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Logan
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Topic: I'm being blocked from entering my Kotebel review Posted: November 09 2017 at 10:32 |
"Á Bao A Qu" is a creature in Jorge Luis Borges's Book of Imaginary Beings. I didn't find any bad word references to individual words (google translate says in Vietnamese bao is bag). Strange.
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Just a music fan passing through trying to fill some void. Various music I am into now: a youtube playlist
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BrufordFreak
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Posted: November 09 2017 at 10:07 |
Ah! I may have figured it out! Whilst loading the review one piece at a time, I have achieved total success with all but the paragraph reviewing the Chinese-titled song #7! It must be something in the words or script of that title. Is it a swear word in Chinese?
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Drew Fisher
https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
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BrufordFreak
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Posted: November 09 2017 at 10:04 |
The plan failed: After taking out the diacritcs and changing the font and cutting and pasting the review to a different word processing program I tried uploading the document and was treated to the same "blocked" page/prompt. So I decided to try one more thing: loading it piece by piece. This worked! Until I got to song #7 and the 987 word mark.
You can now at least see the partial (about half) review.
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Drew Fisher
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BrufordFreak
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Posted: November 09 2017 at 09:45 |
Thank you, Greg! I'll try all of that!
Drew
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Drew Fisher
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Logan
Forum & Site Admin Group Site Admin Joined: April 05 2006 Location: Vancouver, BC Status: Offline Points: 33095 |
Posted: November 09 2017 at 08:25 |
If you haven't already, I would try posting it without diacritics and make sure it's in plain text. Also, If you wrote it in a word processing program, that may be tying to insert incompatible code (some personal security programs inject code too), so after removing the diacritics. If it were me, I might just edit the review in the post above to remove the diacritics then try pasting it into the review box and see if it takes.
EDIT: Could also be the font, so try changing that to the standard review font (or to the default font we post in if editing the review in the post above). Edited by Logan - November 09 2017 at 08:39 |
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Just a music fan passing through trying to fill some void. Various music I am into now: a youtube playlist
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BrufordFreak
Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: January 25 2008 Location: Wisconsin Status: Offline Points: 7974 |
Posted: November 09 2017 at 08:02 |
It's been three days running now! And still I receive the same "blocked" response when trying to upload the Kotebel review. I've seen several other reviews pop up on the home page since I first started trying to post this one, so the "down for upgrading" excuse seems unlikely. Plus, I've voted in polls and felt free to do other things.
Could it be something in the text of my review? A font or italics or something? If anyone is willing to check it out, here it is: Kotebel returns! And the band is tighter, more polished, more
virtuosic than ever! And flutist extraordinaire Omar Acosta is back! This time
the band take on a concept album with a philosophical thread using a
progression of human thought capacity from Newtonian mechanical/physical
to quantum/spiritual and even into world religious.
1. "Post Ignem" (8:26) Slow, lumbering
NeoProg. Simple, straightforward melody riffs, which grow in complexity as
congas, synths, bass and electric guitar amp it up. Still, flute is, bass
thump-thump-thumps, and then it's over: a quiet section . This song is familiar
to me in a "Pentacle Suite" kind of way--like a more concise,
modernized version. Big tympanic rolls signal a switch back to the first verse.
Small, little hints of the main melody from piano, synth, and flute flit in and
out while the rhythm section presses on. The final minute uses a skeleton
version before ramping up for the final crescendo. Nice song. Such fine-tuned
professionals! (9/10)
2. "Geocentric
Universe" (7:34) Jazz. Opens with an ALIO DIE-like walk through a sacred
temple or mosque before solo flute establishes the main melody. Spanish guitar
and harpsichord and then piano follow before drums, hand percussion, and bass
enter! The music is so restrained--it's wonderful! And hand drums! A kind of
prolonged jazz coda follows--reminding me of John Coltrane or Miles. The band
rejoins establishing a jazzy, Monk-like groove with changing tempos and
melodies. At 4:30 Omar Acosta shows us why he's been so missed--providing the
glue to move forward and into the next more-piano-based section. You go,
Adriana! Then an awesome merengue-like Latin-rhythm section follows over which
Omar and César fly! Wow! What a ride! A top three song for sure! (10/10)
3. "Mechanical
Universe" (7:53) full out complex symphonic prog rock as only Kotebel can
do it. Two main sections--or forces--playing at each other, vying for
ascendance. Great lead guitar work! Break for piano and then Spanish guitar
with bass and congas weave a very demanding tapestry. Piano and synths join in,
then industrial sounds for percussion break before we return to one of the main
themes with electric guitar screaming out its case. Divert into a more
intricate stoccato weave before bass and drums are given a little showtime. All
the while piano is providing the rhythmic foundation for everyone else! Final
minute has the band laying it all out there with guitar-led prog rock at its
finest. (9.5/10)
4. "Entangled
Universe" (8:46) opening with a mischievous flute-and-synth
melody line, organ and spanish guitar and piano then take over, before
Adriana and Jaime establish the main rhythmic foundation for some stellar
soloing and dueling from piano, flute, and electric guitar. Pause to assess
position, electric guitar and flute talking, before switch to deep, heavy,
bass-led slow-down section (using same melodies). Somehow the music
undiscernably speeds back up (with some awesome bass playing) while flute and
electric guitar take turns shouting at each other. Synth puts in his two cents!
