Hint ... not listed in the monthly list at all ... or yearly list of 2023!

Zappa and The Mothers!

Listening 2 years and still discovering something new every time!

Good band, I discovered them recently as well.  

Definitely a favourite band of mine and you've named one of my top 3 albums by them (the others being Planets and Colours)

My favourite recent discovery is electronic duo Zombi.

In general most of my recent discoveries seem to be in the heavy prog scene with the likes of Monkey3, Slift, Ovrfwrd, Night Verses and Turbulence who have all put out excellent albums this year.

Zephyr (they're proggy enough for me)

2nd and 3rd album

Yokono is a four-piece instrumental experimental rock band from Belgrade (Serbia).

Since its beginning in 2011, the band has been interested in true sound through live studio recording sessions, which has altogether affected the improvement of the band's music fashion as well as its approach to live exhibitions.

I just recently discovered Yokono, thanks to Svetonio from the Steve Hoffman forum. His instructive topic, "Ambient Rock Appreciation Thread," is actually where I dig this rather good Serbian underground group.

Here are two instrumentals taken from their debut album, "Bigz Live Studio Sessions," which was recorded in Bigz and released on Bandcamp in December 2018. 

There is a story behind it. Bigz was a government-owned but abandoned printing house and has served for years as a unique alternative cultural centre in downtown Belgrade, located in an originally beautiful Bauhaus-designed building built before World War II (see picture).

 

 

 

The recordings were made there. Many young Belgrade's bands practiced there, some very good recording analogue studios were there owned by enthusiasts, and many visual artists had their studios in the Bigz as well; it was something like a hippy commune, hence Bigz even brought a so-called New Belgrade scene of experimental rock, but the investment-urbanism-oriented mayor kicked them all out and sold the building to some private clinic from abroad, which will most likely tear it down and build more of a mockery of glass and steel.

 

However, the recordings and videos from Bigz, like these, will remain. Yokono stuff is available on Bandcamp, and I highly recommend it.

Nospun (traditional prog metal)

Squeaky Feet

The Twenty Committee

The Foundation

Z Machine

K'Mono

Regna 

The Chronicles of Father Robin

This makes my day!!!

Gilgamesh

Nucleus
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Them Moose Rush

Shamblemaths

Mercury Tree

We have many nice rock/metal prog band here in Hellas.

Here is a fun video from 2021.

We really have to add them to the Archives !!!

you seem to have a few so I've added the 2 Arlekin albums as they are more likely to be up my street 

I'm always doscovering new bands and thinking 'why haven't I heard of these guys before?!'. Anyway thanks for the recommendation.
 

I actually like their last album the best Kleptomania. It was a belated release that was only finished after the band split up . It's closer to the alt rock sound of early 00's Porcupine Tree and could have been a small influence on Steven Wilson I suspect.

The album you refer to is Six. Quite a unique album I think but not for everyone. Little Kix (their 3rd) is by far their weakest album and would fit your description better I believe.

YOU ARE WELCOME!!!

Catchy, fun and intricate stuff.

https://amskray.bandcamp.com/album/die-happy

Strange thought for me ... music is everywhere, and it's always about my recognizing it or not ... I can't exactly listen to it all, but some seems easier than others for me, but in the end, I have never, in 55 years, thought of it as discovering a band ... as much as it was about  how I related to the music itself, and how it affected me ... and some of these details you remember a lifetime. I can still remember the first minute I heard TD and how it scared me senseless ... I went right back to my headphones and Space Ritual. And later how so many bands confused my sense of organization in my head ... and that, in the end, was my greatest teacher of all in studying directing for theater and film. It wasn't about something that was designed ... it was about the experience of the moment, as free as possible from anything that was the rule of the design. 

And a lot of music, ended up doing things that film had been doing for over 10 years in terms of experiments ... but it in the past 20 years, it's like no one knows film, theater or any of the arts, consequently everything is just a song with a number attached to it.

It's not about me discovering it ... in the end, I say that it discovers me, as I wonder all over the universe and things hit me on the left, or the right ... or in the front and back .... but my "mental" acknowledgement of the music, art, or event, is often a lot less important than the experience itself ... 

