Progressive Savage

Quite accidentally I’ve hit following clip on youtube today…

…and thought I’ll share this and a couple of other cool mashups I’ve heard recently. Enjoy it!

This is a bit off-topic, but for me classical music is equally interesting to prog and even though I spend more time listening to the later I do enjoy the former as well. After listening to Ray Manzarek’s interpreation of Carmina Burana today (I’ll try to write something about it soon) I put on one of my favorite classical recordings, Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, played by non other but the English Chamber Orchestra and Nigel Kennedy himself.

To make this day even better I just saw on local TV a great two-piece version–the first part being a jazz-like interpretation of original score and the second a heavy metal one–of Beethoven’s Für Elise performed by one of my favorite Polish cabarets Grupa MoCarta:

They are all well educated instrumentalists who graduated from prestigious Academies of Music in Warsaw and Łódz, but they decided to play classical music in a humorous way. What is more, they created something like a musical cabaret, one in which the music, not the words were the source of laughter.

I didn’t manage to find the complete recording on the web so here’s only the second–heavy–part.

If you’re at least a bit into metal in general then checking Steve DiGiorgio’s Wikipedia webpage you should find at least a handfull of bands you recognize, like Autopsy, Control Denied, Testament, Iced Earth, Vintersorg and obviously Death. Among all of this you’ll find a band named Dark Hall.

Let me introduce myself.

As it is also stated elsewhere on this site, I’ve been listening to rock and derivative types of music (mostly metal) ever since I can remember. It’s all because of my older sister: she’s been listening to all of that stuff when I was young and under her influence and so I became to love it myself… Unfortunately, she doesn’t like that kind of music anymore, and I’m stuck with it for good.

In my ventures through many heavy sounds I’ve gone from heavy metal through black/death metal, grind core/gore, and back to some lighter tunes, like progressive rock/metal, jazz rock, fusion jazz and so on. Hence the name of this blog Progressive Savage.

I used to play bass guitar for a couple of bands ranging in style from Doom Metal, through good-old Hard Rock, up to a Christian Rock. At some point I desperately wanted to play in a Death Metal band, later on in a technical-kick-ass-rocking Progressive band. It turned out haven’t played anything for couple of years now, though a passion for music still burns in my heart.

What I’ll be covering here is all kind of progressive–by my own definition–or otherwise interesting–once again from a subjective point of view–music. To put it briefly: what I find interesting. Though I mostly listen to progressive stuff right now I still like to put on some kind of old, good heavy metal tunes from time to time.

I hope you’ll stay tuned!

PS. The guy on the photo is me back in 2003. I used to have some hair back then, though obviously not so much…