Bands with Violinists?
Printed From: Progarchives.com
Category: Progressive Music Lounges
Forum Name: Prog Recommendations/Featured albums
Forum Description: Make or seek recommendations and discuss specific prog albums
URL: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=82860
Printed Date: November 23 2024 at 08:33
Software Version: Web Wiz Forums 11.01 - http://www.webwizforums.com
Topic: Bands with Violinists?
Posted By: mrweiner
Subject: Bands with Violinists?
Date Posted: November 18 2011 at 12:29
|
Hey all. I've been coming here for a while without an account and
finally decided to make one, so I figured I might as well post up in one
of the forums! I play electric violin in a band called Clouds On Strings ( http://music.cloudsonstrings.com/" rel="nofollow - http://music.cloudsonstrings.com ), and I recently realized that I need more string artists in this style of music from whom I can learn and draw inspiration. If anybody has any suggestions for prog bands of any type who have a violinist or other string players, I would love to take a listen! Thanks in advance for any insight! I can't wait to hear some new music. |
Replies:
Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: November 18 2011 at 12:31
| Welcome to PA! You should find http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=51631" rel="nofollow - this interesting. |
Posted By: bucka001
Date Posted: November 18 2011 at 12:35
Wow. Talk about killing a thread (in a good way, though!) ------------- jc |
harmonium.ro wrote:Posted By: mrweiner
Date Posted: November 18 2011 at 13:01
Seriously, that's a thread-killer if I've ever seen one! :D Great list. If anybody wants to list their personal favorites or artists on or not on that list though, I'd still love to hear from y'all. |
Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: November 18 2011 at 14:06
|
this one is firce and angry if im not wrong this might be Luc Ponty or whatever the name was http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4K1VxNg9Bc" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4K1VxNg9Bc im also been told i mention GG in every thread im willing to do it now also since they are quite found of violines and have many good songs featureing violin http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgUpLcnLkxs" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgUpLcnLkxs -------------  
|
Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: November 18 2011 at 14:13
| Cheers! I don't think I've killed the thread, because some recommendations assorted to your tastes and acompanied by YouTube samples would be very useful. We need to know what you like, though! |
Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: November 18 2011 at 14:18
|
Hello mrweiner (can´t even say that with a straight face - my dad´s into bratwurst), and welcome to the forum! Ok along to those recommendations. I´ve got a pretty eclectic taste, so I´ll post some different ones for you: Roxy Music - Out of the Blue http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcyvKQ5hNzE" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcyvKQ5hNzE Älgarnes Trädgård - Takeoff http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWiVJFlcB7A" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWiVJFlcB7A David Axelrod - Urizen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4822nQQPvmE" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4822nQQPvmE Amon Düül ll - Soap Shop Rock http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0DkLDNSVks" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0DkLDNSVks String Driven Thing - Heartfeeder http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jq9I_xTFjys" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jq9I_xTFjys Fred - A love Song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vadjw5fa0Rw&feature=related" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vadjw5fa0Rw&feature=related The violin is such a beautiful instrument, but it can also be gritty and menacing. I really love it like that. ------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: November 18 2011 at 15:15
| Seventies German prog band Pell Mell have a great, classically trained violinist named Thomas Schmidt who is fantastic! |
Posted By: Nightfly
Date Posted: November 18 2011 at 17:10
| Welcome!There's a new Italian band that will hopefully be added to the archives soon called Le Maschere Di Clara. They're a 3 piece consisting of violin, bass and drums and have just released their first album. It's powerful stuff and well worth a listen. You can hear it at http://www.progstreaming.com/" rel="nofollow - http://www.progstreaming.com/ |
Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: November 18 2011 at 17:33
|
^I can see them getting confused with La Maschere Di Cera quite easily! I had to look twice at the name. Off the top of my head and without looking at Dick's list which was linked above, these bands all have a permenant violinist. Indukti Unexpect Kayo Dot Sub Rosa My Dying Bride Quella Vecchia Locanda Curved Air maudlin of the Well (on the last album Part the Second only, Mia Matsumiya is supposed to be only a guest but features so heavily she might as well have been a full member) Caravan Diablo Swing Orchestra (cellist) Giant Squid and Grayceon (cellist Jackie Perez-Gratz plays in both) Ram-Zet UK Universe Zero Far Corner (cellist) ------------- Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005 
|
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: November 18 2011 at 19:03
|
Just so that the obvious isn't overlooked, there is Kansas and King Crimson (when David Cross was with them).
