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    Posted: August 03 2005 at 09:17
Prog folk is a genre that I haven't checked out enough. Therefore, I'd like you to name your favourite classics that offer a fair share of accustic instruments. My favourites are Gryphon (UK), Parzival (Germany) and Uzva (Finland). Cheers!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 03 2005 at 09:18
Is Jethro Tull prog folk?

Just asking...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 03 2005 at 09:44
I don't really know what means "prog-folk". Would somebody explain to me? IMHO, if this genre exists, Lindisfarne, Steeley Span and Fairport would be prog-folk... This is the closer I can get to this riddle! Ricochet, Jethro Tull is also a prog folk band...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 03 2005 at 11:01

Originally posted by M. B. Zapelini M. B. Zapelini wrote:

I don't really know what means "prog-folk". Would somebody explain to me? IMHO, if this genre exists, Lindisfarne, Steeley Span and Fairport would be prog-folk... This is the closer I can get to this riddle! Ricochet, Jethro Tull is also a prog folk band...

... and Strawbs!

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 03 2005 at 11:56

Originally posted by Dan Yaron Dan Yaron wrote:

Uzva

TREES, and "Last autumn's dream" and "Released" from JADE WARRIOR, perhaps?



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 03 2005 at 13:53
I recently bought Parzival, excellent!
I also recommend Broselmaschine, Malicorne & Pererin
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 03 2005 at 14:34
Jethro Tull
Horslips
Comus
Aphrodites Child
Jan Dukes De Grey
STRAWBS
Jos Jaivas


..all excellent. prog folk is definitely one of my favourite genre's of prog.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 03 2005 at 20:29
Renaissance and Mostly Autumn both have a folky edge to them as well..
Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 04 2005 at 05:07

banda do casaco

kolinda

mellow candle

pentangle

leda - spyros

 

 

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 04 2005 at 11:10
Vintersorg is a great progressive folk metal band from Sweden.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 04 2005 at 12:04

Los Jaivas - Chile (andean music prog)

Comus - devilish folk prog

Spirogyra - folk rock goes prog read the reviews

Pentangle  - folk meets jazz & blues to make it rock.

Mellw Candle - excellent folk rock

Algarnas Tradgard - Sweden - Gryphon meets Fairport Convention.

Kebnekaise - Sweden trad folk with strong prog overtnes

Malicorne - France - Medieval prog a bit like Gryphon.

Jan Dukes De gray - mice and rats is stellar - just got included.

The Trees - much proggier Fairport Convention.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 04 2005 at 15:37
Originally posted by Sean Trane Sean Trane wrote:

Jan Dukes De gray - mice and rats is stellar - just got included.


!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lets get some more reviews up!



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 04 2005 at 15:48

Originally posted by HeirToRuin HeirToRuin wrote:

Vintersorg is a great progressive folk metal band from Sweden.

 

And lemme tell ya...They Should be listed on this site.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 09 2005 at 23:25
I really like Mostly Autumn.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 10 2005 at 06:23
And I too like Mostly Autumn although their latest album appears to be taking them away from the Folky/Prog direction. Going to see them for the 14th time on the 20th of this month.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 10 2005 at 07:19
I've been wanting to check out Parzival for a while now, but i can't seem to find any songs anywhere. Are there any sound clips up on the net?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 11 2005 at 10:37
Mostly Autumn and Mellow Candle and, although she's not prog, you should listen to Kate Rusby, the best female folk singer around.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 11 2005 at 11:20

Steve Unruh. Prog-folk and multi-instrumentalist. If you like violin, flute, hand percussions and acoustic guitar, check 'em out.

Here's a link to his website. He has a FREE download sampler CD, plus a 17:11 minute epic from a newly remastered release of "Two Little Awakenings" CD.

 



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 14 2005 at 16:45

Jethro Tull's folk period is amazing. Their folkiest albums are Songs from the Wood, Heavy Horses, and Stormwatch, but if you want something more acoustic, try Minstrel in the Gallery. If you don't mind some 80's synthesizers along with the folky stuff, try Broadsword and the Beast. Stand Up is a blues rock album with some folk influences, so that might be worth checking out.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 15 2005 at 06:13
You might want to give French band XII Alfonso a listen. Especially "The Lost Frontier" or "Claude Monet Vol I".


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