Opus Avantra
A unique Italian progressive music group which blends various kinds of classical influences including contemporary classical music, with some tape collage, all made very attractive by the lyrical singing and sometimes operatic voice, combined with progressive music.
A unique Italian progressive music group which blends various kinds of classical influences including contemporary classical music, with some tape collage, all made very attractive by the lyrical singing and sometimes operatic voice, combined with progressive music.
Opus Avantra Box
The long-standing Italian imprint, ARTIS Records, returns with one of its most ambitious releases to date, the towering “Opus Avantra Box Collection” by Opus Avantra , a stunning Deluxe Box set which includes no less than five LPs, six CDs, two 7" records, a DVD, a book and various ephemera, offering a thrilling retrospective of one of the most singular bands to emerge from Italy's movement of Prog and “Rock in Opposition”. Ambitious, experimental, and wholly uncategorizable in the ways that few…
Introspezione
An album which fuses the melodic sensibilities common of the RPI movement with a wild lust for invention, and variously tempers its rage with gentle beds of flute, piano and strings and focuses it into dissonant nightmare-scapes. The result is an accomplished record which oscillates between the avant-garde and almost pastoral, traditional folk songwriting and freeform music. Rare legit reissue from the late 80s, very few copies available
Lord Cromwell (plays suite for seven vices)
80's original second issue by the Suono label, the second album, "Lord Cromwell Plays The Suite for Seven Vices" is their masterpiece: it uses more contemporary compositions with a radical avantgarde approach: all in all, it is done in an interesting, skilled and extraordinary way.