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^ Nektar was a bunch of English ex-pats who left the UK and moved to Germany where they formed and remained

I've suggested changing their nationality to Germany and surprisingly received pushback

Although i still think they should be listed under Germany it's not worth the time to pursue really

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^ we're not so strict here. Even though Nektar never lived in England they are still listed as UK band here.

If they do get added i'm ok with Greenland because that's where they spent their days as a band

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I guess TYR would prefer to be listed as Far Oer instead of Denmark

I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution

^ 70s soundscapes don’t mean progressive

Sume is definitely psychedelic but that is not synonymous with progressive either

I’d say advocate for prog related if you’re set on getting them added

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Sounds like you all just want a band from Greenland so bad you're willing to compromise progginess for novelty.

Duh. I mean, I pretty much said that in my first post in this thread. xD

“On the day of my creation, I fell in love with education. And overcoming all frustration, a teacher I became.”
— Ernest Vong

^^^

As long as it isn't Greenland bashing LOL

siLLy puPPy wrote:

^ well that may be the case but Oingo Boingo and a gazillion other artists shouldn't be here at all

As much as i love Steely Dan, Oingo Boingo, Sparks etc, i would purge them in a hearbeat from a prog site if i could :)

we all male mistakes and indeed SD doesn't belong IMHO
sparks as well/

Hell I had Dead Can Dance entered in PA Embarrassed

siLLy puPPy wrote:

Sorry i'm just not convinced. Why don't you consider them at prog folk since they are primarily a folk band?

That's what I was getting at in my previous post Wink

Edited by Sean Trane - November 11 2024 at 07:14

let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword

^ well that may be the case but Oingo Boingo and a gazillion other artists shouldn't be here at all

As much as i love Steely Dan, Oingo Boingo, Sparks etc, i would purge them in a hearbeat from a prog site if i could :)

Sorry i'm just not convinced. Why don't you consider them at prog folk since they are primarily a folk band?

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Hrychu wrote:

octopus-4 wrote:

Still easier than from North Korea, I guess

Or Somaliland!

Nope! I have reviewed an album (actually only have a few Caribbean Islands to go) from every nation and territory on RYM. North Korea it's fairly easy to get the Korean Revolutionary Opera perfromance by Mansudae Art Troupe.

For Somalia modern acts like Dur-Dur Band are quite popular in world music crowds.

The hardest music to find is from Pacific Islands like Nauru, Tuvulu, Kiribati and Pitcairn Islands.

I guess for PA's sake if Sume is added then Greenland would be appropriate since they were all from Greenland going to college in Denmark and then went back.

Edited by siLLy puPPy - November 10 2024 at 15:08

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Still easier than from North Korea, I guess

I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution

siLLy puPPy wrote:

^ well they were formed in Denmark NOT Greenland. Also Greenland is NOT a country but rather a territory of Denmark like the Faroe Islands which DOES have real prog.

Point taken. I hadn't delved into the early history of the band, but the musicians involved did indeed cross paths when they were studying in Sorø, Denmark in the late 60s/early 70s. From 1969 to 1971 the co-founders of Sumé, Per Berthelsen and Malik Høegh, operated as a duo before expanding into a full band when they were offered the opportunity to produce the first Greenlandic LP. Per Berthelsen actually lived in Denmark for 11-12 years before returning to Greenland in the mid-to-late 70s after completing Sumé's third LP.

In October 2014 a documentary based around the band was released called Sumé: Mumisitsinerup nipaa (Sumé: The Sound of a Revolution), directed by Inuk Silis Høegh, and providing a retrospective view of Sumé's rise to fame, thus further solidifying their stature as icons of Greenlandic rock: https://www.thesoundofarevolution.com/.

Some clips from the film can be watched here: https://www.youtube.com/@thesoundofarevolution8204/videos.

Prog or not, there's no doubting the impact that these guys had in Greenland back in those early days. I guess they're just not destined to be granted a place on PA.

Edited by yam yam - November 10 2024 at 12:03

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