Guapo - Black Oni (Ipecac, 2005)
File under: Dark intense progressive avant-rock
(side note #1: awesome cover art.)
Tracklisting: Black Oni pts. I -V (this is one 44-minute instrumental divided into five untitled movements)
http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=350716DB3B05C108 part two
http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=9777A961412B85C8
part three (both excerpts are 10 minutes long. Save both and program your player to listen to them back to back for desired effect.)
Description/background: This British band has received favorable attention for their two most recent albums (both being album-length instrumentals), the one being recommended and the previous year's excellent Five Suns, released on the avant-prog specialist label Cuneiform. The music here is often blistering and creepy at the same time, with the same piercing distorted guitars and monstrous low end found on King Crimson's definitive albums, the best overall comparison would be to ask "what if KC had employed an organist on Larks Tongues and Red?" The music here has constant shift changes (especially on the first excerpt I've posted), but never lapses into wankoff territory.
Sidenote #2: These guys are on Patton's label...how about a collaboration? Expect the other recommendation later tonight.
ProgArchives review
Official site
File under: Dark intense progressive avant-rock
(side note #1: awesome cover art.)
Tracklisting: Black Oni pts. I -V (this is one 44-minute instrumental divided into five untitled movements)
http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=350716DB3B05C108 part two
http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=9777A961412B85C8
part three (both excerpts are 10 minutes long. Save both and program your player to listen to them back to back for desired effect.)
Description/background: This British band has received favorable attention for their two most recent albums (both being album-length instrumentals), the one being recommended and the previous year's excellent Five Suns, released on the avant-prog specialist label Cuneiform. The music here is often blistering and creepy at the same time, with the same piercing distorted guitars and monstrous low end found on King Crimson's definitive albums, the best overall comparison would be to ask "what if KC had employed an organist on Larks Tongues and Red?" The music here has constant shift changes (especially on the first excerpt I've posted), but never lapses into wankoff territory.
Sidenote #2: These guys are on Patton's label...how about a collaboration? Expect the other recommendation later tonight.
ProgArchives review
Official site