Perhaps not so obvious, but listening to Apocaliptica may give you some ideas too. They don't play violin, but Cellos... a band that originally had 4 cellos (and nothing more), and later on ended up with 3 Cellos and a drum player. Sometimes they add a vocalist or some other instrument. The thing is, they play Heavy Metal only with their cellos and no electric guitar. |
Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: November 18 2011 at 19:25
|
Espers if you like folk, Art Zoyd and Kayo Dot if you like avant-garde music |
Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: November 18 2011 at 20:24
| Anything that Didier Lockwood played on. |
Posted By: BarryGlibb
Date Posted: November 18 2011 at 21:01
|
There's a few obvious ones: Horslips (Charles O'Connor) Fairport Convention (Dave Swarbrick, Ric Sanders) Eddie Jobson and all his associated bands (Curved Air, Roxy Music, UK, Tull) |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: November 18 2011 at 21:25
|
Bands with violinists? I don't think so. A figment of your imagination for sure. ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
|
Posted By: dwill123
Date Posted: November 18 2011 at 22:00
| Mahavishnu Orchestra |
Posted By: cstack3
Date Posted: November 18 2011 at 23:54
Wow, thanks, that IS fantastic!!
|
Posted By: cstack3
Date Posted: November 19 2011 at 00:02
|
This woman, Rachael Barton-Pine, is a Chicago phenom! Check out her version of Ozzy Osborne's "Crazy Train," it starts about 2:00 |
Posted By: lemur voice
Date Posted: November 19 2011 at 00:08
|
Ne Obliviscaris comes to mind. ------------- prog on forever |
Posted By: mrweiner
Date Posted: November 20 2011 at 02:44
|
Wow, thanks for all of the suggestions everybody. I guess I have a quite a bit of listening to do! :D There were a few bands like Mahavishnu, King Crimson, Kansas, and Kayo Dot that I think are awesome, but I definitely need to revisit their stuff. I'll keep everybody updated as I listen to everything.
I'll give everything a chance. My tastes fluctuate from day to day, so it's hard to say something specific. I will say though that my band has a lot of influence from 70s prog, so hearing some more of that and comparing it with some more modern stuff from various genres could prove very fun. I think with all the various suggestions I'll be able to do that pretty well. |
Posted By: Big Ears
Date Posted: November 21 2011 at 10:12
I wickedly stole this from Wicki while trying to find the spelling for Ed Alleyne-Johnson and he was top of the list. Bizarrely, he has no entry in his own right in Wicki (it must be as the result of vandalism). He gets a very full sound from the electric violin. Apparently, he was with a band called New Model Army, whom I know nothing about.
|
Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: November 21 2011 at 10:18
|
Gåte -------------
|
Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: November 21 2011 at 10:38
|
Swedish folk rockers Garmarna,
------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |
Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: November 21 2011 at 10:40
Alexander Rybak  nah just kidding -------------
|
Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: November 21 2011 at 10:42
| Quella Vecchia Locanda is superb. Both of their albums featured a very skilled violinist. Many samples on YT if you're interested in hearing them. |
Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: November 21 2011 at 13:32
Should we add him here on PA?
 ------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |
Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: November 21 2011 at 14:30
|
There is only 1 band. Kansas. That is all. ------------- Crushed like a rose in the riverflow. |
Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: November 21 2011 at 14:51
This guy obviously knows what he's talking about. ------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: KingCrInuYasha
Date Posted: November 21 2011 at 20:58
|
Gentle Giant had some good tunes with violins ("Funny Ways", "Black Cat", "Peel The Paint", "Dog's Life").
