If you're actually reading this then chances are you already have my last album but if NOT and you're curious:
https://battema.bandcamp.com/
Also, Ephemeral Sun: it's a thing and we like making things that might be your thing: https://ephemeralsun.bandcamp.com
Hmmm….that stuff does not sound particularly complex. Some parts just have a bass drum with some lead and bass synth going. (Admittedly, I just had a cursory listen.)
The virtuoso aspect so often fetishized in certain prog circles does not appear to be the aim of those tracks at all. It’s not like they’re trying to fool us into believing that there are real musician delivering humanly impossible performances. It's rather deliberately artificial.
"Dem Glücklichen legt auch der Hahn ein Ei."
I couldn't possibly disagree more, and this has nothing to do with prog vs. pop or anything like that.
If you make music that has mass appeal *and* qualify on several non-musical criteria *and* get a bit lucky, you can make your millions.
But first and foremost, the music has to have commercial potential. Music without a lot of commercial potential isn't going to make millions no matter what else is gotten right. I would think that the people making it (though they still want to get paid for what they do sell, obviously) are pretty well aware of this.
Music isn't about chops, or even about talent - it's about sound and the way that sound communicates to people. Mike Keneally
I have a legitimate beef with not necessarily the Israeli government, but with Netanyahu's agenda. You can't call the Palestinians and other Arab nations terrorists as long as you equally participate in the same kinds of shit.
For the few who don't know it, I'm a Jew.
"My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician, and to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference"
President Harry S. Truman
Well, I don't think shifty behaviour in the Israeli government began with Netanyahu as such. But I do agree with you're saying here.
And you're not the only Jewish person I've seen make such comments. Can it still be "antisemitic" if it's a Jew making said ciriticism?
I have a feeling that if we don't start talking about the record industry soon, we *all* will lose the thread.
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"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
"If you're not with us, you're against us."
Music isn't about chops, or even about talent - it's about sound and the way that sound communicates to people. Mike Keneally
"My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician, and to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference"
President Harry S. Truman
Yes it can, and don't bother about applying too many quotation marks around the general term itself - because it exists, it is real when it is true. Believe me; being a hardline leftist for all my grownup life and writing my university thesis on this exact subject made me want to puke at the overall bigotry that rules the game of positions in the field. The fact that there's completely legitimate ground for criticizing a state and its policies does NOT mean that all such apparent criticism is legitimate - depending on context, incitament, motive.
"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
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