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Yukorin

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Posted: September 20 2006 at 09:40

       Happy 1000 RIO




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Joren

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Posted: September 20 2006 at 09:45

avestin wrote:

Joren wrote:

avestin wrote:

Joren wrote:

chamberry wrote:

Hi guys. Long time no post.

I've been listening to Moonchild by John Zorn on my mp3 player for some time now and I'm enjoying the really random playing by Trevor, Joey and Mike. The vocals (if it can be called like that) always make me laugh and stunned too. I isn't human I tell ya. The albums is really nice when on the right mood, but it isn't too good either. At the momment I find it an ok album.

I'm also listening for the first time Boredoms - Super AE and at first time I found the first song to be a good one. The noise turned me a bit off, but then I didn't mind that much. At the middle of the seconds this is sounding really good! Very frantic with the drums. Hard, fast and loud. Thumbs Up

I just received Super ae in the mail too. Great stuff!

Moonchild is good, but not essential indeed.

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I mentioned this to Chamberry before, that there is another Zorn release in the Film Works series # XVIII - The Treatment, which is quite melodic and accessible (as accessible as Electric Masada).

He is very prolific isn't he?

He sure is. I haven't heard The Treatment though. So far I 'only' have five volumes of his Film Works series: III, V, VI, XII and XVII.

The question is, is this abundance of records he puts out, a result of his having many new musical ideas, or is he becoming less groundbreaking than before?

Another thing. I read in Brandon Wu's blog in Ground and Sky about Zorn winning the MacArthur Fellows 2006

http://www.macfound.org/site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.2070789/apps/nl/content2.asp?content_id={4A099024-6AC9-4CAE-AAD3-B5A64B241DD1}&notoc=1

http://www.progreviews.com/articles/blog.php?place=091906a

There's no ground left to break, perhaps? Wink

I dunno really... I must say that his Film Works XVII, although nice, sounded very familiar to me. Then again, plenty of bands release tons of albums that sound the same.

I don't know about that award...

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Posted: September 20 2006 at 11:53

Wow! over 50 pages / over 1000 posts. Who would've thought...?

Here's a big hand for Trouserpress, who started this thread: Clap

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Posted: September 20 2006 at 17:48

Joren wrote:

Wow! over 50 pages / over 1000 posts. Who would've thought...?

Here's a big hand for Trouserpress, who started this thread: Clap

Hear Hear

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Posted: September 20 2006 at 19:56

avestin wrote:

Joren wrote:

Wow! over 50 pages / over 1000 posts. Who would've thought...?

Here's a big hand for Trouserpress, who started this thread: Clap

Hear Hear

Who would've though that one of PA's most obscure genre could reach to 50+ pages and 1000+ posts? Clap

Too bad Trouserpress doesn't posts as much as on the first pages. Unhappy

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Posted: September 20 2006 at 22:59

Ah, congratulations guys, it's been a wonderful journey!

Stevie:

I recommend Sotos' Platypus.

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Posted: September 20 2006 at 23:45

Good.... i am not so familiarized here, in fact i always enter and no post since i have not a huge knowledge in the genre as you all...so congrats for all those pages of great suggestions .. this days i am listening again to my beloved mexican bands RIO oriented... Nazca and Banda Elastica, i dont know if them have been suggested here, if not, let me give you a hand and try Nazca`s eponymus effort which is pretty good and have an incredible bassoon and some mexican folkish sounds...

Banda Elastica has a couple of albums reviewed by me, (if you wish you can chek those horribles reviews) which i like very much, i saw them in concert 3 or 4 months ago and that was a great and new experience for me...

Follow me on twitter @memowakeman

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Posted: September 21 2006 at 18:55

Hola Guillermo,

I have already read your Banda Elastica reviews (as well as other reviews... Iconoclasta comes to mind). Good work. Every review is important to help others discovers these bands.

Here are Memo's reviews:

http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=82504

http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=71882

I need to listen to them more. I have some songs of them and also Ai Tencargo .

And what about NAZCA?

http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=78187

I still haven't heard them, but reading your review above about their s/t album makes me want to get it.

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Posted: September 21 2006 at 19:04

^^^Very curious about Nazca.

I find Banda Elastica to be a bit uneven - I like Ai Tencargo alot - excellent quite jazzy album - very much to my likings.

Banda elastica 2 is also very good. But the other one I have by them "Catalogo del Tiraderos", which is sort of compilation of previously unreleased (?) works, is hardly listenable for me.

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Posted: September 21 2006 at 20:36

BE2 you say? Very well, I'll see what I can come up with.

If we go further south we will find Akineton Retard from Chile which also deliver energetic music in which I hear KC (mixed era's, say Red and mostly Larks), but they have two saxophonists doing a marvelous job at introducing crazy sax playing (a-la-Zorn perhaps) and also fusion is thrown in there.

