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Asyte2c00

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Posted: July 10 2006 at 11:15

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Posted: July 10 2006 at 11:21

Ars Nova - I saw them live at the ProgSol Festival 2003 in Bellach/Switzerland. However, during this gig they played with an male drummer, which was just sensational!!

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Posted: July 10 2006 at 11:22

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all female.....Ars Nova!!!

I do not understand what is so special about Ars Nova. It seems evryone loves them, when in truth, a much more talented prog rock outfits that deserve to be discussed on PA.

Imo, They have experienced unwarranted popularity on this site.

Edited by Asyte2c00 - July 10 2006 at 11:22

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Posted: July 10 2006 at 11:34

Why does everyone leave IZZ off the list. Is it becasue the female vocalists are not the lead vocalists all the time. This is great band with a lot of great music. Last year at Calprog they covered Close to the Edge and did it well.

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Posted: July 10 2006 at 11:52

There have been literally hundreds of excellent female-fronted progressive bands from around the world over the years - I can think of several dozen from Japan alone. The most important and long-lasting were probably RENAISSANCE (with Annie Haslam and Jane Relf, UK), CURVED AIR (with Sonja-Kristina Linwood, UK), AMON DÜÜL II (with Renate Knaup-Krötenschwanz, Germany), MAGMA (with Stella Vander, France), HENRY COW (with Dagmar Krause and Georgie Born, UK) and MALICORNE (with Marie Yacoub, France).

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Posted: July 10 2006 at 14:19

My pick is definitely After Forever. How can anyone not mention After Forever? Big smile

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Posted: July 10 2006 at 14:30

^Because they are not in the archives (yet). But i agree , they are pretty good in their genre a lot better than Nightwish IMO. I picked up some albums from Aries, Interpose and the Trees lately, since they have not been mentioned already and i like them all i'll submit these.

Reading this thread it's seems i have to check out Ars Nova.

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Posted: July 10 2006 at 14:34

Kittie?

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Posted: July 10 2006 at 14:58

bhikkhu wrote:

Renaissance is the only one I've ever heard.

What a shame ... you don't know what you're missing! Big smile

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Posted: July 10 2006 at 15:03

MikeEnRegalia wrote:

bhikkhu wrote:

Renaissance is the only one I've ever heard.

What a shame ... you don't know what you're missing! Big smile

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Posted: July 10 2006 at 15:21

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CURVED AIR seems to be a great band with a female lead singer too, but I have just found their early works, and some of their repertoire is still unkonw to me. I like that sometimes Sonja even streches out of the normal feminine context (like their performance of "Propositions" at Belgian TV). She realy can afford to do that!

RENAISSANCE is nice band, but there are many more obscurer folk acts with great female vocals, TREES, some FAIRPORT CONVENTION, TUDOR LODGE, SPIROGYRA, EMTIDI and CAROL OF HARVEST come into my mind now. I believe Sean would know many such bands more!

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Posted: July 10 2006 at 15:24

Drew wrote:

Kittie?

The Great Kat?, Arch Enemy?, Spice Girls?, Paris Hilton?, the Simpson sisters?

With terrific male musicians behind Annie Haslam, Renaissance made quite a few good recordings.

They make a couple of stinkers too in the late seventies with Cameral Camera.

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Posted: July 10 2006 at 15:49

Kotro wrote:

Ars Nova for an all-female bad.

Mostly Autumn and, to an extent, Pure Reason Revoulution for female vocals.

Medieval Babes is something else... But Miranda Sex Garden are worth considering.

U R right!! I almost forget Miranda Sex Garden... So many years without listen their albums...

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Posted: July 10 2006 at 15:51

And don't forget the brilliant, beautiful and raw DIAMANDA GALAS... you have to listen THE SPORT LIFE (with John Paul Jones)... Dunwich has female vocals too... and I also love TORI AMOS...

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Posted: July 10 2006 at 16:49

Asyte2c00 wrote:

micky wrote:

all female.....Ars Nova!!!

I do not understand what is so special about Ars Nova. It seems evryone loves them, when in truth, a much more talented prog rock outfits that deserve to be discussed on PA.

Imo, They have experienced unwarranted popularity on this site.

well thanks for sharing that hahahaha.... I do enjoy that type of logic... lots of people like this group but I don't...so it must be unwarranted popularity... good job buddy... LOL

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Posted: July 10 2006 at 17:15

Pure Reason Revolution Big smile

I don't think Nightwish qualify as prog - if so, you'd have to include Within Temptation, Lacuna Coil, Epica, After Forever, Leaves Eyes, The Sins of Thy Beloved, Theatre of Tragedy....etc, etc..etc. Great Gothic Rock / Symphonic Metal but prog? Nah! LOL

Anyway, best not say anymore as there's a whole thread devoted to the Nightwish debate. Confused

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Posted: July 10 2006 at 19:10

The best for me are Lacuna Coil and Nigthwish! :)

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Posted: July 10 2006 at 22:08

progadicto wrote:

Kotro wrote:

Medieval Babes is something else... But Miranda Sex Garden are worth considering.

U R right!! I almost forget Miranda Sex Garden... So many years without listen their albums...

I'm a Miranda Sex Garden fan (As a fact I added them to Prog Archives last summer <http://www.progarchives.com/Progressive_rock_discography_BAND.asp?band_id=2214> ), but they are not an exclusively Female band, they had a female vocalist who is not other than the great Katharine Blake (Founder of Mediaeval Baebes) on lead vocals Jocelyn West (Replaced by Donna McKevitt in vocals, violin and viola), Kelly McCusker (Replaced by Hepzibah Sessa in vocals and keyboards) and much later the also Baebe Teresa Cassella /vocals and bass). But the band also played Ben Golomstock (Guitars, organ, bass, vocals) and Trevor Sharpe (Drums, percussion, bass).

I thought we were talking about pure feminine bands, if not would have mentioned:

Magenta: My all time favorite band with a female vocalist
Renaissance: Very close second and of course
Miranda Sex Garden

BTW: Mediaeval Baebes is an extraordinaire Celtic Gothic (Not Goth) Medieval inspired vocal band with a lot of reasons to be considered Progressive Rock if it wasn't for the lack of Rock component as in their predecessor Miranda Sex Garden, that's the reason why and even when I have all the info ready for their addition, still haven't decided, probably will go to Prog Related instead of Prog Folk unless their latest album has enough Rock blending as they have spoken.

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Posted: July 10 2006 at 22:57

I thought this was a thread about bands that only have (or had) female members. An excellent example was the Feminist Improvising Group, which consisted of Georgie Born (cello), Lindsay Cooper (bassoon, saxes and oboe), Irene Schweizer (piano), Maggie Nichols (vocals) and Sally Potter (vocals). It is an open question whether their music could be called prog, but Cooper and Born were involved with the Canterbury scene (both were members of Henry Cow and appear on several albums of Canterbury artists), and drummer Mani Neumeier was a member of the Irene Schweizer trio before he founded Guru Guru.

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Posted: July 10 2006 at 23:10

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