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| Cultural origins | Late 1970s; United States, Europe, and Japan[1] |
Avant-prog (short foravant-garde progressive rock) is a music genre that appeared in the late 1970s as the extension of two separateprogressive rock subgenres:Rock in Opposition (RIO) and theCanterbury scene.[1]
A host of groups and artists mainly from theUnited States, but also fromEurope andJapan, "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 asThinking Plague and theMotor Totemist Guild, kept working with long durations and rich instrumentation but also forayed intofree 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]
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