{"id":574,"date":"2020-09-17T07:40:51","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T15:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/?p=574"},"modified":"2020-11-03T15:36:15","modified_gmt":"2020-11-03T23:36:15","slug":"a-review-from-dprp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/17\/a-review-from-dprp\/","title":{"rendered":"A review from DPRP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Theo Verstrael of The Dutch Progressive Rock Page<\/a> has given us a fair review of the latest album. As usual, we are amongst good company, with all the other recent releases reviewed this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can read the review here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.dprp.net\/reviews\/2020-067#prodigal-sounds<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alas, they don’t really like the cover, but generally it is a good review and I appreciate the thoroughness of Theo’s research and informed evaluation of our offering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A couple of comments on the review: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don’t get the similarity between Paradigm Shift<\/a> and Painting Abstracts<\/a>, but perhaps I’m too close to the music. Theo’s entitled to his opinion. They are both have 7\/8 riffs and have similar tempos but apart from that… I’m proud of both pieces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Update: I might now understand where Theo’s coming from. The opening statement or phrase in the chorus in both songs is a rising 5th interval, and I acknowledge the similarity, but I am not embarrassed by it. If self-plagiarism were a crime, Neal Morse would be put away for 10 years.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He’s also not a fan of the Spoken Word verses in The God Program. I respect that. I did try other things early on but kept coming back to it. It’s pretty close to how I heard it in my head, originally, and I just have to plead my lack of ability to realize it in a way that resonates for everyone. I’ve used the growly, pitch-dropped vocal technique before, in the previous album. There’s some continuity in it, but hopefully it is not a “signature”! I don’t intend to use it again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My brother and I aren’t actively writing together because we live in different parts of the world and have done so for many years. Long-distance collaboration is not something we’ve been able to do. There wasn’t a “falling out” or anything. There’s still music that we wrote together that may see the “light of day”, but I also have more ideas of my own. Hopefully album #3 will happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Theo Verstrael of The Dutch Progressive Rock Page has given us a fair review of the latest album. As usual, we are amongst good company, with all the other recent releases reviewed this week. You can read the review here: https:\/\/www.dprp.net\/reviews\/2020-067#prodigal-sounds Alas, they don’t really like the cover, but generally it is a good review […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-studio-diary","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}