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Topic: Obscure bands that should be known!Posted By: Sagichim
Subject: Obscure bands that should be known!
Date Posted: April 05 2012 at 09:13
Too many times I come across with phenomenal bands who releases amazing albums but doesn't have the right promotion and are not reviewed properly. Let's make this stage the place to promote albums or bands that did not get more than 10 reviews, but should be known as Dream Theater, Porcupine Tree or Opeth.
I have just wrote a review on the amazing band Dreadnaught - The American Standard and thought about all those bands that we are missing. What do you guys have?
Replies: Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: April 05 2012 at 14:49
Jean Louis
Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: April 05 2012 at 15:11
Genesis
------------- Crushed like a rose in the riverflow.
Posted By: Fox On The Rocks
Date Posted: April 05 2012 at 15:19
I not sure if you would consider them obscure, but I really like the British band TesseracT. Great Prog Metal with Ambient influences. They just released their first full length last year
called One. Fans of Periphery and Meshuggah might like them.
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Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: April 05 2012 at 15:26
Horizons wrote:
Genesis
never heard of him
Posted By: Smurph
Date Posted: April 05 2012 at 15:31
KILLBOT ZERO because holy hell awesomeness. They have 4 albums out and only 1 is listed on the archives
BEFORE THE EYEWALL because its super good atmospheric doom but not on the archives
PSEUDO/SENTAI because my band is actually really good you just dont know it yet
THE SOUND OF ANIMALS FIGHTING because the ocean and the sun is awesome but their first EP is just as good
KOENJIHYAKKEI because damn. All that needs to be said
GOROD because Transcendence is one of the best Death Metal EPs I have ever heard
HANDS because their first release is on par with Genesis and the other prog greats
DORDEDUH because if you thought Negura Bunget wasn't as good as their album OM anymore, the main guys left to form this band because Negru is a douchebag
Posted By: Smurph
Date Posted: April 05 2012 at 15:34
CINEMECHANICA because they're my fav math rock band
BIT BRIGADE because its Cinemechanica doing hard rock versions of megaman, castlevania, etc
LED BIB because embrace the weird
OCEANSIZE because underrated
Posted By: iamathousandapples
Date Posted: April 05 2012 at 15:40
Posted By: Sagichim
Date Posted: April 05 2012 at 15:53
Pure Reason Revolution ? Oceansize? they are rated enough. I meant OBSCURE bands that have about 10 ratings and should be known better. Great other offers though, keep em' coming!! and post some samples it would help.
Posted By: CPicard
Date Posted: April 05 2012 at 15:56
If based on the ratings and the reviews, I wonder if Laurie Anderson couldn't be "elected" (I'm going to check how many ratings she had).
Posted By: Windhawk
Date Posted: April 05 2012 at 16:00
My profile on Mixcloud: https://www.mixcloud.com/haukevind/
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: April 05 2012 at 16:12
I''d mention some of these band and mostly artist names (hope you don't mind) -- in no particular order:
Igor Wakhevitch is not that well known at PA. His early albums have more than ten ratings, but I think these later ones highly enjoyable too, and worthy of attention:
Geinoh Yamashirogumi -- okay I see that Osorezan now has ten ratings, but that's the only album by the group with more than four. Most of the albums aren't really Prog though, so whatever...
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4.81 | 9 ratings
../album.asp?id=3702" rel="nofollow - Floating Opera 1997 Mashaiko Satoh and the Soundbreakers - great album, I think.
Bjorn J:son Lindh is one of my favourite discoveries of the last few years (thanks google!) and I think Fran Storstad... a remarkably good Eclectic album.
Yochk'o Seffer. The first three albums under his name are all really good. Surprised that Delire only has three ratings. The rest of his many albums are almost co pletely unknown, including by myself, according to the ratings
A pretty recent addition to Prog Folk which I did suggest to PA for Prog Related a couple of years to Prog Related quite some time after Perry leopold's Christian Lucifer was recommended to me by a PA member and there was some discussion of it in a thread, but I am glad it's in Prog Folk (still haven't heard the first album):
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0.00 | 0 ratings
../album.asp?id=37418" rel="nofollow - Experiment in Metaphysics 1970
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0.00 | 0 ratings
../album.asp?id=37419" rel="nofollow - Christian Lucifer 1973 Codona isn't well known, but then sadly the whole Indo prog/ Raga Rock category gets neglected -- so much excellent music there that I find that a real shame.
