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Then there is Picchio dal Pozzo, my very favorite band OF ALL.TIME. Their last album was undoubtedly a masterpiece of RIO-style avant-prog, although the band began as an Italian counterpart of the British Canterbury prog scene. Their albums are very different. "Abbiamo Tutti i Suoi Problemi" wasn't released until 1980, several years after the prog scene was extinguished in Europe.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ieeGwFsN94[/youtube]

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K Rex wrote:
Then there is Picchio dal Pozzo, my very favorite band OF ALL.TIME. Their last album was undoubtedly a masterpiece of RIO-style avant-prog, although the band began as an Italian counterpart of the British Canterbury prog scene. Their albums are very different. "Abbiamo Tutti i Suoi Problemi" wasn't released until 1980, several years after the prog scene was extinguished in Europe.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ieeGwFsN94[/youtube]

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Another excellent, hints of Zappas Grand Wazoo

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Hi K

You'll probably appreciate this

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itCS3oKPrfM[/youtube]


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As I posted in Luc's thread, Keith Emerson was one of my early roots. Rest in peace. Here's a bunch of Keith Emerson: The World's Greatest Keyboard Player:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRbiYJYVWH8[/youtube]

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Didn't notice this great topic...

Here are my two top 3 :

As bands :

- Black Sabbath (guitar player Tony Iommi is the reason why I picked up an instrument 25 years ago)

- Ulver (a musical maelstrom from Norway, mixing progressive music with electronics, ambiant, classical parts, while early roots are deeply anchored into black metal. The only band that made me cry while playing live when I saw them 6 years ago). The Norwegian National Opera DVD is a masterpiece.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN4DSVzkrkE[/youtube]

- Katatonia/Tiamat/The Gathering, european 90's bands who tried and succeed in mixing metal with atmospheres.

Being, or trying to be a musician, I've been listening to some individual musicians from whom I learned a lot while trying to transcribing solos, parts, tracks, sounds :

- Jim Lampi

- John Abercrombie

- Eivind Aarset

Quite a stretch, isn't it...?

I've never really been into songwriting, but if I had to pick just one, it would definitely be a quite famous french singer named Bernard Lavilliers. If you understand french, I would really recommend you to have a listen to the songs "Betty", "Attention Fragile" or "Est-ce ainsi que les hommes vivent" (lyrics are taken from a french poem from Louis Aragon) :

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwtG-Tu3KjQ[/youtube]

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- Ulver (a musical maelstrom from Norway, mixing progressive music with electronics, ambient, classical parts, while early roots are deeply anchored into black metal. The only band that made me cry while playing live when I saw them 6 years ago). The Norwegian National Opera DVD is a masterpiece.
Wow! Me likey! I've never heard of Ulver, certainly, but I love long slow stringy/paddy swelly atmospheric stuff like this. And 5 minutes, it's a slightly different song. And then at 7.20 or so, we're into vocals. Good stuff.

So I'm listening to this and really enjoying it. Ambient and also dissonant in parts. The video--especially the concert footage--looks great. Must be a heck of a live show!
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I've never really been into songwriting, but if I had to pick just one, it would definitely be a quite famous french singer named Bernard Lavilliers.
This was cool--I loved the bass guitar sound, and the singer could be reciting shampoo ingredients and still sound super cool (tres chic). I really dug this mellow jam. I had no idea what to expect--but that was a tasty little concert footage. I'd love to wander into a club where this was playing live. i can't speak to the lyrics but the arrangement was very, very "cool," in the original jazzy sense. Good Stuff!

Adds: I just listened to the Lavilliers three times now. It's really growing on me--cheers!

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My 3:

Switched On Bach (Bach + synths = what's not to love)
ELP (very sad news about Keith)
Yes (Wakeman, Anderson & Rabin are forming a new band) http://teamrock.com/news/2016-01-19/rabin-anderson-wakeman-taking-a-fresh-approach

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Ben, Wendy Carlos' (born "Walter" but you go, girl!) Switched-On Bach holds a very, very special place in my life. It's where I discovered electronic music AND the music of Bach all at the same time. I listed Bach as one of my own three Rootz!, but I only ever heard about him in full and in detail because of Wendy Carlos. I remember checking out Switched-On Bach from the library as a 4th grader in Manitoba, Canada, and playing this record album and the Battlestar Galactica strings recording (another awesome piece of music that I haven't heard in at least 30 years!) on the library phonograph with massively huge headphones. So many vivid memories of that day and days after have come rushing back to me. Sorry, I'm a touch verklempt. :o

Switched-On Bach
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tc51cnV6YJI[/youtube]

That's awesome news about the Yes guys (minus Chris Squire of course):
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Keyboardist Rick says trio decided the time was right to move project forward following death of Yes bassist Chris Squire.

Rick Wakeman says he, Trevor Rabin and Jon Anderson decided it was the right time to move their collaboration forward following the death of Yes bassist Chris Squire.

The project has been in the pipeline since 2011, with Rabin initially telling Prog that the three former Yes members were planning on doing an album together. And last week it was confirmed that work was underway and that they'd tour together.

Now Wakeman has shed further light on the project.

Wakeman says on his website: “Jon, Trevor and I have been talking about this for some time and following the very sad passing of Chris Squire, felt it was the right time to get together and produce both new music and perform some of the classic material as we feel it should be performed.

And for me and little 9-year old Stevie: Battlestar Galactica Theme!
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHp9oZPqs8E[/youtube]

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