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Band founded by fmr "Soft Machine" drummer ( & composer) Robert Wyatt ( very creative musician who got paralyzed from the waist down and on a wheelchair since 1973 due to an accident) In the 2 only MM albums ( this one and "Little Red Record", both rec'd before the accident) he plays drums and sings..... RIP Phil Miller (guitar) R.Wyatt - drums, vocals https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matching_Mole
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A visionary and a great Artist....JMHO Lou Reed's widow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurie_Anderson
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Special band imo... They were much more loved and appreciated ( and became famous first) here in Italy than UK ( same as Genesis and Gentle Giant) Peter Hammill - vocals https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_der_Graaf_Generator
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Different From "Telegram" 1996...As usual Bjork would record diff versions of same track ..... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Björk
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Band founded by fmr "Soft Machine" drummer ( and composer) Robert Wyatt From "Little Red Record" 1972 Fantastic album ( their 2nd...Wyatt was yet to get paralyzed...But he proceeded in his music recordings also afterwards....)...Really talented musicians imo RIP Phil Miller - guitar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matching_Mole -
Side one "Bulb" (Peter Gallen) – 0:09 "While Growing My Hair" – 3:53 "I Will Be Absorbed" – 5:10 "Fugue in D Minor" (Johann Sebastian Bach) – 2:46 "They Laughed When I Sat Down at the Piano…" – 1:17 "The Song of McGillicudie the Pusillanimous (Or Don't Worry James, Your Socks Are Hanging in the Coal Cellar with Thomas)" – 5:07 "Boilk" – 1:00 Side two "Symphony No. 2" – 20:43 Movement 1 Movement 2 Blane Movement 4
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From "Seven" 1973 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_Machine
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Her music is totally different from the rest From "Homogenic" 1997 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Björk
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Band founded by fmr "Soft Machine" drummer ( & composer) Robert Wyatt ( very creative musician who got paralyzed from the waist down and on a wheelchair since 1973 due to an accident) In the 2 only MM albums ( this one and "Little Red Record", both rec'd before the accident) he plays drums and sings..... RIP Phil Miller (guitar) R.Wyatt - drums, vocals https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matching_Mole
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1st album 1974 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatfield_and_the_North
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From "5" 1972 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_Machine
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1. 00:00 Santiago 2. 09:05 Leda 3. 13:22 Conn 4. 17:19 CT 6 5. 31:08 Brilla (shine) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dedalus_(band) Review by philippe SPECIAL COLLABORATOR Honorary Collaborator One of those 70's psychedelic treasures catching the essence of jazz rock with heavy grooves and hypno/experimental effects. The first track is a quick, electric jazz trip with abundant but linear guitar solos. Some nice keyboards parts accompany the jam. "Leda" is a floating jazzy tune with hyperactive psychedelic tones thanks to the use of amazing, atmospheric organ parts. The second part of the composition features a rather dreamy, spacey, evanescent soundscape punctuated by acid-psych bass grooves. "Conn" consists of improvisations with jammin' sax parts and really bizarre sound collages from a wide variety of instruments. "C.T.6" contains an elegant technical solo guitar sequence closed to Mc Laughlin's style. Not easy to approach for neophytes but highly recommended for convinced fans of jazz rock weirdo like Embryo and classic fusion jams from Miles Davis
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A visionary and a great Artist....JMHO Lou Reed's widow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurie_Anderson
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From "Little Red Record" 1972 Fantastic album ( their 2nd...Wyatt was yet to get paralyzed...But he proceeded in his music recordings also afterwards....)...Really talented musicians imo RIP Phil Miller - guitar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matching_Mole
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Different From "Telegram" 1996...As usual Bjork records diff versions of same track..... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Björk
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Band founded by fmr "Soft Machine" drummer ( & composer) Robert Wyatt ( very creative musician who got paralyzed from the waist down and on a wheelchair since 1973 due to an accident) In the 2 only MM albums ( this one and "Little Red Record", both rec'd before the accident) he plays drums and sings..... RIP Phil Miller (guitar) R.Wyatt - drums, vocals https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matching_Mole
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From "Seven" 1973 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_Machine
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Furio Chirico - band leader and great drummer Side A: Gravità 9,81 – (Gigi Venegoni) 00:00 Strips – (Beppe Crovella, Furio Chirico, Gigi Venegoni) 04:04 Corrosione – (Gigi Venegoni) 08:43 Positivo/Negativo – (Gigi Venegoni) 10:10 In cammino – (Gigi Venegoni) 13:43 Side B: Farenheit – (Beppe Crovella) 19:12 Articolazioni – (Gigi Venegoni, Arturo Vitale) 20:28 Tilt – (Beppe Crovella) 34:07 Album Line-up / Musicians - Luigi "Gigi" Venegoni / electric & acoustic guitars, ARP2600 synthesizer (8), co-producer - Beppe Crovella / acoustic & electric pianos, ARP2600 & Eminent synths, Mellotron, Hammond organ - Giovanni Vigliar / violin, vocals, percussion - Arturo Vitale / soprano & baritone saxes, clarinet & bass clarinet, vibraphone - Marco Gallesi / bass - Furio Chirico / drums, percussion Review by Sean Trane SPECIAL COLLABORATOR Prog Folk http://www.progarchives.com/static-images/3stars.gif 3.5 stars really!!! One of the most emblematic Italian prog albums with that simple but stunning album, which could probably the progressive spirit: