South American bands without reviews
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Topic: South American bands without reviews
Posted By: timothy leary
Subject: South American bands without reviews
Date Posted: March 14 2015 at 11:35
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This thread is to expose some bands which are flying under the radar. From Brazil, with the cajones to make a double album for their debut, Vivalma, the album Human Effect Next is a band form Chile, Cangaceiro, the mixture of Andean folk and prog rock is not new, but it has not been done to death either. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeNYduGDZ3Q Know of some more?
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Posted By: timothy leary
Date Posted: March 14 2015 at 11:37
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: March 14 2015 at 13:16
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Hi,
A group called "cangaceiro"? I'll have a listen ... but the name of the band is a bit odd for something that used to be ... and not exactly entertainment. (Ed later) It's actually rather nice and deserves another listen, although considering this "progressive" is an interesting choice. The mix of instruments alone makes it progressive for me, but not sure it would make past the PA definitions.
------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: timothy leary
Date Posted: March 14 2015 at 13:56
| Thanks for listening to something you feel might be bad. |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: March 14 2015 at 14:24
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Seeing as I added them to the site I'll add a review for Karenautas the Argentinian Chamber Rock band. ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: timothy leary
Date Posted: March 14 2015 at 15:59
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Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:Posted By: Smurph
Date Posted: March 14 2015 at 16:18
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Woah Karenautas is pretty amazing! ------------- http://pseudosentai.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - http://pseudosentai.bandcamp.com/ wtf |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: March 15 2015 at 00:58
Nice ... very nice! I like the fact that they injected fun into it. That's rare! ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: timothy leary
Date Posted: March 15 2015 at 10:44
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Abstraction Layer, a symph prog band from Brazil. The album from 2010, The Glass Flower
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Posted By: timothy leary
Date Posted: March 15 2015 at 11:10
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Arenal,a Neo-Prog band from Chile. Cabernet Sauvignon is their 2011 debut album.
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Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: March 16 2015 at 08:05
i cleaned up my quote ... you didn't. And yours is actually not nice at all and because of it I will NOT bother reviewing the 2 bands I was looking forward to doing ... simply because your act is so full of sh*t.
I have, forever, talked about the Brazilian scene, way back to the 60's as being very progressive, even though the mix of "cancao, bossa nova and jazz" is not something that folks here in PA (specially) are capable of understanding, or even bother listening to. I've considered talking about Airto and Flora Purim, Milton Nascimiento, and others more in this place, but it is difficult, because folks here are so damn stuck on crap and a "style", that they have lost the ability to even bother listening to anything else.
I have never, found a band from South America (specially!!!) that I have not enjoyed ... but of course, you wouldn't know that and would not even read this far to be man enough to apologize! I will only review these things on my own time in my own place. PA doesn't deserve it when folks like you say things like that ... and perhaps you should look up the definition of the word cangaceiro ... before you say something to understand what I said! ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: timothy leary
Date Posted: March 16 2015 at 10:15
| I actually referred the band Cangaceiro for inclusion here at PA. I am well acquainted with the definition. Your post is not what I am looking for in this thread. If you have something constructive and meaningful to add then by all means post away. Otherwise, dummy up. |
Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: March 16 2015 at 10:56
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Pedro: would you please tone it down? Mr Leary's comment did not deserve such a response. He thanked you for listening to something you feel might be bad. If that ruffles your feathers, then I suggest you write him a mail instead of hijacking his thread. ------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: timothy leary
Date Posted: March 16 2015 at 11:07
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Ave Sangria, a Prog Folk band with one 1975 album. They are from Brazil.
