Flute in prog-rock
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Topic: Flute in prog-rock
Posted By: Wombatium
Subject: Flute in prog-rock
Date Posted: November 25 2024 at 10:10
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Dear progressive rock lovers, I’d like to ask for your advice. My question is inspired by a recent discovery of the band Rufus Zuphall (foremost "Weiß Der Teufel" album), which left a deep impression on me. I would be immensely grateful for any suggestions Thank you in advance! |
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Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: November 25 2024 at 10:37
| Focus and Camel both had flute in some of their works. You will probably want to investigate some Italian prog too. |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: November 25 2024 at 11:03
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Hi, I listed these off my collection ... not exactly prog-rock, because the cookie cutter thing takes away a lot of the far out moments in music ... so hopefully you'll allow me that one moment. Mainly because there were some truly far out things done, that probably deserve a mention! (The "prog" ones are marked) -- Jon Field -- Jade Warrior Clay Cook/Jerry Eubanks/David Muse -- The Marshall Tucker Band Alan Wilson -- Canned Heat Ray Thomas -- Moody Blues -- Thijs Van Leer - Focus (and several solo albums!!!) -- Mel Collins - King Crimson/Camel -- Ian McDonald -- King Crimson (early) Ray Herrmann/Larry Klimas -- Chicago Jerry LaCroix -- Blood, Sweat & Tears (early) and several others -- Peter Phippen & Ivar Lunde (Experimental Trippy Stuff) -- Stephan Micus (and other wind instruments) (Experimental Trippy Stuff) -- Andrew Latimer -- Camel (also the guitarist and main writer) -- John - Ozric Tentacles (early) -- Jenny Puertas -- Agusa Hubert Laws -- Jazz Paul Horn -- Solo before New Age Tim Weisberg -- Solo jazz player Jan Garbarek (mostly saxophone) Roland Kirk -- Jazz -- Ian Anderson - Jethro Tull -- Nik Turner -- Hawkwind The list would be endless if we used the names and listing of bands that used a flute for 5 seconds, so to speak. I would think that Ian Anderson "owns" this list, but there are some very neat and nice stuff, Jenny Puertas in AGUSA is really good and worth a listen. Jan Garbarek, is mostly saxophone but in his experimental period he also does a large array of flutes with outstanding touch. (Eventyr). Thisj Van Leer had some solo albums way back when of classical music done on flute, and of course he is the great one in Focus. Paul Horn was originally known for his "Inside" series which started with the pyramid and playing his flute, and hearing all the echoes. Nik Turner used the flute many times, but is less known for it, except in some of his solo albums where he shines in the flute, specially the early stuff. Both Chicago and Blood, Sweat & Tears had flutes at various times, but it is hard to think of them using it as a solo instrument ... I think, in general, the flute was a part of the ensemble ... Ray Thomas was nice, and I think that the Moody Blues kinda got away from the flute when the band kinda became about the hits and not the music .. .what they started with was gone! Roland Kirk and Hubert Laws were early jazz folks ... Hubert Laws did a show with Jean-Pierre Rumpal ... and blew him off the stage ... JR couldn't improvise much ... and Hubert would not let up! The various classical pieces were also better done by Hubert, as JR stuck to the score, and showed a lot less personality and ability! Ian Anderson would probably throw him off the stage for buffoonery! ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: November 25 2024 at 11:46
| Yeah, I forgot to mention the Moody Blues so definitely them too (the early stuff especially). |
Posted By: I prophesy disaster
Date Posted: November 25 2024 at 11:50
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Although best known for playing sax, David Jackson played flute quite a bit in Van der Graaf Generator music. ------------- No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man. |
Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: November 25 2024 at 12:33
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The album you need to hear is the French group Asia Minor's second album, Between Flesh and Divine (1980). The band's guitarist Erik Tekeli is also the flautist. ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: November 25 2024 at 14:34
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Solaris - Marsbéli Krónikák ------------- ---------- i'm shopping for a new oil-cured sinus bag that's a happy bag of lettuce this car smells like cartilage nothing beats a good video about fractions |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: November 25 2024 at 15:52
The first one is very fine too and great flute playing. ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
verslibre wrote:Posted By: Starshiper
Date Posted: November 25 2024 at 17:52
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Harmonium – Si on avait besoin d'une cinquičme saison |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: November 25 2024 at 19:02
| ^ This. Specially on Histoires Sans Paroles. Also Focus, I particularly love the interaction between flute and guitar on Birth. I think Anglagard has some nice flute too. |
Posted By: Starshiper
Date Posted: November 25 2024 at 19:17
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Tako – U vreći za spavanje |
Posted By: Starshiper
Date Posted: November 25 2024 at 19:52
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Jean Cohen-Solal – Flutes Libres |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: November 25 2024 at 21:21
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Steve and John Hackett - Sketches Of Satie (the music of Eric Satie, this is an acoustic album. Steve's brother John is mainly a flute specialist) Dave Longdon era Big Big Train. Dave played the flute really well and there are plenty of great moments on albums like English Electric Part One.
