Never got any of the albums, but had all the singles up to somewhere around Ballroom Blitz (even the Alexander Graham Bell one, which flopped but I quite liked at the time). I followed them from pop...
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Never got any of the albums, but had all the singles up to somewhere around Ballroom Blitz (even the Alexander Graham Bell one, which flopped but I quite liked at the time). I followed them from pop...
The ending - the fading echo - that's from Dogs isn't it?
The sustained organ note - Obscured by Clouds?
Not yet, but more hard-earned cash to be spent, I'm sure.
Just picked up the Piniol from the fave Avant thread, but I see mady have mentioned it here as well. Never heard of them before, but this is amazing. The secret love child of Meshuggah and Magma....
Better that than sticky-out ears.
Heard this first in my teens before I had really listening to any jazz. So this was incredibly strange, and some of it, like Fletcher's Blemish, I just didn't get. One of my Soft Machine favourites...
Does this mean that Keith is back playing again after his health issues?
Sinfonia is indeed a masterpiece. I didn't know of the other two pieces, so will try to track them down.
Another favourite is the later Labyrithos II, which is in a similar vein with voices and...
Sinfonia is indeed a masterpiece. I didn't know of the other two piece, so will try to track them down.
Another favourite is the later Labyrithos II, which is in a similar vein with voices and...
My old Floyd LPs have "File under Popular" on the back. Presumably to make sure the people in the record shops didn't mistakenly put a record with a cow on the front in amongst the proper music.
Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
Masterpiece? One of Radiohead's best? Not sure. But it is good, topped charts, went gold etc so it did hit the mainstream.
Did David Cross ever do any great solos in King Crimson? I don't recall him doing many solos as such, but he did solo in 21st Century Schizoid Man and I assume sometimes in the improvs. Did he do any...
One of my favourite Avant album must be Glass' Einstein on the Beach. When that came out in the 70s this was a difficult listen with its repetitions and slow development. It may not seem so now, when...
What if neuro-surgeons were happy with what they'd got?
A few favourites that immediately spring to mind:
Supersilent I-III - when they were still young and angry, and the 7 DVD
Frith & Cutler - Live in Prague
Lutz Glandien - Lost in Rooms
Maja SK...
Agree. This is brilliant.
The experience is very different if you actually support one of the teams. I actually enjoyed the match - despite the result - because I felt Denmark played well, neutralising the Croatian quality...
Damn. Damn. Damn.
Yes, I'm Danish.
First impressions after listening through it once: lot more ambient stretched-out passages than riffs or conventional songs. Building up to a great crescendo on side six. Need to hear it a few more...
Yes, there are 2 CDs alongside the 3 LPs.
Got Roadworks Vol5 in the post today. First vinyl I have bought for 30 years. Looking forward to giving it a spin tonight. Looks excellent.
Damn. Beat me to it.
This is brilliant, but intense. The singer, Sofia Jernberg, is very prominent and even further out than she was on Fire! Orchestra's Ritual. Also likely to make my top-10 of the year.
Jaki Liebezeit - just about everything he ever played on
Particularly down through the muddy bit on the north side.
Peru played way better, but Denmark nicked it. It tooks a couple of large glasses of wine to calm down afterwards, being a Denmark supporter and having to watch Peru squandering all those chances.
Would tend to agree with that. And so did Fripp.
Actually, Frakctured was originally known as LTIA5 until Fripp decided to change the title at the end of the TCOL sessions. Fripp (and I think other band members) blogged extensively during the...
Adam Betts from Three Trapped Tigers. I'm loving his 2016 solo album Colossal Squid. Lots of rhythmic ingenuity and fierceness.
^ Apart from the reunion to celebrate Eno's 1701st birthday.
Come on guys. That was a rhetorical question. Just a way of stating the influence. Of course, I didn't think he would actually sue. :)
Never really listened closely to Howlin' Wolf, but I had a few tracks on a cheapo blues compilation, so gave them a listen. My immediate thought was: did he ever sue Captain Beefhart for plagiarism?...
Alpha Male Tea Party has a good line in titles. Such as:
You Eat Houmous, Of Course You Listen To Genesis
Your Happiness Was Stored On A Hard Drive And Is Now Corrupt
God Is Love But Satan Does...
How about a double: Magma: Live/Hhaï
Arve Henriksen has said that Palle Mikkelborg was one of his major inspirations. See Dave's post above.
Etage 34 (French noise improv power trio - picked up in a Rec Rec sale)
Maybe the 6th? 5 movements that are quite different in feel, albeit all dominated by Branca's dissonant electric guitar clusters.
Good review. I'm loving this album to bits, but I didn't actually know anything about Sonar beforehand, and very little about David Torn. So it is good to get all the context which the review...
Looking at the lists so far, I can see I've got some catching up to do.
Two albums so far that are bound to be near the top:
Sonar with David Torn - Vortex (one of the few albums recently where I...
Isis
Or maybe they don't count as prog metal in the terminology used around here?
Three Trapped Tigers
Pity that they never actually let you finish a sentence and make the point you were actually trying to make. It is rather frustrating listening to an interview like this, where every statement is cut...
I think that album is a wonderful hidden gem. It is really a Carla Bley album, but they stuck Nick Mason's name on it to get bigger advances (according to Mason).
Which one?
I'm the completely opposite. I would keep just the weird section at the start and scrap the classical section. Which I guess confirms that it is trying to do too many different things with few people...
Haven't listened to this properly for a while, but my gripe always used to be that all the vocal sections were basically slow ballads. This would be consistent with it being orignally composed with...
Floyd - More, Obscured By Clouds/La Vallée, Zabriskie Point
Remember that. Only 2nd or 3rd song of the show, if I remember correctly.
And a big fence went up overnight around the area in front of the stage.
They aren't "playing" Beethoven's 9th. They are doing their own thing, playing a rock jam with a borrowed tune that happens to come from a classical piece. Which is fine of course, but there isn't...
Yes, it will. Just speaking from my own experience.
Where would rock music be without dissonance, distortion and noise? That is what gives it its power and, yes, beauty.
Autotune was invented for this!
Anna Meredith
Mica Levi
Mary Halvorson
Klein
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
Jo Quail
Tomorrow Never Knows
Revolution No 9
Helter Skelter
I Want You (She's So Heavy)
The avant-fan's Fab Four. I do like the other stuff as well, but amazing to think that these toe-tappers shared...
The solo in Mekanik Zaïn from Live/Hhaï for me beats any other violin solo I've heard.
A while ago I watched a documentary about the classical violin virtuoso Maxim Vengerov, who had lessons by...
Indecision, prevarication, procrastination. Found it hard to make up my mind. But let me go with:
King Kong
Gumbo Variations
Waka Jawaka
There is lots of good stuff on the later albums, but I...
No love for King Kong, which would top my list?
Maybe some of the songs on Fripp's Exposure (which I think precedes this by a year) might be alternative candidates. But with a distinct lack of bassoon...
Brilliant album. It has been sitting on...
Apologies for interrupting the flow, but...
Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun is one of my favourite PF pieces, in particular the extented live versions as documented on Ummagumma and...
Do keep the RIPs. PE is often the first place I find out that somebody has died. If it is an unknown figure (to this community at least), the thread will drop out the bottom of the first page pretty...
Deep Purple's Mary Long was also about her.
It does date a song when it references comtemporary figures at the time, who later disappear from public consciousness. But maybe it does make you think...