Formentera Lady discovers the music on PA
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Topic: Formentera Lady discovers the music on PA
Posted By: Formentera Lady
Subject: Formentera Lady discovers the music on PA
Date Posted: October 15 2010 at 09:24
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A post to another thread made me think to create this blog. On PA there is so much music of so many bands, which I never heard of before, that I definitely need ages to discover them all. Nevertheless, I give it a try. What I do is the following: I go to the Symphonic Prog page of PA, then I click on the stream button. I have just finished the letter D. So far I found interesting: - Arachnoid (which has a touch of King Crimson) - Atmosphera (which sounds like Yes) Both bands released only one album, if I see it correctly. And both bands have, IMHO, something more specific in them, than only trying to be some kind of a tribute band. I already tried to hear more of it from other sources and I really like it! Then I noted on my list for further discovery: - Beggars Opera - Cathedral - Chaos Code - Cinema - Clearlight - Coda - Discipline I would like to continue to post, after I finished more letters. What do you think? I appreciate your thoughts on it. |
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Posted By: caretaker
Date Posted: October 15 2010 at 10:10
| Sounds like a good plan. Wish I had the patience. |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: October 15 2010 at 11:12
Music? Here on the PA???  I know a lot of prog artists, but the only one in your list I know is Discipline and I really like Unfolded... ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Posted By: Formentera Lady
Date Posted: October 15 2010 at 12:22
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Before I started the stream, I only knew ABWH and Camel between A and D. I don't know if I  or about it. |
Posted By: Gerinski
Date Posted: October 16 2010 at 00:23
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Yeah, good plan. Honestly I rarely use the streaming, I guess with prog I don't feel so much like listening to single assorted tracks, I like to listen to the complete album so I mostly look for albums which look promising and get them. I should try PA's streaming more though...
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Posted By: TheGazzardian
Date Posted: October 16 2010 at 01:04
I've discovered some good bands through streaming on PA. Favorite so far would probably be Simon Steensland.
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Gerinski wrote:Posted By: Formentera Lady
Date Posted: October 17 2010 at 09:52
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Just started with the letter E: - Earth and Fire Very interesting. Just discovered that they are from the Netherlands. Like the band Coda. And like Ekseption, the only prog band I knew so far from that country, and who specialised in rock adaptions of classical music. Seems to be quite a scene there in the Netherlands. - Echolyn I remember seeing the name mentioned already several times in the forum. Sounds interesting indeed. I'll look into it further. The music plays and plays, and I am cleaning my desk, then the whole room, then I look at the monitor and see that the song still is not over. Only then I look at the duration - 50 minutes! I am shocked! I think I'll take a little bit longer for E. |
Posted By: Lozlan
Date Posted: October 17 2010 at 14:54
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I've found the vast majority of my music here on this site. For all those delicious obscurities from 67-78 that make up my daily diet of prog...thank you, PA. My ultimate goal is to explore every artist on the site, It might take me 50-odd years, but hey, I'll never be bored.  ------------- Certified Obscure Prog Fart. http://scottjcouturier.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow - The Loose Palace of Exile - My first novel, The Mask of Tamrel, now available on Amazon and Kindle |
Posted By: memowakeman
Date Posted: October 17 2010 at 16:50
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Nice, I once tried to do that, but did not have the patience. Now I go and click the random video button. ------------- Follow me on twitter @memowakeman |
Posted By: Formentera Lady
Date Posted: November 12 2010 at 12:17
I've just been through the letter E. The only artist I knew was ELP.
