'An aphorism, properly stamped and molded, has not been "deciphered" when it has simply been read; rather one has then to begin its interpretation, for which is required an art of interpretation.' -- Nietzsche, 'On the Genealogy of Morals'
'An aphorism, properly stamped and molded, has not been "deciphered" when it has simply been read; rather one has then to begin its interpretation, for which is required an art of interpretation.' -- Nietzsche, 'On the Genealogy of Morals'
I read that Captain Beefheart ----Don Van Vliet--has died. If there was ever an avant garde in rock music then Beefheart was a central figure along with the Velvet Underground.
This Ice Cream for Crow track is from the album of the same name. Made in 1982 Ice Cream for Crow it was the last studio album made by Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band.
Whilst Ice Cream for Crow was rooted in past musical ideas, it points toward a new musical direction for Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band. Trout Mask Replica from 1969 is recognized as his best album. It straddles the border between blues, jazz, rock and classical music, is a post-Cage-an study on tonality.
Trout Mask Replica is above all a collage of abstract paintings, each different from the other in color, intensity and contrast, yet they're all homogeneous in their "abstraction". Most of the songs are miniatures of dense, dark and crackling sounds that present themselves as a white man's rhythm and blues, but are in effect delirious episodes of psychosis.
He adds that the work was The work is so innovative and complex as to be nearly indecipherable. The rhythm section sounds so polyrhythmic that all rhythm is lost. The singing, vaguely interested in music, travels within alien universes. The guitar acts as atonal contracanto. The counterpoint of the ensemble is something halfway between the orchestral chaos of Charles Ives and the audacity of John Cage.
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