#avant prog

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EPIC ALBUM COVER #61

Geordie Greep - The New Sound

Released: 2024 (Rough Trade)

Jazz-rock, progressive rock, Latin rock

[jgthirlwell]

02.07.24 Ron Anderson's PAK at TV Eye, featuring Tim Dahl of Child Abuse on bass

[ampd]

[2018.10.18] Stop Motion Orchestra - Lightworks

WEB, Self-released

Art: Hide and Seek in the Devils Garden by Michael Hutter. Graphic design by Eric Kearns.

[sproux]

4Walls - Which Side Are You On (8/10)

[Avant Garde Jazz, Avant-Prog]

I listened to this 4 times the day i found it. Insane jazz album with constantly swapping time signatures and weird dissonant noises at times. The singer sounds like the "here comes the crabby patty" guy if he used significantly more meth, incoherently screeching and making weird guttural scatting noises in between stilted opera style singing.

I love it.

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Bonus album

my little pony is jesus, god is me :3 - emily is eating dinner emily is dead ^_^ (8.5/10)

[Screamo, bedroom pop, noise pop]

First of all, one of the best band names i've ever seen. Some of the most grating screamo i've ever heard, by all accounts this should be terrible but it's just, strangely compelling. I think this is a really good example of noise pop. if you liked stomach book but thought "I wish this sounded more extreme" this is the album for you!

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[theparanoid]

Unexpect - Fables Of The Sleepless Empire

(2011, full album)

[Avant-Garde Metal, Progressive Metal, Avant-Prog, Melodic Black Metal, Dark Cabaret, Symphonic Metal]

[dapperblueberrieser]

Hii, it's your Secret Santa again!! I hope your day has been going good so far. :D

I'm not too familiar with neo-prog (more a 70s prog girlie myself) so wasn't familiar with those groups. I gave a few Comedy of Errors songs a quick listen and they have an interesting sound, I can definitely hear some Rush influence in their stuff!

A bit of a more controversial question: are there any prog bands you don't like, or you just can't get into? Have a great day/night!

- ⚙️🧡

I cannot really say ngl, since I am kinda able to handle most if not anything. Maybe Art Zoyd? More mixed on them more than anything. They make some pretty good albums, but also some real stinkers.

[duchess-music]

|| Harbour Century - Eunuchs ||

Genres: Avant-Prog, Symphonic Prog, Jazz-Rock

REVIEW

This album was a wild ride.

I was definitely wowed with opening track 'Magic Death Sea Nemesis'. The first bit was loud and powerful, a great introduction to the album but the second section of the track is much slower and more theatrical than the hectic opening, which killed my excited mood. It was revived again for a short while in the middle, before moving back into another slower section. This was a lot more enjoyable than the first slow part in that it sounded less like a musical and more like a jazz piece. The progression of the track as a whole is certainly interesting, but could absolutely be improved in making it longer and padding out the periods of change in the song.

'Pat a Dragon' is an exciting second track with a great riff and fantastic progression. The weakest moments Eunuchs' songs tend to be the slower, quieter ones, and that's the same here, but other then that short blip in the track, it's really great. I said they tended to be the slower, quieter moments as it's just a trend, but they can definitely make them work - and they do! 'Estuary of Dreams' is a much more laid-back song than the last two, but that doesn't mean it's dull by any means. It's instrumentation is, dare I say, some of the best on the album. Definitely a standout track.

On the topic of standout tracks, 'Siren' is certainly another. It is instrumentally unique, and definitely the catchiest song on the whole album. The mad devolution at the end of the song is also a great moment. All in all, it's just a really enjoyable piece of music to listen to.

'Magnificent Stallion' is one of the weaker songs on this album, but it's still very good. It feels like a very average performance from the band, but luckily the band is very good which cancels it out. The same goes for 'Gnome and Fortune', though slightly better and quite a bit longer. 'Gnome and Fortune' suffers slightly from its 6 minute runtime and would've benefitted from cutting a minute out of the middle.

The accelerando movement of 'Bird Angel Dynasty' definitely kept me on my toes, but the section near the end in which it moved down to a steady, slower tempo was poorly executed and felt like it wasn't thought out compared to the rest of the song. Whilst were talking about songs that didn't sound thought out (wow my segues are awesome today), 'Hierophant' is definitely the weakest track. I love the introduction, but the quiet part with wispy vocals that didn't suit the singer was very 'meh', and the second half of the track was just hectic, and not in a good way.

While I do appreciate the time and effort it takes to compose a long song, especially anything over 15 minutes, not everything this long is actually great. Now, 'Heroin King' is good but it isn't great. Something I've praised the band for so far is the interesting progression present in their best songs. There is none of that here. The most notable variation in the song is when the vocalist starts screaming at the end and by that point it's a lost cause. It's very repetitive and quite dull, and not something I'd want to listen to again most likely.

Harbour Century is a fantastic effort from Eunuchs, but becomes a bit of a drag toward the end. The first half of the album is brilliant though, and I will definitely revisit it. I'd absolutely recommend this.

FINAL SCORE: 86/100

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[ubykh]

TDK / ТДК - Avtomontyora

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EPIC ALBUM COVER #62

black midi - Schlagenheim

Released: 2019 (Rough Trade)

Experimental rock, noise rock, math rock

Suggested by @/obsessivemusicfr3ak

[dankalbumart]

Seven by Soft Machine CBS / Columbia 1973 Jazz Fusion / Jazz-Rock / Canterbury Scene / Electric Jazz / Avant-Prog

[mywifeleftme]

158: Thierry Zaboitzeff // Prométhée

Prométhée Thierry Zaboitzeff 1984, Cryonic Inc.