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Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: November 25 2024 at 23:28
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------------- I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution |
Posted By: Starshiper
Date Posted: November 25 2024 at 23:30
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Focus – Hamburger Concerto |
Posted By: GuruCan
Date Posted: November 26 2024 at 00:07
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Joe Farrell's fantastic flute playing on Chick Corea's Return to
Forever album from 1972 totally deserves mention. I know that this
jazz-fusion album is in the hearts of many proggers! |
Posted By: Starshiper
Date Posted: November 26 2024 at 02:00
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Drugi Način – Lile su kiše, from "Drugi način" Drugi Način – Stari grad, from "Drugi način" |
Posted By: GuruCan
Date Posted: November 26 2024 at 02:31
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Absolutely amazing 1977 proggy fusion album by the German band
Katamaran, featuring some killer flute & synthesizer interplays! |
Posted By: Starshiper
Date Posted: November 26 2024 at 02:35
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Flamengo – Já a dým, from "Kuře v Hodinkách" Flamengo – Pár století, from "Kuře v Hodinkách" |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: November 26 2024 at 03:39
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Love all of Sacha van Geest's fluteplaying in Supersister: |
Posted By: Starshiper
Date Posted: November 26 2024 at 03:53
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Pazop – Psychillis of a Lunatic Genius |
Posted By: Floydoid
Date Posted: November 26 2024 at 10:58
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Stackridge - Teatime ------------- "Christ, where would rock & roll be without feedback?" - D. Gimour |
Posted By: Cosmiclawnmower
Date Posted: November 26 2024 at 13:18
Ahh... dear ol' Mutter Slater, a really nice flute player.. i love me a bit of old Stackridge! Rhubarb Thrashers Unite!!! And i'd definitely second the Flute player with Solaris on Marsbéli Krónikák, he's amazing!! ------------- |
Posted By: Floydoid
Date Posted: November 26 2024 at 13:45
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I saw Stackridge live back in the day (mid 70's) - they certainly put on a good show... as soon as I saw the topic 'flute' they were the second name to spring to mind after JT... then Focus third. ------------- "Christ, where would rock & roll be without feedback?" - D. Gimour |
Posted By: GuruCan
Date Posted: November 26 2024 at 16:01
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'Celestial Ocean' is an album by Swiss krautrock trio Brainticket
that was released in 1973 but still sounds totally fresh! Flute here is
awesome. |
Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: November 26 2024 at 16:10
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Gong. But the flute is not the main instrument. |
Posted By: GuruCan
Date Posted: November 26 2024 at 16:29
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Opus-5, the Quebec band, dropped their symphonic rock debut album,
'Contre-Courant,' back in 1976. This record is packed with some
seriously tasty melodies that blend smooth yet sharp vocals with
impressive flute sections. |
Posted By: Hrychu
Date Posted: November 26 2024 at 17:04
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Caravan had a very prominent role of the flute in the band provided by Jimmy Hastings (RIP). ------------- 
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Posted By: GuruCan
Date Posted: November 26 2024 at 18:08
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Nepočin was a short-lived yet awesome Croatian band that released an incredible progressive rock album, 'Svijet po kojem gazim,' back in 1977. This iconic record features killer dual electric guitars, convincing vocals sung in Croatian, great bass lines, and lush keyboards. Plus, it features some wild yet beautifully styled flute work that really elevates the whole vibe! |
Posted By: kirk782
Date Posted: November 26 2024 at 20:50
Is this the same band that released CottonWoodHill ? I listened to two albums by them [I think they had two proper only] and found some of their tracks quite trippy.