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: March 16 2015 at 13:56
It's not often I read a post that makes me incandescently angry, but this is one of those times. Your crassly arrogant generalisations and your uniquely piss-poor ignorance of the people here would be pitiful if it didn't display such a narrow-minded self-aggrandisement of your own value and worth. Climb off that soap-box, sit down, shut up and give your arse a chance. "folks around here" ... would like you to stfu. You are not the only member of this forum with South American roots, there are people here who not only hail from that continent, they still live and work there, we have collaborators from practically every country in South America. We even have ex-Admin from Brazil who has more knowledge in his little finger than you have managed to display in all the years you've been posting here. He worked tirelessly and studiously evaluating artists and adding bands, biographies and discographies to this site in several different subgenres while you sat on your backside spouting gibberish, berating the site and belittling its contributors, reviewers and forum posters. But all that is irrelevant to you isn't it? You'd much rather pontificate and rant because it makes you feel important and clever. For your information we have 144 Brazilian bands listed here, and a further 150 from Argentina, 77 from Chile, 8 from Colombia, 23 from Peru... in fact as far as I recall the only one of the 12 countries that are considered to be part of South America that is not represented here by a Prog or Related artist is Suriname (which is the smallest country with smallest population, so that's not a complete surprise). Strange as it may seem, we managed to find all those bands without your help and without your encyclopaedic knowledge. Perhaps you can bugger-off and find a Surinamese band to suggest. So how many appreciation threads have you started for all these South American bands? And how many of the albums by those bands have your reviewed? You made a stupid comment and committed an unforgivable sin: you pre-judged a book by its cover by commenting on the band's name before you'd even heard a single note of their music. Poor show, bad Pedro. To paraphrase a well known idiom: Those than can, do; those that can't, preach. I think you have out-stayed your welcome here, perhaps it's time you found another play-ground to go play in.
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Posted By: timothy leary
Date Posted: March 16 2015 at 16:00
| Hopefully we can move forward in this thread. Anyone can post a band to the thread if they are South American with no reviews. We can discuss the bands. We can disagree about the bands merits. We can be adults when we post, a little respect goes a long way. |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: March 18 2015 at 09:43
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Hi,
Dean ... grow up!
You didn't create the world! For you it doesn't exist, and by mentioning these things is how you think it makes you more worldly than anyone else!
You have no respect whatsoever for foreigners and what they have seen and not seen, or experienced.
When you wake up from your slumber, you can stop being a cangaceiro of the minds and ideas of the world! ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: March 18 2015 at 09:44
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Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: March 18 2015 at 09:49
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Now that we've gotten that out of the way let's get back on track and onto the unreviewed music of South America. ------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: timothy leary
Date Posted: March 18 2015 at 09:58
| I was hoping for a little more productive discussion about SA bands. This is not a blog. Surely somebody knows a SA band w/o a review?? |
Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: March 18 2015 at 10:11
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I know a lot of South American bands, including some very obscure ones, but they all seem to have at least a few scattered reviews under their belt. A band like Invisible fx deserves far more attention than what they get imo.......but yeah, I'm diverting the topic which isn't my intention. ------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: timothy leary
Date Posted: March 18 2015 at 10:23
| I could relax the criteria to bands which fly under the radar. The whole premise is there is a whole world of prog rock to discover besides the bands that get discussed over and over. |
Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: March 18 2015 at 10:31
Ain't that the truth  ------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: timothy leary
Date Posted: March 18 2015 at 10:34
| So Invisible fx is this the Invisible Opera Company of Tibet? |
Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: March 18 2015 at 10:41
No, but they're the bee's knees as well. I love love love UFO Planante (so does John the Mellotron )No the http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0ZYaHh5P1Q" rel="nofollow - Invisible I'm referring to is the Argentinean band spearheaded by vocalist and guitarist extraordinaire Luis Alberto Spinetta. ------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: March 18 2015 at 10:51
Hey Tim - don't be alarmed by me hiding your post. I deliberately used a link seeing as it's a full album upload, and we have a thing against full albums embedded on PA (copyrights issues). They're ok for evaluation purposes, but we rather prefer if one links to the album over the general board It is however a great album! ------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: timothy leary
Date Posted: March 18 2015 at 11:15
| No problem, I saw it when it popped into place. |
Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: March 18 2015 at 11:25
------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: Smurph
Date Posted: March 18 2015 at 11:44
 
Oh wow that did not warrant that much animosity. ------------- http://pseudosentai.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - http://pseudosentai.bandcamp.com/ wtf |
