In alphabetical order, with no umlauts, etc :
Anekdoten
Anglagard
Landberk
Paatos
Sinkadus
White Willow
Wobbler
Any I'm leaving out?
In alphabetical order, with no umlauts, etc :
Anekdoten
Anglagard
Landberk
Paatos
Sinkadus
White Willow
Wobbler
Any I'm leaving out?
The Spacious Mind
If you like it spacey, that is.
love the Spacious Mind...!Originally Posted by JKL2000
Anyone got their new album ? I'm not totally impressed on this clip.
Still...
Kvazar is really good and - what is most important - proggier than Nordgasp. The prog component is about 58, 34%, which makes it eligible for the sub genre (no hyphen!) Seppton Scandy Prog.
I like all the bands you listed, but not as much as this Norwegian album from 2010:
Morph - a bit of a Riverside thing going on.
Infra - dark, melancholy KC inspired prog. Questionable vocals.
Simon Steensland - Avant-prog
Valinor's Tree - A bit hit or miss on their 2 90's releases. Pretty dark and melancholy musically and lyrically.
Puckspony - haven't heard this yet. Paatos' drummer solo CD.
Makajodama - I heard some samples a couple of months ago. A bit of Anekdoten influence. On my list to listen to more samples.
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Finland
Manogurgeil
Progression
Kumina.org
Sweden
Morte Macabre
Gösta Berlings Saga
Klotet
Nevarllajf
Norway
Metrognom
Panzerpappa
It's The End
Grand General
Bill
Morte Macabre reminded me of another good Swedish band, Anima Morte.
Anima Morte's third album is almost finished
HuGo"Very, very nice," said a man in the crowd,
When the golden voice appeared.
She was gold alright, but then so is rust.
"Such a shame about the beard."
I also like some of the more (retro, psych) pop stuff, like Dungen and The Amazing. E.g.:
Would Thieves' Kitchen qualify?
On the last two albums, Thomas Johnson is a writing partner, so there is definitely an aspect of it in the music.
Ampera - A Vulcanized Mingle, a Norweigian 2007 somewhat obscure album, and their only release I believe. Anekdoten, Anglagard, Nordagust vibe throughout, with a female vocalist (singing in English), loads of beautiful mellotron, and a modern prog guitar sound. IMO excellent, but what happened to them?
Also look out for Mattias Oleson's new band Kacausus, really leading edge prog, spacey, psychedelic, avante-garde, mellotronic, etc. Rhys Marsh on vocals. Good stuff!
Day dawns dark...it now numbers infinity.
My Brother the Wind
Liquid Scarlet
Book of Hours
HuGo"Very, very nice," said a man in the crowd,
When the golden voice appeared.
She was gold alright, but then so is rust.
"Such a shame about the beard."
certainly haven't heard them all (actually most I haven't heard), but some seem quite a stretch (Klotet, namely)
Those I agree are in bold
I'd kind of add Elephant9 as well to the list
Too neo-proggish sounding to my ears to fit the OP demand (same with White Willow)Would Thieves' Kitchen qualify?
not Retro-prog (or "Sepia Toned") enough, IMHO
my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.
By this I assume you mean "not Retro-prog (or "Sepia Toned") enough." Is Klotet really that much less "Sepia Toned" than Anekdoten? Their sound is pretty close to GBS. Whatever.
And if you haven't heard the others, you should. Fantastic stuff that imo frequently exceeds the quality of many of the bigger name Scandinavian bands. Some, like It's The End, are certainly not "Sepia Toned," but then neither is Anekdoten, imo. Metrognom is a super album by a guy who used to be a member here. I'd have thought that would be a big seller (well, relatively speaking of course), but it seemed to drop into obscurity pretty quickly. Similarly Nevarllajf, who made a splash a few years back but then quickly disappeared. Worth exploring, which is why I mentioned them.
Bill
Needlepoint - Outside the screen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWwBlI33JLU
Elephant9
Jaga Jazzist
Panzerpappa
Alamaailman Vasarat
Hoyry Kone
Gosta Berlings Saga
Necromonkey
Diablo Swing Orchestra
Anekdoken
Ian
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Gordon Haskell - "You've got to keep the groove in your head and play a load of bollocks instead"
I blame Wynton, what was the question?
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I'm one of the 212.
Turid
She's sometimes described as the Swedish Joni Mitchell, but IMO she comes close to prog - or at least sepia-toned Swedish jazzy-folk. Landberk once served as her backing band for a performance, and it was Stefan Dimle from Landberk who hipped me to her.
I have a compilation of her work that's quite good.
Kenny Håkansson plays guitar on the first clip here. He's from the 70s bands Fläsket Brinner and Kebnekajse, and I THINK he's related to Stefan.
If the sepia is coming from nordic folk tone
Bo Hansson / Hansson & Karlson too.
But Elephant9 must be in the other end of this sepia-spectrum.
Not technically prog and not technically Scandinavian (but definitely Nordic), those of you digging the darkness of the northern wood should check out Sibelius Symphony No. 4 and Kalevi Aho Symphony No. 12. Can't find the Aho on YT, but here is a fantastic performance of Sib 4. If the intro of this symphony doesn't take you to Finland in the dead of winter under the spell of the northern lights (and possibly being hunted by a pack of wild Gerbils), then I don't know what to say....
Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuudes, we're talking of 90's bands here. (Kvartetten is outstanding though - is the rest of the album of the same ilk??... though that piece is not very folk)
in a folkier range, I'd try The Smell Of Incense
https://rateyourmusic.com/release/al...eeper_slumber/
mmmhhh!!!... Klotet sounds very 90's RIO to my ears... in 20 years' time, maybe the booklet will have taken "sepia tones"
I'll look in some of the other names, thanks bill.
Last edited by Trane; 08-14-2014 at 10:31 AM.
my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.
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