how do you classify OREGON?
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Topic: how do you classify OREGON?
Posted By: zicIy
Subject: how do you classify OREGON?
Date Posted: January 11 2008 at 16:46
| their AMAZING albums, as Friends, Moon&Mind, Winterlight....? |
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Posted By: Easy Money
Date Posted: January 11 2008 at 16:57
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I haven't listened to Oregon in a while, but what they used to play could be called jazz/world music fusion.
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Posted By: Mikerinos
Date Posted: January 11 2008 at 17:01
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world jazz/music. progressive, sure, but I never considered them prog...
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Posted By: zicIy
Date Posted: January 11 2008 at 17:04
not "world music" at all, imho. btw, this is a new term, and to be straight, i dont know what this term really means, probably some rough cocktail party i guess, but Oregon werent that stuff.
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Easy Money wrote:Posted By: Frippertron
Date Posted: January 11 2008 at 17:42
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I was looking for the option "CRAP".
Ah well.. Sorry guys.. Just not my thing. ------------- The Cheerful Insanity of Prog Rock |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: January 11 2008 at 18:00
Ah, fer shame! ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Posted By: Easy Money
Date Posted: January 11 2008 at 18:21
World music is a horribly vague term, but a lot of times it means drawing on the ancient traditional music of any region of the world. The Oregon I used to listen to drew a lot from Indian music as well as other traditional musics. It is a very vague term. Sometimes just having a conga player in your group will win you the title of "world music". |
Posted By: King Crimson776
Date Posted: January 11 2008 at 18:32
| I don't know. Why did you put that option, everyone vote it. |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: January 11 2008 at 19:20
I decided to go with prog since they have elements of almost all listed, especially "I don't know", but what heck is fussyion?  Another good option might have been "the official state music of Oregon".  ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: January 12 2008 at 00:34
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"Moon and Mind" is awesome. I'll call it "campfire jazz," a sound all its own.
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Posted By: fuxi
Date Posted: January 12 2008 at 05:44
| Hmm... the Oregon I know play (predominantly) acoustic jazz, strongly influenced by European classical music, mellow psychedelic music and folk music from around the world... How do you classify them? I just wouldn't bother... |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: January 12 2008 at 07:14
^What he said. 
------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Posted By: b_olariu
Date Posted: January 12 2008 at 10:14
| Jazz, more said, acustical jazz. Not a prog band by far or fusion, simply jazz. Jazz is something diffrent from fusion, but releated. Other similar band to me is Wether Report. Some of the passages are quite the same, not so much diffrence betwen Oregon and Weather Report. Anyway to me is jazz, and a great band after all , just listen to Out of the woods. |
Posted By: zicIy
Date Posted: January 13 2008 at 01:51
i dont know too, and i did put that option and i voted the same. this really great band is practicaly impossible to classify - and i like it! probably if they were recording for ECM production in their beginnings, although they were recorded a lot for ECM later on, (as the band and solo), it would be easy to say that Oregon is "ECM sound" (an another strange term if to be used as the genre, btw), but they werent ...
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