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Cesar Inca 
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 Topic: OCTOBER EQUUSPosted: June 23 2006 at 08:37 |
Calling all RIO specialists in ProgArchives!!
I'd like to strongly suggest the addition of Spànish RIO band OCTOBER EQUUS. Their debut album is excellent, muscular, sophisticated - influenced by Present, King Crimson and Henry Cow's rockier side. It's already been highly praised in several prog -ezines around the globe.
If you will, I can write a review and more data about the band once this band gets the approval it certainly deserves.
Kind regards!!
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avestin
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Posted: June 23 2006 at 10:32 |
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I will look for samples of them, but from a first glance at various sites on them I can see that you are probably right.
Joren, can you add this to our list? |
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Cesar Inca
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Posted: June 23 2006 at 12:18 |
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Yeah, this is a paradox. I'm kind of an expert on this particular band, but since I'm not officially a RIO/7Avant Prog specialist, I'm not allowed to go any further than saying "hey, there's this new band I've just listened to..."
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chopper
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Posted: June 28 2006 at 13:59 |
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Noted.
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Joren
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Posted: July 06 2006 at 18:07 |
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Officially (or in an ideal case), we need/want to hear some samples before we (can) vote for their inclusion. But if you have some info about them which proves they are RIO, that might suffice too.
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Cesar Inca
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Posted: July 13 2006 at 09:00 |
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Sea of Tranquility: http://www.seaoftranquility.org/reviews.php?op=showcontent&id=3436
Rock Impressions http://rock-impressions.com/octoberequus1.htm
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Joren
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Posted: July 16 2006 at 09:05 |
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Well, they are on our chart now, but I'm not so sure about them, so I won't vote before I've heard some samples.
Edited by Joren - July 17 2006 at 10:20 |
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Cesar Inca
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Posted: August 01 2006 at 10:07 |
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No news yet regarding this excellent proposed Prog Archives entry?
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Cesar Inca
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Posted: August 01 2006 at 10:10 |
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There are no samples available because they're just starting a new version of their original and now defunct website. That one had some good samples. Muse are better known and have lots of samples everywhere, so I guess that it was really easy to incerpt them here as Prog-related or whatever. Yet, when it comes to an authentic prog band, we ProgArchivists become demanding and unforgiving... or so it seems...
Kind regards.
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Sean Trane
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Posted: August 02 2006 at 02:57 |
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Yes, Prog-Resiste did a feature on them this month
Here is the address
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
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Cesar Inca
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Posted: August 05 2006 at 17:31 |
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Cruzial was a colelctive association of various Spanish bands, October Equus being one of them; since the collective doesn't exist anymore, neither does its Internet server... That link is outdated, but at the time, it had 3 o 4 good audio samples from the band's material. Thank you, Sean, for the effort.
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avestin
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Posted: August 07 2006 at 12:04 |
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I voted yes on their inclusion.
We need to wait the other team members to vote as well.
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Cesar Inca
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Posted: August 13 2006 at 12:48 |
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Audio samples of October Equus!!
Here at http://www.myspace.com/equusoctober - three tracks from their debut album. Don't mind the Reggaeton / Hawaiian label. Guitarist Ángel Ontalva made that Myspace blog in a hurry: I suggested he published some OE music in the Internet, and this is something he has effectively done to help us understand the value of October Equus as a ProgArchives item.
I hope the specialists find the material interesting: I think it's great, since October Equus sounds like a band that intends to provide serious freshness to the RIO trend of prog.
Kind regards.
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avestin
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Posted: August 13 2006 at 19:16 |
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Hi Cesar,
If it were up to me, they would have already been added. From all the samples I heard so far (in myspace and in "other" places) I find them to be fitting the RIo genre very mucha nd also a great band.
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Cesar Inca
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Posted: September 05 2006 at 01:13 |
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OCTOBER EQUUS is already in Proggnosis http://www.proggnosis.com/MUSIC_DBArtist.asp?txtArtistID=5961
They even included their free demo!
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avestin
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Posted: September 08 2006 at 09:25 |
Hi Cesar,
Now that this band has been approved, I want to add them asap.
So if you can provide me with either sources of information on them (websites etc), or you have written a bio yourself this could speed up things.
PM me all that you have and I will get this done.
Best regards
Assaf
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Cesar Inca
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Posted: September 09 2006 at 12:16 |
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OK, Avestin. I'll be writing an October Equus biography during this weekend and PM it to you afterwards.
Thanks to you and all the specialists for this important inclusion.
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avestin
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Posted: September 09 2006 at 13:44 |
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Thank you, Cesar.
I will add them asap.
Edited by avestin - September 09 2006 at 13:59 |
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