Meet the Flower Kings

Dual monitors?

Me got some Flower Kings.  Me likey! 

bitflipper

I like this video even better than the Sigur Ros doc. It's THAT good.

Thanks for this!  Just added both discs to my netflix que.  Quite looking forward to discovering these guys ... don't know a thing about them at this point.

Watched both DVDs over the last few days.  The first disk was totally engaging.  I couldn't believe these guys had never registered on my radar.  What musicianship, what a sense of ensemble, what great music!  I thought the musicians were supurb across the board.  I don't normally even notice drummers all that much, but this guy impressed me with his sense of restraint.  He seemed to know just how far to dail it up and then not go beyond that.
 
The second disk didn't leave me cold, but it wasn't nearly the exciting experience that the first was.  I guess I'm not quite so taken with the experiments with Rock/Jazz fusion.  But when they're channeling Genesis or Yes, oh my, what a glorious thing that is.
 
Thanks for the heads-up, Bit.

Uh-oh, I'm following a YouTube trail now....could be a while....have just discovered Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats....

Resurrecting this dusty thread ... I am listening to the Flower Kings latest album for the first time as I write this.  Fabulous!  Highly recommended.  Thanks again, BF, for turning me on to this group.  Prior to your creating this thread, I had never heard of these guys.

Moshkiae
Their latest is called "The Trip" and it is one cut, about 48 minutes long, but I think a lot of us have lost the ability to TRIP and enjoy music for what it is.

Haha!  Amazon has some work to do.  Because this album is just one cut, I was able to download the whole album for $0.99.  OK, so I feel a little guilty about shortchanging the musicians.  But, hey, if I like it, I'll probably be going back for more.

Didn't Djam Karet do A Night for Bapu?
 
(I could be a teensy weensy bit off on that spelling...)

Man, I can see why you felt bad (and, probably, pretty good too!).  This is really good and downloading the one song for $0.99 versus buying "the entire CD" for $13.42 is a no-brainer.
 
Now if I could only find some mushrooms...

space_cowboy ... Porcupine Tree Ozric Tentacles Other modern prog that is very talented

Porcupine Tree, features Steven Wilson that has been doing all those remasters/remixes of all kinds of progressive albums from the last millenia! It also features Richard Barbieri, that was in the band "Japan" before coming to PT.
 
PT is a band that Steven started in his garage playing all the instruments, and he sold a gazillion number of cassettes and all of a sudden found that he had to put together a band. Finding the musicians when you have the material is easy! But he added good ones, and the drummer is now considered a "progressive" important drummer, though I still think he is way too formulaic, but my idea of progressive drummer is Pierre Moerlin.
 
Ozric Tentacles is directly influenced by Steve Hillage, and is all instrumental work. They have not been the same, and their work has sadly gotten terribly weaker since their flute/woodwinds player left. His part added a side to the band that was more interesting and fun to listen to. Now, it's just rock music centered around Ed Wynne's abilities and he makes Joe Satriani sound like a kid in the playground. I wonder if I could get Rain to do some of that stuff! But ED uses a keyboard/midi for all his effects and sometimes you can tell he is just jamming on the effect, which is kinda different and nice.
 
Nowadays, the Ozrics are just the Wynne family band, with his wife playing bass and the son on keyboards, but their sound and material is not as strong as it used to be, and it just sounds like a band in search of a song, and playing around scales, and just a setup for dad's solos.