Good prog-ish Albums with Fretless Bass

[zazz]

Oil on canvas...mick Karn

Hejira ....Jaco pastorius.

You will not be disappointed.

[Chief2112]

Colin Edwin of Porcupine Tree is a fantastic fretless player. Check out the "Lightbulb Sun" album. Pretty much everything he played on that album and previous albums were fretless. Now he mixes it up and plays fretless and fretted.

[BassOrdinaire]

These are all great recs, but I'd like to point out that A Sceptic's Universe was all played on a fretted bass. That being said, the bassist (Lars Norberg) does play some cool fretless on Ihsahn's angL.

[WJGreer]

Originally Posted by ethanbowen666

Attention Deficit - Attention Deficit
-The Idiot King

Amazingly, I was going to recommend this one. I can't believe you already mentioned it, since it's so obscure.

While we're talking Manring, the DeManIa album is also pretty good.

[Meshuggah604]

Cosmogenesis by Obscura anyone? Very proggy death metal

[tjnkoo]

Originally Posted by Meshuggah604

Cosmogenesis by Obscura anyone? Very proggy death metal

Indeed.

[ethanbowen666]

Originally Posted by Chief2112

Colin Edwin of Porcupine Tree is a fantastic fretless player. Check out the "Lightbulb Sun" album. Pretty much everything he played on that album and previous albums were fretless. Now he mixes it up and plays fretless and fretted.

How do you know this? Sounds pretty fretless to me...

Originally Posted by Meshuggah604

Cosmogenesis by Obscura anyone? Very proggy death metal

Thesseling from obscura is awesome.

[Lackey]

Originally Posted by ethanbowen666

How do you know this? Sounds pretty fretless to me...

Almost all of the stuff from Deadwing on is on a fretted. Maybe a few exceptions on The Incident.

[ethanbowen666]

Originally Posted by Lackey

Almost all of the stuff from Deadwing on is on a fretted. Maybe a few exceptions on The Incident.

oh crap I quoted wronger person, lol sorry. Ya I've been checkin them out a little more latly

[ethanbowen666]

Originally Posted by BassOrdinaire

These are all great recs, but I'd like to point out that A Sceptic's Universe was all played on a fretted bass. That being said, the bassist (Lars Norberg) does play some cool fretless on Ihsahn's angL.

Please elaborate, it sounds like a fretless to me. Or at least sure is EQed to sound like a fretless

[Ricnroll]

Originally Posted by winegamd

OSI-Office of Strategic Influence
Gordian Knot-Gordian Knot, Emergent
Cynic-Focus
Spiral Architect-Sceptics Universe

Or, more fusion than prog, Tribal Tech- Rocket Science

Thanks Winegamd! Getting right into OSI from your post. I ordered all their albums, some great stuff.

And Sean Malone, I had no idea! Where have I been?

[Clef_de_fa]

For a more metal approach : Beyond Creation

[Niff]

Cynic - Traced in Air

listen if you haven't already, some great bass playing

[BassOrdinaire]

Originally Posted by ethanbowen666

Please elaborate, it sounds like a fretless to me. Or at least sure is EQed to sound like a fretless

He made a blog post about it a few years ago. It's a fretted Steinberger Q4.

[MysticMichael]

Originally Posted by ethanbowen666

Anyone have some favorite albums with killer fretless they'd like to share?

Anything by Porcupine Tree. If you want a specific album, start with Signify.

MM