------------- He looks at this world and wants it all... so he strikes, like Thunderball! |
Posted By: Lewa
Date Posted: November 22 2011 at 07:02
|
Hi, if you want want more old- prog (60/70s), I second Quella Vecchia Locanda. There's also Dave Arbus from East of Eden. I'd recommend Mercator Projected, their fist album. It spans a lot of styles from an classical-inspired (Communion) to Jazz-Rock (Stable Of The Sphinx). The whole album has violin throughout. |
Posted By: colorofmoney91
Date Posted: November 22 2011 at 09:19
|
Jean-Luc Ponty is a pretty gnarly violinist, and Spirogrya is good too if you enjoy the more folk side of prog. ------------- http://hanashukketsu.bandcamp.com" rel="nofollow - Hanashukketsu |
Posted By: mrweiner
Date Posted: November 22 2011 at 17:56
|
I'm workin my way through stuff slowly but surely. Been really busy the past frew days so I haven't gotten to hear too much. So far from what I've listened to, Älgarnes Trädgård, Amon Düül ll, and Quella Vecchia Locandaare all very interesting listens. It's gonna take me forever to get through this list, but thanks again for all of the suggestions. Obviously, as always, Mahavishnu and Gentle Giant are great as is Kansas. Keep 'em comin! I hope other people are enjoying the input here as much as I am. Cheers! |
Posted By: Slaughternalia
Date Posted: November 22 2011 at 18:11
|
------------- I'm so mad that you enjoy a certain combination of noises that I don't |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: November 22 2011 at 20:38
|
Hi, Nice thread ...
But while it is very nice to hear these things, and how different people can be, maybe you will see the one thing that will help you the most ... what made these people was not the music per se, but their very special chance at creating something and working themselves into it.
So, in essence, the secret is ... YOU ... when it comes to "making it" and separating yourself from the masses that also play a violin.
I like to blow my ear wax off in a while and here is my favorite list of things to play back to back, and they all have a violin going crazy and then some ...
- Curved Air - Vivaldi with Cannons - 1st album
- String Driven Thing - Tympany for the Devil ( I think it was also done before with McKendree Spring with same violinist)
- Esperanto - Dance Macabre
- Curved Air - Vivaldi with Cannons - Live
- Amon Duul 2 - Apocaliptyc Bore (massive violin guitar duet -- which they also did many other times flat out crazy)
- Darryl Way's Wolf - Anteros
- Peter Hammill - Cat's Eye / Yellow Fever
- Roxy Music - Out of the Blue - (this is Eddie Jobson, who also played keyboards)
- Curved Air - Moonshine (title cut)
- Caravan - "L' Auberge du Sanglier/ A Hunting We Shall Go/Pengola/Backwards/A Hunting We Shall Go (reprise)" (For Girls)
- Jefferson Airplane - Have You Seen the Saucers (Papa John Creech)
- Jefferson Airplane - Ride the Tiger (also Papa)
- Hawkwind - " http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychedelic_Warlords" rel="nofollow - The Psychedelic Warlords (Disappear in Smoke) " – "Wind of Change" (Simon House)
- Anekdotten - First album
- Par Lindh Project - any album with Magdalena ... she's was way better than he was!
- It's a Beautiful Day - White Bird
After that I can put myself to sleep. Must be long cuts and be vibrant and explode in your speakers out loud, or it's not worth beans!
 Ooopppsss ... and no, I did not forget Doug Kershaw, Charlie Daniels and that one guy here in Portland that played with "Group du Jour" that was a magnificent mix of Tull and KC with a violin, and he played flute when he needed a break, or vice versa! Charlie Daniels probably can outplay more than two thirds of these folks listed in PA ... and you know what he would say ... you want what? ...
