LPCDreissues: Looking forward to the past

1 - Ride In The Dark (I. Zully's Truck) (2'39)2 - Ride In The Dark (II. Dimension Snatch) (0'23)3 - Ride In The Dark (III. Transformatia) (2'51)4 - Ride In The Dark (IV. Blackpocket Fugue) (8'08)5 - Ride In The Dark (V. Song And Word Dream) (2'05)6 - Ride In The Dark (VI. Robotiko) (3'08)7 - Ride In The Dark (VII. OneBeamToColorsEndless) (0'35)8 - Ride In The Dark (VIII. Meanwhile In L.A.) (2'29)9 - Ride In The Dark (IX. The Mountains) (1'14)10 - Ride In The Dark (X. Death Valley Vortex) (2'13)11 - Ride In The Dark (XI. Wordless) (2'45)12 - Ride In The Dark (XII. Beam Bang) (0'32)13 - Roy Rogers Meets Albert Einstein (12'50)14 - Song Sing To The Doldrum King (6'50)

A truly unclassifiable artist, Sigmund SNOPEK III was relatively anonymous among the popular band THE VIOLENT FEMMES. The art of this iconoclast can eventually be related to that of THE MOODY BLUES and Kevin GODLEY & Lol CREME. An obscure album issued in 1972, the now famous "Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf ?" was full of ambition: its heteroclite Progressive rock taking after some of the early Frank ZAPPA, rock, classical or contemporary music, ethnic music and jazz, all in an audacious blend. On "Nobody To Dream" (1975), he blends refined neo-classical tracks, classic-pop orchestrated songs, pop-songs, elegant and airy melodies. "Thinking Out Loud" (1997) includes five added tracks, compared with the original 1978 version. Two years later, the fabulous "First Band On The Moon" could be heard as a true Snopekian manifesto ! "Roy Rogers Meets Albert Einstein" is an excellent 1982 millesime, characterized by a division in three works ("Ride In The Dark", "Roy Rogers Meets Albert Einstein" & "Song Sing The Doldrum Ding") all more staggering the one than the other. The event of the year 2000 "Trinity - Seas Seize Sees" shows the return of the US keyboard player with Polish origin. Issued on the Musea label, this ambitious and conceptual double album was completely composed in 1973. However, only the first part was recorded in those days, the rest was completed between 1996 and 1999 and the whole work includes an impressing quantity of musicians. On it, all the characteristics of his first albums can be found with on top of that some sequences that sound almost like MAGMA !...