Good really obscure bands
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Topic: Good really obscure bands
Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Subject: Good really obscure bands
Date Posted: November 12 2008 at 23:56
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Please make a list of good 3 obscure bands.
Don't come me with Camel, Gong or VDGG, I want really obscure PROG bands:
Iván ------------- 
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Posted By: zicIy
Date Posted: November 13 2008 at 02:31
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sorry if those are not obscure enough. probably they were just not accepted by wider audience at the time, but they were really good bands, no doubt! (not in order):
Tonton Macoute
Mallard
Toe Fat
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Posted By: fusionfreak
Date Posted: November 13 2008 at 03:21
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Jonesy Zoldar and Clark Coven ------------- I was born in the land of Mahavishnu,not so far from Kobaia.I'm looking for the world of searchers with the help from crimson king |
Posted By: Kotro
Date Posted: November 13 2008 at 06:05
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Posted By: fusionfreak
Date Posted: November 13 2008 at 09:05
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Thanks for advice Kotro,I feel like thinking I've lots of things to learn! ------------- I was born in the land of Mahavishnu,not so far from Kobaia.I'm looking for the world of searchers with the help from crimson king |
Posted By: febus
Date Posted: November 13 2008 at 21:34
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1) SCHICKE ,FUHRS & FROELING...........great German pastoral symph.
2)WITTHUSER & WESTRUPP...................German prof folk
3) GRACIOUS................................................English symph/rock
All these bands have produced some great albums, but never really made it big!.....
You can check them out on PA database...worth it!.
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Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: November 13 2008 at 21:41
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Rousseau - Flowers in Asphalt (Camel-like instrumental bliss) Alquin - Marks Chaos Code - Tapestry Gotic - Escenes Hero Marsupilami - Arena Pentacle - Le Clef Des Songes Pererin - Haul Ar Yr Pollen - s/t Ragnarok (sweden) Ripaille - La Vieille Arachnoid Whoops!!! Just saw the original message asking for 3.....Sorry Ivan!!!  ------------- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/sQD8uhpWXCw" rel="nofollow - It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood...Road Rage Edition |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: November 13 2008 at 22:30
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for quality I'd say some of our obscure recent additions as Accent, Automatic Fine Tuning, and ExCubus ..also great English band Room, and Little Big Horn, both circa 1970 for lesser bands but good.. Breakout - very rare Polish prog Climax - Bolivian heavy prog band almost unknown outside that country Incredible Hog - obscure but known English heavy blues/prog |
Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: November 13 2008 at 23:02
I got the chance to be familiar with SCHICKE ,FUHRS & FROELING and also with FUHRS & FROELING, because Cesar Inca pissed me a lot to change the bios.....Thanks Cesar.
My intention with this thread is to impulse people to search this obscure bands (some really outstanding) instead of continue to focus in barely Prog Related bands being added.
If we haven't heard at least 10% of this really Prog bands, there's no case to lose our time adding bands that should not be our priority.
My two cents.
Iván
BTW: I'm checking WITTHUSER & WESTRUPP -------------
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febus wrote:Posted By: memowakeman
Date Posted: November 13 2008 at 23:15
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Just 3? now in my mind: Willowglass: Pure symphonic bliss, the 2008 album is in my top so far
Gatto Marte: RIO/avant from Italy, a great band
Itoiz: Basque prog, at it's best! ------------- Follow me on twitter @memowakeman |
Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: November 14 2008 at 05:51
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Jazz rock:
Whoopgnash - try their first, self-titled album (strong early 80's Holdsworth influence)
McHacek: Featuring Ourselves (partly in the mode: 'modern day Holdsworth meets the Mothers Of Invention from around 1983')
Conrad Schrenk & Extravaganza: Save The Robots (said by many who have heard it, 'the best jazz rock album of the 90's' - sor tof Steve Vai with jazz chords and a Tower of Power backing). ------------- The best eclectic music on the Web,8-11pm BST/GMT THURS. CLICK ON: http://www.lborosu.org.uk/media/lcr/live.php - http://www.lborosu.org.uk/media/lcr/live.php Host by PA's Dick Heath. |
Posted By: Rocktopus
Date Posted: November 14 2008 at 07:08
Still only two stars? ------------- Over land and under ashes In the sunlight, see - it flashes Find a fly and eat his eye But don't believe in me Don't believe in me Don't believe in me |
Posted By: Abstrakt
Date Posted: November 14 2008 at 09:19
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Baby Grandmothers:
Swedish late 60's hard/blues rock with occasional psychedelic influences.
