Female musician in progressive music
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Topic: Female musician in progressive music
Posted By: The_Jester
Subject: Female musician in progressive music
Date Posted: August 08 2012 at 21:48
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I wwonder if they exist in large numbers. It's sure hard to find (except for singers). Anyone knows? ------------- La victoire est éphémère mais la gloire est éternelle! - Napoléon Bonaparte |
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Posted By: thellama73
Date Posted: August 08 2012 at 21:51
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Carla Khilstedt is a great Violinist from Sleepytime Gorilla Museum. Dagmar Krause is good too.
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Posted By: cstack3
Date Posted: August 08 2012 at 23:09
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Sara Lee was the bassist for Robert Fripp's interesting project "The League of Gentlemen." Sort of a crossover-prog style of music, I saw them in Chicago and was blown away!
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Posted By: Andy Webb
Date Posted: August 08 2012 at 23:28
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The bassist in Adrian Belew's Power Trio is a chick. She's pretty good too, saw he live with Crimson Projeckt. ------------- http://ow.ly/8ymqg" rel="nofollow">  
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Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: August 09 2012 at 00:21
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Emma Ruth Rundle /thread ------------- Crushed like a rose in the riverflow. |
Posted By: ProgressiveAttic
Date Posted: August 09 2012 at 00:46
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Ruth Underwood:
Ars Nova: ------------- Michael's Sonic Kaleidoscope Mondays 5:00pm EST(re-runs Thursdays 3:00pm) @ Delicious Agony Progressive Rock Radio(http://www.deliciousagony.com) 
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Posted By: ProgressiveAttic
Date Posted: August 09 2012 at 00:51
Julie Slick: she realeased a great solo album (w/ Robert Fripp, Pat Mastelotto,Marco Minnemann and others as guests) in 2010 ------------- Michael's Sonic Kaleidoscope Mondays 5:00pm EST(re-runs Thursdays 3:00pm) @ Delicious Agony Progressive Rock Radio(http://www.deliciousagony.com)
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Andy Webb wrote:Posted By: SaltyJon
Date Posted: August 09 2012 at 01:12
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Some good choices already, don't forget the ladies from Thinking Plague/related projects, and Amy Denio. Plus the various female members of Henry Cow.
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: August 09 2012 at 01:17
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Keiko (Ars Nova) is one hell of a good player
Although not prog I like Suzanne Ciani who is sort of the female equivalent of Vangelis
Kate Bush is also a good pianist as well as a singer
Magda Berg in Par Lindh Project used to play violin on occasion although her 'day job' was as the lead singer. Now sadly passed on and very much missed.
beyond that I'm struggling
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Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: August 09 2012 at 01:47
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Hiromi Uehara too. ------------- Crushed like a rose in the riverflow. |
Posted By: yam yam
Date Posted: August 09 2012 at 04:50
| Eveline van Kampen (ILLUMION) immediately springs to mind, and I have a huge amount of respect for Anne-Marie Helder of Panic Room/Mostly Autumn, who plays flute, keyboards, guitar and doubtless other things too, as well as being one of the best vocalists I have ever heard. |
Posted By: BarryGlibb
Date Posted: August 09 2012 at 05:14
| Angela Allen from Carmen.....oh yes. |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: August 09 2012 at 05:25
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I know this has come up before but Tori Amos can play rings around any of the best guy keyboarists. And for bass Tal Wilkenfeld. Two ladies at one with their chosen instruments.
