left field prog (roughly)

I have the CD and I reckon it sounds great, I think Bob Drake certainly knows what he's doing behind a mixing desk

http://www.progressiveears.org/forum/showthread.php/9292-Bob-Drake-Lawn-Ornaments

And I'm listening The Knells right now for the first time and it's really striking, excellent stuff

Bob Drake fucking rules, for some reason The Skull Mailbox is my go-to album when I'm half cut

I love The Shunned Country, especially the way he uses phrases like 'freakishly localised storm' and 'dismal swamp'.

I've always refused to listen to him on account of his name being too similar to Bill Drake. I know this is stupid and petty & I shall correct it at some point (when not on holiday)

Looking for mentions of bands whose releases I've dug this year I find this thread. Maybe this is where I should have been bigging up the Bubblemath.

The recent Prescott record is very enjoyable.

https://prescott.bandcamp.com/album/thing-or-two

Even better IMO is The Bob Lazar Story - Baritonia. Instrumental (guitar, drums & keys) leftfield prog-miniatures. Densly structured but playful and accessible.

https://theboblazarstory.bandcamp.com/album/baritonia

Cosmically inspired prog-fusion with baroque tendencies in the style of a Super Nintendo soundtrack must surely be a leftfield notion. If that doesn't sound completely unbearable to you I recommend this. It's NYP.

https://shnabubula.bandcamp.com/album/cosmic-diaspora

Also surely within the thread's remit is Nick Prol & The Proletarians' Loon Attic. Eclectic prog-pop (in opposition), not unlike Bob Drake (who is one of many guest performers).

https://proletarians.bandcamp.com/album/loon-attic

These look interesting, especially the last two, thanks.

Regarding that last one, not just Bob Drake, but Thymme Jones, Dave Willey, Rob Crow oh fuck this better rule

Can't remember which thread it was but thanks for the Five Storey Ensemble link.

robert have you head the first TROJAN HORSE album? "mr. engels says" is a hell of an opening strut and "disciplining the reserve army" is next level imho

Thanks that sounds good too.

Shnabubula samples really impressed me, like a jrpg fever dream.

It was me that brought up Five Storey Ensemble, you're welcome :D It was probably the prog v. 3.0 thread or whatever it's called.

And I did end up enjoying the latter two of the albums Noel Emits posted up there, especially Shnabubula because I got the similar impression of it being like the soundtrack to an insane psychedelic jrpg. The Nick Prol thing is also good, like a lot of that sort of stuff it threatens to collapse under the weight of it's own wackiness and a couple of tracks are a bit annoying, but it's got enough of a Bob Drake/Cheer-Accident etc thing going on to be enjoyable.

Bass player recently posted a video from Knower's New Year's Eve gig at Irving Plaza and it brought me to this thread. Need to investigate more.

https://music.usc.edu/louis-cole-and-knower/

https://www.facebook.com/marcopanascia/videos/10209934071308381/

knower are goddamn classic, louis cole put out a solo record this year that i would've nommed if there weren't also so many other great records to nom!

lol i never would have expected this to be the thread to hide knower discussion, they're really pretty cool but i've never really thought of them as prog, just synth funk that's very heavy on their jazz chops

I'm still interested in good stuff from late 60s/early 70s as mentioned in original post at least as much as the more recent stuff.

Maybe we should start a KNOWER thread.

Started:
KNOWER: funky, quirky electro duo with jazz chops Louis Cole and Genevieve Artadi