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    Posted: March 10 2013 at 18:32
Hello guys I'm new in this forum, and i've been listening to prog heavily in the last month and a half. I listen a lot of music, so i listened a lot of KC, ELP, PF, Eloy, Jethro Tull and many other i don't even recall

Now, i have listened to SKY2 ALBUM from the BAND SKY, and i love it.

So, my question is. Can you recommend me INSTRUMENTAL PROGRESSIVE ROCK ALBUMS AND/OR INSTRUMENTAL PROGRESSIVE ROCK BANDS

Thanks, i know you guys know a lot more of prog than me, so you can help me out Big smile


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 10 2013 at 18:42
Without lyrics?

Samuel Jackson Five - Easily Misunderstood
Tortoise - Millions Now Living Will Never Die
Charts and Maps - Dead Horse
Cloudkicker - Fade
My Brother the Wind - I Wash My Soul in the Stream of Infinity
Mogwai - Hawk is Howling
Sleepmakeswaves - ...And So We Destroyed Everything
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 10 2013 at 18:48
Hello!

May I recommend SECRET OYSTER, a Danish band from the 1970s that is listed here under Jazz Rock/Fusion, but they really sound more like Camel or Canterbury prog but with a lead sax player.  They're awesome.





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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 11 2013 at 01:45
The first Sky album Smile
Mike Oldfield
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 11 2013 at 15:57
Solaris-Martian Chronicles
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 11 2013 at 17:30
Gordon Giltrap - The peacock party

"Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood)
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 11 2013 at 17:59
The Enid (Except they added some poor vocals in the 80s, so stick to their 70s material for good instrumental. Though their newest album has a great vocalist.)
The Samuel Jackson Five (Though their newest album has some occasional vocals)


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 11 2013 at 18:05
Camel's album The Snow Goose is a masterpiece
I see Mike Oldfield has already been mentioned.  I'd start with Tubular Bells or Ommadawn
A lot of (but not all) of Anthony Phillips work is instrumental.  Slow Dance is a particular favorite.  1984 is a pretty good electronic instrumental album. 
National Health is almost all instrumental - Queues and Cures is excellent as is their s/t debut.
For some weirdness you could try some Univers Zero
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 11 2013 at 18:06
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 11 2013 at 18:22
Clivage - Mixtus Orbis
Bobby Beausoleil - Lucifer Rising
Ash Ra Tempel - S/T
Miles Davis - Big Fun
Art Zoyd - Berlin
Popol Vuh - In den Garten Pharaos
Tangerine Dream - Force Majeure
Klaus Schulze - Picture Music
Brand X - Unorthodox Behavior
My Brother the Wind - I wash my Soul in the Stream of Infinity
One Shot - Dark Shot
Syrinx - Qualia
Thork - Weila
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 11 2013 at 18:28
Originally posted by The Doctor The Doctor wrote:


I see Mike Oldfield has already been mentioned.  I'd start with Tubular Bells or Ommadawn

Yeah. +1 to Ommadawn.

Anything before his Discovery album is worth listening to. Discovery is almost all pop songs (although To France is, in my opinion, a very good song). The one instrumental, The Lake, took me a while to warm to.

Anything after that, except for Amarok and Tubular Bells III, is, in my opinion, patchy at best, heading down to dreadful.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 11 2013 at 19:56
Billy Cobham - Spectrum
Frank Zappa - Hot Rats (except for Willie the Pimp, that has some vocals at the beginning from Cap'n Beefheart)
Miles Davis - In A Silent Way, Kind of Blue, A Tribute to Jack Johnson, Bitches Brew
Mahavishnu Orchestra - The Inner Mounting Flame, Birds of Fire
Perhaps - Volume One
Radar Men From the Moon - Intergalatic Dada and Space Trombones, Echo Forever
Titan - Sweet Dreams (a little bit of vocals though. Not too bad.)
Mike Oldfield - anything pre-Discovery
The Future Kings of England - The Viewing Port
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven, F#A#Infinity (voice samples, but they add A LOT)
Don Caballero - American Don
Toe. - Book About My Idle Plot On Anxiety
Soft Machine - Third, Fourth (Wordless vocals on one song in Third. Not detracting though.)
The Keith Tippett Group - You Are Here... I Am There, Dedicated To You But You Weren't Listening

Off the top of my head.


