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Gordian Knot was a progressive rock/metal band directed by bass guitarist Sean Malone. At times its shifting lineup has included Steve Hackett of Genesis, Bill Bruford of King Crimson and Yes , Ron Jarzombek from Watchtower and Spastic Ink as well as Jim Matheos of Fates Warning, several of Malone's former bandmates from Cynic and John Myung from Dream Theater. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...
Gordian Knot (album) was the debut album of Sean Malones (ex-Cynic) progressive rock project of the same name. ...
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Progressive metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music which blends the powerful, guitar-driven sound of metal with the complex compositional structures, odd time signatures, and intricate instrumental playing of progressive rock. ...
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Sean Malone is an American bass guitarist, born in Delran, New Jersey, formerly of Cynic and currently in Gordian Knot. ...
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Bill Bruford on the cover of his album, Feels Good to Me William Scott Bruford (born May 17, 1949 in Sevenoaks, Kent, England), better known as Bill Bruford, is an influential British drummer known for his forceful, highly precise, polyrhythmic style. ...
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Progressive metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music which blends the powerful, guitar-driven sound of metal with the complex compositional structures, odd time signatures, and intricate instrumental playing of progressive rock. ...
The electric bass guitar (or electric bass) is an electrically-amplified string instrument played with the fingers by plucking, slapping, or using a pick. ...
Sean Malone is an American bass guitarist, born in Delran, New Jersey, formerly of Cynic and currently in Gordian Knot. ...
Steve Hackett (born Stephen Richard Hackett on February 12, 1950, in Pimlico, England) is a writer and guitarist. ...
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Bill Bruford on the cover of his album, Feels Good to Me William Scott Bruford (born May 17, 1949 in Sevenoaks, Kent, England), better known as Bill Bruford, is an influential British drummer known for his forceful, highly precise, polyrhythmic style. ...
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Ron Jarzombek is a progressive metal guitarist, founding member of Watchtower, currently working on his solo project Spastic Ink and with various live acts of different bands, as well as a guitar teacher in San Antonio, Texas. ...
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Spastic Ink is a technical progressive metal band from the United States. ...
Jim Matheos is the lead guitarist for the progressive metal band Fates Warning. ...
Fates Warning was formed in 1983 by John Arch, Jim Matheos, Victor Arduini, Joe DiBiase, And Steve Zimmerman in Connecticut, USA. The band directly contributed to the establishment of the Progressive Metal genre, With their early works considered by many as very important works defining the genre itself. ...
Cynic was a progressive/technical death metal band from Miami, Florida, USA that was founded in 1987 and dissolved in 1994. ...
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Dream Theater is a progressive metal band formed by three students at the Berklee College of Music in 1985. ...
Musical Style The music of Gordian Knot is a highly professional mélange of progressive rock and -metal, Fusion, instrumental music à la Robert Fripp's Guitar Craft (replacing the clean guitar sound with distorted sounds) and his solo-work (compare e.g. Gordian Knot's song "Grace" with Fripp's "Evening Star"). Gordian Knot manage to incorporate several overlapping layers of complex melodies and harmonies into a unified whole without sounding overly complex or "forced". That is, the complexity is never an end in itself. Bitches Brew (1970) by Miles Davis is considered the most influential early fusion album. ...
Robert Fripp (born May 16, 1946 in Wimborne Minster, Dorset, England) is a guitarist, record producer and a composer, perhaps best known for being the guitarist for, and only constant member of King Crimson. ...
The music of Gordian Knot also relies heavily on diatonic guitar-melodies (although sometimes encompassing later-resolved dissonances to add a Jazz-Fusion-like flavour). The interaction between the various instruments, all played by accomplished instrumentalists, is flawless, allowing for communication of various melody-lines, harmonies and rhythms between guitar(s), bass and (concerning rhythms) even drums.
Also, Gordian Knot cannot be categorized without disregarding certain aspects of their music. For example the piece "Komm, suesser Tod, komm sel'ge" is a transcription of a piece of the same name by Johann Sebastian Bach, while some other of their pieces, most notably "Grace", have a distinct classical, even "baroque" Bach-like flavour, being made up of an interplay between various diatonic, peaceful-sounding melody-lines from the Chapman Stick - without drifting off into the often corny, showy neo-classical style. Bach in a 1748 portrait by Haussmann Places in which Bach resided throughout his life Johann Sebastian Bach (pronounced ) (21 March 1685 O.S. – 28 July 1750 N.S.) was a prolific German composer and organist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra and solo instruments drew together the...
Other songs, such as "Muttersprache" (German for "mother tongue") or "Code/Anticode" work with on-beat/off-beat, almost counterpoint-like interplay between two guitars and/or the rhythm- and melody-section, incorporating jazz-chords and dissonant intervals to create tension and form the basis for a mixture of jazz-fusion and progressive rock/metal.
Discography Gordian Knot (album) was the debut album of Sean Malones (ex-Cynic) progressive rock project of the same name. ...
Year 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar). ...
Emergent was a 2003 album by Gordian Knot Track Listing Arsis Muttersprache A Shamans Whisper Fischers Gambit Grace (Live) Some Brighter Thing The Brooke The Ocean Singing Deep Mountain Surround Me (Bonus Track) Categories: ...
2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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