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    Posted: March 01 2006 at 11:54
Originally posted by darren darren wrote:

Originally posted by arnold stirrup arnold stirrup wrote:

Originally posted by Witchwoodhermit Witchwoodhermit wrote:

I'm doing a little research. I love the avante garde, the stranger the better.



Ever hear Laurie Anderson?

My faves by her are:

United States I-IV
Big Science
Mr. Heartbreak
Home Of The Brave
Bright Red


Another vote for Laurie Anderson. Try track down the video of "Home of The Brave" I'm not sure if it's on DVD but I can't see why it wouldn't be.

A friend saw her in concert. She was in the lobby handing out AA batteries to everyone as they came through a turnstile.



THIRD VOTE FOR LAURIE ANDERSON.

she is amazing!! I have rarely heard such hard-listening,complex,quality music...highly recommended...(make her prog?com'on!)


 
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  • Magma
  • Ruins/Koenji Hyakkei etc
  • Henry Cow/Art Bears/Fred Frith/Skeleton Crew/News From Babel etc
  • Faust
  • The Residents
  • This Heat/Camberwell Now/Charles Hayward
  • Guapo/Miasma and the Carousel of Headless Horses 
  • Univers Zero/Daniel Denis
  • Can/Holger Czukay
  • Sammla Mammas Manna/Zammla Mammas Manna/Lars Hollmer
  • L Voag
  • Current 93
  • Pere Ubu/David Thomas
  • Captain Beefheart
  • Negativland
  • John Zorn
  • Birdsongs of the Mesozoic
  • Art Zoyd
  • French TV
  • The Muffins

And so on and so forth
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You want five? Here`s five althogh I could think of heeps more. ( no particular order )

Songs Frrom The Dolmen- Meredith Monk

Beauborg- Vangelis

Eroc ( 1st & 2nd )

Nue!
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Oh, and I should mention The Ex. For instance, their album Blueprints For A Blackout combines noise with classical instruments. A strange musical cocktail. They were a really experimental band, by the way.
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Some albums by Van Dyke Parks. Song Cycle  is one of the strangest albums ever made! Musical atmospheres come and go, one after another. Completely unique.

 
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Originally posted by arnold stirrup arnold stirrup wrote:

Originally posted by Witchwoodhermit Witchwoodhermit wrote:

I'm doing a little research. I love the avante garde, the stranger the better.



Ever hear Laurie Anderson?

My faves by her are:

United States I-IV
Big Science
Mr. Heartbreak
Home Of The Brave
Bright Red


Another vote for Laurie Anderson. Try track down the video of "Home of The Brave" I'm not sure if it's on DVD but I can't see why it wouldn't be.

A friend saw her in concert. She was in the lobby handing out AA batteries to everyone as they came through a turnstile.

"they locked up a man who wanted to rule the world.
the fools
they locked up the wrong man."
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Zappa, The Softs, Beefheart, VDGG, Phillip Glass, it's all good.
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Residents, throbbing gristle, Zorn, sun ra, and especially Negativland!!!

but for pure weirdness, you can't beat Jandek. I just can't listen to him long or often enough to ever actually call him a favorite.
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Mine would be:
Borbetomagus - very very harsh, free noise
Eugene Chadborne - experimental country, Sun Ra meets Hank Williams
Hugh LeCaine - music concrete - Dripsody - recorded the sound of a single drop of water and used tape manipulation to create a wonder piece of music
Conlon Nancarrow - used player pianos but tightened the action so much that they do things that a human could never hope to do. Fully acoustic put sounds electronic.
John Zorn - the man is a genius

Honorable mention:
Ornette Coleman
Sun Ra
Steve Reich
Philip Glass

The Kronos Quartet
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The Residents

Snakefinger

Renaldo and the Loaf

Elton Dean related groups and Lol Coxhill  (for avant-jazz)

Faust

Mark Stewart

Nurse With Wound

Glenn Branca

..........Among many others.......
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Beefheart kicks ass
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anything by soft machine
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Fantomas

Mr.Bungle

SleeppyTime Gorilla Museum

Tom Waits



Edited by Oxygen Waster
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Originally posted by Witchwoodhermit Witchwoodhermit wrote:

I'm doing a little research. I love the avante garde, the stranger the better.



Ever hear Laurie Anderson?

My faves by her are:

United States I-IV
Big Science
Mr. Heartbreak
Home Of The Brave
Bright Red
So much music. So little time.
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Originally posted by Hesselius Hesselius wrote:

Spooky Tooth: Ceremony (reinterpretation of Pierre Henry music)

 

Reinterpretation????? - sure Pierre Henry plays on the album!
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Spooky Tooth: Ceremony (reinterpretation of Pierre Henry music)
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper
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ZAPPA, Art Zoyd, Univers Zero, Taal, Sirmillardmulch
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 i think the most of the RIO scen are the strangest ... but beautiful music of course...

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Try the self-titled debut album by Italian prog band PIERROT LUNAIRE.
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