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Hey friends, please take a look and share this around. Thanks, mj.

https://crowdfundr.com/52DLS2?ref=ab_7CWX13

Uhhh, oops.

Not quite. New material mostly written, but none recorded. Hope to do some of that very shortly, but I expect I'll soon have to do another crowd-funding campaign. A lot of the material is very...

Hmmm, where shall I begin.... (kidding! ;))

First, thanks to the various PE members for their glowing remarks re AHoM and TP. You might be interested to know that, among various other projects, I'm working on remixing that album on my own,...

Hey Frankie. Only seeing this now. Damn, thanks! A pity the 'videographer' never seems to know where to point the camera! As for the coming "alive" and breathing, I've always felt like the mix...

Hi Bill - You might have noticed...there are no guitars ;) ...or anything else but voices, 25 tracks of them (Elaine), singing five separate parts, covering more than two octaves (amazing effort). ...

I'll have to check out Lovecraft Country. With a name like that....;) Thx.

Hmmmm....

I am working on it (and other things). And of course, it's slow going - I get hyper-perfectionistic in the writing phase. In this case, as I think I told you, Bob, I'm looking to incorporate a real...

Gee, I wonder....:D



Heheh, thanks brother.

As I think I may have said before, Rikard, you should be the TP publicist - a truly thankless and "unremuniterative" job, but you could do it like no one else (you've already been doing it for years...

That was indeed a pretty special show. It was only the second live performance by that particular line-up. And I must confess..."mistakes were made." But no matter, the energy in that room,...

Well, since you asked, not really. At least not consciously. True, I was a big Yes fan way back in the 70s, and I really liked that 11/8 section in Awaken with that cool guitar figure (and that...

Well, I'd be flattered to learn from these guys that I am an influence, but what I'm hearing is H Cow, etc., like I said. These kinds of rhythms are ubiquitous in '20th century' art music, and in...

Firstly, bravo to these guys. Impressive. I'm really not hearing T. Plague in this. Harmonically and rhythmically it hits me most like an updated H. Cow, with a little 5uus (the former having...

Indeed, it was. You mean this one, Mike's tribute to John Wetton. I was never an Asia fan....classic dumbed down prog to me, but Mike did a great job on this, which I actually like better than the...

Well, I did say "nice conventional" prog, as in that which might actually be able to fill some venues NOW. If KC or Zappa came along now, would they rise to anywhere near the stature they did (and...

Thanks, TC. I'm not offended by someone's opinion about our singer, and I'm not 'sensitive' about 'my thread,' or anything. I agree that he's not a perfect Beatles imitator (you should hear him do...

With regard to your post before the video, I was literally raised on the Beatles, not through parents or someone else after the fact. I was there, so to speak, when they first "came over," and...

Hi John - we did in fact do Walrus, as well as Strawberry Fields, Magical Mystery Tour, and All You Need is Love, in addition to Penny Lane from that period. Sadly, the D Pops, a communtiy volunteer...

H'okay.

Well, way cool. Thanks JKL.

Glad you like. The only available "choir" was Jon and me....and we could have done it a little better. But I added winds and strings to compensate.

Ah now....

Thanks. As I said above, the mission was to create scores that sounded as much as possible like the priginals, with the players that we had. Rarely did Geroge Martin use a full orchestra, so we...

Thanks! In truth, all I did was score what's there on the original recording (to the best of my ability to hear), with some added doubling of some parts like, for instance, the strings basically...

Some more.....

Across the Universe
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FvfEI_jGLd0

Live & Let Die (I know, not Beatles....but the singer insisted...)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cBp3YJ0fSBU

Thought y'all might get a kick out of these (if you haven't already seen them - P.S. We're available for weddings and large parties [sans orchestra]). :cool Just fyi, the keys and backing singer guy...

Hi H - actually both TP’s and 5UU’s first 2 albums were re-released as compilation CDs by Cuneiform. Sadly, they may be hard to find now, but it was done...almost 20 years ago. Meanwhile, re vinyl,...

