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moshkito 
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 Posted: November 25 2023 at 06:02 |
Hi, Listened to the whole thing, and I got to admit ... it takes guts to do stuff like that and make it work. By the 10th piece, it gets a bit tiresome, but it's still good, but the first 3 pieces alone are quite a wake up and interesting thing, and they never break into a "song", or any kind of format, and that is a really serious attempt at creating live improvisation in music ... something that is not exactly easy to do, but these folks were up for it. Very nice stuff, with amazing moments! I suppose that I wanted to hear some Ax Gernrich like stuff, like the really early days when Ax went all out crazy and no one could really keep up with him ... but, still, this is excellent, and shows some guts by very special musicians. I was thinking that this is more "avant-garde" than it is "progressive". And Risa Takeda is far out, playing keyboards in a style that defies description. Excellent ability to mix and match and make things work. She's just as strong in the material with Mani. She might be the highlight of the whole thing, though everyone in it is really fine.
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Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told!
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richardh
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Posted: November 25 2023 at 00:14 |
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^ nice list, perhaps a little suprised that Seven Impale is so low down. I will still only do a top 5 for the moment.
1. Zopp - Dominion 2. Seven Impale - Summit 3. Agusa - Prima Materia 4. Caravela Escarlate - III 5. Lumsk - Fremmede Toner I also love The Syn - Illusion. Technically a 2023 release I am unable to find out any information about it but I suspect it was recorded around 2004/5 when the band resurfaced. Anyone knows different please tell me!
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BrufordFreak
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Posted: November 24 2023 at 10:20 |
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Black Friday update (can no longer keep it to just 20, much less 5. It's been a GREAT year!!!!):
1. OIAPOK OisoLün 2. AISLES Beyond Drama 3. BILLIE BOTTLE'S TEMPLE OF SHIBBOLETH Billie Bottle's Temple of Shibboleth 4. HOMUNCULUS RES Ecco l'impero dei doppi sensi 5. JACK O' THE CLOCK The Warm, Dark Circus 6. THE MERCURY TREE Self Similar 7. KARMAMOI Strings from the Edge of Sound 8. MICE ON STILTS I Am Proud of You. 9. OK GOODNIGHT The Fox and the Bird 10. BATTLESTATIONS Memoirs of Once 11. LAZULI 11 12. MOTORPSYCHO Yay! 13. STEFANO PANUNZI Pages from the Sea 14. ZOPP Dominion 15. AGUSA Prima Material 16. CARAVELA EXCARLATE III 17. AMOEBA SPLIT Quiet Euphoria 18. DOMINIC SANDERSON Impermanence 19. EYELESS OWL Murmurations 20. ISOBAR III 21. NE OBLIVISCARUS Exul 22. DEPOSED KING One Man's Grief 23. AVKRVST The Approbation 24. ATSUKO CHIBA Water, It Feels Like It's Growing 25. THE FILIBUSTER SALOON Going Off Topic 26. RASCAL REPORTERS The Strainge Case of Steve 27. FISH ON FRIDAY 8mm 28. SUNCHILD Exotic Creatures and a Stolen Dream 29. LARS FREDRIK FRŘISLIE Fire Foretellinger 30. SEVEN IMPALE Summit |
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Drew Fisher
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Nogbad_The_Bad
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Posted: September 19 2023 at 11:20 |
This is lovely - thanks!
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Ian
Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
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BrufordFreak
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Posted: September 19 2023 at 07:26 |
Nice to see Jesy Chiang and Taiwan's CICADA getting some love! If only PA had a "Chamber Prog" sub-genre the band might be able to be admitted into the database. Their seven studio album releases since 2009 have all, respectively, landed in my year-end top 20s. |
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Drew Fisher
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Nogbad_The_Bad
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Posted: September 19 2023 at 07:10 |
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Ian
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MikeEnRegalia
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Posted: September 19 2023 at 06:23 |
Glad to have them on my website, thanks to Svetonio who added them two months ago. |
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Deadwing
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Posted: September 19 2023 at 03:13 |
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So far: 1 - Baroness - Stone 2 - Riverside - ID.Entitiy 3 - Ok Goodnight - The Fox and the Bird 4 - OIAPOK OisoLün 5 - Agusa - Prima Materia 6 - Einar Solberg - 16 7 - Motorpsycho - Yay 8 - Haken - Fauna 9 - AVKRVST - The Approbation 10 - Katatonia - Sky Void of Stars 11 - Tesseract - War of Being
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dauinghorn
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Posted: September 18 2023 at 12:33 |
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So cool to see that some of you have Actionfredag - "Turist i eget liv" on their lists, but they are not registered in the database. They should be filed under Rio/Avant, I think. At least their influences are very much from that bag.
