"Avant Prog" Recommendations
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Topic: "Avant Prog" Recommendations
Posted By: Skalla-Grim
Subject: "Avant Prog" Recommendations
Date Posted: July 30 2015 at 17:31
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I must admit I don't know as much "avant prog" as I want to. I like Koenjihyakkei very much, but I don't know much more than them. OK, Univers Zero, Art Zoyd, Henry Cow, Art Bears, but not many more. The sub-genre page says:
Now all that sounds good, except the part about free or experimental improvisation. I'm not looking for improvised music. Also I'm not looking for extremely slow music, or totally non-rock music like pure modern classical or jazz music. Though I like elements or influences from classical and jazz very much. I would be thankful if you could recommend me some bands or artists based on these informations. |
Avant-prog is generally considered to be more extreme and 'difficult'
than other forms of progressive rock, though these terms are naturally
subjective and open to interpretation. Common elements that may or may
not be displayed by specific avant-prog artists include:Replies:
Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: July 30 2015 at 17:41
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I'll just list a couple of current faves of mine then:-) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDKRBrE5h4g" rel="nofollow - Samla Mammas Manna - Måltid (classic album from Sweden with lots of strange and beautiful turnovers) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peRzWdE7Rgw" rel="nofollow - Mirthkon - Vehicle (modern avant prog with a quirky reed section and a smidge of Zappa) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cWk3FpOH_o" rel="nofollow - Miriodor - Rencontres (somewhere between Canterbury and and avant) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqoBUuA8g1o" rel="nofollow - Fire! Orchestra - Exit (funky, psychedelic, jazzy and altogether wild) Cue Ian.... ------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: Skalla-Grim
Date Posted: July 30 2015 at 17:49
| Great, thanks. I'm going to look up those albums. |
Posted By: schizoidman
Date Posted: July 30 2015 at 17:52
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Here's a few that I consider classics of Avant Prog: ------------- Making the useless useful 24/7. |
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: July 30 2015 at 18:02
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Excellent choices, even though some of those albums are not, strictly speaking, RIO/Avant prog. Waiting for my partner in crime Ian to chime in, here's some more suggestions: Miriodor - Avanti! (one of my favourite albums of the past 20 years, hands down) Cheer-Accident - Fear Draws Misfortune (very eclectic) Guapo - Five Suns (a true monster of an album, a must for anyone interested in contemporary RIO/Avant) Alec K Redfearn and the Eyesores - Sister Death (utterly mesmerizing, dark Avant-Folk) Aranis - Songs From Mirage (beautiful chamber-prog) Five-Storey Ensemble - Not That City (closer to classical than rock, and gorgeous) Secret Chiefs 3 - Book M (electronics meet Middle-Eastern music) More to come soon  ! |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: July 30 2015 at 20:48
Excellent previous posts,  Here's some more stuff (because its expected of me)  Present - Barbaro (UniversZero with electric guitar) Thinking Plague - Decline & Fall (high composed rehearsal intensive dark avant rock) Birdsong Of The Mesozoic - The Iridium Controversy (Chamber Jazz Rock) Far Corner - Endangered (Chamber Rock) Jean Louis - Morse (French intense nutty jazz influenced rock) Rational Diet - Of Phenomena & Existence (Belarus Chamber Rock) Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - Of Natural History (cookie monster vocals put of some but work with this music, complex avant dark metal with concepts) Upsilon Acrux - Radian Futura (unbelievably complex intense brutal avant jazz rock) Uz Jsme Doma - Caves (Czech folky edgy rock with punky vocals) Alamaailman Vasarat - Huuro Kolkko (Finnish avant metal with cellos, sax & trombone) Pikapika Teart - Moonberry (gorgeous chamber folk from Siberia) Yugen - Iridule (Italian dark complex abrasive chamber rock) Jack O The Clock - All My Friends (US modern avant folk with americana feel) Combat Astronomy - Dreams No Longer Hesitate (crushingly heavy avant metal with dissonant complex vocals) Corima - Quetzalcoatl (US based young modern zeuhl band in the style of Koenjiyakkei) Eskaton - 4 Visions (probably the best of the classic Magma erazeuhl bands with strong dissonant french vocals) Setna - Guerison (probably the best of the modern French mainly instrumental zeuhl (heavy minimalist dark jazz rock)) Vezhlivy Otkaz - Gusi-Lebedi (Geese & Swans) - (Russian edgy avant folk)
------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: LearsFool
Date Posted: July 30 2015 at 21:19
Almost all the big bands named, great lists so far.  It's strange that Cardiacs haven't been mentioned yet, but they're great. Try The Seaside, A Little Man and A House and The Whole World Window, On Land And In The Sea, and Sing To God and see which of those you like. I'd also like to recommend Las Orejas Y La Lengua, a very obscure Argentine band whose second album, Error, is by turns mysterious, relaxing, and beautiful. -------------  
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Posted By: freudiana
Date Posted: July 30 2015 at 21:26
| Check out Zaar, Sotos, Nebelnest, Thinking Plague, October Equus, Far Cornered, and Sleepytime Gorilla Museum. |
Posted By: Skalla-Grim
Date Posted: July 31 2015 at 01:09
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Thank you all very much, I'll need some time to check it all out. @schizoidman: These sound very good, especially Estradasphere and Farmers Market. Some of it reminds me of Bulgarian traditional music. |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: July 31 2015 at 17:41
