New review today for #YumiHara: "Throughout the music, there’s a very playful attitude, full of joy at letting creativity run free. Two of the remarkable features of the album are the use of pipe organ and #clavichord, both of which are quite unusual and unexpected in the context of what might broadly be called #AvantRock." #ExposeOnline #CanterburyScene http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/yumi-hara-groove-study-2.html

New #review today: "For the second #Tryon release, composer Kellen Mills has further refined and expanded the scope of his work from Läuterung. Freaky Squash Baby features a large ensemble... some of the music is elaborately arranged with complex interactions between the parts very much in the mode of such 20th Century composers as Stravinsky, but informed by a significant dose of #FrankZappa’s more expansive work." #ExposeOnline #AvantRock #AvantJazz #RIO http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/tryon-freaky-squash-baby-2.html

#OTD August 21, 1980

Cleveland art rockers Pere Ubu release their 4th full-length album, “The Art of Walking”

From weird to more weird. This album features a new guitarist who just doesn’t have the rock sensibility their previous guitarist, Tom Herman, provided in earlier albums.

I got this on vinyl in the early 90s, cheap. So I’ve played it through a few times. It’s similar to their other records, just more strange and disjointed. Still, it includes a few great tracks, like “Rounder", "Misery Goats", and my favorite, “Birdies”.

#ExperimentalMusic #AvantRock #AlternativeRock #Cleveland #music

https://pereubumusic.bandcamp.com/track/birdies-2

New #review today: "Bleed is the second album of music by the trio of #MarkusReuter, #TimMotzer, and #KennyGrohowski, a follow-up to Shapeshifters (2020), and as such it’s very much in the same vein." #ExposeOnline #improvisation #AvantRock http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/reuter-motzer-grohowski-bleed-2.html

Everything you wanted to know about Rock in opposition:

https://www.loudersound.com/features/everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-rock-in-opposition-but-were-too-afraid-to-ask

#music
#avantrock

Si vous aimez le vinyle (je parle de disques ^^) et que vous en achetez en UK, vous avez dû remarquer que les frais de port ont explosé, mais surtout faisez gaffe : je me suis pris 10€ de douane en plus pour un seul vinyle.

Il coutait 26 € à la base, je l'ai payé plus de 50 à l'arrivée.
Faut vraiment être fan.

(oui, je suis fan de The Holy Family, formation parallèle à Guapo)
https://theholyfamilyuk.bandcamp.com/album/go-zero

#avantRock #psyché #kraut #vinyle

New #review today: "Stylistically, the new #RascalReporters album is very much in the same vein as previous releases, with oddly titled tracks full of complex arrangements and abrupt shifts in mood, a little reminiscent of #FrankZappa’s Jazz from Hell, only performed by musicians instead of computer..." #ExposeOnline #CuneiformRecords #AvantRock http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/rascal-reporters-the-strainge-case-of-steve-2.html

New #review today: "#Oiapok is an eight-piece band from Strasbourg, and while the name is new, the band has been together since 2008 or so, previously recording on #AltrOckRecords under the very French name #Camembert, and at some point after their 2017 album they decided to change the name of the band. Today the group shares many elements with its earlier incarnations, the one most obvious factor is the influence of mid-70s Frank Zappa..." #ExposeOnline #AvantRock http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/oiapok-oisolun-3.html

New #review today: "Listeners who are familiar with previous albums from #TheFierceAndTheDead are in for a number of surprises with News from the Invisible World." #ExposeOnline #AvantRock #ProgRock #MathRock http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/the-fierce-and-the-dead-news-from-the-invisible-world-2.html

New #review today: "#LaPerra is an instrumental avant-garde progressive power duo from Mexico City who got their start in the mid-90s. The members are drummer and percussionist Perico, and bassist Elena Sanchez, and some may have caught their live outdoor performance at Baja Prog, around 2007-ish — it was quite a spectacle, just the two of them on stage battling it out between bass and drums." #ExposeOnline #AvantRock http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/la-perra-rodando-3.html