I was pretty sure that I also saw Robin Williamson (Incredible String Band and solo) also play violin, but it might be better said that there isn't an instrument in the face of the earth that Robin can't play! ------------- 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: MFP
Date Posted: November 22 2011 at 21:05
|
BUBU |
Posted By: mrweiner
Date Posted: November 22 2011 at 22:11
Well said! Yeah I definitely understand that. However, throughout my musical career I've never really been the best at listening to people who are masters in their own right, and internalizing what they do. That's something that I want to work toward now. In my opinion, the best way to create something new and exciting is to understand those who came before you. Whether you imitate, transform, or completely disregard what they did is another issue altogether, but it is a decision that can only be made and understood after extensive listening. ------------- If you music.cloudsonstrings.com" rel="nofollow - check out my band I'll love you forever. "If you always do what you've always done, you'll always be what you've always been." |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: November 23 2011 at 16:04
The one thing a teacher can NOT help you with is ... what it takes to "be" that master. The academic view is that you play notes better than anyone else, which is not necessarily true ... because then you get the new "wave" and they do things different and they become the new "master".
What helps me, is learning and reading about how they thought and worked with others and the best scene to take a look at, and see what they did, is the French scene from the 30's to the 60's which is magnificently documented by all of them, something that rock music thinks they can do strictly by sales and "Number 1's".
In the end, you will find only one thing ... it's about how YOU express yourself, and the day that your instrument "turns over" and it becomes just an extension of your hand, or arm, you know that you are a "master" ...
From an stage/acting perspective, I will tell you what is very good for an exercise ... I used to take one set of lines and have the actor say it ... with hate ... now say it with love ... like say it like you don't care ... now say it like you don't give a $hit ... and so on ... create as many of these as possible .... it's still the same music, but HOW you express it all of a sudden is the difference, and one almost would say ... wow ... it's a totally different piece of music expressed this way, or that way.
The next thing that happens once you learn this a bit, which is a fun exercise (you should always do this with vacuum cleaners and brooms and such with folks around you!), is that one day you create a piece of music ... and you have the notes written down ... then you go play them ... and you change the notes, because this is the way you want to play them and express your piece ... and now you know what the :heavy" and the "good" ones are all about ... the music is "seconday" (so to speak) and you concern yourself with HOW to bring it off.
This, of course, is the part that English instructors in college hate about Theater people and love to say that theater and film doesn't know anything about Iambic Pentameter or poetry ... and of course, the theater folks flick the finger and say ... yeah ... you wrote history and the laws of man, and the Bible!
That should, probably, be a "maybe", because there are times that ... there is no understanding, as the "source" of that "doing" is not in the area of the "mind" or "thinking" ... and this is where improvisation and intuition take a massive hit in almost all music. It does wayyyyyyyyyyy better in literature and art, than it does in music. But, sometimes the hard price one pays for that individuality is ... difficult.
For an example, read the post I have on Patti Smith's book and the comments around it. That is called, a very poetic quotidian study of the time and place that created something ... and again, we have to stop with the ideas, to allow it to flow before we can even find what the whole thing is about ... which might never be visible anyway.
This is the hard part, and why I always say, the answer is inside of YOU, and your relationship to the "moment" ... not even the music at all ... which, of course, is a set of terms that some music instructors and musicians themselves don't like ... and immediately get defensive and state ... you can't do that, and in the end, that is simply a perceptual limitation on the player's part and has NOTHING to do with the composer or the teacher, other than ideas.
