HERE COMES THE CRAZY MAN!

Wow, just found here another album requested by myself to be on Prog Archives: Here Comes The Crazy Man! This is another one to rock Soft Machine fans. Performed by the band leaded by the keyboardist Koen De Bruyne, this rare belgian gem came to bring us the jazz rock /fusion experimental essence and elevates the listener to a weird level. Koen De Bruyne was a studio musician and worked for several belgium popular artists and bands like Black Blood. "Here Comes The Crazy Man!" was his only effort carrying his own name, besides the experimental electronic soundtrack for a movie called In Kluis written by by Jan Gruyaert. Unfortunatelly, Koen died some time after the movie release, in 1979.

The synthesizer effects really sounds great, the piano and keys are majestic and the idiot trumpet duo playing random riffs in the first track (the song titled Here Comes The Crazy Man) sounds like a couple of ugly animals raping each other, both drunks in a birthday's party, and that's just awesome. This album has one of my favorite album covers ever. The tracks easily changes the mood, and even the freakest point of this album was done with caution, so the music is full of beauty, of classical touch, mainly in the piano leading phrases, different than usual experimentalism , that sounds weird and hard listening for any "normal person" (I know, there's no "usual" experimentalism, but I think you will get my point). Just take a look at Pathetic Dreams, or Unanswered Questions, or any of the four tracks, and you will understand what I am talking about. The song is full of freak passages but the melodic background and the female vocalization leaves no strangeness, and make the music feeling satisfy you in a symphonic way. Now, I think the last track will really satisfy symphonic prog fans. To break the equality, every track has something different going on. Like I said, the third track has some female vocalizations. The second track features a jazz quick drum solo, and the last one is florid with flutes.

This album, this right one that I'm talking about, Here Comes The Crazy Man, from 74', is what Koen De Bruyne left to the world. And I'm saying, he did a good name for himself with this.