Danish Prog Recommendations ?

[TheH]

Despite the cover - not bad (never heard about them before)

Tis one is out on CD but most likley a Bootleg.

[Rick L.]

Definitely not "70's prog" in any way, but falling under the "progressive/experimental rock" umbrella is Dureforsog. Hard to describe what they sound like, but try to imagine Wire, Faust, Faith No More and a pop band were part of a weird gene splicing experiment. Kinda.

I like their album Engine Machine.

[aith01]

Very good call, Richard, regarding Causa Sui (the only group I know from the names mentioned). Their Live in Copenhagen set is excellent.

[MYSTERIOUS TRAVELLER]

Mads Vinding,Group - Danish Design is a real good Jazz Rock Prog album

but for my $$ nothing beats the first 3 Secret Oyster albums

[Zeuhlmate]

If you like Kitaro, this danish guy might be of interest

[arturs]

Despite the cover - not bad (never heard about them before)

LOL! I think I've seen this LP listed in one of those "50 worst album covers" features. L-R: a gangster, a Chippendale's dancer, a college professor, and a porn star. Seated: a tennis pro.

You're right, though, it is good music.

[Scrotum Scissor]

He actually did a 'single' before Gasolin that most people never heard; The lady on the roof:

Just heard that Kim Larsen passed away last night. He was still a household name even here in Norway, and will be fondly remembered.

[Zeuhlmate]

Just heard that Kim Larsen passed away last night. He was still a household name even here in Norway, and will be fondly remembered.

[hFx]

R.I.P. Kim

With a wider perspective, Palle Mikkelborg have done some nice crossover stuff, bordering prog...

[Progbear]

Tis one is out on CD but most likley a Bootleg.

The CD is on Paisley Press, which is definitely a pirate label.

[Zeuhlmate]

Picnic - Picnic Barking up the wrong tree (1987)

Jazz-Frank Zappa-John Zorn- Pere Ubu -James Blood Ulmer...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oa60...o&index=2&t=0s

[Zeuhlmate]

Klaus Schønning ‎– Lydglimt (Glimpses of Sound) | 1979 |

[MYSTERIOUS TRAVELLER]

Klaus Schønning ‎– Lydglimt (Glimpses of Sound) | 1979 |

LOVE IT

[Zeuhlmate]

Klaus Schønning has been very productive over the years (25 solo albums), but I'm not sure he is internationally known. He is generally a bit too 'New Age'y for me.
The album mentioned above has recently been re-recorded: https://www.schonning.dk/News/2018/9/18/Lydglimt+II+

https://www.schonning.dk/

[Trane]

SUME (from Greenland actually) - three albums in the 70's (the third is also in full on YT) and one in the 90's (also on YU).

Malik Høegh (12-string acoustic guitar, electric guitar, vocals),
Per Berthelsen (acoustic guitar, electric guitar, vocals),
Hans Fleischer (drums, 1972-77),
Erik Hammeken (guitar, bass, 1972-77),
Emil Larsen (bass, vocals),
Sakio Nielsen (organ),
Karl Sivertsen (acoustic guitar, electric guitar, vocals),
Nikolaj Steenstrup (Mellotron, percussion)

[Scrotum Scissor]

^ A buddy of mine kept their second album, the one with the eskimo title. He didn't really enjoy it too much, but thought it fanciful to possess such a piece of 'curiosa'; the sales sticker on the record (secondhand, obviously) said "Jazz-rock from Faroe islands", I recall.

But yes, they were from Greenland.

[Progbear]

That first Sume album is apparently the biggest-selling Greenlandic album ever. I’ve seen them billed as “prog” and “psych,” but neither is strictly accurate, mainly because they’re a band that defies easy categorization. I hear elements of both of the above, plus folk-rock (quite a lot), some rootsy rock (à la the Band), touches of jazz and some good old indigenous influences, the thing that really makes them special. It’s that last tendency that pushes this over into “something really special” territory. It may not be any one genre all the way, but it emerges simply sounding like Sume, and that’s really all it needs to be. I really like this album!

