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Originally posted by BrufordFreak BrufordFreak wrote:

How can you leave out Orphaned Land and Yossi Sassi, as well as Soul Enema, Scardust, Noa Grumann!





Apparently, Y'aint payin' attention to the notes in my post.  Looks like all those artists you mentioned are Israeli. 

 The Israeli list is, indeed, forthcoming in the near future.  I've got it mostly done, and just working on the formatting now.
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Originally posted by zwordser zwordser wrote:

Originally posted by wiz_d_kidd wiz_d_kidd wrote:

I have 4 albums by Fromuz (formerly known as FROM.UZ), but nothing else. Their music has very little in the way of middle eastern influences. They could easily be confused with any western jazz/rock/fusion band.


One of the more notable bands on the list; I just put Overlook in my shopping cart on Bandcamp after hearing it.  Sounds very much to me like (mostly) an instrumental fusion of King Crimson with Neo-Prog: great sound!

 I might get another: which album would you recommend??


From my collection, besides Overlook, I would recommend Seventh Story and Audio Diplomacy. I have Sodom & Gomorrah, but it's my least favorite.
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How can you leave out Orphaned Land and Yossi Sassi, as well as Soul Enema, Scardust, Noa Grumann!

I love Myrath, Siddhartha, and Osiris.
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^Thanks for the recommends.  The Turkish/Armenian/Georgian list is forthcoming. . . 

i have had Asia Minor's first album for a long time, one of my favorites.  They're listed as French on PA, but may be better characterized as "multi national".
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Originally posted by mellotronwave mellotronwave wrote:

Asia minor ( half french , half turkish) 2 VG cds issued by Musea

Their recent come back album was really good, too. Smile
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Asia minor ( half french , half turkish) 2 VG cds issued by Musea
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I got also ARTSRUNI Cruzaid , band from Armenia , imho a prog folk band, fine stuff
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Siddartha from Turkey is a good one
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Originally posted by zwordser zwordser wrote:

Originally posted by wiz_d_kidd wiz_d_kidd wrote:

I have 4 albums by Fromuz (formerly known as FROM.UZ), but nothing else. Their music has very little in the way of middle eastern influences. They could easily be confused with any western jazz/rock/fusion band.


One of the more notable bands on the list; I just put Overlook in my shopping cart on Bandcamp after hearing it.  Sounds very much to me like (mostly) an instrumental fusion of King Crimson with Neo-Prog: great sound!

 I might get another: which album would you recommend??

Overlook is my favourite from them, but this year’s release is very good, and does threaten to usurp Overlook’s position as my favourite.
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Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

Not in the database but may be of interest is Ibrahim Maalouf from Lebanon who plays Jazz Fusion, Arabic Jazz, Chamber Jazz, Jazz-Rock. I have his Illusions album which is very good.



Sounds like he should be in the database!
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Originally posted by wiz_d_kidd wiz_d_kidd wrote:

I have 4 albums by Fromuz (formerly known as FROM.UZ), but nothing else. Their music has very little in the way of middle eastern influences. They could easily be confused with any western jazz/rock/fusion band.


One of the more notable bands on the list; I just put Overlook in my shopping cart on Bandcamp after hearing it.  Sounds very much to me like (mostly) an instrumental fusion of King Crimson with Neo-Prog: great sound!

 I might get another: which album would you recommend??
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Originally posted by progaardvark progaardvark wrote:

I'm weak in this region of the world. I have enjoyed the albums from Osiris and Bader Nana.


I seem to know more (or prefer?) from Europe (and mostly in the UK) than in my home country of the USA

Speaking of, the last modern one I heard of was from Texas, and they weren't bad, but it wasn't anything progressive.. This doesn't apply to them, but if you're just out there sounding like King Crimson, to me, isn't progressive - just redundant. I think independence is probably the most important aspect.
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I'm weak in this region of the world. I have enjoyed the albums from Osiris and Bader Nana.
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Originally posted by MortSahlFan MortSahlFan wrote:

Damn, not many from the 70s :(
 

No, but I don't think you could/would expect there to be, especially from the early 70's, because Prog is primarily a European-born class of music that spread to other areas later. Of course, there may be more--say from the late 70's thru 90's that just haven't made it onto PA (particularly if they're sort of "underground")
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I have 4 albums by Fromuz (formerly known as FROM.UZ), but nothing else. Their music has very little in the way of middle eastern influences. They could easily be confused with any western jazz/rock/fusion band.
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Another might be Blurred Vision, who are an Iranian band based in Canada, who were in the news for covering Pink Floyd's Another Brick in the Wall.
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Atravan, Iranian band, are great. 
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I might suggest Kavus Torabi and possibly his band Knifeworld (although the rest of the members aren't from the Middle East so definitely, your discretion there.  He is listed as United Kingdom, but he was born in Iran, and moved to the UK when he was 18 months. 

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The only bands I know of from the Middle East are Osiris, from Bahrain, and Sand, from somewhere in the Arabian Desert, probably. Smile
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