Saputello

I also think they are influenced by Massive Attack.

Their problem is that the compositions don't take off, despite the great care in the arrangements and the sound. They should work harder on the compositional side; however, it’s a sufficient album.

@ Grass: How beautiful is the final quartet of songs from that album (letters from home)? For me, that last part is something striking in how it shines.

In finger picking, but especially with the particular technique halfway between picking and fingerstyle (I can't remember what it's called, but it's the one where you use a thumb pick and strum with the other fingers of the right hand), he’s really a monster; it's hard to find a more complete acoustic guitarist than him. He also has a good improvisational feel, but what he really lacks, in my opinion, is the ability to arrange his pieces with a bit of personality. However, his natural dimension is undoubtedly live.

Let's listen to this very personal proposal...

@ Ajè: according to the tracks that make your heart melt, there are also some on shleep, at least for me, Maryan, alien, and the short but intense out of season have an extraordinary emotional charge. I think the Soft Machine were very different from Wyatt (I mean the other members of the group) in terms of musical characteristics; I've never been a huge fan of their style, which I don't believe is more cerebral than Wyatt's, but rather "ostentatiously experimental." Wyatt has a musical taste far superior to the other Soft Machines, and it’s no coincidence that the song that shines the most in their masterpiece third is "Moon in June," by Wyatt.

"Beautiful cover, but did his wife always design it?" ------> Yes, and it's truly beautiful. All the covers of his albums are done by his wife, and I must say she has a very personal style that I adore, perhaps influenced by certain Eastern figurative arts.

I would like to comment just for a moment on Osho's words. It’s certainly a comprehensible discourse he presents, but it is really hard to be totally согласен with what he says, at least on a writing level. First of all, I believe that if you are not a genius at writing, it is absolutely necessary to include "tension drops" in your writings; otherwise, one falls into a pathetic redundancy that only great writers know how to avoid. Then, I don’t understand what that excessive precision means. Is realism too precise? Sometimes realism has a more intense emotion than certain sentimentalism; in fact, almost always. Hidden and unspoken feelings are more intense than those blindly thrown out without criteria and illumination. Writing cannot be reduced to the drafting of a never-ending flow of consciousness, because what is compromised is communicability. Excessive subjectivity risks undermining communication between you and others; one must be skilled at finding a middle ground.

@ Ajè: Well, it's a matter of perspective; I really consider this magnificent. For example, I'm not particularly fond of the albums I've listened to by the Soft Machine, nor the albums by Wyatt from the '80s.

sacred greetings Ajè :-). I would give the album a solid 4, because I place it below my favorite records by the artist, which are "Non al denaro, non all'amore né al cielo" and "Crueza de Ma". And maybe also "La buona novella". But it's a great album, nothing to complain about. Every time ajeje gives a five, I run to the bathroom to cry.