Posted By: Smurph
Date Posted: March 18 2015 at 13:01
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Yea to get back to topic. I don't know many South American bands. I know there's a wealth of music to find down there, so I'm going to happily watch this thread and see what piques my interest! :) ------------- http://pseudosentai.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - http://pseudosentai.bandcamp.com/ wtf |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: March 18 2015 at 14:46
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Not at all helpful, but there is a list of all the unreviewed albums: http://www.progarchives.com/UnreviewedAlbums.asp " rel="nofollow - www.progarchives.com/UnreviewedAlbums.asp ... it's a shame that asp query cannot be made into something more useful. ------------- What? |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: March 18 2015 at 16:30
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Posted By: timothy leary
Date Posted: March 18 2015 at 16:55
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The Invisible Opera Company of Tibet(Brazil) a psyc/space rock band
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Posted By: The Neck Romancer
Date Posted: March 18 2015 at 21:17
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Hermeto Pascoal is a BRILLIANT multi-instrumentalist virtuoso from Brazil who excels at every instrument he touches. He's an excellent flutist, pianist, guitarist, tuba player, percussionist, scat singer and whistler. Really, the man is a GENIUS and I hate the fact that he's only had 5 reviews on this site, mostly for his lesser work, Slaves Mass. His album http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=29042" rel="nofollow - Só Não Toca Quem Não Quer is an incredible showcase of this guy's creativity and sheer mastery of playing. Pig Soul is a RIO group from Brazil which has yet to be reviewed here in PA, and that surprises me. Listen to this track: Arrigo Barnabé (also RIO) might have a couple of reviews here, but his best work, Tubarões Voadores (literally Flying Sharks), hasn't been reviewed on PA yet. The album features quirky dodecaphonic RIO tracks full of cheesy 80's synths and beautiful bossa-nova/MPB tinged pop-ish tunes backed by an orchestra, and the lead soprano wraps it up perfectly: Baleia is an indie-pop/proggy post-rock group you all should check out if you're into that kind of stuff. I don't remember if they're on PA but they might be and I'm too tired to check if it's here. ------------- 
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Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: March 18 2015 at 21:46
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http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=6547" rel="nofollow - Go-Neko! is an incredible Progressive Psychedelia / Space Rock band from Argentina. |
Posted By: timothy leary
Date Posted: March 21 2015 at 11:11
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An RIO band from Chile.....http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=3687
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Posted By: AlvinW
Date Posted: March 22 2015 at 19:43
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Tania Braz and her band Ladylike (she's also vocalist for Arion which has already been reviewed on progarchives) |
Posted By: AlvinW
Date Posted: March 22 2015 at 19:49
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Tania Braz performing Arion's song "Tue Love" |
Posted By: timothy leary
Date Posted: March 22 2015 at 21:16
| Thanks for posting. Hope it spurs on some attention. |
Posted By: cstack3
Date Posted: March 22 2015 at 22:51
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Damn, Pig Soul kicks some major butt! I quite like this thread, thanks for the ideas. |
Posted By: timothy leary
Date Posted: March 23 2015 at 09:49
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Noizart.....prog metal from Colombia
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Posted By: AlvinW
Date Posted: March 23 2015 at 20:40
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Humberto Gessinger: song writing machine, multi-instrumentalist, singer and the mastermind behind Brazilian rock band Engenheiros do Hawaii (on a hiatus since 2008 i think). In my humble opinion He's not a musician playing progressive rock, but a progressive artist pushing the boundaries of Southern Brazilian traditional music by mixing it with rock, jazz and even eletronic sounds and also the other way around by using traditional folk instruments (accordion, viola caipira, mandolin, etc) in all of his musical endeavors. As I said he doesn't write progressive music, but I can find progressive bits here and there throughout all his work (he started in 1985 and still keeps rocking). I hope some people here take some time to discover this talented artist :) |
Posted By: memowakeman
Date Posted: March 24 2015 at 18:21
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Very nice thread! Thanks, it will give more exposure to these "forgotten" bands. And though Mexico is not precisely a South American country, I would like to share with you this band named Cronomad, whose music offers a great blend of prog, psych and even some post rock. It would be awesome if some of you can listen to them, and why not, write a review. http://cronomad.bandcamp.com/ ------------- Follow me on twitter @memowakeman |
Posted By: AlvinW
Date Posted: March 24 2015 at 18:24
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from my hometown: Divã Intergalactico They're heavily influenced by Os Mutantes and Syd Barrett (warning: contains nudity) Hope you like them
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Posted By: AlvinW
Date Posted: March 24 2015 at 19:22
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Another psychedelic rock band from Brazil: Quarto Astral |
Posted By: timothy leary
Date Posted: March 25 2015 at 10:47
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Posted By: timothy leary
Date Posted: March 25 2015 at 13:00
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Rapa Nui from their debut album......RIO from Peru
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