Your biggest discovery of the year!

This year I discovered so many new bands/artists it would be hard to name my first and formost favourite of the year but after having agony striken into me by Robert Wyatt's voice for nearly a year now I've finally started to appreciate his vocals and get past the occasional burst of what sounds like a painful orgasm. That would have to be my top discovery of the year.

I don't usually post very much but my traffic has increased greatly today as I was bored and the interactive-computing-machine-data-transferal system (the internet) is being slow today but I plan on coming here more often in the future.

Right at the start of 2009: Miles Davis and Nina Simone . I am pretty sure I will not make a bigger discovery this year, or ever again haha.


Edited by Clenn - January 25 2009 at 10:48

This year has been a grand year for my Progressive Rock collection. I have gathered many CDs, but as I scroll down my virtual library,  these are the true highlights of my year.


ANGE - Au-Dela Du Delire

ANTHONY PHILLIPS - The Geese & The Ghost

BACAMARTE - Depois do Fim

BANCO DEL MUTUO SOCCORSO - Io Sono Nato Libero

BEARDFISH - Sleep In Traffic (Parts One and Two)

YEZDA URFA - Boris

Some of these I've been meaning to get for quite some time (Banco, Bacamarte), others I just purchased on a whim, while searching the web (such as Yezda Urfa, and Beardfish). I'm surprised I haven't bought the BANCO album a lot sooner, because it is quite a main album of the Italian Symphonic genre (many say THE album).

I have come across MANY more CDs, but these really are "La creme de la creme".

So far of 2009, Velislav Ivanov is the best of the 3 new ones.

victor77 wrote: My great discovery this year is a record shop in New York called Downtown Music Gallery. Fortunately for me, I don´t live in NY, otherwise I´d spend too much money there!   ... Steve Reich ...

Which album turned you on to his stuff...was it The Desert Music?

This will be "this year" as in past year, not the last 21 days..

victor77 wrote: My great discovery this year is a record shop in New York called Downtown Music Gallery. Fortunately for me, I don´t live in NY, otherwise I´d spend too much money there!   Bands and artists (including live shows): Godspeed you Black Emperor! Steve Reich Igor Stravinsky Gentle Giant Rush Return to Forever McCoy Tyner Picchio dal Pozzo

About 8 or 9 years ago me and a buddy made our annual trip to the Kansas City Blues & Jazz Festival. The Friday night headliner was the Pat Metheny Group and I was so stoked. Metheny's always been a favorite of mine and I had seen him once before. A Metheny show is really quite the experience.

Saturday night's headliner was a guy named McCoy Tyner. I knew nothing about him, but was there to hear some good jazz. 9:00 rolls around and three men come on the stage: a drummer, upright acoustic bass player and Tyner on piano. To be honest, I didn't quite know what to expect; however, the sound that these three men created was mind blowing. I had seen a 7 piece in Metheny's band the previous night, but swear that the McCoy Tyner Trio produced just as much sound. It could be the single most overwhelming live music experience that I had ever had. This same buddy and I saw him a few years later down at the Gem Theater in KC and he didn't disappoint. My buddy has since passed away, but Tyner really changed us that hot summer evening in Kansas City. A true American treasure.

E

My discovery this year was quality prog-metal: it started in late 2007 and continued in 2008. Opeth, Parallaxe, Blotted Science, Subterranean Masquerade, Negura Bunget, Cynic are the stand-outs.

My biggest find of the year is Eternal Now.

It is a symphonic progressive metal band here in the Philippines.
They are not yet that great and well-known but I'm just happy because
at last, progressive rock is slowly blooming here in our country. Aside
from them, there also is Fuseboxx which is also a progressive rock band.

Bravo!

Þursaflokkurinn
http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=2021