October Equus

Located in Madrid, the Spanish avant-prog outfit October Equus shaped in 2003, and experienced completed the documenting of their eponymous debut album by April of 2005, although October Equus had not been released until early the next year. Featuring guitarist Ángel Ontalva, keyboardist Victor Rodriguez, bassist Amanda Pazos, and drummer Txema Fernandes, the recording drew evaluations to discs by numerous bands from your heydays of English and Western prog, including Ruler Crimson, Univers No, and Hatfield as well as the North — although Ontalva continues to be quoted as proclaiming how the bandmembers “possess never constructed music motivated by other performers’ functions” which “[q]uite several bands stated in testimonials as our ‘inspirations’ had been really unidentified to us.” Provided the lengthy hold off between the saving and release from the music group’s debut, Oct Equus nearly split up — and actually drummer Fernandes departed the group’s lineup — but Ontalva, Rodriguez, and Pazos ultimately made a decision to forge forward. With brand-new drummer José Varela and saxophonist Francisco Mangas, Oct Equus documented their second recording, Charybdis, that was released around the Russian Association of Indie Styles (RAIG) label in 2008. The recording received beneficial notices because of its Rock and roll in Opposition and Canterbury-influenced sound (not really that this group members experienced have you ever heard such music, obviously), and a little bit of newfound avant jazziness because of the current presence of Mangas on many of the recording’s tracks. Starting to make a splash in the avant-prog globe, October Equus had been invited to execute at Portugal’s Gouveia Artwork Rock and roll festival the next year. Apparently experiencing revolving drummer symptoms, the group changed skinsman Varela before the documenting of its third and probably strongest recording to day, Saturnal, released from the Italian AltrOck label in-may 2011. With a few of its track titles “openly inspired by bits of poetry by Sunlight Ra” (although whether Ra’s real music was an motivation towards the bandmembers continues to be an open query), Saturnal presented fresh drummer Vasco Trilla along with two extra music artists, saxophonist Alfonso Muñoz and cellist Pablo Ortega, growing the music group to a seven-piece lineup. Trilla and Muñoz may also be members from the Barcelona-based octet Planeta Imaginario, whose very own music is up to date with the jazz-rock aspect from the Canterbury picture (supposing Planeta Imaginario’s people have noticed that outdated stuff).