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Posted By: GuruCan
Date Posted: November 26 2024 at 23:45
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Posted By: GuruCan
Date Posted: November 27 2024 at 05:57
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'Eros' is a 1981 masterpiece created by the extraordinary French
instrumental sextet Dün, obviously enthralled by Frank Herbert's iconic
1965 sci-fi novel, Dune. The sound on their sole album is rich
and captivating, blending vibraphone, bass, drums, electric and acoustic guitar, piano, synth, and flute into a Zeuhl fantasy that really stands out. |
Posted By: mathman0806
Date Posted: November 27 2024 at 06:57
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Among contemporary artists there is Nolan Potter (Nolan Potter's Nightmare Band). |
Posted By: Jacob Schoolcraft
Date Posted: November 27 2024 at 07:10
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I seem to enjoy Solaris periodically. In a sense it can be interpreted as to travel back in time and hear Jethro Tull instrumentally ...however regarding Solaris' composition there are sections of it which do not feature flute and so therefore to sum them up...a person hearing Solaris might acknowledge the style of Jethro Tull and not so much the expansion of Jethro Tull. Jon Field and his work with Jade Warrior. Many examples of his instrumental passages and jazzy but ambient/hypnotic soloing. He was very original and creatjve...however the letdown for me at times was the consistency of sounding like early Jethro Tull. I still love Jade Warrior though....and those influences began to fade during the Island period. Surprisingly some of his flute work became really interesting on some of the later releases. Didier Malherbe from Gong possessed this amazing ability to fuse a exotic style of improvisation with Jazz. Though there were many musicians/composers already doing this ..Didier Malherbe injected it into a band and it became a distinctive sound within Gong. They were definitely easily recognizable when he played. So based on a style of playing not totally distant from Martin Denny ..Malherbe was doing something else with it. There are so many examples of his playing over decades of various recordings. |
Posted By: Starshiper
Date Posted: November 27 2024 at 07:58
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Cos – Amafam, from "Postaeolian Train Robbery" Cos – Halucal, from "Postaeolian Train Robbery" |
Posted By: GuruCan
Date Posted: November 27 2024 at 21:45
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Mr. Sirius is a musical project of Kazuhiro Miyatake, a very skilled Japanese multi-instrumentalist. On the 'Barren Dream' album from 1987, he plays mellotron, Hammond organ, synthesizer, accordion, electric and acoustic guitars, bass, and flute. In addition, Hiroko Nagai has assumed the stage name Lisa Ohki for this creation as both a vocalist and keyboardist; her voice combines clarity and strength nicely within this wonderful take on symphonic rock. Miyatake's playing of the classical guitar contributes an incredibly beautiful layer to their sound, while his enchanting flute melodies weave throughout this dreamy music. |
Posted By: Aodhán
Date Posted: December 08 2024 at 19:14
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Everyday by WESTFAUSTER (USA, 1971) |
Posted By: Formentera Lady
Date Posted: December 08 2024 at 20:38
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I recommend three bands from Sweden: Agusa Anglagard All Traps On Earth ------------- http://theprogressiveweb.blogspot.de" rel="nofollow - Visit me in Second Life to talk about music. |
Posted By: GuruCan
Date Posted: December 08 2024 at 23:37
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One of the few posthumous releases of Quebecois band the Lasting
Weep, made from several recording sessions between 1969 and 1971, is
another gem where flute seems to dominate. |
Posted By: Faul_McCartney
Date Posted: December 12 2024 at 12:05
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Jacula Valzer |
Posted By: AlanB
Date Posted: December 12 2024 at 12:44
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Mostly Autumn haven't been mentioned yet.
