Omnipotent Youth Society (Link to YouTube for Streaming). Recommended to me as Chinese progressive rock, leaning towards progressive folk at times. Two albums, 2010 and 2020.
@Plong42 Wow! What outstanding music! I had never heard of them before but they have gone straight to the top of my listening list!
Thanks @Lowlife for the reminder of The Bevis Frond. I really enjoy their music, particularly the 1991 album "New River Head".
A great record which somehow has never made it into my collection. Fun fact New River runs for 20 miles through suburban North London. New River Head where it used to flow into a "cistern" is now Saddlers Wells Theatre in Islington home of ballet, and my one and only live ballet experience.
^^^ I should also point out that the new Audion magazine #87 released today features not only The Bevis Frond and Steve Wilson. ^^^ (And no, I'm not on a retainer from the Freeman Brothers!) Search Audion artist on Bandcamp.
A great record which somehow has never made it into my collection. Fun fact New River runs for 20 miles through suburban North London. New River Head where it used to flow into a "cistern" is now Saddlers Wells Theatre in Islington home of ballet, and my one and only live ballet experience.
@peterfrederics- Yes, I was quite pleased with both albums. Sadly, that is all I have seen from them.
I seem to remember there being translations of their lyrics somewhere in the YouTube comments, and the lyrics being quite interesting. (A Chinese student put me on to them a while back).
I've been listening to a couple of albums by this group which coincidentally include a bass player and keyboard player from ØRESUND SPACE COLLECTIVE. This though is jazz-rock with an Italian Prog twist. Again thanks to the Freeman Brothers.
Swervedriver are coming to Melbourne in September with their focus being on their "classic debut RAISE in its entirety, plus an extended set of SWERVEDRIVER classics". In 1991, Melody Maker called "Raise" one of the “truly great albums of the year.”
Swervedriver have always been one of my favourite heavy Shoegaze bands, after My Bloody Valentine, so I thought that I would revisit their albums "Raise" and "Mezcal Head".
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There is an interesting write-up about them in Wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnipotent_Youth_Society
Where I live we are 100 yards from it, have walked the whole length of it. My wife and I regularly use it for some quiet and peace
https://hissgoldenmessenger.bandcamp.com/album/im-people
He played on Cécile McLorin Salvant's Grammy Award winning record "Dreams and Daggers".
One of the best tracks is "Moonlight in Vermont".
Swervedriver have always been one of my favourite heavy Shoegaze bands, after My Bloody Valentine, so I thought that I would revisit their albums "Raise" and "Mezcal Head".
Now it is the 2014 Synaesthesia s/t album - modern Progressive Rock. The band changed its name in 2015 to Kyros.
My library started offering freegal, this is my 1st album from them