PROG BANDS OF ANCIENT EUROPE (xpt UK)

I Like American & probably even more British Progressive Music(they are the heart of the imaginary progressive land)

But let s talk about the arms... the brain (german prog bands)... & the other parts...

I mean here We talk of what often we forget... LET S TALK ABOUT EUROPEAN PROG BAND (i dont count the brits)...

Italy & France have some good bands... but Germany has so much to offer ...
so here is the place to talk about different bands...from different place...

I start with the French Band ANGE ...

Is There somebody who knows them?... they are a new revelation to me(antoher one)... they recorded too many albums but the ideal place To start somewhere it s their Mid 70s records who are essential...

They talk in French... & their prime force is their imaginary lyrics... But they ve got enough interesting Musical elements to attract Foreign Prog Fans...

Jump to the other side...

 

No, we never forget them. It's impossible to forget Faust or Shub Niggurath.

 

about french band you can try : magma ( christian vander band ), gong , but also heldon ( lot of albums but best are mid 70' and lives released
also the magical psychedelic poetry of dashiell hedayiat with his " obsolete" album ( backing band by gong )
about scandinavian bands : flasket brinner ( sweden) , burning red ivanohé (danmark) , made in sweeden ( !!?) , trettioariga kriget ( sweden ), asoka ( sweden ! )
alos the belgian of cargo (best dual guitar ever !), jengiz khan , lagger blues machin ( tanit live !)
there's fucking good psychedelic /prog music every where !
some more for the roads : taj mahal travellers ( japan ) , out of focus ( germany ),shinki chen & friends ( japan) , speed glue and shinki ( japan ),2066&then ( swidzerland )......................................................................;

 

Can Scorpions be described as Prog Rock?

Probably not ancient enough anyway, but they influenced so many British and Amercian bands within a decade...

 

Can Focus be accounted for as a prog rock band?
I feel like it could be seen as one.

BTW, they are from the netherlands

 

Sure it is prog, in all its purity)

 

- Scorpions can be considered as ancient... their 1st album is from 1972... the year of the 1st Ange lp... Scorpions dont seems so old to american ' cause they break the US market only 10 years later...
But definitvely their 2 mid 70s album are giant ones & my faves

- and well they cannot be considered as a prog band even if in the 2 first album they include rarely prog instruments & flyin guitars... it s not enough... but they dont need to be prog to make 70s good music...

 

okay I am about to unleash some gems, all from the 70s, most from the early 70s, unless I note otherwise.
keep in mind that I refer to many of prog rocks sub genres like space (what I would consider floyd to be) or symphonic (yes/genesis).

Phoniex - prog from Romania
Progresiv TM - hard prog from Romania (you know like organ drenched deep purple but more prog oriented)
Gunesh Ensemble - fusion from Turkmenistan
zartong - symphonic prog rock from armenia (1977)
Locomotiv GT - hard edged prog from Hungry
Omega - spacey prog from Hungry
Kyrie Eleison - art rock from austria
Vita Nova - space prog from austria
The Ganelin Trio - fusion from russia (1977)
Fermata - fusion from Slovakia
Aksak Maboul - experimental prog from belgium
Arkham - experimental prog from belgium
Cos - fusion from belgium
Lagger blues Machine - zheul from belgium
pazop - fusion from belgium
Univers Zero - experimental from belgium
Banzai - more art rock from belgium
Hinn Islenski Thursaflokkur - prog folk from iceland
Icecross - harder edged prog from iceland
Trubort - prog from iceland
Sume - prog from Greenland
Clearlight - space/symphonic from france
axis - hard edged prog from france
Collegium Musicum - czech symphonic prog
Modry Efekt - fusion from czech rep
Culpeper's Orchard - late 60s psych from denmark
Ache - spacey pysch from denmark
secret oyster - fusion from denmark
Old Man And The Sea - art rock from denmark
Kaseke - fusion from estonia
Sven Grunberg - symphonic prog from estonia (late 70s)
ruja - prog from estonia (1980)
jupu group - fusion from finland
Finnforest - more fusion from finland
Haikara - still more early 70s fusion from finland
Kalevala - folk with heavy prog influences from finland
The classic Pekka Pohjola from finland, a fusion master
Tabula rasa - symphonic prog from finland
Wigwam - even more fusion from finland
Tasavallan Presidentti - yet again, finnish fusion
Archaia - late 70s zheul from france
Art Zoyd - experimental prog from france
Carpe Diem - fablous mid 70s space prog from france
Heldon - experimental prog from france
Jean Michel Jarre - famous prog from france
Lard Free - experimental prog from france
Malicorne - folk with heavy prog influences from france
Jean-Luc Ponty - french fusion
rahmann - more french fusion
Pulsar - a semi famous french symphonic prog band
The Moving Gelatine Plates - very similar to english canterbury scene but french
Triode - french band with a flute player who studied under Ian anderson
Richard Pinhas - similar to Jarre and also french
Agitation Free - german prog
amon duul - german space
Ash Ra Tempel - german space
Birth Control - german prog
Can - german experimental

