http://teamrock.com/news/2016-03-17/jon-anderson-roine-stolt-join-forces-on-invention-of-knowledge
― reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, 19 March 2016 20:30 (eight years ago) link
new EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY might interest groovers & shakers, as well as the new TIME IS A MOUNTAIN ~
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kPxhwjOMNE
― reggie (qualmsley), Sunday, 20 March 2016 12:40 (eight years ago) link
Time is a Mountain was suggested to me by Spotify, but aren't they more jazz than prog? Great great stuff
― robbie ca$hflo (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 20 March 2016 12:56 (eight years ago) link
i'd say they play a pretty jazzy prog, somewhere between THE SOFT MACHINE and KING CRIMSON. i'm a big fan of dude's wiggly keybs. with all its sci fi sound effects and spacy meanderings, "sepian" also kinda sounds like one of the improvs from one of the ecent VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR albums
― reggie (qualmsley), Sunday, 20 March 2016 13:01 (eight years ago) link
Yeah I spose it's such a fine line, I guess the review of it I found after hearing it was on a jazz site so I kinda filed it there in my head
― robbie ca$hflo (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 20 March 2016 13:36 (eight years ago) link
a fusion, as it were
― reggie (qualmsley), Sunday, 20 March 2016 14:04 (eight years ago) link
this drummer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=238&v=htZLjRqOu5I
― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 6 April 2016 17:02 (eight years ago) link
anybody heard this new italian group "the winstons" (no relation to "amen brother")? trio making new music in the style of robert wyatt era soft machine. good!
― diana krallice (rushomancy), Monday, 11 April 2016 16:46 (eight years ago) link
i will check em out
my own city's Hardcore Crayons are like a good post 90s underground rock type of prog
https://hardcorecrayons.bandcamp.com/
― rockpalast '82 (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 11 April 2016 18:59 (eight years ago) link
some relative newbies working the masters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPdoWp-PHFU
― reggie (qualmsley), Monday, 11 April 2016 23:44 (eight years ago) link
Hardcore Crayons are pretty good. I bought their CD.
I think these dudes from Louisville are pretty cool.
https://ohlm.bandcamp.com/
― earlnash, Tuesday, 12 April 2016 01:32 (eight years ago) link
I don't know if this is the right thread, but the latest Three Trapped Tigers album is fantastic. It's on Superball so might be appropriate. They're an IDM-influenced mathrock three piece but it's basically prog.
The title track:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMr5ZWPBEhM&ab_channel=superballmusictv
― ultros ultros-ghali, Tuesday, 12 April 2016 21:10 (eight years ago) link
when i saw them live with liturgy they were a bit dull but it might work much better on record
― And the cry rang out all o'er the town / Good Heavens! Tay is down (imago), Tuesday, 12 April 2016 21:12 (eight years ago) link
jerry!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkVyzD-IBPs
― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 04:18 (eight years ago) link
Okay, that cover of Terrapin Station is excellent. Hoping this might inspire Daniel Rossen to further explore his prog tendencies.
― doug watson, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 17:55 (eight years ago) link
it at least coincides with progressive tendencies, rallying for bernie the other day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZQP4xG6Txc
― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 21 April 2016 16:12 (eight years ago) link
rufus is bringing it ~
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccP6mI1GMS4
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 22 April 2016 18:21 (eight years ago) link
might hit too close to home for too many ~
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNBfo4IIoG0
― reggie (qualmsley), Sunday, 24 April 2016 20:24 (eight years ago) link
it is too bad that no new good prog rock has been recorded since punk made it obsolete (cost ineffective) ~
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g05yCAF-qgc
― reggie (qualmsley), Sunday, 24 April 2016 20:53 (eight years ago) link
I don't know if this is really prog v.3.0 since it's a follow on to their last album from 1978 but Argentinian legends Bubu released an EP not long ago from out of nowhere:
https://bubuprog.bandcamp.com/releases
― ultros ultros-ghali, Tuesday, 3 May 2016 22:05 (eight years ago) link
saying that it's a completely different lineup of musicians with the same composer. In any case it's really good.
― ultros ultros-ghali, Tuesday, 3 May 2016 22:16 (eight years ago) link
Anyone listen to German band Dark Suns? Their upcoming album Everchild (June 3) seems very promising, continuing their turn from prog metal to psych prog with some jazzy bits along the lines of perhaps Motorpsycho.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLWbQHa4UZ4
― Fastnbulbous, Thursday, 5 May 2016 13:22 (eight years ago) link
Listening to Haken - this is unexpectedly nice and weird. I really like their whole early computers aesthetic too.
― It certainly is punk of the Church of England to think that way (tangenttangent), Monday, 16 May 2016 11:23 (eight years ago) link
Aaah the massive track in the middle is amazing!
― It certainly is punk of the Church of England to think that way (tangenttangent), Monday, 16 May 2016 11:47 (eight years ago) link
I had thought the romantic cover art to Deluge Grander - August In The Urals was ill fitting but actually there is a lot of lushness coming through on further listens. Love the watery flowing piano.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 27 December 2015 13:22 (5 months ago)
Love the first two tracks of this. The first is a monster and the second has these really lovely idyllic ethereal parts. I actually think just these first two would have made a better album than the 5 that stand. The remaining three all have good stuff in them but they get decreasingly interesting. The third is really quite good most of the time though.
How about their other albums?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 16 June 2016 23:13 (seven years ago) link
I think it's kind of set up that way - I don't have an issue with the last two tracks ("The Solitude of Miranda" is especially good) but they do feel like bonus tracks in a way.
