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Hi. The name's Ori. Ori. I'm not telling you my last name you creep. Sheesh.

Anyhoo. I was born in Tel Aviv, Israel. I'm an Israeli and all, but my entire childhood has consisted of moving overseas. I lived in Panama when I was a toddler, in Rome when I was a child, and in Tenafly, New Jersey, when I was a teen. Moving around has been good fun but hell it's good to be back in the homeland! I love Tel Aviv very much and in my eyes it is probably my most favorite city. The constant non-stop energy and the nice people just make it a really fun place to live in.

So now that I have written the necessary Israeli propaganda, I guess... prog? Prog is fun. Good. Out of the way.

Alright alright so I probably got the prog bug when I was around 13-14. My dad is quite the progger himself but until I asked him if he ever heard of Yes I didn't even know he was a prog fan (I didn't know what prog was though, yet). I was very much into Yes after my friend lent me "Fragile" and the "Yes Album" and I was ecstatic about this whole new world of music. I was quite enamored with the classics- Jethro Tull, Yes as I mentioned, Led Zeppelin, Hendrix, Genesis, and such. Though I was always more interested in the weirder songs. If they were weird and catchy at the same time I would be obsessed with them. And so one day my dad said "I think you're ready for King Crimson" and gave me "Red". Needless to say, I was insanely obsessed with King Crimson for a few years. Every album, every fact, detail about the music. "Lark's Tongue In Aspic" quickly became my then favorite album of all time. Shockingly enough, I came up with my username because I really did consider KC some sort of religion (so yes maybe I was a bit too enthusiastic but damn it I was 15).

So a couple of prog filled years go past. I get really heavily into stuff like Canterbury, and Krautrock bands (Can, Soft Machine, Neu!, Hatfield and the North, Gong, National Health) and was really digging the more experimental noisy sides of stuff. I guess it was around this time that I found this website, and hell PA was a great source for me. The biggest revelation for me here has probably been the RIO/ Avant-prog sub-genre. This is the genre where much of the music I enjoy today is cataloged under. It is in this very sub-genre that I found my absolute most favorite band- Cardiacs. I'm a Cardiacs freak. I'm a Cardiacs nutjob. I'm coocoo for Cardiacs. This very band, has shaped my life philosophy in a way that really shouldn't be possible by just music. I wouldn't say I'm an obsessive guy, even though I just proved otherwise, but Cardiacs have filled up my world like no other band. So I guess they're my eternal favorite. For at least another year.

Anyway, I was made a prog reviewer 27, June 2012 (that is today. Unless it isn't) and I greatly enjoy the fact that the admins enjoyed my reviews enough to promote me. So thanks for that.

I think you will observe that my rating average is usually rather high. That is because I usually review albums that I really like and feel should get more exposition. I probably ain't gonna review an album with many ratings, just because I feel there's so much unknown music that I can share with people and help support musicians hiding in the shadow of the unknown. Also reviewing good music is more fun :D .

Also, I guess my favorite sub-genres here (though sub-genres are overrated and all) are: RIO/Avant-Prog, Krautrock, the metal sub-genres, Zheul, Canterbury. I'm usually not too crazy on modern Symphonic Prog and Neo-prog, though most of the music I listen to today is "modern" or "not from the 1970s", but hell good music is good music. Bad music on the other hand, is not good music. I like good pop music as much as I like good black metal as much as I like Prog and anything in between.

I guess current favorite bands or something? Yeahhh:

Cardiacs and everything remotely related
Fred Frith and anything he has touched
Secret Chiefs 3
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum and everything the members have ever touched.
Bob Drake
Deathspell Omega
The Residents
Captain Beefheart
Kruzenshtern I Parohod
NoMeansNo
Pak
Virus (mostly their first album which I adore very much)

and a million billion others.

I'm also a former drummer, and currently pretty much a bassist. Good fun.

Also, if you want me to review something I guess you can just send me a PM, or an e-mail at oreo_mlk@yahoo.com . That email was created in the 4th grade and I have been stuck with it ever since. It is my curse.

Anyway much love to all!

See you in Tel Aviv if you're ever here...

Sub-genre Nb of reviews Avg rating 1 RIO/Avant-Prog 19 4.63 2 Tech/Extreme Prog Metal 5 4.00 3 Eclectic Prog 3 3.67 4 Crossover Prog 3 4.00 5 Canterbury Scene 3 4.67 6 Krautrock 1 5.00 7 Various Genres 1 5.00 8 Symphonic Prog 1 2.00 9 Experimental/Post Metal 1 5.00