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The Snow Goose by Camel: a beautiful fantasy that translates this moving tale of friendship, love, war and separation into a well structured sonic piece of music
With Understanding Comes Appreciation The last album I reviewed on this corner was Tanz der Lemminge by Amon Düül II, a very complex,...

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Feb 17, 20245 min read
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Tanz der Lemminge by Amon Düül II: pull out your tickets, and take the most mind-expanding excursion in music history
With Understanding Comes Appreciation Through the trials and tribulations that life has to offer, a vast wealth of inspiration and...

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Feb 14, 20249 min read
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Over-Nite Sensation by Frank Zappa: the art of blending humour, elaborated song-writing & complex scores
With Understanding Comes Appreciation This was the watershed album in Frank Zappa’s career in late 1973. The avant-garde, experimental...

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Feb 4, 20247 min read
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Acquiring the Taste by Gentle Giant: techniques borrowed directly from the Renaissance and Baroque proved us all that there's so much more to do in rock music
With Understanding Comes Appreciation Gargantua & Pantagruel come to life! The entire classic era oeuvre of the British progressive rock...

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Feb 4, 20248 min read
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In a Silent Way by Miles Davis: revolutionary and blowing away Milestone; progress, vision, execution and promising young-bloods
With Understanding Comes Appreciation First off, look at this ridiculous unit: -John McLaughlin / electric guitar (One of fusion's most...

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Feb 4, 20246 min read
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Tago Mago by Can: a Stockhausen-esque, which fuses an avant-garde rock symphony with shamanic avant-funk trance
With Understanding Comes Appreciation Sounds and impacts only like itself, like no-one before or after. An attempt to achieve in 80...

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Feb 4, 20245 min read
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The Maria Dimension by The Legendary Pink Dots: a fascinating dark, violent and apocalyptic space-rock journey
With understanding comes appreciation First things first since no many people are familiarized with the Dots. The Legendary Pink Dots...

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Feb 4, 20247 min read
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Selling England by the Pound by Genesis: everything is firing on all cylinders on this genre-defining & hallowed record
With Understanding Comes Appreciation Okay: You're all alone on the desert island with your ten essential prog albums. The solar-powered...

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Feb 4, 20246 min read
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Discipline by King Crimson: reinventing progressive rock music; a smart blend of cerebral art rock and post-punk, yet catchy and with almost pop sensibilities
With Understanding Comes Appreciation Unless you were a youngster in 1981, you have zero idea what it was like to buy this vinyl and be...

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Feb 4, 20244 min read
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Western Culture by Henry Cow: a beautifully crafted and sophisticated Rock-in-Opposition masterpiece
With Understanding Comes Appreciation While it is focused on rarefied, intellectualized, long-form composition in an era when...

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Feb 4, 20245 min read
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Rain Dogs by Tom Waits: breathtaking dark cabaret and beat poetry, wrapped with seductive jarring rhythms and singular instrumentation
With Understanding Comes Appreciation The first time I listened to Tom Waits, which was randomly from a radio station btw, I thought...

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Feb 3, 20246 min read
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Bar Kokhba by John Zorn: a journey to an elegant and sophisticated avant-garde territory
With Understanding Comes Appreciation Some of the words that arguably describe better this gem might be elegant, sophisticated,...

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Feb 2, 20243 min read
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Trout Mask Replica by Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band: fast and bulbous; a massively misunderstood masterpiece
With Understanding Comes Appreciation “Fast and bulbous! That's right, The Mascara Snake, fast and bulbous! Also, a tin teardrop!...

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Feb 2, 20247 min read
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Hot Rats by Frank Zappa: flawless, impeccable and exquisite; the birth of jazz-rock fusion
With Understanding Comes Appreciation Tony Williams' Emergency is flavored with post-bop and jazz-instrument elements, which pushed into...

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Feb 2, 20248 min read
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