Latest band additions to PA

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Is that a fact?...

I am planning on a French invasion to PA... Slowly, and surely, they will conquer this place...

Your attention, Please!

Two additions today.

THe first is a band that Chamberry and I suggested to the Neo-Prog team and they kindly looked into it and added it - Stonebeard did the addition (wrote bio and added cd's).
This is a Neo-prog band from Puerto Rico, and they released therir album Futura Historia in 2004. You can read a review here:
http://www.seaoftranquility.org/reviews.php?op=showcontent&id=1604

Their page in PA is here:
http://www.progarchives.com/Progressive_rock_discography_BAND.asp?band_id=2729


The second band was added By Syzygy (Chris) who is a member of ZART. He added Massacre (not the death metal band) to RIO/Avant here:
http://www.progarchives.com/Progressive_rock_discography_BAND.asp?band_id=2727
This band features Bill Laswell (bass) and Fred Maher (drums) and of course Fred Frith (guitars) who formed Massacre.
Let me quote Chris' bio here:
According to the sleeve notes of their debut album, Massacre's first concert took place on Valentine's Day in 1980 as support act at a Peter Blegvad concert, and their final show was in Los Angeles in June 1981. For a band which existed for less than 18 months and only released one album (by the original incarnation), Massacre has had an uncommonly long afterlife.

When Fred Frith formed the avant prog power trio he chose to work with two of the New York downtown scene's hottest musicians, Bill Laswell (bass) and Fred Maher (drums). The pair were both members of Material and had played together on Daevid Allen's New York Gong project, and between them would play with or produce a staggering variety of musicians. Right from the outset Massacre was much more than Fred Frith plus rhythm section - Frith was looking for something that would reflect the music heard in New York's clubs, and Maher and Laswell were as steeped in funk and dub reggae as they were in experimental jazz and avant rock. Massacre was a meeting of equals with a unique chemistry. Most of their pieces were short, some were tightly composed, some were improvised and it wasn't always obvious which was which. Their debut album had a message: PLAY LOUD. Killing Time attracted rave reviews, and was reissued several times with extra tracks. Massacre also contributed to side 2 of Fred Frith's Speechless album, and numerous bootlegs of their incendiary concerts appeared. There were one or two semi-reunions, and then in 1998 Frith and Laswell started playing with Charles Hayward and Massacre was reborn. A studio album came out in 1998, Funny Valentine, and the band also backed vocalist Percy Howard on the excellent Meridiem album at about the same time. In 2001 they played at Robert Wyatt's Meltdown festival in London and the live set Meltdown was released shortly afterwards.

All 3 of Massacre's official albums are excellent, but it's their 1980's debut which remains their strongest. The later releases feature mostly longer pieces with a more jazzy structure, still extremely strong but somehow lacking the visceral power of the original line up.

Why this artist must be listed in www.progarchives.com :
A superlative avant-prog power trio featuring some of the most important musicians in the RIO/avant prog genre.

Discography:
Killing Time (1981)
Funny Valentine (1998)
Meltdown (2001)


    

Edited by avestin - November 29 2006 at 22:04

I am as impatient at that hyperactive gekko, GeckO ...

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Thanks for your comments Uroboros.


Missus Beastly was added by Hugues (Sean Trane) to Jazz-Rock/Fusion - http://www.progarchives.com/Progressive_rock_discography_BAND.asp?band_id=2726

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Again, this is not to remind anyone of addition, simply becuase this is not a discussion on whether this or that band should be added. It can be for discussing whether this should have been added...

If you want to be more effective, write a PM. It will probably get more results than posting in my godforsaken threads.

Good luck with your quest


      

Edited by avestin - November 28 2006 at 15:49

Philéas wrote: I wonder what happened to the addition of Mew.

    
Hi Phileas,
This is a thread for bands that have been added, not to wonder why they are not added or to propose new ones.
If you want them added, PM the relevent team members of the genre you want Mew to be added to and tell them what you think.

Edited by erik neuteboom - November 28 2006 at 13:38

..are they working hardly.. not really a compliment

Another Electronic Prog addition:
The Quebec duo Vincent Dionne (a percussionist) and Michel-Georges Brégent (a keyboardist verse in synthesiser music)

http://www.progarchives.com/Progressive_rock_discography_BAND.asp?band_id=2725