What are you Listening to Right Now? Febus XIV

KS - Timewind 

Atavachron wrote: Toaster Mantis wrote: Might have been the case in the UK, but in Scandinavia there wasn't that much overlap between the Blue Cheer/Led Zeppelin type 1970s hard rock bands (Far Out, The Old Man and the Sea, Sensory System, Zig Zag Band) and the progressive rock scene (Blue Sun, Burning Red Ivanhoe, Secret Oyster) to the point the two milieux kinda distrusted each other. In the US around that time, good players were good players and a good band was a good band, whether hard or soft or blues-oriented or not.   Most musicians and fans understood it was about creativity and integrity, not form or sound.   The more varied the better.

Yeah, didn't Frank Zappa produce one of Grand Funk Railroad's albums? Then again, FZ never gave as much about the divide between high and low culture as many other avantgarde musicians of his era. (neither did Beefheart)

I'm under the impression that a lot of the Continental European progressive musicians were more dead-set on elevating a "low" artform originated within commercialized mass culture to something avantgarde and radically subversive. It certainly seems to have been a popular idea among the Kosmische Musik/Krautrock scene just south of my country, where musicians like Holger Czukay from Can and several of the Kraftwerk guys had studied under Karlheinz Stockhausen.

In the case of Denmark and Sweden, the prog rock bands I mentioned were coming from that angle usually having met at university or music conservatory. (didn't the Rock In Opposition movement of the late 1970s absorb a lot of Swedish prog rock musicians into its ranks?) The hardrockers, on the other hand, were usually self-taught street jammer types who didn't have as much of an interest in ambitious complex philosophical projects behind their music.

Yet another influential group I haven't listened to in-depth until now, despite them probably having inspired a very large amount of music I listen to. It's amazing how it still sounds like it could have been recorded tomorrow, despite having been made in 1967.

PINK FLOYD - "More" (1969)

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SteveG wrote: ^Ok, you got me. What is this album?