Instrumental prog rock?
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Topic: Instrumental prog rock?
Posted By: fracturematt
Subject: Instrumental prog rock?
Date Posted: February 03 2020 at 11:12
| I love Cloudkicker, Animals as Leaders, and David Maxim Micic. Always looking for more Any recommendations? |
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Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: February 03 2020 at 11:23
| Possibly Chon and Polyphia. More jazzy... The Aristocrats, Tauk and Special Providence. |
Posted By: Homotopy
Date Posted: February 03 2020 at 12:10
| Last album of Night Verses (likes of AAL) |
Posted By: trili
Date Posted: February 03 2020 at 12:27
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97% Instrumental https://oddjohnhawkins.bandcamp.com/album/the-king-of-madness https://oddjohnhawkins.bandcamp.com/album/the-duke-of-squares ------------- https://oddjohnhawkins.bandcamp.com |
Posted By: fracturematt
Date Posted: February 03 2020 at 14:12
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Good stuff, keep them coming. And thanks! |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: February 03 2020 at 14:15
Are you looking for older or newer and what decade or era(and genre or subgenre)? Most suggestions so far seem to be pretty recent.
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fracturematt wrote:Posted By: hugo1995
Date Posted: February 03 2020 at 14:44
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Most prog bands tend to have more instrumentals than vocals. My favorite era is the late 60s early 70s for this type of stuff. Top no vocals track for me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4HO2we1qNA" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4HO2we1qNA Mumps is pretty good too!, but there is a vocal part in the 3rd quarter of the 20 min epic so I can't really include it here. ------------- interests: Moon Safari, Gilgamesh, Egg, ELP, Soft Machine, Gong, Opeth (Everything pre watershed), Brighteye Brison, The Flower Kings |
Posted By: fracturematt
Date Posted: February 03 2020 at 15:41
Definitely modern stuff like Leprous, Opeth, Steven Wilson, Contortionist, etc.
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Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: February 03 2020 at 15:52
So I guess more post rock and metallish stuff then. I'm probably not your guy if that's the case. I wasn't going to take you back to the 70's but I'm not really up on more recent stuff and not within the more metallish stuff especially. Nothing wrong with it I just haven't gotten around to it yet. I have heard of bands like Scale the summit, between the buried and me(not entirely instrumental I know), Pelican, animals as leaders and endless sporadic. Also, there's Indukti(a little older but still in this millenium)and Special Providence who you might want to check out. Other than that I don't know much about the more recent stuff.
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Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: February 03 2020 at 15:57
Consider the source is another one. Saw them open up for Ozric Tentacles. Great band.
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Posted By: dougmcauliffe
Date Posted: February 03 2020 at 16:39
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The snow goose and Ommadawn are the obvious picks. Try Historie San Paroles by Harmonium ------------- The sun has left the sky... ...Now you can close your eyes |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: February 03 2020 at 17:12
He wants newer stuff though. I agree that snowgoose is great but it probably won't appeal to someone who doesn't like classic or symphonic prog.
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Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: February 03 2020 at 18:47
| The Helix Nebula and Body Hound. |
Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: February 03 2020 at 18:52
| Try Pet Skark, Mike Grande, or the Winery Dogs. |
Posted By: mathman0806
Date Posted: February 03 2020 at 18:58
| Scale the Summit, Nova Collective, Trioscapes, Liquid Tension Experiment, Aristocrats, and all the associated solo releases by members of the aforementioned acts and other related acts. |
Posted By: sidc58
Date Posted: February 03 2020 at 19:39
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Plini, Marbin, Sithu Aye, Intervals, Special Providence, Kyros has some
good Instrumental djent, Nova Collective, Spastic Ink, Blotted Science,
Von Frickle,Virgil Donati, Derek Sherinian, Planet X, Niacin, Mörglbl,
Mestís, Evan Brewer, and Electrocution 250.There is a lot more.
------------- "Why, she's no fun, she fell right over".--Nick Danger (Third Eye) |
Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: February 03 2020 at 21:36
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Stick Men ------------- |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: February 04 2020 at 00:29
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both Liquid Tension Experiment albums although especially the second Coloseum II made 2 great instrumental prog albums in the seventies (War Dance and Electric Savage). They were both reissued not many years ago (BTW their debut album is NOT instrumental although it does have a track called Dark Side Of The Moog which is brilliant) do I need to mention Rick Wakeman - Six Wives Of Henry VIII??! Ok I have but also check out his Criminal Record from the seventies. Jon Lord made some great solo instrumental prog albums If you have any interest in Jazz fusion then The Mahavishnu Orchestra and Billy Cobham are definitely worth checking out. Haken have released instrumental versions of most of their albums but you may already know this. If you don't then if you like Animals as Leaders then you will love this band! |
Posted By: fracturematt
Date Posted: February 04 2020 at 08:42
There's not much of it. It sucks that my favorite style of music is modern prog, because there's only a handful of bands that can cut it for me. Funny you mention post rick. I like the aesthetic, but finding a good post rock band to me is like finding a needle in a haystack. I keep looking but nothing sticks. If only there were more progressive post rock bands.
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Posted By: fracturematt
Date Posted: February 04 2020 at 13:38
This is GREAT
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Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: February 04 2020 at 14:07
I don't think any of the bands I mentioned are post rock actually. If you are ok with violin in your prog metal check out indukti who are all instrumental(especially first album SUSAR which is on youtube).