New #review today: "So each piece begins with #GrecoBastián’s programming on VST effects, and as one might expect from one who is not a musician, some of these pieces are pretty insane and nearly impossible to perform, though Bastián has searched the world for musicians who are willing to take on the challenge." #ExposeOnline #AvantRock #ProgRock http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/greco-bastian-with-a-little-hell-from-my-friends-naked-zeuhlito-lindo-3.html

New #review today: "When I reviewed the previous #SevenImpale album, I wrote, “Expect the unexpected, prepare to be surprised, and just sit back and enjoy.” That advice applies to Summit as well." #ExposeOnline #ProgRock #AvantRock #CanterburyScene http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/seven-impale-summit-2.html

#FlashbackFriday #review from 2005, looking at early music from #Ahleuchatistas. "They have been tagged with the #MathRock label because their music, though they are only a trio, is pretty complex stuff; but while “math” implies a certain analytical detachment, their music is comes off as rough and visceral in spite of all the twists and turns the arrangements take." #ExposeOnline #AvantRock http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/ahleuchatistas-on-the-culture-industry-the-same-and-the-other-2.html

New #review today: "#Kurws may be from Poland, but they fit right in with the French bands on #DurEtDoux. The instrumental trio of Dawid Bargenda (drums), Hubert Kostkiewicz (guitar, waterphone, bells, chimes), and Jakub Majchrzak (bass) plays rhythmically complex music that is full of unexpected twists and turns, along the lines of #PoiL or Ni, though with their own sound." #ExposeOnline #AvantRock #MathRock http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/kurws-powiez-fascia-2.html

New #review yesterday: "Certainly music can be created with math in mind, and I’d be willing to bet that the band #HorseLords thinks about such things a lot. First of all, they favor #JustIntonation over the standard equal tempered scale." #ExposeOnline #MathRock #AvantRock http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/horse-lords-comradely-objects-2.html

New #review today: "This latest album, Authentic Fake, is the first that was conceived as a #JayGraboski album from the very beginning; even that said the recordings took place over a period of eight years beginning in 2016, with numerous guests joining in as it proceeded over the duration." #ExposeOnline #ProgRock #AvantRock http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/jay-graboski-authentic-fake-3.html

#TBT #review from 1998: "Here is an album that first requires you to understand the #Boom approach before you can learn to love it. The formula is simple, in fact almost deceptively so. Electric guitar, bass, and drums. That's it. Don't ask for more, just deal with it." #ExposeOnline #CuneiformRecords #AvantRock http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/boom-one-hour-talisman-2.html

#ThrowbackThurday #review: "his Russian band (#СезонДождей - Sezon Dozhdei = #RainySeason, from St.Petersburg) is one of those rare cases that simply defies classification. Mostly instrumental, in tone and spirit it may occupy a space somewhere along the axis between Meddle-era Floyd, Island-period Jade Warrior, and avant-influenced guitar based chamber styles." #ExposeOnline #AvantRock http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/sezon-dozhdei-rainy-season-vozvrashcheniye-return-2.html

New #review today: "If you’ve been following the enigmatic #PetuniaLieblingMacPumpkin for the past several years, you will be surprised by her new collaboration with #NorwoodGrimes, a native bass player turned multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter." #ExposeOnline #AvantRock #ExperimentalMusic #ProgRock #ArtRock http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/petunia-liebling-macpumpkin-with-norwood-grimes-drummssdullville-6.html

New #review today: "For his latest 2023 concept release A Haunted, Hidden World of Caves, #ÁngelOntalva brings us ten new instrumental compositions in his trademark #ChamberRock style, one reminiscent of several previous releases like the #OctoberEquus album Noches Blancas, Luces Rojas (2022) and his previous solo album Angel on a Tower (2021)." #ExposeOnline #AvantRock #ProgRock http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/Angel-ontalva-a-haunted-hidden-world-of-caves-3.html