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Points: 1155 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 19 2008 at 22:49
Miasma & The Carouself of Headless Horses- darkly upbeat avant-folk rock, their album sounds as if they're trying to scare you, but laughing while doing it. lots of acoustic instruments like pianos and violins mixed with typical rock instrumentation. avant garde but still fairly accessible.
 
Giant Squid-not quite sure just how obscure they are, but I don't see them mentioned too much around here. They play an experimental sort of post-metal
 
The Ocean-also known as The Ocean Collective, atmospheric doomy post-metal. Again,not sure how obscure they were but I was the first one to review their latest album,so I assume there's some level of obscurity.
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Rocket Scientists (awesome modern symphonic band, not that obscure but still want to give them a shout out)
Amagrama (modern symphonic)
Izz (to some degree symphonic but with other elements as well)
Gordian Knot (I have no idea how obscure they are, but they're awesome, especially their self-titled album. They play instrumental progressive rock that crosses into prog metal but always in a tasteful way, very influenced by latter day King Crimson)

Also Magic Pie and Knight Area are two more obscure modern symphonic bands, but I'm not hugely into them.
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Points: 2755 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 22 2008 at 20:41
Obscure ones that I am fond of.....
 
Seven Reizh (absolutely amazing symphonic prog)
Will O The Wisp (much more on the psych/spacerock side)
Rane (really more prog related and not even a part of the site.)
 
I see King Crimson mentioned Amagramma.  They'd have been fourth or fifth on my list.


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Points: 3577 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 23 2008 at 07:47
Originally posted by Dick Heath Dick Heath wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

One of the more recent additions to Crossover, dating back to 1972: Capability Brown - a relic of the era where the distinction between Prog and Pop was still being defined and people were more open to those crossovers. Released on Tony Stratton-Smith's famous Charisma label, Capability Brown were one of the forgotten bands that were overshadowed by Charisma's more popular artists that, like Rare Bird and Audience, have only been re-discovered as their long-deleted back catalogues have become available on CD. The album Voice is a classic example - one side is a collection of short songs reminicent of their debut album, while the flip-side is a 20 minute symphonic epic that would have been hailed masterpiece if they had followed that direction instead of vanishing into obscurity.
 
Good call - specialised in close harmony: seem to remember some rock journalists comparing them with the Hollies..... although some of their close harmonies on the shorter songs were closer to what The Sweet did a few years later.  I have Voice, but ex.radio LP copy scratched to hell, so alas my fav,  Keep Death Off Road, Drive On The Pavement skips badly. Also have the Charisma issued CB album on the 99p cheapo label.  Glad to hear they've got CD issues.

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A really good band Capabillity Brown are one of the BEST prog rock band that i ever heard and only for the epic 20 minutes circumstances, that song summarirez well my almost ideal epic.



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Points: 3577 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 23 2008 at 08:00
Here's a really obscure prog band:
Robert Connolly_ Plateau 1978 Canada.




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A band I really like are the Deep Freeze Mice. They didn't make it into the archives, but I don't give a damn about that. And album titles like "Teenage Head in My Refrigerator", "My Geraniums Are Bulletproof" or "Rain Is when the Earth is Television" can hardly be beaten.


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Here a very rare LP that I sell :
 
ZARTONG LP armenian folk prog
 
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