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4.05 | 9 ratings
../album.asp?id=15161" rel="nofollow - Regina Astris 1977 Another excllent album from the Indo Prog/ raga rock category:
Taj-Mahal Travellers may be my favourite band included in the Psych category, along with Fifty Foot Hose whose remarkable cauldron only has 13 ratings, and this is a very fine album:
Sorry if I went a bit overboard with this post. I'll stop there, and sorry that so many are artist rather than band names names, but in my collection I have many more albums that are artists rather than band names. One could argue how important some of these are to Prog, or how Prog they are, but I just really enjoy all of these and wish they were better known. Perhaps you wanted to focus on modern names considering your examples, and I could think of a lot of modern RIO/Avant ones that I think deserve more attention. I don't listen to Porcupine Tree, Opeth, or Dream Theater (not my cups of tea).
Posted By: Windhawk
Date Posted: April 05 2012 at 16:13
http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=4664" rel="nofollow - Alex Masi
My profile on Mixcloud: https://www.mixcloud.com/haukevind/
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: April 05 2012 at 16:27
Windhawk wrote:
http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=4664" rel="nofollow - Alex Masi
Wow, judging by that, an album included in the Prog Metal category that I actually might really like (which is rare from my experience, which is admittedly rather too limited).
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: April 05 2012 at 16:30
I was thinking about doing youtube clips myself, so here's my first contribution:
Posted By: Sagichim
Date Posted: April 05 2012 at 16:41
This will take a lot of time to explore!
Posted By: Sagichim
Date Posted: April 05 2012 at 16:46
Here is Dreadnaught, the one i started this thread with.
Posted By: Windhawk
Date Posted: April 05 2012 at 16:53
My profile on Mixcloud: https://www.mixcloud.com/haukevind/
Posted By: zravkapt
Date Posted: April 05 2012 at 18:34
a.P.A.t.T. was recently added to PA. Their albums have no ratings yet and I'm actually surprised they got on the site because they are so musically diverse; they could literally play any type of music. Here's a few vids:
------------- Magma America Great Make Again
Posted By: Gully Foyle
Date Posted: April 05 2012 at 18:47
Bert Jansch! I was looking him up the other day and he had no ratings at all!
Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: April 05 2012 at 18:57
well if we are posting videos,
and while we are at it, every single related project
MeTaL-O-PHoNe
Radiation 10
see for more: http://www.collectifcoax.com" rel="nofollow - http://www.collectifcoax.com
Posted By: Sagichim
Date Posted: April 06 2012 at 01:52
Logan wrote:
Sorry if I went a bit overboard with this post. I'll stop there, and sorry that so many are artist rather than band names names, but in my collection I have many more albums that are artists rather than band names. One could argue how important some of these are to Prog, or how Prog they are, but I just really enjoy all of these and wish they were better known. Perhaps you wanted to focus on modern names considering your examples, and I could think of a lot of modern RIO/Avant ones that I think deserve more attention. I don't listen to Porcupine Tree, Opeth, or Dream Theater (not my cups of tea).
Great job. You don't have to focus on modern prog, in fact like you i also prefer the 70's stuff. I have some more to offer...
Posted By: irrelevant
Date Posted: April 06 2012 at 07:57
Cheer-Accident
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Posted By: Sagichim
Date Posted: April 06 2012 at 08:13
^Yes they are.
Posted By: Sagichim
Date Posted: April 07 2012 at 01:53
Here is Eclat, a french band listed as fusion which is not accurate for their second album. It is more eclectic maybe crossover. They have great fiery guitar and some lovely clever bass lines, beautiful album with good vocals sung in french.
The track i wanted to post is attached to another one (in youtube), so you can hear them both or go to 3:45 directly.
Posted By: Dayvenkirq
Date Posted: April 07 2012 at 02:56
Gully Foyle wrote:
Bert Jansch! I was looking him up the other day and he had no ratings at all!
Oh, my freaking God! I didn't even know this guy was on PA! Bert Jansch rules! And RIP. Hell, I don't think that at least a dozen people on the website know about him being on PA. How he qualified as a PROG-folk artist is just beyond me.
