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Shark's Ultimate Music Research Corner
Unveiling the beauty of challenging music
Shark
Feb 4, 20248 min read
Acquiring the Taste by Gentle Giant: techniques borrowed directly from the Renaissance and Baroque proved us all that there's so much more to do in rock music
With Understanding Comes Appreciation Gargantua & Pantagruel come to life! The entire classic era oeuvre of the British progressive rock...
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Shark
Feb 4, 20245 min read
Tago Mago by Can: a Stockhausen-esque, which fuses an avant-garde rock symphony with shamanic avant-funk trance
With Understanding Comes Appreciation Sounds and impacts only like itself, like no-one before or after. An attempt to achieve in 80...
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Shark
Feb 3, 20246 min read
Rain Dogs by Tom Waits: breathtaking dark cabaret and beat poetry, wrapped with seductive jarring rhythms and singular instrumentation
With Understanding Comes Appreciation The first time I listened to Tom Waits, which was randomly from a radio station btw, I thought that...
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Shark
Feb 2, 20243 min read
Bar Kokhba by John Zorn: a journey to an elegant and sophisticated avant-garde territory
With Understanding Comes Appreciation Some of the words that arguably describe better this gem might be elegant, sophisticated, intimate,...
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Shark
Feb 2, 20247 min read
Trout Mask Replica by Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band: fast and bulbous; a massively misunderstood masterpiece
With Understanding Comes Appreciation “Fast and bulbous! That's right, The Mascara Snake, fast and bulbous! Also, a tin teardrop! Bulbous...
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Shark
Feb 2, 20248 min read
Hot Rats by Frank Zappa: flawless, impeccable and exquisite; the birth of jazz-rock fusion
With Understanding Comes Appreciation Tony Williams' Emergency is flavored with post-bop and jazz-instrument elements, which pushed into...
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Shark
Jun 5, 20246 min read
Enigmatic Ocean by Jean-Luc Ponty: flawless playing and utterly fluid transitions and interplay
With Understanding Comes Appreciation If you don't have this album/CD, get it. It could change your life. It is one of the best Jazz-Rock...
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Shark
May 27, 20245 min read
Starring Rosi by Ash Ra Tempel: the definitive trip into cerebral space land
With Understanding Comes Appreciation Yes, this album sounds nothing like any other Ash Ra Tempel album. Yes, this album is light and...
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Shark
May 23, 20247 min read
Somethin' Else by Cannonball Adderley: this music is so cool and so smooth, that it is infectious working its way into the mind, body and soul of the listener
With Understanding Comes Appreciation Somethin' Else is an anomaly in that Miles Davis actually chose to appear as a sideman on another...
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Shark
Apr 11, 202416 min read
The Complete Music of Anton Webern —Recorded Under the Direction of Robert Craft: hugely influential recordings of jewel-like works
With Understanding Comes Appreciation In the years following his death in 1945, Anton Webern’s works became the Rosetta Stone of post-war...
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Shark
Apr 7, 20246 min read
Letzte Tage - Letzte Nächte by Popol Vuh: an ability to create music that's simultaneously delicate and powerful, detailed and expansive, earthbound in its origins and cosmic in its reach
With Understanding Comes Appreciation For the sake of new comers, first things first. Of the many legendary artists to emerge from the...
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Shark
Apr 2, 20245 min read
Head Hunters by Herbie Hancock: considered to be one of (if not THE) vanguard recordings that gave birth to funk/rock jazz fusion
With Understanding Comes Appreciation In many ways I equate Herbie Hancock with the legendary Bob Dylan as far as being an enormous...
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Shark
Feb 1, 20243 min read
Welcome to Shark’s Ultimate Music Research Corner!
Unveiling the Beauty of Challenging Music While there’s no such thing as “the best music ever made” as plenty claim (even “prestigious”...
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Shark
Feb 5, 202439 min read
The Bible of the Discography of an Alchemist Master, John Zorn
With Understanding Comes Appreciation The one word virtually everyone can agree on in any discussion of the work of composer John Zorn is...
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Shark
Feb 4, 20242 min read
A Treasure-Map of the Discography of a Unique Genius, Frank Zappa
With Understanding Comes Appreciation One of the most prolific careers in music history, is the career of one-of-a-kind genius, Frank...
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