Kashmir?
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Topic: Kashmir?
Posted By: Time Signature
Subject: Kashmir?
Date Posted: December 19 2007 at 08:18
Would the Danish rock band Kashmir be worth including in the PA? While they're certainly alt rock, I don't know if they're prog or prog-related? What do you guys think?
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: December 19 2007 at 12:15
I hadn't known them before seeing your post, so I checked out the band's myspace page ( http://www.myspace.com/kashmiryeah - http://www.myspace.com/kashmiryeah ) official website ( http://www.kashmir.dk/ - http://www.kashmir.dk/ ) wikipedia listing and reviews. Listening to it, I wouldn't have thought of it as Prog, though kind of progressive, more moody alternative rock. I have seen it mentioned as a band that makes progressive music, and read that it's been compared to Radiohead and Pink Floyd. I do hear a Radiohead similarity (not that I know Radiohead that well) as well as bands like the Cure and various alt. rock bands, and one person describes it as Radiohead meets Jars of Clay. David Bowie and Lou Reed have both done work for the band. Must be a big band, not just in Denmark, that I'd never heard of. Anyway, they are kind of related to some Progressive rock, just not sure how how distant or close the relation is (Radiohead related, I guess). As you say, definitely alt rock. In on review, I did read that "Their sound is a unique blend of progressive and pop rock..." They've toured with Foofighters.
Anyway, based on what I listened to, I don't really think so, but then of course I don't know the band well, and am not that up on alt. rock.. It doesn't sound right for Crossover to me, nor particularly related to Prog, but that's just my ignorant two cents simply intended to get the ball rolling more on this possibility.
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Posted By: Time Signature
Date Posted: January 09 2008 at 07:04
Yeah, I see your point. As with Mew, Kashmir are kind of progressive in relation to the national Danish music scene which is quite conservative and conformist. But to me, they seem more like an alt band with a few progressive tendencies. Perhaps they fall under the genre that was identified as progressive alt (or was in alt progressive) in Modern Drummer. Of course, this genre isn't included in PA.
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