Tag Archives: Avant-Prog

Lompoc, California-born guitarist/composer High Woodson lived in a variety of locales round the U.S. — like the SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA Bay Region; Nashville, Tennessee; and San Antonio and Austin, Tx — before learning to be a resident of this East Coastline magnet for innovative types, Brooklyn, NY, in the …

The French group Philharmonie originally contains electric guitarists Laurent Chalef, Bernard Ros and Frederic L’Eple, who jointly play complex, improvisational music. Self-taught guitarist Laurent Chalef includes a history in jazz and fusion. At age group 18 he set up an classical guitar duo where he worked being a composer and …

Given birth to in 1959 in Waregam, Belgium, bandleader, composer, and reedman Peter Vermeersch started his musical profession taking part in clarinet and saxophone in the group Union, which in 1981 performed music for Echafaudages, a creation by the theatre group Radies. Vermeersch after that started collaborating with filmmaker/composer Thierry …

Produced in 1974, Belgium-based chamber rock-band Univers Zero initially highlighted co-composers drummer Daniel Denis and guitarist Roger Trigaux joined up with by bassoonist Michel Berckmans, violinist Marcel Dufrane, bassist Christian Genet, violinist/violist Patrick Hanappier, and harmonium/spinet player Emmanuel Nicaise. The avant-prog group, among the initial Rock and roll in Opposition …

Perhaps a little bit of initial confusion concerning this group may be permitted, although from the mid-2000s the ensemble’s raison d’être were coming into better focus: Think about One isn’t a band focused on the music of “Think about One” composer Thelonious Monk, but instead want you to think about …

U Totem was shaped by users of two rings: drummer/composer David Kerman’s 5UU’s and bassist/composer Wayne Grigsby’s Engine Totemist Guild. Both of these groups were mixed up in Los Angeles region beginning in the first 1980s. The organizations recorded their personal albums before collaborating around the LPs Components and Shapuno …

In the mid-’80s, the experimental rock and roll group Vezhlivy Otkaz (which results in British as Polite Refusal) performed a hefty part in the forming of a music counterculture, artfully opposing not merely the state-sanctioned mainstream, but ubiquitous “underground” rock and roll that defined itself primarily with what it was …

Curlew were shaped in 1979 by George Cartwright, that has served seeing that the group’s head, saxophonist, and primary composer for pretty much three years. Although Curlew have already been seen as pioneers of NY City’s so-called “downtown picture,” Cartwright was created in Mississippi and provides regularly brought a roadhouse …

Swedish composer, accordionist, and keyboardist Lars Hollmer was a very much much loved artist who escaped the notice of several during his lifetime but who nevertheless handled listeners around the world from Europe to Asia to THE UNITED STATES. Provided his longstanding account in the quirky Samla Mammas Manna, he …

Vocalist and violinist Iva Bittová is among the few artists in the Czech Republic to take pleasure from an international profession. Her irresistible attraction, original usage of tone of voice, and fondness of melodies that take a seat on the boundary of avant-garde and playground nursery rhymes gained her devoted …