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Posted By: pingkrimfloyd58
Date Posted: February 04 2020 at 15:07
| Earthside, Scaphoid, For Giants, If these Trees Could Talk, Russian Circles (not really prog but still good), Chimp Spanner |
Posted By: mathman0806
Date Posted: February 04 2020 at 18:48
| For some instrumental prog metal with post rock influences, try Distant Dream. |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: February 04 2020 at 19:22
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Lots of space rock like Ozric Tentacles or lesser known bands like Virgen Sideral -------------  https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
Posted By: judahbenkenobi
Date Posted: February 05 2020 at 04:38
| Fromuz |
Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: February 05 2020 at 06:57
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There are tons of modern instrumental prog bands. A couple of these extend outside the range op described. Exivious Canvas Solaris Squintaloo (Über Bord and s/t) Guapo The Physics House Band ni Gösta Berlings Saga Pryapisme Mother Turtle Felix Martin Zevious (not to be confused with the similarly named band above) Dysrhythmia Accordo dei Contrari Panzerballett Lye by Mistake ------------- https://www.last.fm/user/Tapfret" rel="nofollow">  https://bandcamp.com/tapfret" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp |
Posted By: felonafan
Date Posted: February 05 2020 at 09:20
| http://rozvitalis.bandcamp.com" rel="nofollow - http://rozvitalis.bandcamp.com |
Posted By: Cinema
Date Posted: February 06 2020 at 20:43
| A Triggering Myth. Every album is great, but my personal favorite is Forgiving Eden. |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: February 06 2020 at 21:01
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Lots of avant-prog Roz Vitalis Univers Zero Present Secret Chiefs 3 (mainly vocal free) most Henry Cow lots more------------- https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: February 06 2020 at 21:49
That's a band you don't hear much about anymore. Since you mentioned them I'll mention Djam Karet. And what the heck, Ozric Tentacles too. The OP was looking for newer albums but it looks like this has morphed into an anything goes instrumental prog thread(which is fine by me).
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Posted By: CaP
Date Posted: February 07 2020 at 07:53
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Basta! https://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=9427" rel="nofollow - https://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=9427 Phoenix Again http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7278" rel="nofollow - http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7278 Yugen http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=2811" rel="nofollow - http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=2811 Ske http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=6998" rel="nofollow - http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=6998 Not a Good Sign (mostly instrumental) http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=8336" rel="nofollow - http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=8336 ------------- E per tutti il dolore degli altri è un dolore a metà |
Posted By: Progosopher
Date Posted: February 09 2020 at 12:10
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Jade Warrior from Floating World until Now is all instrumental and will challenge the designation of Rock. Also early and late Mike Oldfield, as well as Anthony Phillips. If you want to push the genre, Jeff Beck has a lot of music put into the J/R Fusion category that will rock your face off. Actually, all of these suggestions challenge the nature of Rock, but isn't that what being progressive is all about? ; ) ------------- The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty" |
Posted By: Schecter
Date Posted: February 09 2020 at 12:41
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https://effalente.bandcamp.com/album/the-effa-lente-configuration-parts-1-4
A one track album in the vein of Opeth, King Crimson and Steven Wilson.
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Posted By: MortSahlFan
Date Posted: February 09 2020 at 15:08
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Great thread idea.. When I come back home, I'll post some. ------------- https://www.youtube.com/c/LoyalOpposition https://www.scribd.com/document/382737647/MortSahlFan-Song-List |
Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: February 10 2020 at 18:19
Before I Forget is awesome. It's barely, if it all, "crossover," but it doesn't matter. It's instrumental and it kicks @$$! Also, when it comes to "instrumental progressive rock," one of the first bands that comes to mind is Djam Karet. ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: February 10 2020 at 19:10
I'm glad to see I'm not the only one on here who knows about Djam Karet. They are probably one of the older instrumental prog bands still making music these days. To be honest I kind of lost track of them(same thing with Ozric Tentacles)but look forward to exploring them again soon.
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Posted By: Snicolette
Date Posted: February 10 2020 at 19:24
------------- "Into every rain, a little life must fall." ~Tom Rapp |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: February 10 2020 at 19:55
^DT and OT both date back to the 80's and both were talked about on the prog message boards(ie RMP in the old newsgroup days) in the 90's(especially OT). I actually remember reading about them, and this other band with what I thought was a weird name at the time called Porcupine Tree, in old prog mail order catalogs. Queue Archie Bunker(and Edith) singing "those were the days...." 
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Posted By: mathman0806
Date Posted: February 10 2020 at 20:08
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I didn't learn about Djam Karet until late '90s when I got "The Devouring". I don't even recall how I learned about that album but I got a couple more albums before I went into a prog hibernation in the 2000's. I learned about Ozric Tentacles in the early 90's and got Jurassic Shift and Strangeitude. Those are still my favorite albums from them. Ed Wynne's solo album from last year is very good. Also, for "modern" prog, I like Herd of Instinct, who are on Djam Karet's label. Their debut is probably my favorite, but their album from last year is pretty close.
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Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: February 10 2020 at 20:40
For Ozric Tentacles I recenty purchased Curious Corn.. Back in the 90's I heard the two you mentioned(I also recently rebought Strangeitude)plus Arboresence. All are great imo. As for DK, I kind of lost track after A Night for Baku. I thought The Devouring was really good but I need to get some more of their earlier stuff(as well as later stuff). Anyway, I'm not really sure what you mean by prog hiberation but I took a hiatus from prog in the mid 90's when I went to college. I rediscovered it in the late 90's through old catalogs and then soon after that online. Then before you knew it the new millenium was here and prog was getting more and more exposure to the point where now it's difficult for me to still think of it as an underground genre(I guess that's debatable).
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