This is the other side of my personality:
the Music.
Music that is difficult, then temptating, capturing, fascinating, affecting
a full scale of emotions. Music for sensitive people who expect from the
music a bit more than only a good rythm for twisting
their backsides.
It is progressive rock.
Believe me how wide are the areas of music outside the main field of interest
of the so called "music industry". Many genres, like progressive rock,
appeal to deeper and more sophisticated levels of human mind. Melodies
created by, let's say early Genesis, Yes, Spock's Beard or Twin Age are very unusual, complex and based on strange rythm metra. After the first listening they may not appeal at all, but after another couple they get extremely exciting.
You keep finding new things that begin to impress you. A good progressive
rock production shouldn't bore you even after the five-hundredth listening.
Some people who simply cannot get into the magic of such music condemn
it saying that it is as dull and sophisticated as the classical music.
I'll comment on it in this way: I don't deny that progressive rock usually
appeals to intelligent and well-educated people. That's why it's so unpopular.
But I will claim that its main "disadvantage" is that it requires from
the listener investing more time and attention than any other kind of music.
It's a big challenge which makes progressive rock unacceptable for an accidental
listener who just wants to put something on to have fun. You have to be
a real enthusiast to appreciate progressive rock, a "freak". I described
my music adventures so far in a form of a digest of the
most important albums of my life. I hope that it will help people who
have had no contact with such music make out what it's all about and find
out their best representatives. Summing up: for me progressive rock is
the ideal kind of music because being very complex, mind-blowing and challenging,
it retains all features of rock music, and its exceptional power in particular.
Unfortunately, the genre is still somewhere in the background, if not
completely out of media interest, and therefore has rather limited audience.
Nevertheless, there are always enough of us to keep the whole movement
alive and even developing. There are people who deserve special thanks
for their engagement in propagating progressive rock in these difficult
days: Piotr Kosinski, Tomasz Beksinski, Bartek Chacinski. Piotr Kosinski
used to run a weekly radio show on RMF FM called "Rock Malowany Fantazja".
After being taken off the air by that commercially obsessed station Piotr found a place in Channel 3. Using Real Audio, you can also receive it through Internet! The show is held every 2 weeks on Sa
turday Nights - starting on midnight.
Besides, I'd like to invite you to the first Polish mailing list dedicated to progressive rock
and roundabouts: "Pawn Hearts". If you speak Polish, or know someone who
does, go on and subscribe. You can visit it's Home
Page before, or read the
archives, then ask The
Great Moderator (Tomek Kaszkur) to subscribe you.
And where else to go
on my page?
-
My favourite albums
- a collection of music that affected me most, describing in a way my music
adventures so far.
-
Linki - a few reccomended
links, plus links to most comprehensive 'links' page
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Polish
Art-Rock Net Caladan - something really big about Polish progrock. Pages of top polish prog bands, news, interviews, pictures... An ever expanding project which takes up plenty of our time, but also gives a lot of pleasure.