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zicIy 
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Posted: January 11 2008 at 16:46 |
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their AMAZING albums, as Friends, Moon&Mind, Winterlight....?
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Posted: January 11 2008 at 16:57 |
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I haven't listened to Oregon in a while, but what they used to play could be called jazz/world music fusion.
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Posted: January 11 2008 at 17:01 |
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world jazz/music. progressive, sure, but I never considered them prog...
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zicIy
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Posted: January 11 2008 at 17:04 |
 Easy Money wrote:
I haven't listened to Oregon in a while, but what they used to play could be called jazz/world music fusion.
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not "world music" at all, imho. btw, this is a new term, and to be straight, i dont know what this term really means, probably some rough cocktail party i guess, but Oregon werent that stuff.
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Posted: January 11 2008 at 17:42 |
I was looking for the option "CRAP".
Ah well.. Sorry guys.. Just not my thing.
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Posted: January 11 2008 at 18:00 |
Frippertron wrote:
I was looking for the option "CRAP".
Ah well.. Sorry guys.. Just not my thing. |
Ah, fer shame!
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Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Easy Money
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Posted: January 11 2008 at 18:21 |
zicIy wrote:
Easy Money wrote:
I haven't listened to Oregon in a while, but what they used to play could be called jazz/world music fusion. |
not "world music" at all, imho. btw, this is a new term, and to be straight, i dont know what this term really means, probably some rough cocktail party i guess, but Oregon werent that stuff. |
World music is a horribly vague term, but a lot of times it means drawing on the ancient traditional music of any region of the world. The Oregon I used to listen to drew a lot from Indian music as well as other traditional musics.
It is a very vague term. Sometimes just having a conga player in your group will win you the title of "world music".
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Posted: January 11 2008 at 18:32 |
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I don't know. Why did you put that option, everyone vote it.
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Posted: January 11 2008 at 19:20 |
I decided to go with prog since they have elements of almost all listed, especially "I don't know", but what heck is fussyion?  Another good option might have been "the official state music of Oregon". 
Edited by Slartibartfast - January 11 2008 at 19:21
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Posted: January 12 2008 at 00:34 |
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"Moon and Mind" is awesome. I'll call it "campfire jazz," a sound all its own.
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...that moment you realize you like "Mob Rules" better than "Heaven and Hell"
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Posted: January 12 2008 at 05:44 |
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Hmm... the Oregon I know play (predominantly) acoustic jazz, strongly influenced by European classical music, mellow psychedelic music and folk music from around the world... How do you classify them? I just wouldn't bother...
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Posted: January 12 2008 at 07:14 |
^What he said. 
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Posted: January 12 2008 at 10:14 |
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Jazz, more said, acustical jazz. Not a prog band by far or fusion, simply jazz. Jazz is something diffrent from fusion, but releated. Other similar band to me is Wether Report. Some of the passages are quite the same, not so much diffrence betwen Oregon and Weather Report. Anyway to me is jazz, and a great band after all , just listen to Out of the woods.
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zicIy
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Posted: January 13 2008 at 01:51 |
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I don't know. Why did you put that option, everyone vote it. |
i dont know too, and i did put that option and i voted the same. this really great band is practicaly impossible to classify - and i like it! probably if they were recording for ECM production in their beginnings, although they were recorded a lot for ECM later on, (as the band and solo), it would be easy to say that Oregon is "ECM sound" (an another strange term if to be used as the genre, btw), but they werent ...
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