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This week featuring Gordon Lightfoot
Pulsar's
second album, 'The Strands of the Future', is one of the definite and
undisputable masterpieces of French prog, and together with their next
recording 'Halloween', incarnates the band's peak in terms of inspired
writing and skillful performing. Their style keeps on being somewhat
inspired in 73-75 era Pink Floyd, but there are also obvious references
to Tangerine Dream and Jean-Michel Jarre's electronic excursions
(powerful presence of multiple layers of synths and mellotrons), and
also some compelling pastoral passages of flute and acoustic guitar in
the 3-minute coda. (from "Orexis of Death" blog)
Studio Album, released in 1976
Songs / Tracks Listing
2. Flight (2:37)
3. Windows (8:47)
4. Fool's failure (10:17)
- Gilbert Gandil / guitars, vocals
- Roland Richard / flute, strings
- Jacques Roman / organ, Mellotron, bass, synthesizers
Debut album released from this French outfit which has reached "cult status". "Gialorgues" has found its way onto many "best of" lists that I have seen and for good reason. SHYLOCK are from the KING CRIMSON school of progressive rock in style but have certainly their own unique style and delivery. For the most part SHYLOCK were a three piece band who brought in some guest musicians along the way. SHYLOCK deliver complex and involved prog which has a dark forboding theme and feeling to it. Guitars soar from your speakers and drumming is nice and complex with ever changing tempos. Songs are well constructed and seem to create different mood swings - from hyper driving acid laced guitar to the quiet dark atmospheric chamber-prog. If you like great speaker seperation then "Gialorgues" is just for you as SHYLOCK move from speaker to speaker creating some mind bending moments sure to make you smile. Oh yes I should also mention that this an all-instrumental piece of work. If you are looking for a real find and a very polished and professional sounding prog then SHYLOCK is just for you. Review by loserboy PROG REVIEWER
Mysterium, Incubus et Terror. Music inspired by Edgar Allan Poe stories
Poe found his way into the lives of other readers and other creatives – the visual artists, the filmmakers and writers such as Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, Lemony Snicket and even Marvel comics creator Stan Lee, his influence and inspiration remains a persistent vitality like the echo of a beating heart or a strange mewling behind the walls. And there’s another thing, possibly more than any other author of strange tales, Poe has proven inspirational to many musicians – Sergei Rachmaninoff, The Alan Parsons Project, Philip Glass, Lou Reed, Tangerine Dream, are just some of the diverse acts to release music motivated by Poe.
Andy Paciorek (extract from the preface to the anthology of stories “E.A. Poe - Mysterium, Incubus et Terror” published by Eighth Tower).
To pay the right tribute to the literature of Edgar Allan Poe, Eighth Tower has called musicians from various countries and asked them their musical interpretation of 10 classic stories from the superlative productions of the American Master.
credits
Our thanks to Raffaele Pezzella for providing us with a copy of this release.
Published by Eighth Tower Records
Curated and mastered by Raffaele Pezzella (a.k.a. Sonologyst)
Artwork by John D. Chadwick
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