Top 10 All Intrumental Prog Albums

[MYSTERIOUS TRAVELLER]

Instrumental rock albums are usually of the shred-y ... stuff made by guitarists, like Joe Satriani, Steve Vai & Eric Johnson.

for straight Rock without any compositional mood swings, complexities, 8+ minute pieces or dramatic twists and turns, those 3 guys have some great instrumental albums... and there are quite a few other artists working that instrumental straight Rock vein as well like Greg Howe, Vinnie Moore, etc

[Rarebird]

Instrumental rock albums are usually of the shred-y fusion-y stuff made by guitarists, like Joe Satriani, Steve Vai & Eric Johnson.

Instrumental rock-albums which don't fall in that category:
Bo Hansson - all 4
Schicke Führs Fröhling - all 3
Mike Oldfield - Hergest ridge
Enid - Six pieces and some others

[Rarebird]

Mike Oldfield - 'Tubular Bells'
Mike Oldfield - 'Ommadawn'

Tubular bells has some human voice
Ommadawn contains On horseback, which has vocals

[Zeuhlmate]

Henry Cow - Western Culture

[Juba]

Tubular bells has some human voice
Ommadawn contains On horseback, which has vocals

Yeah you're right. Well, instead of those two albums by Mike Oldfield, I would put on my list 'Solstice' by Ralph Towner and 'Cloud About Mercury' by David Torn.

[Juba]

Hey now I think that I should have to put 'Whenever I Seem to Be Far Away' by Terje Rypdal on my list instead 'Hergest Ridge'.

I think it's slightly better.

[Juba]

Regarding contemporary Progressive music, the choice is larger because instrumental prog albums - aside of jazz-rock albums that always were mostly instrumental - are the usual thing today. Here are ten albums off the top of my head & not in any particular order:

Lizard Exist - 'Lizard Exist'
Vespero - 'Hollow Moon'
Disasterpeace - 'Rise of the Obsidian Interstellar'
Dream Machine - 'Temple of Dreams'
XaDu - 'Random Abstract'
Bosque - 'Four Noble Truths'
Spiral Maze - 'Dunes Of Dorlmeus'
Zombie Frogs - 'Awaken'
Telepathy - '12 Areas'
Thrailkill - 'Everything That Is You'

[Trane]

in no particular order


Klaus Schulze - Timewind
Tangerine Dream - Ricochet
Jean-Michel Jarre - Oxygene
Tomita - Pictures at an Exhibition
Rick Wakeman - Six Wives
RTF - Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of Fire
Moving Gelatine Plates - The World of Genius Hans
Mwandishi - Sextant
Graham Collier music - Darius
McCoy Tyner - Sahara
Weather report - s/t
Univers Zero - UZED
Soft Machine - six
Ash Ra Tempel - s/t
Gryphon - Red Queen to Gryphon's Three
Anglagard - Epilog
Dun - Eros
Guapo - Five Suns
Kotebel - Concerto
Maneige - Libre Service
Gong - Expresso II
Secret Oyster - Sea Son
Fermata - Huascaran


and to make 10..... :


Santana - Caravanserai minus the one track Just In Time (to see the sun)

Wow, did I ever have impeccable taste five years ago.siffle.gifsg23gvainqueurg23g.gif

But I'd have to add, the more recent :
Miriodor - Avanti
Xing Sa - Création de l'Univers (the Setna albums do have vocals)
GoGo Penguin - Fanfares
Scherzoo - 03
Vak - Budo

[ThomasKDye]

I have constantly returned to Roine Stolt's Hydrophonia ever since I bought it. "Shipbuilding," "Little Cottage by the Sea" and "Bizarre Seahorse Sex Attack" are just fantastic.

[bill g]

Deluge Grander - Oceanarium
Uzva - all 3
Bo Hansson - all 4
Camel - Snow Goose
Anthony Phillips - 1984