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I consider drone metal to be progressive...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 11 2013 at 20:43
WLUD - Carrycroch
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 11 2013 at 20:58
Originally posted by RedNightmareKing RedNightmareKing wrote:

Billy Cobham - Spectrum

Soft Machine - Third, Fourth (Wordless vocals on one song in Third. Not detracting though.)




There are lyrics to that one song on Third, they're not wordless vocals.

Good call on Future Kings of England and Godspeed You Black Emperor. 

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 11 2013 at 21:20
Rick Wakeman's "Six Wives of Henry the VIII", and then perhaps "Criminal Record". Focus's "Hamburger Concerto". And I agree with Mike Oldfield too, the first 4 albums.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 11 2013 at 21:32
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 11 2013 at 22:06
Originally posted by The Doctor The Doctor wrote:

Originally posted by RedNightmareKing RedNightmareKing wrote:

Billy Cobham - Spectrum

Soft Machine - Third, Fourth (Wordless vocals on one song in Third. Not detracting though.)




There are lyrics to that one song on Third, they're not wordless vocals.

Good call on Future Kings of England and Godspeed You Black Emperor. 



Now that I listen to Moon in June again, you're absolutely correct.
I consider drone metal to be progressive...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 12 2013 at 00:42
Electronic Rock
 
Arc — Blaze; Fracture
Edhels — Still Dream
Anthony Phillips — 1984; Private Parts & Pieces VII: Slow Waves, Soft Stars
Mark Shreeve — Assassin; Legion; Crash Head
Tangerine Dream — Stratosfear; Force Majeure; Tangram
Zombi — Cosmos; Surface To Air; Spirit Animal; Escape Velocity
 
 
Keyboard Prog
 
Craft — Craft
Duncan MacKay — Chimera
Hal & Ring — Alchemy
Rick Wakeman — Criminal Record
 
 
Prog-Fusion
 
Alas — Alas
Darediablo — Bedtime Stories; Feeding Frenzy; Twenty Paces
East Wind Pot — East Wind Pot
Kenso — anything you can get your hands on, preferably Kenso (III); Sparta, Yume No Oka; Fabulis Mirabilibus de Bombycosi Scriptus
Mongol — Doppler 444
Niacin — Time Crunch; Organik
 
 
Symphonic (with some Eclectic & Space)
 
Djam Karet — Reflections From The Firepool; Burning The Hard City; The Devouring; The New Dark Age; A Night For Baku
Eela Craig — Symphonic Rock
Goblin — Roller; Zombi; Non Ho Sonno
Mike Oldfield — Tubular Bells; Hergest Ridge; Ommadawn
Ozric Tentacles — Strangeitude; Jurassic Shift; The Hidden Step; The Yum Yum Tree; Paper Monkeys
Claudio Simonetti — Demons; Opera
Philharmonie — Nord; Rage; Le Dernier Mot
Tarantula Hawk — Tarantula Hawk


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 12 2013 at 23:38
Are you a fan of Math Rock?

Try these guys:
- The Bulletproof Tiger
- Three Trapped Tigers
- Hella
- Ghosts And Vodka
- Auto! Automatic!!
- Don Caballero
- Giraffes? Giraffes!
- The Redneck Manifesto
- Vessels
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 15 2013 at 18:15
Animals as Leaders
An Endless Sporadic (I only reccommend their first EP Ameliorate)
Explosions in the Sky
Relocator
The Fierce and the Dead (they can be difficult to get into)
Gru (one-man band. Only has one album called Cosmogenesis)

You can also do pretty well by YouTube searching 'instrumental prog playlist.' Smile


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