New Schnellertollermeier album Rights

**jeffo621** · 10-05-2017

As I eagerly await an email from Bandcamp on Friday, could someone elaborate on the "Death to false Schnellertollermeier prog" line? I've seen that on Steve's sig file but wasn't sure if:

a) It is saying that Schnellertollermeier is a false prog god and should be struck down
b) All of the bands that copy and imitate Schnellertollermeier should be struck down
c) Schnellertollermeier is annoying to those fans with a limited comfort zone
d) Their name is too odd and should be something better like Emerson, Lake and Palmer

Jeff

**nosebone** · 10-05-2017

That guy needs a bigger pedalboard!

**moecurlythanu** · 10-05-2017

^ Or, "it's just a line having a little fun playing off the well-known "Death to false Metal" line, with a current very technical Prog-Rock band inserted instead.

**jeffo621** · 10-05-2017

Bah, then it should read "Death to false Sonar Prog"

I hate to think that I lump those two bands together simply because of geography. There is a bit of a syncopated, highly-technical aspect to them, but Sonar and Schnellertollermeier are really not that similar IMO

Jeff

**Steve F.** · 10-05-2017

Originally Posted by jeffo621

As I eagerly await an email from Bandcamp on Friday, could someone elaborate on the "Death to false Schnellertollermeier prog" line?

Well, it was obviously and completely meant in jest.

I came up with that line when bantering on PE about something very proggy prog that had raised the hackles of Richard (Scrotum Scissor) and I came up with that line. But I don't remember what it was all about.

Originally Posted by moecurlythanu

^ Or, "it's just a line having a little fun playing off the well-known "Death to false Metal" line, with a current very technical Prog-Rock band inserted instead.

yes. Thank you.

Originally Posted by jeffo621

Bah, then it should read "Death to false Sonar Prog"

But "Schnellertollermeier prog" is funnier and more obscure.

**jeffo621** · 10-05-2017

Originally Posted by Steve F.

Well, it was obviously and completely meant in jest.

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But "Schnellertollermeier prog" is funnier and more obscure.

Indeed! Although for it to really be obscure, they would need to have all of their stuff go OOP and then get reissued in a gatefold mini-LP on Taichika.

**jeffo621** · 10-07-2017

Damn, this album is good...

**chalkpie** · 10-07-2017

Originally Posted by jeffo621

Damn, this album is good...

Yes it is! I Just bought me a copy at Bandcamp - I Like how I have a copy on my phone now to listen anywhere. The title track is pretty outstanding.

**jeffo621** · 10-07-2017

Originally Posted by chalkpie

Yes it is! I Just bought me a copy at Bandcamp - I Like how I have a copy on my phone now to listen anywhere.

I got it off Bandcamp too - I like that I can choose to pay a little extra. It gives me great pleasure to know that Steve could supersize his next Value Meal.

The title track is pretty outstanding.

hehe - to me they're all pretty equal, chiefly because each song seems to take a different approach. It'll take a few more listens to digest it properly, but Praise/Eleven has a more minimalist feel, whereas Round gets pretty heavy. And the title track....

Jeff

**NogbadTheBad** · 10-07-2017

Listened on bandcamp today, whole album is outstanding, i'll buy it next weekend when a bunch of other bandcamp releases come out, Thumpermonkey and Trojan Horse.

**thedunno** · 10-20-2017

Had a couple of plays so far...

...it's pretty good, innit?

**battema** · 10-20-2017

A big 10-4 on that, good buddy

**NogbadTheBad** · 10-20-2017

Jumped straight into the top 5 for the year for me, I love it.

**at least 100 dead** · 10-22-2017

Superb album.

**Kcrimso** · 10-22-2017

I have never heard even a note of Schnellertollermeier's music but I just ordered this new one. Hoping to be suprised.

**Scrotum Scissor** · 10-31-2017

Originally Posted by Tom

I liked the first half of "Rights" and thought the second didn't do enough to justify its incoherence, but then I don't like avant as a rule, so that's not news.

But we never like what we don't know. Usually we don't dislike what we don't know either. We either leave it alone, or learn about it before addressing it.

Of course, it's still wonderful to have a clearly authoritative voice assert of "incoherence" to others who actually do know. Know about its historical context and stylistic conception (seeing how 'avant' is in fact not a style), its preconditions as points of development, its connotations in contemporary music as a whole.

**Socrates** · 10-31-2017

Schnellertollermeier will be featured in next week's edition of Jazz Now on BBC Radio 3, 6th November at 23:00 UK time:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09d00xf
Live gig from the Cheltenham jazz festival.
I know that the TV content on the BBC iPlayer is blocked outside the UK, but I think think the radio content is available everywhere.

**Tom** · 10-31-2017

Originally Posted by Scrotum Scissor

[...]

I see you're working through my back catalog. Enjoy!

**Scrotum Scissor** · 10-31-2017

^ It's not that enjoyable. But someone has to deal with the issue at hand, man.

**at least 100 dead** · 11-23-2017

Oh no! Now babyblaue-seiten.de is worshipping at the altar of false prog too, having made Rights “album of the month”:

http://www.babyblaue-seiten.de/album_16897.html

**chalkpie** · 11-23-2017

Ordered the disc 7 October.......cricket cricket cricket

**Scrotum Scissor** · 11-23-2017

Originally Posted by at least 100 dead

Now babyblaue-seiten.de is worshipping at the altar of false prog too, having made Rights “album of the month”

Whether or not I agree with given recensions, their general sense of judgement in reviewing (especially) new stuff is quite trustworthy. I really like this site. But yes, they must be coerced into separating false from true prog. And eat'em hot-prog-dog while writing prog-blog in the fog-smog awaiting gog-magog arriving in the shape of a wog-hog wearing clogs.