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With two additional my post-'70s are now:

Solaris  (HUN)  -  Marsbeli Kronikak  (1984)
 Shora  (CH)  -  Malval  (2005)

 Univers Zero  (B)  -  Clivages  (2010)

 Vespero  (RUS) - By the Waters of Tomorrow (2010)
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Best instrumental prog album that I'VE ever heard? 

There can be only one...."Masques" by Brand X! 

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Giger Lenz Marron-Beyond
Giger Lenz Marron-Where The Hammer Hangs
Passport-Looking Thru
Passport-Cross-Collateral
Il Baricentro-Sconcerto
Dedalus-Dedalus
Terje Rypdal-What Comes After

^those sprang to mind...
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Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

I would chuck in Far Corner album Risk from a few years ago , an absolute gem. Its a keyboard lead album but has a lot of Rio influences. Its got some great hooks and personally I never get bored listening to it.

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My fav TD album is Zeit. If it wasn't for Jon Anderson, Vangelis' Heaven and Hell would have been my choice
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Oh dear where to begin. Including jazz rock fusion there's hundreds if not thousands of albums to choose from. But if I exclude "fusion" altogether and focus on the more archetypal type of Progressive Rock, the task becomes a little less overwhelming. Here's a few:

The Cosmic Jokers - Galactic Supermarket
Guapo - Five Suns
Morte Macabre - Symphonic Holocaust
Popol Vuh - Nosferatu
Klaus Schulze - Mirage
Tangerine Dream - Phaedra
Univers Zéro - Univers Zéro
Vangelis - The Dragon
Bohren & der Club of Gore - Black Earth
Dün - Eros
Embryo - Steig Aus
Goblin - Profondo Rosso
Cluster - Zuckerzeit
(Secret Chiefs 3) Ishraqiyun - Perichoresis
Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygène
Kollektiv - SWF-Sessions Volume 5
Franco Leprino - Integrati ... Disintegrati
Ragnarök - Ragnarök
Rahmann - Rahmann
Sensations' Fix - Portable Madness
Tortoise - Millions Now Living Will Never Die
Zanov - Green Ray
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Originally posted by Awesoreno Awesoreno wrote:

Originally posted by Big Sky Big Sky wrote:

First two Mahavisnu Orchestra albums, Snow Goose, Six Wives of Henry the 8th, right off top of my head. How about the Aristocrats? Fusion with some prog. I have enjoyed everything Guthrie, Bryan and Marco have done together. Throw in Handmade Cities and Impulse Voices from Plini too.

Jean Michel Jarre's Oxygene. Wore that album out. The cover art alone requires Oxygene to be labeled Prog.

Saw The Aristocrats live last year. Awesome show! Though I did get my catalytic converter stolen from my car...


Sucks about the car. Yeah, the Aristocrats are great. Guthrie Govan is one of my favorite guitarists. Hope to see Plini in Charlotte this May. Depends on how well my son's college baseball team is doing. They may still be playing and well, that would take precedent.
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Originally posted by Big Sky Big Sky wrote:

First two Mahavisnu Orchestra albums, Snow Goose, Six Wives of Henry the 8th, right off top of my head. How about the Aristocrats? Fusion with some prog. I have enjoyed everything Guthrie, Bryan and Marco have done together. Throw in Handmade Cities and Impulse Voices from Plini too.

Jean Michel Jarre's Oxygene. Wore that album out. The cover art alone requires Oxygene to be labeled Prog.
Saw The Aristocrats live last year. Awesome show! Though I did get my catalytic converter stolen from my car...
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Surprised not to see any Mike Oldfield albums mentioned, Exposed is a great double live album.
Also the Dixie Dregs, What If being perhaps my favourite.
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Post-'70s:

Solaris  (HUN)  -  Marsbeli Kronikak  (1984)
 Shora  (CH)  -  Malval  (2005)

 Univers Zero  (B)  -  Clivages  (2010)

 Vespero  (RUS) - By the Waters of Tomorrow (2010)




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I would chuck in Far Corner album Risk from a few years ago , an absolute gem. Its a keyboard lead album but has a lot of Rio influences. Its got some great hooks and personally I never get bored listening to it.

A band that seems sadly overlooked is Isobar. They've just released their 3rd and its as good as the first 2. Please check them out.

After that Elephant 9 and Krokofant are a couple of great jazz fusion acts from Norway that are well worth giving a try.
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Originally posted by Jared Jared wrote:

Before all the usual suspects get churned out, I'd just like to put forward SKY 1 and 2, which I think are hugely enjoyable albums that get forgotten about, possibly because for them, it was all downhill from there... Unhappy

agreed those are excellent and they were never as good after Francis Monkman left.
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I should have added Gryphon and Schicke, Fürhs & Fröhling.
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First two Mahavisnu Orchestra albums, Snow Goose, Six Wives of Henry the 8th, right off top of my head. How about the Aristocrats? Fusion with some prog. I have enjoyed everything Guthrie, Bryan and Marco have done together. Throw in Handmade Cities and Impulse Voices from Plini too.

Jean Michel Jarre's Oxygene. Wore that album out. The cover art alone requires Oxygene to be labeled Prog.


Edited by Big Sky - February 02 2023 at 00:01
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Recently checked out Arch Echo's self-titled debut, and it's AWESOME. They're opening for Haken when I see them in Los Angeles.
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The '70s, part 2:

       Mahavishnu Orchestra  (USA)  -  Birds of Fire  (1973)

MIA  (ARG)  -  Cornonstipicum  (1978)

Return to Forever  (USA)  -  Where Have I Known You  Before   (1974)

Secret Oyster  (DK)  -  Sea Sun   (1974)

Tangerine Dream  (D)  -  Stratosfear   (1976)

Rick Wakeman  (UK)  -  The Six Wives of Henry VIII   (1973)

Weather Report  (USA)  -  Black Market   (1976)
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I had a look at my old Top 250 albums of all time list done some years ago for PA. I'm generally very keen on instrumental music. To my surprise, in the high ranks the vast majority of instrumental albums is not on PA. The best listed here seem to be
Tarentel - From Bone to Satellite
Association PC - Erna Morena
Tangerine Dream - Rubycon
The first two of these are little known, I think. I also have listed
Brian Eno and David Byrne - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
which has a lot of voices but little or no singing, like a few others (the best Art Zoyd have a bit of singing/voicing even though that what they don't do very often).

This is from a list that is a few years old; my number one album of 2021 is also instrumental:
Battlestations - Splinters Vol. I Tremor
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Originally posted by verslibre verslibre wrote:

Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

Originally posted by verslibre verslibre wrote:

Far too many to list, but here are a few:

GOBLIN Roller
GOBLIN Four of a Kind
KENSO Kenso III
KENSO Yume No Oka
OZRIC TENTACLES Strangeitude
OZRIC TENTACKES Jurassic Shift
TANGERINE DREAM Stratosfear
TANGERINE DREAM Force Majeure
VANGELIS Heaven and Hell
VANGELIS Albedo 0.39
RICK WAKEMAN Criminal Record
RICK WAKEMAN The Red Planet
I was going to list some Tangerine Dream favourites too, until I realised all of my favourite TD albums include vocals. Tongue

Your top three: Cyclone, Tyger and Madcap's Flaming Duty. Wink

I love the first two. The third, not so much.
Yes, those three and the Dante's Inferno trilogy too. Thumbs Up
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Will someone nominate Lou Reed's Metal Music Machine or Neil Young's Weld ?
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