Ed Wynne - Shimmer Into Nature 2019

Inclusion in PsychedelicK/Space Rock very much needed.

It's more progressive than some of the cookie cutter prog and metal stuff that we continuously keep adding simply to make sure that we get new "fans" and folks to post on the board, is my cure ... I mean, guess! I'm OK with that, though, even if it all sounds the same!=, and creativity is about the effect used ... not the playing of the instruments ... notice how no one will unplug any of those, because they will not only sound terrible and awful, but also would be dumped real quick ...

.... never know ... never know ... but mentioning unplug in this board for "progressive music" is almost the same as saying nothing ... like Gentle Giant even needed the amplification ... they did a whole encore the show I saw acoustic and it was better than the original! Sadly, none of that was ever released and i'm thinking that Gary Green thinks that these were fun, but not the kind of stuff they would want GG to be known for!  

Imagine YES doing this ... I know KC can do it and has done it differently many times, so that one is out!

Ed's album is almost a throw back to the early days of the band, just missing the folks that were with him, then. I have NOT disliked the Wynne Family Band, but all in all, it really was not capable of developing music by the feel ... it was too much based on the riff, and while I do not think that the wife is not a good player, I do think that she needs to go play some serious jazz muck to learn to get out of the riff support mode! Make Ed learn his chops ... The kid? ... different, but while I do not wish to suggest he needs something or other to help him get more attuned to the sounds and the music, for him, things are still based on creating a riff off a sound, and the feel of a "story" in the music is gone because of it. A change of notes to create a series of sounds and different bits and pieces, does not necessarily music make ... it's nice, no doubt about it, but the creative side and (I call it) the tripping side is missing ... music, for me, was not about just tripping so stoned that the music made no difference, except that the sex was good, even when you did not have it! And sometimes, this is what it feels like to me ... nice music, but it has no life under it. It's just notes with different synth settings.

All that said, and the band is a nice one, and the comments are not exactly a down thing as much as they are a joke thing, however, Ed's solo album has a lot more "purpose" to its design than the family albums, whose titles seem to be there just to be funny and weird ... Ed's album seems much more serious and detailed than that. My guess is that he did not have to have anyone else's input on it, and that helped him design it better, or at the very least, the album is more cohesive and enjoyable than the last couple of family albums.