Well played music indeed. I like this music a lot, quirky...love that! Great keyboard stuff, the drummer is very driven which is positive (i am thinkin' of Phil C). I could possibly buy this stuff one day. Agree on the vocal part. If it was'nt for the weak vocals this band would go very far I think. Are'nt we to hard on the modern prog singers?

I could open a new thread, but I guess this one is oké too, since this is about a new Swedish band I heard some music from. It is called Moon Safari, and they play a bit like England and Druid, which means: old fashion progrock!

Cheers to Moon Safari for bringing this old "fresh" symphonic rock to modern times. Vocals are so so but the music is veery good. Like the Moog sounds too. Moon Safari is now on my buying list. Agree that they sound like England very much. I wish that I had a Druid cd because I have been reading about their music on the web.

Wow, I liked both! Thanks steamingears! But I must say that Moon Safari reminded me of The Flower Kings quite a bit (again)! ;D

Just heard the new album of Brother Ape's new album, called III. The band is becoming more symphonic with every new album, but sometimes they throw in some catchy jazz-rock lines.

^ First reflection I've read of the new Brother Ape lll album, thanks steamingears. I know the guys can really jazz-rock and play great symphonic stuff. I've heard an old cassette where they play old Black Sabbath "Ozzy era" stuff completely perfect just to give an example of their variety within music.

Download free track from the new CD titled Cosmic Overdose:
www.progressrec.com/audio/BROTHER_APE_Cosmic_overdose.mp3

Here's a cool vid of an older song titled I freak out from the CD On The Other Side.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxhWsig2st4

By the way, I think Stefan Damicolas the guitarplayer is one of the greater within prog these days.

The last Brother Ape, Turbulence is even more in the progressive rock-vein, hardly leaving any space for jazz-rock inventions. Unfortunatelly the drum-and-bass rythms (yes, indeed) couldn't move me a lot: www.brotherape.com/

Another great album from Sweden: Lalle Larsson's Weaveworld.

Lalle is one of the best current keyboard-players i.m.o. who's contributed to a lot of fine albums and released an impressive dvd this year (Seven Deadly Pieces). Now he finally made an album under his own name, full of introvert, aggressive, beautiful, bombastic, virtuoso, classical influenced progressive jazz-rock.
He's also playing on 3rd World Electric's Kilimanjaro Secret Brew, the jazz-rock band from Jonas Reingold and Roine Stolt, featuring among others Dave Weckl!

Thanks, I will check them out as soon as I got time

Someone wrote Gösta Berlings Saga sound a bit like HTM (and King Crimson, National Health etc.), but eh.... I don't hear it. (Interesting stuff though.)

The song "354" sounds like Anekdoten too I think. Kind of repeating, but quite ok.

A new Swedish band I noticed at Progressive Ears is Barrett Elmore. The first song is a bit in the Bo Hansson-sphere, then it becomes psychedelic and folky. Nice sound.

I heard Barett Elmore a while ago, but it didn't grab my attention at the time. Positive thing is all the new prog bands that keep on growing/spreading in the world.

A band that really grabbed my attention is Somewhere ( www.somewhere.nu ), Still wait for their debut CD. The song Bridges is really cool.

Ps. The title of this thread could be "Modified" to something like "Swedish prog" or something, wink wink to steaming ears

I believe this is the band that makes those nice christmas-prog-songs

Ps. I didn't know I could change the title, but I was thinking the same thing.

Yes, the christmas song that you shared to us in 2010 i believe.

Im glad my wink/hint did let you know it was possible to change the titles. The thread starter can do that.

Well, maybe not real progressive, but recently I discovered a Swedish guitarist I really like a lot. His name is Peder Af Ugglas and I've two SACD's from him: "Autumn Shuffle" (2004) and "Beyond" (2007). His music is a mix of the guitar-playing of Snowy White, Eric Clapton, Mick Taylor and some Mark Knopfler. Relaxed, somewhat blues-like, but with an original twist and a GREAT sound. All instrumental.

Ok, didn't know there was one more Af Ugglas in music biz, because there are more in that family, mostly in the pop music direction.

Someone said that the music is also very much in the vein of Ry Cooder (Paris-Texas).

Just heard the news one of the most important musicians in Swedish progressive music, Björn J:son Lindh died yesterday. Loved his work with Janne Schaffer and Isildurs Bane. Rest in peace Björn.

Oh, I didn't know till now. He was a very good flute player imo. Rest in peace.

In my collection I've got a couple of albums from the Swedish guitarist Janne Schaffer, who played with the likes of ABBA and Isildurs Bane. There's a fine box-set available, called "Music Story", which contains 12 almost complete albums and 3 DVD's. Great guitarist with a quite broad interest in music (blues-rock, progressive rock, folk, jazz-rock, fusion, pop).

New album from Hidden Lands, "Halcyon", was just released on Progres Records Sweden: nl-nl.facebook.com/HiddenLands/