[Zeuhlmate]

Culpepper plays in Norway

[Progbear]

A new discovery I’ve never even heard of before: Møn Rock from 1979. Some nice guitar playing on this!

[Zeuhlmate]

A new discovery I’ve never even heard of before: Møn Rock from 1979. Some nice guitar playing on this!

Me neither, and I live here - not bad.

[Trane]

A new discovery I’ve never even heard of before: Møn Rock from 1979. Some nice guitar playing on this!

Love their political side as one of the tracks is Ho Chi Minh

Me neither, and I live here - not bad.

I suspect that it remains largely unknown vecause Vernon Joynson and (to a lesser extent) DE Asbjornsen usually stopped their books circa 76/77

[Zeuhlmate]

Love their political side as one of the tracks is Ho Chi Minh

Pol Pot wasn't quite as fashionable at the time...

If you by a chance in a trillion read danish, here is an article about the environment they came form
http://www.fanefjordsogn.dk/images/h...ri-m-fotos.pdf

[Trane]

Too bad I don't read Danish, for it looks like an interesting article

Pol Pot wasn't quite as fashionable at the time...

Ho Chi Minh was a Viet communist that lead to modern Vietnam (can't say it's worse off if it had remained French or became US), while Pol Pot was a Khmer Rouge and the latter's terror reign in Cambodia was ended by the heirs pf Ho Chi Minh (the city of Hanoï not yet renamed as such, if memory serves).

[Scrotum Scissor]

Ho Chi Minh was a Viet communist that lead to modern Vietnam

I somehow always thought him to be a Lebanese ping-pong player.

I believe Zeuhlmate's point was that whereas some leftist rockers kept their Ho Chi Minh-banners high as a token to "liberation-aspects" of the global Marxist-Leninist movement during the 70s, others eventually did indeed fall down on the Maoist (i.e. anti-Soviet) side of things, by which their affiliation tipped over the side - as with Savage Rose's grotesque support for Albania's dictator Enver Hoxha - a man who'd proceed to have dozens of his own citizens executed for merely listening to "western decadent popular music" on the radio as late as the early 80s. And the Maoist movement was -significant- in Scandinavia, with substantial support for (Mao's apostle) Pol Pot among (especially) Norwegian and Danish radical academics/students etc. who'd later become influential in society and in many cases still are.

[Trane]

I somehow always thought him to be a Lebanese ping-pong player.

I believe Zeuhlmate's point was that whereas some leftist rockers kept their Ho Chi Minh-banners high as a token to "liberation-aspects" of the global Marxist-Leninist movement during the 70s, others eventually did indeed fall down on the Maoist (i.e. anti-Soviet) side of things, by which their affiliation tipped over the side - as with Savage Rose's grotesque support for Albania's dictator Enver Hoxha - a man who'd proceed to have dozens of his own citizens executed for merely listening to "western decadent popular music" on the radio as late as the early 80s. And the Maoist movement was -significant- in Scandinavia, with substantial support for (Mao's apostle) Pol Pot among (especially) Norwegian and Danish radical academics/students etc. who'd later become influential in society and in many cases still are.

Interesting post, though somewhat dangerous as it flirts with the anti-politics policy of the site, but I started it .

western-central Europe was no different as some communists were rooting for Mao, others for Stalin, etc....

What I personally meant is that it is the same Vietcongs that "liberated" the country in 72 that invaded its "supposedly frendly, because both were maoists" neighbour Cambodia in 75 on humanitarian grounds, to stop the genocide. Just for that, the Vietnamese junta (or whatever it was) gained much respectability in many places across the planet. Therefore chanting Ho Chi Minh in 79 was somewhat +/- more acceptable than Matching Mole's Little Red Record artwork in 73