Prog with "SITAR"
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Topic: Prog with "SITAR"
Posted By: addictedtoprog
Subject: Prog with "SITAR"
Date Posted: September 20 2014 at 05:06
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I love the sound of sitar...but haven't heard anything (prog where sitar is a prominent instrument) until now. Any recommendations wud b highly appreciated. 
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Posted By: andrea
Date Posted: September 20 2014 at 05:22
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsuBpQ7OsQs" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsuBpQ7OsQs ------------- http://italianprogmap.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow - ITALIAN PROG MAP - A journey through the Italian Progressive Rock |
Posted By: Aussie-Byrd-Brother
Date Posted: September 20 2014 at 05:31
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Hey there Addicted! Two artists I can instantly think of: http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=1975" rel="nofollow - Magic Carpet Magic Carpet are a early 70's hippie/folk/raga-rock band with a female folk singer. If you get the CD reissue of the first album, there's also a 20-odd minute instrumental solo sitar piece that is wonderful. This is a very dear album to me, I listen to it everytime I work nightshift: **** The Oresund Space Collective are a modern improvised instrumental space-rock band, but they put out a lovely ambient/sitar based mellow album a few years back, and it's one of their most special. Well worth tracking the LP of it down: http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=38259" rel="nofollow - Oresund Space Collective - West Space and Love Hope these two very different suggestions are a start for you! 
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Posted By: addictedtoprog
Date Posted: September 20 2014 at 05:38
Thanks Aussie-Byrd-Brother...wud surely check them out.
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Aussie-Byrd-Brother wrote:Posted By: wilmon91
Date Posted: September 20 2014 at 06:33
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Steve Hackett - Waters of the Wild has an indian influence
http://tinysong.com/1jQi7" rel="nofollow - http://tinysong.com/1jQi7 and there's also his "Waking to Life" which is nice http://tinysong.com/14QQk" rel="nofollow - http://tinysong.com/14QQk Then there's Janne Schaffer - Berzeeli Park http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sS-9Qrnfhc8" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sS-9Qrnfhc8 |
Posted By: PrognosticMind
Date Posted: September 20 2014 at 09:22
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Doesn't Steve Howe use a lot of sitar in the studio? What's going on right before the first verse of Close to The Edge kicks in? I could just be mis-hearing steel lap. ------------- "A squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous. Got me?" |
Posted By: addictedtoprog
Date Posted: September 20 2014 at 10:11
Maybe/may not be... |
Posted By: zravkapt
Date Posted: September 20 2014 at 10:27
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Howe uses electric sitar quite a bit on both CTTE and Relayer.
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Posted By: Gerinski
Date Posted: September 20 2014 at 10:28
Yes, well he never played the real sitar but the Coral Electric Sitar which was a pseudo-sitar-like sounding 6-string guitar, at 26m20s here |
Posted By: Gerinski
Date Posted: September 20 2014 at 10:29
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Le Orme's Aldo Tagliapietra did play the real sitar |
Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: September 20 2014 at 11:34
On Dzyan's album Electric Silence, Eddy Marron plays some tastefull, and atmospheric sitar.
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Posted By: RoeDent
Date Posted: September 21 2014 at 08:04
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The only two prog songs I know of that feature the sitar are Home by Dream Theater, and Don of the Universe by The Flower Kings. |
Posted By: Dayvenkirq
Date Posted: September 21 2014 at 08:26
| Denny Dias played electric sitar on Steely Dan's "Do It Again". Not 100% sure if that counts. |
Posted By: Argonaught
Date Posted: September 21 2014 at 10:04
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Mr. George Harrison put his sitar to good use in the 1960s and '70s, and since we consider the post-1966 Beatles to be "proto-prog" ... here are two vids from Sgt. Pepper: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqXmBy1_qOQ
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Posted By: PrognosticMind
Date Posted: September 21 2014 at 10:31
Thank you, sir!
