Just discovered them and don't remember them being talked about on here. Amazing technical yet melodic prog, and has a few unique keyboard sounds which is always a plus.
Just discovered them and don't remember them being talked about on here. Amazing technical yet melodic prog, and has a few unique keyboard sounds which is always a plus.
Not sure , but I think it has been, and maybe extensively.
I like them, yep. Good stuff, heavy fusion with great chops and a good sense of melody.
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I like them also..
Instrumental bands that rock aren't a hot topic out here...
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+1 to that.Originally Posted by battema
Fantastic band
Chad
I have all their cds. Not a clunker among the bunch. If I would have to pick a favorite it would be "Labryrinth". Great band!
I suspect someone may have been listening to the most recent Canvas Prog Hour. In Part 2, Matt plays "Lazy Boy" from the Soul Alert album. It's a fantastic Fusion track.
No, the guy doing Eddie Jobson unboxing on YT was listening to them in the background.
I am a fan, for sure.
"And this is the chorus.....or perhaps it's a bridge...."
That was Isildurs Bane and it wasn't a guy....
Oh, I guess you're right about it being a woman but she did two, one had Isildurs Bane, and the other had Special Providence.That was Isildurs Bane and it wasn't a guy....
Another big fan here as well, one of the best Hungarian bands for sure, I'd have to add Djabe, and European Mantra (Gergo Borlai) as some of my other favorites from there.
Only have "Soul Alert" but I think they are awesome. Lazy Boy is a killer track.
If you like it even more weird than I would recommend Natsumen from Japan:
Thanks, I like the two songs I've heard so far,the above, and the one below. I don't think they are as strange as Isildurs Bane, which is another interesting obscure group.
that's a shame
I don't have much patience with narcissistic Prog vocalists who feel like they need to smother the music with their nonsensical blather (I'm looking at you Genesis and Yes)
Special Providence ROCKS
Why is it whenever someone mentions an artist that was clearly progressive (yet not the Symph weenie definition of Prog) do certain people feel compelled to snort "thats not Prog" like a whiny 5th grader?
What a idiotic comment. Have you ever considered the option that bands WANT vocals over their music? Usual scenario is not that some random guy just appears to studio and begins to SMOTHER the music with his vocals against protestations of the REAL musicians.
Ps. I have nothing against Instrumental music. Huge part of the music I listen is instrumental. Now listening: Philip Glass – Glassworks
sure have... it's just too bad that otherwise good music winds up smothered by a vocalist who feels the need to sing over 75% of the music, never allowing the music to stand on its own. This is especially annoying when the lyrics are some twee pseudo-poetry which is completely unrelated to any real human experience... mountains coming out of the sky and such drivel
BTW, I'm NOT suggesting that anyone is a cloth-eared nincompoop if they like that kind of stuff. I'm just saying that bands like Special Providence appeal to me because I have a low tolerance for vocalists smothering the music.
Last edited by MYSTERIOUS TRAVELLER; 10-09-2016 at 03:44 AM.
Why is it whenever someone mentions an artist that was clearly progressive (yet not the Symph weenie definition of Prog) do certain people feel compelled to snort "thats not Prog" like a whiny 5th grader?
Seventy-five percent?
No, of course not. You would never do that.
Music isn't about chops, or even about talent - it's about sound and the way that sound communicates to people. Mike Keneally
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