[D66] Space under erasure

[R.O.]

  You can't eat space, and have it too! --R.O.

On 03-08-2020 15:45, R.O. wrote:
>
> Planet X – MetGitarenEnZo
>
>
>       AllMusic Review by François Couture  [-]
>       <https://www.allmusic.com/album/quantum-mw0000583173#>
>
> It took Planet X 
> <https://www.allmusic.com/artist/planet-x-mn0000851807> five years to 
> come up with a follow-up to MoonBabies 
> <https://www.allmusic.com/album/moonbabies-mw0000226415>, and the 
> first thing fans are bound to notice is the absence of guitarist Tony 
> MacAlpine 
> <https://www.allmusic.com/artist/tony-macalpine-mn0000744391>. On 
> this, the group's third studio album, Planet X 
> <https://www.allmusic.com/artist/planet-x-mn0000851807> is presented 
> as a duo -- leader/keyboardist Derek Sherinian 
> <https://www.allmusic.com/artist/derek-sherinian-mn0000200709> and 
> drummer Virgil Donati 
> <https://www.allmusic.com/artist/virgil-donati-mn0000216447> -- 
> rounded up by guest bassists (Jimmy Johnson 
> <https://www.allmusic.com/artist/jimmy-johnson-mn0000295984> and Rufus 
> Philpot) and guitarists (mostly Brett Garsed 
> <https://www.allmusic.com/artist/brett-garsed-mn0000935915>, also 
> fusion legend Allan Holdsworth 
> <https://www.allmusic.com/artist/allan-holdsworth-mn0000002252> on two 
> tracks). You may also find the music veering a little more into fusion 
> territory and less into the metal-fusion genre established by the 
> Magna Carta label -- and all for the better. In fact, Quantum 
> <https://www.allmusic.com/album/quantum-mw0000583173> is a quantum 
> leap above previous Planet X 
> <https://www.allmusic.com/artist/planet-x-mn0000851807> releases: 
> stronger compositions (tighter and less flashy), more diversity across 
> the album, better-dosed excitement. The resulting music is less in 
> your face but just as satisfying, since it welcomes repeated listens. 
> The fierceness presented as the band's core is its manifesto of sorts 
> ("a band that played so fiercely, it would strike fear..." stated the 
> press release for the group's first album), giving way to a more 
> strategic use of intensity and better-crafted songs, as "Alien Hip 
> Hop" brilliantly illustrates. This album opener simply keeps on 
> building and building over the course of its seven minutes. "Matrix 
> Gate" and "Space Foam" are vintage Planet X 
> <https://www.allmusic.com/artist/planet-x-mn0000851807> tracks -- 
> complex time signatures, jammy feel, and a drummer that just won't 
> quit. On the other hand, you have moodier pieces like "Kingdom of 
> Dreams" or the Holdsworth 
> <https://www.allmusic.com/artist/holdsworth-mn0000002252> feature 
> "Desert Girl," laden with jazzy stacked chords and subtler 
> progressions. The only piece that does not quite work out is the 
> closing "Quantum Factor," its stop-start sections failing to form a 
> cohesive whole; here, the band falls back to its early excesses. That 
> minor flaw aside, Quantum 
> <https://www.allmusic.com/album/quantum-mw0000583173> is a 
> surprisingly mature album, the kind that could redefine Sherinian 
> <https://www.allmusic.com/artist/sherinian-mn0000200709>'s career. 
> Recommended. [Quantum 
> <https://www.allmusic.com/album/quantum-mw0000583173> was also 
> released with bonus tracks.]
>
> Collapse ↑
> On 03-08-2020 15:28, R.O. wrote:
>> On 03-08-2020 08:11, R.O. wrote:
>>> SpaceX net als Malcom-X een dikke kruis door de space. Heidegger en 
>>> Derrida maakten er ook een gewoonte van om woorden door te kruisen 
>>> (SeinX).
>>>
>>>
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sous_rature
>>>
>>> To write 'Under erasure' is to write a word, cross it out, and then 
>>> print both word and deletion. The word is inaccurate (which itself 
>>> is an inaccurate word), hence the cross, yet the word is necessary, 
>>> hence the printing of the word. This is one of the principal 
>>> strategies of Derrida: "(possibility) of a discourse which borrows 
>>> from a heritage the resources necessary for the deconstruction of 
>>> that heritage itself".[18] This is similar to the concept of 
>>> bricolage coined by anthropologist Lévi-Strauss.
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