Also remember that some teachers just want the attention so they can get more students, and I'm ok with that if their interest and love is the kids themselves, otherwise get another teacher, in my book! ------------- 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: ClemofNazareth
Date Posted: November 23 2011 at 21:47
|
Some of my favorite string players:
Beat Circus (Paran Amirinazari)
After Crying (Zsolt Maroevich - viola, Péter Pejtsik - cello)
the Decemberists (Petra Haden - violin, Nate Query - upright bass)
Rasputina (Melora Creager - cello)
Comus (Colin Pearson)
Pearls Before Swine (Buddy Spicher - violin, viola, cello)
Godspeed You! Black Emperor (Sophie Trudeau - violin, Norsola Johnson - cello, Thierry Amar - string bass)
and this guy of course
 and just for fun from the non-proggy list
 Amy LaVere (upright bass)
Val Stoecklein (acoustic 12-string with studio orchestra)
------------- "Peace is the only battle worth waging." Albert Camus |
Posted By: Zombywoof
Date Posted: November 23 2011 at 23:31
|
Check out some of Don 'Sugarcane' Harris's work with Frank Zappa: "Gumbo Variations", "Directly From my Heart to You", "Little House I Used to Live In", "Sharleena" ("Lost Episodes" version), "50/50", etc. He had an extremely dirty, bluesy sound on those tracks that is very unique and very different from Jean-luc Ponty's. ------------- Continue the prog discussion here: http://zombyprog.proboards.com/index.cgi ... |
Posted By: ProgressiveAttic
Date Posted: November 24 2011 at 06:34
|
this is a good place to start: http://deliciousagony.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=61&t=3768 I would also recommend the excellent Pochakaite Malko, Bubu and Steve Unruh (and his group Resistor) + RtF with Ponty is quite amazing! ------------- Michael's Sonic Kaleidoscope Mondays 5:00pm EST(re-runs Thursdays 3:00pm) @ Delicious Agony Progressive Rock Radio(http://www.deliciousagony.com) 
|
Posted By: Gully Foyle
Date Posted: December 26 2011 at 13:15
| Boud Deun! |
Posted By: Fusionist47
Date Posted: May 26 2014 at 07:36
|
Hello from Australia, I contributed on this site to one of the listing about violinists playing in various styles over the years.... However it seems that a handful are above a level of proficiency than most..... For some interested in knowing which one to listen to, is relative to the style/s of interest....I would be glad to assist anyone in quest of annusual players gracing the music scene past and present.... Fusion is my preference but not only. Hoping to exchange some threads....Erick |
Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Date Posted: May 26 2014 at 07:42
I love the violin on this album by VDGG Violinist from String Driven Thing hear some of it here www.youtube.com/watch?v=36b-_xPTq8Q ------------- 
|
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: May 27 2014 at 01:23
sorry for hacking your post down but I must have missed this particular comment first time. I like Par Lindh Project a lot and regard PLP as the most interesting modern symph band. Magda (RIP) was certainly a very talented musician and her passing put a stop to any future development of that particular band sadly. Time Mirror was a bit dull by comparison to the earlier albums. I think though my favourite violinist in prog is Eddie Jobson. Curved Air's best album was with him in the line up and UK's two albums are both gems. Of course he plays keyboard more than violin but is rather brilliant at both things.
|
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: May 30 2014 at 12:42
|
(Sorry ... didn't realize this was so old!)
Eddie Jobson in Roxy Music, also played violin in Curved Air as well as keyboards.
Kris Karrer in AD2 is almost too much, and all the way to "Vive La Trance", his playing is out of this world, and totally off the charts.
Grahame Smith was in String Driven Thing for their best known years, but in many ways, his best work was done with Peter Hammill, where you can even find him in concert with him by himself, which is insane, but tells you what a great musician can do with his instrument. I also love the work he did in at one Van der Graaf Generator album, which is outstanding.
Jean Luc Ponty, in many ways is the man that has helped the violin explode in the scene, though his stuff is considered "jazz" and sometimes it is better thought of as "fusion". For his stuff, you must get the "Return to Forever" Live CD from their recent tour. It was fantastic to say the least, and blows out so many progressive bands, it's not funny. RTF blew out and made ZpZ look like an idiot band!
I like Simon House, who has helped Hawkwind so much over the years and create some magnificent backgrounds as well in keyboards.
Papa John Creach was well known in California but ended up getting even more famous with Jefferson Airplane, and gave them more character and quality.
Laurie Anderson was all about experimental synthesizers and later violin. Her shows were weird, strange, literary, off its rocker and not exactly something a progressive audience tends to enjoy, since we love our top ten way too much to appreciate other stuff.
David LaFlamme, was the violinist behind "White Bird" a massive hit in the late 60's for the band "It's a Beautiful Day". Both of the band's firts albums fit very well in any "progressive" collection, with American artists. The song even had a shorter version for the AM radio crowd, and the new FM band used to love to show off AM Radio as crap by playing the long version (along with Light My Fire and all that!).