The Form of the Good is pretty great though it's maybe tougher to get into. It's entirely instrumental (outside of some faint backing vocals) and really dense at times. "The Tree Factory" is pretty cool, kinda Zeuhl-ish, though it goes through a number of cool movements (one definitely sounds Zappa-inspired). The key track is the 20-minute "Aggrandizement" which is totally insane - not like any prog epic I've ever heard, it's just one steadily rising instrumental part that keeps piling on and on and on. It's the sort of thing you have to listen to at ear-bleeding volume.
― frogbs, Friday, 17 June 2016 15:02 (seven years ago) link
The last two tracks really dampened my enthusiasm for the album.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 17 June 2016 16:42 (seven years ago) link
The Mercury Tree are pretty good - new album is kind of lovely. They're like a weirded-out occasionally-microtonal Yank take on Thumpermonkey. Discovered by snooping on ultros' RYM profile, which I'm sure is acceptable behaviour
― imago, Thursday, 18 August 2016 17:13 (seven years ago) link
Hey stay out of my stuff, you
Glad you liked it anyway, I probably should have brought it up here but I forget these things. Here it is if anyone else is interested:
https://themercurytree.bandcamp.com/album/permutations
― ultros ultros-ghali, Thursday, 18 August 2016 18:54 (seven years ago) link
The Quietus and ultros' rym page are p much the only two music sites I read in 2016 (apart from the obvious, of course)
― Drugs A. Money, Saturday, 20 August 2016 00:20 (seven years ago) link
new Deluge Grander is up and running. headfirst I go!
― imago, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 13:10 (six years ago) link
Cool.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 13:11 (six years ago) link
I'm going to listen to this only cuz one of them pm'd me and I said I would... the samples seemed decent enough.
Also this may be of interest, it's modern chamber music that's barely prog but it kind of sounds like Univers Zero and it's on AltRock Productions. And it's really quite good.
https://altrockproductions.bandcamp.com/album/night-en-face
― ultros ultros-ghali, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 14:51 (six years ago) link
it's...........ok. like, there are good moments. i'll definitely listen to it again. really though (and i know frogbs will come in and yell at me for thinking this) the whole Deluge Grander project existed to make the first track on their first album, and everything since hasn't quite matched that half-hour slab of brilliance
will listen to this though thanks!
― imago, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 15:01 (six years ago) link
me and my 50 socks all FP'd you for this, see you in a month asshole
― frogbs, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 15:56 (six years ago) link
i guess 'aggrandizement' is quite good as well. they should just release albums with two 20+ minute tracks on them
― imago, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 16:00 (six years ago) link
seriously though I can understand that. I think DG's music has gotten more difficult on each album, like it's kind of steered from a fairly recognizable Zeuhl-prog hybrid to something more resembling classical music. that 20-minute track on Form of the Good still sounds like nothing I've heard, it's like he took the massive instrumental finale of a traditional suite and made that the epic. pretty cool. Heliotains completely passed me by the first couple times I listened to it - could not remember a single thing about it until I really sat down and concentrated, after which I realized it's as brilliant as the others, just harder to grasp. I've only heard some samples from the new one (it's not on Bandcamp yet) but it feels like it's kind of the same.
― frogbs, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 16:06 (six years ago) link
Been listening to the Birds And Buildings debut, it's good but it really does just sound like Deluge Grander, I know it only has two members from DG but I think maybe they'd be better off just keeping the DG name and changing the members when they want to be the "other band".
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 30 March 2018 18:47 (six years ago) link
Cheer-Accident/Polvo vibes + Bob Drake cameo
https://starperiodstar.bandcamp.com/album/daylight-spending-time
― obnoxious pun (ultros ultros-ghali), Thursday, 26 April 2018 16:43 (six years ago) link
cool!
cheer-accident themselves have a new one soon, featuring a couple of former gorilla museum employees (among others)
― imago, Thursday, 26 April 2018 17:02 (six years ago) link
this sounds p cool though!
― imago, Thursday, 26 April 2018 17:04 (six years ago) link
whoa the Star Period Star is really good
― imago, Thursday, 26 April 2018 17:26 (six years ago) link
:D
And I didn't know Cheer-Accident had a new one, that's really exciting! I never liked SGM unfortunately but the bandcamp blurb has got me seriously hyped
― obnoxious pun (ultros ultros-ghali), Thursday, 26 April 2018 17:31 (six years ago) link
Actually you knwo what
― obnoxious pun (ultros ultros-ghali), Thursday, 26 April 2018 17:33 (six years ago) link
I actually like the Birds And Buildings debut better overall than the Deluge Grander debut. There seems to be a couple of parts from the first track repeated in later tracks but I wasn't sure.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 4 May 2018 19:41 (six years ago) link
i need to listen to B&B again but my impression was that it was interesting and varied
― imago, Friday, 4 May 2018 20:53 (six years ago) link
The last track has clip of Kenneth Clark's Civilization documentary series! I get a feeling that this guy's music is a lot about upheavals throughout history but sometimes the lyrics are hard to grasp.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 4 May 2018 21:06 (six years ago) link
"Chakra Khan" sounds like a username here.
glad star period star have a new one, good to know bob drake's involved. liked them a lot but it was hard to find any info about them on the internet for a very long time.
― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Saturday, 5 May 2018 00:43 (six years ago) link
ni combined with another band i haven't heard of called poil and they put out this record. it's pretty proggy.
https://piniol.bandcamp.com/album/bran-coucou
― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Saturday, 5 May 2018 23:41 (six years ago) link