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Joined: April 08 2006
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Posted: October 18 2015 at 02:53
1. The Fixx - Shuttered Room 2. Icehouse - Primitive Man 3. Genesis - Trespass 4. K.D. Lang - Ingenue 5. Al Stewart - The Year Of The Cat 6. Sensation's Fix- Vision Fugitives
- Music is Life, that's why our hearts have beats -
Joined: November 29 2006
Location: Israel
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Posted: October 18 2015 at 08:30
Aussie-Byrd-Brother wrote:
Premiata Forneria Marconi – Stati di Immaginazione – Sagi, I FINALLY got a CD of this comeback PFM album you always spoke highly of! What can I say, glad to hear not only a massive return to form after their run of poppy/aor/rock albums, but good to hear a first-rate instrumental album in general! Is the `Dracula Rock Opera’ album any good? I do have the one after it, `AD 2010’, on vinyl, and although it’s overlong and a little repetitive in parts, it’s a very tasteful and instrumentally exciting in parts.
Michael I'm glad you finally got that album, I place it among their best ones. The playing is really good, Mussida is on freaking fire and the melodies are just as beautiful as the PFM standard.
About Dracula, I feel I haven't focused on it like I should have but for now I can say it is overall a good album, maybe not so coherent in quality or interest. There are many many good moments to enjoy that's for sure but overall I feel it's not a strong album but definitely a good one. Stati Di is by far a better album imo.
Joined: October 12 2011
Location: Melb, Australia
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Posted: October 18 2015 at 14:55
Thanks, Sagi!
Tonights choices:
Caravan – Waterloo Lily Black Sabbath – Born Again Sabitas-Rock Encounter with Joe Beck – s/t Skin Alley – Two Quid Deal? The Nice - Ars Longa Vita Brevis Tonton Macoute – s/t Cosmic Ground – 2 Cousin Silas – Dronescape 29 Ishq - Sunflower Focus – Live at the Rainbow
Joined: June 25 2013
Location: Portugal
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Posted: October 19 2015 at 04:16
Aussie-Byrd-Brother wrote:
Renaissance – Azure D’Or - Still a really fine album from the group, do you have this one yet, Sam?
Gentle Giant - Interview
Cosmic Ground – 2
I listened to it but I don't have the album, I only have four from them now: Prologue, Ashes are Burning, A Song For All Seasons and Grandine il Vento.
How's Interview? I never listened to anything from them after Free Hand.
Is the new Cosmic Ground more original than the previous album?
Joined: October 12 2011
Location: Melb, Australia
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Posted: October 19 2015 at 07:56
OH, Sam, you have plenty of great Renaissance albums to catch up on! At least get `Scheherezade' (dammit, I NEVER get the spelling right!) as quick as possible!
`Interview' is a very fine GG album, if not quite one of their classics. I'd probably put it a little behind `Three Friends'.
That new Cosmic Ground album is frustrating. It has four twenty-odd minute pieces on it (so runs close to 80 minutes), the first two of which are overlong clone pieces of Tangerine Dream. However, the third and fourth tracks are much more interesting and original, and would have been perfectly satisfying on their own! None of it sounds bad as such, but it's annoying that the second half shows so much potential, yet the artist seems to second-guess himself by falling back on remaking TD in the first half!
Joined: June 25 2013
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Posted: October 19 2015 at 08:35
Aussie-Byrd-Brother wrote:
OH, Sam, you have plenty of great Renaissance albums to catch up on! At least get `Scheherezade' (dammit, I NEVER get the spelling right!) as quick as possible!
`Interview' is a very fine GG album, if not quite one of their classics. I'd probably put it a little behind `Three Friends'.
That new Cosmic Ground album is frustrating. It has four twenty-odd minute pieces on it (so runs close to 80 minutes), the first two of which are overlong clone pieces of Tangerine Dream. However, the third and fourth tracks are much more interesting and original, and would have been perfectly satisfying on their own! None of it sounds bad as such, but it's annoying that the second half shows so much potential, yet the artist seems to second-guess himself by falling back on remaking TD in the first half!
I'll buy it the moment I see a vinyl copy I have all signed by Annie except Ashes, I didn't want to show her that ugly alternative cover
Good to know it's not a dud album. I was going through some old music magazines the other day and saw an article about Prog (which I stupidly didn't read back then), and it had the dumbest top 10 I ever saw... Giant For A Day was on that list No wonder I stopped buying magazines after I found PA
It sounds like it should be an original 40 minute album
Joined: October 12 2011
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Posted: October 19 2015 at 08:49
I recently just bought the remastered CD of `Giant for a Day' for a few dollars, and like I've always found, despite being far and away their worst, it's hardly a bad album at all! It's hardly prog, it's very poppy, yet well played pop - I can dig it!
Yeah, `Cosmic Ground 2' is a bit of a slog to get through because of how long it is, and even more annoying when the really good stuff about 40 minutes into the album. I'll be posting a review of it shortly, as Dirk (aka Cosmic Ground) was kind enough to send me a copy, but I just need to work on it a bit more. It's hardly a bad album by any means, just that I feel when you have modern artists like Michael Bruckner, Ishq, Alpha Wave Movement, etc that deliver amazing progressive/electronic/ambient music that had nods to the past masters yet sound thrilling, vital and modern in their own original way, it's time to take more chances and stand on your own two feet, if that makes sense?!
Joined: October 12 2011
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Posted: October 19 2015 at 09:18
I don't feel Dirk's worth being completely dismissed as nothing more than an imitator on that album, if you pay close attention there's plenty of emphasis on beats in parts that TD never used.
Offering music in the same manner of another artist is still sure to excite a hell of a lot of people, and I've read plenty of rave reviews for the second album around the net by those who have no trouble lapping it up because it gives them exactly what they want.
But it's when you hear the more original stuff and wish there'd been more of that that it gets a little disappointing. It seems like the priorities are out of whack, like he feels the TD-sounding stuff should be the focal point, when it should be the other way around, or left off altogeher. The guy is too much of a talent to short-change himself.
^ Listening to Faust all day? That sounds like a mind-altering experience
I was in a weird mood all day so the music actually complemented it quite beautifully.
I listened to
in my coffee break at work whilst overlooking a bunch of 4 year olds re-enact Star Wars in the sandbox......which is something I most definitely could get used to in the future.
“The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
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Aussie-Byrd-Brother wrote:
I have all signed by Annie except Ashes, I didn't want to show her that ugly alternative cover 
No wonder I stopped buying magazines after I found PA 