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Posted By: MortSahlFan
Date Posted: December 17 2024 at 17:47
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Chicago (Terry Kath era) ------------- https://www.youtube.com/c/LoyalOpposition https://www.scribd.com/document/382737647/MortSahlFan-Song-List |
Posted By: mellotronwave
Date Posted: December 18 2024 at 12:17
| Kraftwerk : Autobahn (flute with effects) |
Posted By: mellotronwave
Date Posted: December 18 2024 at 12:27
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Not prog but deserves a listening or more Golden Earring : Back Home (single from 1972 I think) Together : a 1972 LP ( track Brother wind) Barry Hay* (singer, flute and sax player) of Golden Earring has recorded a solo LP in the early 7Oies Title is "Only parrots, angels and frogs" Barry played flute/sax on one or a couple of tracks A rare original LP with a beautiful cover-art by the way Golden Earring was a duct band (from the city od Den Haag (The Hague) but Barry was an english citizen 
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Posted By: mellotronwave
Date Posted: December 18 2024 at 12:33
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Van der graaf generator : Dave Jackson : Flute and Saxes Tracks : LP Godbluff : The undercover man LP The least we can do .... : Refugees He collaborated on on numerous Peter Hammill solo's songs |
Posted By: bardberic
Date Posted: December 18 2024 at 16:11
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Storchi. The flutist plays the lead riffs. The music is written specifically for her https://storchi.bandcamp.com/album/outside https://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=12234 |
Posted By: migwp_lx
Date Posted: January 04 2025 at 10:16
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Hi, the albums from La Maschera di Cera have some nice flute. See e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kedDU6-HU2A" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kedDU6-HU2A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gy8h7OjzojQ" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gy8h7OjzojQ You can also check the latest album by my band Lukas Tower Band: https://deref-1und1-02.de/mail/client/nwn6tDtBCpI/dereferrer/?redirectUrl=https%3A%2F%2Flukastowerband.bandcamp.com%2Falbum%2Fa-prophecy" rel="nofollow - https://lukastowerband.bandcamp.com/album/a-prophecy We use flute in some of the tracks (e.g. on the title track), saxophone on other. Cheers (function(){function c(){var b=a.contentDocument||a.contentWindow.document;if(b){var d=b.createElement('script');d.innerHTML="window.__CF$cv$params={r:'8fcce424fb30f80b',t:'MTczNjAxMTE0Mi4wMDAwMDA='};var a=document.createElement('script');a.nonce='';a.src='/cdn-cgi/challenge-platform/scripts/jsd/main.js';document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(a);";b.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(d)}}if(document.body){var a=document.createElement('iframe');a.height=1;a.width=1;a.style.position='absolute';a.style.top=0;a.style.left=0;a.style.border='none';a.style.visibility='hidden';document.body.appendChild(a);if('loading'!==document.readyState)c();else if(window.addEventListener)document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded',c);else{var e=document.onreadystatechange||function(){};document.onreadystatechange=function(b){e(b);'loading'!==document.readyState&&(document.onreadystatechange=e,c())}}}})();< height="1" width="1" style=": ; top: 0px; left: 0px; border: medium; visibility: ;">
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Posted By: Hosydi
Date Posted: February 06 2025 at 01:09
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Pete Sinfield ft. Mel Collins: The Piper (1973) |
Posted By: Heart of the Matter
Date Posted: February 06 2025 at 06:16
Posted By: Hosydi
Date Posted: February 06 2025 at 08:26
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Pearls Before Swine ft. Joe Farrell: Images of April (1968) |
Posted By: mellotronwave
Date Posted: February 06 2025 at 11:08
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Posted By: mellotronwave
Date Posted: February 06 2025 at 11:31
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: February 06 2025 at 14:42
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Cris Wood (Traffic) sax & flute Remi Dreschler & Moran Neumaier (Out of Focus) both played sax & flute ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: Hosydi
Date Posted: February 06 2025 at 15:23
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Gleb Kolyadin ft. Theo Travis: Kaleidoscope (2018) |
Posted By: Hosydi
Date Posted: February 06 2025 at 16:35
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Tasavallan Presidentti: Ancient Mariner (1969) |
Posted By: mellotronwave
Date Posted: February 06 2025 at 18:50
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Joe Walsh the live tack 'Turn to stone' from his LP You can't argue with a sick mind ( 1976) Joe Vitale the drummer with to flute for a 2 minutes solo and interplay with Joe on guitar Not realy what is expected from a Joe Walsh live record .... however ... |
Posted By: meAsoi
Date Posted: February 06 2025 at 21:12
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I Could Never Be a Soldier by Gnidrolog—certainly one of the most lovely flute performances in prog rock music. |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: February 06 2025 at 23:37
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Posted By: Hosydi
Date Posted: February 07 2025 at 00:19
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This one could also fit the "prog song by a non-prog band" thread. Laura Nyro ft. Joe Farrell: Upstairs by a Chinese Lamp (1970) |