RIO/Avant Drop-In Centre

I figured this ought to be of interest to whoever still follows this thread: This week Cuneiform released a recording by The Fourth World Quartet, starring Roger Miller of Birdsongs Of The Mesozoic and his brothers in the mid-70s performing a very woodwind-heavy, dissonant, experimental RIO-type sound.

A bump:

Trying to drown myself in nostalgia for a host of personal reasons, I've recently gone back through the two drop in center threads over the past week or so. It's been fun, giving me a bunch of reminders of bands and albums I've long forgotten about or missed the first time around due to lack of availability. Good to see posts by people that haven't been around here in forever (Assaf, Adam, Claire, Chris, and David especially), although it adds a hint of sadness that they've moved on from the site. 

Hopefully people out there are still enjoying the weird world of RIO/Avant and this thread can get some life breathed back into it. Seemingly bad days on these fronts though...with Altrock stopping, cunieform focusing mostly on jazz these days, and Soliel Zeuhl proceeding very slowly. But I guess that's just the state of affairs for the modern recording industry. 

Along those lines, another thing I thought of when browsing the threads, is that the late 90s and early to mid 2000s was probably the best time to be a fan of this type of music. Lots of bands and ensembles (even if they only existed briefly), physical media (read CDs) was still in fashion, there were avenues to explore to get noticed/signed/distributed, and the internet blossomed so you could find places to buy these ever obscure treasures. Some sadness also flowed in realizing I missed that sweet spot by like half a dozen years. But so it goes. 

Hope all the frequent visitors to these threads are alive and well given these weird times. 

Shame. If a CD ever does pop up I'll definitely buy. 

Listening to it for the first time right now, and it sounds awesome. Great mix of psychedelic stoner metal with all kinds of influences, it's all over the place. I gotta split it to 2 though since it's over 2 hours.