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This CD can be ordered through Greg Segal's web site
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Nuno
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Published on: 5 Jul 2002
Now this is a completely new orientation in Greg Segal’s music. In search of the fantastic does not own an inch of its concept to the previous compilation Always look on the dark side of life. If that was all about vocally oriented songs with strong emphasis on the guitar work, this is a collage of dark-moody and dense soundscapes and oppressive sound barriers.
The album is mostly atmospheric and experimental, as Greg builds his music upon a wide variety of electronic and instrumental effects.
The album must be taken as an whole journey into an uncommon new-age core, where the usual light-minded and easy absorbed electronic landscapes were substituted by distorted and somehow heavy (in a sense of density) compositions.
If you take, for instance Sahara, 1909, the tribal percussion is set upon a windy storm of distorted guitar feed-back, making it a good example of the sense of oppressive weight that the whole album seems to generate upon the listener.
I find the music in this album to be quite abstract and difficult to clearly frame inside a defined genre, for it is not constructed in a linear way where the listener can easily find a pattern. I see this music somehow as a tile that recreates the dark psychic mayhem that are sometimes experienced by our unconscious mind in random semi-nightmares.
The music displayed here is not of easy comprehension as it is not of easy interiorization, and surely a few listens were needed before it started scoring some points in my score-sheet. That’s the price the most extreme experimental works have to pay, to be honest.
If not in a usual progressive way, this album is nevertheless complex and carefully built in several layers or tracks. There is an huge amount of distortion, that’s a fact, but you can also find a fair share of folk and world-music instruments that transport some of the tracks to an exotic and peculiar result.
Let’s call it dark-matter new-age, can we?
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CREDITS
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PROGGNOSIS SELECTED DISCOGRAPHY
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- Alone - 1:21
- Looking For Paradise -7:54
- Nad - 2:16
- Sahara, 1909 - 7:29
- Congruence Asserts Its Presence - 1:08
- Madstone - 1:49
- Returns - 5:04
- Snallygaster - 3:36
- The Deros Discover King Solomon's Mines - 2:07
- Sanctuary - 2:06
- The India-Appalachia Railway - 7:22
- Was It Childhood - 2:44
- The Bad Ass Ride - 2:22
- Around The Healing Spring - 2:01
- Bhoga - 1:52
- The Backroads of Time - 4:21
- What Once Was Is - 6:15
- Of Brief Stays - 1:31
- Wednesday, 10 P.M. - 11:47
- Paradise Is Where You Find It - 2:07
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