Tag Archives: Avant-Prog

Dave Willey makes his house in the American Western world, but his most noteworthy music pulls from affects elsewhere. An experienced multi-instrumentalist and composer, he flies in currents below the radar of mainstream music listeners, despite getting one of fairly few “avant” performers whose music is certainly uncompromising, difficult, and …

The Magic Lantern are an improvisational post-everything music group from Umea, Sweden, led by ex-Soapbox member Krister Mortsell. The music group officially started when Mortsell and many friends began documenting materials live and immediate to mini-disc, launching some these improvised instrumentals on limited-edition CDRs. The group’s formal debut record, the …

Guitarist Pierre Vervloesem continues to be referred to as “Belgium’s Frank Zappa,” although his inimitable abilities — he’s a fine electric powered bassist and in addition noted for his abilities in anatomist, mixing, and/or understanding his very own recordings and the ones of his co-workers — place him in his …

By 2017 as well as the discharge of Indication 9, Montreal avant-prog group Miriodor were still carrying the flag they initial hoisted over 30 years earlier among the initial groups over the “rock and roll” side from the Quebec-based musique actuelle formula. At their inception, Miriodor may be viewed as …

Otolithen is a duo formed in 1993 simply by Päd Conca of Switzerland and Dirk Bruinsma of HOLLAND. Conca plays electric powered bass, a homemade string device, results and foot-activated percussion, while Bruinsma sings and has electric powered guitars, soprano saxophone and foot-triggered percussion. Conca and Bruinsma make use of …

NeBeLNeST was formed in 1997 by Olivier and Greg Tejedor (Chemistry), Cyril Malderez (also with Chemistry), and Michäun Anselmi (Ventrilock). The group released their initial demonstration in 1998 and quickly obtained a recording agreement. They released their debut record the following season.

The eternal sideman, Montreal-based drummer Rémi Leclerc doesn’t have even an individual to his own name, but he has appeared on countless albums by other artists which range from trad revivalists to avant-proggers. What each of them have as a common factor (except probably Robert Charlebois) is normally imagination: Leclerc …

Calm Sun originally shaped around Dulwich University in 1970 like a four-piece progressive rock-band featuring Phil Manzanera (guitar), Expenses MacCormick (bass), Charles Hayward (drums), and Dave Jarrett (keyboards). The music group name originated from articles on sunspots and solar flares that MacCormick’s sibling Ian have been reading, known as “THE …

Listeners who all learn the name of the music group will along the way learn a vintage Hungarian proverb, meaning “the finish of aches,” and normally used to spell it out the problem when someone dies. Neither of what is in fact Hungarian — “kampec” is certainly Yiddish, “dolores” is …

Present certainly are a Belgian outfit formed by guitarist/composer Roger Trigaux. In 1974 Trigaux co-founded the chamber rock and roll group Univers No with drummer Daniel Denis. Trigaux still left Univers No in 1979 to create Present with pianist Alain Rochette. Denis performed in both Univers No and Present. Bassist …