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I wonder why nobody mentioned Pain of Salvation's 'Be' since it's a Prog Metal masterpiece of group & orchestra stuff.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BC-Ntvx_Uuc

Metalized Symphonic rock at its best!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVMIk3xYaYo

Kayak's Merlin (Bard Of The Unseen version, 2003) is an insane piece of music.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ol7m8D5QDHg

Another Chamber Prog gem is coming from A Beekeeper's Garden the album (2018) by British artist Paul Gunn: https://paulgunn.bandcamp.com/track/lviv-sunday-morning

Anthony Phillips' Regrets the song must not be forgotten.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjPl2h3lIZo

Well, maybe not - depending on what you mean by the Chamber Prog genre - but I'm certainly not the only one who labeled them as such - after a short search, I found these three articles, although I...

Without hesitation, the Russian duo Iamthemorning is the most interesting Chamber Prog act of the present day. These songs are my favourities from their five-star masterpieces of Chamber Prog genre -...

...or In the Lap of the Gods from Pyramid ;)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUZ3tijNe3A

I wonder why nobody mentioned The Enid since they are the true legends of Chamber Prog genre. Here are my absolute favourities by this amazing band - The Devil from their debut album released in...

Oh yeah, I love it, but the London Symphony Orchestra features on my all time favourite songs by him.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ST500AWn8yE


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vb7htoJAK7g

Street In The City is certainly a great example of the seventies' *Art Rock* genre, although there's not a really band on it - "only" Mr Townshend and his acoustic guitar.
Regarding Art Rock songs...

Founded in Budapest in 1986, After Crying are an important band of *Chamber progressive* genre. A Gadarai Megszállott (The Fanatic Of Gadarai) is a 22-minute masterpiece from their sophomore album...

Steve Hillage in concert with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at the RAH, 1974

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p556npGyXVo

I wonder why nobody mentioned Ian Anderson.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LSDqkh6kKQ



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKYSghXorvI

Alogia & Symphonic orchestra, live 12/27/2017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqmryKIMPfw


Frank Sinatra cover

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu682z-In8M

Smak covers, live 2017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELiZwRcw_8o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hDI0F8zqxA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdZTW2YBieU

An orchestral version of proggy The Song Is Over the track that The Who has never played live at concert. Roger Daltrey did it so incredible with his following band & orchestra at Carnegie Hall in...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTJyGSENnZY

live 1979

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNIaKyI2geQ

A definition of a hook? Well a hook is a song which you hear on the radio in the morning, and although it may not be off your favourite bands' albums, that song plays in your head all day. Sometimes...

https://sloba.bandcamp.com/album/spy-story

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNKxwbJ8xiM


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lI5t5h7qdM

Actually, Sir George Martin added very light strings just on these two tracks (the second one is a slow-tempo, album-closing track) and nothing is cheesy with them - on the contrary, both of Sir...

Jeremy Steig (RIP) was one of the leading jazz flutists during the late 60s and the 70s. He has recorded this proggy funk gem in 1970.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1gQ6DYQ2zw

Two tracks from Jeff Beck's best phase that ought to be mentioned as well.

Stevie Wonder cover

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlUpSmbXiog



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3VkjEPAmQ0

What to be posted after Jimi and to not sound like a shit? Only some crazy Eastern Europeans who played some damn proggy funk behind the Iron Curtain in the middle of the Cold War.

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Aren't we tend to neglect solo albums, especially solo albums from this decade? Yet, Gleb's album contain everything what a real masterpiece of prog-rock genre have to have: originality, awesome...

A quite nice solo album of course, but I don't think it would be an overstatement if I say that Gleb Kolyadin s/t CD is quite a masterpiece in the level of the greatest progressive music masterpieces...

Gleb Kolyadin is indeed an ingenious composer and a great pianist. And for those who may not know his solo work, it should be noted that Kolyadin's solo record features a contemporary prog-rock...

Mark Jenkins' article from 1992 that fits this thread so nicely.


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A flute-driven THE VIOLET HOUR surely belong more to the seventies' sophisticated music style called *prog-folk* than to a decade that suffered from Britpop hysteria & pesky House music which ruled...

LEGEND were a female-fronted progressive rock quartette formed in Runcorn, Cheshire, in 1988. In the 90s, they released three amazing CDs - Light in Extension (1991), Second Sight (1993) and Triple...

In the early 90s, a number of forgotten British heavy-psych bands from the early seventies started again due to a new audience who were craving for psychedelia in Britain at that time. So T2, the...

