Ian
Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on progrock.com
https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-a...re-happy-hour/
Gordon Haskell - "You've got to keep the groove in your head and play a load of bollocks instead"
I blame Wynton, what was the question?
There are only 10 types of people in the World, those who understand binary and those that don't.
Resisting the urge to post a huge list, here's ten.
1 to 3:
Aquaserge - Laisse ca etre:
Circle - Pharaoh Overlord:
Gevende - Sen Balik Degilsin Ki:
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4 to 6:
Ghost Rhythms - Madeleine:
Harri Kusijaarvi Koutus - Koutus:
Hyrrokkin - Pristine Origin:
7 to 9:
Moster! - When You Cut Into The Present:
October Equus - Permafrost:
OTEME - L'Agguato, L'Abbandano, Il Mutamento:
10:
Tape - Casino:
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?
Anima Mundi- The Way
Cellar Noise- Alight
Comedy of Errors- Fanfare and Fantasy
Hostsonaten- Rime of the Ancient mariner
Introitus- Elements
IQ- The Road of Bones
Kyros- Vox Humana
La Maschera Di Cera- The Gates of Tomorrow
Logos- L' Enigma Della Vita
Navigator- Phantom Ships
Nordagust- In the Mist of Morning
Phideaux- Snowtorch
SETI- Discoveries
XNA- When We Changed You
2011: Magic Pie- The Suffering Joy
Steven Wilson- Grace for Drowning
2012: District 97- Trouble With Machines
2013: Steven Wilson- The Raven That Refused to Sing (and Other Stories)
2015: Steven Wilson- Hand.Cannot.Erase.
Magic Pie- King for a Day
District 97- In Vaults
2016: The Neal Morse Band- The Similitude of a Dream
Marillion- F.E.A.R.
2017: Ayreon- The Source
Mastodon- Emperor of Sand
'The smell of strange colours are heard everywhere'- Threshold
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Triste è l'uomo
che ama le cose
solo quando si allontanano.
(Baolian, libro dei pensieri Baol, I, vv. 1240-1242)
I guess the dust still has to settle on 2010's judgment. Everyone has a completely different set of best albums
Well I have become more a jazzhead than a proghead, so you'll find a lot of jazzy material in there.
Do you know of Ibrahim Maalouf or Yazz Ahmed (her new album La Saboteuse is stunning)??
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Tom: I'll have a bit more rtime this w-e to describe the albums in my list
This week is hectic for me
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my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.
Yes, I've been thinking about what this implies. Right now this board is organized around the '70s prog canon (not formally, but in the sense that its content is most interesting to people who enjoy that music). As the canon artists die off, either the board disintegrates or it migrates to a de facto new canon. In 5 years, will this be a Steven Wilson forum, or will we collectively establish other common interests?
I don't think this is quite the right response. The creation of a canon is intrinsically unfair -- it magnifies small differences in quality to create winners and losers. But having an agreed canon is highly beneficial: it helps the discovery and encourages the creation of more music in the same vein.
That's why we should be happy when people debate the quality of music, and should bring our A game to those discussions.
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... “there’s a million ways to learn” (which there are, by the way), but ironically, there’s a million things to eat, I’m just not sure I want to eat them all. -- Jeff Berlin
Ones & Zeroes Pt I - 3rDegree - they really take you through the looking glass on this one. Maybe the most adventurous concept for a concept album of our niche prog scene.
Theman Simpulse - Those Men - and this is the furthest out, strangest one. Kind of makes Freak Out sound like Marie Osmond's Greatest Hits.
IZZ - The Crush Of Night, The Everlasting Incident - parts 2 and 3 of their Darkened Room trilogy, Crush plays to my ears like half IZZ, half Jean Pierre Rampal & Claude Bolling; whereas Everlasting throws all their influences in a blender, even ones I hadn't heard before, and snorts pure ginger
Tom Brislin - Hurry Up & Smell The Roses - half of this you get right away, the other half reveals over several listens, until all the songs you thought were second best to your faves are suddenly equally great.
My top 100 (plus 2 or 3).
There's still so much I want to hear from the last 7 years that this is very much a work in progress, but all of the below get an A-minus or better from me. It's what I could remember - I'm sure there's stuff I forgot. Prog is represented, but not featured. So much new prog that I hear falls into the "very good" category but it does distinguish itself farther than that (IMO).
Alphabetically - not ranked.
Comments as I have time to add them:
A Tribe Called Quest - We got it from here…thank you 4 your service
One of the best comeback albums of all time, IMO. It's probably now their 2nd best album.
Apples in Stereo - Travellers in Space and Time
The best album that ELO never made.
Arcade Fire - Suburbs
I would not consider myself a fan, but this album sticks out to me.
Baroness - Yellow and Green
Prog/sludge metal?
Beck - Morning Phase
The guy has been releasing excellent album after excellent album for a couple of decades now. This is more the "light/pastoral pop" side of Beck.
Bill Callahan - Apocalypse
Followed Smog throughout the '90s. The Callahan albums released under his own name might be even better than Smog.
Birds and Buildings - Multipurpose Trap
Delightfully schizophrenic. One of the notable "back-heavy" albums.
