Why is it whenever someone mentions an artist that was clearly progressive (yet not the Symph weenie definition of Prog) do certain people feel compelled to snort "thats not Prog" like a whiny 5th grader?
Ayreon
Cliffhanger
Flamborough Head
Ixion
Knight Area
Plackband & PBII
Ricocher
Silhouette
Sky Architect
Triangle
Trion
Probably many more I can't think of at the moment
A somewhat obscure project was Western Justice by Machiel Botman and Jack Rieley, featuring Eddie Jobson.
Group 1850 made some albums in the 60s, but for my taste, the 1974 release Polyandri is a fave.
"Always ready with the ray of sunshine"
Just phoned (you know, dialing a number and speaking to someone) the shop that sells Private Dutch.
The book is a paperback and it's still the same edition. It's just a fine picture that suggest a hardcover.
There will be no updates, especially because the book covers the time in which it was quite unusual to release an LP privately, while today it's almost common.
There will be no reprints either, so when the stock is gone, the book won't be available anymore.
Golden Earring - Moontan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCUNFvkLF9k
Which one?
This?
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Radar Love (6.25)
Candy's Going Bad (6.13)
Vanilla Queen (9.21)
Big Tree, Blue Sea (8.15)
Are You Receiving Me (9.31)
Or this?
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Candy's Going Bad (6.12)
Are You Receiving Me (9.31)
Suzy Lunacy (Mental Rock) (4.24)
Radar Love (6.23)
Just Like Vince Taylor (4.33)
The Vanilla Queen (9.16)
Any fans of Mecano?
They made a kind of art-rock/New Wave.
This clip from the song The Suggestive Sleep features the new line-up called Mecano UN LTD.
The offshoot Flue also made two (?) albums, from which I like Vista a lot. Their sound was a bit more symphonic/elektronic, combined with acoustic instruments.
Thanks for the update on the book, interbellum.
Yes. We've been rediscussing them in the post-punk thread. They were a great band, very famous in the new wave circles locally and also Flue's Vista got an official local release licensed by Virgin's greek subsidiary. Dick Polak also lived for a couple of years in Athens around the mid 00s (oftenly performing, exhibiting and DJing in central arts bars and galleries).
Great. I guess I stepped out the post-punk thread halfway, so missed the Mecano-posts.
I've read Polak's entertaining auto-biography "Mecano : Een Muzikaal Egodocument" (although I doubt it was translated) in which he tells a lot about his staying in Greece.
Here's a long interview with Polak:
http://luifabriek.com/2014/02/diggin...-polak-mecano/
My CD-version of Flue's Vista is from France on the Infrastition-label.
First I had my doubts about its status, mainly because one of the band-members told me that the compilation-album "Titled" that I own wasn't a legal one.
But he assured me the Vista-CD was legit.
Kayak
Focus
Finch
Supersister
Ayreon
The Prog Corner
Which band from the classic time period would you say is the most progressive as far as playing some innovative things?
They were AMAZING. I have to thank Spyros (spacefreak) for introducing the Autoportrait album to me many years ago – I haven't looked back since. For me, the particular highlight is the song "Беспризорные" ("Besprizornye" which roughly translates as "Homeless"), which is based on a curious Russian text, partly unintelligible with strange choice of words etc., but quite stark and atmospheric at the same time. I even went as far as write an e-mail using the contact form on the Mecano website asking about the origins of this track and after a couple of months got a reply from Tejo. Unfortunately, he could not really shed a lot of light on this except that Dirk was friends with some girls who translated Russian poetry into Dutch and they sought to evoke a cold, outlandish atmosphere of wintery Russia in this song so they opted to go with these weird lyrics. The actual origins of the text still remain a mystery, though. Perhaps it was their own creation, but maybe a translation of some obscure Russian modernist poet.Originally Posted by interbellum
Just out of curiosity, aren't there any details on the "Besprizornye" song?I've read Polak's entertaining auto-biography "Mecano : Een Muzikaal Egodocument" (although I doubt it was translated) in which he tells a lot about his staying in Greece.
Despite the title of the book Polak doesn't write a whole lot about Mecano, but he has some memories about Autoportrait (a long time the only album I knew and admired from them). About that specific tune he writes that it's about drifted young persons from Russia during the October-revolution, who would form the backbone of the Red Army recruited by Trotski. (See page 84-85).
I have the first Finch disc posted in the thread and do like it.
Somewhere I have several Comps from trading days that feature all obscure Dutch Prog bands. Gonna have to see if I can find them and see if any listed here are on it or if there are more to suggest.
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Earth and Fire live and instrumental
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This is very interesting - thank you! Wish I could read the book.Originally Posted by interbellum
Why is it whenever someone mentions an artist that was clearly progressive (yet not the Symph weenie definition of Prog) do certain people feel compelled to snort "thats not Prog" like a whiny 5th grader?
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