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I just want to say, once and for all, avant-garde is not a genre: it is a description. Like weird, or heavy, or bad. So while I'm going to say Auktyon are an avante-garde band, I need another word for the actual genre they participate in. So: Auktyon are an avant-garde fucked-up jazz band.
Girls Sing is a much more comfortable approach to what cult-followed saxophonist John Zorn was trying to do with Naked City, with brief intermissions of acoustic ballads, which settles down the high-energy vibes which resonate through everything else. The music is much easier on the ears of traditional music listeners compared to Naked City, but still are probably a bit too edgy for most. I personally love this: the use of odd time-signatures and nonsensical guitar parts are what I am all about.
-by John Shelton Ivany 05/12/08 >> go there
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