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If you like the Estradasphere check out Atomic Ape , its the same main guy. ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: July 31 2015 at 17:59
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If you want to listen to some of the albums we recommended before buying them, the Italian label AltrOck Records has all of its releases available on Bandcamp: http://altrockproductions.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - http://altrockproductions.bandcamp.com/ . All those albums are highly recommended (even if not all of them would qualify as Avant). Of course, in my own recommendations I forgot my own #1 album for 2014 - Ut Gret's fabulous Ancestor's Tale, which you will also find on the AltrOck Bandcamp page. |
Posted By: schizoidman
Date Posted: July 31 2015 at 18:26
Glad you like them When I read what you were looking for I saw that it is the same type of prog that I enjoy. All of the bands suggested by the folks who have posted on this thread are very, very good ones. You will probably like most of them. ------------- Making the useless useful 24/7. |
Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: July 31 2015 at 23:58
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_p3tQUtnqKU" rel="nofollow - Buldožer
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Posted By: Toaster Mantis
Date Posted: August 01 2015 at 03:13
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Check out Les Morts Vont Vite by Shub Niggurath. It's like you took an album made only out of the most screwed-up and disturbing parts of other avant-prog bands' discographies, resulting in one of the most intensely terrifying listening experiences in the genre. ------------- "The past is not some static being, it is not a previous present, nor a present that has passed away; the past has its own dynamic being which is constantly renewed and renewing." - Claire Colebrook |
Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: August 01 2015 at 13:43
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^Yup great rec Simon. Oh and how about some Tigrova Mast? Tadahh! BTW I updated my original post with some links  ------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: August 01 2015 at 13:48
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Gravitsapa from Ukraine |
Posted By: terramystic
Date Posted: August 02 2015 at 17:18
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I've found some interesting bands not yet in PA (begging for addition!) on pages of New Amsterdam Records: Big Farm http://bigfarm.bandcamp.com/album/big-farm" rel="nofollow - http://bigfarm.bandcamp.com/album/big-farm The Knells http://theknells.bandcamp.com/album/the-knells" rel="nofollow - http://theknells.bandcamp.com/album/the-knells |
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: August 02 2015 at 17:22
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The Knells (superb outfit, which we had the pleasure of seeing live last year) are on PA: http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=8672" rel="nofollow - http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=8672. Big Farm, on the other hand, are not, and they sound like very good candidates for RIO/Avant. I'll gladly take them to the team for evaluation. Thanks for the suggestion ! |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: August 02 2015 at 17:49
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^ ya ain't kiddin' sista... the Knells rule man... ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: terramystic
Date Posted: August 04 2015 at 03:33
Sorry, I didn't check. This New Amsterdam Records seem to be specialized in modern classical music from New York but a lot of artists are not affraid to integrate rock/pop elements into their music. A good example for other contemporary academic musicians. |
Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: August 04 2015 at 06:14
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I will of course recommend Kayo Dot, Choirs of the Eye is a modern classic as far as I'm concerned but if your not so hot on their metal elements then try Blue Lambency Downward or Coyote. Another Toby Driver project to try would Tartar Lamb, you might like the second album Polyimage of Known Exits more than the first. Here's a few more Fantomas- Suspended Animation Miasma and the Carousel of Headless Horses- Perils NeBeLNeST- ZepTo OOIOO- Kila Kila Kila, Taiga Red Masque- Feathers for Flesh Shinning- Blackjazz Zu- Carboniferous ------------- Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005 
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Posted By: Skalla-Grim
Date Posted: August 05 2015 at 14:11
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Thanks very much to you all for your great interesting recommendations. As I said before, I will need some time to check it all out, but I'm going to look up everything. Very few of them were already known to me, like Shub-Niggurath (I have only their first album, which is great) or Kayo Dot. But most of them are new to me. The Knells (eponymous album) is great! Especially the female vocals. |
Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: August 07 2015 at 02:01
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I'd like to recommend Arktis/Air from Wien, Austria. http://arktisair.bandcamp.com/album/en-trance" rel="nofollow - http://arktisair.bandcamp.com/album/en-trance "Take John Zorn's Painkiller and mix it with the post metal efforts of Isis and the occasional 70's prog experiments in the vein of King Crimson. Garnish the whole sonic spectacle with insane blast beats à la Napalm Death, the complexity and technical finesse of Jazz and add a pinch of Melvins. How do these ingredients blend? Allow Arktis/Air to demonstrate." Michael Ternai, MICA  |