instrumental psychedelia featuring 2 guitarists
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Topic: instrumental psychedelia featuring 2 guitarists
Posted By: InstrupsychedeMental
Subject: instrumental psychedelia featuring 2 guitarists
Date Posted: February 04 2016 at 13:35
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2 guitar instrumental psychedelia (updated Mar11'16) --------------------------------- http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=8269" rel="nofollow - Ampacity http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=4658" rel="nofollow - Animals As Leaders Aphodyl April Rain http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=3955" rel="nofollow - Automatic Fine Tuning http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=4607" rel="nofollow - Beware Of Safety Charts and Maps Cherokee Mist Circle Exsimio Flowers Must Die Galacticka God is an Astronaut Godspeed You Black Emperor Guapo Heavy Cosmic Kinetic If These Trees Could Talk Kasan King Crimson Kungens Man Lethean Mad Fellaz Man Mugstar My Brother the Wind My Sleeping Karma Ninth Moon Black Oceansize Obskuria Ohmphrey Pelican Pomegranate Tiger Pymlico Reid, Vernon, Elliott Sharp & David Torn Samsara Blues Experiment Scale the Summit Smoking Spore Souvenir's Young America Sucea, Gabriel & Grassi-Havnen, Axel t2k Tale of Diffusion Tribe of Cro Tunturia Vocokesh, The Wishbone Ash Year of No Light Yndi Halda ---the following didn't make the cut (generally due to words) Buzzcocks Church, The Dead Meadow Dream Syndicate, The Fugazi Luna Nauticus Quicksilver Messenger Service Swervedriver Talisma Wilco I'm going to try and add columns with other information. In a perfect world, the way I visualize the ongoing project will be really cool. Barring that, hopefully I can at least achieve sorta cool. ways to improve -make list more complete -specify discs or period when 2 guitars reigned (e.g. Obskuria just on 1st disc, Dead Meadow all but first disc, King Crimson on later incarnations) -specify tracks or discs containing instrumentals (e.g Man & Samsara Blues Experiment not predominantly instrumental) -include years of output, country, anything else interesting/useful -include recommended tracks or discs -include exemplary picks of 2-guitar interplay for artists possessing only 1 guitarist ====================original post follows=========================== I love this stuff. I've searched progarchives, google, and the kitchen sink for suggestionsand should enquire within. Whether it's spacerock, post-rock/metal, neo, crossover, or whatever label it's shoehorned with, I am interested. Some that I know of, listed in approximate order of my appreciation, include: My Brother the Wind --- Ampacity April Rain Flowers Must Die Charts and Maps Nauticus Exsimio Tribe of Cro Pymlico Oceansize Tale of Diffusion Mad Fellaz Ohmphrey --- Lethean Talisma A lot of Buckethead tracks also feature 2 guitar tracks, but Brian plays all the guitar because that's all he seems to do (when does he find time to eat?) Undoubtedly others I've missed. I particularly like the interplay of two lead guitarists which is why My Brother the Wind, preferably with headphones, gets me where I need to be once the day is done. Often before. The psychedelia tag could misleading because all music is psychedelic, at least the way I am employing the word. More on that later, maybe, if I get bold enough to wax philosophical. |
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Posted By: cstack3
Date Posted: February 05 2016 at 11:25
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One of my favorites is "Scale the Summit," check them out. They do some rather amazing two-guitar interplay. Of course, there is always Belew and Jakko-era King Crimson. BTW, welcome to PA!
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Posted By: TeleStrat
Date Posted: February 05 2016 at 11:40
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I'm a big fan of Scale The Summit and play their albums regularly. Animals As Leaders, Pelican and If Theses Trees Could Talk are also good. My Sleeping Karma and Russian Circles are a bit heavier. These are all instrumental bands and are all on YouTube.