https://actionfredag.bandcamp.com/album/turist-i-eget-liv |
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Dapper~Blueberries
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Posted: September 15 2023 at 12:53 |
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Here is my updated list:
1. Along The Meandering Ordeals, Reshape The Pivot Of Harmony - Woe Unto Me 2. Divine Inner Tension - Hail The Sun 3. Passage To The Forest Of Mysterious - Karfagen 4. Exul - Ne Obliviscaris 5. A New Tomorrow - Zulu Plus some honorable mentions: The Fox And The Bird - Ok Goodnight Black Medium Current - Dodheimsgard Scaring The Hoes - JPEGMAFIA and Danny Brown 16 - Einar Solberg The Beggar - Swans
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Nogbad_The_Bad
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Posted: September 13 2023 at 12:25 |
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Updated list
Poil Ueda - s/t Natural Information Society - Since Time Is Gravity SRWM - Salamander The Holy Family - Go Zero Jaimie Branch - Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or die ((world war)) Honorable Metions Squid - O Monolith Ultraphauna - No No No No Yussef Dayes - Black Classical Music (this will very likely move up but it was only released Sept 8th) Edited by Nogbad_The_Bad - September 13 2023 at 12:27 |
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Ian
Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
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BrufordFreak
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Posted: September 13 2023 at 11:21 |
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New entry into my 2023 Top 5:
THE MERCURY TREE's Self Similar |
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Drew Fisher
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Grumpyprogfan
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Posted: September 09 2023 at 06:39 |
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^Thanks Mira. I have some listening to do!
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Mirakaze
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Posted: September 09 2023 at 04:38 |
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1. Rascal Reporters – The Strainge Case Of Steve
2. Miller Twins – Early Compositions 1973-1976 3. Mats Öberg – Visa Frĺn Inneröra 4. The Filibuster Saloon – Going Off Topic 5. The Banach-Tarski Paradox – Mecca 6. Fistfights With Wolves – The Sheep That Eats The Wolf 7. Karmic Juggernaut – Phantasmagloria 8. Actionfredag – Turist I Eget Liv 9. Oiapok – Oisolün 10. Alex Ward Item 4 – Furthered 11. Tatsuya Yoshida & Risa Takeda – Tsukikage 12. John Cale – Mercy 13. Aksak Maboul – Une Aventure De VV (Songspiel) 14. Eyeless Owl – Murmurations 15. Infinite Bliss – We Reach For Crowded Aboveness 16. Homunculus Res – Ecco L’Impero Dei Doppi Sensi 17. Mr. Chair – Better Days 18. Fred Frith & Ensemble Musiques Nouvelles – Something About This Landscape For Ensemble19. Anchor And Burden – Kosmonautik Pilgrimage 20. The Bob Lazar Story – The Bob Lazarus Chronicles, Part 1: Foodstool Resurrection Honourable mentions: * Masada – New Masada Quartet, Volume 2 * Throw Down Bones – Three* Tatsuya Yoshida & Risa Takeda – Jellyfish * Terms – All Becomes Indistinct * Light – The Path * Chick Corea & Gary Burton – Berliner Jazztage, November 4th ’72 * Bobbing & Wřlfy – Get Slimed * Doxophobia & Quetzal Tirado – Matéria * Mani Neumeier – Sessions 2023 * Smegma & Merzbow – XCIII * Tatsuya Yoshida & Risa Takeda – Gloriosa * Pat Strawser – Vignettes * Astroverse Dimensions – Feeding On The Spirit (Any artists on this list that aren't in PA are either under consideration by one of the teams or else I'm planning to nominate them some time this year)
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Cristi
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Posted: September 06 2023 at 07:53 |
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MikeEnRegalia
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Posted: September 06 2023 at 07:35 |
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^ The "not on pa" part just indicates that at my website there isn't a link to pa for the album - so the link will take you to AwesomeProg instead of PA. But it's also meant to get people curious and think about whether the album should be on PA. Sometimes it should, sometimes it shouldn't
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Cristi
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Posted: September 06 2023 at 07:23 |
No, I'm not  I'm also not freaking out
. But these tags still need to make sense in order to be helpful. |
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MikeEnRegalia
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Posted: September 06 2023 at 07:17 |
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^ Some of these are progressive, some are prog-related. See, I took out the genre labels since they freak you out, now you're complaining about the next thing. Are you my personal scrutinizer?
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Cristi
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Posted: September 06 2023 at 07:16 |
Bands that are not progressive in any way are tagged with this "not on PA". What's the point? Also, if there are bands that you think are progressive and not on PA, do suggest them. Otherwise, what's the point of the tag?
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MikeEnRegalia
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Posted: September 06 2023 at 07:11 |
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^ There's always something to complain about. Some people might find it helpful, so they don't accidentally click on the link and leave these sacred shores
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