Uplifting Prog - Progressive Rock Music Forum

Most of modern prog is like this:

Hard to find something like this:

When I say uplifting prog i always think of that release : If you enjoy Yes and Big Big Train :

https://seanfilkins.bandcamp.com/album/war-and-peace-and-other-short-stories

Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.

Emile M. Cioran

richardh wrote:

I find everything by Big Big Train uplifting, the ten albums with Dave Longdon especially are never far away from my general orbit of listening.

I had never really listened to Big Big Train before this weekend. I think I listened a few tracks in the car, thought "kinda typical modern prog" but listening to WELCOME TO THE PLANET and really digging it.

Thanks for the recommendation.

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.

Have you listened to the album Amazingous by the Spanish band Cheeto's Magazine? Fun and uplifting!

https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=60806

https://youtu.be/6BVA_SN-zGE

As Logan, Magma for sure. And Black Midi - Hellfire is the wildest ride Such a joy to listen to. Almost all of Canterbury including the non-Canterburian Cos, Moving Gelatine Plates, Supersister...

+tons of EARLY 1970's jazz rock-fusion, Björn J:son Lindh, Santana, Placebo, Nucelus, Joe Farrell, Return to Forever, + some later ones like (maybe it's called Indo/Raga) Oriental Wind, Rabih Abou-Khalil, Clivage. Brother Ah

But I find loads of prog uplifting. Prog's often got a cathartic quality that most popular music don't. And I actually find VdGG, King Crimson... even Art Zoyd and Swans uplifitng. But I guess it's not the bands I would suggest to someone asking for something uplifting.

Khan is one of my all time favorites - Canterbury can be hit or miss for me but that Khan album definitely hits it for me.

King Gizzard is also hit and miss for me but that's because they cover such a broad swath. I admire them for that but not everything connects for me.

I'll check out the PFM, I don't know that one and haven't listen to them in awhile.

Listening to Ryiuchi Sakamoto now, was not familiar and I'm liking it. Thanks Brufordfreak

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.

Logan wrote:

Various Magma. As an album Magma's Attahk takes me to a jovial place. It helps too that I played it a lot while lounging by the pool at a terrific all-inclusive resort in Mexico.

Interesting to see this uplifting experiencing of Magma, as I haven't been thinking of them in that way.

Edited by David_D - April 14 2023 at 12:02

quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond

I find everything by Big Big Train uplifting, the ten albums with Dave Longdon especially are never far away from my general orbit of listening.

This band was pretty depressing at times, but when they tried to be funny, I find them very uplifting:

Negoba wrote:

Logan wrote:

Various Magma. As an album Magma's Attahk takes me to a jovial place. It helps too that I played it a lot while lounging by the pool at a terrific all-inclusive resort in Mexico.

I've listened to quite a bit of Magma. I must say that was one of the last bands I expected to find in this thread. But I always think MDK style and they had a long career with different sides to the sound.

I don't think I've heard Attahk though. I'll check it out.

I find a lot of Magma so much fun and exuberant -- delightful; puts a smile on my face Although Scat may be an acquired taste that some might not wish to acquire, when Cristian Vander does his scat-attahk [sic] in a classic like "Hhai", it fills me with joy.

This is the first Magma track I fell for, Iss Lansei Doia.

I find plenty of Magma joyous across the discography. Magma is mostly what I would call feel-good music to me, but then I often do have a penchant for darker, melancholic music, and it may partially be a comparative thing. MDK can be quite joyous to me.

Yesterday I was listening to black midi's Hellfire (I love this band more and more and more) and I find that and other black midi makes me happy. And lots of Frank Zappa, a lot of Canterbury Scene music, Supersister for instance, various Gong, and Samla Mammas Manna.

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