Teach Me About Chamber Rock

Keep them coming, nice topic! Although I'm too late to the party to recommend my favourites as they have mostly already been named. All NSRO albums are great, as is Presence by Five-storey ensemble. I'd also have named DAAU, Aranis, Penguin Cafe Orchestra... I know, nothing that hasn't been said before.

Let's see whether I can come up with something not yet nominated... not sure whether people would call Karda Estra chamber prog, but for me much of their work fits here. Try out the fantastic Eve album.

Art Zoyd of course are a standard address but if you want it less dark than Univers Zero maybe that's the wrong direction.

Personally by the way I don't find genre labels that important, so I don't mind that something is called Chamber ROCK that doesn't have much rock in it. In fact I'm not quite sure from your posting whether you're asking explicitly for more "rocky" recommendations or whether you're fine with things that aren't.

PS: I listen to Megalázottak és Megszomorítottak by After Crying right now, another great album. Once more not sure about their classification but it sounds pretty chamber prog to me.

^ I concur with that recommendation.

A vast domain... but very interesting to explore. And not necessarily without drums or guitars, but the instrumentation can sometimes resemble more to those of a chamber music ensemble than to that of a rock band. And sometimes (often?) it is a mix of both.No intentions to "teach" you whatever, I'm not an expert, but just some recommendations to explore, eventually.

Close to compassionizer, I guess, is Roz Vitalis. I particularly like their recent album The Hidden Man of the Heart (available on bandcamp.

One of my personal favourites are Die anarchistische Abendunterhaltung (aka DAAU). Five or six years ago they issued an album - Hineininterpretierung - revisiting previous work, which is a wonderful introduction to their music.

And then there is The Penguin Cafe Orchestra as - another - major reference to explore, in my opinion (not many drums, though). There is a recent thread about them that could help you further.