Unknown little masterpieces
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Topic: Unknown little masterpieces
Posted By: el böthy
Subject: Unknown little masterpieces
Date Posted: July 12 2010 at 19:34
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So, we all have one or two albums by a band few others know about. And we listen to them and think... this needs to reach more people! Sometimes it´s not even the band itself or a whole album, sometimes it´s just a song. So, let´s talk about them. I´ll go first with: Twin Zero´s Monolith. Not the album, but the actual song Monolith. It´s a 22 epic divided into 7 sections and it´s just... awesome. If you are into post metal, Tool (although it has nothing to do with Tool´s music) or don´t mind a bit of heavy sections I HIGHLY recomment this to anyone. There is a real idea behind the music, with a very original and minimalistic aproach, you can really hear a mastermind behind it who really thought every aspect of the piece. Not to be disrespectful, but it´s not a Dream Theater, Genesis blueprint/clone kind of epic, of which there are a lot. This is really unique stuff. I repeat, Monolith the song, not the album. The album consists of the 22 min epic and two other songs, which, although not bad, don´t come close to the heights of the epic. Monolith, the song, is a masterpiece, it really is and I urge you to check it out. So, which unknown little wonder do you know? ------------- "You want me to play what, Robert?" 
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Posted By: Progatron
Date Posted: July 12 2010 at 20:33
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I have quite a few, but the first one to spring to mind is Faithful Breath's "Fading Beauty", which is a gorgeous symphonic prog album from 1973, years before the band was to strangely morph into an 80s metal act. The album essentially consists of two side-long epics, rooted firmly in the mellotron-drenched symphonic prog scene of the early 70s. A wonderful album that I have listened to many times over the years. A hidden gem! |
Posted By: RoyFairbank
Date Posted: July 12 2010 at 21:17
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Patrick Moraz: Timecode. Man I love that album. Be warned though, its a cross between Peter Gabriel III and generic AOR production, with that characteristic 1984 sound (like Tull's and Zee's album of that year). It's great though! Edit: Realizing I said generic AOR 1) some generic AOR production but obviously Moraz is a experimentalist first and foremost. 2) as a second recommendation I think most Prog fans have overlooked: Bob Dylan's (for instance) Infidels (1983), but its not necessarily prog. |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: July 12 2010 at 22:43
As an album I'd go with Andrew Lloyyddd Webbberrrs Variations. Yeah I know it's odd...Andrew Lloyd Webber?? Prog??? Here's the band:
------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Posted By: el böthy
Date Posted: July 13 2010 at 00:03
WOW now that´s a line up! ------------- "You want me to play what, Robert?"
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Slartibartfast wrote:Posted By: Tarquin Underspoon
Date Posted: July 13 2010 at 01:22
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All Heavy Proggers: Check out the song "Nuclear Apathy" by Crack the Sky....
A tour de force, definitely. ------------- "WAAAAAAOOOOOUGH! WAAAAAAAUUUUGGHHHH!! WAAAAAOOOO!!!" -The Great Gig in the Sky |
Posted By: progkidjoel
Date Posted: July 13 2010 at 01:58
Circle Takes The Square - As The Roots Undo An orgy of avant-metal, hardcore and heavy punk. Prog tech-metal as you've never heard it, one of my top 3 albums from the genre for sure. ------------- 
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Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: July 13 2010 at 02:16
This side of the water in the UK - well known . Theme music for a well loved art TV programme The South Bank Show came from this and indeed one episode was about this album. ------------- The best eclectic music on the Web,8-11pm BST/GMT THURS. CLICK ON: http://www.lborosu.org.uk/media/lcr/live.php - http://www.lborosu.org.uk/media/lcr/live.php Host by PA's Dick Heath. |
Posted By: The Runaway
Date Posted: July 13 2010 at 05:41
Indeed. It's actually ALW collaborating with Colosseum II and guests. ------------- http://www.formspring.me/Aragorn224" rel="nofollow - Trendsetter win! The search for nonexistent perfection. |
Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: July 13 2010 at 09:09
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Madder Mortem's Deadlands. Its an amazing pice of progressive metal with doom and death metal leanings and a fantastic vocalist in Agnete Kirkvaarg, a powerful and unique female vocalist that cant be pigeonholed with the operatic types you get in goth/symph metal. ------------- Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005 
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Posted By: The Truth
Date Posted: July 13 2010 at 10:21
Amazing album
 (I'm a Bob fanboy truthfully  )But I'll have to add this, it seems to be pretty unknown to me:
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Posted By: el böthy
Date Posted: July 13 2010 at 18:55
Uh, yes. I downloaded it today... WOW incredible song! ------------- "You want me to play what, Robert?"