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Posted By: kenethlevine
Date Posted: September 21 2014 at 22:13
| Richard Hudson played sitar on several STRAWBS songs - "Canon Dale", "Is it Today Lord", and "Lady Fuschia" all come to mind. I think he played it on some Hudson-Ford albums too |
Posted By: Rick Robson
Date Posted: September 22 2014 at 17:31
There is another nifty Le Orme's song that features a beautiful Sitar sound:
Calipso (album Florian) -------------  "Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy." LvB |
Posted By: darkshade
Date Posted: September 22 2014 at 20:33
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Dream Theater used Sitar on Home from "Scenes From A Memory" Also, check out Miles Davis "Big Fun" for more jazz-rock/fusion with sitar. Can't of anything else off the top of my head. Maybe Ozric Tentacles but I'd have to check. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/MysticBoogy" rel="nofollow - My Last.fm 
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Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: September 23 2014 at 00:47
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Andre Fertier's Clivage features plenty of amazing sitarplaying. Check out: Regina Astris and Mixtus Orbis Ananda Shankar is a sitarplaying progger from India. I reccomend Ananda Shankar and His Music, Sá-re-gá Machàn + 2001 are the best in that Popol Vuh featured a sitarplayer in 1977-1979: Nosferatu (On the Way to a Little Way), Herz aus Glas Deuter - D + Aum Kanguru - Dreaming Okko - Sitar & Electronics The oriental jazz fusion of Oregon, Codona and Vasant Rai all features sitarguy Colin Walcott.
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Posted By: Rick Robson
Date Posted: September 24 2014 at 17:20
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The Moody Blues feature some sugestive sitar playing in the superb track Visions Of Paradise, and in the CD2 of the 2006 Remaster of the album In Search Of The Lost Chord there is an instrumental version of this song that is formidable, it really enhances the song's atmosphere with those sitar sounds playing around. ------------- "Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy." LvB |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: September 24 2014 at 19:11
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Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: September 24 2014 at 19:12
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Sorry, not all prog but from this Wikipedia page. Lots of prog listed though http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raga_rock" rel="nofollow - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raga_rock |
Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: September 24 2014 at 19:15
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Not really prog, but not really anything else, either. Wonderwall Music by George Harrison. Not really proggy but a lot of sitar-ie.
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Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: September 24 2014 at 19:24
A song I just got finished listening to - "Astarte" by the Danish group Secret Oyster  ------------- My other avatar is a Porsche It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. -Kehlog Albran |
Posted By: Chris S
Date Posted: September 24 2014 at 22:05
Excellent reference. I would also strongly recommend A Handful Of beauty and Natural Elements by Shakti and John Mcclaughlin ------------- ...As I venture through the slipstream, between the viaducts in your dreams...[/COLOR] |
Posted By: Rick Robson
Date Posted: September 27 2014 at 17:04
More:
Le Orme - Fine Di Un Viaggio_E Ricorda Che... Domani (album Florian)
Le Orme - Il Treno (album Piccola Rapsodia Dell'Ape) ------------- "Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy." LvB |
Posted By: Hercules
Date Posted: September 27 2014 at 18:49
I think from memory (without digging through my complete collection of Strawbs/Hudson Ford albums) that he also played it on Fingertips from Antiques and Curios and Shepherd Song from Witchwood. He certainly did use it on Nickelodeon but on which tracks, I'm not sure. Strawbs really were (and still are) a marvellous band. I saw the electric line up on a dreadfully windy night in York when they played to just 50 people (most couldn't get there die to travel problems) and they were fantastic. Despite the tiny crowd, they put everything into the gig. ------------- A TVR is not a car. It's a way of life. |
Posted By: kenethlevine
Date Posted: September 28 2014 at 08:44
Hey Tony! I think you might be right about Fingertips. I do remember dulcimer on it. And definitely excellent sitar on "The Shepherd's Song", one of their first tracks with mellotron and moog. It seems to me that there was a song called "Angels" on the first Hudson Ford album that was sitar-rich. There may have been others. I don't think Hud played any sitar on either the "Don't Say Goodbye" or "Ringing Down the Years" STRAWBS albums in which he played in the late 1980s/early 1990s.
