"Sisyphos" in 7 Pines - Exit from 2011, Masterpiece Alert

 

This album is a bona fide progressive rock masterpiece--from beginning to end. It's not often we encounter this kind of gemlike genius these days, we are not back in the days of napster when people were rediscovering the brilliant Italian one-offs from the past, like Blocco Mentale, or Alphataurus.

It's important to note this is the band of Peter Scheidegger, as you can see here, from Sisyphos. Interestingly, he did do other work which I am curious to know more about. Perhaps to purchase for later. I notice he also did some classical music.

What goes into the mix for prog? By now we all know, the unusual rhythms and chords, the dissonances incl. minor seconds, tritones, the different instrumentations (mellotron is feat. throughout here) but always on that essential rock basis with electric guitars, keys, hopefully mellotrons! etc. all mixed together into something that has to be original and creative-- this is where in my opinion a band like Marillion or Anglagard fails (apologies to their fans), because there is not a lot of original thought. And obviously when all has been said & done in the past, how can you come up with original chord changes never before considered?  Well it's hard but not it's impossible, I mean this record is proof of that, and I believe there is an infinity of those changes possible just as there's an infinity of melodies possible, and I think this can be proven mathematically given the number of combinatorials we're dealing with here, when you combine chords, melodies, and rhythms, three different independent dimensions to explore and multiply.

It's amazing because I just randomly post any of the tracks from this and you'd be impressed by the ideas, the creativity, the wonderful hard-dissonant sounds. I just wish there was more music made like this. The opening instrumental called Fab 7 pulls out the old mellotron and for sure, serves at the perfect introduction to this work:

Even more insane is the 'melody' of the 'song' called The Ones: here and there on this blog we've heard melodies as demented as this one but it's a pretty rare occurrence, this is really just out there, completely bizarre but amazingly it works:

I mean, think of the usual radio station you are forced to listen to at work. Now imagine the 'powers that be' on that station decide just for once to play that song between "Let It Be" and "Everybody Dance Now".

Probably they'd all get fired like Tucker was.