Saturday, September 17, 2005

Como oir a The Mars Volta: Instrucciones para poperos

Acabo de leer un articulo que describe sucintamente el rechazo del emergente neo-rock progresivo por la sociedad consumista perennemente inundada por el efimero commodity pop, muy al caso de lo que le sucede a TMV con algunos segmentos tanto de la critica como de generaciones recientes de jovenes. De ahi tomo un parrafo, que dedico a los jovenes que deseen romper [por la via de la terquedad psicosomatica] con la maquina lavacocos del sistema:

"The Mars Volta is in fact a progressive rock band, though apparently they didn't set out to be. But the things you find difficult about the albums are also the same sorts of things uninitiated listeners find difficult about about lots of prog albums, and classical and jazz albums for that matter. The song structures are just too complex and/or unfamiliar to understand in one or two listens. What you have to do is listen repeatedly, like a dozen or two dozen times, and keep paying attention during each listen. Eventually your neocortex will have heard it enough times to begin predicting what comes next, and you will begin to grok it and even enjoy it. You will probably find that the enjoyment phase lasts a lot longer than the enjoyment phase of simpler music, and that you will find yourself thinking of it after not listening to it for a while and getting the urge to pull it out and hear it again. Remember, noise is just a very long pattern."

Recuerda, el rock progresivo no es basura, ni pretensioso ni ocioso. Es solo mejor que tu mismo.

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