American multi-instrumentalist, performer, composer and band leader, active from the late 1960's starting in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (USA) with Bloomsbury People. In 1972 he released his cult album (Who's Afraid Of) Virginia Woolf. Born on October 25th 1950, he is frequently featured on recordings by Violent Femmes, Tom Paxton and others. In 2015, he was inducted into the Wisconsin Area Music Industry Hall of Fame.
I was poking around his discography in an attempt at completing it, at least the works up until the late 80s as usual based on the LDP (law of declining progressiveness) when I came across this one I hadn't heard before, which featured a really stunningly brilliant composition called Backpocket Fugue, and you can hear it here:
For this LP which is subtitled 'a collection of compositions from Snopek', the full information can be found on this listing. Note that this Fugue is part of the sidelong track on the first called Ride in the Dark. I'll apologize in advance but I didn't find the rest of the works so impressive, and I'm not crazy about him in general despite his acclaim in prog circles, with the exception of Nobody to Dream (written in the progressively glorious year of 1975) which I can still enjoy today, decades after I first heard it. It's obvious he had the full classical music education, a bit like Zappa, but of course his (musical) insanity was not as severe as the latter--unfortunately. Similar to him though he often descended into silly singing, often in an exaggerated operatic manner, which I always found distracting.
ReplyDeleteRR meets Einstein:
https://www77.zippyshare.com/v/kTcfkLUH/file.html
https://www.sendspace.com/file/khlz0w
The remainder of his works in one bundle
https://we.tl/t-TSkmPZLOGW
Thank you!
ReplyDeleteI just knew the Einstein thing, thanks for the rest of Snopek. Do you have Eberhard Schoener´s Bon Voyage ?
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