Obscure Prog Facts

Has anyone created a thread about this? More information perhaps? I did a quick search of the archives but "CCCP" and 'Count Drumula' all came up negative...

 

 

 

For those who can watch BBC iPlayer, Chris's section starts at about 50minutes: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0134pn9/Rick_Steins_Spain_Episode_4/ 

However in the early 70's the prog spirit was permeating all music and he released some works which can be considered symphonic prog-folk, mostly his 2 albums Viatge A Itaca from 1975 and Campanades A Morts from 1977 with epic title tracks of 15 and 20 minutes respectively.

 

In this 15 min epic title track from Viatge A Itaca (split in 2 clips in YouTube) you can hear the same notes sequence from In The Court Of The Crimson King.

In the first clip at 4:30 and at 5:25, in the second clip at 1:00.

 

Good song by the way, probably unknown to most non-catalan proggers.

 

 

Hi Gerinski heard your samples with curiosity, because Robert Fripp is very strict with his music he doesn't even allow Prog sites to show samples of his albums, but found the sections you talked about, not the same but very similar to the Mellotron passages of In the Court of the Crimson King..

BTW: Last week you sen me a PM about the new music you found in some of my reviews, now I have to thank you for this, I wasn't even aware of the existence of this guy Lluis Llach, nice music, sounds like some sort of Miguel Rios singing in Catalan with weird music.

Very interesting, I liked it.

Iván.

Nothing to thank, my pleasure.

This song of Lluis Llach is indeed very good and probably the most fitting for proggers since it's very symphonic, it would not be out of place in many symphonic prog albums (his way of singing may take some getting used to though).

He is a good musician and has always surrounded himself of good classically trained musicians so he has made much good music, but for the most part he is definitely not prog-rock but a folk-traditional songwriter-performer. He is very highly regarded in Catalunya, not only musically but also because of political reasons, he was one of the first to use music to fight against the dictatorship of Franco and defend the catalan language and culture which were banned by Franco, he even exiled to France because he was banned in Spain.

 

@ Guldbamsen: as you see SBB were not the only ones to be censured in their trying to make music, in my native Catalunya a lot of artists were banned and had to go in exile, mostly to France.