#avant-prog

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Tracklist:

Proclamation • So Sincere • Aspirations • Playing The Game • Cogs In Cogs • No God's A Man • The Face • Valedictory

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This Heat // Paper Hats

Well, what do we expect? Paper hats? Or maybe even roses? The sounds of explosions?

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Japanese Freaks / Weird Japan

Geinoh Yamashirogumi - 恐山 (Osorezan) from: 芸能山城組 (Geinoh Yamashirogumi) - 恐山 (Osorezan) / 銅之剣舞 (Dou No Kenbai) (Victor, 1976)

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Samla Mammas Manna - Klossa knapitatet  Region: Sweden (Uppsala) / Style: Rock in Opposition / Year: 1974 LIKED

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black midi - Hellfire

Album • 2023

art rock, avant-prog

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black midi - Cavalcade

Working backwards from their discography, Cavalcade was next up. This album maintains the off-kilter song structures and off-the-wall productions from Schlagenheim, and still contains the jazz fusion and experimentation that Hellfire had (but without the thematic constraints). The songs in this album play with dynamic extremes, going from wild highs ("John L", "Chrondomalacia Patella", "Hogwash and Balderdash") to whisper-quiet lows ("Diamond Stuff", "Ascending Forth"). From the get-go, black midi is always self-assured in their sound and aesthetic, which is why the change in style from an incredibly volatile record like Schlagenheim to Cavalcade was not at all jarring.

Favourites:

(Yeah, this is gonna be another one where all of the songs are my favourite. Each song is consistently good and there's just so much detail in the chaos.)

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HENRY COW formed: 1968 disbanded: 1978

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Perfect - s/t LP

Avant-prog, jazz-rock from Northeast Ohio

Sam Holik - Guitar, Bass Jake Ross - Drums, Percussion Sam Colgrove - Bass, Guitar Ian Palmerton - Vocals Michael Weber - Keyboards, Percussion Eric Perez - Alto Sax, Tenor Sax, Guitar, Vocals Produced by Michael Weber Art by Sam Colgrove Recorded at Akron Recording Company in Akron, Ohio and Lighthouse Studios in Hudson, Ohio Live bonus track recorded at Zephyr Pub in Kent by Auggie of Hobo Phantasm, thanks eternal!

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PoiL Ueda / Yoshitsune PoiL Ueda (2023)

The Heike Monogatari’s legends and tales are epic and ancient; they’re of the sort of scale and magnitude for which only the tense minimalism of folk music seems appropriate. One imagines that trying to actually match such drama with sonic scale would produce incomprehensibly bombastic, maniacally cluttered music – and yet that’s exactly what PoiL Ueda attempted on these two records last year. The results, instead of messy or overblown, are superb. Junko Ueda presides as chief storyteller of the project’s renditions of the Heike Monogatari, leading with a droning traditional Japanese singing style and an always-legible satsuma biwa. French proggers PoiL, despite their vast capacity for volume, only ever supplement and enhance Ueda; restrained but still dextrous and transportive collaborators. Transportive musical epics worthy of the ancient stories within.

Pick(s): ‘Kujô shakujô, Pt. 3’, ‘Kumo Pt. 1’

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38. Monika Roscher Bigband | Witchy Activities and the Maple Death

🇩🇪 Allemagne | Zenna Records | 64 minutes | 15 morceaux

L’allemande Monika Roscher et sa vingtaine de musiciens s’adonnent ici à un déluge sonore pyrotechnique et labyrinthique ébouriffant, mêlant les esthétiques jazz, rock, zeuhl ou encore dark cabaret dans une œuvre furieusement originale et électrisante.

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Tracklist:

953 • Speedway • Reggae • Near DT, MI • Western • Of Schlagenheim • bmbmbm • Years Ago • Ducter

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THIS HEAT

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This Heat / Albert Marcœur - This Heat / Albert Marcœur

UK / France, 1982, experimental rock / avant-prog

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Artista: Black Midi Álbum: Hellfire Ano: 2022 Faixas/Tempo: 10/38min Estilo: Avant-Prog/Brutal Prog/Jazz Rock/Art Rock Data de Execução: 04/10/2023 Nota: 5,7 Melhor Música: Still