Prog folk ?
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Topic: Prog folk ?
Posted By: Dan Yaron
Subject: Prog folk ?
Date Posted: August 03 2005 at 09:17
| Prog folk is a genre that I haven't checked out enough. Therefore, I'd like you to name your favourite classics that offer a fair share of accustic instruments. My favourites are Gryphon (UK), Parzival (Germany) and Uzva (Finland). Cheers! |
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Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: August 03 2005 at 09:18
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Is Jethro Tull prog folk? Just asking... ------------- 
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Posted By: M. B. Zapelini
Date Posted: August 03 2005 at 09:44
| I don't really know what means "prog-folk". Would somebody explain to me? IMHO, if this genre exists, Lindisfarne, Steeley Span and Fairport would be prog-folk... This is the closer I can get to this riddle! Ricochet, Jethro Tull is also a prog folk band... |
Posted By: gulliman
Date Posted: August 03 2005 at 11:01
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... and Strawbs! |
M. B. Zapelini wrote:Posted By: Eetu Pellonpaa
Date Posted: August 03 2005 at 11:56
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TREES, and "Last autumn's dream" and "Released" from JADE WARRIOR, perhaps? |
Posted By: abyssyinfinity
Date Posted: August 03 2005 at 13:53
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I recently bought Parzival, excellent!
I also recommend Broselmaschine, Malicorne & Pererin |
Posted By: con safo
Date Posted: August 03 2005 at 14:34
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Jethro Tull Horslips Comus Aphrodites Child Jan Dukes De Grey STRAWBS Jos Jaivas ..all excellent. prog folk is definitely one of my favourite genre's of prog. ------------- 
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Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: August 03 2005 at 20:29
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Renaissance and Mostly Autumn both have a folky edge to them as well.. ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: italprogfan
Date Posted: August 04 2005 at 05:07
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banda do casaco kolinda mellow candle pentangle leda - spyros
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Posted By: HeirToRuin
Date Posted: August 04 2005 at 11:10
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Vintersorg is a great progressive folk metal band from Sweden. ------------- ARTEMIA - http://www.reverbnation.com/artemiamusic" rel="nofollow - http://www.reverbnation.com/artemiamusic L.i.E. - http://www.reverbnati |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: August 04 2005 at 12:04
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Los Jaivas - Chile (andean music prog) Comus - devilish folk prog Spirogyra - folk rock goes prog read the reviews Pentangle - folk meets jazz & blues to make it rock. Mellw Candle - excellent folk rock Algarnas Tradgard - Sweden - Gryphon meets Fairport Convention. Kebnekaise - Sweden trad folk with strong prog overtnes Malicorne - France - Medieval prog a bit like Gryphon. Jan Dukes De gray - mice and rats is stellar - just got included. The Trees - much proggier Fairport Convention. ------------- 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: con safo
Date Posted: August 04 2005 at 15:37
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Lets get some more reviews up! -------------
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Posted By: Minstrel X
Date Posted: August 04 2005 at 15:48
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And lemme tell ya...They Should be listed on this site. ------------- Minstrel X: Burning down the gallery |
Posted By: Don_Frog
Date Posted: August 09 2005 at 23:25
| I really like Mostly Autumn. |
Posted By: StarshipTrooper
Date Posted: August 10 2005 at 06:23
And I too like Mostly Autumn although their latest album appears to be taking them away from the Folky/Prog direction. Going to see them for the 14th time on the 20th of this month. ------------- 
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Posted By: Reverie
Date Posted: August 10 2005 at 07:19
| I've been wanting to check out Parzival for a while now, but i can't seem to find any songs anywhere. Are there any sound clips up on the net? |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: August 11 2005 at 10:37
| Mostly Autumn and Mellow Candle and, although she's not prog, you should listen to Kate Rusby, the best female folk singer around. |
Posted By: Dan Bobrowski
Date Posted: August 11 2005 at 11:20
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Steve Unruh. Prog-folk and multi-instrumentalist. If you like violin, flute, hand percussions and acoustic guitar, check 'em out. Here's a link to his website. He has a FREE download sampler CD, plus a 17:11 minute epic from a newly remastered release of "Two Little Awakenings" CD.
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Posted By: kingofbizzare
Date Posted: August 14 2005 at 16:45
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Jethro Tull's folk period is amazing. Their folkiest albums are Songs from the Wood, Heavy Horses, and Stormwatch, but if you want something more acoustic, try Minstrel in the Gallery. If you don't mind some 80's synthesizers along with the folky stuff, try Broadsword and the Beast. Stand Up is a blues rock album with some folk influences, so that might be worth checking out. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/kingofbizzare/?chartstyle=asimpleblue5"> 
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Posted By: Norm Cash
Date Posted: August 15 2005 at 06:13
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You might want to give French band XII Alfonso a listen. Especially "The Lost Frontier" or "Claude Monet Vol I". ------------- 
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