Hey Artic - like Kurt says, yes, William Schuman, but also LOTS of Shostakovich listening over the years, and various mostly first half of 20th century stuff, like Britten, Copland (I grew up on his...

Well, you sound like a good candidate for TP (am I violating some PE self-promo norm? ;) ) Try this song: https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/track/hoping-against-hope

You'd best jump pretty quick, because there are limited numbers of these cds, and there won't be more.

Thank YOU for the kind words.

Well, thanks, Kcrimso! ...and same to Ian (Nogbad..), Mellotron Storm, Morpheus, et al. You guys are obviously the 'smartest people on PR'.....(:lol)!!!'

You guys keep thanking us! Thank YOU(s) for being pur 'fans'.

Thank YOU, Tomás, for your support and helping us 'carry the torch', as it were. I confess I do not remember all this, but if I could read the reveiws, it would jog my memory (you know how we are...

I have a similar itch, and am always trying to scratch it. Glad I'm succeeding for some! As for "angular", if you mean it as a compliment, thus will we take it! But you've probably seen that word...

I look forward to reading your 'review'.

If you are a "discerning" listener (which you must be, if you're here!), then I believe there's nothing you can't understand, if it's explained not using music theory jargon. So, don't be...

I absolutely agree.

Again, it's my pleasure. Unfortunately, I rarely get to talk about the actual development and composition of the music. And reviewers tend to deal with the non-musical themes of the titles and...

My pleasure.

So, the point I guess of all that was to illustrate that the seemingly pretty disparate sections of this song/piece are actually connected, sometimes in pretty arcane ways.

No, no, you're actually fairly on the money there. The section at 2:27 is a 're' presentation of the very opening section - same starting note with the same fuzz guitar sound, following the same...

So that helped you? So visual association helps you. When I was a teenager I had some trouble grasping Stravinsky's Rite of Spring. But when I saw Disney's Fantasia, with the whole death of the...

Sorry for the (somewhat ;) ) shameless self-promotion (usual disclaimer!) but, I thought you PE Plagueheads might like to see this reveiw. - below We've been getting a rather unprecedented number...

John, I listen to HC a little from time to time, but not often. I barely listen to any 'rock' music at all, anyamore, as you know. But with regard to "Living in the Heart...", the little build-up...

The venue was an old very reverby theater. So all I heard was like a roaring painful wall of sound. I had another band, Cage of Reason, that opened for them maybe in '86. I was able to stand...

Yes, this was a good live unit! Sadly, we only ever performed 3 times in public, once opening for Sonic Youth, and twice in this cool 250 seat blackbox theater at the Denver Ctr. for Perf. Arts,...

Indeed, I worked him pretty hard (made him play too high, in a few spots!). But really, not any more than everyone else. As for sound, *thanks*. A lot went into that.

Ah good, me too! Great...

Cool, Chris! Any new thoughts today? (8^ )

Cool. I think experiencing sonic art can be greatly enhanced by imagining visual imagery (Fantasia helped me as a kid to begin to understand the language of the Rite of Spring). You can also read...

This is not to say that already extant systems aren't foundational to the process of creating music. But if one consciously focuses on trying to properly execute according to systems in which they...

Missing the forest for the trees, here, John. It was just a conceptual anology. Of course the details don't align. As I always say, it's about listening and hearing....not theories and...

I'm glad you guys have gotten that all worked out. (Smile) But I'd be more interested in anyone's reaction to my attempt at describing tonality using a painting analogy! ;)

Thanks, Phlak. In all music it's really just about exposing one's self to it enough for the brain to begin to recognize the relationships and patterns. The great "barrier" for so many people seems...

Yay! Glad it's connecting with you. What I hope for is that people listen enough to begin to 'hear' and 'get' the emotion of the melodies and harmonies. Notwithstanding all the reviews that say...

"Animated antic"... well put. Yes, there's no place for gushy, excessively vibrato'd, pop-style vocals in TP (unless it's done as satire, i.e., Susanne Lewis on Run Amok). But it must be said that...