indeed that wide funnel could be where the progressive movement engulf all of their individual or collective influences and transfer them into a tank for the mix, thus producing an incredibly varied and complex end product. This suggestive imagery belongs to yours truly, but I doubt I will be the only one who thought about it. It is further reinforced by the subtitle of the album's name: imagination for the ear. Often classified as JR/F, this band doesn't make pigeonholing that easy, especially when the violinist induces a bunch of symphonic or classical shades into the overall mix. A sextet from Rome (despite the majority being from Turin), the group is lead by three or even four frontmen, including a wind player (Vitale) and a string (violin mainly) player (Vigliar) as well as the more standard keyboards (Crovella) and guitar (Venegoni), thus allowing a very varied (in principle) sound. Let's not forget to mention drummer extraordinaire Furio Chirico and the no-less awesome bassist Gallesi. What you will find on the slice of wax or vinyl is a fairly-typical Italian-sounding group, stuck between the more symphonic (early PFM or BMS) and the jazzier penchant (Perigeo or later PFM) of the Italian scope of prog, but not venturing in its more-experimental side like Area or Stormy Six (if you except the short closing title track) or its prog folk slant (Saint Just). A mostly instrumental album, despite two sung tracks, A&M plays a very demonstrative melodic prog oscillating between symphonic and jazz styles, which give them a good but not unique quality to stand out from the mass of their compatriots. Indeed, while the sax gives the blue-notes sonorities, the violin and mellotrons counter with more European influences, despite the compositions being mostly that of guitarist Venegoni. Opening on the slightly Mahavishnu-esque and instrumental piece of Gravitation 9.81, you find yourself slipping without warning into the Crimson-like layers of Trons of the following piece of Strips, whose vocals are quite PFM-sounding. The short Corrosione is more of a transition piece that will polarize us into the +/- track (again Mahavishnu, but with added vibes) in order to prepare to the Cammino, a slow-evolving and gradually incandescent, in great part due to Vitale's winds and Venegoni's fiery guitar solo, before the short Scacco piece ends the side rather abruptly. The flipside is mostly hogged by the album's highlight, the 13-mins+ Articolazione, the other track featuring vocals, but it is sandwiched by two short track, the first of which Farenheit is Maha-inspired, while the closing Tilt piece is definitely more abstract and totally musically out of context of the rest of the album: interesting but artificial. Let's go back to the epic, truly the more complex and energetic piece of the album in the "Crimson meets PFM" mode, but featuring some IMHO expandable texts, but clearly the centrepiece of Tilt. I'm not sure if the album's production was perfect or is it that the music could've used a tad more energy and dynamics, but maybe a remastering would be helpful. While there are some undeniable Mahavishnu influences that make this album interesting to fusionheads, it's likely to interest more progheads, especially if you've heard the previous The Trip formation, you will impressed by the progress they made.. I often wonder how the group might have sounded and fared without the violin, out of pure speculation (he's not a composer anyway), but it's quite pointless since imagining A&M without Vigliar is unthinkable, because his sound is somewhere between Goodman, Lockwood or Ponty. Not essential (IMHO) to either jazz or prog fans, but Tilt is definitely worthy of some attention from both sides.
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Band founded by fmr. "Soft Machine" drummer ( and composer) Robert Wyatt From "Little Red Record" 1972 Fantastic album ( their 2nd...Wyatt was yet to get paralyzed...But he proceeded in his music recordings also afterwards....)...Really talented musicians imo RIP Phil Miller - guitar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matching_Mole
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Great band...Much underrated John Gustafson-RIP - bass, vocals Peter Robinson....really good keyboardist Mick Underwood - drums From "Quatermass" rec'd 1970 (special year for music) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quatermass_(band)
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Side one "Bulb" (Peter Gallen) – 0:09 "While Growing My Hair" – 3:53 "I Will Be Absorbed" – 5:10 "Fugue in D Minor" (Johann Sebastian Bach) – 2:46 "They Laughed When I Sat Down at the Piano…" – 1:17 "The Song of McGillicudie the Pusillanimous (Or Don't Worry James, Your Socks Are Hanging in the Coal Cellar with Thomas)" – 5:07 "Boilk" – 1:00 Side two "Symphony No. 2" – 20:43 Movement 1 Movement 2 Blane Movement 4
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From "Seven" 1973 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_Machine
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1. 00:00 Santiago 2. 09:05 Leda 3. 13:22 Conn 4. 17:19 CT 6 5. 31:08 Brilla (shine) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dedalus_(band) Review by philippe SPECIAL COLLABORATOR Honorary Collaborator One of those 70's psychedelic treasures catching the essence of jazz rock with heavy grooves and hypno/experimental effects. The first track is a quick, electric jazz trip with abundant but linear guitar solos. Some nice keyboards parts accompany the jam. "Leda" is a floating jazzy tune with hyperactive psychedelic tones thanks to the use of amazing, atmospheric organ parts. The second part of the composition features a rather dreamy, spacey, evanescent soundscape punctuated by acid-psych bass grooves. "Conn" consists of improvisations with jammin' sax parts and really bizarre sound collages from a wide variety of instruments. "C.T.6" contains an elegant technical solo guitar sequence closed to Mc Laughlin's style. Not easy to approach for neophytes but highly recommended for convinced fans of jazz rock weirdo like Embryo and classic fusion jams from Miles Davis
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Special band imo... They were much more loved and appreciated ( and became famous first) here in Italy than UK ( same as Genesis and Gentle Giant) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_der_Graaf_Generator
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Different From "Telegram" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Björk