Posted By: Sagichim
Date Posted: April 07 2012 at 04:04
^Give us a sample.
Posted By: Atoms
Date Posted: April 07 2012 at 04:32
Some of these are really obscure and some are more well-known. But I think that alot of fans of Symphonic Prog (especially Genesis fan), will like Savage Rose (which by some strange reason is not included in PA).
Posted By: Dayvenkirq
Date Posted: April 08 2012 at 00:28
sagichim wrote:
^Give us a sample.
Just remember: he was not a prog artist, at least when he went solo.
I would have also pitched in Alice's Wonderland (the only time I remember Bert dong serious jazz-folk) and Alman, but this is where YouTube failed me.
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: April 09 2012 at 06:12
http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=6958" rel="nofollow - Michel Zacha
French artist in crossover, combining genres such as as chanson and prog rock in his career. I only got to reviewing one of the albums cause they are hard to find but the second one is now on youtube while I only found a few samples from the first one.
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: April 09 2012 at 06:45
Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: April 09 2012 at 07:11
i recomend Bridges, very obscure and very hard to get any albums, since only 1000 was released/printed, it later evolved into a-ha, but Bridges is a the Doors influenced crossover prog band that have really cool bass lines, which i would as a bass player highlight as a the biggest + for them as a band, good bass and good keybrods, and Paul does some cool guitarwork as well, and Mags singing is not bad. but not in a Morten quality
you might also want to check out Mammoth Volume, a really strong band whom mix heavy rock with prog, but leans strongest towards heavy rock,
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Posted By: Sagichim
Date Posted: April 09 2012 at 13:17
^ In spite of what our friend 'snow dog' says, it would be better to post samples to your recommendations.
Posted By: Dayvenkirq
Date Posted: April 09 2012 at 23:09
sagichim wrote:
^ In spite of what our friend 'snow dog' says, it would be better to post samples to your recommendations.
Just links would do, I think. It's not too late to edit our posts.
Posted By: Atoms
Date Posted: April 10 2012 at 01:03
Dayvenkirq wrote:
sagichim wrote:
^ In spite of what our friend 'snow dog' says, it would be better to post samples to your recommendations.
Just links would do, I think. It's not too late to edit our posts.
Well, I don't think we really need to edit them. I am quite sure Snow Dog is capable of doing that himself.
Posted By: Sagichim
Date Posted: April 10 2012 at 03:13
^ He means to add links to previous posts, not snow dog's.
Posted By: clarke2001
Date Posted: April 10 2012 at 04:23
Not sure why these guys are not prog superstars yet. http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=5446" rel="nofollow - Illachime Quaret
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: April 10 2012 at 04:50
Posted By: Atoms
Date Posted: April 10 2012 at 11:39
sagichim wrote:
^ He means to add links to previous posts, not snow dog's.
Never did I say in my post that I only meant his links.
Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: April 10 2012 at 11:45
Just to name some Swedes here:
Paatos self-titled should be a household name by now:
So should Landberk:
And Dungen for that matter:
Outside of Scandinavia:
Mexico's finest Cabezas de Cera
Mother Russia's Vespero
------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
- Douglas Adams
Posted By: Smurph
Date Posted: April 10 2012 at 12:02
Stool Man wrote:
I'm surprised nobody yet has said "my band", so I'll do it:
my band
You must not have read my posts. Haha. I beat you to the douchebaggery.
Posted By: Sagichim
Date Posted: April 10 2012 at 12:27
Hey 'guldbamsen' i wouldn't call any of those bands obscure. This thread was meant to be for bands who are familiar to very few people and maybe the band itself . bands who are not reviewed.
Posted By: irrelevant
Date Posted: April 10 2012 at 12:34
sagichim wrote:
^Yes they are.
?
------------- https://gabebuller.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - New album! http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385" rel="nofollow - http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385
Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: April 10 2012 at 12:36
Ok my bad.
Although I haven't seen any mentions of these bands beside my own.
Anywho - obscure? I give you The Ghoulies(Listed here under Canterbury), Ultralyd and Plat du Jour.
------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
- Douglas Adams
Posted By: Sagichim
Date Posted: April 10 2012 at 13:10
irrelevant wrote:
sagichim wrote:
^Yes they are.
