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Phantasmagoria - Poziv u raj

Very dark music! Very rough sound. 

Score 7,5.

And they remind me of Mission...

Mission: "Heaven On Earth" (1987)

I can't give this one more than a 4.

and now for something completely different:

Iannis Xenakis, avant-guarde? very complex and ardous sound... new music for my ears... I have no good criteria for a meditated evaluation... ok, a 7.

And now, breton folk:

Virgo - The perpetual perfectionist. Score 5,5/10. A conventional folk, catchy.

Wayne Country & Electric Chairs - Berlin. It's a pleasent demential cabaret. Score 6,5. Very funny.

And now a group of Emilian-punk.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4ujf5ICyAo" rel="nofollow -

This is the ironic demential text of the intro (0-52 seconds)

"Un'erezione un'erezione un'erezione un'erezione triste, 

per un coito molesto, per un coito modesto, per un coito molesto, 

spermi spermi spermi spermi indifferenti

per ingoi indigesti per ingoi indigesti per ingoi indigesti"

"An erection an erection an erection a sad erection/

for a coitus harassing, for a modest coitus, for a coitus harassing/

sperms sperms sperms indifferent sperms/

to swallow indigestible to swallow indigestible to swallow indigestible.

8/10 I think. I've only heard it once so it might grow on me to become a more of a favorite. The dense atmosphere and eerie sort of floating orchestral soundwaves just works for me. I think you'd love Giacinto Scelsi (try Anahit, Aion, Pfhat, Uaxuctum or Konx-Om-Pax... if you're interested - dont you just love the titles?), but I'd like to post another favorite and a thing of terrible "Pendereckian" beauty instead:

Very ardous. Cacophony, avant-guarde. But original, deep. 8/10

And now 

Mau Mau: Venus Nabalera. Genre: ethnic patchanka.

(language: an italian dialect, French)

This sounded like the background music in one of the more up to date Mediterranean restaurants and I could imagine it being quite popular. It was well put together and the techno bits towards the end gave it a bit more variety. 7/10.

I found Egisto Macchi a little arduous too but liked the erratic percussion. Perhaps I should post some actual prog rock before anyone gets put off the thread .

Anyway I'm already familiar with this Eiliff-tune and the whole album. Pretty great. Had forgotten how entertaining it is. Kind of an infectious groove. 7/10 I think. Or maybe another 8/10.

Umberto: sound-wizardly Fabio Frizzi-like horror-stuff. Proggy enough I think

 

Thank you very much for this piece by Eiliff. I didnt know this group. And I like this song. Very much. I'd have preferred if in the ending the singing was returned, but anyway, very good, score 8,5.

And now, one of my fave song by Nick Cave: Oh My Lord.

And now Steve Wynn

Suggestive but quite monotonous. 5.

Now a mini suite, by Quatermass:

Suggestive, psychedelic. Too much repetitive the rhythm. Score 6,5.

And now, The Boss, Roulette.

Wow, a real musician. Concrete music. Proto electronic. 

Concrete music and most of electronic music are too much cerebral for me. 

I prefer to feel emotions. I can appreciate that music with my brain but my body 

and my heart remains cold. Score 5,5.

And now Family, a mini-suite

Avantgarde and RIO... interesting mix... rumours and music, with vocals, no harmony but tonal variations... here on PA this group have few reviews but a very high score... Anyway, for me 7,5.

Now an italian group, live. Song about partizans.

Interesting suite, almost heavy prog, with a great hard-blues riff. 7,5.

And now, Black Widow 

Basically it's a blues jam, with something of psychedelia and heavy rock. 7.

Ok, I remain in Deutschland and offer to you a masterpiece of progressive rock, a sophisticated, virtuosistic song, with literary lyrics!!! 

Alas, it's a 5.5, 6 tops. I'm predisposed to like their sound, and the choice of cover is pretty cool and unexpected. The fact of its existence goes in its favor. However, while I'm not a fan of Parton I'd still prefer her Jolene to this. The Sisters can usually make repetition hypnotic or interesting, but this one falls flat for me. 

Smog - Fruit Bats. (This one's blocked for me on youtube, but maybe it'll work for someone somewhere else): 

Here's a backup if you have the same problem, otherwise please ignore (or, y'know, take your pick): 

 

Okay, I'll play this game.

 

Interesting track, and I've not heard this band.  Some nice musicianship, but I'm not sure whether it really floats my boat.  It sounds like the intro to a TV drama.  Would probably work well for an Agatha Christie series box set.  I'll give it 4 out of 10.

 

I'll go for something completely not prog (as suggested by the OP):

 

I will rate the New Fast Automatic Daffodils song as 7/10. I will add that my wife listened as well and said she liked it maybe like an 8/10. So I guess 7.5/10?

Here's a favorite metal song that I like from a fairly obscure Greek band:

Used to listen to these guys many years ago.....a quiet one from them.

Very good song! Elegant Classic rock … repetetive but with pleasure… crystalline production, the guitars have a wonderful sound. 7,5... maybe 8.

And now, Pfm in concert with Italian folk singer Fabrizio De Andre. Mussida on the electric guitar.

"Amico Fragile" (Fragile Friend) by De André. Performed by De André (lead vocals and acoustic guitar) and PFM.

 

Interesting instrumental work! Vocals remind me a bit of Leonard Cohen, which I like, but this is more dramatic, which doesn't resonate quite as much with me. Perhaps not enough variety to justify the length, but beautiful nonetheless. 7.5.

Alright, how about this one?

dr wu, Yes, alt indie sounds about right for Scout Niblett.

I didn't see anything about posting explicit audio content in the site rules and guidelines, so hopefully this will be fine, but a heads up just in case:

Electronic funk, very sustained rhythm, 6,5.

And now from the Island of Beauty, Corsica in Italian, Corse in French, a folk group who sings in the ethnic language, that is, in the reality, an Italian dialect.

Vitalba: Mi Ne Vogu

1: Castor and Pollux, by Harry Partch. 

An instrumental, long suite. Original for sound and conception, based on assembling percussive instruments with different musical stamps. Ardous listening, a bit monotonous rhythm but high quality music writing. Score 8.

2. Herbert Bairy - Runnin'. Another original composition. Mood jazz-rock but it contains a psychedelic and avant-garde writing. Rhythmic Base with bass in evidence from which emerge dissonant trumpet solos, guitar solos and howling voices. Whirling climat. Score 8.

We listened to high-class music here!!!

And after these instrumental pieces, now it's time for real singers.

I give you another corse song:

A Filetta - Sumiglia.

In the beginning I've thought: wow, amazing but then, I discovered this is a bombastic, commercial gothic song, I would say quite trash-music, for the sound and the combination music-lyrics. Anyway, I'm not snobs

and I enjoyed the overwhelming pace, so 5.

Now, an Italian singer-songwriter, Alberto Fortis. In many Italian rankings, Fortis is considered prog, for songs like this.

Here's my pick:

Give a score (from 1 to 10) to this song, and explain your rating:

And then, post a new song!

I would like to play this game-