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^ they were suggested in Feb 11 but clearly flatly rejected. BTW I heartily loathe Living Colour but always thought Vernon Reid's shred credentials might sway some of the PA brethren
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Posted: October 28 2011 at 14:56
Catcher10 wrote:
I changed the metadata on my Parliament albums to symphonic prog genre......so there.
Parliament's 1970 debut album, Osmium, sounds pretty proggy to me in places, as does the, of course related, Funkakelic debut album of the same year (and others).
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Posted: October 28 2011 at 14:42
The_Jester wrote:
Anima Mundi is fantastic! One band I need to add to my discography.
In 2007 I went to Varadero in Cuba (Really fun place and extremely cheap), and read somewhere that Anima Mundi was playing in La Habana, so rented a car and went o see them, what a show, great music, sadly La Habana is a depressive city full of prostitution and poverty, but Anima Mundi was worth the trip..
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Posted: October 28 2011 at 10:45
It would seem to be rare.....I can immediately suggest the Art Ensemble of Chicago, who were a fusion of funk, jazz and world music. Quite remarkable.
My friend Mychael Pollard is heavily influenced by symphonic prog including Yes and ELP, he just posted this video to his Facebook page. Mychael plays nearly any instrument and is quite an impressive young talent!!
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Posted: October 28 2011 at 10:03
Mandré is really cool! And your opinion is just what I thought about the music industry. There must have been black symphonic prog band but they probably got rejected because they ''did not fit esthetically''. That's horrible, racism in our today society...
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Posted: October 28 2011 at 08:41
A symphonic prog band made of black members, I would say is extremely rare, especially given the current attitude of the music industry executives. These folks are very visually oriented. To them, a symphonic prog band doesn't look like Kool and the Gang. Bands like this have had to go the jazz/fusion route or under made up genres like "space funk" or some other kind of nonsense. David Sancious and Tone came close but had limited recognition and limited push from the record company, probably because of that visual thing (or something even more sinister). A group like Mandre might fit but again their sound may have had to appeal to a broader market (folks have got to eat you know).
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Posted: October 27 2011 at 19:07
The_Jester wrote:
There's a lot of black band in jazz-rock/fusion but my real point (sorry for not specifying it :) ) is that I was trying to find some symphonic prog (or even crossover, ecletctic or heavy prog) bands made of black members (or even just one).
Tall order.. Omar RL is Puerto Rican, so he may be part black
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Posted: October 27 2011 at 18:58
There's a lot of black band in jazz-rock/fusion but my real point (sorry for not specifying it :) ) is that I was trying to find some symphonic prog (or even crossover, ecletctic or heavy prog) bands made of black members (or even just one).
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Posted: October 27 2011 at 18:51
In JRf there is the band Osibisa. There are jazz fusion artists in PA that are black, of couse, such as Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock, just to choose two of the biggest names, and one night consider the groups they worked with as bands -- for instance, the Mwandishi group, bit then it depends on what you would classify as a band and what can be considered Prog. There are many black jazzers in PA who worked on Fusion albums and in electric jazz, but I don't consider itjem to be Prog genre artists even though I think they are perfect for JRF. I'm having problems typing on my iPod now and wrote much the same thing before, but accidentally deleted it.
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