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Pelata wrote:

I'm gonna second the Bent Knee rec. Fantastic band!

Also:

The Anchoress
Jarboe (since someone mentioned Diamanda Galas)

The Anchoress doesn't quite press all my buttons so far, the songs are OK but everything seems so downbeat and not very inspiring to me.

Jarboe is on my (ever growing) pending list of stuff to appraise

"We're going to need a bigger swear jar."

Chloë Grace Moretz as Mindy McCready aka 'Hit Girl' in Kick-Ass 2

Ooh thanks - another name to go on the list.

"We're going to need a bigger swear jar."

Chloë Grace Moretz as Mindy McCready aka 'Hit Girl' in Kick-Ass 2

Hi,

I'm not sure that HIROMI belongs in a "Prog" (of any kind) conversation ... she is much more about jazz/modern classical than she is about anything that we "consider" progressive, or prog.

That said, she is a phenomenal player and her ability is incredible to watch, and so into the details and touch of the music, that it is scary ... most of us dream of having that kind of feeling in any music that we play, or create ourselves. The history of a lot of rock music is full of people that were "into" it heavy duty and it seems like they perished quickly, as their fires ran out ... and HIROMI's tastes in music seem to align themselves much better to jazz than it does to rock music of any kind.

Although she is not exactly an "original", the one person I would like to mention is RACHEL FLOWERS for her ability and desire to show so much "progressive" music and PLAY ALL THE INSTRUMENTS ... on top of it seeing her doing the PIANO versions of Keith Emerson's material is one of the greatest things I have ever witnessed ... showing what a great composer KE really was ... but he had to show his ability in a different medium, for him to get recognized ... only for us to find, in his death ... the greatness of the material he helped create for our ears ... something that we are not capable of appreciating or assimilating.

For that alone RACHEL deserves to be mentioned as one of the top progressive players. Not to mention that she can play guitar as good as RF and FZ ... and has shown it in several pieces ... totally insane ... heck she can even make Bill Bruford sound better than he did with KC!

Edited by moshkito - April 20 2021 at 09:13

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I've had a bit of a listen to some Hiromi stuff, and it doesn't really appeal to me. I will investigate Rachel Flowers tho.

"We're going to need a bigger swear jar."

Chloë Grace Moretz as Mindy McCready aka 'Hit Girl' in Kick-Ass 2

I don't know that SB album - I'll try to find it amongst my various sources.

"We're going to need a bigger swear jar."

Chloë Grace Moretz as Mindy McCready aka 'Hit Girl' in Kick-Ass 2

Yeah I've located it now - another to go on the pending list of new stuff to listen to.

"We're going to need a bigger swear jar."

Chloë Grace Moretz as Mindy McCready aka 'Hit Girl' in Kick-Ass 2

A recent discovery (thanks to the Interactive poll) was Fovea Hex, a band led by Clodagh Simonds, who used to be in Mellow Candle. The band includes a number of other ladies besides her. They have released a number of EPs and a full-length album, all available on Bandcamp: https://foveahex.bandcamp.com/

North Sea Radio Orchestra, with the wonderful voice of Sharron Fortnam, are a great favourite of mine. This song, in my opinion, is one of the best released in the past 20 years:

Jill Saward

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How about Kiyo*Sen

Edited by Tapfret - April 20 2021 at 15:32

Bandcamp

Psychedelic Paul wrote:

Sarah Brightman - the best Symphonic Metal singer there's never been. Wink

Check out the awesome power of this song....

Gothica

Not to mention that, as if I remember correctly, she was the original singer of Phantom of the Opera, which, as I understand it, has become some sort of anthem for symphonic metal... I even heard a clip of Sarah Brightman herself singing it with those metal arrangements.