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Points: 3 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 20 2009 at 07:17
I rediscovered Can's Tago Mago a few weeks ago, and still haven't recovered from it. Smile
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Maudlin of the Well/Kayo Do, for sure.
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Quote Moongarden - Songs from the Lighthouse

Well bless my soul. Thats a great album!
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^ Great album! I discovered it last year ... it's still on this extended list of discovered albums:



The list contains albums that I put on my playlist in "first listen" modus in the last 12 months ... but only one album per artist (the highest rated one), and only if I hadn't reviewed any other albums of the same artist in the time before the 12 months. In a nutshell: It contains all albums that I discovered in the last 12 months, by artists that I hadn't known before, narrowed down to the top rated album by each artist.Big smile


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Originally posted by Petrovsk Mizinski Petrovsk Mizinski wrote:

^Earth is wicked sh*t.
I wrote the biography for those guys to be added to PA, excellent band.
Nice! I'm looking for some of their previous albums. I've been enchanted by "The Bees Made Honey In The Lions Skull".
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^Earth is wicked sh*t.
I wrote the biography for those guys to be added to PA, excellent band.
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Heh, i'm a bit late to the mark, but i'd have to say either God Is An Astronaut or Earth. Excellent stuff :)
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Amen brother, his first album is a true masterpiece!

Since January, I have discovered at least 20 new bands which I like. Here are my highlights:

-Spock's Beard (I can't believe I never bought an album of theirs until now!)

-Sigur Rós

-Quella Vecchia Locanda

-Il Balletto Di Bronzo

-Bubu (check the signature Smile)

LIFE IS GOOD BABaY!
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Anthony Phillips (Solo)
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Points: 5195 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 13 2009 at 11:09
^ you might enjoy the solo albums of Jordan Rudess or Derek Sherinian ... if you're serious about a "Metal/ELP" mix. Just remember if you should come back crying "it's not what I expected" that you said "I want something different"!Big smile
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Hi,
 
None really ... except that some folks confuse progressive music with an instrument and idealistic style of music ... and take away the chance and ability of anyone else creating anything new ... while I like the Crimsons and the ELP's ... I want something new ... something different ... not copies!
 
Heck at this point a nice Metal/ELP mix would be nice ... but not sure that we gonna find a pair of hands that could accent lyrics like Keith could in this lifetime ... to create some outstanding chops and sounds out of new machines in order to develop something that we take for granted today ... the synthesizer!
 
I always thought that knowing classical music was a so what proposition ... blending the music theory aspects into your playing and translating it into a new form, was really neat ... and some do it well and others are just "playing classics" a few years later!
 
There is a time in a musician's life, or a painter's life, or a writer's hand ... where you have to decide if you are gonna just playing the stuff you learned from in school or you are gonna grow up and do your own thing ... you know that there are bits and pieces that you love that will follow you ... but in the end it is your style ... and if you make this choice away from your soul and spirit ... your own music is over. Your own spirit will eventually die inside ... you are gonna become a professor or teacher to try and satisfy your need, but you will never get the satisfaction that you could when you "enter into the lost chord" ... the moment where light comes alive, the world stands still ... and you can play ... you can write ... you can paint ... you are free!
 
Prog ... in many ways, is ... the worst possible thing we could "call" these musicians ... but I understand the need to classify a little ... but I find our ability to discuss prog-folk, progelectronica, prog-rock, prog-soul, prog-rap, prog-bullychip ... really disturbing ... like we can accept one thing but not others ... and that is one thing that will hurt the progressive and experimental side of music more than anything else ...
 
Why are we all Salieri's?
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Points: 25210 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 13 2009 at 07:22
I like this thread.
It's full of happiness and good stuff.
I share some of Mike's discoveries above too.
Really liked the new Long Distance Calling album. Just heard it last week, the first time I heard the band ever.
I've been listening Dichotomy by Becoming the Archetype since February I think, great stuff.
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Points: 3843 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 13 2009 at 07:19
Glad to see that Singularity received a few mentions, great band there.

My personal discoveries so far this year:

Arena:  Had Pepper's Ghost for a while and listened to it a few times last year, ho hum.  Finally got Contagious for Christmas, absolutely love it.

Karmakanic:  Picked up Who's the Boss based on recommendations here and love it.
-------someone please tell him to delete this line, he looks like a noob-------

I don't have an unnatural obsession with Disney Princesses, I have a fourteen year old daughter and coping mechanisms.
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Points: 5195 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 13 2009 at 06:51
Here's an improved version of my sig ... it shows the albums that I put on my playlist this year, marked as "first listen":



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Points: 4079 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 13 2009 at 06:50
I rediscovered the incredible song writing talents and harmonies of the band dada. Not Prog but worth a mention.

Prog side, Karmakanic, Demians, and Ephrat.
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Points: 17493 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 13 2009 at 06:32
Mad speed scientists in my nation named ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE. Shocked
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I recently discovered two prog bands:

1) Andromeda - Their debut album (with the new vocals) just blew my mind... incredible performance. Andromeda is now part of my TOP 5 Metal Progressive list.

2) Karmakanic - The last album of this project/band was incredible. "Send A Message From The Heart" is their best song, without a doubt.
"Now the Miracle and the Sleeper know
That the third is love
Love is the Dance of Eternity"
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Points: 23 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 11 2009 at 00:20
Can't get enough of NiL, french prog outfit. Clap

The others in no particular order:

Zombi
Prisma
Under the Sun
Hamadryad
Seer
Hexatonica
Pax Cecilia
Time Traveller
Freak Neil Inc.
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Points: 5 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 10 2009 at 04:36
I've discovered recently some incredible albums.

Nemo - Barbares  (amazing French eclectic prog album)

Matraz - Gritaré  (a band from Chile that plays amazing progressive jazz/metal, I suggest to check it out)

Beardfish - Sleeping in Traffic Part II  (brilliant album from Sweden)
Karmakanic - Who's The Boss In The Factory  (again great Swedish production from the members of The Flower Kings)

Day Without Dawn - Understanding Consequences  (Terrific post rock album from the states that sounds like a mixture of Oceansize and Coheed and Cambria but still has their unique sound)

Umphrey's McGee - Mantis  (Very enjoyable jazzy piece)

Pain Of Salvation - 12:5  (didn't think that an unplugged album from PoS could be so awesome)
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Points: 17309 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 09 2009 at 20:12

5 stars JACULA Tardo pede in magiam versus | read review
5 stars DELIRIUM Il Nome Del Vento | read review
5 stars IL BACIO DELLA MEDUSA Discesa agl'inferi d'un giovane amante | read review
5 stars RAINBOW THEATRE Fantasy of Horses | read review
5 stars GHOST Overture: Live in Nippon Yusen Soko 2006 | read review
5 stars BEDEDEUM Oltre il Sipario | read review


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