I'm holding out for the Wilson-mixed 5.1 super-duper walletbuster special anniversary extra adjectives edition.
RIP
I either didn't know or forgot that he was on the first OSI album - I got a lot of mileage out of that album back in the day.
Does anyone know why the first Cynic album was notoriously so poorly mixed?
PS - Wouldn't it be easier if we were all named Sean?
I'll pull Gordian Knot's Emergent from the stacks tonight in memorium.
Is your name not Sean? Mind if we call you Sean to make things easier?
Ian
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Gordon Haskell - "You've got to keep the groove in your head and play a load of bollocks instead"
I blame Wynton, what was the question?
There are only 10 types of people in the World, those who understand binary and those that don't.
I'm one of the 212.
I had a friend named Sean Duffy back in the 80s. I used to call him Seen Duffy? .
So sad to hear this. RIP Sean
David
Happy with what I have to be happy with.
Steve F.
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I first saw Sean doing a solo set at one of my first NEARfest's. Thought his appeal would take off from there- very talented- RIP - very sad. I always enjoyed his music.
I still enjoy the debut Gordian Knot, especially the first half of it. I never really got into their second release.
But in 1993 (on , Cynic were - musically speaking - almost revolutionary. They took the 'progressive' in metal to a wholly different dimension; they were the GGiant to DTheater's Yes and Watchtower's KCrimson and Mr. Bungle's HCow.
I still think Focus was one of the 10-15 or-so most rewarding metal listens I encountered back then, and it definitely changed a lot of my prejudice towards the possibilities and sensitivities of so-called extreme metal, whereas I remained mostly continuously unimpressed with the both the general international death metal-enterprise and those local black metal-artists (in Bergen/Norway) who'd later go on to more-or-less global "renown".
When I got Traced In Air in 2008, I was pretty puzzled by its reception. They should have conquered that whole scene with that release, but little happened. It reminded me of how cLOUDDEAD were greeted with hip-hop-fanatics. I suppose it mattered that I didn't see it from adequately "metallic" iinsider's angle, but I really expected for them to appeal to fans of bands like, well, unexpecT and the like.
Alas current metal is in equally as much a state of obvious stagnation as other rock forms, I guess things will pass either way.
Listening again to Focus and Gordian Knot right now, his contributions both compositionally and performance-wise is central to the success of just about everything in their sound.
"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
I think they did pretty well with Traced In Air. They toured and played to much larger audiences. Album sales were pretty good - I think the band actually made money.
They didn’t conquer whatever was left of the scene because there had been lots of bands influenced by Cynic that came and went over the years between the albums. The critical and fan response to Traced In Air was extremely positive but there was no longer something unique about the band.
They had a damn good run once they reformed.
^ Yes, I surely recall interviews with happening bands like Between the Buried & Me namechecking Cynic and praising their return, and I believe the band's influence was also somewhat felt with mathcore-groups like Converge and Fuck the Facts at the time. Still one would perhaps expect more overall recognition of a group as obviously influential when two core members fall away so tragically in the same year. I mean, these were relatively -young- guys of significant talent.
Of course, pandemic shit could easily have something to do with it, yet there's also the whole "hysteric shit" about identity-politics going on now (not going into it, relax). To that extent I remember a rather discreet attention in fringe/genre media when Reinert and Masvidal came out of the closet in the wake of Roddy Bottum's (Faith No More) and Gabe Serbian's (The Locust), and they kept speaking quite a bit of it in terms of musical-cultural analysis, which was at least intriguing.
These are indeed dreadful times.
"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
Gonna spin the classic first OSI disc this morning. RIP
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I’ve read a few pieces that are assuming suicide. Despair is the worst. I lost my brother in law to suicide. It still hurts. The darkness, especially with those of supreme talent, is hard to digest. I’ve battled depression for years, so losing someone so gifted is difficult to grasp. I’d do anything to have his talents. How do we prevent suicide? How do we bridge the gulf between depression and self peace?
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Oh this is horrible. As a big fan of Gordian Knot and Cynic, it was so hard when Sean Reinart died. but now Sean Malone?? Ugh. He had such a wonderful style...like no one else.
Gutted.
Just getting around to post after reading this sad news a few days ago.
Very sadden by the passing of Sean. His solo Stick piece Grace is one of the most beautiful pieces of music to these ears. Many times I listen to Grace to lift me up, I will do so in this case.
A talented man, Sean. A great loss.
Condolences to those who knew him best.
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