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Magnum Vaeltaja 
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 Topic: Prog with odd instrumentationPosted: January 09 2016 at 18:33 |
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I'm in the mood to venture away from the guitar-bass-drum-keyboard-vocal lineup that most prog bands use. Does anyone have any recommendations for prog bands/albums/songs that prominently use obscure or unusual instruments? The less conventional, the better.
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when i was a kid a doller was worth ten dollers - now a doller couldnt even buy you fifty cents
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infocat
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Posted: January 09 2016 at 19:08 |
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Univers Zero?
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Magnum Vaeltaja
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Posted: January 09 2016 at 19:19 |
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Sounds like an eclectic lineup. I may check them out. Where would you recommend I start with them?
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when i was a kid a doller was worth ten dollers - now a doller couldnt even buy you fifty cents
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HackettFan
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Posted: January 09 2016 at 19:27 |
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^My favorite is Heresie
Univers Zero is very much what you want. Also, I'm thinking of Frank Zappa's precious improv with Jean Luc Ponty, which combines baritone violin with bouzouki, but it's the last track in the Shut Up 'N' Play Yer Guitar box set filled with lots of conventional guitar-base-drums. Nevertheless, give it a listen: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fmN9MR0l75k The Jade Warrior song Lost Boys off the album, Now, has John Field playing some sort of exotic flute. I can't really discern whether it is a Native American flute or of the Japanese bamboo variety, but very cool. John Field also plays a lot exotic percussion in general throughout many of the Jade Warrior albums. Edited by HackettFan - January 10 2016 at 00:28 |
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Nogbad_The_Bad
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Posted: January 09 2016 at 19:38 |
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Ceux Du Dehors is their masterpiece.
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Nogbad_The_Bad
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Posted: January 09 2016 at 19:44 |
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Knifeworld - it has bassoon
Thinking Plague - guitar, bass, drums, oboe Aranis - Accordion, Double Bass, Flute, Guitar, Violin VDGG - Keys, Drums, Double Sax, Guitar Tangerine Dream - lots of synchs Alec K Redfearn & The Eyesores - Accordion, French Horn, Double Bass, Guitar, Drums |
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Ian
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HackettFan
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Posted: January 09 2016 at 20:13 |
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ClemofNazareth
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Posted: January 09 2016 at 22:27 |
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In Spe uses a typewriter on their appropriately named 'Typewriter Concerto' album.
Tyrannosaurus Rex has a Pixiephone (toy gramophone) on 'Unicorn'. Verdun employs several traditional Vietnamese acoustic instruments on their only album. Adaro features the hurdy-gurdy prominently on all their records. Fractal has quite a bit of Chinese violin (Erhu) on several of their songs. I have one of these, they're fun to play. Gjallarhorn use a bunch of traditional Nordic and aboriginal instruments. And I think Faun even makes some of their own instruments. |
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siLLy puPPy
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Posted: January 09 2016 at 23:50 |
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Sleepytime Gorilla Museum uses home made instruments.
Codona (and other raga rock) used many indigenous instruments from around the world Mr. Bungle used everything they could find Unexpect was fairly adventurous with violins for an extreme metal band Zaar uses a hurdy gurdy on their one album that's just a few off the top my head but really progressive rock is a genre of music and that means music usually has characteristics that put it here for crazy music that has different instruments usually falls into the experimental rock category |
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sublime220
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Posted: January 10 2016 at 01:41 |
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For UZ, start with Uzed. It's their most accessible and then dive straight into Ceux and Heresie like Nogbad and HackettFan mentioned for their best. Clivages and Heatwave are awesome too.
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There is no dark side in the moon, really... Matter of fact, it's all dark...
