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Points: 89372 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 01 2008 at 16:54
I've had Elixirs for a while and still haven't heard it... although I did hear a track from it.
 
Black Oni = brilliant
Five Suns = very good and I really like it too
 
Miasma... again, had the album and the EP for ages and still haven't spun them.  Maybe I'll spin Elixirs later, if I find time.
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Points: 1065 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 01 2008 at 17:06
Originally posted by Pnoom! Pnoom! wrote:

IMHO Miasma and the Carousel of Headless Horses > Guapo.

Not a huge Guapo fan.  Five Suns would be pretty good if it weren't for the two closing tracks.  Black Oni never hit me.  Elixirs I found mildly interesting at best.

I will recommend the cd The Ruined Map by Rashomon ("pen" name of an ex-Guapo member/founder).

Oh well - to each his own! Smile

Great Scott, not another related project... Confused  But the description looks interesting.  Another for the list of things to hear! Tongue
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Points: 1065 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 01 2008 at 17:15
Originally posted by James James wrote:

I've had Elixirs for a while and still haven't heard it... although I did hear a track from it.
 
Black Oni = brilliant
Five Suns = very good and I really like it too
 
Miasma... again, had the album and the EP for ages and still haven't spun them.  Maybe I'll spin Elixirs later, if I find time.

Dear me, you're terrible!! LOL

Let us know what you think... if you find a moment! Big%20smile
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Points: 4981 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 01 2008 at 17:28
I reviewed Rashomon's CD on www.progressiveears.com.  I had quoted it here but I'm too lazy to redo that post after getting a forum error.
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Points: 89372 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 01 2008 at 17:35

Don't forget Æthenor either, Melissa. Wink  Yet another Daniel O'Sullivan project.  They have two albums currently.

I must try and find their CDs... I don't know what to expect yet.


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Very timely: just received this info. from Cuneifom (via the 'avant-progressive' Yahoo group):-

Forthcoming European live performance dates for Guapo:

September 18 - Botanique - Bruxelles, Belgium
Sepember 19 - Zxzw Festival - Tilberg, The Netherlands
September 20 - MTC - Cologne, Germany
September 22 - Magnet Club - Berlin, Germany
September 24 - Klub 007 - Prague, Czech Republic
September 25 - Arena - Vienna, Austria
September 27 - Sinister Noise Club - Rome, Italy
September 29 - Feierwerk - Munich, Germany
September 30 - Le Cab - Geneva, Switzerland

Various other bands of interest to PA people are also out and about, but that's not for this thread... Tongue
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I heard Elixers. It was pretty nice.
<font color=white>butts, lol[/COLOR]
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Originally posted by song_of_copper song_of_copper wrote:

Very timely: just received this info. from Cuneifom (via the 'avant-progressive' Yahoo group):-

Forthcoming European live performance dates for Guapo:

September 18 - Botanique - Bruxelles, Belgium
Sepember 19 - Zxzw Festival - Tilberg, The Netherlands
September 20 - MTC - Cologne, Germany
September 22 - Magnet Club - Berlin, Germany
September 24 - Klub 007 - Prague, Czech Republic
September 25 - Arena - Vienna, Austria
September 27 - Sinister Noise Club - Rome, Italy
September 29 - Feierwerk - Munich, Germany
September 30 - Le Cab - Geneva, Switzerland

Various other bands of interest to PA people are also out and about, but that's not for this thread... Tongue


No English gig though. Cry
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Points: 89372 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 01 2008 at 18:07
Originally posted by moreitsythanyou moreitsythanyou wrote:

I heard Elixers. It was pretty nice.


Elixirs

Wink

Two "i"
One "e"

Big%20smile

Sorry, I've seen Elixirs misspelled here so many times, it's starting to get to me. LOLEmbarrassed
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Points: 1065 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 01 2008 at 18:35
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No English gig though. Cry

Aargh, I know! Unhappy

I think I'd like to move to Brussels.  Belgium is where it's at. Big%20smile
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Points: 89372 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 01 2008 at 18:43
Originally posted by song_of_copper song_of_copper wrote:

Originally posted by James James wrote:


No English gig though. Cry

Aargh, I know! Unhappy

I think I'd like to move to Brussels.  Belgium is where it's at. Big%20smile


Or Paris.

