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The Strands Of The Future | Audio CD

by Pulsar
Pulsar (Performer)

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Audio CD

Studio:

Musea

Release Date:

August 29, 2003

Sales Rank:

211,277th

TRACK LISTING

Disc: 1

Track 1: The Strands Of The Future
Track 2: Flight
Track 3: Windows
Track 4: Fool's Failure

EDITORIAL REVIEWS

Product Description
PULSAR's third album, issued in 1977, "Halloween", is generally considered one of the ten best symphonic albums in the world. A masterpiece of refinement, sold out for a long time and at last reissued with a wonderful 16-page booklet that includes biography, photos, words and history of the band from Lyon. Definitely indispensable for all progressive rock fans! The re-issue of "Pollen" from 1975, includes a biographical booklet with words and pictures. A year later, "The Strands Of The Future" showed us its charms in the format of hyper-sophisticated, elaborated and refined music, filled with exacerbated lyricism and romanticism. Probably as good or even better than "Halloween" ! In the early Eighties, PULSAR took the path of theatrical creation: with the director Bruno CARLUCCI, the famous quartet (Gilbert GANDIL at the guitar and bass, Victor BOSCH at the drums, Jacques ROMAN at the keyboards & Roland Richard at the flute and saxophone) adapted a short story by Austrian novelist Peter HANDKE in 1981, "Bienvenue Au Conseil D'Administration !". The result is worth it for a lot of reasons ! With "Görlitz", PULSAR made their comeback in 1989 and played an actualised music with beautiful themes, and with the same melodical beauty and the same refinement they had shown on the four previous albums. Those are milestones of Seventies French Progressive rock !

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 5.0 based on 3 reviews)

What to say? by Nimmerby Mikael (Sweden)

5 Stars
October 24, 2005
French krautrock if one could put it this way. Nothing more to say but: fantastic music to listen when its cold outside your door and you need something to warm you up.

Eerie and Haunting Experimental Rock by Jeffrey J.Park (Massachusetts, USA)

5 Stars
August 06, 2004
The eerie and haunting synth-heavy opening of the massive 22' 08" suite The Strands of Future conjures up images of a dull sun rising over a bleak and empty landscape every time I listen to it. This may have been intentional, given that Pulsar was trying to depict a nightmarish world through the music, as illustrated in the disturbing and macabre cover art. While the music on The Strands of the Future is not characterized by passages of blinding virtuosity, Pulsar does extremely well at creating somber and rich atmospheres through the use of minor chords and loads of synthesizers. In fact synthesizers of all descriptions are featured prominently on this recording including the mini-moog, solina string synthesizer, and the mellotron model 400 amongst others. As such, the music is stylistically closer to that of Tangerine Dream than Yes or even Pink Floyd for that matter. There is however instrumentation that extends beyond synthesizers, including very understated, yet technically competent drumming, woodwind, guitar and bass work (the keyboardist doubled on Rickenbacker bass). Vocals by guitarist Gilbert Gandil are provided in English and are quite good. Although a great deal of the music on The Stands of the Future is very serious, I should note that not all of the music is as bleak as I have described, with the 2'37 "Flight" providing a brief reprieve from the heaviness with some sprightly keyboard work and comparatively energetic playing by the guitarist and drummer. Overall, The Strands of the Future is a very polished and emotionally sophisticated work that is certainly equal in stature with if not superior to their subsequent masterpiece Halloween (1977). Recommended for prog fans that appreciate Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze just as much as Premiata Forneria Marconi.

Masterpiece of prog rock by BENJAMIN MILER (Eugene, OR United States)

5 Stars
July 29, 2004
Second album from one of the great prog rock bands to come out of France. Strands of the Future was originally released in 1976 on the Kingdom label (a label apparently ran by Terry King, who was the manager for the famous Canterbury band Caravan, which Caravan recorded for that label for a short time in the early '80s). I have always felt their debut Pollen was underrated and often ignored compared to their following two albums, but that one is an album worth checking in to. Strands finds the band adding a Mellotron to their setup and exploring more of that same great prog that I so enjoyed about Pollen. With Phillipe Roman (I presume the brother of Jacques Ramon) no longer with the band, vocal duties (as well as bass duties) were now handled by Jacques, whose singing makes it difficult to determine if he's singing in French or in English. The album starts off with the side length title track. It starts off sounding not unlike Klaus Schulze, complete with synth drones and spacy electronic effects. After that, the whole band kicks in and goes through several different movements and themes, including the occasional experimental passage. Lots of great use of synthesizers and guitar. "Flight" is nothing short of an incredible instrumental piece, I just love that use of Mellotron choir in this cut. "Window" is a slow-ballad, pretty much in the same vein as their following album, Halloween. "Fool's Failure" is yet another wonderful epic (although not a side-length cut like the title track) going through several themes and movements. There are some use of spoken dialog here too. The song ends with the sound of someone using a typewriter, throwing the paper in the trash, then you hear a sound of a buzzer before you hear one of the Mellotron themes close the album out. Truly a great album to have in your collection.

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