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THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON REDUXRoger WatersCrossover Prog1.99 | 128 ratings |
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I put my prejudices and expectations aside and gave a first audition to "The Dark Side Of The Moon Redux. An even darker side of the moon was revealed to me. Melancholy, frustrated, cold, resigned and deeply philosophical, a gloss or maybe even a testament. I learned that the dark side is the other world, inaccessible now that we breathe the air of life. It is perhaps both a maeutics and an ontology, like a forge of human existence. A remarkable burst of artistic concept by Waters! It has already settled in my soul .It is no longer psychedelic, nor progressive, and even less rock, and no, it is NOT a pastiche, a reinterpretation of "DSOTM", because it has the strength not to stand in the shadow of anything else and just settle down natural in the artistic evolution of its creator. Physically, more propitiously, I will place it in the section of the "oratorical" genre, like the Greek tragedies, at "Spoke Word" (spoken poetry). Waters' narrative, with an excellent sense of proportion and semantic nuances , makes the meaning of the poem predominant and, the passages I already know so well, make me realize how superficially I could grasp meanings and meanings in the classical version. From an aesthetic point of view, an analogy with "An American Prayer" by Manzarek, Densmore & Krieger, the works of the American composer Robert Ashley or the radio productions of Joe Frank does not seem out of place to me, and also, as already mentioned, with " You Want It Darker" by Leonard Cohen.
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