Bob Dylan - Tempest
Charles Lloyd - Mirror
Claudia Quintet - Royal Toast
Corima - Quetzalcoatl
Cut Copy - Zonoscope
Dave Holland - Prism
David Bowie - Blackstar
Death Grips - The Money Store
Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest
Deftones - Diamond Eyes
Deftones - Koi No Yokan
Deus Ex Machina - Devoto
Dinosaur Jr. - I Bet on Sky
Ellery Eskelin Trio - Willisau Live
Fire! Orchestra - Enter
Flaming Lips - The Terror
Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma
Flying Lotus - You're Dead
Fontanelle - Vitamin F
Gevende - Sen Balik Degilsin ki
Ghost Rhythms - Madeleine
Ghostface Killah - Apollo Kids
Goat - World Music
Godspeed You Black Emperor - Allelujah! Don't Bend Ascend
Gonjasufi - A Sufi and a Killer
Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
Gosta Berlings Saga - Glue Works
Grizzly Bear - Shields
Guapo - Obscure Knowledge
High on Fire - Snakes for the Divine
Hiromi - Move
Hiromi - Spark
Ivo Perelman / Joe Morris / Gerald Cleaver - Living Jelly
Jason Isbell - Something More Than Free
John Surman - Saltash Bells
Kamasi Washington - The Epic
Keith Jarrett / Charlie Haden - Jasmine
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city
Killer Mike - R.A.P. Music
Korekyojinn - Tundra
Kurt Vile - Walkin on a Pretty Daze
LCD Soundsystem - This is Happening
Magma - Felicite Thosz
Mastodon - The Hunter
Matthew Shipp - Root of Things
Michael Wollny Trio - Weltentraum
Miriodor - Cobra Fakir
My Bloody Valentine - m.b.v.
Nels Cline / Tim Berne / Jim Black - The Veil
Nels Cline Singers - Initiate
Nik Bartsch - Llyria
October Equus - Saturnal
Oneohtrix Point Never - Replica
Oneohtrix Point Never - R Plus Seven
Pet Shop Boys - Electric
Phlox - Talu
Queens of the Stone Age - Like Clockwork
Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
Randy Newman - Dark Matter
Rational Diet - On Phenomena and Existences
Ron Anderson - Secret Curve
Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 2
Setna - Guerison
Ske - 1000 Autunni
Spoek Mathambo - Father Creeper
Spoon - Transference
St. Vincent - Strange Mercy
St. Vincent - St. Vincent
Steve Coleman - Functional Arrhythmias
Swans - The Seer
Swans - To Be Kind
Tame Impala - Lonerism
Tame Impala - Innerspeaker
The Fall - Your Future Our Clutter
The Field - Looping State of Mind
The Roots - Undun
The Roots - How I got Over
The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream
The Wrong Object - After the Exhibition
Thee Oh Sees - Carrion Crawler / The Dream
Thinking Plague - Hoping Against Hope
Thinking Plague - Decline and Fall
Tim Berne's Snakeoil - Shadow Men
Tim Hecker - Ravedeath 1972
Univers Zero - Phosphorescent Dreams
Univers Zero - Clivages
Ut Gret - Ancestors Tale
Vak - Aedividea
Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City
Vektor - Outer Isolation
Vijay Iyer Trio - Accelerando
Wilco - The Real Love
Wussy - Strawberry
Wussy - Attica!
Yo La Tengo - Stuff Like That There
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Ian
Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on progrock.com
https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-a...re-happy-hour/
Gordon Haskell - "You've got to keep the groove in your head and play a load of bollocks instead"
I blame Wynton, what was the question?
There are only 10 types of people in the World, those who understand binary and those that don't.
Tony Banks - Six Pieces For Orchestra: Beautiful, warm, orchestral music with some really fine melodies. A grower.
Thieves' Kitchen - Clockwork Universe: Somewhere between Canterbury and Symph. Great vocals, lyrics & playing
Ske - 1000 Autumni: Complex, but still melodic. Very well done, a lot of fun to listen to
Once & Future Band - S/T: Classic retro prog sound, excellent melodies & lyrics. Loads of feeling.
Advent - Cantus Firmas or Silent Sentinel: melodic, often Gentle Giant influenced, but more on the Kerry Minnear side than the Derek Shulman side. Henry Ptak is a great composer in the symph realm.
Thinking Plague - Hoping Against Hope: Um.. how to describe? Complex, tight, highly interesting? Most here know their music already so... if not, give them a listen.
Favorite song in need of an album:
Big Big Train - Kingmaker: my favorite piece of theirs, like the classic Genesis song never released, but right up with most of their best stuff, in my opinion. I don't think they'll ever do anything else that I appreciate as much as this emotive piece-it's like everything fell into place when Greg Spawton wrote this.
"Influenced by Peter Hammill" is the kiss of death. Those histrionic, desperately attention-seeking vocals are a real turn-off. Discipline (the band) suffered markedly when they went down that road.
It's a shame because when Hammill pulls his socks up a bit he is a remarkable singer.
... “there’s a million ways to learn” (which there are, by the way), but ironically, there’s a million things to eat, I’m just not sure I want to eat them all. -- Jeff Berlin
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