Guapo - History of The Visitation 2013

Dupa cinci ani de absenta, trupa britanica revine cu un nou material, al optulea, fara Daniel O'Sullivan. Fara ezitare, de pus spre auditie.

5/5










Songs:
1. The Pillman Radiant (26:15)
i. Visitation
ii. The Divine Vessel
iii. Wriggling Mange
v. Divine Vessel's Repreise
2. Complex #7 (4:47)
3. Tremors from the Future (11:15)

Musicians:
Emmet Elvin / Fender rhodes, organ, synth
James Sedwards / bass
Kavus Torabi / guitar
David J. Smith / drums, percussion

TOP 20 AVANT/EXPERIMENTAL/FUSION

1.       Elephant9 – Atlantis

2.       Bushman’s Revenge – A Little Bit Of Big Bonanza

3.       Vaura – Selenelion

4.       Storm Corrosion - Storm Corrosion

5.       Kayo Dot – Gamma Knife

6.       Inner Ear Brigade – Rainbro

7.       Magma – Felicite Thosz

8.       Cucamonga – Alter Huevo

9.       Tin Hat – The Rain Is A Handsome Animal

10.   Thinking Plague – Decline And Fall

11.   Extra Life – Dream Seeds

12.   The Melvins – Freak Puke

13.   T.R.A.M. – Lingua Franca

14.   The Atomic Bomb Audition – How To Dismantle a U2

15.   Subtilior – Absence Upon a Ground

16.   Jack Dupon – Bascule A Vif

17.   Ehnahre – Old Earth

18.   Merkabah – A Lament For The Lamb

19.   Yakuza – Beyul

20.   Aaron Novik – Secret Of Secrets

Frank Zappa - Road Tapes, Venue #1 2012

Inregistrare a unui concert sustinut in august 1968 la Vancouver. Desi calitatea sunetului nu e cea mai buna, e de bagat musai urechea.

5/5









Songs:
1 The Importance Of An Earnest Attempt (By Hand)
2 Help I’m A Rock – Transylvania Boogie
3 Flopsmash Musics
4 Hungry Freaks, Daddy
5 The Orange County Lumber Truck
6 The Rewards Of A Career In Music
7 Trouble Every Day
8 Shortly Suite Exists Of Holiday In Berlin Full Blown
9 Pound For A Brown
10 Sleeping In A Jar
11 Oh, In The Sky
12 Octandre
13 King Kong

Musicians:
Frank Zappa / vocals, guitar
Roy Estrada / bass, vocals
Don Preston / keyboards
Jimmy Carl Black / drums, vocals
Ian Underwood / winds, keyboards
Euclid James `Motorhead` Sherwood / winds
Bunk Gardner / winds

Cucamonga - Alter Huevo 2012

Prima realizare pentru trupa argentiniana. Catalogati drept rio/avant prog, dar si cu insertii de jazz-rock strecurate ici-colo,  albumul lasa o impresie foarte buna. E de ascultat negresit.

5/5

Songs:

1.Tetascotch 8:48

2.El Dengue de la Laguna 3:35
3.Tu Guaina 1:56
4.Variaciones Sobre Tu Hermana 5:59
5.Tillana 6:20
6.Cerrazon en el Teyu Cuare 6:02
7.Dominguillo 1:20
8.Cletalanda 5:59

Musicians:

Oscar Peralta / guitar

Adriano DeMartini / bass, voices

Bruno Rosado / sax

Eugenio Zeppa / clarinet

Mauricio Bernal / accordion, marimba, percussion, piano

Julian Macedo / drums, glockenspiel, marimba, percussion, vibraphone



Stabat Akish - Nebulos 2012

Al doilea album pentru francezi. De bagat urechea si la asta.

4/5










Songs:
1. Nebulos (4:40)
2. Un Peuplier Un Peu Plié (5:32)
3. Sprouts (3:11)
4. Sprouts (Continued) (1:57)
5. Sprouts (Continued) (1:19)
6. Sprouts (Continued) (3:57)
7. Troïde (7:31)
8. La Serrure (2:32)
9. Soft Fate (1:25)
10. Boletus Edulis (2:52)
11. Dynamique Cassoulet (2:28)
12. Fast Fate (0:35)
13. Le Chifre (4:05)

Musicians:
Guillaume Amiel / bass marimba, vibraphone, percussion
Maxime Delporte / double bass
Ferdinand Doumerc / baritone saxophone, tenor saxophone, alto saxophone, soprano saxophone, flute
Stéphane Gratteau / drums
Rémi Leclerc / Fender Rhodes, clavinet, Moog, Hammond organ, piano
Marc Maffiolo / bass saxophone, tenor saxophone

With:
Nicolas Gardel / trumpet (9, 12, 13)
Olivier Sabatier / trombone (9, 12, 13)
Sarah Roussel / words (3-7)
Olivier Cussac / lap steel guitar (2)

Subtilior - Absence Upon A Ground 2012

Proiect al liderului trupei italiene Areknames, album de debut. Fain de tot, de pus spre auditie.