I could go to Le Triton a lot. Big%20smile
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Originally posted by James James wrote:

Originally posted by song_of_copper song_of_copper wrote:

Originally posted by James James wrote:


No English gig though. Cry

Aargh, I know! Unhappy

I think I'd like to move to Brussels.  Belgium is where it's at. Big%20smile

Or Paris.

I could go to Le Triton a lot. Big%20smile

Paris would also work, but Belgium is the home of finest chocolate, and of course finest avant-chamber-prog. LOL
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Points: 89372 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 01 2008 at 18:58
Originally posted by song_of_copper song_of_copper wrote:

Originally posted by James James wrote:

Originally posted by song_of_copper song_of_copper wrote:

Originally posted by James James wrote:


No English gig though. Cry

Aargh, I know! Unhappy

I think I'd like to move to Brussels.  Belgium is where it's at. Big%20smile

Or Paris.

I could go to Le Triton a lot. Big%20smile

Paris would also work, but Belgium is the home of finest chocolate, and of course finest avant-chamber-prog. LOL


That's true but I think Univers Zero play in Paris more the Bruxelles. LOL

Speaking of which, I need to find some Albert Huybrechts.  He was a Belgian composer of chamber music in the 20th century and his compositions are not very well know outside of Belgium, I do not believe.  They were an influence on the members of Univers Zero. Big%20smile
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Originally posted by James James wrote:

That's true but I think Univers Zero play in Paris more the Bruxelles. LOL

Speaking of which, I need to find some Albert Huybrechts.  He was a Belgian composer of chamber music in the 20th century and his compositions are not very well know outside of Belgium, I do not believe.  They were an influence on the members of Univers Zero. Big%20smile

I was thinking more along the lines of joining a group! Big%20smile  I am a proud descendant of musical Belgians, don't you know. LOL

Haha, questing for obscure Belgian composers.  I get the feeling that this is a most Jamesian venture. Wink
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Points: 89372 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 01 2008 at 19:09
Originally posted by song_of_copper song_of_copper wrote:

Originally posted by James James wrote:

That's true but I think Univers Zero play in Paris more the Bruxelles. LOL

Speaking of which, I need to find some Albert Huybrechts.  He was a Belgian composer of chamber music in the 20th century and his compositions are not very well know outside of Belgium, I do not believe.  They were an influence on the members of Univers Zero. Big%20smile

I was thinking more along the lines of joining a group! Big%20smile  I am a proud descendant of musical Belgians, don't you know. LOL

Haha, questing for obscure Belgian composers.  I get the feeling that this is a most Jamesian venture. Wink


It is.

I've only ever found one recording of Huybrechts' chamber works... I'll have a look on Amazon.

Which musical Belgians would these be, then?
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Originally posted by James James wrote:

Originally posted by song_of_copper song_of_copper wrote:

I was thinking more along the lines of joining a group! Big%20smile  I am a proud descendant of musical Belgians, don't you know. LOL

Haha, questing for obscure Belgian composers.  I get the feeling that this is a most Jamesian venture. Wink

It is.

I've only ever found one recording of Huybrechts' chamber works... I'll have a look on Amazon.

Which musical Belgians would these be, then?

Exquisitely obscure ones! LOL

(My great-grandfather was a violinist and occasional composer, nobody important really!  But he did study under Ysaye, and once owned a Stradivarius.  I'm guessing that got sold to pay debts... Ouch)
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Points: 89372 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 01 2008 at 20:27
I really like this review: http://www.progressiveworld.net/guapo.html

Maybe this is how I should write reviews... oooh!


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Points: 89372 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 01 2008 at 21:06
Je ne sais pas si je préfère Yoshi ou Dave Smith

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Points: 89372 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 01 2008 at 22:06
Black Oni III = help me out of this epileptic state!  Cannot stop moving to it!

I think it'd have made a better soundtrack to 28 Days Later, than Godspeed! did.  Seriously.

Elixirs is up next for me... by all the hype, I'm going to love it!
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Five Suns is my favorite, its relentless and barbaric therefor it satisfies me the most out of the 3 CDs of theirs I own, but I still haven't heard Elixirs yet...from what I've read it doesn't seem I'd like as much, but someday I'll give it a try
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