?
I meant very good indeed!
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: April 10 2012 at 13:14
Here's another from Sweden, obscure enough that it's not in PA. Was a topic on it once in 2005 in a General Music Discussions asking if others liked it and no one responded, so I think that counts.
Splash (1974)
Posted By: Sagichim
Date Posted: April 10 2012 at 13:15
Guldbamsen wrote:
Ok my bad.
Although I haven't seen any mentions of these bands beside my own.
Nobody mentioned them because they are not obscure.
Posted By: Sagichim
Date Posted: April 10 2012 at 13:21
Guldbamsen wrote:
Anywho - obscure? I give you The Ghoulies(Listed here under Canterbury), Ultralyd and Plat du Jour.
A sample would be nice.
Posted By: irrelevant
Date Posted: April 10 2012 at 13:25
sagichim wrote:
irrelevant wrote:
sagichim wrote:
^Yes they are.
?
I meant very good indeed!
Ah, cool.
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Posted By: frippism
Date Posted: April 10 2012 at 13:29
and while we are at it, every single related project
MeTaL-O-PHoNe
Damnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn straight
Check out:
Pak
Bob Drake (!)
Kruzenshtern & Parohod
Pissuk Rachav
Secret Chiefs 3 (not that obscure)
Raxinasky (not in PA... yet!!!)
Uz Jsme Doma
I'll think of more later.
------------- There be dragons
Posted By: Sagichim
Date Posted: April 10 2012 at 13:34
^ Those have already been added in page 2.
Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: April 10 2012 at 14:22
Logan wrote:
Here's another from Sweden, obscure enough that it's not in PA. Was a topic on it once in 2005 in a General Music Discussions asking if others liked it and no one responded, so I think that counts.
Splash (1974)
This is great stuff.
As another said - Landberk have a great album, One Man Tell's Another.
------------- Crushed like a rose in the riverflow.
Posted By: frippism
Date Posted: April 10 2012 at 14:25
sagichim wrote:
^ Those have already been added in page 2.
The videos? Well yes I was quoting them to agree with the selection. But the list of bands under those videos, haven't mentioned I think so far.
------------- There be dragons
Posted By: Sagichim
Date Posted: April 10 2012 at 14:31
^ Oh sh*t, how come i didn't see it?! sorry.
Posted By: Sagichim
Date Posted: April 10 2012 at 14:35
Logan wrote:
Here's another from Sweden, obscure enough that it's not in PA. Was a topic on it once in 2005 in a General Music Discussions asking if others liked it and no one responded, so I think that counts.
Splash (1974)
Hey logan this is great! I didn't notice the time goes by and heard it all. Did you try to suggest them? By the way the first and the last video are the same track.
Posted By: Stool Man
Date Posted: April 10 2012 at 15:07
Smurph wrote:
Stool Man wrote:
I'm surprised nobody yet has said "my band", so I'll do it:
my band
You must not have read my posts. Haha. I beat you to the douchebaggery.
You may have beaten me to it, but (since everyone seems to be posting videos here anyway...) I'm beating you to the posting of videos. (note to everyone else - please excuse our douchebaggery, Smurph started it)
and although the film is shoddy here, the music is from our first LP: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnTuo7LNhig&context=C489c584ADvjVQa1PpcFOBTW7iHkzFeb7BijPB-dK38OwjJONnfrY=
------------- rotten hound of the burnie crew
Posted By: Smurph
Date Posted: April 10 2012 at 15:42
Enditol is amazing.
enditol.net
Its like if radio rock got f-ed in the a$$ by real metal.
And stoolman, I have trouble competing with that douchery. :-(
But you guys are pretty great.
Posted By: Riuku
Date Posted: April 12 2012 at 09:54
This Town Needs Guns. Check them out, poppy math rock, it's insane.
Posted By: Sagichim
Date Posted: April 12 2012 at 10:06
Ok guys here is another one.
Pan.Thy.Monium is the most obscure project of Dan Swano, which i'm sure a lot of you already know. The band was active in the 90's and released 3 albums before breaking up. If there was ever a band representative of experimental extreme metal they are it, those of you who don't like this kind of style, don't bother with this. The band does not incorporate chaos like other bands do, but holds more structured songs, always progressive and interesting, fusing saxophone, clarinet and more.
just check this out, one of the most groovy experimental metal riffs you can find.