5/5









Songs:
1. Overt (2:23)
2. Primo Frammento (2:24)
3. Epicicli I (2:24)
4. Secondo Frammento (2:09)
5. Arioso (2:01)
6. Terzo Frammento (2:12)
7. Un Coeur Mecanique (2:16)
8. Resti (Quarto Frammento) (1:59)
9. Epicicli II (2:22)
10. Toccata (2:29)
11. Helas Avril (2:15)
12. Danzane (Quinto Frammento) (2:05)
13. Clos (2:25)
14. Upon A Ground (Part. I) (5:19)
15. Upon A Ground (Part. II) (6:00)
16. Upon A Ground (Part. III) (4:03)

Musicians:
Michele Epifani / organ, piano, synthesizer
Pierluigi Mencattini / violin
Valerio Cipollone / clarinet
Christiano Pomante / vibraphone, marimba
Maurizio Fasoli / piano
Stefano Colombi / guitar
Antonio Marrone / bass
Simone Pacelli / bass
Carmine Ianieri / sax
Manuel Trabucco / sax
Massimo Magri / cello
Luca Falsetti / drums, percussion

Jack Dupon - Bascule a Vif 2012

Grup francez de rio/avant-prog, cu doua albume la activ, scoase in 2008 si 2011. Asta e din concert si chiar merita ascultat.

5/5







Songs:
1. Intropression (6:04)
2. Le château de l'éléphant (7:21)
3. La marmite du Pygmée (9:31)
4. Jeudi poisson (13:41)
5. Le labyrinthe du cochon (9:48)
6. La cousine du grand Mongol (9:03)
7. La secte des mouches, le sacre de la reine, mille millions de mouches molles (31:36)
8. Cravate sauvage (9:27)
8. Oppression, dépression, les valeurs du cool (13:52)

Musicians:
Philippe Prebet / guitars, vocals
Arnaud M'Doihoma / bass, vocals
Gregory Pozzoli / guitars, vocals
Thomas Larsen / drums, vocals

Inner Ear Brigade - Rainbro 2012

Primul album pentru trupa americana. De ascultat neaparat, una dintre surprizele inceputului de an.

5/5









Songs:
1. Knee 5:05
2. Oom Pah 5:09
3. Missing The Train 3:41
4. Rainbro 5:02
5. Too Good To Be True 4:11
6. Somnambulist Subversion 4:34
7. Nut Job 3:12
8. Forgotten Planet 6:00
9. Dirty Spoons 5:12
10. 25 miles To Freedom 10:30

Musicians:
Bill Wolter / guitar
Chris Lauf / drums
Stevo Wright / bass
Andrew Vernon / keyboards
Ivor Holloway / saxophone
Melody Ferris / vocals
David Shaff / trumpet

Taylor's Universe - Kind of Red 2012

Trupa daneza, la al 11-lea album. Sonoritati ok, poate fi incercat.

3/5









Songs:
1. Firestone (6:31)
2. Jakriborg (6:34)
3. Crackpot Men (5:49)
4. Sunday Image (6:01)
5. Salon Bleu (5:32)
6. Terasso (1:07)
7. Tortugas (7:33)
8. Lost in Jakriborg (4:28)

Musicians:
Jakob Mygind / sax
Hugh Steinmetz / trumpet, flugelhorn
Robin Taylor / guitars, keyboards, bass, percussions, voice
Klaus Thrane / drums
With:
Louise Nipper / voice
Jan Fischer / voice

Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band – Bat Chain Puller 2012

Album inregistrat initial in 1976, dar care a vazut lumina zilei abia in acest an, la un an de la moartea lui Don Van Vliet. Nu e de ratat.

5/5








Songs:
1 Bat Chain Puller
2 Seam Crooked Sam
3 Harry Irene
4 81 Poop Hatch
5 Flavor Bud Living
6 Brick Bats
7 Floppy Boot Stomp
8 Ah Carrot Is As Close As Ah Rabbit Gets To Ah Diamond
9 Owed T’Alex
10 Odd Jobs
11 Human Totem Pole
12 Apes-Ma
13 Bat Chain Puller (Alternate Mix)
14 Candle Mambo
15 Hobo-ism

Musicians:
Captain Beefheart (aka Don Van Vliet) / vocals, guitar, harmonica
Eric Drew Feldman / synthesizer, bass, keyboards
Bruce Fowler / bass, trombone
Richard Redus / bass, guitar, accordion
Jeff Moris Tepper / guitar
Art Tripp (aka Ed Marimba) / drums, percussion, keyboards, marimba
Robert Pete Williams / drums

Kayo Dot - Gamma Knife 2012

O alta trupa care e pe lunga mea lista de trupe preferate, sa le spunem. Un album la care e de bagat urechea, fara nicio indoiala.










Songs:
 1. Lethe (5:05)
2. Rite of Goetic Evocation (6:40)
3. Mirror Water, Lightning Night (5:33)
4. Ocellated God (6:32)
5. Gamma Knife (6:46)

Musicians:
Toby Driver / bass guitar, guitar, clarinet, keys, vocals
Terran Olson / woodwinds and more keys
Daniel Means / woodwinds, guitar, keys, bass guitar
Keith Abrams / drumset, bass guitar
Mia Matsumiya: violin, keys, guitar

And occasionally:
David Bodie / drums & percussion
Tim Byrnes / trumpet, synth, french horn
Ron Varod / guitar and synth

Thinking Plague - Decline and Fall 2012

Al saselea album al trupei americane de RIO/Avant-Prog, dupa o pauza de noua ani, si care parca nu se ridica la inaltimea ultimelor doua. Au o noua vocalista, dar a ramas Mark Harris la sax-uri. Cui ii place genul asta de muzica, sigur se va delecta. Mie mi-a placut.








Songs:
1. Malthusian Dances (6:39)
2. I Cannot Fly (8:34)
3. Sleeper Cell Anthem (6:10)
4. A Virtuous Man (11:45)
5. The Gyre (4:42)
6. Climbing the Mountain (8:38)

Musicians:
Elaine Di Falco / voice
Mark Harris / saxes & clarinets
Mike Johnson / guitars
Kimara Sajn / drums & keyboards
Dave Willey / bass