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Points: 3041 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 28 2017 at 15:31
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Originally posted by Saperlipopette! Saperlipopette! wrote:

I can think of lot of bands with pastoral prog in between less pastoral prog but here's the most pastoral I can think of. 

Continuum - St. (1970)
Skin Alley - St. I seem to be in a minority preferring their debut from 1969. Maybe try their follow-up as well.
+most of Pentangle really - but their first four are their essentials. 

pastoral jazzfusion:
Tonton Macoute

...but really why should it matter whether this pastoral prog is from the UK or elsewhere?

Arleta / Αρλέτα - Six days / Έξi μέρες (Grc)
Ptarmigan - St. (can)
Ragnarok - St. (swe)
Perry Leopold - Christian Lucifer (us)
Pearls Before Swine - The Use of Ashes (us)
Celeste - Principe Di Giorno  (ita)

More pastoral jazzfusion:
The Advancement - St. (us)

+ there's also some band or artist I really love that escaped my mind & much more.

some good ones there for sure Clap
I only just discovered the Perry Leopold album and it's truly a lost classic.  I did a review recently, but do check out David's brilliant review


May I also recommend Forest (UK), 2 pastoral albums from late 60s early 70s



Or Decameron, 4 albums from 1973-1976.  This is my fave by them, the most mellotronic string sound I have ever heard



Or Mr Toad, millenium group from Israel, but clearly from the "I Talk to the Wind" school



Canadian Garfield French's first album from 1976 is very English pastoral.  



Their second is very proggy but not as pastoral of course.  Excellent though





And can't forget this fellow, Bob Theil, with a lost almost classic from 1982. Like Al Stewart meets Pink Floyd








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Garfield are Canadian. 
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Originally posted by Kepler62 Kepler62 wrote:

Garfield are Canadian. 

yup, as I noted above, along with Mr Toad (Israel).  But I think both are in the spirit of 1970s UK prog folk
That said, Garfield put on quite a cosmic light show back in the day, anything but pastoral when live Big smile
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Originally posted by kenethlevine kenethlevine wrote:

some good ones there for sure Clap

Thanks! Wrote a long reply but it got lost in that incredibly annoying PA... crap... thing... I don't know what its called but I get so angry when it happens that its not healthy for me to try and post stuff here. So I guess I'll be gone for a while. Its just not worth it.
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Originally posted by Saperlipopette! Saperlipopette! wrote:

Originally posted by kenethlevine kenethlevine wrote:

some good ones there for sure Clap

Thanks! Wrote a long reply but it got lost in that incredibly annoying PA... crap... thing... I don't know what its called but I get so angry when it happens that its not healthy for me to try and post stuff here. So I guess I'll be gone for a while. Its just not worth it.

I know just what you mean.  It happened to me with my long post.  I had to go back in my browser on youtube to find everything I linked.  And I still haven't trained myself to save the post to the clipboard before trying to post it  Cry

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Gracious.   You can't miss with either of their albums.  Get them both.  Super Nova is one of the best prog pieces of all time.    Same with "Heaven".   And you can't miss with the first 10 minutes of "Flight" from "As your mind flies by" by Rare Bird.
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How about jade from 1970. Great album



and Trader Horne from 1970



Magna Carta from 1970



Tudor Lodge (start this at 59 seconds to skip over the noisy intro) 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_FaXMk8eBU&t=59s


Bread Love and Dreams



Harmonium, etc..




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Thanks a lot for the replies, I will check out the stuff I don't know from before.

I will add Bill Fay and Nick Drake's orchestrated works to this thread. Definitely rainy, grey, countryside British music, and utterly beautiful!
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