Marco Salzano

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Van Der Graaf Generator: The Aerosol Grey Machine
CD Audio I have it ★★★
Van der Graaf Generator: The Aerosol Grey Machine
30 jun 12
Not quite a Hammill solo, but not yet Van Der Graaf (Jackson and Potter are missing). It’s still an immature, intimate album (Afterwards, Running Back), with some ironic moments like Aquarian (a sort of parody of the famous hippie anthem) and the fake Jingle in the title, but where Hammill is already starting to exorcise his own ghosts, like the ambiguous figure of the Necromancer (dark vocal harmonies over a martial rhythm) and the octopus of Octopus with a slimy dissonant organ.
  • urlicht
    30 jun 12
    at least four balls for me, I've always liked it
  • Marco Salzano
    30 jun 12
    I like it too, but I usually round down and this doesn't reach a full 8 for me. It's too uneven: the tracks on side A are good but more Hammil solo; the ironic ones don’t completely convince me while the final ones are the prototype of true VDGG. And anyway, the gap with The Least We Can Do is significant.
Van Der Graaf Generator: Pawn Hearts
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Van der Graaf Generator: Pawn Hearts
8 feb 16
A prog masterpiece with the unique and inimitable VDGG: the soundtrack of an existential crisis, with various suites painting the entire ambiguity of being human. For me, it's all worthy of an anthology, from the contemplative opening with just piano, organ, and voice (and what a voice) to the pure psychological terror of the sax-keyboard interludes. Oh, I almost forgot, there's also a cameo from Mr. Fripp himself just to delight.
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