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    Experience Excentrique - prog classics played as classical music

    An Italian sextet, consisting of:
    • Daniele Faraotti: Classical Guitar
    • Alan Selva: Clarinets
    • Massimo Ghetti: Flutes
    • Javier Adrian Gonzalez: Bassoon
    • Lucio Corenzi: Double Bass
    • Lorenzo Amoroso: Drums + Percussion


    Playing a suite of Gentle Giant tunes:



    And their arrangement of "Return of the Giant Hogweed".



    All of which works a whole lot better than you'd think it would. Their one problem is that they can't really turn up the power, but they manage quite well regardless. Once in a while, the guitarist uses a looping pedal to add a phantom seventh member on second guitar, and that helps, but the music only occasionally allows for that.

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    Really sounds interesting and to me it beats those orchestral versions of stuff like Jethro Tull.

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    In the Gentle Giant covers thread there are more examples.

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    Good.
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    ... My Goodness! How I do so enjoy music...

    Thanks for the thread John.

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    The GGiant one works relatively well, but "Hoogwed" not so much to my ears. The so-called "symphonic" quality of much vintage progressive rock was hardly to be taken literally; it was surface appearance and often intended as little more. Which is why "Hogweed" - the original - works way better, as I hear it. Additionally, compared to the advents of "chamber rock", things like this come across as somewhat dodgy.
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    The GG material makes sense here, but "Hogweed" seems like an odd pick. I know -- Italians can never get enough early Genesis.

    It also seems kind of like a vanity project for the guitarist. Like, why did he take the guitar solo in "Hogweed" when it would have been much more interesting to hand it to the clarinet or flute?
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    They've also done "Schizoid Man", it appears.

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