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Posted By: Prog_Traveller
Date Posted: September 28 2014 at 11:37
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Family- Face in the cloud https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--BtEE2f9Ck |
Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: September 28 2014 at 18:47
| Just find this brilliant psychedelic rock song: http://theactivelistener.bandcamp.com/track/eyes-and-mind" rel="nofollow - Eyes and Mind by http://soundcloud.com/ripeminded" rel="nofollow - Ripe . |
Posted By: dr prog
Date Posted: October 01 2014 at 17:14
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Midway-abacus ------------- All I like is prog related bands beginning late 60's/early 70's. Their music from 1968 - 83 has the composition and sound which will never be beaten. Perfect blend of jazz, classical, folk and rock. |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: October 02 2014 at 05:49
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By "SITAR" do you mean an actual sitar or just something that sounds like a sitar?...
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Posted By: Rick Robson
Date Posted: October 09 2014 at 23:17
Le Orme - El Gran Senser (album Florian) ------------- "Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy." LvB |
Posted By: AreYouHuman
Date Posted: October 16 2014 at 20:27
Incredible String Band, especially on their
classic early albums “The Hangman’s Beautiful Daughter” and “Liquid Acrobat as
Regards the Air”.
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Posted By: Rick Robson
Date Posted: October 18 2014 at 14:07
Le Orme - La Ruota Del Cielo (album L'infinito): I've been thinking this piece couldn't miss here, under any circumstances, for having the best sitar intro followed by such an amazing sitar melody! By the way Greinski is damn right, Le Orme's Aldo Tagliapietra DO play the real sitar !! ------------- "Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy." LvB |
Posted By: timothy leary
Date Posted: October 22 2014 at 20:01
| Siena Root.....Different Realities.........Shree |
Posted By: Rick Robson
Date Posted: November 01 2014 at 20:31
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Here another pearl for who enjoys a nifty sitar solo playing: Le Orme - Dove Tutto È (Elementi) Aldo Tagliapietra is at his best! ------------- "Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy." LvB |
Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: November 01 2014 at 21:07
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Steve Hillage http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7PpFnU8ZlE" rel="nofollow - Om Namah Shivaya from L (1976) |
Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: November 02 2014 at 03:51
| Samsara Blues Experiment http://samsarabluesexperiment.bandcamp.com/track/singata-mystic-queen-acoustic" rel="nofollow - Singata Mystic Queen from Rarities EP (Oct.2014) |
Posted By: Argonaught
Date Posted: November 02 2014 at 05:52
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How about Ayisha by Cheiro De Vida; here starting @27:10 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTclTqKFN7I
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Posted By: kenethlevine
Date Posted: November 02 2014 at 16:30
yes that track from Infinito is awesome. I knew about it but couldn't remember which album, and also didn't know if it was real sitar
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Posted By: A Person
Date Posted: November 02 2014 at 16:50
| King Crimson is famous for their sitar. |
Posted By: Rick Robson
Date Posted: November 02 2014 at 18:55
This album has been growing on me everytime I listen to it! ------------- "Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy." LvB |
Posted By: kenethlevine
Date Posted: November 02 2014 at 22:10
oh it's Madre Mia from Il Fiume I was thinking of...sounds like sitar too. What a beautiful song
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Posted By: Rick Robson
Date Posted: November 03 2014 at 17:08
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^Yeahh Madre Mia is amazing too, well recalled by Gerinski on this thread with that superb YouTube video. In my opinion Il Fiume is an album a bit underrated, fairly a bunch of great moments there. ------------- "Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy." LvB |
Posted By: kenethlevine
Date Posted: November 03 2014 at 19:48
| oh I missed Gerinski's video reference. I had seen that video performer. Great performance by the whole band at that Progfest. I really enjoyed the trilogy of comeback albums but have not given the latest one (lacking Aldo) much chance. |
Posted By: Intruder
Date Posted: November 03 2014 at 20:00
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Sweet Smoke's Darkness to Light is a good album with sitar all over it. I think Oregon is on PA; if not, Oregon and Colin Walcott are highly recommended. Is Amanda Shankar on PA? Great database we have here, but, man, it has really grown over the years. Can't keep up! ------------- I like to feel the suspense when you're certain you know I am there..... |