Behind the Curtain at Garageband contest.

Today I entered Garageband's Experimental Rock contest with Behind the Curtain (from Étoile). I was unsettled on what genre, as this song is progressive but also math rock, a friend of mine told me it's quite kingcrimsonian, and KC are one of the biggest example in oblique music ranging from avantgarde to prog or simple mechanic rock.

Zappa is one of the Big artists suggested by Garageband to define "Experimental Rock", with Mogwai (!). Really, can't see anything in common. But seems to me I'm more zappian than similar to Satriani, suggested by Instrumental Rock (another hypotesis I pondered on, but left after this evidence).

OK, cross my fingers and let's see what's happening! Wooooohoooo!

Étoile - world & symphonic progressive meets kraut rock - is out!

Fourth release by Hox Vox, it's a concept album about stars - both intended as prima ballerinas and celestial bodies - and their issues.

Genre is a series of mixes with world music, symphonic progressive, a bit of contemporary and kraut electronics, always with the free approach of Rock in Opposition tradition (from Zappa to Henry Cow): sometime resulting in complex structures with mindbending pairings of melodies and subtle detuned arrangments.

Étoile start with a Residents-like intro sung by a couple of real pigs, then a piece of math/art rock, sounding like a too dry death metal. Then from Rhythmbox the record begins wedging prog, contemporary, world and electronics.