And if you like this here is some more.
Posted By: Dayvenkirq
Date Posted: April 12 2012 at 14:47
Riuku wrote:
This Town Needs Guns. Check them out, poppy math rock, it's insane.
Not very bad. The drummer is certainly doing justice. This is like jazz-rock drums with proggy New Wave guitars in an alt-rock environment lacking reverb.
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: April 12 2012 at 15:03
Snow Dog wrote:
^10cc?
It's on your list!
------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com
Posted By: Slaughternalia
Date Posted: April 12 2012 at 15:10
The Dismemberment Plan is quite known, but their first album's underratedness is criminal
------------- I'm so mad that you enjoy a certain combination of noises that I don't
Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: April 12 2012 at 15:17
French weirdo electronica beast Jean Guerin:
------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
- Douglas Adams
Posted By: Olivier!
Date Posted: April 13 2012 at 21:05
From Chili, "Bandhada" have done two albums that aren't classified in PA
They are doing a nice blend between fusion and symphonic prog. They sound pretty similar to Kenso, so really canterbury-ish music. A tad easy listening but I really like both albums... a nice discovery for me.
Posted By: Sagichim
Date Posted: April 15 2012 at 04:45
Just posted a review about them, so i guess this is the place to post a video to let you hear what it's all about. The band is called Ocean, and if you like that 70's hard rock progressive style, with some angry guitars, check this out. The songs on the album flows from one to the next, but Youtube offers 2 songs together that are not in the right chronological order of the album. But this is still great.
Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: April 15 2012 at 10:58
In following with Sagichim's post, which I think is a pretty good idea, I give you RAM. US proggers who are obscure, even though they play a kind of music that should resonate with a good heap of folks around here:
------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
- Douglas Adams
Posted By: Sagichim
Date Posted: April 15 2012 at 11:25
Guldbamsen you have just stole my next band to feature here. Ram is pretty cool, and i had the chance of playing one track out of this album in the radio last year.
Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: April 15 2012 at 12:00
sagichim wrote:
Guldbamsen you have just stole my next band to feature here. Ram is pretty cool, and i had the chance of playing one track out of this album in the radio last year.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who knows about this band. They truly need all the advertising they can get. That sole album of theirs is a real gem
------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
- Douglas Adams
Posted By: Fox On The Rocks
Date Posted: April 15 2012 at 17:36
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Posted By: Olivier!
Date Posted: April 16 2012 at 19:48
Jean-Philippe Goude - Drônes isn't classified in PA
half of the album is Zeuhl tracks post-Weidorje (supposed to be written for Weidorje 2, like Gauthier and Paga have released) and the other half is experimental/electronic stuff...
Posted By: Aussie-Byrd-Brother
Date Posted: April 16 2012 at 20:06
Hey Olivier!
Wow!! I just bought this from Greg Walker's `Synphonic Records' the other day! Haven't properly listened to it yet, but first impressions showed immense potential!
Posted By: Olivier!
Date Posted: April 16 2012 at 20:13
Have you bought Drônes or Bandhada (the other group I have mentioned earlyer ?)
I really like the Zeuhl tracks... To be fair I have only bought Drones 5 Zeuhl tracks and I have done a 60min cd with the 35min of Patrick Gauthier - Bébé Godzilla (I own the japanese mini lp).
I buy most of my cds from Greg too.
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: April 16 2012 at 20:27
Drones is a great album, and I am surprised that it hasn't made into PA Also like Bebe Godzilla muchly.
Do you know Goude and Cole's Jeunes Annes? Great album: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKPaQaoU8e8" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKPaQaoU8e8 www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKPaQaoU8e8" rel="nofollow -
Posted By: Aussie-Byrd-Brother
Date Posted: April 16 2012 at 20:29
I've just got the Goude album `Drones' so far.
Looking into the album, I pretty much took notice of the words `zeuhl', `Weidorje',`instrumental', etc, and decided to take a chance on the album based on that!
So far, so good!
Posted By: Olivier!
