MOTM

For harder edged progressive rock with keyboard emphasis, look for SFF
and Shylock, very "keyboardy" though, in your terms.  Latter 1980's to
1990's Art Zoyd and Univers Zero are some other faves.  Also, Charles
Carpenter released two lps of keyboard microtonal prog rock that remind
me somewhat of King Crimson.
John Loffink
jloffink@...

The Microtonal Synthesis Web Site
http://www.microtonal-synthesis.com/

The Wavemakers Modular and Integrated Synthesizer Web Site
http://www.wavemakers-synth.com/
I've been enjoying this thread as I always do when we start drifting off
towards music since I always learn something. And I always enjoy Mr. T's
and Trenkel's stuff since they always have a bunch of things which I
recognize and like, and a bunch of stuff which I haven't heard before.

I was just listening to a CD by Gong today and I started thinking how
few bands have done a harder edge rock with electronics (and I'm not
thinking of Uriah Heep). I guess I'm thinking less prog and more hard
rock, and more noisy than "keyboardy" -- Crimson, Gong, Pere Ubu, Bowie
(Low through Scary Monsters), Talking Heads (Remain in Light), Ornette
Coleman's Prime Time (Of human Feelings), Zappa, Ronald Shannon
Jackson's Decoding Society -- these all kind of hit the mark at least in
some way.

Anyone have any suggestions here?

BTW, for the Eno ambient crowd let me recommend Jon Hassell --
especially his "Fourth World vol. 1 Possible Musics" with Brian Eno.
Really great music!

JB


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