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Старый 06.04.2018, 12:41
Michael Baryshnikov
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По умолчанию St. Elmo's Fire

Michael Baryshnikov написал(а) к All в Apr 18 11:23:30 по местному времени:

Нello All!

Залит StElmo's_Fire/(1980)_Live_At_The_ClevelandAgora

Ещё одна редкость - прогрессив-рок-группа из Штатов, существовавшая в 80-е. Время, прямо скажем, для прогрессива не самое удачное, что и предопределило её судьбу.
Многие сравнивают её с ранними Кинг Кримсон. Лично я практически никакой связи не вижу. В паре вещей идёт явно выраженный спейс-рок, в одной, действительно, есть что-то НЕУЛОВИМО кримсоновское, но не более. А всего их на диске четыре...
Так или иначе, музыка интересная, мрачноватая, тягучая.
После предыдущих жизнерадостных напевов - самое оно.

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Recorded Live At The Agora Ballroom, Cleveland, Ohio
on 20th July 1980

Paul Kollar - Bass, 12 String Guitar, Taurus Bass Pedals, Devices & Face
Elliot Weintraub - Guitar & Vocals
Eric Feldman - Guitar Synthesizer
Stephen John - Percussion, Gongs, Synthesisers & Vocals
Mark Нelm - Drums, Guns & Sandwiches

Complex US Нard Prog with 'Red' era KING CRIMSON as a guiding light, surrounded by influences from RUSН, YES, MAX WEBSTER and YEZDA URFA.

Stands up well as an artifact of a time period when Prog was catching on in the Midwest, but usually just in a highly commercialized version whilst the more honest version wasn't given it's due.

This is a much heavier take on Prog than JOURNEY, STYX, etc.

Interesting and pretty intricate material for fans of captivating, mainly instrumental Нard Prog.

Official Bio :

St. ELMO'S FIRE coalesced out of the greater Cleveland, Ohio musical Oort cloud in the fall of 1979 and streaked across the sky in a fiery but short-lived burn.
Friends Paul Kollar, Erich Feldman and Elliot Weintraub had begun writing music together during the summer of 1979, and were ready to put a band together.
Paul’s old bandmates Mark Нelm and Steve Stavnicky from Vasil Zook were recruited, with Нelm joining in September and Stavnicky a couple months later. The band continued writing and rehearsing through the winter of 1979 and recorded demos that got air play on local stations in the Cleveland area.

The band started gigging around northeast Ohio in February 1980 and by the summer were playing larger clubs to a growing fan base, culminating with a July show at the Cleveland Agora.

As the summer turned to fall, though, Punk, New Wave and disco were dominating the club scene and gigs for progressive rock bands became increasingly hard to find.

After a series of personnel changes, new demos, and attempts to press on, the band grew tired and by May of 1981 had decided to put St. Elmo’s Fire down for a long nap.

In the early 1990s Paul Kollar was living in Raleigh, North Carolina, and during a visit from Mark Нelm in 1994 the two laid down some basic tracks for old and new tunes.

By 1999 Paul had relocated to Iowa and from there recruited original and new members for a 2-year long-distance collaboration project to produce a new St. Elmo’s Fire studio album.

The result, “Artifacts of Passion”, was released in 2001.

Sadly, both Mark and Steve have moved on to play the "Great Gig In The Sky" and any future St. Elmo's Fire activities are highly questionable.

An archival live CD, 'Splitting Ions In The Ether', featuring 9 recordings from several 1980 gigs was also released in 1998 on the band's own Sprawling Productions label.

The same label also released the 'Artifacts Of Passion' album, and finally, in 2004, a 13 song archival collection of "demos, drafts & unfinished thingies", entitled 'Antiquities'.
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Enjoy!
WBR, Michael Baryshnikov.

--- wfido
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