Instrumental progressive spacerock

Thanks for reminding me. Really great stuff.

 

I had something of Wooden Baby I can remember, because I collected all Ozric.

Let me remember any other sideprojects: Dream Machine, Moksha and of course Nodens Ictus (wich is really, really great stuff)

 

I will try some of the other recommendations, thank you.

When I got into spacerock, because of old bands like Eloy and Hawkwind, I thought that symphonic rock with synthesizers and sequencers and spacey stories was spacerock.

Later I got into Ozric Spacefolk and I was sold. I searched the internet up and down for spacerock.
But then I found out, anything can be spacerock these days: Radiohead, Muse, The Doors, Jefferson Airplane and the whole 60's psychedelic rock movement. I'm not interested in a huge discussion about what spacerock is or is not.

Then I thought; why not focus on the instrumental bands that actually have a progressive approach instead of a stonerrock-approach. Nothing against stonerrock, by the way.
But to keep thing simple, I want to dedicate this thread to bands that are strongly influenced by Ozric Tentacles, Gong, Camel, Eloy, Pink Floyd, and have an instrumental approach with enthic and fusion influences.

 

Later on I found that another style has influences from spacerock and that is psychill/psytrance/psybient, with bands like Entheogenic, Shpongle and Eat Static. Wich have a lot of electronic but aswell analog instruments, mostly chants, percussion , guitar, flutes and ethnic influences. Quite progressive but not rock at all.

To start things off, here's a list of bands I already know:

 

First Band from Outerspace (although some songs have vocals)

Øresund Space Collective (although sometimes they sound more like stonerrock)

ColorStar (although some songs have vocals)

 

Of course the old bands, who have instrumental songs that have that specific progressive spacerock thing:

Camel (Lunar Sea, parts of Rain Dances)

Eloy (parts of Ocean, Silent Cries, Planets, Time to Turn)

Sky (really underrated band)

Kraan (another really underrated band)

Tangerine Dream (especially their Force Majeur-days)

 

As you can see, not a very broad list, and not a very popular style. Maybe people want more focus on heavy guitar riffing and vocals/lyrics.

However, I wonder if I left out some artists that really fit in the lists above. Maybe Steve Hillage or Tim Blake?