acsgjjp@sunybcs.UUCP (Jim Poltrone) (03/08/85)
[No computer stands in my way!]
Other long, varied pieces of music that no one else has mentioned yet:
PATRICK MORAZ -- i
This stuff is intense! 16 Brazilian percussionists, multi-layered
synthesizers, and a vocal part where one woman is singing in English
on the right, and another woman singing French on the left. This won
[Contemporary] Keyboard's poll for Best Keyboard Album of 1976. "Play
it loud if you can."
KRAFTWERK -- Autobahn
The single is a bit abbreviated, but side 1 of the album is 23 minutes
of "motor music". It's better with headphones on; cars whizzing past
you. Great for long car trips.
THE ALAN PARSONS PROJECT -- The Fall of the House of Usher
A Dream Within A Dream / The Raven
Both of these can be found on the album "Tales of Mystery and
Imagination." All songs on the album are based on the works of Edgar
Allan Poe.
YES -- Awaken
This is from the "Going For The One" album. Granted, it's not as
powerful as some of their earlier stuff (Close To The Edge, for example),
but it gets ethereal at times.
-- On The Silent Wings Of Freedom
This was on the doomed-for-the-cutout-bin "Tormato" album. It's the
best song on the album.
-- Machine Messiah
From "Drama" (this is the one with Geoff (I really do need 17 keyboards)
Downes and Trevor (Buggles) Horn), a nice three-parter with some great
guitar parts.
EMERSON, LAKE & PALMER -- Karn Evil 9
From the album "Brain Salad Surgery" (how can I forget my own major? :-))--
lots of grinding organ sounds. Plus the modular Moog "blows up" at the
end.
-- Pirates
From "Works vol. I", co-written with Peter Sinfield and performed with
a philharmonic orchestra.
KANSAS, which I believe is now defunct (?), had some real cookers back in
the old days. "Journey from Mariabronn (?)", "Death of Mother Nature
Suite", "Song For America", "Incomudro (Hymn to the Atman)", "Mysteries
and Mayhem / The Pinnacle", and "Lamplight Symphony" were on the three
albums before Leftoverture, contaning "Cheyenne Anthem" and "Magnum
Opus". Their time signatures used to change a lot; one section of
"Song For America" alternates between 4/4 and 11/16. The only "new"
Kansas song that comes close to the old Kansas is "No One Together".
Some of these time out to only 6-7 minutes, but they are longer than the
traditional pop tune. If you can find the first three albums, get them.
--
"Is there liver in reality?"
Jim Poltrone (a/k/a Poltr1, the Last of the Raster Blasters)
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