RIO/Avant Drop-In Centre

This intrigues me:


I love the disjointedness of this band's sound.  I'll probably look into ordering the album next time I get myself some music.

And I found this one through that one, will probably also look into some of this group:



Edited by SaltyJon - September 07 2012 at 21:13

RedNightmareKing wrote: I'm not majorly into the RIO movement. A good friend of mine got me into a lot of Zappa, Henry Cow, Residents, and John Zorn, but that's really the extent of it.  I know it was VERY important, but sometimes I feel the music gets really... I dunno, weird. That's a terrible way of putting it, but it's just my opinion.

You say weird as if it's a bad thing.

I just saw one of those videos posted in the avant progressive group I'm in on Facebook.  Never checked it out yet (can't yet right now either, since I'm doing homework), but I will do so soon. 

Ligeia Mare (from their facebook page)

"Ligeia Mare is a loose aggregation of musicians within the Boulder/ Denver area who convene to create spontaneous original music.

The group was spawned by the successful collaboration between Farrell Lowe and Dave Willey in a modern dance production at the University of Colorado."

They do some very interesting performance art film soundtrack style stuff, very different from other projects I associate with Dave Willey. Sort of stuff you need a dark room & let it wash over you.

Must admit I like it a lot but it's well outside my normal comfort zone.











Edited by Nogbad_The_Bad - September 04 2012 at 21:48

infocat wrote: 3 Mice!  I've been pondering submitting them for RIO/Avant, but I haven't found any tracks online.  Help?

Check out these samples from Udi Koomran

http://soundcloud.com/udi-koomran/sets/3-mice-send-me-a-postcard-1/

It's a lovely album

ALL 5UUs is excellent!  Thinking Plague might just be my favorite RIO band... I was at one time selling most of their discs.  Look in my signature to find my amazon.com sales page... Might find some audio morsels to suit your pallet...

the one I have for sale is History of Madness...

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000C0FAV?ie=UTF8&seller=APCTMIN53T18W&sn=Avalanchemaster (copy and paste- link chain service not working...)

I really like Steven Kovacs Tickmayer and The Science Group.  Check 'em if you haven't.



Edited by avalanchemaster - September 04 2012 at 20:29

Thinking Plague has always been among my favorite RIO bands.  "In Extremis" totally rocked my world when it came out.  It remains my favorite.  I've barely given the next two albums a chance, and I'm ashamed of myself for that.  But I did buy them, and they're waiting patiently on the shelf for me to come around.  I do like Decline and Fall; but a History of Madness just kind of left me cold at first.

Page six...this is just unacceptable.  WE MUST REVIVE.

Lately I've been listening to a ton of Bob Drake, Thinking Plague, and 5UU's.  On my fifth attempt in a year to buy Thinking Plague's In This Life (I know I could get it as mp3s on Amazon, but mp3s would be an insult to the mighty group).  I've heard that it's many people's favorite by the group, we'll see how it goes for me.  The first half of In Extremis is just freaking perfect, though...the second half sometimes leaves me a bit behind, but still. 

As for Mr. Drake...haven't heard a bad thing come from his pen/mouth/guitar/bass/drums/keyboards/etc. 

Same goes for 5UU's, for the most part (though I've heard mixed things about the earliest material). 

Basically, though...American RIO has really been hitting the spot lately (yes, I know Bob lives in France at the moment, but I'll always associate him with the US scene). 

Opinions?

frippism wrote: ^ it's the best one yet :O

For me that's still the first...I love Hush Hush.

This month's Rabbit Rabbit radio song is awesomesoawesome