- Echolyn is so far the most interesting discovery in E. Their music seems to incorporate many influences from the 70's prog rock era, especially Gentle Giant, but I also hear some ELP, Supertramp and Styx. At the same time the music is far from derivative, the influences are all mixed to form something really fresh and new. I definitely want to listen more of it. Unfortunately the albums are not easy to get and/or expensive. - Eidolon I like these mysterious mellotron sounds mixed with violin. - England A hidden gem of the 70's. - Epignosis Oh, I did not know that Epignosis is a musician  . A nice 20 minute epic.All of the above I'll explore further. |
Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Date Posted: November 15 2010 at 01:23
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If you come across any whole albums being streamed send a PM - there were heaps at one stage and you could review them without forking out massive amounts of cash. Now there are only one or two songs scattered usually. i heard all Visual Cliff albums here and Shadow Circus but they took them down I believe. ------------- 
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Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Date Posted: November 15 2010 at 01:25
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Try Diagonal when you can too - amazing band! -------------
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Posted By: Formentera Lady
Date Posted: November 29 2010 at 08:14
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@ ACR: I haven't found whole albums yet. But the live version of Echolyn's Mei is there (50 min.). Still it is not the whole album. And thanks for the recommendation. After first listen of 'Semi-permeable...' it did not really appeal to me, but I'll give it a second try later. |
Posted By: Formentera Lady
Date Posted: November 29 2010 at 08:30
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I have been through the letter F, and I think the highlights are here Flower Kings and Focus. - The Flower Kings are not a new discovery for me, I knew them already earlier before I joined PA. I believe that this amazing Swedish band played a big part in reviving prog rock in the 90ies. - Focus: this is a new discovery for me. I saw the band often mentioned in the forum and I understand now why. Because of the yodeling in Hocus Pocus I first thought they come from Bavaria, but no, it is a Dutch band! I'll look into it further. |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: November 29 2010 at 08:50
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Creating a random playlist (just above the list of recently added MP3's on the homepage) might reveal some interesting music now and then. Just give it a try. ------------- 
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Posted By: Epyros
Date Posted: December 20 2010 at 05:55
| Didn't you like Fruupp?? =P |
Posted By: Formentera Lady
Date Posted: December 20 2010 at 07:53
I hoped, that someone would comment on artists I left out  , because I might overlook someone.Fruupp's song It's all up now is streamed here, which indeed has a remarkable song structure. But it did not really grip me. Is there another song you might recommend me to listen to? |
Posted By: tamijo
Date Posted: December 20 2010 at 07:59
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I dont know Frupp, but if you Youtube them, there is a lot of tracks. ------------- Prog is whatevey you want it to be. So dont diss other peoples prog, and they wont diss yours |
Posted By: Negoba
Date Posted: December 20 2010 at 08:22
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So are you buying any albums based on your listens?
Arachnoid's album delivers all the way through, if you like their sound, it's worth getting.
Discipline's Unfolded like Staircase is very good, but the lead track (Limbo) is far superior to the rest of the album
Echolyn is a very good modern prog. The live Mei is a little flat to my ears, but their own site used to have other free songs to try.
Focus only uses the yodels on that one song, with rare hints at it elsewhere. They are very solid classic prog band that I'd put up with Camel in the "Second Tier" of classic prog.
I've gotten alot of music based on streaming samples, here, and last.fm when they used to have full songs. Lots of bands have some free material to get you started as well.