Darryl Way is worth the mention (Curved Air) for a couple of things that are fun and great at the same time. "Vivaldi with Cannons" in both the 1st album and in the Live album. If you have the guts to do something like that (or Smith's Tympany for the Devil") you should be ready for prime time!
But it is kind of unfair to not appreciate other folks out there, as mentioned before. ------------- 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: Mascodagama
Date Posted: May 30 2014 at 13:22
|
There's some lovely violin by Niels Skovmand on Afenginn's recent album Lux:
|
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: May 30 2014 at 13:27
|
The wonderful Forgas Band Phenomena
------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: May 30 2014 at 14:09
|
Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: May 30 2014 at 14:22
Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: May 30 2014 at 14:25
Posted By: dwill123
Date Posted: May 30 2014 at 18:31
|
Vertu (Karen Briggs, Violin)
|
Posted By: HemispheresOfXanadu
Date Posted: June 05 2014 at 13:56
|
Folky power metal. ------------- https://twitter.com/ProgFollower" rel="nofollow - @ProgFollower on Twitter. Tweet me muzak. |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: June 05 2014 at 14:10
|
Nobody seems to have mentioned this lot so far. The violinist is Kate Bush's nephew.
|
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: June 05 2014 at 15:33
Interesting. I wonder if he will play on 'Violin' when Kate does her live shows?
|
Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: June 05 2014 at 16:29
Wow! Just absolutely knocked out by some of these posts. I could only think of Jobson, Swarbrick and Daryl Way. Responses like Jon Luc Ponty, David Laflamme and Papa John Creach were especially impressive. Perhaps I should stop listing to prog and turn on the radio right now?  No! I can't listen to Beyonce 
|
Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: June 05 2014 at 18:38
|
I'm not sure if Esperanto is mentioned yet, I can't see the Youtube clips on my phone. They're just empty spaces. Anyway their fabulous Danse Macabre features some absolutely astonishing violin work. A wild folk prog rock album all jumbled up, but it's beautiful. ------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: June 06 2014 at 12:11
"The Last Tango" is actually a much better album, and very theatrical, and a very nice version of a Beatles song. ------------- 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: Mascodagama
Date Posted: June 06 2014 at 14:27
|
Nicolas Cazaux played some great violin as part of Sotos:
|
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: June 07 2014 at 14:11
|
Hi,
I have to look, but in CAN, there is violin, but I don't remember if it was Michael or Holger that played it. Some of it was wild, and crazy.
No PFM?
Now I'm mad! Gonna play their albums!
A couple more ...
Shankar is mentioned already. He's of Hindu descent and is well known for his work. Funniest moment is one of those big concert things that had Bruce Springsteen with him, and Bruce stops and asks him ... what key are you on, man? ... and Shankar says very politely ... you no worry about the key Mr. Bruce, and I just join you when you play! And yes ... it is called a "double violin".
Scarlett Rivera -- I guess that could be considered jazz
There was a video by an american guy that had a lady playing violin on the song, and she was very good, even though the song was not that great, but her presence made the song better, in many ways. Sorry ... his name fails me right now, but I can still see her playing in my head. (I'll update the post if I remember his name!) ------------- 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: SteveG
Date Posted: June 07 2014 at 14:31
| ^Is Shankar the guy who plays a double necked violin? |
Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: June 07 2014 at 14:45
Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: June 07 2014 at 14:48
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: June 07 2014 at 14:54
OHHHHH MY GAWD ..... a Garbarek with Shankar?
