By prog you mean progressive rock ? Like Porcupine Tree? Opeth? Dream Theater ? If so, Riverside is the answer, they are not the only one but probably the most known polish progressive rock band.
Prog rock is my favourite type of music too. Pink Floyd, Radiohead and so many others shine from Britain but I can imagine Poland producing some real hidden gems. Many Poles are creative and tend to thrive in jazz. I'm not a fan of jazz but when you fuse it with other instruments and styles, you can come up with sth good. Think Dark Side of the Moon, Us and Them, for example. RIP Rick Wright and let's hope Poland produces some cracking bands.
I'm not a fan of jazz but when you fuse it with other instruments and styles, you can come up with sth good.
I'm not a big fan of progressive rock, but I can listen to Pink Floyd for a while, but the likes of Yes, Y&T and a couple of others usually don't last longer than 5 minutes. As for Pink Floyd, I especially like the very early days, when Syd Barrett was still a member before he went nuts. But I have the same with Fleetwood Mac, who was at its best when Peter Greenbaum was still a member. As for Jazzrock or -funk, I cannot listen to that at all. Not because it's bad stuff, but just out of the sheer "coldness" of the music. I've seen a few Jazz- or Funk-rock bands live and these guys were standing there with an attitude of "oh wow, look at us how good we are and how difficult it is what we are doing - hey look, here's a D#6m9 chord, never heard that one before, didn't ya?" and then -for me- the fun is basically over. In that case I'd rather went to see the Cramps, only the basic 12-bar songs, but with loads more fun, which reflects on the audience. I never went to a live progressive rockband, although I once had tickets for a Pink Floyd-show in Rotterdam, but I couldn't go because I was sick in bed with high fever. That was really too bad as I wanted to see them dearly.
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M-G (and the tickets had cost me over 100 Guilders (45 Euros) each, which was very expensive at the time)
I took the cheaper option and watched The Australian Pink Floyd cover their music. When you were as high as I was at that concert, sth as close as their copies did just fine. It was a very rare thing for me to get high but it was great when the right moment came along :)
Oh, let's stay on track. I checked out Riverside and they had quite a mellow vibe to them. Quite nice! Still, the Floyd will not be toppled :)
Prog can be very smug alright. Personally I just like the angular wierdness aspect. I hate most jazz so if it's jazzy prog I generally won't listen, although one big exception here is KingCrimson who stray into the jazz arena occasionally but I love them.
Re cold music - I know what you mean MareGaea but there is a different coldness to the prog I like - mathematical, unsettling, dissonant etc. The coldness of wanky jazz funk is just instantly forgettable for me - elevator musak.
i haven't a clue what prog rock is. unless it's another way of saying 70's style music, which is what you guys seem to be referring to when u mention early pink floyd, fleetwood mac etc.
How early is "early"? A lot of their really early stuff was Led Zeppelin-style hard rock, definitely not prog.
I'm sure it's really unfashionable to say this, but I could listen to the sound of a Hammond organ all day long. Come to think of it, admitting to liking Prog rock is probably even more unfashionable.
Oh well. There goes MY cool and stylish man-about-town image... lmao... :D
It's a loose term in fairness. Pink Floyd were arguably the best known - but they would definitely be on the commercial side, great though they were. Floyd, ELP, Yes, Genesis were the big guns. The likes of King Crimson, Van der Graaf Generator, Camel were more cultish.
If the songs are long, have lofty concepts, flirt with strange instrumentation, feature virtuoso musicianship, have wierd time signatures, aren't that hummable and don't have many female fans - it's probably prog.
These days it just mean any wierd experimental rock that isn't metal I suppose.
I can only think of the Silesian Blues Band and Collage straight up - Not popular any more really, mores's the pity.
Poland needs a Steve Hillage.
Concert venues have been killed off for the likes of me in Poland becasue you cant drink - the Spodek for example in Katowice, runs Poland's biggest "blues" festival - but no beer is permitted.
It's a joke.
And yes mods - that is ON TOPIC - even for you people in the USA who dont value the importance of beer (not having anything drinkable) Lol
PS Fleetwood Mac were not prog rock - they were bluesmen.
Here are some of the Polish Prog bands I know. This list should get you started for some good prog - some neo-prog, some pink floyd-ish...all good. Just whatever music interests you but it is a good list to start with.
I suggest you to listen to Czeslaw Niemen, especially his 1969 album "Enigmatic".
Sorry for being a bit late in answering to a 2 years old thread by I only heard this album today. Being Italian, I used to know him just for a good Italian beat song ("Io Senza Lei") from the same year.
Above: list of polish bands with progressive style... Worth to listen music certainly from Poland every listed band has good or outstanding records... Look for it & listen! (even buy record)
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