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BTW, can anybody explain the term "progressive house"? What, exactly, makes it "progressive"?

The ability of the ones making the noise to keep finding new places to live after being kicked out for being loud and useless?

That defines almost all of metal! Let's try a different note!

mgh


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nClAGN5hIM this is one band i got into recently - Overhead, from Finland. www.youtube.com/watch?v=faMl5AmIlkU

At first listening, this band owes a lot to Per Lindh and to Terje Rypdal ... but I would like to suggest that at first listen this is inspired by Ozric Tentacles ... and yeah ... I have to admit that this was nice. OT kinda died since John left and it became the Wynne family laundry music band! Still nice, but not as nice.


Per did a lot of keyboard driven things. Terje was guitar driven, and had one thing early style that got copied 20 years later by Jeff Beck and others. (Listen to EOS) ... but his mixes are hard for some since he does it in jazzy situations, and rock situations ... and the duets he has on YouTube with that other guitarist and band are very good ... 

mgh


Glyn - here's another related band to Mostly Autumn - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAolAc59gN8 (Stolen Earth)

Tuscany Sun is really nice ... and these folks are definitely well rehearsed and defined ... it's actually nice to see that now and then ... and it sounded very good. 


This deserves a wider audience.

Rbh


Happy the Man - The great( ken ) Scott produced their first 2 albums I think.

A band that got some attention for its musicianship but did not break into the "crowd" of sales out there a whole lot, but Kit Watkins is still functioning and making wonderful music, even if most of us never heard him, or his work. Kit had a nice stint with the English band CAMEL that did not last, and that led to him putting together Happy the Man.


I have used for many years, some of Kit's photographs as backgrounds on my pages because they are fantastic. In my book, Kit is not just a musician, he is an artist!

Moshkiae


In my book, Kit is not just a musician, he is an artist!

Uh oh...

I had no idea the Czech Republic had so much good rock music.

...wait, it's not Prague Rock?

At the rate I'm running into new, cool bands, I'm going to be busy for a while!  It seems that when you research into one, it's ultimately compared with several others, so you then check those out and they bring up even more names, and so on!

Fun rabbit hole this is!

Looks like I might actually have some free time this weekend to investigate more of these bands!  I'm just blown away at the sheer number of artists that I've never even heard of!  Let alone have something from.  Weeeee!!!

Pandora Radio is a fun way to play that game. It's a rabbit hole for sure. Unfortunately, it's strongest with "name" bands and doesn't get too far off the commercially-beaten track. But their stated goal is to broaden the selection and include more indie bands, so I keep checking back with them.

I've been testing Pandora by entering some of the obscure bands mentioned so far. As expected, many of them were unavailable. But when I entered "Overhead", it suggested a band called "Jets Overhead" that was enjoyable. That in turn led to a string of other suggestions for a bunch of melodic but not-quite-commercial U2-ish bands.

I'd recommend The Wishing Trees'  'Ostara' CD if you like low key folky prog. It's a beautiful sounding album, Rothery plays most of the instruments and gets some stunning guitar tones.

http://www.thewishingtree.com/#biography