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Icarium
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Topic: Landscape (Ned) heavy prog or prog metal Posted: January 02 2014 at 13:19 |
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a polish band with a great symphonic heavy sound, not to DT heavy, natural sounding, maybe closer to Arena and heavy Neo prog.
very good stuff i found nothing on Youtube but their is spotify, search for the album Staring at Utopia some really incredible subtle instrumentation in sections, delicate like silk and linen Edited by aginor - January 02 2014 at 13:55 |
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Icarium
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Posted: January 02 2014 at 13:46 | |
you will love them Yamyam, also fans of Haken will salute them
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yam yam
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Posted: January 02 2014 at 13:48 | |
Agi...I think you had too much akevitt to drink on New Year's Eve!
This particular 'Landscape' are from The Netherlands - The Polish band of the same name released an album called 'Outside Of Nowhere' in 2011. Here is a music collage of Landscape's 2012 debut album 'Staring at Utopia' featuring a rundown of all nine songs and a bandphoto slideshow. Landscape is a melodic progressive pop/rock band from The Netherlands, featuring clean female vocals. Their music has many progressive elements, but with a focus on melody and mood rather than virtuosity or heaviness. For progressive music, it is rather accessible Influences include Tears for Fears, Rush, Dream Theater, Sieges Even and Tori Amos. - Dennis Stant / guitar - Sandra Smit / vocals - Joris Wittenberg / bass, synths, sax Founding members Dennis Stant and Joris Wittenberg met during their university studies in 1995. A mutual interest in progressive rock (among other things) sparked a long lasting friendship, as well as the first forays into songwriting together. In 1997 Dennis co-founded the rockband Counterpoint in which Joris joined as the bass player. Many original songs were written and occasionally performed live. Although there was room for many musical ideas in the band, it also was clear that some musical preferences, shared between Dennis and Joris, were out of place in Counterpoint. This led them to start a side-project for ‘that kind of music’, which was named Landscape. At the time, home recording on computers was quickly becoming a realistic option, allowing the newly formed ‘band’ to rely on computers for drums, synthesizer sounds and recording – thus keeping the band small and focused. A vocalist was not needed... yet. And so, the ‘part band – part machine’ set of to write music. There was no intention of ever becoming a live band, creating a free atmosphere for trying out many ideas. Usually Dennis ‘planted a seed’ with a guitar part, and Joris acted as the ‘fruitful soil’, building bass and synth parts around it. Together, they arranged the bits and pieces into songs. Over the next years, a number of songs began to emerge from the pool of ideas and snippets, with eventually enough material for a CD. The time had come to search for a vocalist, as this was clearly something that neither a computer nor the band members could provide. Finding a singer was no easy task, as the band had no live gigs, fame or financial gain to offer. Nor was the music ‘easy’ to sing along with. They searched someone that simply liked the music, was up for the challenge and had a desire to provide vocal parts - just for the sake of it. Nevertheless, people responded. After some auditions, mostly carried out over the internet, talented singers were found and asked to join the band. Some lyrics and melodies were written over the next years. Unfortunately, two consecutive singers were unable to invest the time end energy required, and eventually abandoned the project. Disappointed, the band set off for a third round of auditioning - and hit the jackpot. Sandra Smit stood out with her warm, smooth and intimate voice and some immediate great ideas. She joined the band and has been with us ever since. In the years that followed, the three band members focused all energy on completing the vocal parts for the CD. Joris and Sandra proved to be particularly succesfull in writing lyrics and vocal melodies. Vocals were recorded and mixed in the modest (and sometimes unbearably hot) attic studio of Joris, during many evening sessions. By this time, all band members also had regular dayjobs and all became parents. It had been a long time since the band was originally founded. But over the years, the music and energy stayed and evolved with us. When the CD was finally finished in 2012, Landscape was ready to go public. The band will continue working on new songs, hopefully resulting in many more CD’s to come. The original spirit of the band remains as it was since the beginning: to write and record music that we like. Not music that must be economically viable or ‘work’ in a live setting. Just for the fun of it. Now if only we can somehow pick up the pace All nine tracks from the album can be streamed on soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/#landscape-band I love this album to bits myself, and I guess the band stands an outside chance in Prog Metal, but I wouldn't build my hopes up... Edited by yam yam - January 02 2014 at 13:56 |
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Icarium
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Posted: January 02 2014 at 13:52 | |
strange since they are very progy in the subtle arrangements and use of saxophone
i would think both Haken and Arena is similar sounding albums but Landscape differs for having female lead singer, and also i think its very good crafted songs, with tight technical display of musicality, so i disagree with it being simplistic, it is very nice layered and flows nice because of that Edited by aginor - January 02 2014 at 13:58 |
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Andy Webb
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Posted: January 02 2014 at 13:52 | |
So who's being suggested? The Poles or the Dutch?
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Icarium
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Posted: January 02 2014 at 13:55 | |
the dutch
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yam yam
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Posted: January 02 2014 at 14:11 | |
Both!
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Icarium
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Posted: January 02 2014 at 14:16 | |
there is also a french post rock group
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yam yam
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Posted: January 02 2014 at 14:18 | |
Edited by yam yam - January 02 2014 at 14:20 |
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Icarium
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Posted: January 02 2014 at 14:22 | |
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yam yam
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Posted: January 02 2014 at 14:34 | |
Yes indeed, and you can listen to all three of their albums on myspace: http://www.myspace.com/landscapeone/. Info here in French: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landscape. Official site now redirects to facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Landscape/54463108815. Paste this link into your browser URL bar for a playlist of six videos uploaded by the band: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AblYxZXzvH0&list=PLrmvXo77Mcl5-T9Ii0owFkD56BaO6PAvj So now we have three 'Landscape' suggestions to work through...? Any more before I turn in for the night...?
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yam yam
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Posted: January 02 2014 at 14:38 | |
Absolutely, my friend. In reality The World doesn't always work like that though. I have every confidence in our current PM team, however - they will base their decision purely on the merit of the music presented before them, I know.
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aapatsos
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Posted: January 03 2014 at 03:38 | |
three tracks into the Dutch band and this reminds me more of Enchant/Haken - the Dutch on HP charts
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aapatsos
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Posted: January 03 2014 at 03:46 | |
I would suggest a separate thread for the Poles and the post-rock band as the former sounded closer to Art Rock than anything else therefore slightly outside my remit
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Icarium
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Posted: January 03 2014 at 07:11 | |
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Andy Webb
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Posted: January 08 2014 at 09:09 | |
Dutch Landscape added
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Icarium
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Posted: January 08 2014 at 09:10 | |
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timothy leary
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Posted: January 09 2014 at 11:20 | |
I recommended a band for heavy prog......Vivalma the album "Human Effect" . I believe the Dutch band Landscape's album is actually "Staring at Utopia". I hope Vivalma can be added as quickly as the dutch band was.
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Andy Webb
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Posted: January 09 2014 at 11:25 | |
They were already added!
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timothy leary
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Posted: January 09 2014 at 11:27 | |
Well thanks for the quickness. Did you look at Landscape's page?
Edited by timothy leary - January 09 2014 at 11:29 |
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