I Mother Earth for heavy prog, Canada

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I Mother Earth was formed in 1990 by brothers Christian (drums, percussion, lyrics, production) and Jagori (guitar, bass on first album, engineering, primary songwriter) "Jag" Tanna, Edwin (vocals) and Franz Masini (bass, but was fired during recording of first album). Bruce Gordon is credited as bassist on the first album, but did not actually record for it. His playing is present on the subsequent three full-length albums. Edwin left the band after the second album, as he was not included in the song or lyric writing. (Edwin is also primary vocalist on Alex Lifeson's Victor) He was replaced by Brian Byrne for the next two albums and three non-album singles. Edwin rejoined the band in 2016 for the 20th anniversary of the band's second album and several sold-out shows across Canada.
ALBUMS:
Dig Playlist
Scenery and Fish Playlist
Blue Green Orange Playlist
The Quicksilver Meat Dream Playlist

COMPILATION ALBUM:
Earth, Sky, and Everything in Between

SINGLES:
Dig: Rain Will Fall, Not Quite Sonic, Levitate, So Gently We Go (radio edit, duh)
Scenery and Fish: One More Astronaut, Another Sunday, Used to be Alright, Raspberry
Blue Green Orange: Summertime in the Void, All Awake, When Did You Get Back From Mars?
The Quicksilver Meat Dream: Juicy, Like the Sun, No Coma
Non-album singles (Playlist): We Got the Love (2012), The Devil's Engine (2015), Blossom (2015)

FUN NOTES:
Genres they've been attributed to include: alt rock/metal, funk metal, grunge, post grunge, psychedelic rock
Names you might know: Luis Conte percussion on Dig and Scenery and Fish, Mike Finnigan Hammond B3 on The Mothers on Dig, Alex Lifeson guitar on Like a Girl on Scenery and Fish, Geddy Lee bass on Good for Sule on Blue Green Orange
They've used slap guitar (check out Production from Dig), and fretless bass (I'm pretty sure anyway. Listen for it)
...And they have jams on every album: Spotify playlist

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HemispheresOfXanadu Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: June 28 2012 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 4339	Topic: I Mother Earth for heavy prog, Canada Posted: March 14 2017 at 20:34
	I Mother Earth was formed in 1990 by brothers Christian (drums, percussion, lyrics, production) and Jagori (guitar, bass on first album, engineering, primary songwriter) "Jag" Tanna, Edwin (vocals) and Franz Masini (bass, but was fired during recording of first album). Bruce Gordon is credited as bassist on the first album, but did not actually record for it. His playing is present on the subsequent three full-length albums. Edwin left the band after the second album, as he was not included in the song or lyric writing. (Edwin is also primary vocalist on Alex Lifeson's Victor) He was replaced by Brian Byrne for the next two albums and three non-album singles. Edwin rejoined the band in 2016 for the 20th anniversary of the band's second album and several sold-out shows across Canada. ALBUMS: Dig Playlist Scenery and Fish Playlist Blue Green Orange Playlist The Quicksilver Meat Dream Playlist COMPILATION ALBUM: Earth, Sky, and Everything in Between SINGLES: Dig: Rain Will Fall, Not Quite Sonic, Levitate, So Gently We Go (radio edit, duh) Scenery and Fish: One More Astronaut, Another Sunday, Used to be Alright, Raspberry Blue Green Orange: Summertime in the Void, All Awake, When Did You Get Back From Mars? The Quicksilver Meat Dream: Juicy, Like the Sun, No Coma Non-album singles (Playlist): We Got the Love (2012), The Devil's Engine (2015), Blossom (2015) FUN NOTES: Genres they've been attributed to include: alt rock/metal, funk metal, grunge, post grunge, psychedelic rock Names you might know: Luis Conte percussion on Dig and Scenery and Fish, Mike Finnigan Hammond B3 on The Mothers on Dig, Alex Lifeson guitar on Like a Girl on Scenery and Fish, Geddy Lee bass on Good for Sule on Blue Green Orange They've used slap guitar (check out Production from Dig), and fretless bass (I'm pretty sure anyway. Listen for it) ...And they have jams on every album: Spotify playlist
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mathman0806 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: June 06 2014 Location: United States Status: Online Points: 5978	Posted: March 14 2017 at 22:09
	I dug Dig. I don't know if I thought of them as prog though definitely had prog (along with jazz, fusion, funk, Latin) influences, but they were a might fine alternative rock act in the Jane's Addiction vein back in the day. I have the first two albums. I don't think the last two albums got promoted in the US.

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	yes agree with mathman not enough prog to justify an evaluation.
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HemispheresOfXanadu Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: June 28 2012 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 4339	Posted: March 15 2017 at 08:53
	Alrighty. Edited by HemispheresOfXanadu - March 15 2017 at 10:34
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	Their use of percussion set them apart from other alt-rock but they were basically alt-rock.
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