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Posted: October 17 2010 at 09:52

Just started with the letter E:

- Earth and Fire
Very interesting. Just discovered that they are from the Netherlands. Like the band Coda. And like Ekseption, the only prog band I knew so far from that country, and who specialised in rock adaptions of classical music. Seems to be quite a scene there in the Netherlands.

- Echolyn
I remember seeing the name mentioned already several times in the forum. Sounds interesting indeed. I'll look into it further.
The music plays and plays, and I am cleaning my desk, then the whole room, then I look at the monitor and see that the song still is not over. Only then I look at the duration - 50 minutes! I am shocked! I think I'll take a little bit longer for E.

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Posted: October 16 2010 at 01:04

Gerinski wrote:

Yeah, good plan. Honestly I rarely use the streaming, I guess with prog I don't feel so much like listening to single assorted tracks, I like to listen to the complete album so I mostly look for albums which look promising and get them.

I should try PA's streaming more though...

I've discovered some good bands through streaming on PA. Favorite so far would probably be Simon Steensland.

Gerinski

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Posted: October 16 2010 at 00:23

I should try PA's streaming more though...

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Posted: October 15 2010 at 12:22

Before I started the stream, I only knew ABWH and Camel between A and D.
I don't know if I Cry

about it.

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Posted: October 15 2010 at 11:12

Music? Here on the PA??? LOL

I know a lot of prog artists, but the only one in your list I know is Discipline and I really like Unfolded...

Edited by Slartibartfast - October 16 2010 at 07:44

Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...

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Posted: October 15 2010 at 10:10

Sounds like a good plan. Wish I had the patience.

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Posted: October 15 2010 at 09:24

A post to another thread made me think to create this blog.

On PA there is so much music of so many bands, which I never heard of before, that I definitely need ages to discover them all. Nevertheless, I give it a try.
What I do is the following:
I go to the Symphonic Prog page of PA, then I click on the stream button.
I have just finished the letter D. So far I found interesting:

- Arachnoid (which has a touch of King Crimson)
- Atmosphera (which sounds like Yes)
Both bands released only one album, if I see it correctly. And both bands have, IMHO, something more specific in them, than only trying to be some kind of a tribute band. I already tried to hear more of it from other sources and I really like it!

Then I noted on my list for further discovery:

- Beggars Opera
- Cathedral
- Chaos Code
- Cinema
- Clearlight
- Coda
- Discipline

I would like to continue to post, after I finished more letters.
What do you think? I appreciate your thoughts on it.