Is the Pan Flute shunned by Prog?
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Topic: Is the Pan Flute shunned by Prog?
Posted By: CPicard
Subject: Is the Pan Flute shunned by Prog?
Date Posted: June 21 2018 at 10:45
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I looked everywere, but I couldn't find a prog band using the Pan Flute in their instrumentarium! Why does the prog community despises this instrumnet?
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Posted By: Hrychu
Date Posted: June 21 2018 at 10:58
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I always associate Pan Flute with easy listening new age garbage. It might be that. ------------- “On the day of my creation, I fell in love with education. And overcoming all frustration, a teacher I became.” — Ernest Vong |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: June 21 2018 at 11:18
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Because even prog isn't ready for the sheer ascending properties of the almighty pan flute which will open up the veils that separate us from a world so magnanimous and beautiful that we would melt into heaps of charred carbon atoms if we were to experience it too quickly. Here is the pan flute army preparing an unsuspecting world for the celebrated day when the pan flute gods will descend from their perches in the sky and usher in the promised era of eternal peace! http://www.panflutejedi.com/hall.html" rel="nofollow - The Hall of Panflutists  -------------  https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
Posted By: Hrychu
Date Posted: June 21 2018 at 11:21
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Pan Flute is cool but it's extremely tricky to use it in a way so that it doesn't sound cheesy. ------------- “On the day of my creation, I fell in love with education. And overcoming all frustration, a teacher I became.” — Ernest Vong |
Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: June 21 2018 at 11:21
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As long as we have Ian Anderson blowing a concert flute, we don't need no stinking pan flutes! ------------- This message was brought to you by a proud supporter of the Deep State. |
Posted By: AEProgman
Date Posted: June 21 2018 at 11:26
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We need a zamfir prog album!
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: June 21 2018 at 11:31
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I associate it too much with some boring Zamfir. Not Prog but I do like him in this: The pan flute (also known as pan pipe) is used in several acts, including Popol Vuh's Aguirre on the first track towards the end of it. ¿Que me Dices uses some pan flute, Patanga (prog folk) uses pan flute, FLor de Loto uses some pan flute. Camel's "Stationary Traveler" track has pan flute. I would imagine that there would be quite a few in the Prog Folk realm that would use pan flute. Swara Samrat in Krautrock uses some pan flute, and I would expect that some Krautrock bands would use it occasionally (maybe Ralf Nowy somewhere?). ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: wiz_d_kidd
Date Posted: June 21 2018 at 11:45
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Frequently used by Flor de Loto from Peru... |
Posted By: Hercules
Date Posted: June 21 2018 at 11:56
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Andy Latimer plays them on Stationary Traveller. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfF2UZjXx_g ------------- A TVR is not a car. It's a way of life. |
Posted By: ForestFriend
Date Posted: June 21 2018 at 12:47
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How about three pan flutes in harmony? https://youtu.be/cPSwzPuvBWw?t=1607 ------------- https://borealkinship.bandcamp.com/releases" rel="nofollow - My prog band - Boreal Kinship |
Posted By: miamiscot
Date Posted: June 21 2018 at 14:43
| Knew this thread was coming... |
Posted By: ForestFriend
Date Posted: June 21 2018 at 15:06
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Jethro Tull likes to pan flute a lot. In one of the flute solos in A Passion Play, there's one flute panned left and one panned right. ------------- https://borealkinship.bandcamp.com/releases" rel="nofollow - My prog band - Boreal Kinship |
Posted By: TheGazzardian
Date Posted: June 21 2018 at 16:25
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What about Flairck? |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: June 21 2018 at 16:26
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Seriously, i think you have an open niche in the prog world to make it happen! Let er rip, man! ------------- https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: June 21 2018 at 17:08
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Baked flute is better than pan flute. Less saturated fat. ------------- ...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: cstack3
Date Posted: June 21 2018 at 22:23
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Sampled pan flute was all over prog and rock of the 1980s. Gabriel used a similar sampled flute sound on "Sledgehammer," but I don't hear much pan flute these days except on legitimate native music from the Andes mountains of South America, which is quite wonderful. The first sound in “Sledgehammer” is a synthesized http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakuhachi" rel="nofollow - shakuhachi (bamboo flute) played on the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairlight_CMI" rel="nofollow - Fairlight CMI , which back in the eighties represented the cutting edge of digital synthesis and was a staggeringly expensive piece of gear. (Retro synth geeks will want to check out the video of http://www.ethanhein.com/wp/2009/synth-and-axe/" rel="nofollow - Herbie Hancock and Quincy Jones demonstrating a Fairlight , it’ll put a smile on your face.) http://www.ethanhein.com/wp/2013/analyzing-the-musical-structure-of-sledgehammer-by-peter-gabriel/" rel="nofollow - http://www.ethanhein.com/wp/2013/analyzing-the-musical-structure-of-sledgehammer-by-peter-gabriel/ Here, one of my favorite Cholo bands is "Agua Clara!" ------------- I am not a Robot, I'm a FREE MAN!! |
Posted By: Jeffro
Date Posted: June 22 2018 at 04:00
| You haven't lived until you've heard Tarkus played completely on pan flute |
Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: June 22 2018 at 04:14
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ForestFriend wrote:Posted By: kenethlevine
Date Posted: June 22 2018 at 06:00
| I daresay there is some in the works of Los Jaivas |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: June 22 2018 at 08:11
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not many people play the pan flute in the first place; even German comedian, jazz-musician and multi-instrumentalist Helge Schneider who plays a huge and diverse range of instruments (piano, organ, guitar, sax, trumpet, violin, cello, accordion, vibraphone, marimbaphone, ukulele, recorder, double bass and drums) doesn't play the pan flute. so it shouldn't come as a surprise that the pan flute is very little used in prog. speaking of Helge Schneider: in this clip he can be seen on saxophone, double bass and piano -------------  A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: twosteves
Date Posted: June 22 2018 at 08:20
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First thing I thought of was that Latino band---So funny you already mentioned them but been loving that subway band for years in NYC--AGUA CLARA!! Live version of Sierra Quemada on Hackett's Somewhere in South America--has what sounds like a pan flute--it's not the best live version of the song because of it lol
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Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: June 22 2018 at 08:26
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Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: June 22 2018 at 17:22
| Some South American bands, like Sikus, use the pan flute in their ethnic influenced rock music. |
Posted By: scruffydragon
Date Posted: June 23 2018 at 00:52
| Been curious about this for some time. There is no reason that more traditional world instruments can not be used. The Progressive genre of the 70's did make a mad dash for all kinds of instruments you would not consider in a rock band just for the unusual or exciting and exotic sounds they made. I quite like some more traditional Andean music and came across Los Jaivas some time ago. Here you will find everything from keyboards to traditional pipes of all sorts. They combine rock with traditional Andean and some of it can become fairly Progressive. |
Posted By: scruffydragon
Date Posted: June 23 2018 at 01:03
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oxvmNgBjTE" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oxvmNgBjTE Here's a preview of one of Los Jaivas tracks. It's a track Los Poderosa Muerte from their Alturas de Macchu Picchu album of 1981. |