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    Posted: March 02 2005 at 14:54

i acquired a few of their albums about a year ago along with a crap load of other prog albums, never seen any body call them prog, so i never gave them a spin, should I?

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Their sax player did the sax solos on Another Day and some other Dream Theater stuff.
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I love everything Spyro Gyra released from 1978 until 1990. Their music is a kind of soft jazz-rock.
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In my understandement, they are more jazz than other thing. Maybe towards fussion, but hard on the jazz side.
Please forgive me for my crappy english!
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Soft jazz-fusion with stains of Bossa Nova, Spyro Gyra was/is a ligther version of German Passport. Japanese Cassiopeia could be considered the "darker & heavy" side of Spyro Gyra. Its nice background music to have when non-prog friends comes by for a glass of vine...

 

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Spyro Gyra is great, fresh and lively: i have the very good carnival album!
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It's funny until a few years ago I always mixed Spyro Gyra with the Folk/Prog band Spirogyra, now it's clear.

I had the luck that a friend of USA who was hosted in my parents house for a month, left me his Spirogyra albums with Bill Bruford: St. Radigunds (1971) Old Boot Wine (1972) and Bells Boots & Shambles (1973).

I used to believe the two were the same band, but after listening a couple of Spyro Gyra albums, it was obvious that they were totally different, so I stay with Spirogyra.

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Hi Ivan:

I also did not get this at first.

There is the early 70's slightly proggish folk group you speak of, and there is the fusion (latino influenced ) of the late 70's - early 80's. The second one is best known . I saw them in concert at the CNE grandstand in Toronto back in 81 and they were probably partly responsible for my invenstigation into jazz-rock (as it was called then). However I never found their albums quite as good as that concert.

Today , I prefer the folk band but it is comparing apples and oranges.
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Points: 14693 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 03 2005 at 03:48
Originally posted by Aaron Aaron wrote:

i acquired a few of their albums about a year ago along with a crap load of other prog albums, never seen any body call them prog, so i never gave them a spin, should I?


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Give them a spin - the music may not always be to your taste, but you'll have to admire the musicianship; soft jazz, yes, but none the worse for that.

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Quote Today , I prefer the folk band but it is comparing apples and oranges.

Absolutely agree with yiu Sean, there are few similar points between a latin oriented Fussion and Folk/Prog except for the name, which was my only point.

We say in Spanish it's like comparing "Papas y Camotes" (Potatoes and Sweet Potatoes).

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Originally posted by ivan_2068 ivan_2068 wrote:

Quote Today , I prefer the folk band but it is comparing apples and oranges.

Absolutely agree with yiu Sean, there are few similar points between a latin oriented Fussion and Folk/Prog except for the name, which was my only point.

We say in Spanish it's like comparing "Papas y Camotes" (Potatoes and Sweet Potatoes).

Iván

So they are totally different bands, not a reincarnation?

By the way, in Venezuela we say "¿que tiene que ver el culo con las pestañas? (what is the relation between ass and eyelashes?)
Please forgive me for my crappy english!
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ok, i just checked the album that i had and i believe it is the s/t (it's got a few squares on the cover with a space background and some fruity DNA sh*t in the middle)

so you are saying i should listen to this?

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Mirco asks:

Quote So they are totally different bands, not a reincarnation?

Yes Mirco both are different bands, they even coexisted during a short period in 1999 when Spirogyra joined for a gig when they released the compilatory "We Were a Happy Crew" and Spyro Gyra released "Got the Magic".

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Points: 395 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 03 2005 at 11:37

yeah, so i am finally spinning this album, it's really good

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