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Originally posted by Bj-1 Bj-1 wrote:

[QUOTE=avestin]Here's an interview from Expose with Udi Koomran, the engineer and producer for bands such as 5UU's, Ahvak, Sympozion and others.
 
Interesting read, especially the Present part (Embarrassed).
 
Great, thanks for the link, Assaf! Smile

Yes, fascinating!  Thanks! Smile  Net result: immediate playing of Ahvak in my office. Big%20smile  (And... reiteration of decision to purchase entire back catalogue of Present and start counting days to RIOfest. Embarrassed Tongue)
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Originally posted by avestin avestin wrote:

Here's an interview from Expose with Udi Koomran, the engineer and producer for bands such as 5UU's, Ahvak, Sympozion and others.
 
 
 
 
Interesting read, especially the Present part (Embarrassed).
 
Great, thanks for the link, Assaf! Smile
 
 
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Originally posted by NaturalScience NaturalScience wrote:

Originally posted by MovingPictures07 MovingPictures07 wrote:

Someone needs to set up a RIO music shop with nothing but floors of RIO/Avant music. That would be epic. LOL
I would travel far and prepare to spend much at such a place...Stern%20Smile

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Hehe.  We would all have to work there for free to pay our debts. LOL


I wouldn't mind working there though. That'd be awesome! Big%20smile

Plus, it would be like a PA-exclusive shop, since everyone who works there and many of those who visit would be from PA. LOL
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Originally posted by MovingPictures07 MovingPictures07 wrote:

Someone needs to set up a RIO music shop with nothing but floors of RIO/Avant music. That would be epic. LOL
I would travel far and prepare to spend much at such a place...Stern%20Smile

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Hehe.  We would all have to work there for free to pay our debts. LOL
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Originally posted by NaturalScience NaturalScience wrote:

I was able to get into Art Zoyd a bit more, listened to them a lot more yesterday.  As Henry stated on the last page, for all the emusic people who haven't yet checked them out, they have a great compilation of their first three albums on there.  Lot easier to get than trying to find CDs for sure.


I have the first two, but some of their CDs have proven to be really hard to find. They are pretty good though; I need to listen to them more.

Someone needs to set up a RIO music shop with nothing but floors of RIO/Avant music. That would be epic. LOL


I would travel far and prepare to spend much at such a place...Stern%20Smile

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Originally posted by NaturalScience NaturalScience wrote:

I was able to get into Art Zoyd a bit more, listened to them a lot more yesterday.  As Henry stated on the last page, for all the emusic people who haven't yet checked them out, they have a great compilation of their first three albums on there.  Lot easier to get than trying to find CDs for sure.


I have the first two, but some of their CDs have proven to be really hard to find. They are pretty good though; I need to listen to them more.

Someone needs to set up a RIO music shop with nothing but floors of RIO/Avant music. That would be epic. LOL
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I was able to get into Art Zoyd a bit more, listened to them a lot more yesterday.  As Henry stated on the last page, for all the emusic people who haven't yet checked them out, they have a great compilation of their first three albums on there.  Lot easier to get than trying to find CDs for sure.
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Originally posted by Henry Plainview Henry Plainview wrote:

I'm going to ask a strange question: what avant bands would you guys consider bad? I want to hear it because I'm questioning my ability to tell the difference, and when 90% of everything sucks, I'm surprised that there is so little negativity in this thread, or around any avant group.
 
 
I was a little disappointed with Wapassou from France, although their albums still are decent. Sounds like a combination between Mike Oldfield and Art Zoyd at times, but less interesitng to me. However, I haven't listened to their albums in a long time now..
 
 
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Here's an interview from Expose with Udi Koomran, the engineer and producer for bands such as 5UU's, Ahvak, Sympozion and others.
 
 
 
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Originally posted by James James wrote:

Not terrible but Far Corner are pretty uninspiring and NeBeLNeST's early albums a little uninspired too.Jake, the thing is, someone out there will enjoy that!

I kind of liked Far Corner's newest album, although I only listened to it once. So I guess that proves your point?


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Originally posted by rileydog22 rileydog22 wrote:

It would probably get more attention than my actual music does  Cry


Just throw in some Bassoon and get Kerman to play drums and you are the next American avant superstar!
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It would probably get more attention than my actual music does  Cry

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Not terrible but Far Corner are pretty uninspiring and NeBeLNeST's early albums a little uninspired too.

Jake, the thing is, someone out there will enjoy that!
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I'm sure there's bad stuff out there; I could blow into a microphone while playing random chords on a guitar and then overdub random bass notes over it and call it avant-prog.  It's just that nobody would want to listen to it, and so nobody would want to talk about it. 
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I'm sure there's bad stuff out there; I could blow into a microphone while playing random chords on a guitar and then overdub random bass notes over it and call it avant-prog.  It's just that nobody would want to listen to it, and so nobody would want to talk about it. 


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Originally posted by Henry Plainview Henry Plainview wrote:

I'm going to ask a strange question: what avant bands would you guys consider bad? I want to hear it because I'm questioning my ability to tell the difference, and when 90% of everything sucks, I'm surprised that there is so little negativity in this thread, or around any avant group.


Problem is since I'm so new to the scene, I get exposed to bands that most people think are awesome, particularly people whose taste I know to have high correlation with my own.  I will say I don't think I've heard of a RIO/Avant band that's been universally despised; and to use rileydog's example, I really enjoy Thinking Plague, so I guess the worst I've seen is a sort of split decision.
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I've never liked Thinking Plague or 5uu's.  I wouldn't call them bad, I would just say that they aren't my thing.  
I would agree with you on Thinking Plague, although I'm enjoying Crisis in Clay so far. But both of those are critically acclaimed, so it's not really what I'm talking about. I want the Nickelback of avant-prog. Do they exist? It seems like they must.
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I've never liked Thinking Plague or 5uu's.  I wouldn't call them bad, I would just say that they aren't my thing.  

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I'm going to ask a strange question: what avant bands would you guys consider bad? I want to hear it because I'm questioning my ability to tell the difference, and when 90% of everything sucks, I'm surprised that there is so little negativity in this thread, or around any avant group.
Originally posted by Tapfret Tapfret wrote:

Just been sniffing around the RIO MP3 samples and I love the 3 songs from Art Zoyd. I looked around and their albums run from $27 to $40!  Yikes, makes Magma albums look cheap. I checked Wayside and Synphonic. Doug Larson has none. Gemm is even more expensive. Amazon has MP3 download albums for $18, but I am a very tactile and visual person, particularly when it comes to my music collection.  Does anybody have any idea where to get their CD's a little cheaper (or a lot).
You can get them even cheaper than on Amazon at eMusic, but you're going to pay for the CDs since they're OOP.
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Originally posted by Alucard Alucard wrote:

Canadian label Ambiences Magnetiques they had just received.

 
some samples on the labelwebsite : http://www.actuellecd.com/fr/cat/am_167/
 
 
 
I've bought the INA GRM boxset from that website and there's other fascinating electro-acoustic and experimental music albums in there that are very worth looking into.
The next purchase from there will be the Bernard Parmegiani boxset with almost all of his output which has stellar releases.
 
 
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