Sisyphos' Practice in Tolerance, 1985 [by request]

 

Recall I posted their first album here (so long ago now it almost seems like a dream to me), this is their fourth release as you can see discogged here.  I really loved Mujokan which appeared back here and I still think maybe it's their best work--except for a wonderful outlier which appeared more recently and that I'll present at the end--stay tuned for that one.  I'm going to try to complete their huge and mostly unknown discography as best I can esp. the older albums, not necessarily the CDs from later which you can purchase.

So this album from 1985 is more basic, some standard chord changes and melodies with very little in the way of progressive music. It's all electric guitar based, nothing acoustic nor keyboard.

Amazingly they took the lyrics for the old standard Elvis' Heartbreak Hotel and put it over a doomy Black Sabbathy E minor riff with a totally different melody, to create something truly bizarre which you really have to hear to believe:

Setting aside that oddity consider the track called Dead Duck for the kind of music we're talking about here:

You might agree with me that the songs don't seem as developed as one would like, or as one knows they were able to achieve in the later Mujokan days.  

More to come-- lots more...