Ian
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Gordon Haskell - "You've got to keep the groove in your head and play a load of bollocks instead"
I blame Wynton, what was the question?
There are only 10 types of people in the World, those who understand binary and those that don't.
Recently I have been enjoying Lindsay Cooper's stunning 1991 album Oh Moscow. Any other fans here? Or interesting insights about the project? I believe that this was a quite successful (for avant-stuff) concept and Cooper even had quite substantial tour with the material (Oh Moscow is live album but contains 100% new material).
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I do like Oh Moscow but have to be in the right mood, it comes off a bit 'show tunes' at times.
Ian
Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on progrock.com
https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-a...re-happy-hour/
Gordon Haskell - "You've got to keep the groove in your head and play a load of bollocks instead"
I blame Wynton, what was the question?
There are only 10 types of people in the World, those who understand binary and those that don't.
One thing one needs to know about this project is that it was written and premiered long before the Berlin Wall came down (1987, I think) [the Victo performance on the album was on 8 October 1989, almost exactly one month before the wall came down]. I don't view the album as a 'live album' in the usual sense, i.e. as you point out this is a self-contained work that has no studio counterpart. It's only of Cooper's best-known post-Henry Cow albums, I guess partly because it had an interesting line-up that included Hugh Hopper, Marilyn Mazur, Phil Minton etc.
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Sales de Bano from Argentina nailed the thing in their latest https://buhrecords.bandcamp.com/albu...-a-del-v-nculo
Check it out or I'll make you all pay with my Nursery Cryme croquet bat!
Last edited by Zappathustra; 09-12-2019 at 06:22 AM.
Quite interesting. They describe themselves as: "Geometría del vínculo [Geometry of the bond], Sales de Baño’s third album, can be understood as an avant-garde jazz album which is also connected with the spirit of Rock in Opposition." But it doesn't sound to me like avant-jazz - it seems to be entirely through-composed, for starters. It comes far closer to an avant-classical chamber ensemble, perhaps in the vein of the Bang-on-a-Can All-Stars but working in a sort of intricate extended tonality rather than Minimalism..
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A very promising debut EP released on August 9, 2019 by Toboggan from Clermont Ferrand, France https://tobogganmusique.bandcamp.com/
This new track doesn't appear on their EP so I want to believe that a full-length album is on the way:
"Kua Fu" out of Polish RIO band Javva's debut LP/ CD "Balance Of Decay" that will be released on October 11, 2019.
Been listening recently U Totem and especially album Strange Attractors (1994) that I just got and it made me think what Dave Kerman has been up in few last years? What have I missed?
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I know he is in this band that released a cd this year:
https://davefromhollywood.com/
Its a fun band but not really my cuppa.
He plays in the Swiss band Stepmother
https://z6records.bandcamp.com/album/calvary-greetings
He's playing with Bob Drake as a duo in October
He played with Present at RIO in May
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PCHHi49UTE
He plays with Dave From Hollywood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghgWf35_ByA
Ian
Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on progrock.com
https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-a...re-happy-hour/
Gordon Haskell - "You've got to keep the groove in your head and play a load of bollocks instead"
I blame Wynton, what was the question?
There are only 10 types of people in the World, those who understand binary and those that don't.
Good call Zappa!.
Other interesting projects of Colombian bassist, composer and improviser Carlos Quebrada (former member of Factor Burzaco) are:
- El Último Boabdil
YT:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhgEnoupxoc
bc:
https://matik-matik.bandcamp.com/alb...uas-vern-culas
- Blanco Teta.
YT:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaLNZOUnYGU
bc:
https://tvlrec.bandcamp.com/album/tvl-003-blanco-teta
- Cabeza de Termo.
YT:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tItZvKUd2dc
bc:
https://tvlrec.bandcamp.com/album/tv...rto-calificado
- Nicotina es Primavera (lead by Peruvian flutist Camilo Ángeles)
YT:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCXHdX8IXFo
bc:
https://nicotinaesprimavera.bandcamp.com/
More:
https://carlosquebrada.com/releases/
Last edited by TCC; 09-16-2019 at 04:27 AM.
Thanks thedunno and NogbadTheBad! I will check out those Kerman projects. Present is only one of those that I was aware of.
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my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.
Did you hear the NIMBY release from 2005 - Yeah I know; not from "the last few years", perhaps… But still. It isn't really "avant-prog" at all either, rather refined, satirical indie whimsy but from old timers Grigsby (MTG/U Totem), Drake, Kerman and that dude from Giant Ant Farm.
I listened again a few weeks back, and it's a good listen.
"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
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It was a fun album, good tunes from James. Done quickly with "live" rhythm section then overdubs. You can hear a couple of songs from it here:
http://www.bdrak.com/sounds/others/nimby.htm
Ian
Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on progrock.com
https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-a...re-happy-hour/
Gordon Haskell - "You've got to keep the groove in your head and play a load of bollocks instead"
I blame Wynton, what was the question?
There are only 10 types of people in the World, those who understand binary and those that don't.
^ Even WITHOUT a prog award?!!
"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
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