Avant-prog binge 2022

[Rick L.]

Still not binging, but playing Thin Pillow now.

[TCC]

A recent interview with Daniel Denis

https://www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2...ecordings.html

Thanks Udi!

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Now playing for the first time ... (love Present too!)



G R E A T !!

[NogbadTheBad]

Still not binging, but playing Thin Pillow now.

Nice album

[Mascodagama]

NP: John Zorn, Bagatelles Vols. 5-8.

Arrived this morning - if I'd had it sooner there would probably have been five John Zorn titles in my PA top 20 picks for 2021 instead of a miserly four.

Vol. 8 is the John Medeski Trio, with David Fiuczynski on guitar and G. Calvin Weston on drums. I mainly know Fiuczynski from Screaming Headless Torsos, love his playing and he's on fire here. Great record.

These Bagatelles 4 CD sets are great value for $80 BTW - absolutely beautifully produced. I mean, great value if you're gonna dig whatever Zorn throws at you...personally there are highs and lows to the first 8 volumes, but generally it's all good to great.

[Mascodagama]

While I'm here:

[Kcrimso]

My avantish binge of the last week or so:

Debile Menthol : Emile Au Jardin Patrologique (CH, 1981)
Steven Schick: Drumming In The Dark (US, 2000)
Philipp Gerschlauer & David Fiuczynski : Mikrojazz! (Neue Expressionistische Musik) (DE, 2017) ****
Bubblemath : Edit Peptide (US, 2017) ***+
Camberwell Now : The Ghost Trade (UK, 1986)
Camberwell Now: Meridian (UK, 1983)
The Work: Rubber Cage (UK, 1989) ****
Cassiber : Man or Monkey (DE/UK, 1982) ****½
Art Zoyd : Phase IV (FR, 1982) ****+
Brian Ferneyhough : Sonatas, Second & Third String Quartets, Adagissimo (UK, 2017)
Cheer-Accident : Here Comes The Sunset (US, 2022) ****
Present : Live! (BE, 1996)
Yugen: Mirrors (IT, 2012)
Art Zoyd : 44½ Live + Unreleased works CD 12 (FR, 2017)
Lindsay Cooper : An Angel On The Bridge (UK, 1991) ****½
Cassiber: The Way It Was (DE, 2014) ****-
Jack O' The Clock : No Outlet (Volume 2 : 2014 - 2018) US, 2020) ****-
Manna/Mirage : Blue Dogs (US, 2015) ****
Tim Hodgkinson: Onsets (UK, 2014)
Lutz Glandien: The 5th Elephant (DE, 2002)

I noticed that I still have few discs on Art Zoyd box that I have never listened even though I bought it when it was released. Oh joy! Debile Menthol and Camberwell Now are interesting new discoveries for me.

[Zappathustra]

While I'm here:

Yes - a good one from last year.

[Mascodagama]

Yes - a good one from last year.

I missed it until now

[alanterrill]

While I'm here:

That was astonishing! Completely uncategorizable, which is how I like things. Thanks.

[Rick L.]

Playing Deerhoof's Milk Man right now. Close enough to "avant-prawg" for me. Hell, it's even a concept album.

[Scrotum Scissor]

Still not binging, but playing Thin Pillow now.

That album is a hoot!

When you hear that string-picking of "Phantasm" you can see the party-girl's stuff coming off so that you can make an abstract avant-composition about it.

[thedunno]

I am really digging the new one from Guy Segers project Eclectic maybe band - Again Alors?
I already liked the previous one a lot but this one might be even better. A fantastic bunch of musicians.



https://discusmusic.bandcamp.com/alb...ors-130cd-2022

[Mascodagama]

I am really digging the new one from Guy Segers project Eclectic maybe band - Again Alors?
I already liked the previous one a lot but this one might be even better. A fantastic bunch of musicians.

https://discusmusic.bandcamp.com/alb...ors-130cd-2022

I can’t believe they haven’t done an album called Eclectic Maybeland yet.

