Progressive rock is a style of rock music characterized by the complexity of musical forms and creative enrichment of rock through the dialogue with other style of musical arts such as avant-garde, jazz, folk music, etc.
The progressive rock came into existence at the end of 60-s in England. It enjoyed wide popularity at the beginning of 70s in Europe, Quebec and the USA. In 1980s the progressive rock passed through a severe crisis in its ideas and popularity. It has been since developing with varied success. Nowadays there are many subgenres of progressive rock such as Canterbury, Math-rock, symphonic rock, progressive metal, zeuhl.
It is not so easy to define the belonging of a band to the style of progressive rock. For instance, the songs and music of such bands as Camel, Genesis, King Crimson, Supertramp, Yes, sounded a little bit different. However a great number of bands considered that they played namely progressive rock. It is worth mentioning that the notion “progressive rock” was used in the early 70s to emphasize the newness of bands. Later it became the name of the specific musical style by approbation of critics and worshippers.
Here are some of the bands who played progressive rock.
Camel is a British rock band that was founded in 1971. The band chose the music style of art-rock. The main peculiarity of Camel is distinguished by the melodiousness of compositions and the predominance of the instruments over parts (voice). The band made a valuable contribution to the development of progressive rock thanks to the uniqueness of its sounding, melodies and composition of songs.
Genesis is a British rock band founded in 1967. Initially the band belonged to the movement of progressive rock. Genesis earned Grammy awards, sold about 150 million of albums throughout the world and entered the top 30 of all times due to this achievement. The most famous members of this band are Peter Brian Gabriel and Philip David Charles Collins who made successful solo careers. On the 15th March 2010, Genesis was included in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Yes is a British rock band of progressive rock style. The band was founded in 1968 in London. Yes has been existing for more than 40 years and up till now the band has a huge number of fans in the whole world. The music played by the band Yes is characterized by sharp dynamical contrasts, the highest mastery of performance of all members of the band and broadened duration of compositions. Yes is considered one of the most ambitious progressive rock bands. The band often plays symphonic and some other musical structures, mixes various styles and includes various innovations in their songs. In the issue the band creates music full of brilliant ideas.
Satellite is Polish progressive rock band. The band was founded in 2000 by Wojtek Szadkowski (drummer), Sarhan Kubeisi (guitar), Robert Amirian (vocalist), Krzysiek Palczewski (keyboards). Their first album A Street Between Sunrise And Sunset appeared in March 2003. Their next album Evening Games was released in two years. The album peaked at #8 at the top 100 best selling records in Poland.
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