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Lucio Battisti La sposa occidentale

23 sep 04

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In fact, Alex, that was precisely the meaning of my "I presume" in parentheses. As for the fact that all these "presumptions" are sterile, I am in total, absolute, perfect disagreement. The history of "art criticism" in a broad sense is also made, to a large extent, of "interferences" in the personal (artistic) choices of artists and an interpretation of those choices: "Why did Fontana start cutting canvases?" or again: "Why did Battisti start making electronic music?" These are legitimate questions, justifiable, and not a bit sterile...

Lucio Battisti La sposa occidentale

22 sep 04

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I had understood that it was a dictionary citation, but I assumed it was used as a joke to respond, I presume ironically, to my doubts about your discussions regarding music that "meets the tastes of the masses understood specifically as masses and not as emerging music"... but maybe you were quoting Panella and I didn’t notice. I suppose. Kisses.

Ghost Hypnotic Underworld

22 sep 04

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sure sure, logic, but I said that if prog is serious and valid (in the "king crimson" sense, it clearly wanted to be a compliment). fortunately, the ghost are neither the pendragon nor the iq... bye

Lucio Battisti La sposa occidentale

22 sep 04

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that "thing" (joke?) about the crowd... meh... whatever. I underline my "presumed," since I can only assume (therefore) that he "chose," let's say voluntarily and intentionally, to reverse the musical direction, and I can only presume the reasons behind such a choice. Emily is right, we judge the outcomes and, I add, we presume the why and how of those outcomes (at least in the absence of precise declarations of intent and poetics from the person directly involved). At least, that’s what I assume and presuppose (but do not deduce). Kisses.

Ghost Hypnotic Underworld

22 sep 04

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Bought at the time of its release, it seemed like the "new sensation" from Japan, but the group is a bit old (about 10 good years of activity, if I'm not mistaken)... the review, in its brevity, seems to omit the point that perhaps the "Crimson King" prog component takes the upper hand over the strictly psychedelic one, and every now and then this gets a bit tiring, making the album overall feel "heavy" and, so to speak, pompous and redundant... anyway, a nice album, the old prog maniacs have something to listen to without shame...

Lucio Battisti La sposa occidentale

22 sep 04

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I’ll share my thoughts: Battisti genuinely tried to create a musical shift that would "translate" the whimsically cryptic Panellian poetry into music, but what came out was a rather ugly electronic sound that has aged terribly. With all due respect, but everyone has their limits...

Lucio Battisti La sposa occidentale

22 sep 04

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Well, the discussion about "the mass" continues to be unclear to me... but so does the one about the (alleged) choice of Battisti... here we are praising the courage of the artist Battisti for disappointing his audience, and then it's said that he consciously used a "soft" (mass?) electronics instead of "serious" electronics so as not to disorient that same audience too much? It seems a bit twisted and not very plausible to me...

Belle And Sebastian Dear Catastrophe Waitress

21 sep 04

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young holden, I feel c) but for perverse reasons that would deserve a session of self-awareness, of the b&s it turns out that I have procured everything (mostly "original"). Am I serious?

Belle And Sebastian Dear Catastrophe Waitress

21 sep 04

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Nice review, which I only partially agree with, in the sense that I find the album a bit boring or thereabouts... great and lively the single "step into my office baby" (very Beach Boys, perhaps even more than the Beatles), but the rest glides away painlessly and a bit tasteless. It's the usual formula from our guys, just "revitalized" by a richer and more polished production than usual. Of course, Horn could have (really) done worse, all things considered, but let's not forget that Trevor is among the architects of the unexpected pop "resurrection" of Yes with "Owner of a Lonely Heart," so maybe he's clever enough to know exactly what he's doing. Anyway, the gist is that, simply put, Belle & Sebastian have bored me. I stop at "If You're Feeling Sinister"; the rest is just leftover fat that I'm happy to let flow away...

Lucio Battisti La sposa occidentale

20 sep 04

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well... in vain, it really seems a bit far-fetched as a statement. just think about what Kraftwerk was doing in the '70s, and how "current" a Trans-Europe Express sounds almost 30 years later... not only that... think of Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works 85/92, or Massive Attack's Blue Lines (1991), all contemporary to Battisti's "electronic" phase, let's say '88 (L'apparenza) '94 (Hegel)... in short, there was (been) "decent" electronics, besides Eno, it's not prehistory...