Style. What's Progressive Rok?
Style
The musical genre of Álgebra Lineal opts for Rock within the Progressive subgenre with some Hard nuances.
What´s Progressive Rock?
During the second half of the 50's, a strong tendency to introspection within the art world arose in the underground current of England and the United States, this is caused by contact with oriental cultures, the ideologies of existentialism and the surrealism of Paul Sartre and André Bretón, the Beat movement and its poetry, the use of hallucinogenic substances, the emergence of pop art embodied in characters such as Andy Warhold and Roy Linchestein and particularly in music, for the dissemination of musicals ideas by entities such as John Cage and Karlheinz Stockhausen. All this, in combination with the Vietnam´s War (1955-1975) protests and the involvement with social problems, led to a new ideological search for the youth of the following decade and obviously, art was the appropriate vehicle for its dissemination.
As far as popular music is concerned, the circular forms typical of Rock & Roll are gradually abandoned to begin a search for new sounds and musical patterns for new forms of sound. Some pioneering groups such as the Everly Brothers, The Shadows and The Beach Boys begin to give a new approach to music, but it would definitely be with the Beatles where this new search would explode.
Despite the fact that in the first two years of the Beatles' existence, a strong influence of Rock & Roll musicians such as Chuck Berry, Little Richard and Elvis Presley was still felt in them, it was not until 1965 when everything mentioned above also arrived to influence the way of seeing life in the Liverpool quartet. Rubber Soul's album (1965) is already a true search for new musical horizons with the incursion of citars and fuzz guitars, but it is not until the Revolver album (1966), that it is clear that the Beatles have already lost all their interest in conventional music patterns. On this album we dive into a search and experimentation with more complex things, never used before in popular music, such as string quartets and classical instruments, the use of Loops, backwards recordings and even the use of a small band of Indian musicians. including a sound of guitars with a very acid sound and ending with a section of horns. It was the first time, at least that we have reference to, that so many unorthodox and experimental aspects were brought together on a single Pop music album.
As a result of this album and the following one by the Beatles themselves, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart Club Band, a strong tendency through England and the United States to make music in the same vein, giving rise to groups such as The Byrds, Pink Floyd, Greatfull Dead , Soft Machine, Jefferson Airplane, Moody Blues, Jimmy Hendrix Experience, The Doors, Cream, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention among many others. In both parts of the Atlantic, this new genre was known as psychedelism and it was not until the end of 1968 that this genre turned, in the United States towards Folk and country-rock music and in England towards Hard Rock and Progressive.
Just as the Beatles were a great influence on psychedelism and later on Progressive, so were some groups that moved between Rithm & Blues, Folk, psychedelism and Avant Garde, especially Moody Blues, Family, May Blitz, Patto, Can, The Gods, Soft Machine, Tangerine Dream, Crosby, Stills and Nash, mainly. However, the group that took the first step to what was the nascent Progressive Rock were the english, King Crimson. This group combined jazz for the first time, with strong rock and semi-classical passages, and the album was a very solid conceptual work. However, there are scholars who consider that the first Progresivo album was Days of Future Passed by Moody Blues or one by The Nice, some even say (Wikipedia), that it could have been The Who with their mini opera, A Quick One. However, these groups were changing their style until they were close to or definitely Progressive and we consider that King Crimson did not "change their style", they realy were born as a group that had an already defined musical style and already had a plan where to go, especially if we take into account that a work plan had already been made for their first four albums, which were conceptual.
The irruption of King Crimson was followed by a wave of groups, some of which already existed that opted for this new genre, such as Jethro Tull, Man, New Trolls, Le Orme and Génesis, the Moody Blues themselves and some other new groups. who dabbled in the style, such as Yes, Gigante Gentil, Atomic Rooster, Camel and most of the Italian.
Making Progressive implies that the music have a little more work on their structures, both instrumentally and in execution, for this reason the songs have a longer duration, greater than the average three minutes of classic rock; be careful, making long songs or conceptual albums does not necessarily lead us to talk about Progressive Rock, (there is a long list of examples of this with artists ranging from Frank Sinatra to Meco Monardo, Muse or Donna Summers)
Definitely, we can say that progressive is a mixture of genres, where they coexist, giving as a final product a subgenre with a higher quality of performance and, just like what happens with Jazz and Blues, they are genres so flexible that they can coexist. with each other with as many genres without altering the final product.
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