Guess what's next for me? ------------- 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: Svetonio
Date Posted: June 07 2014 at 15:14
I don't know about his album with Gismonti. This is a title track from his first album with Garbarek, Vision, ECM 1983. |
Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: June 07 2014 at 15:16
This track is from hisTouch Me There the album produced by Frank Zappa and released on Zappa Records, 1979. Here he played 5 string electric violin and singing. |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: June 08 2014 at 12:31
|
Hi,
Sorry ... typo. Meant to say Garbarek, not Gismonti. ------------- 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: Michael678
Date Posted: June 08 2014 at 15:00
Kansas and Electric Light Orchestra are the only ones that i could come up with. ------------- Progrockdude |
Posted By: King Only
Date Posted: June 09 2014 at 12:16
|
There's a Japanese band called ROVO and they have violinist called Katsui Yuji. |
Posted By: The Stygian Heresy
Date Posted: July 15 2014 at 21:48
| At the other end of the state from you, there's the five-piece prog band, 'Karl?', in Long Beach. I've seen them live several times, and the woman on violin cooks it up, often, in their songs. They've got a CD just out: 'The Universe', plus another very cool cut from an earlier local compilation. If you can't find them, let me know. Well worth a listen. |
Posted By: Prog_Traveller
Date Posted: July 15 2014 at 23:16
|
King Crimson
Kansas FM Curved Air Mahavishnu Orchestra PFM (some of their stuff anyway like "Jetlag") Ozone Quartet KBB Boud Deun Krakatoa Jean Luc Ponty It's a Beautiful Day |
Posted By: ProgMetaller2112
Date Posted: July 16 2014 at 00:51
Only with David Cross and he wasn't there for long  Gentle Giant is another that comes to mind ------------- “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” ― George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four "Ignorance and Prejudice and Fear walk Hand in Hand"- Neil Peart |
Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: July 16 2014 at 10:26
|
Posted By: Valle
Date Posted: July 16 2014 at 13:20
|
Gentle Giant Mahavishnu Orchestra King Krimson (David Cross period, Larks' tongue in aspic etc.) Sgt. (japanese post-rock, kinda hard to find, but PA has the best info on the internet about them  )https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_NEGAp6MP4 |
Posted By: Prog_Traveller
Date Posted: July 16 2014 at 22:53
|
I've never noticed much violin in Gentle Giant but I'm sure it's in there somewhere. It just doesn't seem to be an instrument that stands out much in there music imo.
Also there was a band who I don't believe has been mentioned yet called The Flock which featured a pre Mahavishnu Jerry Goodman if I'm not mistaken. |
Posted By: AreYouHuman
Date Posted: July 17 2014 at 22:23
Off the top of my head… Black Cat, Funny Ways, A Reunion, So Sincere, Mobile, Empty City, Sweet Georgia Brown, On Reflection (live version). Actually, it seems like there’s maybe one track per album that prominently features violin. I don’t think anyone mentioned Christoph “Nops” Noppeney of Hoelderlin, a band that’s way overlooked here. ------------- Caption: We tend to take ourselves a little too seriously. Silly human race! Yes is for everybody! |
Posted By: cstack3
Date Posted: July 17 2014 at 23:16
|
Did anyone mention Dixie Dregs with Jerry Goodman (Flock, Mahavishnu Orchestra)? I saw this band in the 1990's, they were scary good!! I was close enough to Goodman to have pulled the cord out of his electric violin. |
Posted By: )Zears47
Date Posted: August 25 2015 at 12:21
|
Hello All, I am glad to be on this post as I recognize one of my writting. However there one other where a listing of all the string players was compiled.... Maybe someone here could direct me toward it.... Thanking the fraternity
 |
Posted By: DDPascalDD
Date Posted: August 25 2015 at 12:59
|
Have you ever listened to The Piano Guys? Really good celloist! This one is very great to draw inspiration from: (The rest of them is not chinese in case u wondered) ------------- |
Posted By: dwill123
Date Posted: August 25 2015 at 17:30
|
Seatrain (Richard Greene, violin)
|
Posted By: mathman0806
Date Posted: August 26 2015 at 22:53
Link is in the second post of this thread. |
Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: August 27 2015 at 11:01
|
Solstice! ------------- This message was brought to you by a proud supporter of the Deep State. |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: August 27 2015 at 13:50
|