Enjoy the site. ------------- You are quite a fine person, and I am very fond of you. But you are only quite a little fellow, in a wide world, after all. |
Posted By: Epyros
Date Posted: December 21 2010 at 00:55
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so Fruupp didn't make it, =P What about Finch?? you may like them if you like Focus
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Posted By: progvortex
Date Posted: December 21 2010 at 01:44
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My goal is to listen to all the top 100 albums on PA
------------- Life is like a beanstalk... isn't it? |
Posted By: Formentera Lady
Date Posted: March 13 2011 at 17:14
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Now I have finished to listen to the streams of the letter G in the symphonic prog section. In this letter I only know Genesis. I would like to comment on the bands I found most notable: - I used to play the recorder and I always wanted to combine the recorder with rock music like... Galie! I am not sure if this mexican band really uses a recorder or another type of flute, but it sounds very much like one. It alternates nicely with the synth solos and acoustical guitar. Although the flute is a bit intonated too high on these examples, I definitely like to hear more of them. - In a very similar style than Galie is also this piece of the spanish band Gotic. Here the flute (recorder) is intonated correctly and I listened to it with enjoyment. Another one to check out. - Gracious sounds dark, mysterious, powerful. Why have I never heard of it before? The samples of the early 70ies remind me a bit of King Crimson. This is simply... gracious! - Sweden did a lot for the revival of progressive rock in the 90ies and later. So I was not surprised to find out that Grand Stand comes from this country, too. This example of music contains everything I like of this genre. - I knew Dave Greenslade only from Colosseum, which is one of my favourite bands. Now I heard for the first time some music of the band he founded in the 70ies. Greenslade seems to be much influenced from Genesis and Yes of the same time. The result is much worth to check out. - A surprise for me was to discover the german band Grobschnitt. The voice is a bit to get used to, but the music is typical 70ies prog, in the wake of Genesis and Yes. I am a german and I have never heard of this band before. It seems to me, this type of music does not have a tradition in my country, that's a pity. - Shaun Guerin (R.I.P) sounds very much like early Genesis, which is not a surprise, as I just learnt, he was lead singer and drummer of the Genesis cover band Cinema Show. He died shortly after two solo albums. The song, that is streamed here, sounds a bit darker, then the songs Genesis normally do. |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: March 13 2011 at 17:37
If you have not yet heard the MP3 streaming samples of Clearlight, I can recommend you http://www.progarchives.com/mp3.asp?id=987" rel="nofollow - this one , with Shaun Guerin on vocals... (to be cont'd at K). -------------
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Posted By: Formentera Lady
Date Posted: March 13 2011 at 17:44
Oh, I like Clearlight . I mentioned them in my first post (where I was not yet so specific with comments on the bands.) But thank you for reminding me. I already thought, that I heard the voice earlier and could not figure it out immediately... |
Posted By: Steven Brodziak
Date Posted: March 17 2011 at 05:34
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Clearlight was the only one I had heard of. In the A's did you come across "Ain Soph"? I highly recommend the song "Valley of Lutha".
Alan Parsons?
Ayreon?
Blackfield?
Blackmore's Night?
Caravan?
Explorer's Club?
Fates Warning?
Frogg Cafe?
Glass Hammer?
Gowan?
H's........ Harmonium!!!!!!!!!!!!
and IQ.
I am a Symph prog nut myself. Not all above is Symph prog but I recommend the above.
------------- Well, there it is. (Amadeus) |
Posted By: omri
Date Posted: March 17 2011 at 05:56
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Formenter lady ......................dance your dance for me !
I am not sure that your idea is a good one. Streaming is O.K. and I used it my self but I have found that in many cases reading reviews can be very helpful and also searching the sub-genre highlights. I would strongly recommend you not to focus only on symphonic and search other sub-genres too.
Here's a small list of things I recommend from the letters you already searched :
After crying - a Hungarian symphonic band from the 90's. Their debut "Overground music" is beautiful and I am still searching for more albums from this band.
Comus - An acid folk band that released 2 albums in the 70's. Their debut "First utterance" is much better and IMO one of the greatest albums in all time.
Esperanto - A Belgian / English symphonic band that released 3 albums in mid 70's. The second album - "Danse macabre" is a masterpiece in my book.
Fern knight - Folk band from San francisko that released 4 album in the last years. I have the latter 2. I recommend their third album which is self titled.
Haggard - for some odd reasons this band is classified here as crossover. This is a band that mixes clasic tools (violin, celo, oboe ...etc) with guitars and drums and medival female singing with heavy metal male singing and that may sound bizzare to you but I find the outcome magical. I recommend their debut and the third album - "Epur si muevo".
Enjoy ! ------------- omri |
Posted By: omri
Date Posted: March 17 2011 at 06:00
For me "Crutches" and "Before the storm" are better than "Limbo" though the whole album is great.
Focus youdle some more ("Harem scarem" in the begining of "Hamburger concerto" and also one track on their 8th album). ------------- omri |