Interzone - June 28, 2005: Avant-Garde III

[Cozy]

This week's theme involves the exploration of music commonly referred to as "avant-garde". Often used to describe art that is cutting-edge and counter-cultural, in our community the term has become fairly nebulous over the years, and possibly with good reason. This program will focus on the continuum (the gray space) of music we refer to as avant-garde.

Avant-garde is often used to describe music of a fairly eclectic nature, delving into areas that are fairly opposite of what the average person commonly associates with music. Dark melodies, angular progressions, dissonance, atonal sounds, free-form playing, and a disregard for musical structure are all elements that have been used to describe avant-garde artists. But this by no means exclusively defines avant-garde.

On these Interzone shows, we will focus on the “styles” associated with music we label as avant-garde. While terms such as avant-jazz, avant-fusion, avant-prog, RIO, etc may or may not be ideal to describe the music, they do give the listener some idea of what to expect.

I hope you enjoy.


- Cozy

[Cozy]

This week's playlist:

Contraction-La Bourse Ou La Vie-(La Bourse Ou La Vie)-1974-Canada
Wintsch, Michel and Road Movie-Italik Part 2-(Michel Wintsch and Road Movie)-1999-Switzerland
Wintsch, Michel and Road Movie-Postludique-(Michel Wintsch and Road Movie)-1999-Switzerland
Species Being-Track #3 (untitled)-(Orgone Therapy)-2000-USA
Birdsongs of the Mesozoic-Petrophonics-(Petrophonics)-2000-USA
Henry Cow & Slapp Happy-Beautiful As The Moon…-(In Praise Of Learning)-1975-UK
Cartoon-Light In August-(Music From Left Field)-1983-USA
Serge Adam / Delbecq / Foch-Le Pictogramme-(Les Amants De Juliette (2002)-2002-Various
Serge Adam / Delbecq / Foch-Nod-(Les Amants De Juliette (2002)-2002-Various
Raoul Bjorkenheim / Scorch Trio-Salaa-(Scorch Trio)-2002-Finland
Faust-The Faust Tapes – Part 1-(The Faust Tapes)-1973-Germany
This Heat-Cenotaph-(Deceit)-1981-UK
Steve Coleman-The 42 Assessors-(The Ascension to Light)-2001-USA

Featured Album:
Miriodor--(Parade)-2005-Canada


Hope you enjoy!

- Cozy

[podakayne]

enjoy it all cozy...good show.

[Cozy]

Thanks, Poda