EKSEPTION in Art-Rock?
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Topic: EKSEPTION in Art-Rock?
Posted By: ANDREW
Subject: EKSEPTION in Art-Rock?
Date Posted: December 03 2006 at 07:27
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Why the band Ekseption is listed under Art-Rock???
They are pure symphonic!!!
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: December 03 2006 at 07:53
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I know; I had a big azrgument with Ivān who kicked them out of symphonic, claiming there was too much jazz.
I cannot think of Trace or Ekseption being anywhere elsethan symphonic since 85% of their stuff was either re-working or stealing the cklassical remaster. Focus was sometimes also awfully close to reworking the classics.
Same with Sky, but I believe Sky should be in prog-related. ------------- 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: Dick Heath
Date Posted: December 03 2006 at 08:05
thought they were brass rock with a bent towards the classic repertoire
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Posted By: oracus
Date Posted: December 03 2006 at 17:09
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You are right. They MUST listed under symphonic ------------- 
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Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: December 04 2006 at 07:10
Because they have long sampled the classical music repertoire, doesn't make them 'symphonic prog'- a term which has been long used for a band's use of the symphonic structure in arrangement. The point I made with 'brass rock' was that Ekseption were jazzing up the classics. ------------- The best eclectic music on the Web,8-11pm BST/GMT THURS. CLICK ON: http://www.lborosu.org.uk/media/lcr/live.php - http://www.lborosu.org.uk/media/lcr/live.php Host by PA's Dick Heath. |
oracus wrote:Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: December 04 2006 at 12:45
Well said - a mistake I often see people make. |
Posted By: Tony R
Date Posted: December 04 2006 at 13:40
| Why is this thread listed in the Prog Lounge, that is what I would like to know! |
Posted By: Zac M
Date Posted: December 04 2006 at 22:50
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Ekseption do jazz up the classics. I personally do not what category they are placed under, I just enjoy the music-->the most important thing. Sky should not be moved though. That's like saying they're the Prog equivelant (sp?) of Iron Maiden. I have every Sky album and am a huge fan (who else would own all the albums?), so I think I know where they should go  .That last statement may seem a bit contradictory, BUT I feel that you can't place a Prog band (and Sky are a classical rock jazz pop hybrid Prog supergroup-a bit like Ekseption, although totally different, if that makes any sense) in a non-Prog category. ------------- "Art is not imitation, nor is it something manufactured according to the wishes of instinct or good taste. It is a process of expression." -Merleau-Ponty |