I only have their first release, but if the others are as good as this one, then I should definitely get them as well.

http://www.progarchives.com/Progressive_rock_discography_BAND.asp?band_id=2074

Read Cesar Inca's review:

http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=53047

and Hugues Chantraine's review:

http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=61744

http://www.akineton.cl/

A band to be discovered. I ought to write a review for their s/t.

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Posted: September 22 2006 at 05:07

Don't forget Astrid Proll of Puerto Rico. Wink

Overall, they're probably more Art Rock, but one track in particular 88MHz is definitely RIO/Avant-Garde and oh what a track it is!

Recommend to you guys for sure.

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Posted: September 22 2006 at 10:01

Who/what is this Astrid Pröll anyway? It seems like it's all you've been listening to lately. Tongue

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Posted: September 22 2006 at 20:40

Astrid Pröll you say?

Artist Information

Instrumentation
Agustin Criollo - Bass guitar, Vocals, Synth, Guitars
Georgie Castro- Guitars, Alto Sax
Fernando Rosado - Drums
Andres Lugo - Prepared guitars, percussion, synth.

Biography
Formed in summer 2004 by 4 veterans of the local experimental music scene:Astrid Proll adds up to the new local avant-garde musical movement with a challenging and broad sound. The innevitable conclusion of more than 15 years of musical career. Agustin "Chito" Criollo on Bass guitar, Synths and Vocals; Georgie Castro-Ramirez on Guitars and Alto Sax; Andres Lugo on Synths, Prepared Guitars and Percussion and Fernando Rosado on Drums and Percussion compose this already infamous quartet of Experiemental Prog-Psyche Rock band. It is intended that Astrid Pröll's musical proposal, at times chaotic at times apocalyptic, mirrors the social and political reality that surrounds it. Their debut CD, released on the local indie label Noisex Records, depicts the cornerstone of all future AP's recordings blending some of the most visible influences of tha band together in a "Hallucinating Journey of Epic Proportions through Frenetic Rythms and Blissfull Noise..." This is only the beginning of a new cicle for these not-so-new performers from the local scene. An innevitable evolution towards a musical territory much more faithful to their music's reality. The developing of a work space that will be able to integrate the artist and his endevour. Be that as it may, we will always know it as Astrid Pröll.

Website
http://www.astridproll.com

Discography
"The Astrid Pröll Bootleg" (EP) 2004
"Astrid Pröll" (CD) 2006

Smile

Great band. Great album. Very diverse (from Kraut, to post-rock to RIO, to KC influence to jazz to ambience and more!). Geck0 made a review of them at RYM so check it out as well.
http://rateyourmusic.com/artist/astrid_proll

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Posted: September 23 2006 at 00:19

I was going over the Zeuhl list bands here and saw this (again) - This French band PSEU which has no bio and only one rating w/o review.

Anyone heard them, by any chance?

Oh and Yukorin, I am making progress with the list....

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Posted: September 23 2006 at 08:23

Cham: Sounds cool! I think I'll check them out some time.

Av: Sorry, don't know them

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Posted: September 26 2006 at 12:23

bump....

So what's in the RIO/Avant dept?

Any new additions coming soon?

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Posted: September 26 2006 at 12:24

Assaf (avestin) is working on a few. Wink

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Posted: September 26 2006 at 13:58

Young wrote:

bump....

So what's in the RIO/Avant dept?

Any new additions coming soon?

I have done the bio for Otolithen and am now in the finishing process of the Forever Einstein bio.

After that I will work on the Doctor Nerve bio and finally on the Israeli band's bio - Kruzenshtern & Parohod.

I hope to have the first two added by this weekend and the other two next week (but I am not promising anything.

I am using every spare moments to work on their additions).

With every addition made, I will post the link here as well. So you can all rush and write reviews....

Edited by avestin - September 26 2006 at 14:00

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Posted: September 26 2006 at 14:04

avestin wrote:

Young wrote:

bump....

So what's in the RIO/Avant dept?

Any new additions coming soon?

I have done the bio for Otolithen and am now in the finishing process of the Forever Einstein bio.

After that I will work on the Doctor Nerve bio and finally on the Israeli band's bio - Kruzenshtern & Parohod.

I hope to have the first two added by this weekend and the other two next week (but I am not promising anything.

I am using every spare moments to work on their additions).

With every addition made, I will post the link here as well. So you can all rush and write reviews....

As if...

I'm afraid you're the only one who actually works here, Assaf. Wink

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Posted: September 26 2006 at 18:49

I added Otolithen here:

http://www.progarchives.com/Progressive_rock_discography_BAND.asp?band_id=2621

I added Forever Einstein here:

http://www.progarchives.com/Progressive_rock_discography_BAND.asp?band_id=2622

(I will add their discography shortly).

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