Avant-progressive rock

Avant-progressive rockcite web |url=http://www.gepr.net/genre2.html#AVANT |title=The Guide to Progressive Rock Genres |work=The Gibraltar Encyclopedia of Progressive Rock |first=Mike |last=McLatchey |accessdate=2008-02-24] cite web |url=http://www.about-new-rock-music.com/category-history_of_new_rock_music-history_of_progressive_rock_1.html |title=History of Progressive Rock |work=About New Rock Music |accessdate=2008-02-25] is a style of music based on rock music that explores unconventional territory, often incorporating non-standard chord progressions, tempo changes within a piece, odd time signatures, avant garde passages and complex horn and orchestral arrangements. It generally relates to experimental bands and musicians influenced by 20th century avant garde, classical, jazz, folk and other music, and who stretch the boundaries of the rock form in both the compositional and improvisational arenas.

Often the only similarities between groups creating avant-progressive rock music is their disregard of convention.

History

In the late 1970s a group of European "progressive" bands joined forces under the banner of Rock in Opposition or RIO to unite against the music industry that refused to let their music be heard. While RIO was originally a collective of bands with the same political agenda, the term is now often used to identify the "collective style of music" of the original RIO bands. This "collective style of music" later became known as "avant-progressive rock".

Avant-progressive rock music has since grown beyond Rock in Opposition and now encompasses a far greater body of music than the original "collective music" of RIO.

Avant-progressive rock bands

The original Rock in Opposition bands were:
*Aksak Maboul
*Art Bears
*Art Zoyd
*Etron Fou Leloublan
*Henry Cow
*Samla Mammas Manna
*Stormy Six
*Univers ZeroOther bands in this category include (but are by no means limited to):
*5uu's
*Ain Soph
*Alamaailman Vasarat
*Altered States
*Bi Kyo Ran
*Biota
*Birdsongs of the Mesozoic
*Boredoms
*Graham Bowers
*Buckethead
*Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band
*Cassiber
*Divinity Destroyed
*Doctor Nerve
*Dog Fashion Disco
*Dün
*Electric Kompany
*Estradasphere
*Ground Zero
*Keiji Haino
*Idiot Flesh
*Jenova Reunion
*Kalahari Surfers
*Kayo Dot
*Derek Keller
*Mike Keneally
*Koenji Hyakkei
*Magma
*The Mars Volta
*Massacre
*maudlin of the Well
*Miriodor
*The Monsoon Bassoon
*Mr. Bungle
*Naked City
*National Health
*News from Babel
*Ninja Academy
*Nuclear Rabbit
*Painkiller
*Present
*Daniel Patrick Quinn
*Ruins
*Secret Chiefs 3
*Slapp Happy
*Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
*The Red Masque
*The Residents
*The Science Group
*The Work
*Thinking Plague
*This Heat
*Tub Ring
*Upsilon Acrux
*Vampire Weekend
*Van der Graaf Generator
*Volapük
*Von Zamla
*We Be the Echo
*Frank Zappa

References

External links

* [http://www.progreviews.com/ Ground & Sky] . "Prog and avant-rock review website".
* [http://www.gepr.net/genre2.html Gibraltar Encyclopedia of Progressive Rock] . "The Guide to Progressive Rock Genres".