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From: Mike Dickson <mike.dickson@gmail.com>
To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [newmellotrongroup] [OT] Despair
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2010 03:15:36 +0000

>Even as a KC fan, this sort of thing makes me ∗despair∗.
>


Obviously someone with way too much time on their hands.
Is it so hard to just listen and enjoy???...totally
confused!!!







> From David Cross' diary:
>
>/"I have just scanned through a preview copy of Andrew
>Keeling's 'Musical Guide to Larks' Tongues in Aspic by
>King Crimson'. In this book Andrew has applied some
>powerful analytical tools, deconstructing tonal and
>metrical materials using Bartok's Axis system of tonality,
>the Golden Section and the Fibonacci series. He has also
>engaged with the ritualistic, occult and mystical
>components implicit in the album through the lens of
>Jungian psychology and revealed some fascinating numerical
>symbolism (particularly around the number 5) whilst
>developing a finely argued view of the music's place in
>the spectrum of rock. Andrew recognises the developmental
>importance of LTIA in uniting disparate musical features
>within a shared language as opposed to the polystylism of
>earlier progressive rock."/
>
>--
>Mike Dickson, Edinburgh
>
>Free Music Project: http://www.mikedickson.org.uk/
>Or http://www.last.fm/music/Mike+Dickson
>Or http://soundcloud.com/mikedickson
>Or http://www.planetmellotron.com/revd4.htm#mikedickson
>Or http://www.myspace.com/mellotronworks
>
>