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Posted By: antonyus
Date Posted: July 14 2010 at 08:24
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http://www.myspace.com/nemrudmusic">
check this out !!!
 http://www.myspace.com/nemrudmusic
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Posted By: logoman
Date Posted: July 14 2010 at 10:59
| Audience - House On The Hill. Howard Werth gives it vocal welly whilst haunting sax and acoustic guitar make for a pretty stunning combination. Everyone i've persuaded to listen to this has bought it. |
Posted By: Tengent
Date Posted: July 17 2010 at 09:21
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Autumn Grass - Continuum Missing Pieces - National Health Estación de sombra - Nazca Manna/Mirage - The Muffins Osiris - Zao J'un Oeil - Sloche (this album is at the top of the jazz rock section on prog archives so it should be getting more listens) Arkham's self titled I think Egg's The Civil Surface doesn't get enough appreciation. There's some extremely ****ing complicated stuff going on there and I love it. |
Posted By: johnobvious
Date Posted: July 17 2010 at 10:34
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Chimpan A - S/T. Not really prog, just beautiful. Rob Reed from Magenta is part of this project, Al Stewart - Last days of the century. Seems like a lot of people like Al around here but no one ever talks about this one. ------------- Biggles was in rehab last Saturday |
Posted By: NecronCommander
Date Posted: July 17 2010 at 11:14
An Endless Sporadic's debut EP is only about 20 minutes long, but it's absolutely bursting with energy. An instrumental prog metal duo create awesome songs that seamlessly flow from DT-esque heavy riffing and soloing, to funk, fusion, jazzy keyboard rock, noise, breakdowns, lounge music, and back again. A truly awesome little EP. -------------  
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Posted By: timothy leary
Date Posted: July 17 2010 at 11:32
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Fermata.......Huascaran oaksenham.........Conquest of the Pacific |
Posted By: The-Bullet
Date Posted: July 17 2010 at 12:27
His most popular seems to be Year of the cat, but my favourite of his is "Past, present and future" - the song Roads to Moscow is particularly good. ------------- 
"Why say it cannot be done.....they'd be better doing pop songs?" |
Posted By: Ian Stuart
Date Posted: July 19 2010 at 16:29
I've attended Al Stewart concerts numerous times over the years and he always pleases. As a lyricist he is unsurpassed! And if I were forced to choose Roads To Moscow might well be my favorite.  |
Posted By: Matthew T
Date Posted: July 19 2010 at 16:51
Here is not to Bad a one for something Unknown by Ross ,Produced By: Bruce Botnick by arrangement with The Robert Stigwood Organization.
 1975 above..........Another that is unknown and was worth heaps till the Jap release a few years back is The Human Beast Vol 1 ....1970
 No Volume 2 happened
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Posted By: TODDLER
Date Posted: July 19 2010 at 23:20
This is a very special album for me! I bought the LP in 1978. It wasn't so strange then. I think Julian Lloyd Webber talked Andrew into doing this album or maybe it was some sort of bet they had made between each other. There was history on Paganini ...written on the innersleeve. I purchased the cd for about 25 dollars. Rod Argent is superb on this one! They all are very brilliant. A strange direction for Andrew Lloyd Webber because it was a progressive rock album with progressive musicians playing the music of Paganini as opposed to a straight up Classical recording or typical Broadway play. Paganini was said by followers in the 18th century, to have been in league with the devil. Strange how those accusations haven't changed much as his 24 caprices were adapted by many Heavy Metal guitarists that wrote songs about the devil. Probably a hoax if anything as he was judged that way because he dressed in black, and was a tall man with huge hands to play the violin. His appeared shocking to folks. The whole Variations is rather bewitching to me. Especially the ambient type sections inbetween that lead into the pieces themselves. Webber was very crafty with this project. He really should have continued fusing classical with prog. Very highly recommended!
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Posted By: TODDLER
Date Posted: July 19 2010 at 23:26
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Posted By: timothy leary
Date Posted: July 20 2010 at 12:13
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Gamalon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3koR5N6onV4&feature=related |
Posted By: timothy leary
Date Posted: July 21 2010 at 11:20
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