STRANGERS ON A TRAIN were a female-fronted progressive rock trio formed in 1990. Their debut CD The Key Part I: The Prophecy was released in the same year on Dutch label SI Music. The second CD The...

MR. SO & SO were a progressive rock quartette from the North West of England. They released a debut cassette Thoughts Of Fear And Principle (1991) prior to CD Paraphernalia (1992), both on Pagan...

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It was 1993 when a five-piece progressive rock band Chequered Past self-released a debut cassette in favour to sell it in the pubs after gigs and when they had changed their band name and became...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jbzdl9isW0

Rest in peace, Babatunde Olatunji.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzVjLEzN36M


EDIT: Babatunde had influenced Santana for the best, early stuff.

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When W.I.T.C.H. (We Intend To Cause Havoc) released their debut LP titled Introduction in 1974 on Zambia's ZMP label, they were the first Zambian band to release a commercial album.
My favourite...

As a huge fan of beautiful female vocals in Prog, I would like to mention this admirable compilation released a week ago on Mellow: https://mellowlabelproductions.bandcamp.com/album/women-in-prog

Ginger Baker in Yoruba Talking Drum school, Oshogbo, Nigeria, 1971


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6NaxgmWOp8



Filmed in Lagos, Nigeria, 1971.

CASINO was one-off progressive rock project by Clive Noland and Geoff Mann. Their s/t concept album also features Sylvain Gouvernaire from Iris and Karl Groom from Threshold. Sadly, Geoff Mann died a...

Geordies CHEOPS were a psychedelic / space-rock band that released a splendid debut cassette-album Convergence in 1991. Their stunning sophomore album A Most Peculiar Pancake was released on Italian...

Bristolians SADDAR BAZAAR are very interesting Oriental-influenced psychedelic rock band that released two albums in the 90s: The Conference of the Birds (LP / CD 1995) and Path of the Rose (CD...

OPEL were a four-piece female-fronted band that was active circa 1994-1999. They played the late 60s-like psychedelic rock & acid-folk. Aside of self-released cassettes, unfortunately they didn't...

Worthy of honorable mention in this thread are THE CIRCLES due to their only one, but lovely the 60s-like psychedelic rock single Tomorrow released in 1991 on Go~Go ‎– Go~Go1 label.

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South London's FULL MOON were a heavy-psych five-piece outfit formed in 1985. Before it was disbanded in 1993, FULL MOON released three albums: Full Moon (LP, 1989) on Norwegian label Voices Of...

In my opinion, Hamburger Concerto is not only the best of Focus, it's the best album of Dutch Prog in general.

Then you probably remember also SPACEHEAD 'cause they were a band that was leaded by one of Krel's founder-members, Mr. Dibs. They released a very nice space-rock CD "... Of Stars And Time" on the...

RADIO MASSACRE INTERNATIONAL (RMI) is a trio formed in 1993 and have been heavily inspired by the seventies' genres like "Berlin School", "krautrock" and space-rock. Thus, RMI featuring mostly...

They certainly should open their shop somewhere also in E.U., because young people there really love that kind of combined & beautifully designed places for their late afternoon out.
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KREL were a space-rock band formed in 1989. They played gigs in Greater Manchester area in favour to promote their self-released debut cassette Who's Next On This (1991), including the gigs with...

BLIM were a band hailed from Birmingham. They released two cassettes Zero (1992) and No Frills (1993) before disbanded in 1994. In 2013, a double-CD "Zero/No Frills" with remastered original albums...

Funk was in him already. Sadly he died soon after.

Eastern Europeans had all the genres of progressive music fully developed already in 1974. Even *prog-folk *!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8awKuc7OaA

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I like Formentera Lady. Well, I've always loved ItCotCK, ItWoP, Lizard and Islands more than LTiA, SaBB and Red. These first four albums are more beautiful imo. Regarding lslands, I think that alike...

Nope, 'cause nothing was declining in 1975. That year was just great for the genre.
Someone can say that declining began in late autumn 1976, but this is also pretty questionable if we compare the...

Wasn't 1975 a significant year too? From that year you have Camel's The Snow Goose, Jethro Tull's Minstrel in the Gallery, Van Der Graaf Generator's Godbluff, Gentle Giant's Free Hand, Gong' Shamal,...

Keyboardist Howard Wales is best known for his work with Jerry Garcia and The Grateful Dead.
Solar Eclipse is a track from his album Rendezvous With The Sun from 1976:
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