The Spectral Mornings EP has some awesome vocal/harmonies. Christina Booth (Magenta), David Longdon (Big Big Train, and one of the top 2 contenders for Phil Collins job in Genesis back in the 90s)
The Spectral Mornings EP has some awesome vocal/harmonies. Christina Booth (Magenta), David Longdon (Big Big Train, and one of the top 2 contenders for Phil Collins job in Genesis back in the 90s)
Female harmonies are certainly prevalent in the sisters Heart music, as well as when both Findlay & Helder were in Mostly Autumn.
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This is an interesting thread which I happened to come across just today. I was surprised no one mentioned the Australian band, Rainbow Theatre though.
If you try this about 17 minutes in, there are tons of vocal harmony parts (in other spots too):
Does anyone have any other suggestions not included in the thread up to now perhaps?
I'll search through my Italian prog collection for primo harmonies because vocal harmonies are a big bonus in my world.
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I was quite lucky to see David Hykes and the Harmonic Choir in the south of France in an abbaye in the early 80s Most anazing experience in terms of vocal harmonizing. I bought their record Hearing Solar Winds then, but it gives only a vague idea of the concert experience. In general a good choir in a church with good acoustics is always amazing.
I always dug the Barclay James Harvest harmonies esp. Everyone Is Everybody Else - I'd recommend it to CSN fans who haven't heard it.
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Individual tracks:
City Boy’s Haymaking Time has one of the lushest pieces of harmonizing you can ever hope to hear. Delicate, charming song.
The Roches have been mentioned, but Losing True (with some vintage Fripp riffs) is spine-tingling.
This piece always gets me:
Mostly above any "usual" standard, and thus not really underrated at all (as they were always famous with their homecrowd) - rather just underappreciated within a tiny "prog" audience which shuns absolutely everything once it's "strange and/or alien".
SBB, much of Niemen's output, the first couple of Budka Suflera records, some Skaldowie, Czechoslowak acts like M. Éfekt, Progrés 2, Collegium Musicum, Dezo Ursíny (etc.), loads of names from the GDR, Hungary, Yugoslavia et al. - these upheld standards sometimes almost unheard of in the West. But alas they're not trying hard enough to consciously sound like […….], so we don't want to have to know too much about them.
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