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----- Original Message -----
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
>
>