About your native progressive rock bands

A Person wrote:  << I am happy to come from the same country as those guys.

Proof my avatar used to be different. T'was Yezda Urfa.

Here in Chile we have Los Jaivas, which is a huge band, one of the most influential chilean rock bands of all time (at least in Chile and Latin America). But the common listener doesn't knows that Los Jaivas are prog... Congreso is another great act, with a rather smaller audience, due to their fusion-oriented style, more complex in many ways. Still, Los Jaivas and Congreso are the most popular prog bands here. In the underground scene we have bands like Mar de Robles, a jazz fusion band, Octopus, an instrumental heavy prog band, Crisálida, a prog metal act, Tryo (not to be confused with the French Tryo), Akineton Retard, etc.  

Edited by javier0889 - April 22 2010 at 07:29

PhideauxFan wrote: I know many bands from France but I only listen to a few of them: Thork, Nil, Syrinx, Taal, Seven Reizh and some other ones.

Yes, Seven Reizh are great, sort of a more progressive Loreena McKennitt.

Edited by lucas - March 14 2010 at 16:55

I come from Northern Ireland and there are no prog bands at all.

Sweden: a lot of bands

Unfortunately, I'm familiar with very few of them

I Love Internet wrote: Thanks Damo and Pekka. Will be looking into those soon. It´s kind of funny... as you can see it´ll be 5 years since I joined this site by the end of the year, but up till now I´ve pretty much been a silent member.

Yeah, I just noticed it a moment ago  Well, welcome to the active member group, hopefully 

I don't know of any Prog bands from Dayton... frankly, I don't know any bands around here. We did have the Ohio Players and Bootsy Collins (Cincinatti) in the 70's though... does that count?

Pekka wrote: I Love Internet wrote: Well... I know some of the 70´s stuff from here like Wigwam, Haikara, Tasavallan presidentti and Pekka Pohjola. As well as some newer bands like Kingston Wall. I love all 3 of their albums. Cmx and Nightfishthose two I don´t like that much... or should I say I cannot stand them and that they are part of the reason why for a long time i didn´t think too highly of Finnish music. Anyways... Should anyone here know any newer finnish prog acts I´d like to know. Overhead is my favourite from the newer stuff, Uzva, Circusfolk and Manogurgeil for example are great too. And welcome to the forum, it's nice to have another Finn

Tervetuloa! No, I'm not a Finn, but lived in your country for almost 6 years, and still remember the language reasonably well.

Anyway, I've recently reviewed a couple of relatively new Finnish bands, though belonging to different subgenres, and liked them both: Kosmos (Prog-Folk, sharing some members with Viima) and Kumina.org (keyboard-oriented jazz-rock. The two reviews should be published at the end of the week, and I'll be glad to send you both links - I speak very highly of Finnish music in both of them!

Canada:

Rush + Saga

Quebec: (better than all the rest of Canada together)

Sloche, Opus 5, Harmonium, Et Cetera, Maneige, Octobre, Morse Code. (much more, but these are my favs!)

I have pride in my native music, and love it all... (Sloche is quite possibly the single most underrated band on progarchives...)