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[OT] Despair

2010-01-10 by Mike Dickson

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

From David Cross' diary:

"I have just scanned through a preview copy of Andrew Keeling\u2019s \u2018Musical Guide to Larks\u2019 Tongues in Aspic by King Crimson\u2019. In this book Andrew has applied some powerful analytical tools, deconstructing tonal and metrical materials using Bartok\u2019s 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\u2019s 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


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