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    Posted: September 23 2019 at 16:25
LENNY WHITE's "Prince of the Sea" from his incredible 1975 album Venusian Summer is certainly one (the album has only 37 ratings and 7 reviews here on PA).

"Poisoned Youth" from ENGLAND's 1977 album Garden Shed is another.

"Huascaran I" from FERMATA's 1977 album Huascaran also qualifies.

I've also become quite a fan of the three epics on Gilli Smyth's MOTHER GONG Fairy Tales--especially "Wassilissa"--great music to accompany Gilli's excellent storytelling. (Thanks BaldJean!)


As for an epic that comes specifically from the RPI sub-genre, I'd have to promote the two side-long epics from LA COSCIENZA DI ZENO's 2015 masterpiece, La notte anche di giorno:  "Madre Antica" and "Giovane Figlia"
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"Sunrise" by the German band Sahara. this 27 minutes epic is the title track on their 1974 album. here a nice live version from 2013 that I found yesterday:


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I don't know about "best," but I was impressed with this song off Duncan Mackay's debut album. Something I bought a couple months ago but only got around to listening to this last weekend.
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Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

yeah sympho prog really isnt my thing... I mean real symphonic prog.. not what this site calls it in large parts which in large part still reflects big groups and the whole 'classic prog = sympho prog' as groups like ELP and Yes were not symphonic... and much of what passes for symphonic simply bores the holy sh*t out of me.... but would put Hamburger Concerto right up there as the best that particular cliche ridden and overcooked branch of prog has to offer.


Yeah, the term symphonic prog tends to insinuate a full orchestra or something but the term was developed simply to characterize the branch of prog that used keyboards as the dominate instrument and used classical song structures as the basis therefore bands like Yes, ELP, Camel and Genesis clearly fit in. Some of the RPI bands are much more symphonic though.

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By "Classic" I mean ELP, Yes, Genesis etc... There is some bands who imitated them but creating their own sound at the same time and to find these pearls is the meaning of this topic.
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yeah sympho prog really isnt my thing... I mean real symphonic prog.. not what this site calls it in large parts which in large part still reflects big groups and the whole 'classic prog = sympho prog' as groups like ELP and Yes were not symphonic... and much of what passes for symphonic simply bores the holy sh*t out of me.... but would put Hamburger Concerto right up there as the best that particular cliche ridden and overcooked branch of prog has to offer.
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Originally posted by micky micky wrote:





I bought this album ... STRICTLY for the cover and had to get a 2nd one so I could put the cover on the wall. next to it? FLASH's first album, of course.

But CB has always been one of my favorite things to play, and if you can handle their first album, it has a magnificent version of LIAR ... I prefer it to 3DOGHAIRS's version!

I wanted to add to this list ... but I am not clear as to what the thread really wants ... and thus I have kept myself away from it, but there would be a lot of things I would love to post here, and the two I really like are from FOCUS ... Eruption and then the Hamburger Concerto ... and to give you an idea of how much HC is appreciated, even Rachel Flowers played with an international bunch of folks to do a complete HC ... and just recently I heard some Italian singer doing FOCUS ... and my ohhhh my .... not progressive, but man, is it ever good! Somewhere, both Thijs and Jan are looking in the mirror and going ... wow ... !!!
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hard to call much of anything 'unknown' too many have fully delved into the obscure and less well known... but  I'd toss this off as one that has blown the socks off of those who haven't really explored deeply... on hearing for the first time..
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"Crisalida" and "Libre y Natural" by the argentinian band Espiritu, two concept albums from start to finish.
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Par Lindh Project - Mundus Incompertus
26 minutes of symph joy
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Originally posted by xhouse xhouse wrote:

The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner, Chapter One, Part Three-Hostsonaten
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Il Gioco Scuro-Abiogenesi
A very, very good option.
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That one that's sitting in an ex-member of PFM's house in the attic. It will blow away everything ever recorded but has indubitably suffered from a few cases of wine not surviving the earthquake in Palermo.

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There's those Yes guys. I think they're from Britain. They played some long songs back in the 70s If I remember correctly. 
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The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner, Chapter One, Part Three-Hostsonaten
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Saens is labelled as neo-prog here, yet I can argue they are closer to symphonic prog.
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I'll go with the Swedish Bjorn J:Son's Lindh's "Musik frĺn en storstad":



By the way, I love lots of French and Italian Prog. I guess Ange is unknown with the general public, but I thought well-known in Prog circles (as is Maneige).

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Think he meant Symphonic or RPI...maybe.
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Nevermind. I get it now. You did say or so I guess you want one or the other.

Anyway, I can't really think of anything. I'm a big fan of Banco's "di terra"album but that's not unknown. There aren't really any epic tracks(as in long)on there anyway. 


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