While he studied classical and electronic music in college, he is mainly selftaught in composition and guitar. Coloradobased thinking plague explores the frontiers where rock, folk, jazz and modern symphonic music meet. Kingdom come founded in 1982 by mike johnson and the legendary bob drake, they have been a continuous presence in the underground since then, although many years have elapsed between recordings, and only johnson remains from. Lets have a look about this thinking plague in extremis album. On june 8, 2010, while on a book tour for his bestselling memoir, hitch22, christopher hitchens was stricken in his new york hotel room with excruciating pain in his chest and thorax. Thinking plagues ninth album, hope against hope, was just released on february 10, 2017, and it is every bit as uncompromising as its predecessors. The work is an allegorical account of the determined fight against an epidemic in the town of oran, alg. A full an frank interview on the case also must see selective hearing, brian deer and the gmc.
Thinking plague in extremis cuneiform rune 114, 1998, cd. Decrease mouse sensitivity increase mouse sensitivity. Tiredness fever weakness decreased appetite muscular pain joint pain headache sore throat vomiting diarrhea abdominal pain shortness of breath chest pain swelling confusion a weird rash red and bumpy vomiting blood coughing up blood bloody poop eye bleeds do i have the plague or something else. But what happens when the one who is supposed to take care of you is gone absolutely insane. Thinking plague is a rioavantprog progressive rock artist from united. Discover more music, concerts, videos, and pictures with the largest catalogue online at. Watch the video for behold the man from thinking plagues in extremis for free, and see the artwork, lyrics and similar artists. Cover art and high res images available below for download. Thinking plagues profile including the latest music, albums, songs, music videos and more updates.
Thinking plague biography formed in denver, colorado, usa in 1981 still active as of 2018 intro from thinking plague website thinking plague is a musical group from colorado that explores the frontiers where rock, folk, jazz and modern symphonic music meet. Through these explorations, the band has created a genre of music unto itself, eclectically derivative in a bold way and spectacularly. Behold the man by thinking plague from the album in extremis, released by cuneiform records. Genredefying and, above all, unique, thinking plagues music can be described equally as postrock andor postclassical. In this life, originally released in 1989, was the groups 3rd album and their first cd release after two previous albums that flew under the radar of most listeners.
In 1998, thinking plagues fourth album, in extremis, came out on cuneiform records. In the first, the protagonists are usually trying to find a cure or preventing it from spreading further. Subsequent recordings of new thinking plague material a history of madness 2003 and decline and fall 2012 would also come out on cuneiform. I did purchase the cd right after i received an email from one of this sites readers, shirly hope you dont mind i make your name disclosed here but if you do, let me know, i will take it off sometime ago november 15, 2005. Begin the madness tear down the sign ideals and values they use to keep us in line. The plague stories come in several different types. Im so excited by strange and complex music that i seek it constantly. Thinking plague in extremis a band heavily inspired by the henry cowart bears strand of rio most obviously through the presence of unconventional female vocals, though supplemented by strange male vocals, thinking plague take this and other influences fripp, circus, klezmer into more cinematic territory. Thinking plague is a storied band, whose thirtyfive year history has seen it cleave consistently to the extreme limits of what is possible to do within rock music. The second is where the plague is the cause of an after the end plot.
Much of the music it released has owed more to traditions external to rock, such as folk, chamber music, and particularly, the avantgarde tradition of twentiethcentury classical. Thinking plague is a united states avantgarde progressive rock group founded in 1982 by guitaristcomposer mike johnson and bass guitaristdrummer bob drake. In the plague he found a lens for projecting life at once suspended and more vivid. The music on in extremis is something that i can really sink my teeth into. Thinking plague blown apart live in milan 2008 duration.
It spreads throughout animal populations, including humans, through the bites of infected fleas. Either the disease happened before the beginning of the story or the story begins with the end of the world as we know it. A dirge for the unwitting clouds scud across a stormwracked sky, but while briefly exposing rare shards of blue, most often, blacker, gloomier grays lurk behind the mists. Thinking plague has been releasing impossible to categorize. Thinking plague biography, albums, streaming links. Alternative press placed thinking plague, in the vanguard of groups riding the crest of a largely. These fleas often feed on rats, which is why large numbers of dead rats are a sign of an impending epidemic. While not as over the top complex as albums like in extremis, this one works. Hoping against hope by thinking plague, released 10 february 2017 1. The plague, the 17th century horror game to chill the bones.
In this story, macdonald recalls her childhood and then her tuberculosis diagnosis, and the majority of the story focuses on her treatment at a sanitarium. In rock, he says, the traditional approach is to contrast singlenote lines with chunky sounding chords or 5ths, or strumming with fingerpicking. Hoping against hope, by thinking plague cuneiform records. Ive spent many a night lying on my back waiting for the dawn to pierce and crack and the ceiling hanging from the sky and i envy the boy who grabbed the toy and. One eye fear the other wolf in night mirror prison snarling red and stones small death blooms. They have made seven studio albums between 1984 and 2017, and released one live album recorded at. In extremis by thinking plague, released 08 september 1998 1. The plague and i is the second memoir by betty macdonald, and listening to it really transports the reader back to the 30s, when times were simpler yet also more complicated in some ways. Thinking plague has been releasing impossible to categorize albums to a devoted fanbase for over 30 years. For thinking plagues next album, he envisions two fuzz guitars playing sustaining single notes, each interacting as a separate voice with the woodwinds and even accordion. Shop for vinyl, cds and more from thinking plague at the discogs marketplace. As he would later write in the first of a series of awardwinning columns for vanity fair, he suddenly found himself being deported from the country of the well across the stark frontier that marks off the land.
Although very heavily influenced by the 1970s rio acts, thinking plague does an excellent job updating the style and manages to create a sound all of their own. Originally released by the rer label, this was the first album to really bring this superb us band to a wider audience. From light and airy, came decades dark weight and from the young and intrepid came meanderings of fear. Dead silence which is a tourdeforce and features catchy vocals and lyrics. To realize johnsons musical conceptions, the musicians in the bandlike members of a contemporary classical music ensembleread from fully notated scores. Only 500 copies of a thinking plague endemic, 1984 were released. The philosophical viewpoints the plague deals with are the absurd, existentialism, and humanism. Listen free to thinking plague in extremis dead silence, behold the man and more. Thinking plague are often cited as the leading light of the american arm of the rock in opposition movement, closely aligned with the fellow denver, colorado ensemble, hamster theatre, with which they share personnel. Cofounder, leader, composerproducer and guitarist, johnson has been performing for over 40 years he played in his first band at age and first began writing music at age 17.
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