King Crimson - Lizard

Speaking about progressive rock doesn't take any effect on people whom I talk to, perhaps they don't really know this genre or don't understand what I like about it - or what I love. But this is a new world which comes from the past and can revive in our minds in any moment. Maybe it belongs to a special kind of personality, who has similar emotional waves and alternating silent-energic moods, just like this music has.

King Crimson's Lizard from 1970 is perfectly on the middle point of the beautiful/emotional atmosphere and psychedelic experimental line. For example let the starting point of this line be Lady of the dancing water, with its softness and fragility, and let the end point be Indoor games, which is a strange and also joyful mixture of moods. The whole album is a mixture, as well - a mixture of different arrangements with interesting parts (from dissonant elements to crazy solos, like in Happy family). After listening to the shorter songs, we meet the almost must-have extremely long ending song, with the same title, Lizard. Many parts, feelings and changes after each other, to prove its genre more perfectly. These highly long last tracks are very important on prog rock records. So it's a must-hear album. I don't know for which reason, but it's always connected with autumn in my mind.

Now this is a good possibility to share you one of my newest thoughts about fall (there's a lot). Walking and watching the colourful fallen leaves on the pavement, I got that fine mood which we get when we see the changes of the seasons and get fascinated by it. I wondered why does this fascination get me... because I've seen these colours, lights and natural elements twenty-one times in my life. Or why does this fascination get all the people, perhaps they have these visual properties of autumn in their collective mind, but the surprise never disappears. This is an ever-changing and renewing thing. The nature and the universe is above us, every happening there can take a huge effect on us - by moods, feelings, new creative thoughts. Live the autumn, not just watch it passing by.

Cirkus live in 1971:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTNMZXkwxvU

Lizard (intro):