Date Posted: April 16 2012 at 20:38
Logan wrote:
Do you know Goude and Cole's Jeunes Annes? Great album: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKPaQaoU8e8" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKPaQaoU8e8 www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKPaQaoU8e8" rel="nofollow -
wow !!! ok !
- actually writing this on my wishlist -
Many Thanks !
edit : sounds like an album out of print or never released on cd... there is some download links of ripped vinyl tho.
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: April 16 2012 at 20:44
I found Drones on a Zeuhl list at some site quite a few years ago. Didn't even know Weidorje or Paga at the time, but I soon would. I actually prefer Goude's collaborative album with Olivier Cole, but do like Drones very much. The other Goude albums are quite different.
EDIT: Yeah, you'd be lucky to find a vinyl. I had uploaded it to youtube to help with evaluation, but the saving screwed up badly so there's a lot of silence. Worth hearing the first track anyway. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrIkoI582CA" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrIkoI582CA
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: April 20 2012 at 08:03
Guldbamsen wrote:
In following with Sagichim's post, which I think is a pretty good idea, I give you RAM. US proggers who are obscure, even though they play a kind of music that should resonate with a good heap of folks around here:
I'm not sure you can get "progressive" folks to listen to this.
It's too SF for them to enjoy or trip through!
I have other things from the Bay Area that also fit, but since there is not enough appreciation for the bands in LA, or SF, I tend to not bother with it. It's almost like we should have a separate progressive thing for the US alone ... just don't enjoy seeing these things compared to KC or ELP, when these were happening at the same time and the inspiration was more experimental than it was classically oriented, or theater/film oriented! The LA/SF scenes were much more independent artistically, and as such are very original, but they never had the luck to have such a good press core, that London developed that helped install themselves as the "progressive" kings and queens and imperialists of the world.
A lot of times I put on "Crown of Creation" and think ... that is so much more progressive than half the stuff in most KC albums ... and it will never get the credit it deserves. Or even "It's a Beautiful Day" and ...
It's just sad for me to see other things ignored. Even NY had its moments and then some! But Velvet Underground will never be considered "progressive".
------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com
Posted By: Windhawk
Date Posted: April 20 2012 at 08:34
Still with no reviews in here, surprisingly enough: http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7132" rel="nofollow - El Doom & The Born Electric
http://www.progstreaming.com/2012/04/01/el-doom-and-the-born-electric-el-doom-and-the-born-electric/" rel="nofollow - Full album on progstreaming
My profile on Mixcloud: https://www.mixcloud.com/haukevind/
Posted By: Sagichim
Date Posted: April 20 2012 at 09:32
moshkito wrote:
Guldbamsen wrote:
In following with Sagichim's post, which I think is a pretty good idea, I give you RAM. US proggers who are obscure, even though they play a kind of music that should resonate with a good heap of folks around here:
I'm not sure you can get "progressive" folks to listen to this.
It's too SF for them to enjoy or trip through!
I have other things from the Bay Area that also fit, but since there is not enough appreciation for the bands in LA, or SF, I tend to not bother with it. It's almost like we should have a separate progressive thing for the US alone ... just don't enjoy seeing these things compared to KC or ELP, when these were happening at the same time and the inspiration was more experimental than it was classically oriented, or theater/film oriented! The LA/SF scenes were much more independent artistically, and as such are very original, but they never had the luck to have such a good press core, that London developed that helped install themselves as the "progressive" kings and queens and imperialists of the world.
A lot of times I put on "Crown of Creation" and think ... that is so much more progressive than half the stuff in most KC albums ... and it will never get the credit it deserves. Or even "It's a Beautiful Day" and ...
It's just sad for me to see other things ignored. Even NY had its moments and then some! But Velvet Underground will never be considered "progressive".
That's exactly why i started this thread, to get those bands out in the open, and show how great they are, and how their music was as good as all the big names were. I'm not talking about JA or VU they are more famous than KC. It's a beautiful day and Crown of creation are actually highly regarded here, I don't feel there is something against US bands though.
Posted By: Sagichim
Date Posted: April 20 2012 at 14:06
For those of you who likes their prog with some fusion tendencies, and avant too, i would like to introduce to you IL Berlione, a japanese group incorporating a lot of crazy sax playing, and some excellent wild guitar, that makes you wonder for the thousand time, why are they so unknown?
