Saw this on the Musea news feed. Quite the unexpected reunion..
Saw this on the Musea news feed. Quite the unexpected reunion..
Everybody seems to do a reunion the last fifteen years... Most of them though, disappear as quitely as they had returned. I sometimes wonder who can be the potential audience of these bands, when a reissue of their 70s great albums could not sell more than 300 copies.
A good chunk of the album (and for me the best part by far) is re-worked live recordings of two previously unreleased epics from 1978. It's a hybride between a new album and an archive release.
Calyx (Canterbury Scene) - http://www.calyx-canterbury.fr
Legends In Their Own Lunchtime (blog) - https://canterburyscene.wordpress.com/
My latest books : "Yes" (2017) - https://lemotetlereste.com/musiques/yes/ + "L'Ecole de Canterbury" (2016) - http://lemotetlereste.com/musiques/lecoledecanterbury/ + "King Crimson" (2012/updated 2018) - http://lemotetlereste.com/musiques/kingcrimson/
Canterbury & prog interviews - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdf...IUPxUMA/videos
Indeed so. And when considering that Carpe Diem according to rumours gained their 70s status as one of the 6-7 "big" names in French progressive rock by apparently selling some 20,000 albums altogether - many of them in Canada. Those two records have held up rather well, though.
"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
Steve F.
www.waysidemusic.com
www.cuneiformrecords.com
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
“Remember, if it doesn't say "Cuneiform," it's not prog!” - THE Jed Levin
Any time any one speaks to me about any musical project, the one absolute given is "it will not make big money". [tip of the hat to HK]
"Death to false 'support the scene' prog!"
please add 'imo' wherever you like, to avoid offending those easily offended.
This release was mentioned a couple of times in the New Releases-thread (starting from 11-11-2015), but that's such a hard thread to discuss individual releases.
Anyway, here's what I wrote about it:
The last line-up of the seventies were preparing new songs for a third LP in 1978 and 1979, but due to a change in the polici of EMI and a lack of distribution-possibilities there were no studio-recordings made. The band split in 1979.
There were however some live-recordings from those days, which included performances of saxophone- and flute-player Marius David, who died in 1993.
Those recordings formed the base for two long tracks on the new album. Overdubs were done and together with six new songs the album was released.
The sound is more electronic than in the seventies, with a larger role for the keyboards.
http://www.original-musics-colors.com/
https://www.facebook.com/CarpeDiemProgressive/
Confirmed Bachelors: the dramedy hit of 1883...
but really it's only the first 3 tunes on the album that are "electronic"/Pop sounding. If one were to get the album, whatever you do, DO NOT play the first 3 tunes or your first impression will be ruined. Start the album on track 4 and it sounds nearly as good as their classic 2 albums.
Why is it whenever someone mentions an artist that was clearly progressive (yet not the Symph weenie definition of Prog) do certain people feel compelled to snort "thats not Prog" like a whiny 5th grader?
Bookmarks