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Mascodagama
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Posted: January 10 2016 at 05:47 |
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Check out the run of four albums put out by Jade Warrior on Island Records between 1974 and 1978: Floating World, Waves, Kites and Way of the Sun. Here you'll find all forms of flutes, every kind of Western, Asian and African percussion you can think of, harps, massed choirs and occasionally sax, brass and violins. Not to mention occasional storming electric guitar interjections from Tony Duhig. The music is other-worldly, kind of New Age / World Music before those categories really existed. But it's absorbing. Personally I would start with Kites or Floating World.
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Mascodagama
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Posted: January 10 2016 at 06:08 |
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If you're open to some jazz-rock with Canterbury and Zappa influences, the album Schnörgl Attahk by Camembert is great fun:
No keyboards here, but a myriad of colours from tenor and bass trombones, trumpet, tuba, didgeridoo, whistle, harp, xybraphone, and all sorts of percussion instruments mean that they aren't missed. Guillaume Gravelin really rocks his harp on this one. New album this year, allegedly. Edited by Mascodagama - January 10 2016 at 06:09 |
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Mascodagama
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Posted: January 10 2016 at 06:24 |
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I would also suggest checking out Ut Gret, starting with their recent album Ancestors' Tale:
There's a smorgasbord of reed instruments on show here, including the mighty contra-bassoon, as well as flute, violin, vibes and marimba. Excellent album and easy to get into - they are categorised as RIO/avant here, but this is definitely at the user-friendly end of that spectrum. Previous album Radical Symmetry adds sitar, cello and bouzouki. The triple CD compilation of earlier, more experimental work Recent Fossils has everything but the kitchen sink, including prominent use of home-made gamelan instruments. Edited by Mascodagama - January 10 2016 at 07:17 |
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Mascodagama
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Posted: January 10 2016 at 06:33 |
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For something closer to home, but further 'out', try Blituri from Montreal:
Instruments employed are clarinet, bass clarinet, oboe, alto and soprano sax, guitar, bass, synthesizer, vibraphone, French horn, drums and percussion. This is avant-garde chamber rock, but excellent if that's within your bag.
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Raff
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Posted: January 10 2016 at 06:47 |
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A resounding  for your mention of the sublime Ut Gret - not just fantastic musicians, but a delightful bunch of people. A couple more personal faves with idiosyncratic instrumentation (which I have grown to prefer to the traditional one): Jack O'The Clock (hammer dulcimer and bassoon!) and Ręve Général (strings with guitar and drums). Bandcamp links below for your listening pleasure: https://jackotheclock.bandcamp.com/ https://altrockproductions.bandcamp.com/album/howl Edited by Raff - January 10 2016 at 06:47 |
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Mascodagama
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Yeah - in that vein, and really outside the ambit of prog and well into the realms of the experimental / unlistenable, here's a bit from ZGA of Riga: As I understand it they build all their own instruments from stuff they find in scrapyards.
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Icarium
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Posted: January 10 2016 at 07:10 |
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Gentle Giant with the shubbury, and other instruments are a good contnder, early Supertramp use balalaika or someting
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Nogbad_The_Bad
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Posted: January 10 2016 at 08:09 |
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All great suggestions, highly recommended. If you like World music then Dirk Mont Campbell has releases two albums, Music From a Walled Garden & Music From a Round Tower. Walled Garden features a lot of unusual instrumentation including flutes, reeds, shawms, lutes, primitive trumpets, animal horns, bagpipes and percussion. Cello and piano make the occasional appearance along with Baroque violin and Irish flute, West African harp (kora) and east African lyre (nyatiti)*
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Ian
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Icarium
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Posted: January 10 2016 at 08:10 |
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Jaga Jazzist,
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siLLy puPPy
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Posted: January 10 2016 at 12:37 |
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That ZGA is pretty wild! I would also recommend Roz Vitalis which i am reviewing at the moment. The current album for exampel that i'm writing a review for "Patience Of Hope" has not only the standard instruments but has lots of flutes, harp, metallophone, gusli, cello, clarinets, bassoon, flugelhorn and sax all rolled into a free flowing pleasantry
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