[TCC]

I am really digging the new one from Guy Segers project Eclectic maybe band - Again Alors?
I already liked the previous one a lot but this one might be even better. A fantastic bunch of musicians.



https://discusmusic.bandcamp.com/alb...ors-130cd-2022

WoW!.
Out of my radar, I have (digital) "The Blind Night Watchers' Mysterious Landscapes (2018)" and "Reflection in a Moebius Ring Mirror (2019)" which I enjoy a lot, thanks Dunno!

[thedunno]

WoW!.
Out of my radar, I have (digital) "The Blind Night Watchers' Mysterious Landscapes (2018)" and "Reflection in a Moebius Ring Mirror (2019)" which I enjoy a lot, thanks Dunno!

Some great guitar work by Angel Ontalva on the new one. My album of the year so far. (okay, its only march)

[TCC]

Some great guitar work by Angel Ontalva on the new one. My album of the year so far. (okay, its only march)

Yep, thankx!

[TCC]

np: (first time)

Hybrid Beat by Kombinat M.


Great stuff! (as usual!)

[Udi Koomran]

out of the oven
From Norway led by ex Jagga Jazzist and Wobler Ketil Vestrum Einarsen
this comes highly recommended

https://weserbergland.bandcamp.com/a...phoniae-nr-1-2

[thedunno]

out of the oven
From Norway led by ex Jagga Jazzist and Wobler Ketil Vestrum Einarsen
this comes highly recommended

https://weserbergland.bandcamp.com/a...phoniae-nr-1-2

I bought this last bandcamp friday. Its a pretty wild and interesting ride. I still need many more plays to properly digest it.

[Scrotum Scissor]

Forerunners of the equally fabulous Rattlemouth, and rightfully considered legendary within the ranks of global "80s art-rock/Pronk" chronicles, the mighty Orthotonics' finest offer. Contemporaries of the vaguely musically related MX-80, Virgule 4, Proof of Utah, Alle Tiders Duster, Hunk Ai, Debile Menthol, Zun Un Feu Rouge et al. Check for reference with later heroes like Afuche, PAK and Synkoke.

Classic album, never reissued on CD. I guess I posted it sometime before, but you can never hear enough of this:

[Steve F.]

I was lucky enough to see the Orthos (in this trio format line-up) about 6-8 times. They were just great.

Forerunners of the equally fabulous Rattlemouth, and rightfully considered legendary within the ranks of global "80s art-rock/Pronk" chronicles, the mighty Orthotonics' finest offer. Contemporaries of the vaguely musically related MX-80, Virgule 4, Proof of Utah, Alle Tiders Duster, Hunk Ai, Debile Menthol, Zun Un Feu Rouge et al. Check for reference with later heroes like Afuche, PAK and Synkoke.

Classic album, never reissued on CD. I guess I posted it sometime before, but you can never hear enough of this:

[Scrotum Scissor]

^ Isn't it insanely strange how they tend to always -NOT- appear in lists of "[...] those few 80s prog acts in existence"? Given that they obviously exposed the wrong "prog" influences?

[neuroticdog]

I saw them too, but the full ensemble so it must have been before this album. They played at a venue called The Lounge Ax where I saw a number of avant-prog acts at the time. (Roger Miller maximum piano, Western Saddle era Curlew, Faust, Fish and Roses a very early Cheer-Accident gig, Guigo Chenvier (who might have been on the same bill as Fish and Roses) and more that I'm sure I'm forgetting).

The Ortho's show was excellent with the small stage very crowded because, at the time there was probably around 8-10 of them in the ensemble. I remember being particularly "crushed" by the guitarist...Angela???

best
Michael

[Steve F.]

The Ortho's show was excellent with the small stage very crowded because, at the time there was probably around 8-10 of them in the ensemble. I remember being particularly "crushed" by the guitarist...Angela???

best
Michael

The full band lineup was a quintet! Not sure what you saw, but it sounds interesting/unique.

Rebby, btw…

[Scrotum Scissor]

Chenvier (who might have been on the same bill as Fish and Roses)

I believe Guigou Chenevier toured around with Fish & Roses sometime in '87/88. At least I know a guy who saw both acts somewhere in Switzerland at the time (Basel, I think), and IIRC they both feature on one (or more) of the MIMI-festival compilations of the day.