True prog classics from 2005 and up

Horizons wrote: frippism wrote: ^ Do you know how many hours of my blood, sweat, tears, and other ungodly fluids took me to make this?! 1/60th of an hour?

I was going to round down and guess 0, but you beat me to it

Horizons wrote: frippism wrote: ^ Do you know how many hours of my blood, sweat, tears, and other ungodly fluids took me to make this?! 1/60th of an hour?

I really enjoyed the YouTube clips Greg - thank you man. Those Japanese were really on to something back then. 

Could be a lot better, sorry man.

frippism wrote: Smurph wrote: frippism wrote: Deathspell Omega- Fas Ine  Dodheimsgard- Supervillain Outcast Sleepytime Gorilla Museum- Of Glorious Times Book Of Knots- Traineater Death Grips- Exmilitairy Bney Hama- s/t I don't know why but at the moment all I can think of are very aggressive, heavy sounding albums.   I swear we have the same taste in music haha My soulmate <3!

Might we expect the pitter-patter of little Smurfripp feet in the not too distant future?

Classics is a difficult word, really, but there have been some absolute gems in these years. As you've said 2005 onwards, I haven't included Marillion Marbles or IQ Dark Matter, but they would certainly be there in a decade list:

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Nogbad_The_Bad wrote: Logan wrote: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- One modern one from the RIO/Avant category that I might recommend that the topic starter samples is Yugen's Labrinto d'Acqua.  I used to love that album.  I wasn't that keen on Iridule, but others like that Yugen album. Cheer-Accident's Fear Draws Misfortune was a big disappointment for me, but that's still one that I think could be a very popular one from Avant Prog amongst Proggers generally since I think it very accessible.  For me that album is too stereotypically Prog (noodly), but one that I think generally recommendable. Well I agree with you on Yugen's first but I also love their third, it's only the second Stormy Six influenced one I'm less enamored with. Also have to disagree on C-A's Fear Draws Misfortune, that was my first album by them and I adore it, I went off and bought Introducing Lemons and No If's And Or Dogs. Brilliant brilliant band. Seeing as you opened the avant door I'm also going to recommend Pikapika Teart - Moonberry - Siberian Chamber Rock Uz Jsme Doma - Caves - Czech Folk Pronk Polite Refusal - Geese & Swans - Russian Folk Edgy Rock Miriodor - Avanti! - Canadian Avant. Thinking Plague - Decline & Fall - stunningly good recent release Rational Diet - On Phenomena & Existences - Belarus Complex Chamber Rock

Like Guldbamsen, that Yugen album feels forced to me, but I don't dislike it, just wasn't wowed by it.  And the same for much of that Cheer-Accident album.  I like Yugen's second a lot.

I like the other C-A albums you mentioned more than Fear Draws....  I also love that Miriodor album.  Incidentally, Miriodor is the band that really got me into modern (i.e. post 70s) labeled Prog music.  I'd had some major disappointments with prurchasing a Spock's Beard and Flower Kings album when looking to update my tastes (those bands had been recommended to me -- I was a real noob to most Prog umbrella music then), but then I discovered 3rd Warning by Miriodor, which was far more to my tastes -- then quickly got the next two Miriodor albums.

I plan to get that Thinking Plague album ere long.  Polite Refusal is a new one to me -- intrigued.

Another post 2005 fave of mine is Far Corner's Endangered.

Guldbamsen wrote: I am going to order it Greg. You haven't steered me wrong as of yet, and don't worry I know how you feel about giving out recommendations, but I am still relishing in psych jazz heaven with the Mwandishi related projects you mentioned along with Sun Ra's Lanquidity and Donald Byrd. I especially adore Eddie Henderson's fantastic Realization.  About Yugen. I'm not that fond of Iridule either. For some reason it just feels too forced and prog for progs sake. If I want that warm and labyrinth-like sound in my Italian music, I'll pop on Picchio dal Pozzo's Abbiamo tutti... On another note, and completely unrelated to this topic (sorry), but do you by any chance have any of The Taj Mahal Traveller's output? I seem to remember you liking Tangerine Dream's Zeit, and these Japanese guys echo those sentiments yet with their own style and ominous experimentations. I have 3 albums of theirs and they're all very good.   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsCQTraCHmA Back on topic: Another one I could see as a future classic is Birds and Buildings' debut and up until now sole album.  Oh yeah and not to forget Cabezas de Cera's Metalmusica, although combined we are perhaps 8 people who have heard of these guys

Well, I hope you enjoy it.  Picchio dal Pozzo, since you mentioned it, now there's a band I really love.  I have that Taj-Mahal Travellers album, and love it.  The first album I got from the band, and was my first from TMT, is July 15, 1972.  Incidentally, an old fave of mine from Japan that you might check out if you don't know it is the Toshyuki Miyama and His New Herd: Masahiko Satoh album Yamataifu, and Masahiko Satoh and the Soundbeakers Amalgamation is also good. 

Just the first part of each track, but you can find the rest on youtube.





The Japanese album I most want to find is called Osorezan Suite, not the Geinoh Yamashirogumi one which i, of course, have, but another with the same name by Minoru Muraoka.

I, on the other hand, love Iridule 

Logan wrote: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- One modern one from the RIO/Avant category that I might recommend that the topic starter samples is Yugen's Labrinto d'Acqua.  I used to love that album.  I wasn't that keen on Iridule, but others like that Yugen album. Cheer-Accident's Fear Draws Misfortune was a big disappointment for me, but that's still one that I think could be a very popular one from Avant Prog amongst Proggers generally since I think it very accessible.  For me that album is too stereotypically Prog (noodly), but one that I think generally recommendable.

Well I agree with you on Yugen's first but I also love their third, it's only the second Stormy Six influenced one I'm less enamored with.

Also have to disagree on C-A's Fear Draws Misfortune, that was my first album by them and I adore it, I went off and bought Introducing Lemons and No If's And Or Dogs. Brilliant brilliant band.

Seeing as you opened the avant door I'm also going to recommend

Pikapika Teart - Moonberry - Siberian Chamber Rock
Uz Jsme Doma - Caves - Czech Folk Pronk
Polite Refusal - Geese & Swans - Russian Folk Edgy Rock
Miriodor - Avanti! - Canadian Avant.
Thinking Plague - Decline & Fall - stunningly good recent release
Rational Diet - On Phenomena & Existences - Belarus Complex Chamber Rock