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Kvazar: A Giant's Lullaby (Norway-2005).
Great symphonic progressive rock. (18/20)
http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=8724
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnL6RM01Vyk
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Collapse: The Sleep In Me (France-2017).
It sounds like Porcupine Tree playing instrumental post-rock/metal. (17/20)
https://collapseband.bandcamp.com/
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Exquirla: Para Quienes Aun Viven (Spain-2017).
The band Toundra with a singer of flamenco. (18/20)
http://https://www.elquintobeatle.com/2017/02/17/exquirla-para-quienes-aun-viven/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqxZRSmkrc4
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Kvazar: A Giant's Lullaby (Norway-2005).
Great symphonic progressive rock. (18/20)
http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=8724
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnL6RM01Vyk

Thanks for this - I like it!

Here is a fairly new prog group from Spain, Glasswork, and I have been enjoying their recent release, Fear and Trembling.


Also the new release by Norwegian group Soup, Remedies, this time around the music leans towards post-rock but still very good.


I haven't seen it mentioned on PA yet, but the first single of the new Anathema album The Optimist is out and it sounds good.
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Cosmograf: The Unreasonable Silence (UK-2016).
Super ! (17/20)
http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=52127
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ztC9AhBYqg
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Originally posted by deandob deandob wrote:

I have found a couple of gems from Sventonio's posts that I would not have found otherwise. The newprogreleases blog is the best source of new prog that I know about.
 
Unfortunately Svetonio has been banned from PE now too!
 
He's still posting his updates at progforums.com http://tinyurl.com/SvetonioLatest
 
 
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Svetonio is obviously passionate about his progressive rock and spends a lot of time researching new releases as well as categorising them, which I found very useful to quickly check out new music and I collected quite a few new bands that I would not have heard without his help.

Unfortunately it seems his forum etiquette annoyed others hence the bans, but for me anyway his banishment is a loss as we lose one source of locating new music, so thanks for the link above for progforums. There is another chap 'windhawk' who does something similar on this site in the blogs subforum but his postings aren't as curated as Svetonio's and seems to include a lot of non prog stuff so harder to sort through.


In this thread I'm posting every couple of weeks the best music I have recently found so that others with similar tastes might pick up on, typically only about 10% of new songs I'm adding to my daily playlist.
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Carptree: Emerger (Sweden-2017).
A good album. (17/20)
http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=54061
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWS28f7ueQg
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Little Atlas: Automatic Day (USA-2013).
US progressive rock. (17/20)
http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=41503
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNIf3rIUlsk
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Originally posted by Steve-A Steve-A wrote:

Originally posted by deandob deandob wrote:

I have found a couple of gems from Sventonio's posts that I would not have found otherwise. The newprogreleases blog is the best source of new prog that I know about.
 
Unfortunately Svetonio has been banned from PE now too!
 
He's still posting his updates at progforums.com http://tinyurl.com/SvetonioLatest
 
Unfortunately Svetonio seems to be a complete arsehole which rather tarnishes his rep just about everywhere he goes. 
I know there are some members here who only come to visit threads like these and probably only know him from a recommendation-point-of-view, but the rest of us who frequent PA on a daily basis had to endure thisDead
Edit: thankfully someone since has removed some of the more despicable comments and pics he posted.

How does one replace Svetonio? Go to the bandcamp website and search for progressive rock. Tadah! Now you get all his recs without the obnoxious vile.



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How about this. You guys are lucky to have the freaking internet. Back in the 70s we had something called a record  store where long haired freaky people would hang out and the owner of the store would actually know something about music. Aircraft is a US Navy DC-3 that crashed in November 1973 after it ran out of fuel. Everyone survived and it was just left there for farmers to pick through.