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Posted By: InstrupsychedeMental
Date Posted: February 06 2016 at 09:18
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Thanks. Good stuff. I recently started a list of same and will extend and organize it, likely to post a more complete list once it seems more inclusive. Trying multiple listens with headphones as that is my best test for how they work, for me, in terms of a distinct separation between the guitar tracks, if that makes sense. I've sampled much of those mentioned, previously, but was unaware that they fit the list I mentioned. Was listening to these again and, for my liking, some tracks that have great work between the 2 guitars were: If These Trees Could Talk-When the Big Hand Buries the Twelve, From Roots to Needles, and The First Fire My Sleeping Karma-Intention and quite a bit of Soma (need more listens). Scale the Summit's The Collective and V have some good work, but when they get riff-heavy the second guitar gets rather drowned out. The others I've heard but need more for repeated listens. Adrian Belew has a very unique style and I've enjoyed his work for years; really difficult to keep up with all the latter substantiations of Crimson, though, with all the different ProjeKct variations. Russian Circles is credited with 1 guitarist, but I'll have to check 'em out again to see if they layer multiple guitar tracks nicely. A few bands do that well, e.g. the unlisted Ocean Towers; a little on the stoner-side but they have some good spacerock type tracks with the layered guitars. Heavy Cosmic Kinetic also has some also has some good 2-guitar spacerock output. Good California band somewhat akin to The Machine or Farflung (again, a little on the stoner side). https://heavycosmickinetic.bandcamp.com/music" rel="nofollow - https://heavycosmickinetic.bandcamp.com/music |
Posted By: HackettFan
Date Posted: February 06 2016 at 20:24
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Crimson Projekts - Space Groove. ------------- A curse upon the heads of those who seek their fortunes in a lie. The truth is always waiting when there's nothing left to try. - Colin Henson, Jade Warrior (Now) |
Posted By: Luca Pacchiarini
Date Posted: February 09 2016 at 11:50
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Quicksilver Messenger Service... ahah Anyway, back to prog and only marginally psichedelic, I suggest you listen to the forgotten classic band that is Automatic Fine Tuning. If you've ever seen two snakes intertwine each other during their mating season, you'll get a picture of how the two guitars work in their long "The Great Panjandrum Wheel" suite. http://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtSaybJo7Ko" rel="nofollow - http://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtSaybJo7Ko
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Posted By: InstrupsychedeMental
Date Posted: February 11 2016 at 21:06
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Going to give my updated list(s), suggest some ways I want to improve it and ask an opinion related to same. Ampacity Animals as Leaders April Rain Automatic Fine Tuning Charts and Maps Exsimio Godspeed You Black Emperor Heavy Cosmic Kinetic If These Trees Could Talk Kasan King Crimson Lethean Mad Fellaz Man Mugstar My Brother the Wind My Sleeping Karma Ninth Moon Black Oceansize Obskuria Ohmphrey Pelican Pymlico Samsara Blues Experiment Scale the Summit Sucea, Gabriel & Grassi-Havnen, Axel Tale of Diffusion Tribe of Cro Tunturia Majorly incomplete. If I can make it minorly incomplete then that's an improvement. Including a few artists not yet listed on then site as I expect they might make it eventually (e.g. April Rain, Sucea & G-Havnen). The following list I think won't qualify as they don't seem do to instrumentals, best that I can surmise: Buzzcocks Church, The Circle Dead Meadow Dream Syndicate, The Fugazi Luna Nauticus Quicksilver Messenger Service Swervedriver Talisma Wilco Wishbone Ash I'm really only familiar with Circle, Dead Meadow and Wishbone Ash of these. If they have any significant instrumental work then please drop word. Ways I hope to improve this list: -make list more complete -specify discs or period when 2 guitars reigned (e.g. Obskuria just on 1st disc, Dead Meadow all but first disc, King Crimson on later incarnations) -specify tracks or discs containing instrumentals (e.g Man & Samsara Blues Experiment not predominantly instrumental) -include years of output, country, anything else interesting/useful -include recommended tracks or discs -think of and initiate improvements not listed/conceived of One last thing... I was thinking--once the list is reasonably inclusive--of editing the top post to include finalized list up top. I can move whatever nonsense I wrote down and stick the list up top, with a title such as Updated List (as of -date-) Just thinking that anyone coming across it might find it easier then scrolling down. Not sure if that's silly or not, but didn't somebody once say that 90% of everything is silly? I need a vacation. or some music |
Posted By: Mascodagama
Date Posted: February 12 2016 at 05:07
Check out Circle's album Andexelt. Excellent and almost entirely instrumental. There's about 1 second of female voice at the start of one of the tracks, and maybe a few wordless cries elsewhere in the mix, but I'm confident in saying it's over 99% instrumental. Circle have a lot of albums and I only know a few, but I'd bet there are others that are instrumental too.
