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AghoraPhobic 
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 Topic: Middle Eastern Sounding Prog
Posted: October 15 2005 at 08:57 |
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What artists/songs have u come across that have a middle eastern feel. Any prog genre welcome dark to light, slow to fast
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TheProgtologist
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Posted: October 15 2005 at 09:23 |
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Here is a great recommendation.Orphaned Land,prog metal with heavy Middle Eastern influences.A very original sound,which the band describes as "world metal".They are in the archives but sadly there is no audio sample.I highly recommend their 2004 album "Mabool".
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ulver982
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Posted: October 15 2005 at 09:28 |
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Yeah, Orphaned Land for sure! Mabool is awesome!!!
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MikeEnRegalia
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Posted: October 15 2005 at 09:28 |
I didn't know that band ... I will check them out. I've found a full song on their page with Century Media (their record label), just follow the link in my sig.
BTW: I SERIOUSLY recommend the Secret Chiefs 3 for a combination of oriental music and prog.
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Posted: October 15 2005 at 09:30 |
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TheProgtologist
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Posted: October 15 2005 at 09:32 |
 MikeEnRegalia wrote:
I didn't know that band ... I will check them out. I've found a full song on their page with Century Media (their record label), just follow the link in my sig.
BTW: I SERIOUSLY recommend the Secret Chiefs 3 for a combination of oriental music and prog.
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Mike,you would probably dig Orphaned Land.I have Sahara and Mabool,which are both very good.I don't have El Norra Alila though.They have a highly original sound.
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AghoraPhobic
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Posted: October 15 2005 at 11:55 |
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orphaned land does rock. and out of the last topic on jazzfusion I got
out David martone - "Demon fetal harvest" that's waht gave me the idea
for starting this thread
well off the top of my head I only remember [uggh] commercial radio hits that are well if at least barely borderline proggy:
Led Zepplin - Kashmir
Blend's "Thank you" (www.blendband.net)
Dave Matthews Band - Dont Drink the Water, Minarets, Last Stop
Alanis Morissette - Uninvited
Saving the best 4 last... what's in my closet though is.............
THERION. VOVIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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MikeEnRegalia
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Posted: October 15 2005 at 12:00 |
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^ I never understood the Therion hype. I've ordered Vovin ... let's see what the hype is all about.
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The Hemulen
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Posted: October 15 2005 at 12:17 |
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Ozric Tentacles and Area both spring to mind.
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RoyalJelly
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Posted: October 15 2005 at 12:41 |
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Secret Chiefs 3, especially "Book M", in which almost every cut
is a fusion of Middle Eastern with another genre...with surfer
music, with house techno, with punk, progressive, played
masterfully on the real instruments, has to be heard to be
believed. They're kind of the epitome of the post-modern
progressive that has emerged under the wing of John Zorn and
Mr. Bungle, but this album has an especially Arabic leaning
(their newest, "Book of Horizons", is really a masterpiece, but
has more varied styles, very filmic).
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horza
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Posted: October 15 2005 at 14:17 |
on kamelot album "karma" we have middle eastern sounding prog and on steve hillage track "earthrise" 
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Originally posted by darkshade:
Calling Mike Portnoy a bad drummer is like calling Stephen Hawking an idiot.
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AghoraPhobic
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Posted: October 15 2005 at 14:36 |
Trouserpress wrote:
Ozric Tentacles and Area both spring to mind. |
Trouserpass can you suggest songs of theirs that are representative?? I couldn't hear this influence in some tracks I sampled.
As time goes on with this thread I get a trip down memory lane... Live
- white discussion, the long version..Offspring - ...lyrics go "you
gotta keep em seperated" dont remember the song name, they had an older
song called Tehran
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pierreolivier
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Posted: October 15 2005 at 14:44 |
I got an album by the swedish band In the labyrinth called "The garden of mysteries" that got a very middle eastern feel mixed with swedish progressive.
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samhob
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Posted: October 15 2005 at 15:24 |
Agitation Free - Malesch
(Malesch means never mind in)
Some middle easters sounds, a true krautrock masterpiece..
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silentman
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Posted: October 15 2005 at 15:39 |
Trey Gunn Band - The Joy Of Molybdenum
Chris Gleeson wrote:
If the sound is often familiar, the style is often surprisingly different. This is in part down to Bob Muller's extensive use of ethnic percussion instruments, in particular the Bendir and Darbouka, which are used extensively in North African and Middle Eastern music. This takes Gunn and Geballe into exotic rhythmic territory, and they in turn sometimes explore Middle Eastern modes and scales on their instruments. The whole thing gives the impression of a King Crimson ProjeKct recorded in a souk somewhere in Morocco or Tunisia - gentle washes of Frippertronic sound underpin frenetic dervish percussion, or interlocking Discipline style guitars play musical patterns that would more normally be associated with the oud. |
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Posted: October 15 2005 at 15:42 |
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Anubis Spire - Try to imagine Joe Satriani from Arabia.
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AghoraPhobic
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Posted: October 15 2005 at 16:01 |
MikeEnRegalia wrote:
^ I never understood the Therion hype. I've ordered Vovin ... let's see what the hype is all about. |
Tsk tsk. You've become such a specialist on prog mike that perhaps uv
become so far above the average shredder you can't relate to the
fanbase anymore ;) When Vovin first came out, I remember Sodom &
Gomorrah was such a fresh captivating composition I used to play it
over and over in the train to college for a whole month. Makes u feel
"Regal" ..tHe sheer energy, like you can take on a tidal wave of horses
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Dick Heath
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Posted: October 15 2005 at 18:20 |
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Duoud - a French two piece group with two ouds - hey a great pun of a
name - album released by Fr label Label Bleu last year was excellent.
Straight Arabic, prog, nu.fusion, allsorts.
Always thought the live version of White rabbit by Great Society with
grace Slick (recorded before she joined Airplane0 has a great Middle
eastern opening as interpreted by hippies. And Steve Vai guesting
on the Al DiMeola track Race With the Devil Of An Turkish Highway,
really has its moments.
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italprogfan
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Posted: October 16 2005 at 01:36 |
ozric tentacles? c'mon, get serious....
asia minior - crossing the line & between flesh and devine (turkish band recording from paris)
baris manco - pre-1983 - 2023 and sozum meclisten disari are a couple of his best...
3 hur-el, specifically the first two
rabih abou khalil - specifically 'odd times' (lebanon)
erkin koray - s/t & elektronik turkuler
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MikeEnRegalia
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Posted: October 16 2005 at 01:51 |
AghoraPhobic wrote:
MikeEnRegalia wrote:
^ I never understood the Therion hype. I've ordered Vovin ... let's see what the hype is all about. |
Tsk tsk. You've become such a specialist on prog mike that perhaps uv become so far above the average shredder you can't relate to the fanbase anymore ;) When Vovin first came out, I remember Sodom & Gomorrah was such a fresh captivating composition I used to play it over and over in the train to college for a whole month. Makes u feel "Regal" ..tHe sheer energy, like you can take on a tidal wave of horses
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Relax ... I'll be listening to the album very closely once I have it. I'm not a "prog snob" ... I just had some Therion songs as mp3 a while ago and they didn'T do anything to me in comparison to the great metal/classical bands that I already know.
Let'S wait and see ...
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