Formentera Lady discovers the music on PA

A post to another thread made me think to create this blog.

On PA there is so much music of so many bands, which I never heard of before, that I definitely need ages to discover them all. Nevertheless, I give it a try.
What I do is the following:
I go to the Symphonic Prog page of PA, then I click on the stream button.
I have just finished the letter D. So far I found interesting:

- Arachnoid (which has a touch of King Crimson)
- Atmosphera (which sounds like Yes)
Both bands released only one album, if I see it correctly. And both bands have, IMHO, something more specific in them, than only trying to be some kind of a tribute band. I already tried to hear more of it from other sources and I really like it!

Then I noted on my list for further discovery:

- Beggars Opera
- Cathedral
- Chaos Code
- Cinema
- Clearlight
- Coda
- Discipline

I would like to continue to post, after I finished more letters.
What do you think? I appreciate your thoughts on it.

Music?  Here on the PA??? 
I know a lot of prog artists, but the only one in your list I know is Discipline and I really like Unfolded...


Edited by Slartibartfast - October 16 2010 at 07:44

Yeah, good plan. Honestly I rarely use the streaming, I guess with prog I don't feel so much like listening to single assorted tracks, I like to listen to the complete album so I mostly look for albums which look promising and get them.

Just started with the letter E:

- Earth and Fire
Very interesting. Just discovered that they are from the Netherlands. Like the band Coda. And like Ekseption, the only prog band I knew so far from that country, and who specialised in rock adaptions of classical music. Seems to be quite a scene there in the Netherlands.

- Echolyn
I remember seeing the name mentioned already several times in the forum. Sounds interesting indeed. I'll look into it further.
The music plays and plays, and I am cleaning my desk, then the whole room, then I look at the monitor and see that the song still is not over. Only then I look at the duration - 50 minutes! I am shocked! I think I'll take a little bit longer for E.

Nice, I once tried to do that, but did not have the patience. Now I go and click the random video button.

If you come across any whole albums being streamed send a PM - there were heaps at one stage and you could review them without forking out massive amounts of cash. Now there are only one or two songs scattered usually. i heard all Visual Cliff albums here and Shadow Circus but they took them down I believe. 

@ ACR: I haven't found whole albums yet. But the live version of Echolyn's Mei is there (50 min.). Still it is not the whole album. And thanks for the recommendation. After first listen of 'Semi-permeable...' it did not really appeal to me, but I'll give it a second try later.

Creating a random playlist (just above the list of recently added MP3's on the homepage) might reveal some interesting music now and then. Just give it a try.

I hoped, that someone would comment on artists I left out  , because I might overlook someone.
Fruupp's song It's all up now is streamed here, which indeed has a remarkable song structure. But it did not really grip me. Is there another song you might recommend me to listen to?

So are you buying any albums based on your listens?