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An Introduction to Prog Rock

Lecture 3 – From Classics to Contemporary

IAP 2018

• Prof. J. Paradiso – MIT Media Lab

Session 1: Intro - Things your dad should have told you about Prog Session 2; Canterbury Session 3: Rock in Opposition Session 4: Zeuhl Session 5: Space Rock and Neopsychedelia Session 6: French & Quebecois Prog Session 7: Rock Progressivo Italiano Session 8: Germany, Berlin, and Krautrock (perhaps some Scandinavia too) Session 9: Japanese Prog …and a few fascinating detours!

Before ELP, Keith Emerson did his thing in the Nice

1967 1968 1969 1970 1970 Flower King Of Flies (1967) Symphony For Group and Orchestra

Emerson, Lake, and Palmer (ELP)

1970 1971 1972 1973

Before ELP, Keith Emerson was in The Nice, Carl Palmer was in Atomic Rooster and with Arthur Brown, and Greg Lake was in King Crimson

Tarkus

The Endless Enigma, Pt. 2 Toccata (An Adaptation of Ginastera's 1st Piano Concerto, 4th Movement)

Knives in Hammond for Sustain

Other Keyboard Excesses from Keith

Quatermass (1970)

Laughin’ Tackle

T2 – It’ll All Work Out in Boomland (1970)

In Circles

Nektar

British band who decamped to Germany in its early days

1971 1972 1973 1973 1974 1975 Desolation Valley (1972) A Tab in the Ocean (1972) Unendless Imagination (1975) Nelly The Elephant (1974)

Gentle Giant

From ProgArchives

Way of Life (1973) Playing The Game (1975) Free Hand (1975) So Sincere (1975)

Gentle Giant Followers (there are many!)

Terreno Baldio (Brazil) - 1976 Et Cetera (Montreal) - 1976 Et la Musique Tourne A Volta

Happy The Man (Washington D.C.)

Featuring Kit Watkins, Stanley Whitaker, Frank Wyatt…

1977 1988 Knee-Bitten Nymphs in Limbo Service With a Smile More records Released posthumously

Todd Rundgren (USA)

A Wizard, A True Star 1973 Todd 1974 Utopia 1974 Initiation 1975 Ra1977

The Ikon (1974) A Treatise on Cosmic Fire (1975) Todd went through a definite prog phase, and IMHO remains interesting!

Large Prog Set from 1977 – Todd Rundgren’s Utopia (1978 – UK Tour)

Featuring Roger Powell on the Probe Keyboard

Renaissance

They actually have a legacy from The Yardbirds (original drummer and guitarist)! 1972 1973 1974 1975 1977

Annie Halsam, Michael Dunford, John Tout….

A Trip to the Fair (1975) Can You Hear Me? (1977)

The Black Flame (1973)

Fuchsia (1971)

Gone With The Mouse Prog Folk – Perhaps also Jethro Tull, Fairport Convention, Ithaca…. (all UK)

Me and My Kites (Sweden)

Like a Dream Back Then - 2013

Members of Lisa O Piu, Life on Earth (Dungen-related), etc.

Me and My Kites (2013 Swedish Band infl. By Fuchsia)

Comus – First Utterance (1971)

Song From Comus

Harmonium (Quebec)

Serge Fiori, Michel Normandeau, et al.

Harmonium - 1974 Si On Avait Besoin D'Une Cinquième Saison - 1974 L'Heptade - 1976 Aujourd'hui, Je Dis Bonjour À La Vie Pour Un Instant

Depuis L'automne

See also: Conventum, Beau Dommage, Maneige, Sloche, Contraction….

Officially sanctioned Harmonium Cover Band…

Premier Ciel Show (Montreal, 2013)

Änglagård (Sweden)

Hybris (1992) Epilog (1994) Viljans Öga (2012)

Very elaborate and dynamic symphonic prog

Ur Vilande (excpt)

Dungen

Gustav Ejstes Reine Fiske (Landberk, Paatos) Mattias Gustavsson (L.O.E.) Johan Holmegard

Familj (2007) Vara Snabb (2010) Solen stiger upp, pt. 2 (2002) Ta Det Lugnt (2004) Samtidigt 1 (2008) Jakten Genom Skogen (2016)

Motorpsycho (Norway)

Since 1991 – evolving from grunge/indie to jazzy psych/prog (00-02) to psych/prog/metal (≥2006)

‘Power trio’ – worked recently with Reine Fiske, Ståle Storløkken, Øyvind Brandtsegg, etc.

Leave It Like That (Timothy’s Monster – 1994) Überwagner Or A Billion Bubbles In My Mind (2002) Starhammer (2010) The Hollow Lands (2012) Bartok of the Universe (2017) Spor 03 (Here Be Monsters, Vol. 2 – 2016)

Elephant9 (Norway)

Ståle Storløkken, sometimes Reine Fiske, et al. Dodovoodoo (2008) Atlantis (2012) Live At The BBC (2012) Silver Mountain (2015) Walk The Nile (2010)

Occidental (2015)

See Also Hansson & Karlsson, Steamboat Switzerland…

The Spacious Mind (Sweden)

Greazy Green And Stoney Lonesomes Vol.1 2014

Sunchild (1993) The Prophet Am I (1999) Rotvälta (2005)

See also ’The Holy River Family Band’

Newer (not Neo) Prog– The Flower Kings (Sweden)

In the Eyes of the World (‘97)

Stardust We Are - 1997 Space Revolver - 2000 Unfold The Future - 2002 Adam and Eve - 2004

The Truth Will Set You Free (‘02)

Ronie Stolt (from Kaipa), Tomas Bodin, Hasse Bruniusson (Samlas)…

Echolyn (USA)

As The World (1995)

As The World (1995) Suffocating the Bloom (1992)

15 Days (2012)

When the Sweet Turns to Sour (1996) Mei (2002)

Nemo (France) & JellyFiche (Montreal)

Prélude à la ruine - 2004

Les temps modernes

Symbiose - 2011

Le Vide

Sanguine Hum (UK)

No More that We Deserve (2011) Leave Us a Message (Antique Seeking Nuns) - 2006 2006 2010 2013 2015 2016 Joff Winks and friends….

Enter Steven Wilson (First cassette release 1989…)

Savior of British Prog…

Porcupine Tree, No Man, IEM, Blackfield, Storm Corrosion, Bass Communion….

Steven Wilson (UK) – Porcupine Tree

Up the Downstair (1993) The Sky Moves Sideways (1995) Signify (1996) In Absentia (2002) Stupid Dream (1999)

Small Fish (1993) Stars Die (1994) Signify (1996) Even Less (1999) Blackest Eyes (2002)

On The Sunday of Life (1991) also great…

Some SW Side Projects….

IEM Have Come for Your Children (2001)

Blackfield II (2007)

1,000 People Arcadia Son (excpt)

Steven Wilson (UK) – Post PT Solo Career

Insurgentes (2008) Grace For Drowning (2011) The Raven That Refused to Sing (2013) Hand Cannot Erase (2015) To The Bone (2017)

Raider II (2011) Luminol (2013)

Steven Wilson (UK) – Bass Communion

From ‘Ghosts on Magnetic Tape’ - 2004