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Shark's Gods in Music: prolific, demanding bandleaders, boundary pushers, stunning talent and uncompromising creativity
The Shark introduces artists whose prolificness, talent, creativity, and trajectory stand out among the rest, reason why he call them "Gods in Music."

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May 99 min read
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A Guide to The Mammoth & Prodigious Work by Enigmatic & Experimental Gods: The Legendary Pink Dots & Edward Ka-Spel. Pt. 1: 1981-2000
This is a guide to the massive discography of The Legendary Pink Dots and his enigmatic founder Edward Ka-Spel, which spans for over 400+ recordings with a unique and distinctive dark and apocalyptic music style.

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Apr 2412 min read
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Ranking Shark's Musical Taste
The Shark ranks the tip of the iceberg of his colossal library (100,00+ songs) while unveiling top-notch and under-the-radar recommendations.

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Mar 1384 min read
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The Complete Music of Anton Webern —Recorded Under the Direction of Robert Craft: hugely influential recordings of jewel-like works
With Understanding Comes Appreciation In the years following his death in 1945, Anton Webern’s works became the Rosetta Stone of post-war...

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Apr 11, 202416 min read
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Per Un Amico by Premiata Forneria Marconi (PFM): jaw dropping musical acrobatics with ease which never lose the pace of a sophisticated graceful poetic dance of sounds
With Understanding Comes Appreciation While the big bang of progressive rock was only a few years old, it is astonishing how so many...

Shark
Apr 1, 20248 min read
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The Velvet Underground & Nico: its experimental fingertips and legacy permeated the whole pop/rock realm
With Understanding Comes Appreciation Once upon a time there was the story of the greatest irony of all-time in music, known as The...

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Mar 21, 202415 min read
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Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion by Béla Bartók; Part 1: seemingly contrasting properties of science and art are inextricably bound together to form the essence of genius' music
With Understanding Comes Appreciation Composed for nine instruments (2x pianos, timpani, bass drum, cymbals, snare drum, triangle,...

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Mar 14, 202429 min read
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Third by Soft Machine: an ambitious album, which push back the frontiers of space modal jazz-rock far beyond while defining the Canterbury Scene moving forward
With Understanding Comes Appreciation From start to end, this album is an absolute killer. Every single second is just excellent, the...

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Mar 9, 202414 min read
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Le Sacre du printemps by Igor Stravinsky: sophisticated handling of primitive rhythms anyone ever thought up —dissonances, asymmetries, polytonalities and polyrhythms
With Understanding Comes Appreciation The composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein said of one passage, "That page is sixty years old,...

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Mar 8, 202417 min read
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Kontakte by Karlheinz Stockhausen: where experiments with untraditional uses of sounds, form, and spatial positioning create an all-time masterpiece
With Understanding Comes Appreciation What is sound? Think about all the different possible sounds heard throughout the day. Cars passing...

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Mar 3, 202412 min read
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A Love Supreme by John Coltrane: Jesus, Mary and Joseph, what a journey!
With Understanding Comes Appreciation Jesus, Mary and Joseph, what a journey! It's the sound of a man's spiritual journey condensed into...

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Mar 1, 20245 min read
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Ionisation by Edgard Varèse: dissecting my hero's hero's seminal masterpiece which influenced all kind of avant-garde music and beyond
With Understanding Comes Appreciation Mr. Edgard Varèse 188 Sullivan St. New York, New York Dear Sir: Perhaps you might remember me from...

Shark
Feb 27, 202414 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 are...

Shark
Feb 4, 20247 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 abstraction...

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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 that...

Shark
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, intimate,...

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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! Bulbous...

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Feb 2, 20247 min read
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