The Strands of the Future

The Strands of the Future
Label: Musea
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 742630040185
EAN: 0742630040185
ASIN: B0000CDE8N


Release Date: 2003-08-29

The Strands of the Future


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Tracks:

  1. The Strands Of The Future
  2. Flight
  3. Windows
  4. Fool's Failure

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Album Description

PULSAR's third album, issued in 1977, "Halloween" is generally considered one of the ten best symphonic albums in the world. A masterpiece of refinement, sold out for a long time and at last reissued with a wonderful 16-page booklet that includes biography, photos, words and history of the band from Lyon. Definitely indispensable for all progressive rock fans! The re-issue of "Pollen" from 1975, includes a biographical booklet with words and pictures. A year later, "The Strands Of The Future" showed us its charms in the format of hyper-sophisticated, elaborated and refined music, filled with exacerbated lyricism and romanticism. Probably as good or even better than "Halloween" ! In the early Eighties, PULSAR took the path of theatrical creation: with the director Bruno CARLUCCI, the famous quartet (Gilbert GANDIL at the guitar and bass, Victor BOSCH at the drums, Jacques ROMAN at the keyboards & Roland Richard at the flute and saxophone) adapted a short story by! Austrian novelist Peter HANDKE in 1981, "Bienvenue Au Conseil D'Administration !". The result is worth it for a lot of reasons ! With "Görlitz", PULSAR made their comeback in 1988 and played an actualised music with beautiful themes, and with the same melodical beauty and the same refinement they had shown on the four previous albums. Those are milestones of Seventies French Progressive rock !

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars What to say?.......2005-10-24

French krautrock if one could put it this way. Nothing more to say but: fantastic music to listen when its cold outside your door and you need something to warm you up.

5 out of 5 stars Eerie and Haunting Experimental Rock.......2004-08-06

The eerie and haunting synth-heavy opening of the massive 22' 08" suite The Strands of Future conjures up images of a dull sun rising over a bleak and empty landscape every time I listen to it. This may have been intentional, given that Pulsar was trying to depict a nightmarish world through the music, as illustrated in the disturbing and macabre cover art. While the music on The Strands of the Future is not characterized by passages of blinding virtuosity, Pulsar does extremely well at creating somber and rich atmospheres through the use of minor chords and loads of synthesizers. In fact synthesizers of all descriptions are featured prominently on this recording including the mini-moog, solina string synthesizer, and the mellotron model 400 amongst others. As such, the music is stylistically closer to that of Tangerine Dream than Yes or even Pink Floyd for that matter. There is however instrumentation that extends beyond synthesizers, including very understated, yet technically competent drumming, woodwind, guitar and bass work (the keyboardist doubled on Rickenbacker bass). Vocals by guitarist Gilbert Gandil are provided in English and are quite good. Although a great deal of the music on The Stands of the Future is very serious, I should note that not all of the music is as bleak as I have described, with the 2'37 "Flight" providing a brief reprieve from the heaviness with some sprightly keyboard work and comparatively energetic playing by the guitarist and drummer. Overall, The Strands of the Future is a very polished and emotionally sophisticated work that is certainly equal in stature with if not superior to their subsequent masterpiece Halloween (1977). Recommended for prog fans that appreciate Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze just as much as Premiata Forneria Marconi.

5 out of 5 stars

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