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The bassoon is definitely an extraordinarily expressive instrument, though it is seldom considered in the context of rock music. Even though it could be hard to envision a bassoon fitted along with mainstream rock and roll designs, the fringe group of avant-prog can be a different tale altogether, which is …

The users of Montreal-based avant quartet Rouge Ciel may be comparatively youthful faces on that city’s experimental and songs scene, however they seem keenly alert to their earliest antecedents in musique actuelle, sketching on influences that time back over 30 years. Yet they aren’t simple throwbacks to a youthful period …

Flemish ensemble Aranis play primary music that blends traditional chamber music elements using the rhythmic travel and pulse of rock and minimalism. Located in Antwerp and led by composer/bassist Joris Vanvinckenroye, the primary group does not have any drummer and highly stresses acoustic instrumentation. Furthermore to Vanvinckenroye, the bandmembers possess …

Finnegans Wake isn’t just the name of Adam Joyce’s baffling and impenetrable function of fiction, however the name adopted by in least several musical ensembles over time, and in addition a Celtic music group located in — somewhat surprisingly in the end — NEVADA (and with “Finnegan’s” in the singular …