Looking for must have RIO/Avant Prog titles.

[thedunno]

I’ve been listening to the Skull almost every morning for weeks now, it’s become a weird ritual of mine. Those songs are the perfect soundtrack while shuffling along to the Gulag with all the other 9-to-5 zombies!

I am another recent convert into the Bob Drake camp and I can confirm that 'the skull mailbox' belongs in every essential avant prog list.

[BaldJean]

"Eskimo" by The Residents.
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"Kew Rhone" by John Greaves and Peter Blegvad
Here an excerpt from the latter:

[Svetonio]

Arktis/Air En-Trance (Austria)


http://arktisair.bandcamp.com/album/en-trance








The Dustman Dilemma First Trip To The Roaring Plains (France)

http://baboonfishlabel.bandcamp.com/...roaring-plains







Gravitsapa Vulgata (Ukraine)


http://gravitsapa.bandcamp.com/album/vulgata







Tigress and the U-Fraidees No Location (U.S.)


http://tigressandtheu-fraidees.bandc...um/no-location










Lovely Little Girls Cleaning the Filth From a Delicate Frame (U.S.)


http://lovelylittlegirls.bandcamp.com/










Dumb Waiter Is This Chocolate? (U.S.)

http://dumbwaiterva.bandcamp.com/alb...this-chocolate

[Svetonio]

Starring ABCDEFG​-​HIJKLMNOP​-​QRSTUV​-​WXYZ (U.S.)


http://starringmusic.bandcamp.com/al...-qrstuv-wxyz-2











South of No North Octopussies Liquor Store (Belgium)


http://humptydumptyrecords.blogspot....topussies.html













Goldbug The Seven Dreams (U.S)


http://1krecordings.bandcamp.com/album/the-seven-dreams












Poil Dins o Cuol (France)


http://gnougn.bandcamp.com/album/poi...-cuol-sold-out













Spectrum Orchestrum Suburbs (France)


http://spectrumorchestrum.bandcamp.com/album/suburbs





edit: I suggested Spectrum Orchestrum for progarchives' database and they were rejected by "the specialists" as "not prog"

[Svetonio]

Atomic Paracelze s/t (Switzerland)


http://atomicparacelze.bandcamp.com/











Jack O' The Clock, Night Loops (U.S.)


https://jackotheclock.bandcamp.com/











Hox Vox Dada (Cabaret Voltaire) (Brazil)

http://hoxvox.bandcamp.com/album/dada-cabaret-voltaire

[proggosaurus]

I admit to being a relative youngster exploring this genre but it's definitely appealing to my impartial tastes in music. I'm truly enjoying the new discoveries. I've recently aquired the ones below and they are getting a lot of spins.

No Secrets In The Family ♪ Draw A Line ♪ In A Certain Light We All Appear Green • 1987

Le Silo • On A Magic Carpet Ride • 8.8 • 2004



Calle Debauche ♪ Metal Clouds ♪ Potemkin Carnival • 2007

PLoZ • Tournevis étoile • Écorche à Blanc • 2007



SOT ♪ Ming-Mang Dynasty ♪ Redwings Nest • 2014

Humble Grumble • Syrens Dance • Flanders Fields • 2011

[Svetonio]

Begnagrad were avant-rock band from Slovenia, ex-Yugoslavia, formed in 1975. These magnificent tracks, which sound fresh even today, are from their s/t album from 1982.

[Bob Drake]

Atomic Paracelze s/t (Switzerland)

http://atomicparacelze.bandcamp.com/

Never knew this was released, I engineered it here at my place many years ago.

[Scrotum Scissor]

Begnagrad were avant-rock band from Slovenia, ex-Yugoslavia, formed in 1975. These magnificent tracks, which sound fresh even today, are from their s/t album from 1982.

One of the best such albums around, IMO, and arguably one of the very best 'progressive' records released during the 80s at large. Bratko Bibic is a monster musician and apparently quite the showman as well. His work with Nimal was also excellent.

[alanterrill]

One of the best such albums around, IMO, and arguably one of the very best 'progressive' records released during the 80s at large. Bratko Bibic is a monster musician and apparently quite the showman as well. His work with Nimal was also excellent.

Couldn't agree more! I would add the first Combo FH album is a similar 'one-off' album that doesn't sound like anyone else and came out in the same period when the first eastern european albums were finding their way to the west.
I would add that the CD reissue is much better sound quality than the crackly vinyl original.

[Svetonio]

One of the best such albums around, IMO, and arguably one of the very best 'progressive' records released during the 80s at large. Bratko Bibic is a monster musician and apparently quite the showman as well. His work with Nimal was also excellent.

I'm glad that you like it. I'd like to mention also Tickmayer Formatio from Novi Sad, ex-Yugoslavia. This is Tickmayer Formatio' second album that is a mix of avant-garde jazz, rock & classical music, released in 1987:





http://rateyourmusic.com/artist/tickmayer_formatio

[Mekanik Zain]

What do you guys think about latest album Yugen - Death By Water? I am not big fan of the band, but their style is definitely distinctive. Death By Water probably is their best effort…

[NogbadTheBad]

I've been playing it on bandcamp and love it, will certainly pick it up as soon as it gets to the States.

[Phlakaton]

What do you guys think about latest album Yugen - Death By Water? I am not big fan of the band, but their style is definitely distinctive. Death By Water probably is their best effort…

BLOWS ME AWAY. Right in my wheelhouse. Friggin beyond words on that first song. Put me into a froth instantly

[Svetonio]

I'd like to recommend an excellent album entitled The Tubular West by Samuel Andreyev from Strasbourg, France


http://samuelandreyev.bandcamp.com/a...e-tubular-west





Released January 31, 2013

Personnel:
Samuel Andreyev
Ayako Okubo
Olivier Maurel
Léo Maurel
Chris Swithinbank
Winnie Huang
Joshua Hyde
Andrea Agostini
Nicolas Dufournet

Samuel Andreyev’s new album The Tubular West is the culmination of eighteen years of “musical adventure”—a description given by Van Dyke Parks to Andreyev’s 2000 recording Swollows, but which could suitably apply to his entire output, from inventive solo song cycles recorded in living rooms and garages, to avant-garde modern classical compositions commissioned and performed by some of Europe’s most acclaimed ensembles. With The Tubular West, Andreyev reasserts his unique pop sensibility without compromising any of the qualities that have established him as one of the world’s most significant young composers. In fact, this distinctive new recording lies at the intersection of the two main paths of his musical career.

http://newprogreleases.blogspot.rs/2...1_archive.html

[Mekanik Zain]

BLOWS ME AWAY. Right in my wheelhouse. Friggin beyond words on that first song. Put me into a froth instantly

My only criticism is parts with vocals….Vocals are not needed I guess….

By the way It looks like old RIO bands reach peak of their arts! For instance I was surprised the last Thinking Plague work Decline And Fall is better than their previous works (IMHO).