Avant-prog
| Avant-garde progressive rock | |
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| Cultural origins | Late 1960s, United Kingdom |
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Avant-garde progressive rock (also called avant-prog and experimental prog) is a style that appeared in the late 1960s as the extension of two separate prog rock sub-styles: Rock in Opposition (RIO) and the Canterbury scene.[1]
History
A host of groups and artists mainly from the USA, 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 (Thinking Plague and the Motor Totemist Guild, for instance) kept working with long durations and rich instrumentation but also forayed into free improvisation, sound collage, and other avant-garde techniques.[1]
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