Ethnic Prog
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Topic: Ethnic Prog
Posted By: Cheesecakemouse
Subject: Ethnic Prog
Date Posted: August 17 2006 at 05:28
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I recently broased part of the thread about categorys, some had ideaa about Osibisa and Mike Oldfield and the Raga bands being in folk.
Why not have a category Ethnic Prog, since these bands/artists represent a kind of progressive ethnic sound eg Oldfield has a strong Celtic element, Osibisa has African music etc.
Just a thought  ------------- |
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Posted By: oliverstoned
Date Posted: August 17 2006 at 05:30
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Hmmm, it raise the category issue, wide issue! |
Posted By: Eetu Pellonpaa
Date Posted: August 21 2006 at 08:53
How to divide "ethnic" from "folk"? Is ethnic like folk music from the non-christian industiral countries? I believe "folk prog" holds here also the ethnic influenced stuff? (playing with terms with foreing language makes me dizzy  )
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Posted By: Cheesecakemouse
Date Posted: August 22 2006 at 04:18
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Iguess I consider the folk stuff to be largely acoustic guitars and Bob Dylan influenced stuff, while ethnic more global. A good point to make though. ------------- |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: August 23 2006 at 04:36
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As a leader of prog folk team, it is widely understood that ethnic prog is prog folk. The Indo-prog category is a an exception that was made to allow Philippe to work on his project.
I will probably soon include Osibisa in prog folk ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: Mandrakeroot
Date Posted: August 25 2006 at 17:13
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Folk is Ethnic!!!
In fact:
Friuli Folk is the Ethnic music from Friuli...
English Folk is the Ethnic music from England...
Spanish Folk is the Ethnic music from Spanish...
Just for example... ------------- 
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: August 26 2006 at 05:38
Andrea I don not always agree with you, but in this case....... 1000% ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
MANDRAKEROOT wrote:Posted By: philippe
Date Posted: September 05 2006 at 12:48
You are right about the fact that the distinction is not evident. I also consider that bands deeply influenced by "ethnic" sources can be included in prog folk ...about my project I'm thinking to delete it because it didn't have the impact I was waiting for. I can surely put all the bands in distinctive categories as fusion jazz, prog folk and krautrock...about the commentary (the subgenre definition) I'm going to use it to enrich the actual article about "ethnic" progressive rock. I will suggest this idea to a small community of valuable members in order to estimate what to do in a reasonable way. ------------- 
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Posted By: Cheesecakemouse
Date Posted: September 14 2006 at 22:41
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Perhaps ethnic is the wrong word, but rather the world music branch of prog in its own category, that is what I am trying to describe here. J Tull don't have a world sound, but Oldfield, and Osibisa, Indo prog etc do. ------------- |