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KBB from Japan. Excellent band.
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King Crimson's Red (album).

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High Tide - Simon House drives those records with some very unique and very noisy violin... he's a good few decibels lower with Hawkwind......
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There are two I can think of.  For prog-jazz, try Michael Urbaniak, arguably the best jazz violinist ever.  His album, Atma, is a good place to start.  Also, After Crying is an instrumental prog band that features cello, violin, trumpet and piano.  Their album Megalozottak is excellent.
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Gentle Giant! But only in their first four albums
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Dixie Dregs. Plenty of violin on all of their albums. The interplay between violin and guitar on much of their work is terrific.
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This entire album is string driven for the most part, and it's absolutely free.
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Originally posted by Ivan_Melgar_M Ivan_Melgar_M wrote:



Hard Rock and Prog in a perfect balance with the violin assuming the lead role along with keyboards.

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I agree with Ivan but any of these albums would fit the bill:










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The David Cross era of King Crimson has violin (ofcourse), but it is more like part of the sound than a leading instrument. Perhaps on some songs it has a more important role. I particularly like the live version of Starless, where the violin takes the main theme of the first part of the song (I feel that theme was made for being played with violin instead of guitar).
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Hard Rock and Prog in a perfect balance with the violin assuming the lead role along with keyboards.

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Does anybody have any recs for violin-driven prog?  I'm thinking of more in a rock than an overly symphonic setting.
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