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Sean Trane
Special Collaborator Prog Folk Joined: April 29 2004 Location: Heart of Europe Status: Offline Points: 20301 |
Topic: estradasphere in the progarchives? Posted: November 10 2008 at 09:45 |
Open the tap of blood-feeding to your brains before attacking the web.......
They've been here for over three years!!!
And to be quite frank, I found the one album I reviewed quite boring.....that it never enticed me to rent the other albums in my library sustem.
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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 |
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Tapfret
Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator / Retired Admin Joined: August 12 2007 Location: Bryant, Wa Status: Offline Points: 8581 |
Posted: November 09 2008 at 03:30 |
They do some really good stuff. Many compare them to Mr. Bungle in their expanse of styles. But they have been accused of arranging a series of musical non-sequitors. Mr. Bungle tends to use different styles, but with transitions that usually allow one to comprehend the intended direction.
I enjoy Estradasphere from time to time. But I also irritate my friends by putting my entire collection on random so I get play sequences like Genesis followed by Meshuggah followed by The Ohio Players followed by Coltrane followed by Rimsky-Korsokov followed by The Residents followed by Tom Jones folowed by Strapping Young Lad...etc. So the musical non-sequitors don't bug me. |
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Avantgardehead
Forum Senior Member Joined: December 29 2006 Location: Dublin, OH, USA Status: Offline Points: 1170 |
Posted: November 07 2008 at 04:52 |
Awesome band!
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http://www.last.fm/user/Avantgardian
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Henry Plainview
Forum Senior Member Joined: May 26 2008 Location: Declined Status: Offline Points: 16715 |
Posted: November 06 2008 at 12:53 |
I'm not really a fan. They do the lol, random genre shifts better than Mr Bungle, but I still don't find them very interesting. Thanks for the smooth jazz song on Palace of Mirrors, guys...
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if you own a sodastream i hate you
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Raff
Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: July 29 2005 Location: None Status: Offline Points: 24429 |
Posted: November 06 2008 at 01:56 |
What about having a look at the database before posting (and attacking others)? http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=2041 |
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smuggledmutation
Forum Newbie Joined: November 04 2008 Status: Offline Points: 4 |
Posted: November 05 2008 at 18:38 |
have i died and gone to non-prog heaven?? is anyone seriously dogging estradsphere here? these guys are absolutely amazing. they can play ANY style, they can be serious, they can be humorous.....they can re-do classical pieces in their own great way. they are absolutely Prog, and if you disagree, you are not a true prog fan. you are a bad critic and have nothing better to do than sit on ur computer and be totally 1-sided and close-minded. whose that pro-e.l.p. fan who was dissing them? you dont even deserve to have that e.l.p. picture. advice....go see them live....they are amazing and will give you one of the best shows you've ever seen. c'mon seriously, they are one of the best things to come out lately, and dont group with alot of bands because they are so different.
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StyLaZyn
Forum Senior Member Joined: November 22 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 4079 |
Posted: July 22 2008 at 10:03 |
Well I don't know about this band, but this guy definitely doesn't belong here. Good thing he's not. |
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Drakk
Forum Senior Member Joined: March 09 2007 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 340 |
Posted: July 17 2008 at 11:37 |
Mimicry is Spruance's label; they're on the End Records now.
Listen to Songs like Hunger Strike and Meteorite Showers before you decide they're not "Prog enough." I'm highly awaiting their new CD, but I'm still gonna miss Whooley and Murray. :(
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I'm disappointed - neither of these players are avant-garde! Al di Meola. [/QUOTE] haha i know. but the poll itself is avant-garde [/QUOTE] |
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heyitsthatguy
Forum Senior Member Joined: April 17 2006 Location: Washington Hgts Status: Offline Points: 10094 |
Posted: July 17 2008 at 00:29 |
hate to be nitpicky but I thought Web of Mimicry was Spruance
either way, fun band |
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BenMech
Forum Newbie Joined: August 04 2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 33 |
Posted: July 14 2008 at 11:09 |
Palace of Mirrors isn't their only album. And P of M IS a movie soundtrack. They previously released 1999's "It's Understood", 2001's "Buck Fever", 2004's "Quadropus", and a number of live albums and eps. Estradasphere have a change-on-a-dime kitchen sink format, going from death metal to world music to big-band to 8-bit video game score to jazz to hiphop to electronica to country to folk to classical to miscellaneous format, sometimes in the course of ONE song!. Their first albums were released on Trevor Dunn's Web of Mimicry label, and much like Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, moved over to The End Records. |
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jammun
Prog Reviewer Joined: July 14 2007 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 3449 |
Posted: July 11 2008 at 22:21 |
Damn, I thought Orejon had a new band.
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Logan
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Posted: July 11 2008 at 19:14 |
karny's a legend that some would like to forget. I was a long-time lurker before joining and remember some of his antics.
To uselessly answer greenback's old question: I know Estradasphere -- excellent band. I'm very happy to have discovered it thanks to the archives a couple of years ago. |
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micky
Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: October 02 2005 Location: . Status: Offline Points: 46838 |
Posted: July 11 2008 at 18:52 |
hope the dearly departed troll didn't give up his day job for a life of musical prognostication.... |
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Uncle Spooky
Forum Groupie Joined: July 31 2007 Location: UK Status: Offline Points: 59 |
Posted: July 11 2008 at 18:43 |
Picked up Palace of Mirrors. This isn't Prog, plain and simple. It's SOUNDTRACK music and would fit very well into a number of films, but has no place in Prog Archives.
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Reed Lover
Forum Senior Member Joined: July 16 2004 Location: Sao Tome and Pr Status: Offline Points: 5187 |
Posted: March 15 2005 at 16:20 |
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Posted: March 15 2005 at 16:13 |
goose wrote: Go away? From the Estradasphere thread? You stay i'm out of this totally boring band/thread.
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goose
Forum Senior Member Joined: June 20 2004 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 4097 |
Posted: March 15 2005 at 16:05 |
Go away? From the Estradasphere thread?
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Posted: March 15 2005 at 15:45 |
Yes Goose I have heard them dis-like them completely no arguing go away. |
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goose
Forum Senior Member Joined: June 20 2004 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 4097 |
Posted: March 15 2005 at 15:39 |
Firstly, have you yet made any comments not either praising ELP or criticising people who aren't ELP (which is quite a few)? Secondly, do you know anything about Estradasphere? Or do you mean a year at the most on top of the several years (I admit, I don't know exactly, but I think they've done three or four albums and a DVD) that they've already played for? You don't really have a leg to stand on, when complaining about people criticising ELP, if you're going to insult the vast majority of other bands left right and centre. Or is this all an elaborate joke created by somebody to expose how ludicrous the stereotypical ELP fan is? I hope so, but if not, then you're living a cliché and for your own sake I hope you can leave it.
On topic, I love Estradasphere. Have you heard any bootlegs? If not, check out http://www.archive.org/audio/etreelisting-browse.php?collect ion=etree&cat=Estradasphere&PHPSESSID=0ef8f0e8e7538e ca6da24a33baa75217 for a healthy few. I definitely recommend the Jazz Club one. Also, I'd call them prog but I can see a lot of people disagreeing. Either way they're a very interesting listen.
edit: when I say "I hope you can leave it" I wasn't alluding to suicide at all; I meant to stop acting in a clichéd manner (had to clear that one up!). Edited by goose |
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Spanky
Forum Senior Member Joined: April 07 2004 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 389 |
Posted: March 15 2005 at 14:46 |
If Mr. Bungle is here than Estradasphere belongs here.
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Coalinga knows how to party.
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