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MikeEnRegalia 
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 Posted: September 05 2023 at 00:46 |
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^ My strategy is to, while complaining about the hype, keep that separated from enjoying the music.
BTW: The hype is reaching new heights of sillyness ... and what I find most interesting is that a lot of the hype is not created by SW or the label, but by the crowd. May I present to you, a reaction to the trailer to the pre-release of one of the tracks  |
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cemego
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Posted: September 04 2023 at 22:49 |
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I agree with this... BIG TIME... The more hype, the less I care. There's a lot of music coming out right now that is wonderful and isn't saturating the internet.
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listen to streaming stuff! no commercials!
http://wmom.servemp3.com:8000/listen.pls |
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Catcher10
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Posted: September 01 2023 at 16:13 |
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MikeEnRegalia
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Posted: September 01 2023 at 12:41 |
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^ Yes, definitely cool, and the video is great as well and fits the music.
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Catcher10
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Posted: September 01 2023 at 11:19 |
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Short snipet of Impossible Tightrope.......not too bad, looking forward to hearing the whole song
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Catcher10
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Posted: September 01 2023 at 11:11 |
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He's never mentioned Las Vegas, I'm not even sure that city has been a stop for him on past tours so not sure why you are bringing that up.
I suspect this idea of residency will probably only be in the UK and probably very close to home for him.
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moshkito
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Posted: August 31 2023 at 18:01 |
Hi, Nice idea ... but you really think he's gonna do concerts with such a small audience and only get paid nickels and dimes? Either that or each ticket will be at least a thousand each, plus half for the company selling the tickets ... and only a handful will be there. Honestly, the idea is fine, and cool, but his work is not "theater" and has never been until the Ninet piece. I am not sure he can duplicate what she did ... and his audience thing is honorable, and trying to be more theatrical about it, but in the end, his commercial side is not going to lose, unless he wants to do a tour that loses millions and millions ... and almost literally destroys the band as has happened before. The residency thing is ... hard to deal with ... I guess that Las Vegas is on his RADAR, since LV will pay as much as he wants and then he can do this ... but I doubt that most of us will go to it, and not hear anything else from before ... at some point, I would think many of us will not like the new stuff or material and decide to leave. I'm not sure he can do this the way he thinks without Las Vegas ... where, at least, he can take money home! |
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Catcher10
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Posted: August 31 2023 at 12:01 |
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SW Harmony Codex Interview, Part 1
Interesting reply on touring..... When it comes to touring this album, what do you envision? I’m thinking in terms of not touring, but instead doing residencies in a few towns. The reason I would want to go that way is because I think I would want to try and create some kind of immersive equivalent in a concert context. So that the album—that kind of immersive quality the album has—would be transposed to the concert environment. I suppose Kate Bush-style in that respect, except in a smaller venue. Not like a Hammersmith Apollo, like in a small 500, 600 seat place. Have light installation projections. Have spatial audio. Maybe have the audience situated among the musicians? I don’t know. But to me, the idea of just going on tour and…there’s a two-dimensional band up on stage and the audience are out there looking up at this two-dimensional spectacle, I’m not massively interested or inspired by that. And I don’t think this album would apply itself very well to that. I think it needs something different. So, I’m just at the beginning of that process of thinking about that. |
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Catcher10
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Posted: August 24 2023 at 10:41 |
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Well I will be retired at some point as well and on fixed income.......I save up for all my gear, only way I can do it. And yea I am pretty funny......
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Grumpyprogfan
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Posted: August 23 2023 at 17:10 |
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^Your funny, Jose. As you should know by now, I'm retired and live on a fixed income. My monthly income is less than what you spent on your turntable cartridge.
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Catcher10
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Posted: August 23 2023 at 16:41 |
If you would have clicked on his website you'd see it's by registration/invitation only, no need to pay anything. My wallet is empty right now so an abundance of moolah is anything more than zero......I am sure you qualify as having an abundance of moolah.
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MikeEnRegalia
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Posted: August 23 2023 at 12:12 |
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^ I think that people get randomly selected. It's a marketing thing. I don't have any problem with it - the only thing that always annoys me with these big releases is that the finished album sits on a shelf for several months before it is released.Technically he could have released it weeks ago, as a download. But of course that's bad for business ... got to make the deluxe edition box set 360g transparent vinyl crowd happy first.
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Grumpyprogfan
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Posted: August 23 2023 at 11:27 |
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^So only the elite, or those with an abundance of moolah, get an invite?
Surround mix for disc folks, and super wuper duper pink frost limited edition LP release? Edited by Grumpyprogfan - August 23 2023 at 11:27 |
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Catcher10
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Posted: August 23 2023 at 10:38 |
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Boy......everyone's cereal must have had horse pee in it
. It's all good, I generally don't listen to any pre-released songs, and SW has yet to do that with this new album other than these select listening events which are by invitation only.
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Posted: August 23 2023 at 05:07 |
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Will most definitely not check this out.
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MikeEnRegalia
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Posted: August 23 2023 at 04:44 |
I absolutely CAN wait to hear it. The more marketing hype he generates, the more I'm focusing on the many, many artists who are releasing great music right now, without the hype.
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moshkito
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Posted: August 23 2023 at 03:40 |
Hi, Not very original I don't think. Heck, Eno was doing this kind of stuff 40 years ago ... and many thought he was being pretentious! At least, it involved a lot of art ... whereas SW's bit on that video might not be considered art as those were self pictures. Touched up, of course in the SW style!
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Catcher10
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Posted: August 21 2023 at 15:29 |
I tend to agree.......I've read somewhere, similar to HCE. He's doing these listening events in spatial audio, the feedback has been mainly about the sonic experience, although I am getting the sense the content is pretty striking. The London event feedback
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Deadwing
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Posted: August 21 2023 at 14:24 |
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Can't wait to hear his new material. IMO, the idea of a more ambitious The Future Bites is awesome and opens to many awesome possibilities. I don't expect anything with HCE or CC quality, but I'm glad for now this side of his is not abandoned and he can be more ambitious with his solo material.
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moshkito
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Posted: August 20 2023 at 11:51 |
Hi, Ninet is magnificent on that one song in a SW album, and my thoughts were, specially for PT, that his ability to take the material into a more emotional spot as Ninet did, is not something that PT can do, or will do, but the sad thing is that what would (in my book) be the best piece in that album (with Ninet), is something that has not been ignored. It probably took him a while to figure it out, but if this works, it should be magnificent. Advanced notes on a new something or other is not much of an indication about anything. There are very few artists out there that never tell you anything ... and they will, at least, tell you that they are doing something. But already having a title, is a bit strange ... and probably limiting to the context of the whole idea. We'll see in a month or two.
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