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Points: 10387 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 22 2008 at 03:20
how about "Xitintoday" by Nik Turner's Sphynx (most likely to be found under Nik Turner in record shops). an album that was recorded inside the Great Pyramid. a lot of flute and percussion instruments mix with synth, glissando guitar and vocoder to form a unique atmosphere which certainly will take you back in time


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Problem is, there is little if any knowledge of how music sounded in ancient Greece, not to mention ancient Egypt. We know what kind of instruments they used but not what they played with them, so really "ancient" could be any sort of folky acoustic sounds really...
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Points: 3 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 22 2008 at 13:38
Good point, but egyptian folk and greek folk has this ancient sounds, so I'm looking a band with that.
I listened some Kobai's recommendations, they are great man!

I'll give Nik Turner's album a try.

Thank you all.
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You need to try out Grails, a criminally ignored band here. Very subtle and very ancient sounding. I'd suggest you try out their latest "Burning off Impurities", but everything I've heard so far is great.

Edit: On second thought they're not always that similar to the symphonic structures you mention, though I still think you should check them out. They're definitely progressive and I think they're just the sound you're looking for.


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I recently heard Third Ear Band's 1969 album Alchemy. Although it doesn't have the rhythm changes you're interested in, it has a sparse, ancient sound.
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Gryphon (as has been mentioned) is fairly true to medieval sounds.  (esp. the first two albums.)
A good, but more obscure, album with a lot of classical nods is the New Trolls -- Concerto Grosso.
Wakeman's early albums are full of classical nods.
The point that the was made above that we know little about what ancient Greek music sounded like and next to nothing about ancient Egyptian music has a lot of truth to it.
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Originally posted by Norbert Norbert wrote:

Maybe 666 by Aphrodite's Child, I don't know whether it's "ancient " enough.


Hey, 1972 sounds ancient enough to me. Hahaha! Anyone? Anyone? No? Moving on...

But seriously, 666 is a very good blend of psychedelia and folk Greek music, but I would agree with Norbert in saying that it isn't too "ancient-y" sounding.
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Originally posted by Philéas Philéas wrote:

Problem is, there is little if any knowledge of how music sounded in ancient Greece, not to mention ancient Egypt. We know what kind of instruments they used but not what they played with them, so really "ancient" could be any sort of folky acoustic sounds really...
 
I would support you here - obviously no recordings and nothing written down until the late medieval period, so nobody knows what ancient Egyptian or Greek music sounded like. Instead, we have recordings of what may have been like (or not) music played on instruments (famously somebody played/recorded  a trumpet found in the tomb of Tutankamum in the 30's) or copies of instruments of the period, guessed by historical musicologists. Instead you can have music that is derived from modern Greek, or Egyptian Arabic  forms of music .
 
Arabic:
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Plant/Page Unplugged aka No Quarter.
Jonas Hellborg: Aram Of Two Rivers
 
Eastern European
Arto Tunçboyaciyan work, e.g. The Armenian Navy Band
Gunesh
Nicholas Maier
 
And for "Ancient" try East Of Eden late 60's recordings e.g. SNAFU


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Originally posted by Dick Heath Dick Heath wrote:

Originally posted by Philéas Philéas wrote:

Problem is, there is little if any knowledge of how music sounded in ancient Greece, not to mention ancient Egypt. We know what kind of instruments they used but not what they played with them, so really "ancient" could be any sort of folky acoustic sounds really...
 
I would support you here - obviously no recordings and nothing written down until the late medieval period, so nobody knows what ancient Egyptian or Greek music sounded like. Instead, we have recordings of what may have been like (or not) music played on instruments (famously somebody played/recorded  a trumpet found in the tomb of Tutankamum in the 30's) or copies of instruments of the period, guessed by historical musicologists. Instead you can have music that is derived from modern Greek, or Egyptian Arabic  forms of music .

I remember there was an April Fool's joke in a German archeology mag on TV some 20 years ago, about an ancient Egyptian potter who, while creating a pot of his, had been singing a song, and the sound of it was transmitted via his fingernails to the rills on top of the pot he was forming, so that by running the needle of a record player through these rills the sound of his voice was reproduced LOL. Would have been nice if true, but only a hoax.


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Points: 1594 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 26 2008 at 08:36
Originally posted by BaldFriede BaldFriede wrote:

Originally posted by Dick Heath Dick Heath wrote:

Originally posted by Philéas Philéas wrote:

Problem is, there is little if any knowledge of how music sounded in ancient Greece, not to mention ancient Egypt. We know what kind of instruments they used but not what they played with them, so really "ancient" could be any sort of folky acoustic sounds really...
 
I would support you here - obviously no recordings and nothing written down until the late medieval period, so nobody knows what ancient Egyptian or Greek music sounded like. Instead, we have recordings of what may have been like (or not) music played on instruments (famously somebody played/recorded  a trumpet found in the tomb of Tutankamum in the 30's) or copies of instruments of the period, guessed by historical musicologists. Instead you can have music that is derived from modern Greek, or Egyptian Arabic  forms of music .

I remember there was an April Fool's joke in a German archeology mag on TV some 20 years ago, about an ancient Egyptian potter who, while creating a pot of his, had been singing a song, and the sound of it was transmitted via his fingernails to the rills on top of the pot he was forming, so that by running the needle of a record player through these rills the sound of his voice was reproduced LOL. Would have been nice if true, but only a hoax.
They did something similar on CSI but Mythbusters tried it and proved it wouldn't work.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 28 2008 at 12:05
Originally posted by ProgArg ProgArg wrote:

Good point, but egyptian folk and greek folk has this ancient sounds, so I'm looking a band with that.
I listened some Kobai's recommendations, they are great man!

I'll give Nik Turner's album a try.

Thank you all.


Yes they are Thumbs%20Up

Here's one more: Amarok from Spain. There's arabic influences but some others too. You may like it. Try for example their newest one first.


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Points: 799 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 28 2008 at 15:36
Peter Gabriel's Last Temptation of Christ certainly uses ancient instruments and melodies...He tends to weave that sort of flavor in with modern elements in his other recordings as well...
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Points: 651 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 28 2008 at 17:45
Originally posted by Speesh Speesh wrote:

You need to try out Grails, a criminally ignored band here. Very subtle and very ancient sounding. I'd suggest you try out their latest "Burning off Impurities"







Edited by Dominic - February 28 2008 at 17:46
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Points: 19094 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 02 2008 at 15:53
Originally posted by ProgArg ProgArg wrote:

Hi I'm new here, but I'm not new in prog music.

I need help guys, I'm looking for a progressive rock band that has a lot of rythm changes such as symphonic prog and has ancient sounds something like egyptian music or ancient greek music. I don't know if any band like that exists but I'm sure someone here knows something like that.

Thank you


You might want to check out a band called Bayon. Their first album came out in 1971 and the membership includes musicians of Eastern European, Cuban and Southeast Asian descent. Hence, they made music that incorporated modern rock instruments as well as facets of the players' respective (musical) cultures. Very progressive for the time, IMO. I only heard the first album years ago.
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