recommend me good instrumental prog rock Please

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Animals as Leaders is a fantastic recommendation, especially their self-titled debut album.

It may have been mentioned but I like jazz fusion that's melodic so I'll recommend Kenso and Ain Soph.....and Brand x.

instrumental music .... at some point you have to laugh about it.

is the voice an instrument? - i think so.
is the voice not as listenable at times then other instruments? - i guess so.
is there more (musical quality or just action) concentration and intensity in the other instruments if there is no voice "over" them? - maybe.

my most influential non-vocal music (still containing vocal music partially):
a lot of symphonic and folk music all over the place, the birth of music and instruments
(just saying Peter and the Wolf)
but definitely visit all great composers of symphonic music!! One of my (and a lot of others peoples) faves is Debussy.

a lot of rock, jazz n electronics.
King Crimson, Pink Floyd, Gentle Giant, Genesis, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Weather Report, Frank Zappa and Brian Eno are still Kings of music and have a lot to explore. Of course Yes is also a bright, bright shining star and also Spocks beard and The Flower Kings have masses of extremely good non-vocal stuff with an amazing interplay, fantastic sounds, melodys and rhythms.  they all have massive instrumental sh*t!!!
Its of course not easy to navigate throu the masses as not all is high quality. And sometimes you just have to "over" listen the voices.


some uniques of mine:
Liquid Tension Experiment (rock)
Rypdal Vitous DeJohnette 1979 ECM (jazz classic)
Bill Evans with Symphony orchestra (jazz)
Chet Baker and Strings (jazz)
Charles Mingus (let my children hear music) (jazz)
Brand X (Moroccan Roll) (fusion)
Thomas Newman (The Horsewhisperer) (symphonic/ambient/folk)
Jade Warrior (Way of the Sun, Breathing the Storm, Floating World) (fusion, highly underrated!!!)
David Sylvian/Nine Horses (fusion/electronic/folk/songwriter)
Pat Metheny Group (The Way Up) (jazz/fusion)
Talk Talk (Spirits of Eden) (new wave/jazz)
Mum (mostly everything - electro analog fusion)
Spaced Out (amazing sound and rhythms)
Sebastiaan Cornelissen (some of the smoothest and at the same time trippy stuff around)
Hardscore (amazing proggy jazz)
Amon Tobin (highly creative electro)
Four Tet (analog sampling)
Grails (Black Tar Symphony) AMAZING!!! SO SO GOOD!!! The Ulver that works ;)


some more stuff:
L'Artichaut Orchestra (symphonic folk)
Five Storey Ensemble (symphonic folk)
Eyvind Kang (fusion)
Build an Ark "Love" (jazz)
Ecstasy Project
Hanne Hukkelberg (analog electro fusion)
Stringpuree Band (small, tight and creatvie jazz power trio from finland)
Annuals (great electroacoustics)
Indie Revenge (free jazz)
The Books/Nick Zammuto (indie/electro)

btw
pekka pohjola is great!


so the most instrumental music isnt rock!!!
world - mind - dont be so restricted!


Edited by wowie - September 15 2013 at 07:15

John G. Perry – Sunset Wading. Four tracks have vocals but they’re minimal. If you like his work with Caravan, Quantum Jump and Aviator you’ll like this. A great ensemble cast including Geoff Richardson, Michael Giles, Rupert Hine, members of Nova.

SInce no one has mentioned some of these oldies but goodies and metioned a lot on my list:

Practically any Mike Oldfield albums and Rick Wakeman's.

Awwwww yea a Don Cab fan!

My favorite is prolly What Burns..

Mahavishnu Orchestra - "Birds of Fire"

Edited by schizoidman - October 08 2013 at 16:49

Valley Of The Giants" by Valley of the Giants

Very Godspeed like. Classic. :)

Snarky Puppy--More jazz than prog, but generally fairly fusion-y. (Their latest is actually a collaboration with various jazz vocalists, but their others are all instrumental)