Guitar and flute seem unfazed while piano provides the underlying manpower for
everybody else. Another switch to deep, heavy, slow, this time with jazzy bass
play. The melodic themes are again recapitulated by everyone while tempo speeds
back up and jazzy drumming drive the show. At the end of the seventh minute a
kind of dreamy piano-flute-led section takes over before chunky bass and drums
rejoin. Then all hell breaks loose again with guitar and flute making their
final cases over the frenzy of the rest of the ensemble. Wow! What a show! What
a battle! (9/10)
5.
"Oneness" (8:15) piano intro for the first 30 seconds, joined by
electric guitar arpeggi, synthesizer, and flute before bass and drums join in.
At 1:40 synth calliope/organ chords and flute take on the soft intro interlude
before the full band crashes back in to take us on a nice ride with synth,
flute, piano, and rolling bass leading the way. At 3:20 electric guitar and
flute seem to take the lead, alternating turn taking. Organ and piano team with
bass and drums to take us into the next dimension--a repeat of the section that
they did before. Incredibly well performed intricacies--six musicians, each
occupying one track, jamming together. In the seventh minute the beautiful
Santana-like lead melody comes to front and center through the electric guitar
with gorgeous synth wash chords backing it. The song then slowly, carefully
de-escalates, taking its structure apart piece by piece. Stunning song. One of
my top three on the album. (10/10)
6. "Mishima's
Dream" (5:29) one of Kotebel's more adventurous, working-outside-their-box
songs opens with some DEEP PURPLE/URIAH HEEP-like bombast from electric guitar
and organ. The pace being set by the rhythm section is actually rather slow and
plodding. Then, at the end of the second minute everything slows and softens
while electric guitar performs some nice arpeggi in support of a cool, extended
synth "pipe" (á la Keith Emerson) solo. Next section lets the organ
and electric guitar rock it out. Disjointed guitar solo is not so classic rock
as much as avant jazz. Organ's turn is more Wakeman-esque than ELP. Final 50
seconds is unusual for soft, spacey decay before rock electric guitar finger
pickings bring us to the end. Cool song! So different for the Barcelona
masters! (9/10)
7. "A Bao A
Qu" (4:30) opens with 20 seconds of pure silence. Intentional? Synths,
piano, then bass-supported electric guitar take turns expressing their wonder
and curiosity. At the very end of the second minute drums, bass and rhythm
guitar establish a jazzy little rhythm foundation over which synths and piano
continue their conversation. Guitar joins in for a few bars before synth and
piano again. Finally, at 3:20 the electric guitar can take the restraint no
more--César breaks out with a brilliant burst of exasperation before the band
settle back into a "Court of the Crimson King"-like passage before
ending. With silence. Another adventurous excursion for the band. (9/10)
8. "Canto
XXVIII" (7:21) The third song in a row in which the band test themselves
by moving into realms that are, for them, experimental: polyphonic instrumental
threads moving in polyrhythmic sequences. Then acoustic guitar work (would call
it classical were it not performed on steel stringed guitar) with distant
piano. Staccato electric guitar chords, thick bass and drum weave, organ odd,
polyrhythmic time signatures weaving in and out of cooperation. King Crimson
outdone! Maybe my favorite song Kotebel has ever done. Brilliant! (10/10)
9. "Paradise
Lost" (3:04) piano arpeggio, synth melody line, and piano establish a bit
of a deep conversation here. It's not until the beginning of the first minute
that the piano finally gives us enough music to guess at a full key signature.
Father-daughter; father waning, keeping to the background while daughter wonders
"aloud." (8/10)
It has taken me a
very long time to review this album because it has taken me a very long time to
really get to know this very dense album--dense and sophisticated, as all
Kotebel albums are. That is why they are one of the premier prog bands around
because they have such intricate performances and virtuosic instrumentalists
(all of them). What makes this album stand above the others is the polish, the
adventurousness, the courage and bravery, and the growing technical command
each and every member has over their instrument and over their contributions to
the overall weave of the compositions. There is not a bad or weak song on this
album (there never is on a Kotebel album) and there are some that are
extraordinary. If you haven't got on board with this band, you need to. One of
the true masters of modern progressive rock music.
Five stars; a true masterpiece of complex symphonic
progressive rock. Again I ask: Why all the love for Änglågard when there is
Kotebel?!!! |
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Drew Fisher
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DamoXt7942
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Posted: November 07 2017 at 19:53 |
^ Site upgrading might be done without any notice, as David says. Try a while latre, plz.
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Atavachron
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Posted: November 07 2017 at 17:59 |
Could be the diacritics but frankly it sounds buggy. I'd say try again in an hour or two. If upgrades are occurring, maybe wait until tomorrow.
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BrufordFreak
Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: January 25 2008 Location: Wisconsin Status: Offline Points: 7974 |
Posted: November 07 2017 at 17:45 |
Apparently I can't even submit the text of the review here for getting blocked/rejected! How can I figure out what's wrong? is it the French accent aigus or German umlauts or Swedish overrings? Help!
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Drew Fisher
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