Take the Bardo, ... you gonna tell me that you have to discover the doors, before you get to them? That's not how it's written ... the doors are there the whole time, but are you ready to see them and go through them? That's how I look at many of these things ... aside from the fact that I tend to say that there are no doors or dragons ... it's our imagination that creates "challenges" so we can feel like we are using our smarts and intelligence!

The Americas were already there, but Gerard Depardeau still managed to discover them in 1492, just as I discovered Vangelis' soundtrack album in 1992. 

errrrrrr... Exactly!!!   You sound like you've pretty much heard it all.  But have you really ever taken the time to 'Really Listen' to the Doors. You can only go on to Bardo with a good understanding of the song 'Peace Frog'.  And the hidden messages contained within. 

This...

and thanks to whoever mentioned them here.

Hi,

Actually, I never thought of any of it as "secrets" ... the truth has a way to stand up that requires no special handling of anything, but our minds think that there is always a hidden meaning in our lives ... again, to me, "discoveries" are a sort of idea having to do with how much one sees, or doesn't see. 

I don't look at the arts, as something hidden at all ... you can't expect a human spirit to undress itself any more at all ... ... well, except when there is one names Mani, of course! 

Not that I'm aware, but you may find them orbiting the Top 120 Neo Prog Albums of All Time where they have no less than four entries in the chart. 

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I just recently stumbled on The Neutrons, an offshoot of Man from the early-mid '70s. They didn't last long, and I can find next to nothing about them. They made two albums, one of them is great (Black Hole Stars). I'm surprised I had no knowledge of them.

Also Kayak - I bought their Phantom of the Night album in the '70s and didn't like it. I tried several times over the years but always found it boring. Recently I heard Royal Bed Bouncer and couldn't believe it was the same group.

Their best albums (or the ones I like the best anyway) are the first 4 up to and including The Last Encore (1976). After that they became mostly AOR ish rock with some prog for the next run of albums. Merlin was their last album of their original album run and that's actually a bit better than the earlier 3 or 4 albums. A return to prog mainly but still a bit of a fudge between their older style and the newer 'commercial' style. They split up in 1982 then reformed in the late 90's to record an expanded version of Merlin called Merlin:Bard Of The Unseen. Their last 2 albums (probably 'ever' as the band seems finished now) are actually pretty decent rock/prog albums. I would love to have seen them pre pandemic when they were scheduled to support the Flower Kings in London. They had to pull out because Ton Scherpenzeel was ill. I think that his health issues has inevitably lead to a halt of the bands activities for good. A real shame. I'm very fond of them and they brought a lighter touch to prog compared to the English bombastic prog bands of the 70's.

                They have been one of my top groups for many a year, but the debut was kind of a hard sell for me, until now.

           I had mixed feelings about it for quite a while, but heard it again last nite, and it was a revelation! Mixed feelings, no more. What an amazing debut album, and it is a perfect companion to the other two records of theirs, and shines on it's own very nicely, as well.

                 Don't know whatever happened to band leader/founder Reinhard Karwatky....wish I knew.....

I remember when I joined this site back in 2005, I splashed out on the Reissues of Bed Bouncer and Last Encore, thinking I'd really like them... but I just didn't. They kind of had the same effect on me as Pavlov's Dog; sickly sweet art rock without the invention of Supertramp at their best... maybe I was harsh and they should be given a re-appraisal in time?

Their first 2 albums may be more interesting to you especially the second. They can be mildy 'camp' for want of a better word on some albums. RBB is a lot of fun and lacks the overarching seriousness of so much prog that was coming out at the time. However it's not an out and out prog album that the first couple are.

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I saw Gong in Chicago (10 March, 1996) and it was amazing!  Daevid Allen, Bloomdido, Mike Howlett, Babyloni Yoni, (not sure who was on drums), and guitar/synth was managed by Steffe!!  I'm a huge Steve Hillage fan, and he captured Hillage's role as well as High-T Moonweed's on synth!! 

This is new material, check it out!  Top-notch space rock!!  

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SBB I never really heard (except maybe a track here or there on internet prog radio). I've never owned any Ange either. I will have to correct this before too long. For Ange apparently Au Dela Du Delire is the one usually recommended to start with.