U Totem - (1990) U Totem - 04 - Both Your Houses

Classic Avant-Prog. "U TOTEM were the avant-rock supergroup that combined members from 5UU'S and MOTOR TOTEMIST GUILD. The original line up was Emily Hay (voice, flute, piccolo); Sanjay Kumar (piano, electric keyboards, sitar) Eric Johnson (bassoon, contrabassoon, soprano sax) James Grigsby (guitar, bass, vibraphone, tapes) and David Kerman (drums, percussion, tapes). Both records have many similarities with the music of Henry Cow, John Cage, Conlon Nancarrow, Frank Zappa and Univers Zero.

U TOTEM are a great example of the RIO / avant garde genre. The use of instruments as piccolo, sitar, and sax instead the classic rock instruments makes their music something very close to a soundtrack (a very dark a surrealistic one) and reaches high points of emotion and musical poetry. Highly recommended to any RIO fan." - from ProgArchives.

Tracklist:
1 One Nail Draws Another 14:58
2 Two Looks at One End 7:03
3 Dance of the Awkward 2:24
4 Both Your Houses 7:52
5 Yellow Umbrella Gallery 5:10
6 The Judas Goat 10:07
7 Vagabonds Home 14:48

Category:

Music

Tags:

• avant-prog
• symphonic avant-prog
• U Totem
• avant-garde
• proressive pop
• 5uu's
• Thinking Plague
• Progressive Rock
• Chamber Rock
• Psychedelic Prog
• Symphonic Prog
• Experimental Rock
• RIO
• Rock In Opposition
• Henry Cow
• Frank Zappa
• melodies
• symphonic
• instruments
• flute
• clarinet
• bassoon
• One Nail Draws Another
• Two Looks at One End
• Dance of the Awkward
• Both Your Houses
• Yellow Umbrella Gallery
• The Judas Goat
• Vagabonds Home

[GreyBull88]

Thanks for the upload, great music.