Tuesday, 1 February 2022

For You Lot Diverse Artists - 1998 Sometimes God Smiles Immature Persons Conduct To Dependent Vol. Ii

The minute majority of Discipline Global Mobile's sampler of some of prog rock's almost prominent guitar gurus is 7 tracks richer than the get-go as well as is bettered yesteryear the jazz-infused likes of Projekct One as well as Projekct Two, a band made upwards of ex-King Crimson members. H5N1 slight combat jazzier as well as to a greater extent than full-colored than the get-go Young Person's Guide to Discipline, Sometimes God Smiles is bolstered yesteryear iv amazingly attractive tracks from Be Bop Deluxe's Bill Nelson, alongside "The Strangest Things, the Strangest Times" coming out on top. King Crimson's contributions of "Three of a Perfect Pair" as well as "Easy Money" are passable tracks, merely they can't concur a candle to cuts similar Matt Seattle's "Lindisfarne" or the trip-tinged outer layer of Mr. McFall's Chamber's "Allegretto." Covering all the angles of guitar-formulated rock, jazz, as well as ambient-based music, Sometimes God Smiles takes these genres to appeasable extremes, alongside each grouping working inwards bits of blanketed synthesizers as well as assorted instrumental washes to enhance each song's elemental makeup. Void of whatsoever self-absorbed showiness or blatant pretentiousness, the music that makes upwards this sampler is both tantalizingly obscure as well as modernly expressive, alongside something dissimilar to live on heard alongside each listen.

Summary
Jeez, that's some typing I had to do. All inwards all xxx tracks from the Discipline stable including tracks from albums released this year, that I exercise immediately know (like Bill Nelson). Also some tracks are featured from forthcoming releases.

The Music
Well I promise y'all volition empathize me non going through all the songs, peculiarly since some of them are alreayd featured on this spider web page: 1, 2, 6, 9, 10, 11, 15, 17, 22, 26 as well as 27, which I volition thus skip. First there's the stormy percussion as well as hectic keyboards of ProjeKct Two's Heavy Construction, as well as so Costello/Langers Shipbuilding played inwards a rather classical means yesteryear Mr. McFall's Chamber. After the samples as well as quick percussion of Bill Nelson's Wild And Dizzy nosotros come upwards to the promising audio of the acoustic guitar Tony Geballe's Native Of The Rain. After the curt pianic Profaned Sanctuary Of The Human Heart yesteryear Bill Nelson nosotros proceed alongside an oldy: the loud Of Bow And Drums alongside Belew's typical drawn-out vocals as well as Belew himself follows alongside the indeed filmic Score With No Film. After some other slice yesteryear Nelson nosotros come upwards to Radical Dance's Sabre Dance that sounds a lot similar Fripps Soundscapes alongside musical rhythm as well as actually seems to guide maintain zip to exercise alongside the all-familiar Sabre Dance (in fact the credits listing Fripp, Mastelotto as well as David Singleton). The California Guitar Trio play the well-known Allegro Con Brio from Beethoven's Symphony no. five from their latest album. Mr. McFall's Chamber proceed alongside Shostakovitch Allegretto as well as followed yesteryear the percussion of Prism from King Crimson's forthcoming alive album Live In United Mexican U.S.A. City. Another alive rails is 4(i) from Space Groove's Live At The Jazz Cafe, seemingly scheduled for liberate inwards early on 1999. After this raucuous rails Bill Nelson makes his concluding appearance alongside a somewhat funky track. One Jacob Heringman makes a lone, alive appearance playing Toccata Seconda as well as is followed yesteryear a revamped 21st Century Schizoid Man which is solely 50 seconds long. The album closes alongside the all-familiar Dinosaur, sounding quite classical at first, Matt Seattle's alive functioning on bagpipes, letr joined yesteryear acoustic guitar, of the Highlanderish Lindisfarne as well as Fripp's On My Mother's Birtday from the forthcoming Live On G3.

The booklet features data on all the releases sampled on this album, except the ones that guide maintain non been released.

Conclusion
Although I would desire to brand a slight exception for the classical pieces as well as Seattle's Lindisfarne on this album, for a compilation it has a distinctly consistent sound. All music is off the beaten path as well as the solely actually familiar sounding tracks are yesteryear King Crimson, far as well as away the best known as well as likely best-liked of the bands here. But it is or so wonderful that a compilation tin live on such that i does non fifty-fifty detect the going from i rails to the adjacent at times (such every bit going from Nelson's The Profaned Sanctuary Of The Human Heart to Hammill's Nothing Comes). As such this positively priced sampler is THE means to larn to know the Discipline stable as well as to convince yourself that in that place mightiness live on something worthwhile on it. Although the music on this album is oft to a greater extent than "interesting" to nous to, than "beautiful", I myself postulate no such convincing.

Track listing / Personnel:

1)     King Crimson - Three Of H5N1 Perfect Pair - Absent Lovers     4.19
2)     Adrian Belew - Never Enough - Belewprints     2.12
3)     ProjeKct Two - Heavy Construction - Live Groove     2.12
4)     Mr McFall's Chamber - Shipbuilding - Like The Milk     1.42
5)     Bill Nelson - Wild And Dizzy - Atom Shop     1.23
6)     Bruford Levin - Original Sin - Bruford Levin Upper Extremities     2.32
7)     Tony Geballe - Native Of The Rain - Native Of The Rain     2.09
8)     Bill Nelson - Profaned Santuary Of The Human Heart - What Now, What Next?     0.43
9)     Peter Hammill - Nothing Comes - Everyone You Hold     2.06
10)     Robert Fripp - Pie Jesu - Pie Jesu     2.56
11)     Bill Bruford - Amethyst - If Summer Had Its Ghosts     2.59
12)     Adrian Belew - Of Bow And Drum - Op Top Zoo Wah     3.06
13)     Adrian Belew - Score With No Film - The Guitar As Orchestra     1.20
14)     Bill Nelson - The Strangest Things, The Strangest Times - What Now, What Next?     1.52
15)     Gorn, Levin, Marotta - Shepherd's Song - From The Caves Of The Iron Mountain     2.39
16)     Radical Dance - Sabre Dance - Previously Unreleased     2.56
17)     Robert Fripp - On The Approach Of Dbout - That Which Passes     0.29
18)     California Guitar Trio - Allegro Con Brio, Symphony No. five - Pathways     2.58
19)     Mr. McFall's Chamber - Allegretto - Like The Milk     1.57
20)     King Crimson - Prism - Live In United Mexican U.S.A. City     1.27
21)     ProjeKct One - 4(i) - Live At The Jazz Cafe     4.12
22)     ProjeKct Two - Space Groove ii - Space Groove     2.44
23)     Bill Nelson - Spinning Dizzy On The Dial - Atom Shop     1.59
24)     Jacob Heringman - Toccata Seconda - Unreleased Live Performace     1.41
25)     ProjeKct Two - 21st Century Schizoid Man - Live Groove     0.50
26)     Bruford Levin - Interlude - Bruford Levin Upper Extremities     0.18
27)     King Crimson - Easy Money - The Night Watch     6.04
28)     King Crimson - Dinosaur - Live On Broadway     4.16
29)     Matt Seattle - Lindisfarne - Out Of The Flames     2.34
30)     Robert Fripp - On My Mother's Birthday - Live On G3     3.50 


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