What’s new to you in the Prog world???
Steven Wilson - Grace for Drowning
Camembert - Schnörgl Attahk
Nerve Institute - Architects of Flesh Density
SKE - 1,000 Autunni
Jakszyk, Fripp & Collins A Scarcity of Miracles
Wonderful new editions of some old classics: Aqualung remixed and expanded, Starless and Bible Black ditto, Octopus from the masters for the first time.
I’ve been getting into:
Tapes 'n Tapes
**Halloween Alaska’s **latest CD
and I just heard something I like on The Current from a band called Pert Near Sandstone. You can watch/listen to it at The Current’s web site.
some great suggestions…I still look for someone to be what launched prog & glad that some are still around, disappointed in others! As a musician who was fed inspirationally by the likes of gentle giant, elp, KC, tull…there have been only a few in recent years who have give ME a renewed spark.
It’s a few years old, but I’ll mention My Brother’s Blood Machine by the Prize Fighter Inferno again because it doesn’t get many props.
The band is a solo project by Claudio Sanchez of Coheed and Cambria, and tells another story set in the same universe as Co+Ca. Except rather than alt-metal, the music is a low-fi techno/acoustic crossover. While it doesn’t have the definitive progressive sound*, it does have much more of a coherent theme album feel to it than even Coheed and Cambria’s albums.
*Except to the extent that you think that Peter Gabriel/kate Bush/Bjork count as progressive.
Gentle Giant’s OCTOPUS!!! anything on it that wasn’t on the original??? Those guys were AWESOME live!!!
They sure were. And yes, there’s a 15-minute bonus track of the live Octopus medley, a bit rough sonically but absolutely crackling with energy.
ok here’s one to ponder/post!
If you were toassemble the “ultimateProg Group” who would the players be?
Well, the easy answer is King Crimson Mk. 1. Pretty hard to beat that lineup. Although it would have been really interesting to hear a Fripp-led Yes, which according to Fripp’s Journal was an actual possibility. (He said they asked him to join, he turned them down feeling that he couldn’t join unless he was the leader, and later he was told that that’s what they had in mind. Note, however, that Fripp’s Journal is prefaced with the statement “Some of the mistakes contained herein are accidental, some are intentional”.)
Heritage by Opeth is way less metal and way more prog than usual and it’s AMAZING.
In a way, I wish that Dream Theater had continued along the path of “scenes from a memory”
(also reunited with Mike, too!)
I rather like Thinking Plague. They are kind of out there, almost atonal at times, with icy female vocals. Weirdly beautiful.
I appear to be deeply involved with Tin Scribble. I was also at the Detroit Musical Box show where they did " A Lamb Lies Down on Broadway", a group and show I can recommend to anyone who appreciates old Genesis. And to anyone who needs to appreciate old Genesis