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RIO/Avant-Prog

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2007-12-01 22:43:00 by nasti in Progressive Rock
...avant-garde classical structures. Dominated by dissonant chords, odd time meters, polyrhythms, and abstract, sometimes politically-oriented vocals, this style is often dismissed even by die-hard progressive fans. Like the other more avant-garde styles such as Krautrock, it should be listened to, and not just heard. Musicianship is extremely...
 
Tags: prog, avant-prog, rioavant-prog, avant-prog scene, mainstream prog, canterbury prog, prog rock sub-styles, rock, rio
 
 
 
 
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R&B Star Avant in Middle East, performs for US Troops

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2008-09-01 12:04:46 by bandweblogs in Band Weblogs
...Avant is currently performing in Iraq The platinum selling R&B star, recently signed to Capitol Records, was motivated and honored to make the trip in order to raise the morale of U.S. Armed Forces stationed in Iraq and Kuwait. The show dates run from August 23rd to September 1st, 2008 The series of shows, orchestrated by AKA Productions, is...
 
Tags: avant, avant myspace, superstar avant, capitol records, bases, drops october 28th, larger bases, director billy woodruff, iraq
 
 
 
 
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Peabody lets loose with the Avant-Garde Ensemble

2008-02-23 19:06:04 by Mike in Avant Music News
 
...avant-garde in music typically is defined by a lack of attention to a fundamental chord structure or rhythm. John Cage, after whom the Peabody Conseratory Avant-Garde Ensemble (CAGE) is named, was an American composer, best known for his piece Four Minutes and 33 Seconds, in which no instrument is actually played in the conventional sense. It...
 
Tags: piece, fundamental chord structure, john cage, music, contemporary music, controversial piece, recent peabody performance, cage, short introduction
 
 
 
 
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Chicagos Avant-Garde Musicians

2008-03-12 11:35:40 by Mike in Avant Music News
 
Chicagos jazz / avant-rock scene gets praise But whats less well known is that Chicago has continued to nurture generations of innovative musicians. The latest wave bridge the gap between avant-garde jazz and avant-garde or art rock to create a music of unusual texture and power
 
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Avant Media Performance presents Triplicate May 2-3, 2008 featuring the New York premiere of Aqua Madora.

2008-04-23 00:00:00 by newmusicrebloggers in New Music reBlog
 
...Avant Media Performance presents Triplicate an evening of interdisciplinary trios The cornerstone of Triplicate is the New York premiere of Aqua Madora , by Randy Gibson, Ana Baer-Carrillo, and Dani Beauchamp, for just intonation piano, sine wave drones and video dance. Aqua Madora is a defining work in Avant Medias repertoire bringing...
 
Tags: performance, dance, video dance, avant media performance, aqua madora, york premiere, music, live music, unique performance
 
 
 
 
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Avant Garde Project 102: Henry Kaiser, Outside Pleasure

2008-04-26 12:29:02 by Mike in Avant Music News
 
...Avant Garde Project is a series of 20th-century classical-experimental- electroacoustic torrents digitized from LPs whose music has in most cases never been released on CD, and so is effectively inaccessible to the vast majority of music listeners today. This is wild stuff, so check it out if youve never heard this sort of music before. The...
 
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LAZULI - En avant doute... (2007) [rated 4/5 by Finnforest]

2008-01-26 10:44:48 by Editor in Progarchives.com (Progressive rock and related latest reviews)
 
...avant doute (going forward despite everything Lazuli is a French band formed in 1998 who with en avant doute released a work that made many best of 2007 lists. I can certainly understand why. Their myspace site describes the band as somewhere between progressive rock & electro-world, poetry & travelvisiting new territories with a rather...
 
Tags: unique instrument, instrument, album, fantastic album cover, favorite song, vocal, nice vocal, song, dominique leonetti
 
 
 
 
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MONA LISA - Avant Qu'il Ne Soit Trop Tard (1978) [rated 5/5 by Kobaia]

2008-02-02 17:52:26 by Editor in Progarchives.com (Progressive rock and related latest reviews)
 
...Avant Qu'il Ne Soit Trop Tard' Mona Lisa is at the top! It would have been hard to continue after returning from the circus they've had But truthfully speaking, this one is one of the most favourite ones, one of the most impressive progressive records of my record collection. I really don't know how this album should be reviewed at, but...
 
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MONA LISA - Avant Qu'il Ne Soit Trop Tard (1978) [rated 5/5 by Kobaia]

2008-02-03 12:56:19 by Editor in Progarchives.com (Progressive rock and related latest reviews)
 
Avant Qu'il Ne Soit Trop Tard' is one of the most colorful and impressive albums of my record collection and one of my all time favorites. It's so theatrical there may not be anything over this except some other album of Mona Lisa. The musical roots of Mona Lisa are apparently in Genesis and especially in Ange, but Mona Lisa differs from them...
 
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