11/10/2014

A Brief History On Scandinavian Prog Rock

By Christa Jarvis


Progressive rock is known to actually be a very interesting and a very well loved sub genre of the core genre rock and roll. Now this sub genre actually originated from the country United Kingdom but quickly spread to other nearby countries too. It was because of this influence that the style Scandinavian prog rock was born and shot into the scene.

Now just to give an idea about this kind of genre, it is a type of music that has a very complex and an out of the ordinary beat as well as sound. Now artists who play this type of music will usually be shifting tempos and changing rhythms rather suddenly. This is to build excitement for the listeners and also to give the listeners a little bit of variation with the songs.

Of course this genre became a big hit in the region of Scandinavia which can be located somewhere in the European region. Now the main countries that would make up this region would be Norway, Denmark, and Sweden. Now some of the secondary countries in this region would also include Iceland, Holland, and of course Finland.

The country that was really one of the pioneers of this sub genre was none other than Denmark. Danish progressive became quite famous in the late sixties because of bands like Steppeulvene, Alrune Rod, Ache, Blue sun, and many more. Of course they would sing their songs in their native language which is Dutch which made their music even more authentic.

Now a very big name in the industry was the prog band known as Burnin Red Ivanhoe which was created some time in the late sixties. What made them really well known was for their smooth combination of many different genres like rock, jazz, and blues. They were also known to add a lot of sounds from organs as well as violins and trumpets.

Now the Swedish also entered this music scene with their own brand of Progressive rock which was similar to the music created by the Dutch. However, their bands only became really popular during the very early nineties. Now Sweden still did not reach the level of Denmark when it comes to this type of music but the Swedish bands have proven to be just as good as the Dutch bands in the field.

Now another country that had become popular in this line of music would of course be the country of Holland. Their innovative bands would often copy the tunes from old folk songs and tried to fuse the it with rock elements. It is for this reason that most of the bands would produce melodic songs that would still have fast changes in tempo and rhythm.

So as one can see, the progressive scene in Scandinavia actually started from the sixties but is still going strong today. Now even though the United Kingdom was the pioneer of this type of genre, the Scandinavians took that genre and made it into something better. It is because of this that the Scandinavian progressive scene became extremely popular among music fans and is still growing rapidly.




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