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Posted: January 12 2012 at 04:58

Mahavishnu Orchestra The Inner Mounting Flame album cover

Mahavishnu Orchestra Birds of Fire album cover

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Posted: January 12 2012 at 06:03

Anything by Secrets Chiefs 3. Buy it. NOW

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Posted: January 12 2012 at 08:32

Panorama-Hans Glawischnig

Japanese Melodies For Flute and Harp-Sakura-Rampal-Laskine

Crossroads-Hemispheres

Mysterious Traveller-Weather Report
Far Corner
Nosferatu-Popol Vuh

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Posted: January 12 2012 at 08:46

wow so many artists/albums i never heard, oh dear in addition to recoemmending i probably have to check out quite a few here!!!

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Posted: January 16 2012 at 14:20

Both Anglagard albums are probably my favorite instrumental albums.

Also, the new 19A.D.D. album, Gaia, is really really solid.

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Posted: January 16 2012 at 15:03

Prog metal:

Exivious (ST)
Dysrhythmia - Pretest
Gordian Knot (ST)
1980 (ST)
Canvas Solaris - Cortical Techtonics

Zeuhl/Avant:

Bondage Fruit IV and VI
Happy Family - Tossco
Korekyojinn - Jackson
Universe Zero - Uzed
NeBeLNeST - Nova Express

Heavy Prog:

Fantasmagoria - Day and Night

Fusion:
Hiromi Uehera's Sonic Bloom - Time Control
Any of the aforementioned Mahavishnu or RTF titles.
Bela Flek and the Flektones - UFO TOFU
Michael Manring - Thonk

RPI:
Banco del Mutuo Soccorso - Di Terra
Goblin - Suspiria soundtrack

Not in the archives:
Michael Hedges - Aerial Boundaries

Many, many more. But these are my highest recommendations. Most have listenable samples on Youtube.

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Posted: January 16 2012 at 17:48

Tapfret wrote:

Prog metal:
Dysrhythmia - Pretest

I think Barriers And Passages and Psychic Maps are way better than Pretest.

Way better.

New album!
http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385

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Posted: January 16 2012 at 18:16

^B&P did absolutely nothing for me. The songs didn't have the character of their early material and just seemed to be dissonant for the sake of dissonance. I lost interest enough that I never even listened to PM.

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Posted: January 16 2012 at 19:08

Smurph wrote:

Both Anglagard albums are probably my favorite instrumental albums.

Also, the new 19A.D.D. album, Gaia, is really really solid.

But Hybris isn't an instrumental album. Granted it has a great amount of instrumental passages and not so long vocal passages, but still, only the first song is purely instrumental.

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Posted: January 17 2012 at 10:28

I tend to ignore all those vocals on that album so I forget haha.

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Posted: January 17 2012 at 18:03

Perhaps the fact that those lyrics are in swedish and you don't understand one bit of them (I'm guessing here) helps quiet a bit to ignore them???

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Posted: January 19 2012 at 12:40

I may be forgetting some great stuff, but here's 10 instrumental albums that I keep reaching for:

Exivious - Exivious
Gordian Knot - Gordian Knot
Gordian Knot - Emergent
Hiromi's Sonicbloom - Time Control
Jim Matheos - Away With Words
On the Virg - Serious Young Insects
Planet X - MoonBabies
Planet X - Quantum
Steve Stevens - Flamenco.A.Go.Go (just a little bit of vocals)
Trey Gunn - The Joy of Molybdenum

Also, you might want to check out my own band's album! Big smile

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Posted: January 19 2012 at 12:56

I would recommend Lebowski's Cinematique as a good recent instrumental album.

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Posted: January 19 2012 at 13:21

Kyo wrote:

Also, you might want to check out my own band's album! Big smile

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I am checking it out now. Smile

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Posted: January 19 2012 at 18:08

Kyo wrote:

I may be forgetting some great stuff, but here's 10 instrumental albums that I keep reaching for:

Gordian Knot - Gordian Knot
Gordian Knot - Emergent
Trey Gunn - The Joy of Molybdenum

Those three will always be in my top 10 instrumental albums, excellent stuff Clap

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Posted: January 20 2012 at 07:16

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Kyo wrote:

Also, you might want to check out my own band's album! Big smile

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I am checking it out now. Smile

Cool! Let us know what you think! Smile

Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

Those three will always be in my top 10 instrumental albums, excellent stuff Clap

Gotta love that Chapman Stick and Warr Guitar sound. Big smile

By the way, I just discovered this amazing band from Hungary - Special Providence:

Great, great stuff!

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Posted: January 20 2012 at 07:26

Trey Gunn - Live Encounter, The Joy of Molybedenum

Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of Fire, Between Nothingness and Eternity, Apocalypse

Return to Forver - Romantic Warrior

Jean Luc Ponty - Imaginary Voyage, Enigmatic Ocean

Allan Holdsworth - Atavachron, Sand

Bruford - One of a Kind, Feels Good to Me

Gordian Knot - Gordian Knot, Emergent

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Posted: January 21 2012 at 22:37

tszirmay wrote:

BAINBRIDGE, Dave...

DiMEOLA, Al...

PHILLIPS, Anthony...

TAAL

You get my "and I second that motion" for the four mentioned above...

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Posted: January 22 2012 at 06:42

"Electric Silence" by Dzyan

A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta

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Posted: January 22 2012 at 07:56

BaldJean wrote:

"Electric Silence" by Dzyan

Nice pick, great album.

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