That's not enough! ( guitar solo )
Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: April 20 2012 at 14:31
moshkito wrote:
Guldbamsen wrote:
In following with Sagichim's post, which I think is a pretty good idea, I give you RAM. US proggers who are obscure, even though they play a kind of music that should resonate with a good heap of folks around here:
I'm not sure you can get "progressive" folks to listen to this.
It's too SF for them to enjoy or trip through!
I have other things from the Bay Area that also fit, but since there is not enough appreciation for the bands in LA, or SF, I tend to not bother with it. It's almost like we should have a separate progressive thing for the US alone ... just don't enjoy seeing these things compared to KC or ELP, when these were happening at the same time and the inspiration was more experimental than it was classically oriented, or theater/film oriented! The LA/SF scenes were much more independent artistically, and as such are very original, but they never had the luck to have such a good press core, that London developed that helped install themselves as the "progressive" kings and queens and imperialists of the world.
A lot of times I put on "Crown of Creation" and think ... that is so much more progressive than half the stuff in most KC albums ... and it will never get the credit it deserves. Or even "It's a Beautiful Day" and ...
It's just sad for me to see other things ignored. Even NY had its moments and then some! But Velvet Underground will never be considered "progressive".
You'd be surprised at how many newcomers to the site we are getting, who seem very much into throwing away the program and just following their 6th or 37th sense - or whatever else they're using. Alright, I'll admit that some, and no I am not naming any names, do seem to be hip for hip's sake chastising the biggies like Genesis and Yes for no other reason than them being successful and kind of big here on PA (and we can't be like others now can we? - we have to be special in our own modern way - just like the peeps out there who get tattoos to be their own special selves...), but then again that happens a lot these days, because people, myself included are fed up with things like mainstream and reality-nonsense that only seeks to do one thing and that is to put things that don't belong there on pedestals - but anyway a fair amount of these people are genuinely interested in exploring music outside of the common household names around here, and that in itself is a pretty encouraging thing to me at least.
And no The Velvets will probably never get recognised as true prog conveyers, but to a few of us they will always be just that
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Posted By: infocat
Date Posted: April 20 2012 at 22:54
sagichim wrote:
For those of you who likes their prog with some fusion tendencies, and avant too, i would like to introduce to you IL Berlione, a japanese group incorporating a lot of crazy sax playing, and some excellent wild guitar, that makes you wonder for the thousand time, why are they so unknown?
That's not enough! ( guitar solo )
My god yes! Someone else knows this band! I see that someone finally wrote a review recently (on my birthday no less).
Anyone know any bands the members may have gone into?
Make you die, your brain!!
------------- -- Frank Swarbrick Belief is not Truth.
Posted By: Sagichim
Date Posted: April 21 2012 at 01:07
Killer stuff huh? Pretty obscure too, i wrote about them to Keishiro, our Japanese specialist and even he wasn't familiar with them, it was he's review recently. Their second album is also good, although less experimental. I would like to know too, where those guys played next, it's been 20 years since this album came out.
Posted By: Gerinski
Date Posted: April 21 2012 at 08:25
For those receptive to a JR/F with Classical and Traditional music overtones, the obscure but amazing spanish band Musica Urbana (by the way some of the texts in the YouTube clips are wrong and belong to another band of the Musica Urbana keyboardist, the duo Feliu Joan Albert).
Of their 2nd album I will only post the first song, from this you can link to the others if yu like it
Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: April 21 2012 at 08:25
this is probably Norways most obscure prog band
they are listed under crossover prog and only released/printed 1000 albums
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Posted By: Smurph
Date Posted: April 21 2012 at 20:11
sagichim wrote:
Just posted a review about them, so i guess this is the place to post a video to let you hear what it's all about. The band is called Ocean, and if you like that 70's hard rock progressive style, with some angry guitars, check this out. The songs on the album flows from one to the next, but Youtube offers 2 songs together that are not in the right chronological order of the album. But this is still great.
This is friggin great.
Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: April 21 2012 at 21:28
some modern:
Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: April 21 2012 at 22:03
And from the 70s, i just came across with this:
Posted By: colorofmoney91
Date Posted: April 21 2012 at 22:03
Everyone who likes prog metal should check out Clandestine. I want to see them actually get some recognition from someone other than myself.