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addictedtoprog 
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 Topic: Prog with "SITAR"Posted: September 20 2014 at 05:06 |
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I love the sound of sitar...but haven't heard anything (prog where sitar is a prominent instrument) until now.
Any recommendations wud b highly appreciated.  Edited by addictedtoprog - September 20 2014 at 05:06 |
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andrea
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Posted: September 20 2014 at 05:22 |
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Aussie-Byrd-Brother
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Posted: September 20 2014 at 05:31 |
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Hey there Addicted!
Two artists I can instantly think of: Magic Carpet Magic Carpet are a early 70's hippie/folk/raga-rock band with a female folk singer. If you get the CD reissue of the first album, there's also a 20-odd minute instrumental solo sitar piece that is wonderful. This is a very dear album to me, I listen to it everytime I work nightshift: **** The Oresund Space Collective are a modern improvised instrumental space-rock band, but they put out a lovely ambient/sitar based mellow album a few years back, and it's one of their most special. Well worth tracking the LP of it down: Oresund Space Collective - West Space and Love Hope these two very different suggestions are a start for you!  Edited by Aussie-Byrd-Brother - September 20 2014 at 05:32 |
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addictedtoprog
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Posted: September 20 2014 at 05:38 |
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Thanks Aussie-Byrd-Brother...wud surely check them out.
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wilmon91
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Posted: September 20 2014 at 06:33 |
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Steve Hackett - Waters of the Wild has an indian influence
http://tinysong.com/1jQi7
and there's also his "Waking to Life" which is nice http://tinysong.com/14QQk Then there's Janne Schaffer - Berzeeli Park http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sS-9Qrnfhc8 Edited by wilmon91 - September 20 2014 at 06:34 |
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PrognosticMind
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Posted: September 20 2014 at 09:22 |
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Doesn't Steve Howe use a lot of sitar in the studio? What's going on right before the first verse of Close to The Edge kicks in? I could just be mis-hearing steel lap.
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addictedtoprog
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Posted: September 20 2014 at 10:11 |
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zravkapt
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Posted: September 20 2014 at 10:27 |
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Howe uses electric sitar quite a bit on both CTTE and Relayer.
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Gerinski
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Posted: September 20 2014 at 10:28 |
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Yes, well he never played the real sitar but the Coral Electric Sitar which was a pseudo-sitar-like sounding 6-string guitar, at 26m20s here |
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Gerinski
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Posted: September 20 2014 at 10:29 |
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Le Orme's Aldo Tagliapietra did play the real sitar
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presdoug
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Posted: September 20 2014 at 11:34 |
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On Dzyan's album Electric Silence, Eddy Marron plays some tastefull, and atmospheric sitar.
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RoeDent
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Posted: September 21 2014 at 08:04 |
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The only two prog songs I know of that feature the sitar are Home by Dream Theater, and Don of the Universe by The Flower Kings.
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Dayvenkirq
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Posted: September 21 2014 at 08:26 |
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Denny Dias played electric sitar on Steely Dan's "Do It Again". Not 100% sure if that counts.
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Argonaught
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Posted: September 21 2014 at 10:04 |
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Mr. George Harrison put his sitar to good use in the 1960s and '70s, and since we consider the post-1966 Beatles to be "proto-prog" ... here are two vids from Sgt. Pepper:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqXmBy1_qOQ
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PrognosticMind
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Posted: September 21 2014 at 10:31 |
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Thank you, sir!
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kenethlevine
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Posted: September 21 2014 at 22:13 |
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Richard Hudson played sitar on several STRAWBS songs - "Canon Dale", "Is it Today Lord", and "Lady Fuschia" all come to mind. I think he played it on some Hudson-Ford albums too
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Rick Robson
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Posted: September 22 2014 at 17:31 |
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There is another nifty Le Orme's song that features a beautiful Sitar sound:
Calipso (album Florian)
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 "Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy." LvB |
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darkshade
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Posted: September 22 2014 at 20:33 |
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Dream Theater used Sitar on Home from "Scenes From A Memory"
Also, check out Miles Davis "Big Fun" for more jazz-rock/fusion with sitar. Can't of anything else off the top of my head. Maybe Ozric Tentacles but I'd have to check. |
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Saperlipopette!
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Posted: September 23 2014 at 00:47 |
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Andre Fertier's Clivage features plenty of amazing sitarplaying. Check out: Regina Astris and Mixtus Orbis
Ananda Shankar is a sitarplaying progger from India. I reccomend Ananda Shankar and His Music, Sá-re-gá Machàn + 2001 are the best in that Popol Vuh featured a sitarplayer in 1977-1979: Nosferatu (On the Way to a Little Way), Herz aus Glas Deuter - D + Aum Kanguru - Dreaming Okko - Sitar & Electronics The oriental jazz fusion of Oregon, Codona and Vasant Rai all features sitarguy Colin Walcott.
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Rick Robson
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Posted: September 24 2014 at 17:20 |
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The Moody Blues feature some sugestive sitar playing in the superb track Visions Of Paradise, and in the CD2 of the 2006 Remaster of the album In Search Of The Lost Chord there is an instrumental version of this song that is formidable, it really enhances the song's atmosphere with those sitar sounds playing around.
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"Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy." LvB |
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