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sleeper 
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 Posted: May 31 2014 at 12:48 |
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This has been going on for the best part of 10 years now, if there was a revolution the it's already happened and your just late to the party.
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Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005
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ExittheLemming
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Posted: May 31 2014 at 10:08 |
 Svetonio wrote:
As in the beginning in late sixties, progressive rock is still to be underground. Now even more than in sixties when progressive rock bands were something unseen (unheard) before. However, with new technologies, huge amount of magnificent debut albums are enabled. Also, due to modern technologies, prog bands & solo artists are no longer largely depend on the goodwill and taste of the record companies. Today, the bands can release the masterpieces in their own production.
Someone said, very wisely, that the time for the independent bands has never been better than now. As progressive rock is way less commercial subgenre than any other subgenre of rock music, and with that possibiltiy for a self-signed band to release an album, then the conclusion is that there are all the necessary conditions for a new prog revolution in all its colours and shades aswell. Of course, a bunch of skeptical and (or) conservative personalities will always detract most of the new bands and their catalogues, they will always want to deny that the new prog revolution is occurred, and to minimize what is happening on that global progressive rock scene in the last four years. But, there is not an argument against the lots of magnificent debut releases, there is not a valid argument to say that the new prog revolution had failed to produce that maximum splendor of new styles.
In the sixties, the progressive rock, fresh and bold back then, came from psychedelia, jazz, blues-rock and avant-garde music. One can say that it came from Classical music too. Today, almost fifty years after Mothers' Freak Out! as the first progressive rock album ever, our beloved genre is coming from all possible directions that rockmusic has given to the world so far. It comes from the indie-rock as same as from heavy metal and (or) post-rock; it's rushing from alt.rock, math rock, garage rock and so on, and flows into the progressive rock, and yet the classic genres such as psychedelic rock are not neglected, on the contrary; today, we have more and, in my opinion, way better progressive psychedelia than in the mid seventies and after. Undoubtedly, new prog revolution carriedappropriation of all old styles as well.
A present day progressive rock is like a palimpsest painting. It's a hybrid like never before. Scattered around the globe, these new prog bands and solo artists are feel free to merge and separate different experiences of rock music; due to the demolition of lightness and superficiality of mainstreamy creations in today's corporate world, their music is an amazing & beautiful provocation.
Probably in order to uplift the meaning of ancient symbols of progressive rock, new prog bands and artists havebrought that diversity of mixed styles to the extremes; pleasant and intimate musical images are continually rotate with the aesthetics of the ugly and horrible; musical foppishness is brought to an end, and then to be transformedi nto its opposite; it's a musical paroxysm, the highest degree of pain, passion, anger, despair and hope.
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Did you mean to type the word palimpsest? otherwise i thought you had inadvertently ingested an entire bottle of toilet duck.
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ole-the-first
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Posted: May 31 2014 at 09:59 |
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A couple of years ago, after 'Noctourniquet', 'The King of Limbs' and some stuff from Anathema I've been sure that the future of modern prog is in electronic music experiments.
But after Storm Corrosion, iamthemorning and 'The Raven That Refused to Sing' I see how symphonic prog with full-blown orchestras is getting more and more popular. A very sudden change (and I quite like it).
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Svetonio
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Posted: May 31 2014 at 09:44 |
As in the beginning in late sixties, progressive rock is still to be underground. Now even more than in sixties when progressive rock bands were something unseen (unheard) before. However, with new technologies, huge amount of magnificent debut albums are enabled. Also, due to modern technologies, prog bands & solo a rtists are no longer largely depend on the goodwill and taste of the record companies. Today, the bands can release the masterpieces in their own production.
Someone said, very wisely, that the time for the independent bands has never been better than now. As progressive rock is way less commercial subgenre than any other subgenre of rock music, and with that possibiltiy for a self-signed band to release an album, then the conclusion is that there are all the necessary conditions for a new prog revolution in all its colours and shades aswell. Of course, a bunch of skeptical and (or) conservative personalities will always detract most of the new bands and their catalogues, they will always want to deny that the new prog revolution is occurred, and to minimize what is happening on that global progressive rock scene in the last four years. But, there is not an argument against the lots of magnificent debut releases, there is not a valid argument to say that the new prog revolution had failed to produce that maximum splendor of new styles.
In the sixties, the progressive rock, fresh and bold back then, came from psychedelia, jazz, blues-rock and avant-garde music. One can say that it came from Classical music too. Today, almost fifty years after Mothers' Freak Out! as the first progressive rock album ever, our beloved genre is coming from all possible directions that rock music has given to the world so far. It comes from the indie-rock as same as from heavy metal and (or) post-rock; it's rushing from alt.rock, math rock, garage rock and so on, and flows into the progressive rock, and yet the classic genres such as psychedelic rock are not neglected, on the contrary; today, we have more and, in my opinion, way better progressive psychedelia than in the mid seventies and after. Undoubtedly, new prog revolution carried appropriation of all old styles as well.
A present day progressive rock is like a palimpsest painting. It's a hybrid like never before. Scattered around the globe, these new prog bands and solo artists are feel free to merge and separate different experiences of rock music; due to the demolition of lightness and superficiality of mainstreamy creations in today's corporate world, their music is an amazing & beautiful provocation.
Probably in order to uplift the meaning of ancient symbols of progressive rock, new prog bands and artists have brought that diversity of mixed styles to the extremes; pleasant and intimate musical images are continually rotate with the aesthetics of the ugly and horrible; musical foppishness is brought to an end, and then to be transformed into its opposite; it's a musical paroxysm, the highest degree of pain, passion, anger, despair and hope.
Edited by Svetonio - May 31 2014 at 12:09
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