Nice article about rock violin in various styles and forms. http://www.fiddlingaround.co.uk/rock%20violin/" rel="nofollow - http://www.fiddlingaround.co.uk/rock%20violin/ Always liked Rick Grech's violin piece here in the middle... ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: Skalla-Grim
Date Posted: August 27 2015 at 17:00
|
German folk-rock band Subway to Sally "Der Sturm" - Time signature 5/4 makes this song progworthy! "Die Rose im Wasser" The following isn't really a band, but a great Japanese song from voice actress and singer Yukari Tamura with alternating 5/8 and 6/8 metre. One of my favourite Prog-violin songs: Darryl Way's Wolf, The Envoy German folk-rock band Schandmaul |
Posted By: timothy leary
Date Posted: August 31 2015 at 10:21
|
Believe |
Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: August 31 2015 at 12:26
|
Yea I know this is viola. http://silentgrace.bandcamp.com/album/through-the-years" rel="nofollow - http://silentgrace.bandcamp.com/album/through-the-years  Natalia Kolesnik from Silent Grace (Ukraine)  |
Posted By: prog4evr
Date Posted: September 01 2015 at 07:33
|
Prog bands with violin? (Sorry if these have been mentioned already): King Crimson, Kansas, Mahavishnu Orchestra, UK. Of those, my all-time favorite is Eddie Jobson on UK. The man can "shred" on an electric violin "like no one's business." |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: September 01 2015 at 09:02
|
------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: Cosmiclawnmower
Date Posted: September 01 2015 at 15:51
I absolutely agree  , the Hoelderlin 'live' double lp is absolutely fantastic and they are a very, very underated!Mike Evans from Stackridge, Rick Grech and John Wieder of Family and Geoff Richardson (viola) of Caravan are amongst my favorites also ------------- |
Posted By: dr prog
Date Posted: September 07 2015 at 17:57
|
Don't like rock violin. Only like classical or middle eastern/Central European style. Violin in mahavishnu is annoying unless it's slow. Similar with pfm. I love The world/L'Isola. Only has some nice violin. Chocolate Kings has that annoying mahavishnu violin. I start thinking American country music and Irish jigs. Not a very cool style imo ------------- All I like is prog related bands beginning late 60's/early 70's. Their music from 1968 - 83 has the composition and sound which will never be beaten. Perfect blend of jazz, classical, folk and rock. |
Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: September 07 2015 at 18:40
|
Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: September 07 2015 at 18:46
|
Eggroll (Israel) ------------- 
|
Posted By: Dromedarious
Date Posted: September 19 2015 at 18:36
Ale Brukman's Zaedyus Project, amazing prog-folk band from Argentina. |
Posted By: Terakonin
Date Posted: September 21 2015 at 23:50
|
Big Big Train. ------------- You left a note in your perfect script Stay as long as you like I haven't left your bed since |
Posted By: Pastmaster
Date Posted: September 22 2015 at 00:37
| Curved Air is the first band that comes to my mind. |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: September 22 2015 at 15:39
|
A great new discovery- Pandora Snail. http://https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=pandora+snail" rel="nofollow - http://https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=pandora+snail Old favorites - The Dixie Dregs, Kansas, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Jean Luc Ponty, Curved Air. King Crimson. Probably leaving out some... ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
|
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: September 22 2015 at 16:25
|
RIO this last weekend had a veritable plethora of violins Present - the recently added Liesbeth from Aranis now plays with them Reve General - two violins (and 2 cellos!!) Art Zoyd Secret Chiefs 3 ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: September 22 2015 at 18:12
I'm going to assume that someone, in the previous 5 pages has mentioned one Wilf Gibson and ELO and the greatest violin solo in rock history.. if I looked through here and didn't see it mentioned.. I'd likely start revoking some prog cards.  ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: September 24 2015 at 11:20
|
Two songs from only one album by Yugo-Prog band Hobo (1975) (the violin is really fantastic) : |
Posted By: chazzaboy
Date Posted: September 29 2015 at 12:17
| East Of Eden? |
Posted By: TGM: Orb
Date Posted: September 29 2015 at 13:22
| Anyone mentioned Amon Duul yet? Chris Karrer's (IIRC) violin contributions are great. |