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Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: August 09 2012 at 07:16
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Grayceon and Giant Squid (Jackie Perez-Gratz on Cello) hAND (Kat Ward on lead vocals, bass and piano) SubRosa (two violinists and the guitarist/singer) Indukti (Ewa Jablonska, violin) All Over Everywhere (loads of women took part here) Anekdoten (Anna Sofi Dahlber cello and keys) Anglagard (Anna Holmgren flute and sax) Ebonylake (Yasmine keys) Ellipsis (FLA Eklektika bass) Espers (Meg Baird, Helena Espvall) The Gathering (Marjolein Kooijman bass) Hiromi Uehara Karda Estra (most of the band) Kayo Dot (Mia Matsumiya violin) My Dying Bride (several women have been in the band playing bass and keys/violin) OOIOO (all female group) Pure Reason Revolution (Chloe Alper bass) Ram-Zet (Saarita violin) White WIllow (various over the years) These are all the abnds I have with women playing instruments other than the usual bit of small percussion, if I'd included singers as well it would have more than doubled the list. ------------- Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005 
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Posted By: ClemofNazareth
Date Posted: August 09 2012 at 09:09
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There aren't as many women as men of course, but they are out there if you look and many are great musicians who often bring more passion and feeling to their music than most men can muster. Some of my admittedly obscure prog folk favorites: Paran Amirinazari (Beat Circus) - IMHO the best rock violinist since Robby Steinhardt. Lisa Isaksson (Lisa O Piu) - harp, guitar, glockenspiel, piano, flute, celeste, various percussion instruments and scored a mjor coup by recording a live album with Roger Wootton of Comus a couple years ago. Jenny Willhelms (Gjallarhorn) - plays a mean fiddle and an exquisite violin. Larkin Grimm - a weird chick who grew up in a hippie commune, dropped out of Yale to live in a tent in the woods with a native American shaman (among other things). Writes all her own music and plays guitar, banjo, harp, dulcimer, keyboards and various percussive instruments. Jane Sorrenti (Saint Just) - played light but engaging 12-string acoustic guitar back in the 70s. The band reunited recently and apparently she's playing keyboard now although I haven't heard their latest material. Kathleen Baird, Taralie Peterson and Georgia Vallas (Spires That In The Sunset Rise) - their own band and something of an acquired taste but they are very good musicians and songwriters. Bumble B (Smell of Incense) - she's better known as a vocalist but also plays violin, viola and I believe piano and sitar as well. She also put out a solo album a few years ago on which she plays almost everything. Melora Creager (Rasputina) - Melora plays cello and sings, and her band (with revolving lineups) has mostly consisted of other cello players and the occasional percussionist. She's also an acquired taste and has lots of original material but also has a penchant for rearranging pop and rock tunes as cello pieces ("American Girl", "Wish You Were Here", "Bad Moon Rising", "Tourniquet", etc.). Maja De Rado (Porodicna Manufaktura Crnog Hleba) - she was a singer but also the lead guitarist for thispsych-folk Yugosalvian band of the 70s that I didn't like when I first heard them but have grown on me over the years, partly because of her seductive and understated acoustic playing. Joan Saul (nee Bartle) (Stone Angel) - crumhorn, psaltry, harp, recorder, flute, shawm, accordion, singing bowls, chimes - you get the idea ------------- "Peace is the only battle worth waging." Albert Camus |
Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: August 09 2012 at 09:19
Her cello playing was one of my favorite things about Anekdoten in the early days. ------------- My other avatar is a Porsche It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. -Kehlog Albran |
Posted By: Sagichim
Date Posted: August 09 2012 at 13:48
| Ruth Underwood played with Zappa as well with many others. She plays percussion and also some fantastic and very complex vibraphone, for which she is not credited here in PA. |
Posted By: N-sz
Date Posted: August 10 2012 at 22:35
Haha, nice. I saw her at a little music festival once. Never heard about her before then, but she was awesome. I was really impressed by how she could do complex guitar parts and complex vocal parts at the same time. Ruth Underwood definitely came to mind for this. And Dagmar Krause always comes to mind. ------------- https://blankspacerecords.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - Blank Space Records |
Posted By: HannesHolmqvist
Date Posted: August 11 2012 at 10:29
| There's Lindsay Cooper who played the bassoon and oboe with Henry Cow. |
Posted By: tszirmay
Date Posted: August 11 2012 at 12:25
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A few more The amazing and gorgeous Tal Winkelfeld , bassist extraordinaire currently with Jeff Beck. Conqueror keyboardist Simona Rigano. Quaterna Requiem keyboardist Elisa Wiermann Life Line Project guitarist Jody Van der Gijze and bassist Iris Sagan ------------- I never post anything anywhere without doing more than basic research, often in depth. |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: August 11 2012 at 13:13
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Lizzie Prendergast - electric violin, electric celtic harp, mandocaster, synthesizer ------------- What? |
Posted By: dwill123
Date Posted: August 11 2012 at 17:00
| Gayle Moran aka Mrs. Chick Corea, was in Mahavishnu Orchestra 2. |