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Cosmograf: Capacitor (UK-2014).
Robin Armstrong's project. (18/20)
http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=45087
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBnRZ3cVebA

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Bjorn Riis: Forever Comes To An End (Norway-2017).
The guitarist of Airbag. (18/20)
http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=54141
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVwUrw5hNVs

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It's hard to describe tastes, probably easier if I outline the bands that get the most listening in my favourites playlist: 

- Anathema. I have all of their CDs from Alternative 4 onwards, I like the direction this group is evolving to (especially given their roots) (*)
- Airbag (clear Floyd influence here) (*)
- Anekdoten
- Antimatter
- Aeon Zen
- Big Big Train (*)
- The black noodle project
- Blackfield/steve Wilson
- Children of Nova
- Coheed and Cambria
- Collage / Satellite (underrated IMO) (*)
- Comedy of Errors
- Crippled Black Phoenix
- The deer hunter
- Demians
- Devin Townsend (Ki)
- Disperse (*)
- Dream theatre (only a few songs, like wait for sleep from images and words)
- Edison's children (looking forward to the new CD) (*)
- Enochian Theory (*)
- Gazpacho (*)
- Genesis
- Ghost Brigade
- Green Carnation
- Haken
- iamthemorning (*)
- ioearth (* first album)
- IZZ
- Kamelot
- Karcius
- Karnivool
- Katatonia (I have most of their albums) (*)
- Leprous
- Long distance calling (*)
- Marillion (*)
- The Mars Volta (deloused at the comatorium especially)
- Maudlin of the well (without the growling songs)
- Mystery
- Nine Stones Close (*)
- Not a good sign
- Oceansize
- Opeth (their lighter songs) (*)
- Pain of Salvation (*)
- Pendragon
- Peter Gabriel (*)
- Phildeaux (*)
- The Pineapple Thief (excellent band, very underrated IMO) (*)
- Pink Floyd (*)
- Porcupine Tree (*)
- Pure Reason Revolution (another underrated and quite unique band) (*)
- Quidam
- The Reasoning
- Riversea (*)
- Riverside/Lunatic soul (probably my biggest progrock discovery) (*)
- RPWL
- Sieges Even / subsignal (*)
- Sound of Contact
- Spock's Beard
- Storm corrosion
- Sylvan (Posthumous Silence is a very emotional CD, top 10 prog album IMO) (*)
- TesseracT
- Unitopia (*)
- Vanden Plas
- Votum (this is another big discovery for me, similar to Riverside and a must to check out for Riverside fans) (*)
- Yes (the latest album is surprisingly good and fresh)

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Never said I didn't like King Crimson, just have not heard much of their music.

PhideauxFan, +1 for Bjorn Riis's new album, one of the better releases this year.
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Originally posted by deandob deandob wrote:

PhideauxFan, +1 for Bjorn Riis's new album, one of the better releases this year.

Now, his album is number 2 of my top albums of 2017.

And I've got many albums of 43 artists you mentioned in the list. Wink
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My prog playlist(s) have expanded significantly since I first posted this about 4 years back when I first joined this community. A lot of my favourites I have posted in this thread.

I think Bjorn / Airbag is what Pink Floyd would be if they were still around fronted by David Gilmour. In fact I definitely prefer Bjorn / Airbag to David's later solo stuff. Bjorn's last album is also a favourite.

2017 Releases from This Winter Machine, Glasswork, Meridian Incident, Branch Arterial, The Aurora Project, Big Big Train are top of my playlists so far (some of these you introduced me to Clap) and I expect the new Anathema will be there as well.

What is your #1?


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^^ I also prefer Bjorn Riis' albums. I am not a fan of "new" music produced by the dinosaurs of the 70's. Wink

Number 1 of my top 2017: Exquirla - Para Quienes Aun Viven.


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Some nice post rock vibes on that album but also a lot of wailing in Spanish (almost middle-eastern). If you like Spanish bands I do recommend the latest album from Glasswork.
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Autumn Chorus: The Village To The Vale (UK-2012).
Between progressive rock and post-rock. (18/20)
http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=35365
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CibYQ0jVrOw

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