How about this new prog rock?

Argentina: Can't wait to get hold of two Tanger's albums - it's going to happen by the end of this week. I heard their last before and it's very good - obviously influenced by KC, but no copy-cat, with lovely jazzy touches.

USA: Salem Hill - have two albums: BE (a bit poppish, but nice) and Mimi's Magic Moment - very good symphonic prog - much better and more complex than the previous one.

Presto Ballet - I gave their album away as present to my brother in law, this young lad is enjoying it no end, but I personally failed to find anything interesting in it.

Echolyn - great, have their Mey, Suffocating the Bloom, and As The World - wondefull - all of them

Glass Hammer - very good. Have only Shadowlands but look forward to get more of their works.

Can suggest very interesting band called Frogg Cafe - I have two of their albums (last one and one before last), and next week I'm getting their first to fulfill the collection.

Norway: Mikromidas - have two albums - not toobad, but not really excited

Flagship -  did not like their debut at all - too simple and naive

Magic Pie/Wobbler - on my wish list

Sweden: Anekdoten/Simon Says - are amongst favourites for comparatively long time already, although I have only one album by Simon Says (Paradise Square) - amazingly good.

Russia: Little Tragedies - I will get some by the end of this week, looking forward to receiving it.

Japan: Gerard/Ars Nova - same as with Anekdoted/SimonSays

Did you say Pig Farm On The Moon and Rain, Chamberry  ?

PIG FARM ON THE MOON Orbital
by erik neuteboom

This progrock band from Venezuela delivers very pleasant and alternating music on five compositions between 8 and 20 minutes, the running time from this CD is almost 70 minutes. We can enjoy lots of changing climates, accellarations, breaks and good soli on guitar (from sensitive to fiery) and keyboards (often bombastic). The instrumentation is varied (from Spanish guitar to classical orchestrations) so the style is, from folk and classical to psychedelic and metal. I notice traces from Pink Floyd, Genesis, King Crimson and Marillion but this band features such a varied progrock sound that this is not disturbing. CATEGORY: PLEASANT AND VARIED PROGROCK!

RAIN Cerulean Blue by erik neuteboom After reading the three previous, very positive reviews from this album on Prog Archives, I decided to order it because I felt that this should be something very special. YES, IT IS!! During the first session I was quickly touched by the breathtaking beauty of this CD, what an emotional experience: the one moment you feel fragile and alienated, the other moment you feel warm and safe, like in a whoom! All seven compositions (between 4 and 11 minutes) start with male narration (and often wailings violins), followed by atmospheric music, embellished with wonderful musical ideas: soaring keyboards, sensitive piano and dreamy vocals in “The lammas lands”, a Gaelic mood (female choir, strumming acoustic guitar and saxophone) and in the end a Floydian climate in “Parsifal”, some flamenco guitar runs, twanging guitars, bells and swelling drums in “Starcrossed”, compelling changing climates (from dreamy with soaring keyboards to bombastic in the vein of early Pink Floyd) in the highlight “The silver apples of the moon”, moving with a xylophone-like sound, ‘Jerusalem Pipes’, lush keyboards and dramatic vocals in “Jerusalem” and dark with melancholical vocals and wailing violins in “the titletrack, a bit sad end, an omen to the future of this earth? THIS IS PURE, MOVING AND VERY ORIGINAL PROGRESSIVE ROCK !!

Another good band that hasn't been mentioned is Pig Farm On The Moon from Venezuela.  I'ts very enjoyable even at first listen thanks to the catchy tunes that pop out every now and then (good strategy).

I like almost every band that I know from the list but they aren't much

Most of those bands are overlooked

I haven't heard their mp3s

Yes, they should get more attention

I haven't seen any band in any music store in Puerto Rico but I think I can order them from the internet

Yes, Progarchives is my main source for progressive rock saddly and some friends in chatrooms

Recommendations? Pig Farm On The Moon  and  Rain

erik neuteboom wrote: Memowakeman can you give a short description about Cabezas De Cera

Of course: It is a Trio , one member plays flute and wind intruments, another plays drums analogs and that kind of stuff and the other member plays string instruments basically Stick and guitars, Cabezas de Cera is a band which mixes various genres, its difficult to place them in one sub genre because here we can listen to some Space Progressive, some Folkish things and some Symphonic, its not that easy to dig them i think, but its a brilliant band.

Good to notice that you like my fellow Dutchmen Ayreon and Like Wendy, A'swepe  !

Good idea Avestin, I hope others will share this idea because there are sill so many progheads longing for new, good symphonic rock  !

Thanks again, fellow progheads, for me there is still so much interesting new progrock to explore when I look at your recommendations  !

I own three mp3 of UBI MAIOR:

1. Messia (9.19 mns)
2. Terra Madre (6.31 mns)
3. Vendetta (8.42)

Very good tracks!

So MUCH music out there!  Gotta check out some of them aforementioned acts! 

More to the point of this thread, indeed, lots of impressive bands need more exposure, and as to which of them I've heard of and/or highly : moderately enjoy would be Echolyn, Glass Hammer, Riverside, Bijou, Ayreon, Cabezas De Cera, Mind Sky, Pallas, PFM, Banco, Le Orme, Anekdoten, Liquid Scarlet, Riverside, and Indukti.   

I recently stumbled upon in my playlist (I get albums daily and upload them into my itunes list; too many one might say, to the point where I can't possibly listen to all coming in) a band called The Grand Silent System.  I'm not sure how to classify them, but I think - le sigh, labels - they'd fall under the Art-Rock category, and I think they're an Australian band...pretty decent song-orientated slightly world-music vibed stuff.  Fans of Dredg and other bands of their ilk (drawing a black at 4 in the morning U.S. Time) should look into them.

erik neuteboom wrote: Do you have recommendations?

Yep.

Malibran

Tom Carter

Distillieri di Malto

La Zona

Roberto Cacciapaglia

Permanent Fatal Error http://permanentfatalerror.free.fr/

Kinski http://www.kinski.net/

Earthling Society http://www.earthlingsociety.co.uk/

Six Organs of Admittance