I bought this record because when I went to the shop they had a Venezuelan copy of Operation: Mindcrime and for some reason I decided I really wanted it, but an acquaintance of mine who is a cool jazz musician was working the till and I didn’t want to just roll up with a fucking Queensrÿche album so I grabbed this too. This is perfectly fine charcoal-coloured electronic ambient music poured into an unrinsed bottle that once contained some prog, so there’s a bit of that flavour as well. Zaboitzeff was one of the leaders of Art Zoyd, a French Rock in Opposition/avant-prog group who toured with Magma early on and eventually became known primarily for doing retroactive scores for vintage silent films like Häxan and Nosferatu. (Art Zoyd’s Nosferatu vs. Type O Negative’s Nosferatu: The Two Genders.)

I’d hoped this spookily-jacketed musical accompaniment to a Belgian theatrical performance would have a similar aura/intensity to fellow Magma-associate Bernard Szajner’s Some Deaths Take Forever (it even uses the same OCR-A font for the sleeve credits, the tease), but this one’s much more conventional ‘80s horror OST fare. It’s not bad, but don’t pay $30 Canadian ($7.27 USD) for it if your main goal is to impress a dude who doesn’t give a rat’s ass about what you’re buying, and actually has more to say about Queensrÿche anyway. Goddammit.

158/365

[ampd]

[2000.08.04] Ruins - Pallaschtom

2005 CD, Skin Graft Records - GR 79CD

Photos and artwork by Tatsuya Yoshida.

[hldrmusicametria]

Review de Flying Shark

Um lançamento que havia passado despercebido por mim mais cedo no ano foi Flying Shark, da banda eurobrasileira The Grombbles. O grupo, que se juntou inicialmente no fim da década de 70, mas passou por um longuíssimo hiato, e cujos únicos lançamentos até então haviam sido curtos EPs, finalmente lança seu disco de estreia, quase 50 anos após sua formação inicial. Apesar de uma discografia curta, as performances ao vivo intensas mantiveram o perfil da banda bem proeminente em círculos musicais mais experimentais, especialmente por ter membros do Funhauser e Fefo Falleiros na formação, quase como a relação do Camberwell Now com This Heat. A banda fez parte de um movimento/gênero de curta duração chamado Pizza Rock, que trazia uma veia satírica ao Rock In Opposition, e apresentava ideias puxadas de música eletroacústica e dos princípios da música eletrônica, mas acabou abandonando o movimento quando este começou a tomar uma forma mais séria em 1981, especialmente considerando bandas como Like May e Postpartum, que em 1982 já haviam abandonado completamente a veia satírica para focar em estudos intensos de marxismo italiano e o pensamento de Mao Zedong.

O disco te introduz às suas experimentações musicais logo de cara. É impressionante que músicos que a essa altura do campeonato têm mais de setenta anos consigam parecer tão jovens em sua ousadia musical. Apesar de seu estilo emprestar muito do Rock Progressivo (especialmente da onda do Rock In Opposition), o uso de drones de sintetizador analógico também mostram uma certa influência de Space Age Pop e do futurismo do fim dos anos 60, de forma bem irônica e ácida, quase como uma faixa do Frank Zappa, ou They Might Be Giants. Só essa introdução já serviria o suficiente, mas as faixas seguintes introduzem elementos de Trip Hop, samples equivalentes aos encontrados em faixas de rap, uso de colagens sonoras e soundscapes industriais junto de passagens de folk, mas tudo sublinhado por guitarras, bateria e baixo, continuando as ideias de Prog Experimental, mas de uma maneira que desconstrói os tropos de bandas como Black Midi e Henry Cow.

Não obstante, os temas das faixas, apesar de questionáveis (com uma forte veia "anti-lacração", e com algumas referências de caráter duvidoso a teorias da conspiração), são explorados com uma lírica incisiva e poética (que acabam se perdendo para mim, já que o disco puxa umas ideias da caixa do Manu Chao e usa pelo menos duas línguas inteligíveis, junto com um pouco de bobagens sem sentido), que dá ao disco, apesar de seu caráter satírico e humorístico, uma complexidade maior. Um momento de destaque é It's Over, Jessica, em que a banda traz um mote quase de espelho, com a primeira parte da faixa trazendo a frase "Drone over me, sweet baby Jessica/I'll hang under you", que na segunda metade é referenciada no trecho "Te dá la gana, no quiero/Huye de mí, mirote de arriba". A faixa encerra no mantra "Huye, soy tu bruma", que muda todo o tom cômico do disco a um terror assombroso.

Mesmo com sua ousadia, é importante notar alguns aspectos negativos gritantes do disco, o principal sendo a inconsistência. Apesar das faixas trazerem uma variedade interessante de sons, esses sons nem sempre se combinam, com passagens de folk em uma faixa sendo cortadas por um industrial psicodélico na faixa seguinte, sem nenhum tipo de sequenciamento lógico. Para além disso, a banda se perde em algumas das experimentações, criando algumas experiências tediosas ou totalmente incongruentes. Apesar de sua influência no passado, é possível ver porque algumas dessas ideias não haviam sido executadas em estúdio, é quase impossível pensar em uma única gravadora que conseguiria fazer um marketing minimamente lógico desse disco.

No fim de tudo, o disco é uma aventura intrigante, mas que ocasionalmente deixa a desejar devido à sua inconsistência e tendências líricas duvidosas.

[theparanoid]

Curlew - Live In Berlin

(1988 live album)

Bandcamp

[Avant-Garde Jazz, Avant-Prog]

[godspeedjuneblackemperor]

Music recommendation 3 (I think):

Eat Men Eat by black midi

Avant prog greatness, gay and excellent vocal work, check it out.