While I tend to like a lot of "Progressive" music I tend to enjoy "progressive" music just as much. Don't pay a lot of attention to labels, I just enjoy the music. That's not intended to kill off any discussion about it either.
Going to see Airbag as one of the headliners at Terra Incognita Festival in Quebec next May. Can't wait. I'm pretty new to the band, but I like what I'm hearing so far. Bjorn Riis is doing his own set as well, if I remember correctly.
As a lifelong symph mainstream prog fan, I've been getting a bit more into the weirder stuff lately. I'm really enjoying Heldon, although they aren't really all that weird. Sort of like "Red" era King Crimson meets mid 70s Tangerine Dream:
I just bought 3 albums by Ekseption: Beggar Julia's Time Trip Ekseption 3 Ekseption 00.04 (w/ the Royal Philharmonic)
Been listening to this album more than usual lately. By far my favorite of the post-Duke albums. Side 2 is underrated in my opinion.
Massive Prog head having been lucky enough to start buying records with Glam , catch the first wave Prog glory years and still be young enough to have my head turned by first The Damned & The Clash and then The Pop Group, Television, Magazine et al. I am very much in agreement with Simon Reynolds' idea that Post Punk was often Prog by other means. These days a good 80% of my listening is Prog, Jazz or Classical. Currently really enjoying the recent Yes / Chis Squire tribute records from Billy Sherwood and Dave Kerzner and this fantastic addendum to the trilogy that started with five years ago with "Abandoned Dancehall Dreams" ....
Here's another one that I've dug up again recently. Wondering about getting their second album... Perhaps I should. Love the way the keyboards are center stage and the vocals slightly reminds me of The Move.
I'm a big fan of the Prog genre as well, but I'm not a Proghead by any stretch. There are too many other music genres and I love the variety of music it lets me enjoy. My favourite Prog band and album is Harmonium - l'heptade. They are a french-language Quebec based Symphonic Prog outfit with a heavy Folk influence. They were short-lived with only a 3 studio album catalogue in a 5 year span.
Bjorn also runs the rather excellent gilmourish.com David Gilmour web site. http://www.gilmourish.com/
Fantastic idea for a discussion thread - thanks very much. Love most of the bands referenced so far. Had a progish night yesterday, Renaissance "Ashes are Burning" followed by PFM "Per Un Amico". The PFM was less "dated" but both enjoyable.
I looooooove Planet X. Got most of Derek Sherinian's solo discs as well. Virgil Donati is a freaking monster on drums!
