How about this new prog rock?

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.

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 !!

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

And I can recommend, apart from already mentionned bands:

Taal (France)

4/3 De Trio (France)

Grand Stand (Sweden)

Akacia (USA)

Aside Beside (France)

Cafeine (France)

Cast (Mexico)

Deus Ex Machina (Italy)

Ensemble Nimbus (Sweden)

Floating State (Italy)

Hamadryad (Canada)

Ken's Novel (Belgium)

Kopecky (USA)

Kotebel (Spain)

Krakatoa (USA)

Kvazar (Norway)

Moongarden (Italy)

Par Lindh Project (Sweden)

Parallel Mind (USA)

Quaser (Japan)

RC2 (Venezuela)

Spaced Out (Canada)

Talisma (Canada)

Tempano (Venezuela)

Trespass (Israel)

Visible Wind (Canada)

XII Alfonso (France)

For those who want to expand their knowledge of this particular field you can do the following using PA.

Go to Switch Index in the main page and click on it until you see:

then you'll arrive here:

http://www.progarchives.com/top-prog-albums.asp

here you can choose to filter the list by subgenre.

Pick the Symphonic prog here:

http://www.progarchives.com/top-prog-albums.asp?style_id=4

A page will be open with the 100 highest rated symphonic albums.

Then you can filter it by year with the scroll down menu to the right of the subgenres menu.

This is for example the list for 2005:

http://www.progarchives.com/top-prog-albums.asp?style_id=4&a mp;a mp;year=2005

You will see in the years 2000-2006 the majority of the albums discussed above.

A good way to start investigating bands. And when you get to know something and love it please come back here - How about this new prog rock? and here - I Recommend... and tell the rest of us about it, and publish a review.

I own a Progfest video featuring Ars Nova, Solaris and .. White Willow, great vintage keyboard drenched progrock!

I would like to thank everybody for again joining this thread and good to notice that the new Italian progrock is so appreciated !

Chamberry, I will check out Menayeri + Asi somos !

Saludos, ciao, ayo, bey, salut, tot ziens ....  !

I really like White Willow, Anekdoten and Echolyn.

Bands /artists that are likely to get a promotion in my test-taste laboratory: Salem Hill, Tim Morse, Neal Morse (no relation I suppose) and Moon Safari.

Haven't heard music of a lot of bands mentioned.

PA has become my main source for prog. It used to be iO-Pages (Dutch prog magazine), but PA is interactive and helps me more in finding new music, these days.