Avant-prog

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Avant-prog is an umbrella term that encompasses avant-garde progressive rock. As a style, it appeared in the early to late 1970s as the extension of three separate progressive rock sub-styles: Rock in Opposition (RIO), the Canterbury scene, and the band Magma's signature style known as Zeuhl.^[1]

History and characteristics[]

Early The Mothers of Invention albums, particularly Uncle Meat, released in 1969, have been acknowledged as the start of the avant-prog style, but do not necessarily belong to the above three terms.

During the early 1970s, a host of groups and artists mainly from the United States, but also from Europe and Japan, "started to write mostly short instrumental pieces that focused on complexity and stripped down instrumentation, while avoiding the pomposity and stage props of the big progressive rock acts." Some groups, such as Thinking Plague and the Motor Totemist Guild, kept working with long durations and rich instrumentation but also forayed into free improvisation, sound collage, and other avant-garde techniques. These artists cumulated on record labels such as Cuneiform (United States), Recommended (later ReR Megacorp, England) and Rec Rec (Switzerland).^[1]

See also[]

• Experimental rock
• Magma (known for developing Zeuhl)
• Henry Cow (known for creating Rock in Opposition)

References[]

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