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AVANT-GARDE / ROCK / KLEZMER : YOSHIE FRUCHTER

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2008-10-06 09:48:47 by Stefan in MOODSWINGS music :
YOSHIE FRUCHTER PITOM (2008) 320 KBPS Avant-garde rock meets the Jewish tradition in Pitom, a shredding Jewish instrumental band led by Yoshie Fruchter. Born in D.C. and now living in Brooklyn, Yoshie combines influences from Frank Zappa, Sonic Youth and Masada into a rocking band performing catchy, hooky compositions that both pay tribute to...
 
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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
Heeding the admirable, longstanding tradition of music artists entertaining U.S. troops abroad, R&B superstar 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...
 
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Peabody lets loose with the Avant-Garde Ensemble

2008-02-23 19:06:04 by Mike in Avant Music News
 
A reviewer from a recent Peabody performance enlightening As a short introduction (for those unfamiliar with this phrase), 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...
 
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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
 
May 2-3, 2008 - 8PM The Gene Frankel Theatre 24 Bond St. NYC 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...
 
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
 
From AGP The 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...
 
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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)
 
en 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...
 
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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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Avant Garde Project 99: Iannis Xenakis

2008-04-05 12:20:39 by Mike in Avant Music News
 
From AGP The 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...
 
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