In the second half of the '60s, the British rock lived a moment of great effervescence is driven by the economic boom which served as a driving force for the recording industry, is the extraordinary business of Beatles who had confirmed England as epicenter the new youth creativity: a nation that had become not only commercially impervious to any attempt to imitate their music and re (for example, by the American garage bands) , but a constant generator of styles that were beamed around the world: psychedelia, blues, folk, pop and hard rock .
In 1967, however, with the release of their masterpiece 'Sergeant Pepper's ", many experts began wondering with some anxiety what would happen when the Beatles had exhausted their creative course: what which also occurred within two years.
The solution was to run quickly to shelters offering a new style that was not only modern and musically unprecedented , but where the generation of "Swinging London " had been able to identify and recognize just as he had done until that moment with the british beat .
A genre that was so subversive what caught enough to attract even the middle class so far snubbed the collegiate rock; deeply rooted in European culture to avoid any confusion with the American rock- and so poetically dreamy conndensare by a single kernel in the utopia of flower power with the great tradition of English fiction, from Shakespeare to Tolkien.
The brainstorm came from one of the most innovative record labels then the world scene, the Decca Records, which to launch his new label Dram and his new recording technology called "Sound Deramic " (a primitive consists of two eight-track recorders, 4 track working simultaneously) , called the band the Moody Blues asking them to compose and record a rock version of "New World Symphony " master of the Czechoslovak Antonin Dvořák .
According to the testimony of Derek Varnals , then coach of Decca, the Moodies but did not succeed to complete the original project, but remained fascinated by the prospect of being able to mix rock and classic. against any skepticism of their record company, then summoned the teacher Peter Knight and the London Festival Orchestra for the realization of a concept in a rock-symphonic: the story of a man any day of waking up at night the model of 'Ulysses of James Joyce. And move was the right one.
At first the work was heavily criticized by the fringes of respectable British company for alleged drug use by the group, (see the lines "the smell of led you to dream ) but more realistically, the unanimous enthusiasm of all the youth audience - middle-class and otherwise - made of "Days of future passed " one of the seminal hard rock history.
In fact, his unusual blend of classical and pop , the use of new technologies and production equipment , its extraordinary homogeneity narrativa e nondimeno l’altissimo valore esecutivo , avrebbero consacrato l’opera dei Mood ies ad apertore del genere progressivo.
Infelicemente, la Deram-Decca prestò tanta attenzione al progetto originale quanta distrazione nel conservare le matrici originali su nastro. Alchè, molte delle ristampe del disco che si susseguirono ininterrottamente a partire dalla prima reissue 1978, tradirono in molte parti la prima stesura che oggi è diventata assai rara da reperire su vinile in buone condizioni.
Ciononostante, anche ascoltando il nuovo mixdown, è davvero impossibile non grasp the extraordinary fluidity of the work that begins with the orchestral " The day begins and ends with the resounding success of" Nights in white satin "that will be taken from all over the world, including our Prophets, Gatti Rossi , Bit-Nik and especially by the nomads who renamed " I defended my love" . The liquidity of the continuum musical and narrative leaves no doubt that a new type of music is coming and will not be long because a number of sensitive musicians and classical music until then confined in the conservatories and schools of 'art seize at the chance to reinvent themselves with new stylistic proposals from the first Nice of "The Thoughts of Emerlist Davjack " (1967) until the apartment-historical In the court of the crimson king "(1969 ) of King Crimson through the Caravan, and the Colsseum Soft Machine.
who attributes the authorship of a prog " Freak Out" by Zappa (1966) must quickly change their minds because of the obvious distinction between the work of an isolated genius and a real movement notes that from of Moody Blue s involve the whole world.
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