Prog rock

[spook76]

PORCUPINE TREE news!

Just found a little nugget of beauty. Porcupine Tree's EP 'Nil Recurring' originally part of 'Fear of a Blank Planet' sessions. I hate to recommend them but HDTracks has a 24/44.1 version for $18. I thought I was crazy for paying $4.50 a song but listening to it this master is seriously uncompressed and has never sounded better.


More Porcupine Tree news, prepared to discard your 24/48 masters of 'Fear of a Blank Planet'. Burning Shed just announced Steven Wilson is remastering FOABP for the 10th anniversary. It will be released April 7th.
https://www.burningshed.com/store/porcupinetree/product/169/8587/

 

[DWbirdseye]

PORCUPINE TREE news!

Just found a little nugget of beauty. Porcupine Tree's EP 'Nil Recurring' originally part of 'Fear of a Blank Planet' sessions. I hate to recommend them but HDTracks has a 24/44.1 version for $18. I thought I was crazy for paying $4.50 a song but listening to it this master is seriously uncompressed and has never sounded better.


More Porcupine Tree news, prepared to discard your 24/48 masters of 'Fear of a Blank Planet'. Burning Shed just announced Steven Wilson is remastering FOABP for the 10th anniversary. It will be released April 7th.
https://www.burningshed.com/store/porcupinetree/product/169/8587/

That is good news! I wish he would re- remaster Raven. I was conducting a compatitive analysis of Raven on the HD 800S and the ZMF Eikon and was wishing for a little less congestion on some of the tracks.

 

[spook76]

That is good news! I wish he would re- remaster Raven. I was conducting a compatitive analysis of Raven on the HD 800S and the ZMF Eikon and was wishing for a little less congestion on some of the tracks.

Wow, I guess we will have to agree to disagree. I consider 'The Raven That Refused to Sing' the finest master I have ever heard. The combination of Steven Wilson mastering and Alan Parsons as engineer with a 96/24 flat transfer is breathtaking on my KSE1500 electrostatics and Chord Mojo.

 

[DWbirdseye]

That is good news! I wish he would re- remaster Raven. I was conducting a compatitive analysis of Raven on the HD 800S and the ZMF Eikon and was wishing for a little less congestion on some of the tracks.

Wow, I guess we will have to agree to disagree. I consider 'The Raven That Refused to Sing' the finest master I have ever heard. The combination of Steven Wilson mastering and Alan Parsons as engineer with a 96/24 flat transfer is breathtaking on my KSE1500 electrostatics and Chord Mojo.

So I just read through my notes from yesterday's listening session and I wrote about this while listening to Watchmaker. Unfortunately I don't have access to my desk top equipment right now, but as I listen via my lotoo paw gold I hear zero conjection. Huh! Now I'm very curious as to what I heard. Maybe it was the tubes, but I'm going to get to the bottom of this. So many variables...

 

[spook76]

So I just read through my notes from yesterday's listening session and I wrote about this while listening to Watchmaker. Unfortunately I don't have access to my desk top equipment right now, but as I listen via my lotoo paw gold I hear zero conjection. Huh! Now I'm very curious as to what I heard. Maybe it was the tubes, but I'm going to get to the bottom of this. So many variables...

Hehe please let me know your findings as it is entirely possible I am listening with rose colored ears.

 

[YtseJamer]

New Anathema due out on Kscope on 9th June 2017
 

 

 
optimist /ˈɒptɪmɪst/
noun: optimist; plural noun: optimists
1. a person who tends to be hopeful and confident about the future or the success of something.
2. a person who believes that this world is the best of all possible worlds or that good must ultimately prevail over evil.

After Anathema’s 2012 award-winning album Weather Systems and 2014’s spellbinding Distant Satellites, the ambient rockers are back with their eleventh full-length, The Optimist. Due for release on 9th June through Kscope The Optimist will soon reveal some of the darkest, most challenging and unexpected music the sextet have put their name to.

Anathema, led by brothers Daniel and Vincent Cavanagh, along with drummer John Douglas, singer Lee Douglas, bassist Jamie Cavanagh and keyboardist Daniel Cardoso began recording The Optimist in the winter of 2016 at Attica Audio in Donegal, Ireland and then finished at Castle Of Doom studios in Glasgow with producer Tony Doogan [Mogwai, Belle & Sebastian, Super Furry Animals] at the helm. Vincent elaborates on Doogan’s influence on the recording process “he suggested that we record as a live band, which we hadn’t done for years. Having played a few tunes on the last tour, we were ready for that. Tony wanted to capture that energy you can only get with everyone facing each other… it makes a big difference. He was a superb guy to work with and I learned a lot making this record”