okay I have lots of german, don't want to be here till 3..so moving on...

Aphrodites Child - folk with heavy prog influences from Greece (basically prog folk in other words)
Vangelis - can be argued that his early stuff is symphonic prog, from Greece.
Fruupp - genesis esque prog from Ireland
Horslips - prog folk from Ireland
Mellow Candle - more proggy folk from Ireland
Mushroom - still more PF from Ireland

LOTS OF STUFF from Italy, if interested ask. same with germany

Alquin - fusion from netherlands
cargo - art rock from netherlands
Ekseption
finch
focus - all three are symphonic prog from netherlands
bonfire
Pantheon
Scope
Supersister
Solution - last five listed are fusion from netherlands
Trace - symphonic prog from netherlands
Aunt Mary
Host - both art rock from norway
Folque - prog folk from norway
Breakout - prog from poland
SBB - space fusion from poland
Klan - fusion from poland
Jose Cid - prog from portugual
Tantra - symphonic prog from portugual
Guadalquivir - spanish fusion
Iceberg - symphonic prog from spain
Itoiz - prog from spain with a hint of folk
Los Canarios - symphonic prog from spain, draws on classical music and updates it
Älgarnas Trädgård - spacey experimental prog from Sweeden
Dice
Kaipa
Blakulla - last three all symphonic prog from Sweden
Kebnekaise - interesting prog from Sweden with hint of folk and ethnic
mecki mark man - fusion with hendrix sound a like
Lotus - more fusion from sweden
Samla Mammas Manna - experimental from sweden
Circus
Island - last two are symphonic prog from switzerland
Krokodil
Mainhorse - last two are art rock from switzerland
Erkin Koray - prog from Turkey
Mogollar - symphonic prog from Turkey
Drago Mlinarec - prog from yugoslavia with touches of folk
Korni Grupa
leb i sol
smak
september - last four are fusion from yugoslavia
Time - art rock from yugoslavia
Vagif Mustafa Zadeh - fusion from Azerbaijan


and if you want s. america..and some from asia and middle east as well..few from australia and even africa (try Osibisa) we can start another thread

 

foucs is most certiantly prog!

 

Hey your list is tooooooooooooo long ...it interess me...but imagine somebody curious who start just to know & discover the movement...the poor he will be like a man in an ocean of prog bands...where to start where to catch!!!... arrrggggghhh!!!

Hey Agitation Free & Ash Ra Tempel seems 2 fly over the rest of the supertrouper parade...

but where is Eloy & Popol Vuh ?

Popol Vuh is one of the most interesting band that i ever heard...God of the elements i will always remember the day i discover them...


signed X
year 2112
bottle from the abyss of the PFF Bunker

 

yah i did not want to overwhelm even more with German bands. Both bands you mentioned are fabulous. i thought this was a thread for the already anitiated looking for prog in the non prog power countries, not so much the newbies. my bad.