Is the Oboe shunned by prog?
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Topic: Is the Oboe shunned by prog?
Posted By: SteveG
Subject: Is the Oboe shunned by prog?
Date Posted: June 14 2018 at 09:34
| Is the Oboe shunned by prog? One more inane thread about instruments used in prog. (Admins, feel free to delete this thread.) |
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Posted By: Jeffro
Date Posted: June 14 2018 at 09:38
| What about the Pan Flute? |
Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: June 14 2018 at 10:04
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^ About as well appreciated as the jew's harp and the kazoo, I'm afraid. ------------- This message was brought to you by a proud supporter of the Deep State. |
Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: June 14 2018 at 10:21
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I prefer threads who give advice about how to torture domestic animals with prog instruments. Far more educative and satisfying. ------------- |
Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: June 14 2018 at 11:46
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Posted By: CPicard
Date Posted: June 14 2018 at 11:59
Sometimes, the torture is done by said domestic animals:  |
Barbu wrote:Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: June 14 2018 at 12:34
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Listen to the debut of SOT, where the bass is replaced by a tuba ------------- I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution |
Posted By: Mascodagama
Date Posted: June 14 2018 at 12:40
The use of brass bass goes right back to the beginnings of jazz of course. My favourite contemporary group featuring those hard-funking tuba basslnes is Sons of Kemet. ------------- Soldato of the Pan Head Mafia. We'll make you an offer you can't listen to. http://bandcamp.com/jpillbox" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp Profile |
Posted By: Catcher10
Date Posted: June 14 2018 at 12:46
All instruments are shunned by prog......We have admins??  -------------   
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Posted By: terramystic
Date Posted: June 14 2018 at 13:17
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I like oboe on Popol Vuh - Seligpreisung and Dharana - Between. It's the same oboist - Robert Eliscu.
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Posted By: terramystic
Date Posted: June 14 2018 at 13:18
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Prog is not afraid of any instrument. |
Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: June 14 2018 at 14:25
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Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: June 14 2018 at 14:27
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Posted By: Blaqua
Date Posted: June 14 2018 at 15:01
| I would like it to be more present. It can produce excellent tones that gel with prog rock's sounds. |
Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: June 14 2018 at 17:00
| There's plenty of oboe in folk/renaissance music, a lot of which can be considere prog. |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: June 14 2018 at 17:45
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since there is also a thread about the bassoon being shunned: on Camel's "The Snow Goose" both appear -------------  A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: ReactioninG
Date Posted: June 15 2018 at 12:41
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Prog has made it so I don't even know what an oboe is. Is it like a violin? I think maybe. |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: June 15 2018 at 12:57
You know that squeaky squawky thing you occasionally hear between keyboard washes and harmony vocals? That's an oboe. ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: June 15 2018 at 18:33
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Why is the vuvuzela shunned in prog? Should i start a new thread? Uh, ok.  -------------  https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
Posted By: rminsk
Date Posted: June 15 2018 at 19:53
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Rachel Flowers uses an Oboe in her cover of Startless. |
Posted By: cstack3
Date Posted: June 15 2018 at 21:30
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Peter Gabriel played oboe. http://www.uncut.co.uk/features/peter-gabriel-you-could-feel-the-horror-29379" rel="nofollow - http://www.uncut.co.uk/features/peter-gabriel-you-could-feel-the-horror-29379 I played the flute badly and the oboe very badly, and the drums pretty badly, but all enthusiastically. ------------- I am not a Robot, I'm a FREE MAN!! |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: June 15 2018 at 21:52
Barbershop Quartet/Tin Pan Alley Prog complete with tuba solo, brought to you by Peter Gabriel: ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: Tholomyes
Date Posted: June 17 2018 at 14:44
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Karl Jenkins in The Soft Machine http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uvksv_g5ZHs" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uvksv_g5ZHs
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Posted By: Mascodagama
Date Posted: June 17 2018 at 16:07
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Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: June 19 2018 at 08:52
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Just listening to Franco Battiato's Sulle Corde di Aries. A wonderful album that I would recommend to anyone. The final track is full of oboe. ------------- 
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Posted By: ForestFriend
Date Posted: June 19 2018 at 18:43
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I'm having trouble imagining an oboe getting a really good aggressive sound without sounding quacky and shrill. Might be why a lot of proggers stick to flute, sax or violin for their "unusual" instruments. Anyone have any examples where an oboe is used as a rock instrument, rather than just for lighter/classically inspired parts? ------------- https://borealkinship.bandcamp.com/releases" rel="nofollow - My prog band - Boreal Kinship |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: June 19 2018 at 19:43
Hm, in my opinion "shrill" equals "aggressive", so I see absolutely no problem there. An aggressive sax or violin also sounds shrill. -------------  BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: ForestFriend
Date Posted: June 19 2018 at 21:12
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My definition of shrill is more like "annoyingly trebly", so I would have to disagree with you there... of course we could spend all day arguing about timbral adjectives and accomplish nothing. ------------- https://borealkinship.bandcamp.com/releases" rel="nofollow - My prog band - Boreal Kinship |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: June 20 2018 at 03:01
Shrill is definitely "annoying trebly", but that's exactly why it is aggressive. ------------- BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: cstack3
Date Posted: June 20 2018 at 22:19
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Upon reflection, I remembered hearing a bit of oboe on KC's "Lizard," perhaps on "Prince Rupert Awakes." I checked the personnel via Wikipedia:
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Posted By: cstack3
Date Posted: June 20 2018 at 22:21
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More information about "Lizard," this article is great! http://ultimateclassicrock.com/king-crimson-lizard/" rel="nofollow - http://ultimateclassicrock.com/king-crimson-lizard/ He did muster praise for "Bolero," writing, "This is the only part of the album I am able to remember with anything other than fear, terror, misery and suffering. ... The main theme, played on oboe by Robin Miller (co-principal oboist with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under [conductor Pierre] Boulez at the time) is a gift. This is a melody which sustained me in difficult times." ------------- I am not a Robot, I'm a FREE MAN!! |
Posted By: Boojieboy
Date Posted: June 27 2018 at 16:28
| There's great oboe work by Andrew McKay (Roxy Music), Peter Gabriel (Selling England-era Genesis), and Robin Miller (Crimso), to name a few. |
Posted By: AreYouHuman
Date Posted: June 28 2018 at 20:02
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And then there's...
Thats Stephen Houston on oboe.
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Posted By: kenethlevine
Date Posted: June 29 2018 at 05:37
| oboe was used in the main theme of "Hergest Ridge" Part 1 by MIKE OLDFIELD while it seems to have been used in the main instrumental break of "Mother Russia" by RENAISSANCE. Since most of the 1970s Renaissance albums used an orchestra, specific instruments are not always credited |
Posted By: austrianprogfan
Date Posted: June 29 2018 at 06:26
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...do it twice more, once with the oboe, once without it, and then - we finish. The Robin Miller in question is also credited on Red. The wind instrument that plays the vocal melody around the 10 minute mark of "Starless" is probably his oboe.
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Posted By: ForestFriend
Date Posted: June 29 2018 at 07:54
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There's also some oboe during the verses of Fallen Angel. Sounds like a combination of oboe and soprano sax playing the vocal melody at the end of Starless (as well as the reprise of the guitar melody). ------------- https://borealkinship.bandcamp.com/releases" rel="nofollow - My prog band - Boreal Kinship |