The idea for The Optimist was born from the front cover artwork of the band’s 2001 album A Fine Day To Exit Daniel Cavanagh explains “I suppose you might say the album is semi-autobiographical because this time we used a surrogate,” he says, of the character that is The Optimist “We put sound, feelings and crucially, our own hopes and fears into another person and made him the subject of the songs then weaving my own internal monologue into the narrative of The Optimist. It was John’s idea to write a narrative, so I took A Fine Day To Exit as the starting point”. Vincent elaborates further on the earlier album’s artwork influence “The guy who disappeared – you never knew what happened to him, did he start a new life? Did he succumb to his fate? It was never explained. The opening track title is the exact coordinates for Silver Strand beach in San Diego – the last known location of The Optimist – shown on the cover of A Fine Day to Exit.”
 
To continue the theme further, the band brought back designer and illustrator Travis Smith to create the artwork for The Optimist. The artwork was created from a series of photographs Smith took on a West Coast road trip.

With the character’s unresolved destiny the three song writing members, meticulously brought the unfinished story to an end – and most strikingly of all – one which is decided by the listener.

32.63N 117.14W (01:18)
Leaving It Behind (04:27)
Endless Ways (05:49)
The Optimist (05:37)
San Francisco (04:59)
Springfield (05:49)
Ghosts (04:17)
Can`t Let Go (05:00)
Close Your Eyes (03:39)
Wildfires (05:40)
Back To The Start (11:41)
 
http://www.kscopemusic.com/artists/anathema/

 

[drwlf]

Gah, a depressing sight, only 77 pages, when metal threads have thousands of pages. What's wrong with the world, or have I missed a bigger thread?
Oh yeah, and hi. I felt I needed to introduce myself a bit as I subbed, last.fm link is on the profile, http://www.progarchives.com/Collaborators.asp?id=25340&listreviews=rate&showall=true#reviews for some WIP ratings/likes of mine. Seems like I tried to avoid any online presence until the 2009, although I've breathed prog since my early childhood.
Might be posting here in the future!

 

[bavinck]

  Gah, a depressing sight, only 77 pages, when metal threads have thousands of pages. What's wrong with the world, or have I missed a bigger thread?
Oh yeah, and hi. I felt I needed to introduce myself a bit as I subbed, last.fm link is on the profile, http://www.progarchives.com/Collaborators.asp?id=25340&listreviews=rate&showall=true#reviews for some WIP ratings/likes of mine. Seems like I tried to avoid any online presence until the 2009, although I've breathed prog since my early childhood.
Might be posting here in the future!

My experience so far indicates Metal is a much more popular genre than true Progressive Rock, so the page numbers make sense.

 

[drwlf]

  My experience so far indicates Metal is a much more popular genre than true Progressive Rock, so the page numbers make sense.

Let's go with "what's wrong with the world."

 

[bavinck]

Let's go with "what's wrong with the world."

 

Nothing, metal is awesomeness.......!!

 

[drwlf]

 

 
Let's go with "what's wrong with the world."

 

Nothing, metal is awesomeness.......!!

Never heard of it.

 

[god-bluff]

Quality not quantity. Plenty of sound the same 'metal" out there. Althrough a lot of this modern 'progressive rock'sounds more like metal to my old ears

 

[bavinck]

Quality not quantity. Plenty of sound the same 'metal" out there. Althrough a lot of this modern 'progressive rock'sounds more like metal to my old ears

 

Takes an understanding of metal as a genre to hear the differences. Like wine, however, when you get into it the differences are apparent.

 

[DWbirdseye]

 

So I just read through my notes from yesterday's listening session and I wrote about this while listening to Watchmaker. Unfortunately I don't have access to my desk top equipment right now, but as I listen via my lotoo paw gold I hear zero conjection. Huh! Now I'm very curious as to what I heard. Maybe it was the tubes, but I'm going to get to the bottom of this. So many variables...

Hehe please let me know your findings as it is entirely possible I am listening with rose colored ears.

I listened again with my desk top gear and I believe my brain was congested. 

  

 

[god-bluff]

Quality not quantity. Plenty of sound the same 'metal" out there. Althrough a lot of this modern 'progressive rock'sounds more like metal to my old ears

 

Takes an understanding of metal as a genre to hear the differences. Like wine, however, when you get into it the differences are apparent.

My interest in heavy rock started (in my youth) and ends with the holy trinity of Sabbath, Led Zep. Deep Purple with just a little NWOBHM. Boring I know but that's me

(EDIT plus the likes of Atomic Rooster, Budgie, Uriah Heap, Wishbone Ash. Mott the Hoople etc as not being heavy rock).