Afterthought

Music is something of importance.
At least it is too me.
It is more than recreation, relaxation.
It is a source of inspiration, of emotion, of reflexion.
Music is the background... more the backbone of my existence, rythming my life away.
It is really hard to imagine life without some music somewhere around illustrating, envelopping the movements and days and motions I go through.
I am more of a Rock , and more precisely prog rock, aficionado.
I want to -at least try to- express what I feel when I listen to music and certains albums.
Afterthought is gonna be the place to talk about the albums or songs that really moved me one way or another. Because most of the songs I'll be talk about are about things that have gone past the trials of fire and of many and many listenings on the Pod or CD player..

Good stuff that you might want to check out and lend a ear to. I liked ou loved it (and often still do) and so maybe you'll like it and if it brings you even a quarter of the pleasure I have listening to these... well you'll be off for a good start of joy.

So coming soon on the net to you.


Peace /out and Rock On.

Charlie Barnes + Amplifier concert review

Divan du Monde (the loviest place to play with the coolest name ever).

Starting with young Charlie Barnes, playing in the middle of the crowd without  a microphone with his guitar.

After that strange and very nice way to begin a set, Charlie goes on stage to do a small guitar- keyboa-vocal loop set which ended with a complete beatbox fripped looped song.

Onward to Amplifier with new guitarist (from « RIP » Oceansize) and with additional keyboards-guitar-vocals by the same Charlie Barnes.

The then trio now quintet set to unleash a great almost -2 hours- show with lots of power and video projections  (from mostly the octopus) and the new songs much more light than the rather heavy worked (and very praised) previous effort ’the octopus’ (what that one again ? of course it is great).

The light show with lasers put on again a great effect on the rather (sadly) sparse and (to the drummer’s rage) too quite audience that definitly had a blast with that show.

Thanks a lot  for the great show guys… here’s the set list for Amplifier.

Mary Rose

The Wave

IGS

The Wheel

Eva

Motorhead

Interstellar

 UFO's

Fote

Old Movies

River

Neon

Close


http://charliebarnes.bandcamp.com/
http://www.amplifiertheband.com/

Petter Carlsen & Lisa Cuthbert

Petter Carlsen & Lisa Cuthbert

Small venue for the Norgewian guitarist and the Irish pianist in a lovely  parisian cave. First the lovely Lisa with a powerful voice and a piano doing some a capella traditionnal irish song.

45 minutes after the gentle Petter Carlsen with his guitar came for a short but as beautiful set which has the advantage of having a great guest star in the guise of Vincent Cavanagh of Anathema.

Very private and warm concert with plenty of possibility to chat afterwards with the artists… Sad not to see more people but hell at least we can enjoy easily the presence of the artists héhéhéhéhéhéhé.

http://www.pettercarlsen.com/
http://lisacuthbert.com/

Sound of contact-beardfish-spock’s beard.

Scene Bastille

Take 2

Sound of contact-beardfish-spock’s beard.

Once again in the Scene Bastille for another Triple thrill.

First is the band of Simon Collins (known as the son of Phil…. He’s no son he’s no son of miiiiiine ) which is singer-drummer as his father. Hard to step out his father ‘s shadow like that but anyway.

Sporting some good musicians including john Wesley, The SOC delivers a nice little show all about their debut concept album. Quite good  with a great instrumental part at the end, very proggy… Reckon the disc will have to go through the hearing test itself to see its guts.

Next was the ever crazy swedish boys of Beardfish. Small but powerful set from the guys with a great sound. Wonder when we’ll get the chance to see them with a full set.

And then the NEW spock’s beard, with the departure of drummmer/frontman Nick d’Virgilio, The beard (at least spock’s one) continue it’s Genesis stroll with addition of Enchant’s Singer (and guitariste too) Ted Leonard and welcome  touring  drummer  Jimmy Keegan as full time member.

The set is great and powerful. Ted singing goes great with the past songs and The new ones are very beardish (or spockish not to mix with fishy songs or beardfishy songs arrrgh) though the Ted’s one submerged sounds really popish…(get the single money Ted !)

Ryo did a bit of the show , having sold one of his hammond organ (15 years of his life… boy did he cried)

Great stuff, here is the set lists.

Sound of contact

 Mobius slip part 1 (in the difference engine)

Pale blue dot

Not coming down

Remote view

Closer to you

Omega point

Cosmic distance ladder

Beardfish

Destined solitaire

Ludwig & sverker

A point of view (new song !)

Note

Spock's beard

Something Very Strange
Crack the Big Sky
Hiding Out
Walking on the Wind
Submerged
Cakewalk on Easy Street
Afterthoughts
The Distance to the Sun
Waiting for Me

Encore:
Go the Way You Go  


http://www.soundofcontact.com/
http://www.spocksbeard.com/
http://www.beardfishband.com/

Whyzdom (concert review)

Whyzdom+ Asylum Pyre+Apparition

Scène Bastille.

Triple symphonic métal by three bands, (all in english though two of them are french bands).

First the english-based Apparition for a small set then Asylium Pyre who sadly suffered a major mike problem. The lead singer was totally unheard and had to finally share the microphone with the guitarist… that ‘s live music for you people.

Finally was Whyzdom presenting the new singer (Fourth and a half, nominating  whyzdom the Elizabeth Taylor  award for most  ever changing position of lead singer band ever :-p )

The new album (very good indeed) was tested by the fire of the crowd of the Scene Bastille.

Sadly here again the sound limitation killed a bit of the vocals of Marie Rouyer, the new singer which displayed a nice vocal range from high pitch to deep growl.

Not much to say as I was the merch guy, I could not see and appreciate much I would say but it  helped me much to see and understand how things are done before a show (though I had a pretty much good idea before but nothing beats first hand experience)

Hopefully the next one will be with less problems, thanks a lot to all of you guys (and vincent- for the beer  Ïa Ïa Cthulhu ftagh'n :!)

Bonus set list whyzdom

On the road to Babylon
The Spider
Atlantis
Cassandra's Mirror
The Train
Dancing With Lucifer
Cathedral Of The Damned
Daughter Of The Night

www.whyzdom.com

A nightmare to remember. Rip Ray Harryhausen

It is always sad to hear a passing but it is always a pleasure to recollect what we knew and love about the newly departed.
Tonight, I put on hold my DS9 run to put back the blu ray of the clash of the titans and to recollect the fright I felt at the sight of the animated skeletons of Jason and the argonauts.
With a smile I recall the magnificient scare of the kraken and pegasus, and djinns, and warriors shaped out of clay, moving slowly across the celluloid frames.
You go back to the days of yore where the magic of the beginnings of the special effects was still powerful and full of wonders.
Scary monsters indeed, nightmares to remember in these days of CGI.

thank you Ray for the memories.