Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Nearfest 08 -> Saturday : Discipline


I first saw Discipline at my first prog fest, Progday 95. Since then, I've seen them throughout the years and their brand of neo-prog gradually grew on me. At times, Matthew Parmenter channel's Peter Hammill/Fish. Jon Bouda reminds me of Steve Rothery--only more technically proficient. Mathew Kennedy and Paul Dzendzel provide solid and interesting bass and drums. Their album Unfolded Like Staircase represents the best of American neo-prog.
They played, among other pieces, Crutches, Into the Dream, and of course, Cantov IV--all their best works. In fact, I still have Crutches going around and around in my head.

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