Tomorrow is 10 year since this has been released
seemed like yesterday ...
ahvak.jpg
Tomorrow is 10 year since this has been released
seemed like yesterday ...
ahvak.jpg
Wonderful stuff
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.
Feel free to do another one. We won't mind at all . . . . . . . . . .
Hired on to work for Mr. Bill Cox, a-fixin' lawn mowers and what-not, since 1964.
"Arguing with an idiot is like playing chess with a pigeon. It'll just knock over all the pieces, shit on the board, and strut about like it's won anyway." Anonymous
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I thought this thread was to announce a merging of the 2 bands...
"Corn Flakes pissed in. You ranted. Mission accomplished. Thread closed."
-Cozy 3:16-
^ ^ ^ ^
Steve F.
www.waysidemusic.com
www.cuneiformrecords.com
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“Remember, if it doesn't say "Cuneiform," it's not prog!” - THE Jed Levin
Any time any one speaks to me about any musical project, the one absolute given is "it will not make big money". [tip of the hat to HK]
"Death to false 'support the scene' prog!"
please add 'imo' wherever you like, to avoid offending those easily offended.
I thought Kerman was finally Goin' Home!
"Corn Flakes pissed in. You ranted. Mission accomplished. Thread closed."
-Cozy 3:16-
I didn't realize it was 10 years ago, but 10 years has been a very long time in this business of running a label. The most change we've ever had to deal with, even more than the lp to CD changeover, which was significant as well.Originally Posted by Udi Koomran
Steve F.
www.waysidemusic.com
www.cuneiformrecords.com
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“Remember, if it doesn't say "Cuneiform," it's not prog!” - THE Jed Levin
Any time any one speaks to me about any musical project, the one absolute given is "it will not make big money". [tip of the hat to HK]
"Death to false 'support the scene' prog!"
please add 'imo' wherever you like, to avoid offending those easily offended.
Ya know, I still haven't heard Ahvak. I think that was one of the things I heard about that sounded interesting, but one way or another I just never got around to it. Is it still available?
By way of helicopter.I thought Kerman was finally Goin' Home!
One of my favs from the modern RIO/Avant scene.
Please don't ask questions, just use google.
Never let good music get in the way of making a profit.
I'm only here to reglaze my bathtub.
Should be easy to find at normal prices.
20 years …
Kerman:
It WAS twenty years ago today. The street date of AHVAK, on CUNEIFORM RECORDS. Normally I wouldn’t make a stink, but this one is worth it. Some silly guys from Giv'atayim, Ramat Gan, Herzliya and Tel Aviv decided to to make a Rock In Opposition record, and to simply slay the rules. I’ll stick to my story that It remains a mind-fuck of compositional prowess, instrumental virtuosity, and nutso-facto engineering production. We worked hard for over a year on this. It’s the best musical thing I’ve yet to be involved with, and I can’t hide the pride.
I haven't really got into this album. I'll have to dig it out of the shelf again.
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Well fuck me... I just relistened... it's a good one! I still don't think it will ever get very close to the top of the avantprog for me.
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It's excellent
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.
Monster album. The attention to detail, especially in the post-production, is fabulous. SO many things happening, you can have 40 listens and hear new shit every time. I love the percussion too.
Amazing album. One of my faves from the RIO scene. Time to dig it out and take it for a spin.
Neil
That is the album I often put on when I can't decide what to play next. Never disappoints.
We're trying to build a monument to show that we were here
It won't be visible through the air
And there won't be any shade to cool the monument to prove that we were here. - Gene Parsons, 1973
It's a great and impeccably dense work, and time took nought away.
I thought it silly sad back then how waters somehow didn't open a tad more to wider oceans/audiences. Granted Ahvak's set terrain (non other but the dread avant that they won't want - for what the term excludes sooner than what it includes), the release and band did still linger with the core of "our community/scene" up here North.
I purchased three copies of this. Two were given off in time, to listeners who'd dwell on nothing but the substance sound and ignore reductionist trivia for rationales such as "so shuns symph" fathom may never or whatever. There was actually a review in a then fairly prominent music journal here in Norway that dared not tell of fact or contents - settling instead for complaints at what the music of Ahvak criminally didn't take on. None the wiser.
I keep pulling it out twice as often as I do those Science Group albums, albeit the love for these too.
"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
Looks like I have to do some spelunking.
Nice to see some love for this.
I recently trued to listen but for some reason couldn’t
Perhaps -Too much self criticism, too many intense memories ( that house in Mazeh st. 26 and even Ginger my dear late beloved cat - see if you can spot her cameo appearance heh heh )
Poor David due to my incompetence he had to re record the entire album and he did it effortlessly
Poor Ishay Sommer I made him slave over these bass tracks
Poor Udi Susser he had to record his baglama parts in my shower cause those tiles made it sound lively
And finally poor bestie Yehuda Kotton he had and has since then to put up with me on a daily basis …
Still today, a favorite in my collection ... love it!
Pura Vida!.
There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind. ∞
Duke Ellington.
Not an every day listen but one of my favourite Avant albums.
Love this qualifier. Classic Dave!
Chad
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