PEACE

The Waltzes

The waltz, that sublime dance, those graceful whirls and gentle-men, bowing, acknowledging the gowned belles, then going off only to return...

Seeded through the carnage of brothels of Auschwitz, the trenches of World War Eternal, the children given guns and drugs so they can kill and continue and kill and continue...

In This Bloody Scream

The jarring contrast between the magisterial sweeps of symphonic progressive music and the evil-incarnate of men in suits and power ties adding up their billions, the women leaning in and cutting up the pie baked in human flesh, armaments, mines, drones-

This Bloody Scream

PEACE!

We are masters and mistresses of hate, murder, corruption, greed, lust, torture, and destruction. We humans have studied it, turned it inside out, identified it as hell, as 'war is hell', as endless insanity: War is Peace.

The brothers of ARS PRO VITA (Art For Life) and their assembled cast of musicians and spokes-people have assembled the kind of musical tapestry that thread by thread weaves the madness of war upon the loom of untold trillions of ready cash generated by some unholy force, and traced by the sinews and limbs of young women and men, grandmothers and grandfathers, widows, orphans, slowly or quickly losing what little they once may have had.

147 Minutes

A very long time for the listener accustomed to less intense, more succinct fare, progressive or otherwise.

Yet a very short time in the overall catalogue of horrors known to humanity if one considers the sweep of centuries, and the battles and conflicts and wars and engagements that have engulfed this blistered, frozen planet.

147 minutes of musical loveliness, sublime skill, artful lyrics, spoken words, cinematic sounds and effects from around the globe, and with the maximum effect, challenging us with every note, every sound, every effect, to consider, to feel, to cringe, to LOOK and to HEAR what humans perpetrate upon humans.

Like a Cry from the Heart

Perhaps you, like so many seem to do, worship the god of war, thrill to the battle march, the soldiers in formation, the thin patriotism that thanks for their service and turns away when they return broken and scarred- and perhaps you can remain untouched, perhaps even offended by this stunning cry from the heart.

I cannot.

The waltzes alone, strewn as they are in the mud and the blood, demand attention.

For me, this is essential: a masterpiece of progressive rock music, and excellent addition to ANY music collection.

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