RIO/Avant Drop-In Centre

This thread has been started based on a good recommendation by Pnoom!

Due to an impending closure of the original RIO thread, please post all your loving comments about RIO/Avant (I would think Zeuhl is welcome as well) in here instead of the original.  That way, the original can remain accessible for reading informative old posts.

It would really be good if an admin could lock and sticky the old thread as well.

Thanks! 

WURDAH OLD THREAD WURDAH OLD THREAD!

Edited by mecca - August 12 2008 at 18:19

Could we rename this to 'The RIO Room' ?

Yes but what's the RPM of this thread, Patrick?

*thinks about how he can make this thread get back on topic again*

Oh yes, Pocket Orchestra, I've had an excerpt of one of their tracks stuck in my brain for a bit today.   Excellent band and you need to find their album somehow.


Edited by James - August 13 2008 at 10:17

This thread needs more

Hang on lol,  I just realized this one's called the RIO AND Avante thread, not just RIO.
In that case, I've got more to talk about in here then.

Hey hey. 

Been doing some more listening today.  I'm off on holiday to Norway next week, so I went to the library and looked at guide books, and listened to 'Heresie' again.  It goes rather well with Vikings, I think. *would insert Viking emoticon if there was one*

One thing I've been noticing, though, is that sometimes when I play Univers Zero, my mind tends to wander.  (Reading at the same time doesn't help, obviously, but still...)  I'm sure in time the dots will connect a bit more with it - it's not exactly easy listening territory, after all - but when Present is on, it's so obsessively catchy, I can't ignore it.   'Certitudes' is destined for heavy rotation chez moi, je crois.

Third play of 'Ahvak' is in progress as I type and it really does seem to get better with each listen.  It does have a slightly clinical feel, somehow, which is a bit odd.  I prefer the bits that 'rock' more, if you know what I mean...

Speaking of 'bits that rock', I walked home from town whilst listening to Weidorje.  Music to put a silly grin on your face...! <--- silly grin.

Apparently the last.fm/ipod problem is to do with the latest itunes update, so it's not just me being a Luddite.  It's a shame, because I daresay my holiday listening habits won't be recorded for posterity, but here is a perfect opportunity not to care about such trifles and just enjoy the music!  (I shall still take a daily dose of Magma, though... )

song_of_copper wrote: Hey hey.  Been doing some more listening today.  I'm off on holiday to Norway next week, so I went to the library and looked at guide books, and listened to 'Heresie' again.  It goes rather well with Vikings, I think. *would insert Viking emoticon if there was one* One thing I've been noticing, though, is that sometimes when I play Univers Zero, my mind tends to wander.  (Reading at the same time doesn't help, obviously, but still...)  I'm sure in time the dots will connect a bit more with it - it's not exactly easy listening territory, after all - but when Present is on, it's so obsessively catchy, I can't ignore it.   'Certitudes' is destined for heavy rotation chez moi, je crois. Third play of 'Ahvak' is in progress as I type and it really does seem to get better with each listen.  It does have a slightly clinical feel, somehow, which is a bit odd.  I prefer the bits that 'rock' more, if you know what I mean... Speaking of 'bits that rock', I walked home from town whilst listening to Weidorje.  Music to put a silly grin on your face...! <--- silly grin. Apparently the last.fm/ipod problem is to do with the latest itunes update, so it's not just me being a Luddite.  It's a shame, because I daresay my holiday listening habits won't be recorded for posterity, but here is a perfect opportunity not to care about such trifles and just enjoy the music!  (I shall still take a daily dose of Magma, though... )

Oh I like that clinical feel.  The whole Ahvak album makes me smile like Weidorje make you smile (although Weidorje makes me smile just as much) and I wouldn't change it for the world.  The melodic and rocky bits of many chamber pieces tend to get similar (maybe why you're having issues with UZ) and it's the clinical parts that make Ahvak so much different and more interesting than many chamber prog bands.

Plus Ahvak's album sounds like how I think an industrial album should sound.  It's futuristic, rather than medieaval (like UZ and Present) and it's a welcome change.  I think that's why I like Guapo too, 'cause they're also futuristic and clinical.

I don't know Certitudes yet.


Edited by James - August 13 2008 at 14:40

I like clammy sweatiness. 

Except Ahvak doesn't feel like that to my ears.  Now Far Corner do sound clinical and in the wrong way.  Far Corner (and in some instances, NeBeLNeST) occasionally lack emotion and therefore sound boring.

Ahvak never sound boring and there's so much going on and it oozes with supremely infectious atmosphere it really works for me.

Ahvak is the soundtrack to Blade whilst UZ albums are the soundtrack to something Lovecraftian, or a horror.

Basically, Ahvak are 21st century chamber prog (it is chamber prog, even if it doesn't sound like chamber prog... I know, I think weirdly... but they're influenced by bands such as UZ and Present, I believe) and are more akin to a great science fiction sountrack.

The "industrial" sound I hear is just brilliant and no other band I've heard sounds like them.  It was an instant hit for me bit with each and every listen, it gets better and better.  It's apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic at the same time.

Give it some love and try and understand that "intellectual" clinicalness.