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stegor 
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 Posted: April 14 2021 at 11:29 |
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Banco - Di Terra Camel - The Snow Goose Jack Lancaster & Robin Lumley - Marscape (Basically Brand X) My 3 favorites
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Nogbad_The_Bad
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Posted: April 14 2021 at 11:47 |
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Guapo - 5 Suns
Henry Cow - Western Culture |
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Awesoreno
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Posted: April 14 2021 at 14:15 |
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I second Snarky Puppy! And check out Max Ox. They groove like no other.
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dr wu23
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Posted: April 14 2021 at 14:32 |
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Mahavishnu Orchestra -1 and 2
Return To Forever- Hymn of the 7th Galaxy Jeff Beck -Blow and Wired Ain Soph -Hat and Field Kenso-II Pat Metheny- Group 1978, Off Ramp, Secret Story, etc John Abercrombie- Gateway, Rypdal, Vitous, Dejohnette- To Be Continued Wakeman- 6 Wives Bruford- Feels Good and One of a Kind Edited by dr wu23 - April 14 2021 at 14:33 |
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AFlowerKingCrimson
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Posted: April 14 2021 at 15:22 |
Those Banco and Camel albums are among my all time favorites. I don't know the Lancaster and Lumley album though. Another one for me would be solar music live by Grobschnitt.
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dwill123
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Posted: April 14 2021 at 15:53 |
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Billy Cobham - Stratus King Crimson - Level V Weather Report - Boogie Woogie Waltz
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miamiscot
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Posted: April 15 2021 at 08:24 |
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The new Rick Wakeman album - The Red Planet!!! But only because you people already mentioned Six Wives...
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Artik
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Posted: April 15 2021 at 08:39 |
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Be careful, some of it is "heavy artillery" :P Camel - Snowgoose Tangerine Dream - Zeit, Rubicon, Phaedra, Sorcerer, Tangram Rick Wakeman - Six wives Gryphon - Red Queen to Gryphon Three Klaus Schulze - Timewind, Mirage, Irrlicht Soft Machine - 4 Univers Zero - 1313, Ceux Du Dehors Nucleus - Solar Plexus Heldon - Stand By King Crimson - Thrakattak Mahavishnu Orchestra - Inner mounting flame Jean Michelle Jarre - Oxygene
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JD
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Posted: April 15 2021 at 08:45 |
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Tons of great suggestions here.
I'll add... Schicke & Führs & Fröhling - Symphonic Pictures Oh, and even though it's poorly rated here... Klaus Schuze - Miditerranean Pads I still really like it.
Edited by JD - April 15 2021 at 08:49 |
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Lewian
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Posted: April 15 2021 at 09:05 |
Great and far too unknown album. I had a look at my top albums list that I made a few years ago for a thread in PA. Actually there are four non-prog instrumental albums in my top 20, but only one prog, on rank 20, which is Tarentel - From Bone to Satellite A number of albums have some words, not sure whether "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts" by Eno & Byrne counts as instrumental. Also Art Zoyd often have a little bit of vocals. Häxan is their best as far as I'm concerned, but there's a bit of singing. Then there's Erna Morena by Association PC, which is rather a pretty free jazz album (and very exciting at that), and that's the "instrumental listed on PA" category exhausted in my top 50 (there are two further AZ both of which are not fully instrumental either). Although I love some Tangerine Dream, too; would also recommend Rubycon first, which I have listed on 53. One more addition: Jaga Jazzist - What We Must
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JD
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Posted: April 15 2021 at 11:05 |
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Another one that comes soooo close to being an instrumental album is Duncan Mackay - Score. Probably less than 2 minutes of vocals on a 40 minute album. So...Instrumental Adjacent.
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Posted: April 15 2021 at 11:35 |
This. And Bay of Kings by Hackett.
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Posted: April 15 2021 at 13:13 |
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There are surely many others that I like, but the first that comes to my mind (and perhaps not necessarily my favourite) is 6 Wives of Henry the VIII, by Rick Wakeman. Though Wakeman himself has many other albums that come close too. And then, there's Mike Oldfield, at least with his 70's album (plus Return to Ommadawn... and I guess Songs of Distant Earth).
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Posted: April 15 2021 at 17:35 |
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Finch " The Glory of Inner Force" & "Beyond EXpression", Gryphon "Red Queen...", Return to Forever "Romantic Warior", Camel "The Sonw Goose" etc...
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Posted: April 15 2021 at 18:26 |
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Pat Metheny - Bright Size Life
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Posted: April 16 2021 at 00:53 |
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I wanted to say Vangelis - Heaven and Hell but annoyingly that's ruled out by having Jon Anderson singing on part of it!
a few I really enjoy:
Tangerine Dream - Force Majeure , Tangram and Exit (their 'proggiest' and best albums imo) Far Corner - Risk Isobar - Isobar Elephant 9 - Psychedelic Backfire 1 and 2 All Traps On Earth - A Drop Of Light Stephen Caudel - Wine Dark Sea and Earth In Turquoise Vangelis - Beauborg and Albedo 0.39 (I'm not counting the title track as a 'song') Jean Michel Jarre - Rendezvous and Magnetic Fields Rick Wakeman - Airs Piano Trilogy and Six Wives Mike Oldfield - Hergest Ridge ( presumably Ommadawn is ruled out by the 'Horse Song'?) Tomita - Pictures At An Exhibition Camel - The Snow Goose Steve Hackett - A Midsummer Nights Dream Mark Isham - Vapor Drawings Claire Hammill - Voices (I think this counts as she only uses her voice as an instrument and there is nothing else on the album!) Edited by richardh - April 16 2021 at 00:55 |
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dr wu23
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Posted: April 16 2021 at 08:58 |
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Artik (and maryes) mentioned Gryphon- 'Red Queen To Gryphon Three'.....great choice and one of my all time favorite instrumental prog things.
 Edited by dr wu23 - April 16 2021 at 08:59 |
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SteveG
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Posted: April 16 2021 at 10:59 |
 Similar in tone to the Snow Goose by Camel, but all acoustic. Even the bass.
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Posted: April 16 2021 at 13:46 |
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I love instrumental music, so I have many suggestions for you guys!
 In bold, lesser known gems. Do you know them?
Have a nice day!  Edited by projeKct - April 16 2021 at 13:56 |
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Posted: April 16 2021 at 13:50 |
Yes, yes, yes!! beautiful lp!!
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