Please recommend some instrumentals...
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Topic: Please recommend some instrumentals...
Posted By: Loftcolour
Subject: Please recommend some instrumentals...
Date Posted: December 04 2017 at 13:15
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I've realised that many of my favourite tracks have a lot in common: a complex, repetitive bass line and a wide-ranging or noodly melodic line (I'm not a musicologist so I don't know any better terms). Examples - the bit of Ommadawn with the African drums; the instrumental parts of several Genesis songs like The Cinema Show, In the Cage and Apocalypse in 9/8; Fanfare for the Common Man by ELP; and a couple of non-instrumentals: Sleep Together by Porcupine Tree; Kashmir by Led Zep. I imagine they're tough but fun to play, as the melody and bass lines almost seem to be pulling apart as much as playing together, and I think that that tension is what I love. (That said, I don't like jazz, and that includes the Mahavishnu Orchestra in my book.) Does that make sense, and does anyone have any similar tracks that you recommend? |
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Posted By: Larkstongue41
Date Posted: December 04 2017 at 13:30
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Lots of stuff I've been enjoying lately fits your description. There's something about a tight repetitive rhythm section that soothes my mind and facilitates concentration. I suggest looking into Krautrock and Post-Rock territory. I can't help but drop this here given your description (although radically different form the examples you mentioned):
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Posted By: Loftcolour
Date Posted: December 04 2017 at 14:02
| I love that! Simpler but really hypnotic. Thanks! |
Posted By: bertolino
Date Posted: December 04 2017 at 14:24
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Within the classic prog realms and as far as a good basslines is involved, i like the "space groove" of "Talking to the sun" and all songs following on the fourth vinyl side of "Live Herald", from Steve Hillage. This fourth side , while being on a live, are all studio recordings. You can find these songs in cd version on the album "Open". In that area, Gong's You have plenty to please too. I won't teach to anybody the groove value of Chris Squire of Yes, but if one doesn't know about his first solo album "Fish out of water", there's plenty of it, especially on the two longer pieces, both over ten minutes of musical marvel from a dreamcast of, notably, Bill Bruford, Patrick Moraz and Mel Collins to name a few. Taking a chance with jazz rock you may try David Sancious "As i thought" always a favorite this side of Mahavishnu; and i hope you don't deprive yourself of Stanley Clarke "Schooldays". ------------- 45 years of prog listening and still movin' |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: December 04 2017 at 14:31
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Posted By: dwill123
Date Posted: December 04 2017 at 16:37
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Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: December 04 2017 at 17:36
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Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: December 04 2017 at 17:42
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This one files under jazz rock, so chances are you may not like it, but I thought of it when I read your description - and it's spec-ta-cu-lar! |
Posted By: CosmicVibration
Date Posted: December 04 2017 at 18:34
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That piece from Association PC kicks ass! Nice…
Here’s an exceptional piece from Magma. |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: December 04 2017 at 21:40
| I'm not sure I fully understood what you are looking for, but it seems to me that Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun (live version) may just be it. There would be some more from early Floyd, like perhaps A Saucerful of Secrets and Remember a Day. I guess some other ELP could work too specially on Pictures at an exhibition, Toccata, The Barbarian. From Yes I can think of Birthright (actually that's from ABWH), Spirit of Survival, and Dreamtime. Then, if you include "Sleep Together", I can't help but think of Opeth's "Closure", specially the live version on Lamentations. And from Dream Theater "The Great Debate" comes to mind too. |
Posted By: ALotOfBottle
Date Posted: December 05 2017 at 00:21
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Bo Hansson! His first two albums, Lord of the Rings and Magician's Hat, might be just what you are looking for, even if a bit jazzy at times. ------------- Categories strain, crack and sometimes break, under their burden - step out of the space provided. |
Posted By: bertolino
Date Posted: December 05 2017 at 01:19
As long as Magma is involved, you can't ignore the original version of http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=3307" rel="nofollow - Köhntarkösz , featuring Janick Top on bass . In fact all Magma records having both Top or Bernard Paganotti have that big "rumble" sound that would have you nearly swallow your teeth! ------------- 45 years of prog listening and still movin' |
CosmicVibration wrote:Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: December 05 2017 at 09:19
I'm surprised you didn't also mention "Unquiet slumbers for the sleepers" (assuming you know post PG Genesis but still SH)since that seems fit perfectly with what you are asking(imo). That's about all I can think of off the top of my head though. |
Posted By: bertolino
Date Posted: December 05 2017 at 09:23
------------- 45 years of prog listening and still movin' |
Posted By: Loftcolour
Date Posted: December 05 2017 at 11:06
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Thanks bertolino - Ah, I haven't listened to Fish Out of Water for years - great reminder. I'll try Steve Hillage and Gong - a friend raved about them back in 1970-something! I'm really really not a jazz-rock fan but... well... okay, I'll try...
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Posted By: Loftcolour
Date Posted: December 05 2017 at 11:19
| Thank you to everyone - some great suggestions here. Some are just too jazzy for me (I wish I understood music better so I could nail what I like and don't like more exactly) but I promise to listen to everything at least three times. And there's some great stuff - the Neu!, Holderlin and Laurent Pernice are early favourites... and some great reminders. Keep 'em coming! |
Posted By: Blaqua
Date Posted: December 05 2017 at 11:31
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Anglagard - Jordrok Arti E Mestieri -
Gravita 9,81 Camel - Rhayader Death - Cosmic Sea Dream Theater - The Dance Of Eternity Emerson Lake & Palmer - Karn Evil 9 2nd Impression Frank Zappa - Son
Of Mr Green Genes Genesis - After the Ordeal Gentle Giant - Acquiring the Taste Greenslade -
Pilgrims Progress Gryphon - Lament /Ethelion Hackett Steve- Spectral Mornings Kansas - Magnum
Opus (it has a few lyrics though) King Crimson -
Red Le Orme - Aliante
Mahavishnu
Orchestra - Lila's Dance Pink Floyd - Atom
Heart Mother Suite/Interstellar Overdrive Rush - YYZ Shylock - Le Quatrième
Tibet - White
Ships And Icebergs Yezda Urfa - 3,
Almost 4, 6 Yea |
Posted By: AlanB
Date Posted: December 05 2017 at 12:15
| Lunar Sea by Camel |
Posted By: bertolino
Date Posted: December 05 2017 at 15:01
Ooh! I'm jealous not to have thought of this one; this is THE great Camel song (instrumental actually, apart of these "space control board" talks. But from that point, and keeping in mind the opening post question where bass was mentioned as a dominant factor, it's Rain Dances which should be the pick; with one Richard Sinclair, fresh from Caravan and Hatfield and the North on deck. With the one two punch of First Light and Metrognome and the lenghty jam of One of these days... there's plenty of groove in it. ------------- 45 years of prog listening and still movin' |
Posted By: omphaloskepsis
Date Posted: December 05 2017 at 15:24
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The new "Spoke of Shadows" and "Herd of Instinct" albums fit the bill. |
Posted By: Loftcolour
Date Posted: December 06 2017 at 08:05
They really do! Thanks!
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