Strings-driven ProgRock bands
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Topic: Strings-driven ProgRock bands
Posted By: BestFreak
Subject: Strings-driven ProgRock bands
Date Posted: April 23 2006 at 10:37
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Can someone give me a recommendation for ProgRock bands that use strings (violins and cellos) extensively in their music, other than Curved Air and Esperanto? Thanx for the contribution to expanding my ProgHorizons! ------------- All the best freaks are here! |
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Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: April 23 2006 at 10:45
| Apart from King Crimson with David Cross, I would mention the fantastic High Tide, with Simon House's trademark electric violin. Both their albums, "Sea Shanties" and "High Tide", are highly recommended. |
Posted By: kloparto
Date Posted: April 23 2006 at 10:46
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Quella Vecchia Locanda has very wild and beautiful violin. Mahavishnu uses too. And of course the post-rock bands from Canada like Godspeed (GYBE!).
Luck |
Posted By: Ty1020
Date Posted: April 23 2006 at 10:49
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Lots of post-rock bands make great use of strings. Godspeed You Black
Emperor, A Silver Mt. Zion, and Sigur Ros are some of the best examples.
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Posted By: BePinkTheater
Date Posted: April 23 2006 at 10:51
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Bond.
They arent really prog, but they are HOT
Its a female sting quartet that does like electronica mixed with classical. but they are quite attractive ------------- I can strangle a canary in a tin can and it would be really original, but that wouldn't save it from sounding like utter sh*t. -Stone Beard |
Posted By: retuow
Date Posted: April 23 2006 at 10:52
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Van der Graaf's The Quiet Zone/The Pleasure Dome is strings driven, but you'll need to like Hammill's guitar playing as well (not everyone does). If you like this, check out Hammill solo (he has a lot of albums with Stuart Gordon on violin).
Don't know any other off the top of my head. ------------- Human beings were created by water to carry it uphill. |
Posted By: Notch
Date Posted: April 23 2006 at 11:00
| Indukti. Polish progressive metal with the lead vocalist from Riverside. |
Posted By: The Rock
Date Posted: April 23 2006 at 11:24
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ELO
Darryl Way's Wolf
Anekdoten(on first 3 albums)
UK
Hawkwind(73-77)
Jean-Luc Ponty
David Cross ------------- What's gonna come out of my mouth is gonna come out of my soul."Skip Prokop" |
Posted By: Tenth Chaffinch
Date Posted: April 23 2006 at 11:28
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I highly reccomend "Godspeed You Black Emporer" for some emotional progressive music that heavily utilizes stringed instruments. They use no keyboards and instead have multiple stringed instruments to add depth to their playing.
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Posted By: MajesterX
Date Posted: April 23 2006 at 11:45
| Trans-Siberian Orchestra is very strings driven. It's literally a a rock band with an Orchestra. |
Posted By: Rashikal
Date Posted: April 23 2006 at 11:45
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The Moody Blues' first album "Days of Future Past" feauturing the london philharmonic or w/e ------------- 
listen to Hella |
Posted By: heyitsthatguy
Date Posted: April 23 2006 at 12:13
I'm starting to question your thought process if you listen to music for how they look....  It's ok as long as thats not the only reason you listen to them. It's hilarious how on guitar tab sites any mention of Evanescance *not really my cup o tea* turns into a 30 post conversation on how hot she is. Yay sexist america!! ------------- 
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BePinkTheater wrote:Posted By: Syzygy
Date Posted: April 23 2006 at 12:26
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On the RIO/Avant prog scene you could try Art Zoyd or Sotos, who both use strings extensively. Fred Frith (Henry Cow/Art Bears/Skelton Crew) is an accomplished violinist as well as guitarist, bassist, pianist etc. and Hopes and Fears by Art Bears and the first Skeleton Crew album both feature quite a lot of strings. ------------- 'Like so many of you I've got my doubts about how much to contribute to the already rich among us...' Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom |
Posted By: lightbulb_son
Date Posted: April 23 2006 at 17:07
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Godspeed, A Silver Mt. Zion, and Sigur Ros are some of my favorite bands and they all make great use of strings. ------------- When the world is sick Can't no one be well But I dreamt we were all beautiful and strong 
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Posted By: mrgd
Date Posted: April 23 2006 at 23:57
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STRING DRIVEN THING mainly for 'The Machine that Cried'--- A+++ ------------- Looking still the same after all these years... mrgd |
Posted By: Rorro
Date Posted: April 24 2006 at 04:30
| Comus has a nice employment of violin, but mainly this group is guitar driven. |
Posted By: Olias
Date Posted: April 24 2006 at 13:22
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There´s a lot of bands that used strings as a sound sampler on Mellotron...
Too many to mention, but try to catch Sandrose (France) or Spring (UK)
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: April 24 2006 at 14:19
| Try "Once Again" by Barclay James Harvest, great use of orchestra. I don't know how much they used on their other albums though. |
Posted By: mithrandir
Date Posted: April 24 2006 at 14:49
 first band that came to mind when I read the title of this thread, |
Posted By: salmacis
Date Posted: April 24 2006 at 15:15
String Driven Thing spring immediately to mind! Their album 'The Machine That Cried' is very akin to Curved Air imo, only a bit less keyboard driven.
As for BJH, I'd say only their first album heavily relies upon orchestration, with pretty much every track (bar the below par 'Good Love Child') having some orchestra in there somewhere. 'Once Again', 'BJH and Other Short Stories' and 'Baby James Harvest' have some orchestra on a few tracks too.
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Posted By: The Wizard
Date Posted: April 24 2006 at 17:27
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UK anyone? The increbilbe supergroup with Eddie Jobson providing a wonderful electric violin. Also features Alan Holdsworth, Bill Bruford, and John Wetton. Excellent stuff recomended to all prog heads. -------------  
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Posted By: Suki
Date Posted: April 25 2006 at 02:44
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Ahh... They are emotional indeed. I remember I nearly cried when I first heard 'Storm'.. There is a lot of emotion there, as well as strings.
I second :)
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Posted By: oscar
Date Posted: April 25 2006 at 02:51
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After crying...A wonderful Hungarian band. They uses a lot of strings, and are scolared in classical music ------------- Life is PROGRESSIVE |
Posted By: pechu prog 730
Date Posted: April 25 2006 at 05:20
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DID YOU HEAR A BABD CALLED ''THE PLANETS''.REALLY COOL.ALSO KANSAS,IS GOOD TOO ------------- IT'S RAINING ON THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON |
Posted By: Eetu Pellonpaa
Date Posted: April 25 2006 at 07:38
| At least " http://www.progarchives.com/Progressive_rock_discography_CD.asp?cd_id=6435 - Tammikuinen Tammela " by UZVA has a violin on it. |
Posted By: Abstrakt
Date Posted: April 25 2006 at 15:05
| Frank Zappa - Hot Rats |
Posted By: chamberry
Date Posted: April 25 2006 at 16:01
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I have to agree with the ones that mentioned A silver mount zion,
Godspeed you! black emperor, Sigur Ros and After crying. I'll add
Univers zero to the list also.
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Posted By: Ty1020
Date Posted: April 25 2006 at 17:03
You're the third to recommend GYBE, actually  .------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Ty1020/">
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Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: April 25 2006 at 17:49
Far Corner (self titled album rleased last year by Cuneiform) - electric cello as lead instrument.
 Caryn Lin : Tolerance For Ambiguity (Alchemy Records) - very interesting violin player  |