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Category: Progressive rock
New FIRE GARDEN Video
Everyone’s beloved Zee Baig–master of all things prog in Chicago–has released a new video. Enjoy!
New Metal Releases (Heavy Metal Overload)
Not a huge amount out today, compared to last week’s madness anyway, but there are a couple of important new releases at least! Voices – Frightened This is the one I’ve been waiting for. Comprised mostly of ex and current Akercocke members (with links to other great bands like Shrines and The Antichrist Imperium), Voices’ […]
It’s Alive!!!! Jerry Ewing’s WONDEROUS STORIES has Landed
Third time’s charm. . . or, so says the wisdom of old wives. Just moments ago–after two shipping mishaps–my personal copy of Jerry Ewing’s WONDEROUS STORIES arrived safe and sound at progarchy HQ. I’m just about to take the cellophane off and enjoy some true beauty.
Thank you, Jerry, master of all that is prog.
To check out the official progarchist review of Ewing’s masterpiece, go here (thank you, Rick!).
To order Ewing’s masterpiece in the U.S., click here.
Gustav Mahler and the Curse of the Ninth Symphony — The Imaginative Conservative
Back in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, a superstition developed in the classical music world that prophesied the Ninth would be a composer’s last symphony. Arnold Schoenberg summed it up in an eloquent fashion, stating that “he who wants to go beyond it must pass away. 825 more words
via Gustav Mahler and the Curse of the Ninth Symphony — The Imaginative Conservative
Exclusive: DEVILDOM Launch Music Video for “No One” — Prog Sphere
Back in January, Ukrainian female-fronted atmospheric black metal act Devildom released their debut album Curse of Flesh, which since then has been receiving rave reviews from the media. Launching today is a music video for the song titled “No One” taken from the album. Watch it below, exclusively premiered by Prog Sphere. “No One” was…
via Exclusive: DEVILDOM Launch Music Video for “No One” — Prog Sphere
Chloe Alper, Apprentice of the Universe @chloealper
Chloe Alper, whose magical voice and versatile musicianship was no small contribution to the enduring magic of Pure Reason Revolution, is doing some very interesting solo work these days, creating amazing music that still gives us “something to dream about” — to quote PRR’s first-released song, “Apprentice of the Universe” (April 19, 2004, on Poptones MC5089SCD).
Check out this nifty video for her current project, Tiny Giant, which showcases the witty single “Thirsty,” the first of a double A-side:
The Glass Bead Game: from MP3 to DNA
Now I have finally discovered the music storage format of the future:
While CDs only last a few decades, DNA—yes, the same stuff that contains our genetic instructions—is thought to be “readable” for over a million years, if stored in the right conditions. So Mezzanine is going to be stored in DNA molecules, encased in tiny glass beads.
The scientists who will do the encoding work at the Functional Materials Laboratory at ETH Zurich, a Swiss university. According to Robert Grass, a professor at the lab, their technique should ensure the album lasts for “hundreds to thousands of years.”
“While the information stored on a CD or hard disk is a sequence of zeros and ones, biology stores genetic information in a sequence of the four building blocks of DNA: A, C, G and T,” said Grass.
Mezzanine will be cut down to 15 megabytes using the Opus music compression format, and the data will be split into 920,000 fragments, each of which will be encoded in a short DNA strand. The scientists will then pour the DNA into 5,000 nanometer-sized glass beads. All of this will apparently take a month or two to accomplish.
Glass Hammer’s Youtube Channel
Looking for unbelievable (and seemingly endless) access to excellent music? Of course, you are! Don’t hesitate to subscribe to Glass Hammer’s Youtube channel. What a cornucopia of unadulterated goodness.
https://www.youtube.com/user/ghprog
Glass Hammer Trailer
In my not so always humble opinion, there is no greater or more fetching voice in the rock world than Susie Bogdanowicz’s. Here, you get a full seventy-plus minutes of her, Steve, Fred, and Aaron. It really doesn’t get much better than this.
Time to order. Yes, now. RIGHT NOW. Order it.