GÄA:
Don't know much at all about this band, but i'd say Geman-sung Hard/Blues/Psych rock.
Älgarnas Trädgĺrd:
Their songs vary from Extended Folk-influenced Space-rock jams, to Pure folk, to Experimental stuff, to pure Psychedelic/space rock.
Highly recommended if you like 60's Zappa, Gong & folk-music!
Öresund Space Collective:
A very interesting group (FROM MY AREA!!!) who specialises in long, drawn-out improvised space-rock jams, with influences that vary from Reggea, Ambient, Funk & Heavy Rock.
Influenced by Ozric tentacles, Hawkwind, Gong, Pink Floyd, Miles Davis...
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Posted By: fusionfreak
Date Posted: November 14 2008 at 09:47
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White Hills:Psych/space/kraut,Check Heads of fire out,a very heavy Hawkwind meets Can!
Danava:Heavy/Psych/Prog for their self titled,second is good(Unonou)but more classic prog.
Morkobot:Morto(3rd album)heavy psychedelic space rock,2 bassists and 1 drummer,very good! ------------- I was born in the land of Mahavishnu,not so far from Kobaia.I'm looking for the world of searchers with the help from crimson king |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: November 14 2008 at 10:11
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One of the more recent additions to Crossover, dating back to 1972: http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=3920 - Capability Brown - a relic of the era where the distinction between Prog and Pop was still being defined and people were more open to those crossovers. Released on Tony Stratton-Smith's famous Charisma label, Capability Brown were one of the forgotten bands that were overshadowed by Charisma's more popular artists that, like Rare Bird and Audience, have only been re-discovered as their long-deleted back catalogues have become available on CD. The album Voice is a classic example - one side is a collection of short songs reminicent of their debut album, while the flip-side is a 20 minute symphonic epic that would have been hailed masterpiece if they had followed that direction instead of vanishing into obscurity. ------------- What? |
Posted By: Vibrationbaby
Date Posted: November 14 2008 at 10:32
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I was buying all kinds of weird s**** on vinyl back in the seventies and especially in the mid to late eighties when vinyl and progrock were on the way out. I`d buy something just because it looked weird and if it was from some far off place like Finland, Denmark or Norway I would jump at it. I even had some second hand record shops which sadly don`t exist anymore saving stuff for me that looked weird. And it was CHEAP CHEAP CHEAP. I bought 8 Amon Duul II albums for about $40 once off a guy who was on his way into a shop to sell his collection. I`ve even got a sort of prog album from a freakin` band from Greenland! Some of it was suprisingly great and I`ve seen some of it for sale on the bloody internet asking freakin` ludicrous prices.
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Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: November 14 2008 at 10:47
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Pierrot Lunaire (Italy)
Circus (Switzerland)
PLJ Band (Greece)
Octohpera (Brasil)
Artsruni (Armenia)
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Posted By: The Pessimist
Date Posted: November 14 2008 at 11:39
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Not exactly up your street, but I find that Rosetta, Unexpect and Galliard (70s band) are the most obscure I know of. All are pretty damn amazing.
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Posted By: moreitsythanyou
Date Posted: November 14 2008 at 11:51
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One great obscure band is Amarok. Quentadharken is a fantastic album.
Oh you want 3? Add Everything is Made in China and Conqueror to that list as well. -------------  <font color=white>butts, lol[/COLOR] |
Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: November 14 2008 at 11:57
Good call - specialised in close harmony: seem to remember some rock journalists comparing them with the Hollies..... although some of their close harmonies on the shorter songs were closer to what The Sweet did a few years later. I have Voice, but ex.radio LP copy scratched to hell, so alas my fav, Keep Death Off Road, Drive On The Pavement skips badly. Also have the Charisma issued CB album on the 99p cheapo label. Glad to hear they've got CD issues. ------------- The best eclectic music on the Web,8-11pm BST/GMT THURS. CLICK ON: http://www.lborosu.org.uk/media/lcr/live.php - http://www.lborosu.org.uk/media/lcr/live.php Host by PA's Dick Heath. |
Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: November 14 2008 at 12:10
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obligatory for James and Bj-1: NEO Museum. |
Posted By: aapatsos
Date Posted: November 14 2008 at 14:44
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3 prog (metalish...) obscure bands Psychotic Waltz - Dark, technical and weird metal Saviour Machine - Gothic-influenced medieval, Christian-lyric based metal Ulver - Started off as black metal, progressed as electro-metal (soundtrack like) with references to obscure themes, strange vocals, noises etc. Personally, these are three of my favourite bands and I would recommnd to anyone who likes weird tunes |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: November 14 2008 at 23:51
sure, my appreciation of the album is expressed in the review, whereas the two stars reflect my objective judgment that it would best suit collectors/fans only |
Posted By: fusionfreak
Date Posted: November 17 2008 at 04:37
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Demon/Bullet:Both with guitar hero John Du Cann,dangerous heavy prog!
