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the post-rock Dream Theater ahahah… nice definition, in fact this could easily be compared to Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory of the genre, and in their classical melodies you can find a bit of dreamlike megalomania... but I would see a group like 65daysofstatic more as the Dream Theater of post-rock. I can also agree that their melodies can be a bit predictable... but their sounds are spectacular, moreover I’ve stopped chit-chatting about music… what moves me I listen to, oblivious to everything else ;)

It depends on what you've listened to from the explosions, Franci!! I agree with you... but they've made a couple of great albums... I hope you'll like this one instead!!

they probably had started from that point they would have passed as just one of the many groups with mediocre albums... but after an album like K, which is truly a gem, it just couldn't hold up to the comparison. The downside of being able to produce masterpieces (big or small) is that if you don't maintain the standard, you become a disappointment...

I don't complain about what comes to CT; sure, to see Radiohead I had to go to Milan, but luckily Catania is more than alive musically as a city. Big concerts may not arrive, but many bands pass through, for example this year Alva Noto (the guru of global experimental electronics) chose Catania for his only Italian date. No, SUONOONOUS, it’s not a contradiction. I didn’t go to ypsig for Kula Shaker; I had heard of them but only knew a few of their singles that played on the radio... I educated myself a few months beforehand knowing that I would see their concert at ypsig. Nice performance, but without any claims of originality except for those Indian-rock-psychedelic atmospheres (Govinda is a beautiful track). I go to ypsig regardless of what's on... this year I particularly went for Jon Hopkins, but I have to say that Kula surprised me with a great performance, especially when you're only paying a few euros :) Then I remembered the previous year, when Apparat and Deus gave us mind-blowing performances. I had already seen Apparat at the Dissonanze festival in Rome, but there was no comparison with the performance in Castelbuono...

"Don't worry about the future... or if you do, worry knowing that it helps as much as chewing gum while solving an algebraic equation"... lately I've been spinning Just for a Day (a masterpiece of the band and of music as a whole) again after a long time without listening to it... it's dangerous music, just like a few others (I'm thinking of the early Sigur and something else)... music capable of dragging you into a maelstrom of emotions that pull you down... down... down... if you're happy, you enjoy the enchanting beauty of these timeless notes... when I'm depressed or dealing with my own issues, they pull me into an oblivion that's not always sweet and peaceful... good luck, my friend!!

Great Oneida... I still need to get this record ;)\

From E.A. Poe I arrived at HPL; I still prefer Poe, but the visionary dreaminess of this man has been a maelstrom that sucked me in... I've read almost everything... in scattered books... and you’ve made me want to take another look.

I miss one of their live shows... I’ll have to take care of it sooner or later.

I personally prefer drum's not dead... but this album blew me away when I listened to it... I loved it to death...

I don't disagree with you, Larrok; I challenge any human being to withstand those tracks. But as I mentioned in the review, "You don’t approach the Disintegration Loops like you would a track by any band or any musician; don’t consider it music, don’t look for melodies or dissonances, don’t strain to listen; the two long tracks that make up the work (anonymously titled 'D|P 1.1' and 'D|P 2.1') are an impressionistic portrait of the anguish of an event"... that is not music, but contemporary art in sonic form. The formal concept is what matters, not the listening experience itself. If you can manage to listen to it all the way through... well, I tip my hat to such a deranged mind, but I have never succeeded :)