Purpulan

DeRank ™: 2,92

DeAge™ : 6837 days • Here since 21 september 2007

Band Of Horses Cease To Begin

7 oct 08

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If no one votes for the album, it means that all this fuss didn’t work out for them, considering few have listened to it and it’s already almost a year old... for me, it’s a solid pass... it doesn’t have the peaks of "Everything All the Time" ("The Funeral" is a must-mention)... but it skims on the folk-acoustic side and that’s not a bad choice (pieces like "Part One" and the closing triptych were left behind together with Mat Brooke, and with "Islands on the Coast," they can easily give Coldplay a run for their money with dots on it permanently)(3.5).

Iceburn Hephaestus

5 oct 08

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Aleee... On the Hurley/Watts issue, I can meet you halfway... But just know that I saw you defend some Grhol as a drummer???! Carey and Chancellor would eat him alive in the rhythm section... Play around a bit with odd times or off-beat accents (minimum common denominator)... Just Kinney, in that context, would have something to say about being underestimated (and I’m playing your game)!

Trivium Shogun

3 oct 08

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Here we would need a nice conspiracy of Daimyo to free us from this oppressive and trivial Shogunate...

Iceburn Hephaestus

3 oct 08

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I love "Power of the Lion" and "Land of Wind and Ghosts" by them, quite distant from this album; one is a mix of math-core and free jazz, while the other is in its own way much closer to the proposal of Ascend (3.5).

John Cage Complete music for prepared piano

3 oct 08

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@ Bedroombedview: the important thing is that it wasn't Gianni Vattimo feeding him the information "from behind"... that would have been serious trouble!!!

John Cage Complete music for prepared piano

3 oct 08

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Mycologist... he had those growths on his big toes... and they were, coincidentally, hallucinogenic!!!

John Cage Complete music for prepared piano

3 oct 08

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"Azzz... the midweek dinners really have a strong effect on my fragile psyche... in hindsight (and with a good dose of headache), I can't even understand what I've written, except for the fact that I should have typed 'pars' and not 'part'... the wine doesn't help with Latin!!! ;)."

Parts & Labor Mapmaker

3 oct 08

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Yes, but "Receivers" (this year) in terms of pop intelligence gives meat to "Warehouse" and "Nowhere Nigh" is such a radio-friendly single that even "I Apologize" wouldn’t stand a chance at a plea deal... they make me drool (even though they’ve now succumbed to the temptations of added guitar... but played by a woman... so "pro forma" ; ).

Autechre Amber

3 oct 08

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Yeah! "444" (Incunabula) is the dermoelectronic sublimation of a 21st-century Gregorian "choir" (so it fits well to be allocated in a pastistic sense)!

John Cage Complete music for prepared piano

3 oct 08

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As a review, in an apodictic sense, it has its reasons, given the location... but the terminology??!... Too proto-pedagogical!!! It minimizes the "part denstruens" justifying (with "classical" terminology) that "costruens"! Cage has always been magnificently "seraphic" in terms of deconstructive theories... and also quite quantitatively "studied" and verbose in his recreational act. But this achieves completion well after your maximalist synecdoche about his "tabula rasa"! P.S.: "Cartesianly speaking: I farted on purpose!"