The Heads:heavy psych/stoner from UK  ------------- I was born in the land of Mahavishnu,not so far from Kobaia.I'm looking for the world of searchers with the help from crimson king |
Posted By: ten years after
Date Posted: November 17 2008 at 04:48
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Public Foot The Roman.
Back in the early 70s i was impressed by the name. I could never find an album or a gig to go to so i didn't get to hear them.
35 years later i still have absolutely no idea what they sounded like and i'm still impressed by the name.
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Posted By: Mandrakeroot
Date Posted: November 17 2008 at 04:59
Hey... Another good album (and band)... In Psychedelic Heavy Prog is this:
 JUNIOR'S EYES: 'BATTERSEA POWER STATION'
featuring: Rick Wakeman
This is the backing band of David Bowie's 'Space Oddity'! ------------- 
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Posted By: easytargets
Date Posted: November 17 2008 at 14:01
What about Anglagard ------------- The water rushes over all cities crash in the mighty wave; the final man is very small, plunging in for his final bathe |
Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: November 18 2008 at 01:33
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Anglagard is not remotely obscure.
Excellent band btw, after Genesis, my all time favorite.
Iván -------------
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Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: November 18 2008 at 01:49
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Lesse...Obscure to me (going through my music library): Brainticket (krautrock) Carol of Harvest (folk-symph) Kemialliset Ystavat (psychedelic, experimental) Leviathan (art rock/heavy prog) Triana (folk-symph) ------------- http://soundcloud.com/drewagler" rel="nofollow - My soundcloud. Please give feedback if you want! |
Posted By: memowakeman
Date Posted: November 18 2008 at 19:13
I totally agree with you, Amarok (Spain) are a fabolous band in studio and on stage, that album Quentadharken is fabolous! ------------- Follow me on twitter @memowakeman |
Posted By: banjocat
Date Posted: November 19 2008 at 04:27
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very obscure stuff: COS Viva Boma and The Post- Aolian Train Robbery DOGGEREL BANK Silver Faces and Mr. Skillikorn Dances BYZANTIUM Byzantium Good luck finding either of the vinyls (no CD's that I know of) by Doggerel Bank. The other two are available |
Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: November 19 2008 at 04:58
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Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: November 19 2008 at 05:42
Don't forget Mujer Luna and Sol De Medianoche, which ended up as my favorite album in 2007. (uhm...I guess that if three people already know about Amarok, that doesn't make the band obscure anymore?  )Now, Idelfonso Aguilar's Erosion...that's obscure!  (even if memo knows what I'm talking about, right?  )P.S.: I saw Ulver mentioned in the second post of this page. I hardly consider them obscure. ------------- 
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Posted By: fusionfreak
Date Posted: November 19 2008 at 13:14
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5 day week straw people,The Damnation of........Adam Blessing,Waterloo ------------- I was born in the land of Mahavishnu,not so far from Kobaia.I'm looking for the world of searchers with the help from crimson king |
Posted By: progrules
Date Posted: November 19 2008 at 15:17
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Covenant-Nature's devine reflection. Obscure and weird
Paragone-Paragone. Soothing instrumental music. Really special.
MK II-Burning daylight. Instrumental neo from the mid-nineties
Sandstone-Looking for myself. Nice prog metal from Poland (great prog country btw)
Novox-Novox. Interesting neo/crossover from my native country
Xen-84000 dharma doors. Heavy crossover, actually almost Enchant so not really obscure
Marco Sfogli-There's Hope. Great Italian metal guitarist. Album is from the running year !
