Avant-prog binge 2019

[Kcrimso]

Shunned Country has one of my fav bass tones ever....evah... evah.

I got that one recently but haven't had time to really listen to it.

But what I have listened is Cosa Brava's Ragged Atlas. God damn how I love that album! Does anyone know if this Fred Frith band is still ongoing project?

[auxfnx]

giving The Muffins' 'Manna/Mirage' a spin today and it's making much more of an impression on me now than whenever I must have first listened to it! Very cool sound

[Udi Koomran]

Aquaserge
N.O.R.M.A.
ALEC K. REDFEARN AND THE EYESORES
VOLAPÜK
MAKE A RISING
Songs Between Cities And Waterholes
NORMAL LOVE
ALBERT MARCOEUR
THE SCIENCE GROUP
AKSAK MABOUL
KRALDJURSANSTALTEN
NE ZHDALI
CALOMITO
CASSIBER
COMBAT ASTRONOMY
FORTRANGT HUSHALLSARBETE
FUKKEDUK

[auxfnx]

THE SCIENCE GROUP
AKSAK MABOUL
COMBAT ASTRONOMY

been on these myself too!

just got VA ‎– Studio Animals, Tape Number Four: The Album featuring some incredible music from Rascal Reporters, a really interesting track from World 48 and various other Avant-rock of a different tone from most of what I'm seeing listed here! Pretty interesting album
https://www.discogs.com/Various-Stud...elease/1480312

[Kcrimso]

I got that one recently but haven't had time to really listen to it.

But what I have listened is Cosa Brava's Ragged Atlas. God damn how I love that album! Does anyone know if this Fred Frith band is still ongoing project?

I got Cosa Brava's second album The Letter (2012) today. There is lots of good stuff but second half of the album feels kind of disappointing. Little bit too unfocused and rambling.

[Mascodagama]

Aquaserge
N.O.R.M.A.
ALEC K. REDFEARN AND THE EYESORES
VOLAPÜK
MAKE A RISING
Songs Between Cities And Waterholes
NORMAL LOVE
ALBERT MARCOEUR
THE SCIENCE GROUP
AKSAK MABOUL
KRALDJURSANSTALTEN
NE ZHDALI
CALOMITO
CASSIBER
COMBAT ASTRONOMY
FORTRANGT HUSHALLSARBETE
FUKKEDUK

Ah yes, the most topical avant band of all, FUKKED UK.

[thedunno]

An album I keep coming back to again and again and again is Dave Willey - Immeasurable currents. I do not thnk I will EVER get bored of this album.

Any other fans?

[Scrotum Scissor]

Dave Willey - Immeasurable currents. I do not thnk I will EVER get bored of this album. Any other fans?

Yup, big digger here. And to hear Deborah Perry and Elaine di Falco together - that's just heavenly. Still, this is certainly not a 'twee' release. Fabulous addition to the "artsong" book.

The originality of a work like this is staggering, and a complete blow to the face of the ignorant trope of "unmelodic avant" tossery.

[thedunno]

Yup, big digger here. And to hear Deborah Perry and Elaine di Falco together - that's just heavenly. Still, this is certainly not a 'twee' release. Fabulous addition to the "artsong" book.

The originality of a work like this is staggering, and a complete blow to the face of the ignorant trope of "unmelodic avant" tossery.

And I think the basic concept of this album - putting the poems of his deceased father to music - adds a personal emotional layer that is pretty rare in this kind of music.

[Zappathustra]

My most topical avant band is FUKKEDIGNORANTGREEK. This thread is embarrassing.

That Absolute Zero is pretty cool though. I love Pip in this exact context.

[NogbadTheBad]

An album I keep coming back to again and again and again is Dave Willey - Immeasurable currents. I do not thnk I will EVER get bored of this album.

Any other fans?

Huge fan, it's a lovely album, for some reason it's always paired with 3 Mice in my mind.

[moecurlythanu]

Ah yes, the most topical avant band of all, FUKKED UK.

Ah...I was reading it like "Fuck a duck" spoken fast. Thanks, I guess.

[Steve F.]

Ah...I was reading it like "Fuck a duck" spoken fast. Thanks, I guess.

The name of the band is meant to be pronounced as "Fuck A Duck". Definitely.

[Scrotum Scissor]

I was reading it like "Fuck a duck" spoken fast.

It's both.

Like Jody Grind's Far Canal can also be read as "Fuckin' hell".

[Mascodagama]

Ah...I was reading it like "Fuck a duck" spoken fast. Thanks, I guess.

You were right. It was just a bit of gallows humour on my part. Anything to distract from the looming precipice.

[Zappathustra]

I was reading it like fooked a duck. Just an ordinary night out sentence in ol' Birmingham.

[moecurlythanu]

You were right. It was just a bit of gallows humour on my part. Anything to distract from the looming precipice.

Well, when you go over the edge, you'll land on us.

[auxfnx]

Very drawn into The Mind Boggles, the 2008 album by Rascal Reporters (I believe mainly Steve Gore on this album with features). The melodies are just so addictive and evocative, as so much of the album plays I'm eagerly anticipating the next chord.
Seems to have flown quite under the radar - highly recommend a purchase, I'd recommend My Amish Heart if just checking one track out first: https://rascalreporters.bandcamp.com...e-mind-boggles

Also a big fan of Immeasurable Currents - such a great mix of a more immediate rhythm section with intensely effective and beautiful sense of off kilter harmony

[nosebone]

FORTRANGT HUSHALLSARBETE


One of my favorites from the avant zone.

[moecurlythanu]

^ Gesundheit!

[Scrotum Scissor]

FORTRANGT HUSHALLSARBETE.

Förträngt Hushållsarbete's Offret Om Att Älska is one of my fave 10 rock albums from the past 20 years. It's that colossaly good, that intensely different, that immensely powerful in both sound and statement.

[thedunno]

Förträngt Hushållsarbete's Offret Om Att Älska is one of my fave 10 rock albums from the past 20 years. It's that colossaly good, that intensely different, that immensely powerful in both sound and statement.

never heared of this one. Seems like I need to check it out.

[Kcrimso]

An album I keep coming back to again and again and again is Dave Willey - Immeasurable currents. I do not thnk I will EVER get bored of this album.

Any other fans?

Never heard this before. Listened once from Spotify and I think I need to get this cd. Very interesting stuff. Kind of easy to listen but still very sophisticated. Reminds me little bit of Bob Drake solo material and Henry Cow's more song oriented pieces.

[Scrotum Scissor]

Reminds me little bit of Bob Drake solo material and Henry Cow's more song oriented pieces.

Dave Willey was "schooled" in Thinking Plague (where Bob D. tended to play once) but is a visionary all on his own.

[Kcrimso]

Dave Willey was "schooled" in Thinking Plague (where Bob D. tended to play once) but is a visionary all on his own.

Yeah, I know about Drake's participation in Thinking Plague. I am proud owner of all Thinking Plague's albums except one.

Btw. I think this is an appropriate chance to once again promote this wonderful Mike Johnson interview (not by me) on my page: https://pienemmatpurot.wordpress.com...of-rock-music/