Gordian Knot
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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.
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 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 too complex or “forced” in any way. The music of Gordian Knot also relies heavily on beautiful, diatonic guitar-melodies (although sometimes encompassing later-resolved dissonances to add a Jazz-Fusion-like flavor). The interaction between the various instruments (all played by very accomplished instrumentalists) is flawless, allowing for communication of various melody-lines, harmonies and rhythms between guitar(s), bass and - concerning rhythms - even drums.
Gordian Knot cannot be categorized without disregarding certain aspects of their music. For example the piece “Komm süsser Tod, komm sel’ge” is a transcription of a piece of the same name by Johann Sebastian Bach, while some of their pieces, most notably “Grace”, have a distinct classical, even “baroque” Bach-like flavor, being made up of an interplay between various diatonic, peaceful-sounding melody-lines from the bass and guitar(s) - without drifting off into the often corny, showy neo-classical style.
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KevinVillage the live recording of grace is one of the greatest things to have ever been recorded in the history of moosic
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Sqaarg @crack731: Malone considered playing live with a line up of known musicians, but it never got off the ground, unfortunately.
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crack731 "In November, 2009, Sean Malone yet again dismissed his touring band. The live Gordian Knot outfit consisted of Vickram Badalpur, John Webber, Thomas O' Meara, and Stephan Greenbank, who were all students at Florida State University. Upon graduating, the quartet decided to leave music and begin formal working careers, leaving Malone with no alternative but to discontinue their contracts." It's confusing - I've always considered GK as a studio project and I doubt that they've ever played live (at least the Internet doesn't know about it). I've also never heard about those mentioned musicians. does anybody here know something about it?
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Metality @jackieholder840: Did you purposely ignore the comments after his (where his trolling was revealed) just for a chance of acting superior to him?
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timothybarnes Both albums are awesome, this is a cool and good band.
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blackemperior Rivers Dancing'i benden fazla seven çıksın çıkamaz ki
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RubikkUp benden fazla seven çıksın çocuumu keserim......
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jackieholder840 @ MilanoirSMT You sir, are an idiot. Thats like saying judas priest ripped off Iron Maiden... Gordian Knot formed in 1998. STS formed in 2004. Maybe a little research might help you make an educated statement.
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