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InstrupsychedeMental wrote:Posted By: bbaabs
Date Posted: February 12 2016 at 07:59
Definitely. This is the one that came to my mind right away. Guitar overkill. CHEROKEE MIST "Anthem of the Moon" has two lead guitarists. Going by the lp title, I guess their inspiration is Quicksilver/Grateful Dead.
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Posted By: TeleStrat
Date Posted: February 12 2016 at 09:16
Posted By: O666
Date Posted: February 12 2016 at 09:33
| The Night Sea. |
Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: February 12 2016 at 10:08
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Check out 'GTR OBLQ' by Torn/Reid/Sharp. ------------- |
Posted By: Cosmiclawnmower
Date Posted: February 12 2016 at 17:01
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if we are talking psychedelic then Quicksilver messenger service 'Gold and Silver' off the first lp.. Then 'Man' who's twin guitar of Micky Jones and Deke Leonard are just the tops when it comes to Psych guitar! ------------- |
Posted By: BarryGlibb
Date Posted: February 13 2016 at 00:53
In relation to Wishbone Ash, they have had many instrumentals. They even released a whole album of instrumental tracks in 1987 i.e. Nouveau Calls. I wouldn't really call any of their instrumentals "psychedelic" (some might disagree) but WA are largely credited as pioneering dual lead guitar and stamping it as their "trademark" sound. OK, so here are all Wishbone Ash instrumentals: Joshua (from the album First Light recorded 1970 released 2007) Vas Dis (has scat vocals - from the album Pilgrimage 1971) The Pilgrim (has scat vocals - from Pilgrimage) Alone - (from Pilgrimage) Lullaby - (from Pilgrimage) FUBB - (from There's the Rub 1974) Outward Bound (from New England 1976) Prelude (from New England ) Candlelight (from New England) 714 (from Front Page News 1977) Tangible Evidence (from Nouveau Calls 1987) Clousseau (from Nouveau Calls) Flags of Convenience (from Nouveau Calls) From Soho to Sunset (from Nouveau Calls) Arabesque (from Nouveau Calls) In the Skin (from Nouveau Calls) Something's Happening in Room 602 (from Nouveau Calls) Johnny Left Home Without It (from Nouveau Calls) The Spirit Flies Free (from Nouveau Calls) A Rose is a Rose (from Nouveau Calls) Real Guitars Have Wings (from Nouveau Calls) T-Bone Shuffle (from Nouveau Calls) In The Case (from Here to Hear 1989) Peace (from Bona Fide 2002) Surfing A Slow Wave (from Clan Destiny 2007) Northern Lights (from Power of Eternity 2009) Mud-slick (from Elegant Stealth 2011) Cheers Barry |
Posted By: InstrupsychedeMental
Date Posted: March 11 2016 at 01:34
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Just looking over this thread again and wanted to say thanks for the help with this. I'm particularly delighted by the list produced just above, by Barry, on the Wishbone Ash; great work on that part. I need to acquire Nouveau Calls, apparently. Elsewhere on the forum, I remember coming across a discussion on Porcupine Tree instrumentals. I'll have to go find it again. While Steven Wilson does most or all of the guitar work in question, there are undoubtedly some key tracks that fit the bill as far as 'exemplary picks of 2-guitar interplay for artists possessing only 1 guitarist,' as I long to add eventually. A lot of their best stuff has lyrics but certainly killer pieces like Voyage 34, Moonloop and It Will Rain for a Million Years might be worthy inclusions. Wasn't my intention to 'bump' this thread until I have the list more complete, including some additional columns that I mentioned, but I had to at least let Barry know that his existence in the universe is appreciated. ramble on |