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Cue an entrance from a fan of Steven Wilson

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Originally Posted by grindy (Post 2114963)

La Théorie Des Cordes - Singes Electriques
Instrumental jazzy Prog or proggy Fusion or whatever.
Great stuff.
https://open.spotify.com/album/7FvL4aJdNFs9zybPjFrNi3

This rec from grindy is so good, imo, that it is worth repeating.
Here’s a wonderful track, Sasha Grey, from the Singes Electriques album grindy mentioned:

I love the way the piano is our sparkling guide through this long track, during which the rest of the band are throwing everything they can into the mix, sometimes to woo, sometimes to outdo the pianist – but always with absolutely spot-on musicianship.

Searching tips:
La Theorie Des Chordes didn’t easily turn up in my internet searches, partly because they are not well-known yet afaik. You have to be careful about spelling :shycouch: and, because their name is French for “String Theory”, your searches will be clogged up with links to quantum physics, music theory, etc.
Here’s a link to one of the more informative pages I found, on good old Amazon, about an earlier album called Premieres Vibrations:-

https://www.amazon.com.mx/Premieres-.../dp/B004NQ92AQ

This **** is f*cking choice.

^^ ^ ^^^^^^^

Yes, excellent album! Don't let their modern live albums (and the recent studio ones)
slip by you either (except the live in '72 thing which has awful sound).

You might want to check out some Banco del Mutuo Soccorso from the same time.
They put out a lot of albums, but the early 70s ones are the most special.

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Originally Posted by rostasi (Post 2200466)

Absolutely. Prog is an outlier of what I'm listening to on the reg but I need to find more albums like the one I just posted so I'll start there.

I'm taking in the last show of This is Not This Heat tonight. The upload on YT has excellent sound...you know, for Youtube.

Oh, good! Frown and I saw them a week before that show.
The whole thing split up in parts is up on YT too.

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Originally Posted by rostasi (Post 2200473)

Oh, good! Frown and I saw them a week before that show.
The whole thing split up in parts is up on YT too.

That's good because 24 Track Loop has been on repeat for an hour haha.

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Originally Posted by Exo (Post 2195659)

I'm just loving this one! Thanks for the rec, Exo. :thumb:

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Originally Posted by Exo (Post 2200474)

That's good because 24 Track Loop has been on repeat for an hour haha.

:D

Actually, I was wrong about it being a week before.
Originally, there was supposed to be only one more
show after the Knoxville one, but there was some
high demand if I remember right, so I don’t know
how many more were done in the 4 months that
followed, but I don’t think there were many.
Anyway, sad to see it be one of the last.

Ukrainian prog that Trollheart might like:

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Originally Posted by Aark (Post 1034457)

Psychedelic is not as melodic as this song you've posted.
If you hear king Crimson, then you'll understand what psychedelic is.

Very advanced in their field at the time, more so than most others.

One of my favorite albums of 2023.., from Poland.

https://tuonelamagazine.com/review-riverside-id-entity/

https://i.ibb.co/N60y7xP/DWA.jpg

Mark Fry - Dreaming with Alice (1971)

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The definitive reissue of an album equal parts pastoral folk and contemplative psychedelic; perhaps the reason the term “acid-folk” exists; one of rock’s rarest and most sought-after albums. The first time since 1971 that this album has been pressed from the original master tapes, recently discovered in Italy. Lacquered directly from tape in an all-analog transfer by Bernie Grundman.

Mark Fry was 19 - recently graduated from high school and in Italy studying painting - when he walked barefooted into RCA’s Italian subsidiary, played some songs he’d written on his guitar and was signed to record the album that would become legend. The first recordings he made proved stuff, so he was paired with members of the Scottish band Middle of the Road, who were in Rome while under contract to RCA Italiana. Convening in a basement home studio with two 4-track reel-to-reel recorders, Mark’s visions coalesced in a dreamy, airy manner - “Nick Drake meets Dr. Strangely Strange with a touch of Lewis Carroll” The Word Magazine would later write.

Pressed in small amounts for Vincenzo Micocci’s RCA sublabel It, Alice remained an out of reach masterpiece for many but its creator, who returned to England in 1971 and subsequently traveled the world, playing music, sometimes recording and painting. By the time of its rediscovery, its master tapes were assumed lost. This pristine transfer reveals nuances not heard on anything but original It pressings.