RIO/Avant Drop-In Centre

Mascodagama wrote: I was also going to ask if anyone here is digging Hyrrokkin's Pristine Origin album?  One of my favourites of the last year or so, turbocharged free rock with the addition of some great free jazz horns on a couple of tracks. Really like the feel of this, super angular and brain-twisting, but nice and loose at the same time. It's streaming on a Bandcamp page: http://hyrrokkin.bandcamp.com/album/pristine-origin

Mascodagama wrote: Tipographica was awesome!  The most messed-up rhythmic sensibility imaginable, but always swinging - Akira Sotoyama godlike on drums.   I've only got the God Says and Floating Opera albums, and those weren't easy to find without breaking the bank. Would highly recommend both.   Unbeltipo is also excellent but like JamesDoom I get more out of Tipographica, so would look for those first.   Another associated act is Date Course Pentagon Royal Garden (snappy name!) but I've yet to get to grips with their material. From what little I've heard it's a bit like a big band jazz take on the kind of music that Tipographica were doing - quite tasty stuff.

Mellotron Storm wrote: An album I hope to review in the next few days is by the Mexican band ARTERIA. The leader was from the band NAZCA which is more Chamber Rock than anything else. Anyways this album is like listening to a more powerful UNIVERS ZERO. Lots of bassoon and a guitarist who plays in that avant style. Lots of atmosphere, darkness and depth to their sound. Hard to imagine me not giving this 5 stars at this point.

An album I hope to review in the next few days is by the Mexican band ARTERIA. The leader was from the band NAZCA which is more Chamber Rock than anything else. Anyways this album is like listening to a more powerful UNIVERS ZERO. Lots of bassoon and a guitarist who plays in that avant style. Lots of atmosphere, darkness and depth to their sound. Hard to imagine me not giving this 5 stars at this point.

Tipographica was awesome!  The most messed-up rhythmic sensibility imaginable, but always swinging - Akira Sotoyama godlike on drums.

Edited by Mascodagama - December 28 2014 at 07:13

I've only been able to find God ays I Can't Dance, but It's very excellent indeed.

Anyone here familiar with Tipographica from Japan? They were the first RIO band I listened to, because I read that it was somehow similar to Zappa's The Grand Wazoo. Now I'm a little bit familiar with the RIO genre (looking into the classics like Henry Cow, Samla Mammas Manna, Etron Fou Leloublan, Art Bears...) and I freaking love it, but Tipographica is still one of the most unique and complex stuff that I know of.

CPicard wrote: Nogbad_The_Bad wrote: CPicard wrote: I don't dare for Thinking Plague to come and play in Paris, since I've heard that their last concert at Le Triton was far from being full... They played RIO in Carmaux in '12, they were the lead in before Magma on the Saturday & were stunningly good. Yeah, nice for them, but I'm currently living in Paris: a trip to Carmaux is either a 8 hour train trip, or a 12 hour car trip. This is why I hope for them playing near Paris. OR... Since I'm planning to relocate myself to the south of France, I could try to organise RIO concerts in Marseille and its nearby towns.

Dear God, THEY came all the way from Denver Colorado!! I've flown in from the USA the last 4 years for RIO, last year I flew to Paris, saw the Soleil Zeuhl Festival, drove from Paris to Carmaux, then flew back to the USA. Sorry if I don't have much sympathy, with these types of bands you have to be prepared to go to them (or as close as they get to you). You want them to come to your place and then complain that they don't when there's a history of no-one showing up.

Marseille looks like it's 4 hours, if you make there in the future I'll buy you a pint. It's a great festival.


Edited by Nogbad_The_Bad - November 30 2014 at 15:09

TheGazzardian wrote: ^ I think in Marseille, you would be much closer to Carmaux than you would in Paris, no?

Not sure at all. From what I read on the website of the SNCF (the French railways), the Marseille-Carmaux trip could last from 5 to 7 hours.
Gosh.

Nogbad_The_Bad wrote: CPicard wrote: I don't dare for Thinking Plague to come and play in Paris, since I've heard that their last concert at Le Triton was far from being full... They played RIO in Carmaux in '12, they were the lead in before Magma on the Saturday & were stunningly good.

Yeah, nice for them, but I'm currently living in Paris: a trip to Carmaux is either a 8 hour train trip, or a 12 hour car trip.
This is why I hope for them playing near Paris.

OR... Since I'm planning to relocate myself to the south of France, I could try to organise RIO concerts in Marseille and its nearby towns.