What albums did you listen to today?...continued

Finnforest wrote: Meltdowner wrote: I'd put them this way, a bit related to the time I got them. <span style=": rgb248, 248, 252;">Autumn: </span><span style=": rgb248, 248, 252;">Tales From Topographic Oceans</span><div style=": rgb248, 248, 252;">Winter: Fragile <div style=": rgb248, 248, 252;">Spring: Close to the Edge<div style=": rgb248, 248, 252;">Summer: The Yes Album<div style=": rgb248, 248, 252;">Do they have "An Album For All Seasons"?  Good question....gotta think on that

Yes don't, but Renaissance do

Meltdowner wrote: ALotOfBottle wrote: Just one today. Zacht Automaat - Disturbed Ground Holy, this is really good. Soft Machine meets Kraftwerk of the first two albums meets Harmonia meets Aphex Twin meets odd hipster image. Really inventive, original music.  Thanks for the reminder, I'll need to look into. It only has one move vote so far, for Eclectic.

Cool! I'm not sure if Eclectics will like it, though, they might find it a bit to electronic and not really all that prog. Definitely a hard band to classify, but IMHO Progressive Electronic is the place for Zacht Automaat. But that's just like my opinion, man, the choice is down to the collaborators, of course.

Elton Dean - Just Us This is a great album, because it remains the experimental Facelift-esque spirit of the Soft Machine, despite being a purely free-fusion album. Sometimes, the atonality gets over your head, but then, just at the right time, the atmosphere is mellowed out by a Bitches Brew-like jam.

Circus - Movin' On It was different than I expected after hearing "Dawn", the track that Kevin linked over at his Assorted Obscurities thread. It's an interesting band, but there is something I find difficult to get used to. The vocal parts sound a little obvious to me, but the instrumental passages are great and original-sounding.

East Of Eden - Snafu One of my favorite albums of all time. You have got everything here from Charles Mingus, to Arabic music, to tape experimentation predating The Residents, to Irish jigs, to free jazz, in jazz-rock framework. This is a great album and if you are into creative, original music, you need to check this out.

Tom Ozric wrote: Tymon - that Elton Dean album is insanely good. Neo-Caliban Grides and Blind Badger absolutely blow. And I love the drumming of Phil Howard. You ought to invest in a copy of Soft Machine's live album called 'Drop'. Oh yeah - Snafu is the only Eden LP I have, and it's a beauty. I had another many years ago, I think a s/t with a grainy photo of 3 guys on the cover. It was very bland and unexciting so I got rid of it.

"Neo-Caliban Grides" and "Blind Badger" are indeed one of the better tracks, I also love "Ooglenenovastrome", the opener. I will look for Drop, it's probably indeed worth having for a Soft Machine fan that I am. I have only heard bits of it. Isn't it the only live album with the Ratledge-Hopper-Dean-Howard line-up? I think it is. I'm currently really digging Alive in Paris 1970 and I think I might even be getting a DVD, as I have watched the concert a thousand times and I'm still not bored. I wish Lyn Dobson stayed with the Softs, he plays together with Elton incredibly nicely!
As to that East of Eden album you are talking about, it must've been their third release, which is indeed pretty boring and uninventive. The debut is equally good to Snafu.

Art Zoyd - Symphonie pour le jour ou bruleront les cites

Devin Townsend - ZTO

Wolverine - Communication Lost  (Sweden  2011)   Dark melodic progressive metal 

Tom Ozric wrote: Yes don't, but Renaissance do

Good, I thought no one got the joke

ALotOfBottle wrote: Cool! I'm not sure if Eclectics will like it, though, they might find it a bit to electronic and not really all that prog. Definitely a hard band to classify, but IMHO Progressive Electronic is the place for Zacht Automaat. But that's just like my opinion, man, the choice is down to the collaborators, of course.

Yeah, it's too psychedelic for Eclectic. I think it's more Krautrock than PE although probably not enough for inclusion. Maybe generic Psych Rock? I'll have to listen to more music from them to be sure... or become more confused than before

Also yesterday:
Dungen - Allas Sak (Twice! I found it on CD, once was just not enough )

Ian Carr with Nucleus - Belladonna Outstanding album, I am really digging Nucleus recently. Although this is one of their lower rated albums from the classic era, I probably even like it even more than Elastic Rock. Great ballance between all of the elements that make the band. Great keyboard playing and magnificent guitar work from Allan Holdsworth himself.

Aksak Maboul - Onze Danses Pour Combattre la Migraine What a great band! Another RIO treat I've been missing out on for much too long. The music is very varied, which I really like. It has bits of danceable electronic (with drum machines and all), chamber pieces (not as dark as Univers Zero, though), bright Hatfield and the North-esque tracks with great Fender Rhodes, a small child singing a capella, and many different shades of full-on avant-garde. Terrific music!

Jan Garbarek - Sart I'm not really impressed. I like avant-jazz and most of the stuff that has been released on the early ECM label, but this one just does not seem to click for me at this point in time, but maybe it's just "this point in time." Coloristically, it's really nice - Terje Rypdal's electric guitar sound give great results blending with the more traditional ensemble.

Tonights choices, an all vintage night:

Renaissance – Turn of the Cards
Camel – Raindances
Focus – III
Tangerine Dream – Phaedra
Tangerine Dream – Rubycon
Earth and Fire – Song of the Marching Children
Far East Family Band - Tenkujin
Roger Powell – Cosmic Furnace
Peter Mergener and Michael Weisser – Phancyful Fire (if only all 80’s prog-electronic albums were as good as this)
Guru Guru – Don’t Call Us, We’ll Call You

ALotOfBottle wrote: Ian Carr with Nucleus - Belladonna Outstanding album, I am really digging Nucleus recently. Although this is one of their lower rated albums from the classic era, I probably even like it even more than Elastic Rock. Great ballance between all of the elements that make the band. Great keyboard playing and magnificent guitar work from Allan Holdsworth himself.

Oh yeah man!   I love Nucleus and I'm not even a huge jazz head.  Great stuff.  I only have a couple of their mid 70s albums so far.