[Thor Joachim Haga]

The avant garde will always exist in one way or another, I think. But the way I coined the headline there, in the year 2000, was originally a fancy-schmanzy word play – ‘avant garde’ literally meaning ‘front troop’, and ‘Caesar’ then as the leader of said front troop, as were it Roman times.

I suppose it doesn’t have to be all abstract and dissonant, as Gerate says. It can be weird juxtapositions in other ways, like we often think of John Zorn or even Carl Stalling. The Arab go-go music of JOHN GOLDFARB would indeed be a contender that way.