I can not think of any.
The Canadian band Contrevent featured Cello and that's all I got
I can not think of any.
The Canadian band Contrevent featured Cello and that's all I got
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?
Mackenzie Theory had electric viola, if that counts.
Geoff.
Caravan (after 1972)
Hölderlin
Calyx (Canterbury Scene) - http://www.calyx-canterbury.fr
Legends In Their Own Lunchtime (blog) - https://canterburyscene.wordpress.com/
My latest books : "Yes" (2017) - https://lemotetlereste.com/musiques/yes/ + "L'Ecole de Canterbury" (2016) - http://lemotetlereste.com/musiques/lecoledecanterbury/ + "King Crimson" (2012/updated 2018) - http://lemotetlereste.com/musiques/kingcrimson/
Canterbury & prog interviews - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdf...IUPxUMA/videos
David Cross was credited for playing Viola (along with violin) on King Crimson's Larks' Tongues In Aspic & Starless And Bible Black.
Grits: Rare Birds, which features the 25' title piece that highlighted the electric viola.
Steve F.
www.waysidemusic.com
www.cuneiformrecords.com
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“Remember, if it doesn't say "Cuneiform," it's not prog!” - THE Jed Levin
Any time any one speaks to me about any musical project, the one absolute given is "it will not make big money". [tip of the hat to HK]
"Death to false 'support the scene' prog!"
please add 'imo' wherever you like, to avoid offending those easily offended.
Can't get any more prog than Chunky, Novi & Ernie.
Hurtleturtled Out of Heaven - an electronic music composition, on CD and vinyl
https://michaelpdawson.bandcamp.com
http://www.waysidemusic.com/Music-Pr...MCD-spc-7.aspx
Speaking of Novi Novog, her viola features prominently on the somewhat "prog light" bands Freeway Philharmonic and String Planet, both featuring her husband, Larry Tuttle, on Chapman Stick. Larry's one of my favorite Stick players and, though both bands are definitely more on the accessible/easygoing side, they're both quite musical IMO.
Cheers,
Alan
There's occasional viola in Gentle Giant. The songs Black Cat, On Reflection and Dog's Life.
Hurtleturtled Out of Heaven - an electronic music composition, on CD and vinyl
https://michaelpdawson.bandcamp.com
http://www.waysidemusic.com/Music-Pr...MCD-spc-7.aspx
Univers Zero, Heresie (1979):
Patrick Hanappier: violin, viola
MT, this is a joke, or are you suffering from Alzheimer?
Kansas' Steinhardt should come to you instantly, unless you're insistent about making the difference between the violin and the viola
Esperanto
Jean Luc Ponty
Didier Lockwood
not viola or violin, but ELO features plenty of cello. Ditto for Henry Cow.
..... and of coure, our very ViolinCyndee
I'm sure I forget many others.
my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.
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?
Do you know the difference between a violin and a viola?
A viola burns longer...
Cobra handling and cocaine use are a bad mix.
Wasn't there viola on early Curved Air albums?
And I guess you could argue for psych-era Beatles with all those George Martin chamber quartet arrangements.
I'm holding out for the Wilson-mixed 5.1 super-duper walletbuster special anniversary extra adjectives edition.
David Ragsdale of Kansas plays a 5-string violin. The lower four strings are tuned like a viola so you can play in viola range.
Also on Spock's Beard's album X, viola is featured in several places in both Jaws of Heaven and Their Names escape me.
The guy in my band, Chuck Bontrager, plays a 7 string electric violin that goes down to one whole step shy of a cello (or a guitar in drop D).
The obvious answer is Kansas, which has both violin and viola. The midsection of "Miracles Out of Nowhere" and "Dust in the Wind" both have viola, the former as part of a fugue in 7/8 time.
If you can trust the liner notes, there was no viola on the first three Kansas albums but there is on Leftoverture and Point of Know Return.
The less obvious answer is Sylvan, whose 2015 album Home features both violin and viola. The first and best song, "Not Far From the Sky," has what I think is viola, plus an incredible oboe part.
Ted Gioia@tedgioia·
Viola Smith, pioneering drummer of the Swing Era, is dead at age 107. https://washingtonpost.com/local/obi...1be_story.html
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