So I like Gryphon... Any similar bands? - Progressive Rock Music Forum

I can't think of any band that is quite like Gryphon (and Gryphon had its phases), but you could check out Amazing Blondel (there's a nice mp3 HERE) and Pentangle.

Watching while most appreciating a sunset in the moment need not diminish all the glorious sunsets I observed before. It can be much like that with music for me; immersed in experiencing the moment.

there are times when Red Queen to Gryphon Three reminds me of Samlas Mamas Manna (Von Zamla), but they don't do Elizabethen stuff like Gryphon and were much more avant garde

The French band Malicorne... Their live album "En public" features Brian Gulland as a special guest!

Malicorne and Fuchsia are excellent recommendations.

I would also add Penguin Cafe Orchestra.Though not wholly folk,they did experiment with 'ancient' instruments in a folk style.

I'd also recommend Richard Thompson's collaboration with Phil Pickett called 'The Bones of All Men'

Do 'The Stanley' otherwise I'll thrash you with some rhubarb.

Amazing Blondel seems to be the band to follow here. Maybe a bit less progressive, less complex.... yet more mellow. Check 'em!

The best you can is good enough...

darn, Andu, you was first!!!

andrea wrote:

Sean Trane wrote:

andrea wrote:

The French band Malicorne... Their live album "En public" features Brian Gulland as a special guest!

mmmmmmmmmmmmmh!!!!!!!!!!!............

Malicorne references to musics that dates from much later than Gryphon does. Gryphon is pre-baroque music, downright medieval.

More than Malicorne, you'd want to look at Rîpaille

You'd better look into ELO's very first album or eventually into Fuchsia

But to me Gryphon's closest cousin seems to be Gentle Giant

Are you sure?

Probably it depends on the albums and on the songs...

A few examples:

L’écolier assassin (D’où reviens-tu mon fils Jacques) – is the Canadian version of a Medieval popular song... “C’est la version canadienne d’une complainte médiévale dont on retrouve des origines en Charentes, en pays messin et en Nivernais” (from the booklet of Almanach)...

Schiarazzula marazzula (also known as Schiarazula marazula or Schiarazzola marazzola) is a composition by Giorgio Mainerio from Aquileia (1535-1582) that is part of the repertory of the Benandanti, an heterodox sect strongly influenced by the Jewish-Christian culture that had in the sacred dance one of the most typical features: the «schiarazz» and the «marazz» were respectively the reed and the fennel used by them during their night rites...

Anyway, you’re the “expert”... Why don’t you try to write a retrospective about this very interesting band, quoting all their sources and musical influences?

OK, sure Malicorne and La Bamboche (similar to Malicorne but in more festive) do have some medieval tunes, but they concentrate on post baroque folk musics than pre-Renaissance....

I hat

the word "expert", BTW

I have roughly four essay on the grill, so Malocorne might have to wait a while.

Edited by Sean Trane - November 28 2007 at 05:10

let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword

^ Comus, first of all!! :)

The best you can is good enough...

I recommend Spirogyra's St. Radigund's and Forest - Full Circle.

Edited by Logan - December 02 2007 at 21:04

Watching while most appreciating a sunset in the moment need not diminish all the glorious sunsets I observed before. It can be much like that with music for me; immersed in experiencing the moment.