All good/very good albums that should be checked out more. ------------- A day without prog is a wasted day |
Posted By: easytargets
Date Posted: November 19 2008 at 18:18
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Know about Bohren&der club of gore? It´s a non-prog band I mentioned in a thread
called "sleep music" (I think).
They´re not, however, a boring band, its music is beautiful, very dark, with chord arrangements.
I´ve been researching in my collection and don´t remember any other.Keep tryin´. ------------- The water rushes over all cities crash in the mighty wave; the final man is very small, plunging in for his final bathe |
Posted By: Leningrad
Date Posted: November 19 2008 at 18:46
| Aquarium are my favorite band ever. And I'm one of about 5 people on this site who's heard of them. |
Posted By: ClemofNazareth
Date Posted: November 19 2008 at 19:52
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http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=1481 - Aktuala (Italian)
http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=3900 - Smell of Incense (Norwegian)
http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=1967 - Sedmina (Yugoslavian)
All Prog Folk (although Smell of Incense would be at-home in Psych as well)
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Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: November 19 2008 at 21:53
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Don't forget SUPAY from Perů, IMO more Prog (Not necesarilly better) than Los Jaivas.
Iván -------------
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Posted By: LiquidEternity
Date Posted: November 19 2008 at 21:59
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Fromuz - Great instrumental eclectic group from Uzbekistan. I can't help but continue to mention this band. They have a pretty small fan base at the moment, but hey, instrumental music from Uzbekistan isn't exactly a wide market. Give these boys a listen. Their PA page has two quality songs of theirs streamable. Mogul Thrash - An early John Wetton project. Really neat, especially if King Crimson's Red is something that really trips your triggers. ------------- 
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Posted By: sean
Date Posted: November 19 2008 at 22:49
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Miasma & The Carouself of Headless Horses- darkly upbeat avant-folk rock, their album sounds as if they're trying to scare you, but laughing while doing it. lots of acoustic instruments like pianos and violins mixed with typical rock instrumentation. avant garde but still fairly accessible.
Giant Squid-not quite sure just how obscure they are, but I don't see them mentioned too much around here. They play an experimental sort of post-metal
The Ocean-also known as The Ocean Collective, atmospheric doomy post-metal. Again,not sure how obscure they were but I was the first one to review their latest album,so I assume there's some level of obscurity.
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Posted By: King Crimson776
Date Posted: November 22 2008 at 03:09
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Rocket Scientists (awesome modern symphonic band, not that obscure but still want to give them a shout out) Amagrama (modern symphonic)Izz (to some degree symphonic but with other elements as well) Gordian Knot (I have no idea how obscure they are, but they're awesome, especially their self-titled album. They play instrumental progressive rock that crosses into prog metal but always in a tasteful way, very influenced by latter day King Crimson) Also Magic Pie and Knight Area are two more obscure modern symphonic bands, but I'm not hugely into them.
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Posted By: ghost_of_morphy
Date Posted: November 22 2008 at 20:41
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Obscure ones that I am fond of.....
Seven Reizh (absolutely amazing symphonic prog)
Will O The Wisp (much more on the psych/spacerock side)
Rane (really more prog related and not even a part of the site.)
I see King Crimson mentioned Amagramma. They'd have been fourth or fifth on my list.
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Posted By: Hawkwise
Date Posted: November 22 2008 at 20:44
 
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Posted By: Alberto Muńoz
Date Posted: November 23 2008 at 07:47
 A really good band Capabillity Brown are one of the BEST prog rock band that i ever heard and only for the epic 20 minutes circumstances, that song summarirez well my almost ideal epic. -------------  |
Posted By: Alberto Muńoz
Date Posted: November 23 2008 at 08:00
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Here's a really obscure prog band: Robert Connolly_ Plateau 1978 Canada.  ------------- |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: November 23 2008 at 11:44
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A band I really like are the Deep Freeze Mice. They didn't make it into the archives, but I don't give a damn about that. And album titles like "Teenage Head in My Refrigerator", "My Geraniums Are Bulletproof" or "Rain Is when the Earth is Television" can hardly be beaten. -------------  BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: zulugang
Date Posted: November 28 2008 at 17:34
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Here a very rare LP that I sell :
ZARTONG LP armenian folk prog
See here http://cgi.ebay.fr/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&item=330289002848 - http://cgi.ebay.fr/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&item=330289002848
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