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Topic: Symphonic Prog with neoprog touch
Posted By: Aragon
Subject: Symphonic Prog with neoprog touch
Date Posted: December 14 2012 at 16:35
Could u suggest me some good symphonic prog band with a modern approach with some etnic element and much melodic like neoprogressive. No band organ oriented or with vintage sound; although i can tollerate the mellotron or analog moog LOL

No Flower king, Anglagard, Transatlantic, Kaipa, or Spock Beard LOL

I like the symphonic band of the '80:

Asia Minor
Anyone Daughter
Solaris

And some of the '90 like:

Drama
Apocalypse



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Posted By: rdtprog
Date Posted: December 14 2012 at 17:22
When you mean by ethnic, you mean other than occidental people. It's easy to find a little ethnic sound in some rock music band, but to a new prog band with melody and neo prog sound, that's much harder. I can only think in some bands like Collage, Subterra or Quidam that play some prog rock that is typical to the country they came from.

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Posted By: Aragon
Date Posted: December 15 2012 at 15:15
Originally posted by rdtprog rdtprog wrote:

When you mean by ethnic, you mean other than occidental people. It's easy to find a little ethnic sound in some rock music band, but to a new prog band with melody and neo prog sound, that's much harder. I can only think in some bands like Collage, Subterra or Quidam that play some prog rock that is typical to the country they came from.


I looking for Symphonic bands, not neoprog bands. They should be stay in symphonic category, so i take off the ethnic feature to be much easy the search.

For example a band that i like much is Clearlight, although it came from the middle 70. They haven't that old sound...and sound more modern!!!


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Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: December 15 2012 at 15:20
Sensitive to Light, try their second album From the Ancient World.

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Posted By: rdtprog
Date Posted: December 16 2012 at 06:38
This one sounds great,  maybe it doesn't have a modern sound, but there's that ethnic sound.




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Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: December 16 2012 at 09:27
Pablo El Enterrador
Sagrado Coraçao Da Terra


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Posted By: Aragon
Date Posted: December 16 2012 at 13:26
Originally posted by lucas lucas wrote:

Pablo El Enterrador
Sagrado Coraçao Da Terra


I don't notice any neoprog elements in Pablo El Enterrador


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Posted By: timothy leary
Date Posted: December 16 2012 at 13:58
Discipline
Izz
Rocket Scientists
Echolyn


Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: December 16 2012 at 14:54
Originally posted by Aragon Aragon wrote:

Originally posted by lucas lucas wrote:

Pablo El Enterrador
Sagrado Coraçao Da Terra


I don't notice any neoprog elements in Pablo El Enterrador
 
really ?
Listen to the song below, the drums remind a lot Pallas' early records, Castanarc's 'journey to the east' or the demo versions on the remastered version of Marillion's 'fugazi'.
 
 
 


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Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: December 16 2012 at 15:31
Satellite could satisfy your tastes (starting with the author of the artwork below) :
 
 
Cairo should count as well (RIP Bret) :
 
Camel could appear as precursors of neo-prog, together with Saga and Genesis
and sounded more and more neo-prog with time :
 
Camel calls for Happy The Man, through Kit Watkins, and 'better late' is somewhat neo-proggish :
 
Happy The Man's last album has Joe Bergamini on drums, who released an album of AOR/jazz-rock, 'arrival', that should appeal to fans of neo-prog :
http://www.amazon.com/Arrival-Joe-Bergamini/dp/B000008TJS" rel="nofollow - http://www.amazon.com/Arrival-Joe-Bergamini/dp/B000008TJS
 
Camel also


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Posted By: Lima96
Date Posted: December 17 2012 at 07:28
Symphonic prog with neo-prog influence? Nexus, Magenta and Citizen Cain. It doesn't get much better than that.


Posted By: awaken77
Date Posted: December 17 2012 at 08:00
too many of them
Glass Hammer
Echolyn



Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: December 17 2012 at 08:33
Coda, especially with their first album "Sounds Of Passion".


Posted By: Aragon
Date Posted: December 20 2012 at 12:44
Originally posted by lucas lucas wrote:

Satellite could satisfy your tastes (starting with the author of the artwork below) :
 
 
Cairo should count as well (RIP Bret) :
 
Camel could appear as precursors of neo-prog, together with Saga and Genesis
and sounded more and more neo-prog with time :
 
Camel calls for Happy The Man, through Kit Watkins, and 'better late' is somewhat neo-proggish :
 
Happy The Man's last album has Joe Bergamini on drums, who released an album of AOR/jazz-rock, 'arrival', that should appeal to fans of neo-prog :
http://www.amazon.com/Arrival-Joe-Bergamini/dp/B000008TJS" rel="nofollow - http://www.amazon.com/Arrival-Joe-Bergamini/dp/B000008TJS
 
Camel also


Wow you're the man!!! I appreciate all these bands except satellite cause it's full neoprog


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Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: December 22 2012 at 00:15
Originally posted by Aragon Aragon wrote:

Could u suggest me some good symphonic prog band with a modern approach with some etnic element and much melodic like neoprogressive. No band organ oriented or with vintage sound; although i can tollerate the mellotron or analog moog LOL

No Flower king, Anglagard, Transatlantic, Kaipa, or Spock Beard LOL

I like the symphonic band of the '80:

Asia Minor
Anyone Daughter
Solaris

And some of the '90 like:

Drama
Apocalypse


Lets see:



Cairo by Cairo


Midas II by Midas



Au Bout du Couloir by Raison du Plus 


Decade Reference by Salmon


Tunnel by Abissi Infiniti


Oceanworld by Autumn


Tall Tales by Crucible


Into the Epicenter by Episode

You have a lot to start with.

Iván


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Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: December 22 2012 at 02:11
I found the eponymous album of Saga nicely symphonic with a proto-Neo-Prog element throughout.  Ripping mini-moog solos too Thumbs Up.


Posted By: Ytse_Jam
Date Posted: December 22 2012 at 11:10
Originally posted by Ivan_Melgar_M Ivan_Melgar_M wrote:



Cairo by Cairo

This is awesome Shocked. Never listened to them before, shame on me.


Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: December 22 2012 at 11:35
Yes, the first Cairo album is a great album. I have listened to it a lot of times.


Posted By: Gerinski
Date Posted: December 22 2012 at 12:26
La Locanda Delle Fatte's "Forse Le Lucciole Non Si Amano Piu" for me quite represents the "missing link" between Symphonic and Neo, great album if you don't mind lyrics in italian.

I also strongly support:
Citizen Cain: "Somewhere But Yesterday"
Crucible: "Tall Tales"
Now: "Spheres" (the dutch band)



Posted By: infocat
Date Posted: December 22 2012 at 21:37
Love that Crucible one.  Little known classic for sure!

The guitar in the Cairo album always seemed out of place to me.  I'll have to try it again soon and see if that's still the case.



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Posted By: Aragon
Date Posted: January 26 2013 at 08:30
Originally posted by Gerinski Gerinski wrote:

La Locanda Delle Fatte's "Forse Le Lucciole Non Si Amano Piu" for me quite represents the "missing link" between Symphonic and Neo, great album if you don't mind lyrics in italian.

I also strongly support:
Citizen Cain: "Somewhere But Yesterday"
Crucible: "Tall Tales"
Now: "Spheres" (the dutch band)



I like the 1st album of Citizen Cain, but no the 2nd, it's too much vintage...organ everywhere don't like!

Don't like Locanda Delle Fate...vintage stuff. Why u think it's neo? No electronic stuff, the production has an '70 feeling.

I like Crucible...good idea, althouh the organ is still present...but the drum is modern.ClapClapClapClap




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