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Distancing KC from
:: Posted by garbonzo on August 06, 2012
Depending on one’s POV, filtered through the prism of experience (history), environment & heredity, distancing oneself from "the bombastic excesses of prog rock" is not as simple a positioning for those bands (and there are many not having experienced the qualified "success" of KC) that find themselves uncomfortably lumped together under the umbrella of a genre ("tag") that, for certain individuals, has so many negative connotations (for me being in such a tight confine with KC affords the occasional opportunity of brushing against the hem of their garments--always a special event as inevitably there is an osmotic transfer of some musical blessing accompanying this often "meaningful" coincidence). Granted that KC doth defy easy categorization. The band(s) do, however, (depending on the specific "edition" of the various ensembles that sported the KC moniker) share certain characteristics with many bands of the "progressive" (a word, btw, that fundamentally means "moving forward"---are there worse insults to be endured by these misunderstood artists?) ilk (an "ilk" characterized by some or all of the following: mellotrons, atypical instrumentalization merged with the usual guitars, bass & drums; a facility with and music played in time signatures other than 3/4 and 4/4, a tendency for the team to be in accord with their creative impulses/muse(s), personalities misconstrued/or accurately identified as "inflated," high-water bell bottom pants, guitarists who sit down when they perform, infinite sustain, audiences doomed to be chastised for myriad inconsiderations, double standards & a tendency for the material to never go out of print for very long...ad infinitum and ad nauseam, i.e. endlessly and to a ridiculous degree). Alas, how difficult it must’ve been for Adam to find it necessary to distinguish himself from all of the other creatures/animals (formerly of The Garden of Eden) by naming them (placing them into "categories")--when prior to the inevitable "fall" (felix culpa=happy fall) every creature/inanimate object was (and remains) ONE. RF & company therefore (via the virtues of fortitude, persistence and idiosyncratically superb musicking) enjoy the convenience of "holding the tension of the opposites," distancing themselves from the Prog genre while simultaneously continuing to enjoy the qualified benefits (e.g. album/download sales) largely provided by a fan(atic) base that, more often than not, includes KC in that specific genre ("for the Conte de Lafaire--I’m certain this is a mispelling as "Ich spreche kein" French-- it is too little; for Athos it is too much."-Alexander Dumas) Fot those of us who are/were unable to negotiate themselves into the right place at the right time, the existence of this genre is fortuitous in that, in a "fallen" world where all is sliced up and labelled, there is an unlikely (and somewhat cramped) place where we can feel at home; and it is in the realm of the progressive. Prog is NOT rock, country, jazz, classical, gypsy, folk, klesmer, bluegrass although it may contain elements of all or some of the aforementioned arbitrarily identified genres of music/art. Enough of this... Viva la Prog!!!!!!!!!
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