 2013 at 15:56 |
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Oh yeah finally a thread where I get to list all of my fave electronic albums Nah I promise to think of something a little more clever, but for now here's 3 from the outer regions of PA: Tangerine Dream - Alpha Centauri Didier Bocquet - Voyage C้r้bral |
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in no particular order-
Dedalus-Dedalus Il Baricentro-Sconcerto Terje Rypdal-What Comes After Sun Treader-Zin Zin Dzyan-Electric Silence Giger, Lenz and Marron-Beyond Mahavishnu Orchestra-The Inner Mounting Flame Passport-Doldinger Passport-Cross Collateral Passport-Infinity Machine |
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^Love that Dzyan album Doug
Love at first listen - even if it is quite the grower as well. Seems to get better with every spin, and I am probably on my 100th by now.
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^right on!
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The.Crimson.King
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Forgot all about that one...it definitely makes my top 10 list
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Instrumental Prog albums exclude PR and MR? For some reason the tag prog makes me think you're looking for something different.
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Crushed like a rose in the riverflow.
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Probably 60-75% of the music I listen to is instrumental. Gotta get my thinker going, I'll be back...
Alright, here we go (in no particular order): Herbie Hancock - Sextant Tangerine Dream - Rubycon Tortoise - Standards Univers Zero - Heatwave Miles Davis - Dark Magus Henry Cow - Western Culture Soft Machine - Six Gong - Expresso II Heldon - Stand By Klaus Schulze - Picture Music Edited by zravkapt - October 24 2013 at 18:45 |
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HolyMoly
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Off the top of my head
Secret Oyster - Straight to the Krankenhaus Michael Hoenig - Departure to the Northern Wasteland Djam Karet - Suspension and Displacement Soft Machine - Fourth Gong - Gazeuse! Fred Frith - Speechless Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Yanqui U.X.O. Nascita Della Sfera - Per Una Scultura di Ceshia
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Univers Zero - Ceux Du Dehors
Ahvak - s/t Henry Cow - Western Culture National Health - Of Queues & Cures Aranis - Roqueforte Tangerine Dream - Phaedra Anglagard - Hybris Guapo - 5 Suns Jean Michel Jarre - Equinoxe Miriodor - Avanti! I could just as easily list another 40 or so but that'll do for now
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Ian
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Djam Karet The Devouring Goblin Roller Jan Hammer The First Seven Days Kenso Yume No Oka Ozric Tentacles Strangeitude Tangerine Dream Force Majeure Twelfth Night Live At The Target Vangelis Albedo 0.39 Zombi Cosmos/Surface To Air (tie) (This could change in the next ten minutes, especially since I don't have Froese, Heldon, Oldfield, Synergy or Wakeman in there!) |
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Return to Forever - "Romantic Warrior"
Eleventh House - "Introducing Eleventh House with Larry Coryell" Billy Cobham - "Spectrum" |
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Wow, I just realized how lacking my collection is in purely instrumental albums! Here's the only three I own in order of how much I like them: Anglagard - Viljans Oga (5 stars) Mahavishnu Orchestra - The Inner Mounting Flame (4.5 stars) Rick Wakeman - The Six Wives of Henry VII (3 stars) |
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Mahavishnu Orchestra - The Inner Mounting Flame
Return to Forever - Romantic Warrior Godspeed You! Black Emperor - 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! Giraffes? Giraffes! - More Skin With Milk-Mouth |
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There is vocals on there. I would have listed it as well if it was purely instrumental. |
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For some reason I always think of them as a instrumental band, I'll add Forgas Band Phenomena - L'Axe Du Fou
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Ian
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Mahavishnu- Inner Mounting
Birds of Fire
Yak
Liquid Tension Exp 1
Ozric Tentacles-Strangeitude
Return To Forever- Hymn of the 7th galaxy
Pulsar- Strands..
Soft Machine 4
Pat Metheny Group-same
Jeff Beck- Blow By Blow
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Even if you could consider jason becker's altitudes as shred, it is a progressive guitar album that you have to listenalso miles davis tribute to jack johnson or filles dekiimanjaro
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Are you familiar with Marty Friedman's Scenes? Very good album that was unusual considering his background with Cacophony and Megadeth...not to mention the Kitaro connection! |
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