Ron Geesin

Will check, thanks!

After my quick checkin' ... a terrific experimental project indeed.
Based on Acid Folksy style but sometimes quirky avantgarde bloomin', with tiny Kraut-ish spice.

IMHO he can be fit for Psych but at first should he be tossed to Prog Folk Team?
If they vote against him, Psych Team will evaluate I think.

IMHO this guy belongs either in Avant or Eclectic.  'As He Stands' is probably not the best representation of his work; he has about a dozen albums.  Most of them are impossible to find but from some of the reviews I've read it sounds like he ranges all over the place musically on some of those other records.  Most definitely not Prog Folk though; any resemblance to acid folk in his music is likely more an influence of psych than anything else.

You all know Ron Geesin very well from his collaboration at "Atom Heart Mother", and with Roger Waters, but he made a couple of albums of his own. I listened to the "As He Stands" album from 1973.

It is extremely experimental and eclectic stuff. It sounds momentarily like Tea&Symphony, Giles,Giles&Fripp and Godley&Creme's "Consequences". The album features 16 quite short songs, played on guitars, electric guitar, banjo, piano, keyboard, strings, and unidentified electronic stuff. It also features some funny dialogues/monologues. Momentarily it presents really modern electronic sound. I found one song from this album on youtube, though it hardly shows the progressivity of the whole album: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bx13vkWw_8U

here's the link for wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Geesin


Edited by Wiktor Hatif - May 30 2010 at 11:43

oh, I didn't new there was already the topic about Geesin. And I was searching through the progarchives search engine. It seems you have to work on that ;)

I won't go for that, as my memory is really weak and I might have did the search not too properly. :/

After a consideration I think Geesin should be listed under Avantgarde Prog, because the experiments are clearly objects of his biggest interest.

And I must add, the song "The middle of whose night?" from "As He Stands" is reeeeaaaally amazing because the vocalist is evidently pretending to be a violin or viola, and he's really great at it :)


Edited by Wiktor Hatif - June 01 2010 at 16:29

I'm not that familiar with his music, but I quite like what I remember (and what I'm hearing now from the samples).  Overall, he may be better suited to Prog Related.  I hear electronic and psyche as primary to what would be suitable for PA.  Some of his music sounds very Doctor Whoish (*me puts on Don Harper*)
It reminds me a bit of the White Noise case.

Here's a Geesin myspace, by the way. http://www.myspace.com/rongeesin

After three months, dear eclectic team, is Ron Geesin suitable for PA?

Thanks . Also for suggesting the Jacks. Very nice psychedelia