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Sunday4Sep 2022
From Virgin To Quantum Years 2022
Revislate (IT), 2Days Prog + 1 Festival
(free entry)
Friday12Aug 2022
From Virgin To Quantum Years 2022
Berlin (GER), Krake Festival 2022
Friday29Jul 2022
From Virgin To Quantum Years 2022
Syracuse (IT), Ortigia Festival
Saturday4Jun 2022
From Virgin To Quantum Years 2022
Brussels (BE), Le Botanique
Thursday2Jun 2022
From Virgin To Quantum Years 2022
Amsterdam (NL), Q-Factory
Wednesday23Mar 2022
From Virgin To Quantum Years 2022
Brighton (UK), Chalk
Monday21Mar 2022
From Virgin To Quantum Years 2022
Southampton (UK), Engine Rooms
Friday18Mar 2022
From Virgin To Quantum Years 2022 + Steve Rothery
London (UK), Roundhouse
Thursday17Mar 2022
From Virgin To Quantum Years 2022
Exeter (UK), Phoenix
Wednesday16Mar 2022
From Virgin To Quantum Years 2022
Bristol (UK), Trinity Centre
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Why popular art forms are so often nothing more than hype machines?

Answered by Edgar Froese

Let me answer with a perfect statement from Ken Egbert of Tone Clusters magazine who wrote the following notes for a TD anthology release a few years ago:“The eternal problem: music cannot exist in a vacuum. It needs patrons to thrive; unfortunately, music shares this problem with every other creative enterprise. Squeeze any art form into the predetermined template of the marketplace and most of the brilliant corners get rubbed off; taking chances becomes hazardous to commercial health. A new musician, group or sound, once recognizable to the masses, quickly breeds clones. Perhaps the Austrian psychoanalyst Carl Jung was right when he said that conformity is an adjunct to fear. So the concept of what sells gets repackaged again and again in slightly different forms. New studio gadgets continuously elbow out past gizmos. The hype machine of the record labels and press canonizes today’s new face while simultaneously burying a dozen more. Music lives in an endless now.” End of quote. No one seems to be interested in the fact that behind a piece of art there is much, much more than just a dollar sign. The artist has become a servant to the stockholder value scenario. What a plunge!

Concerts

Concert dates

Recent concerts upcoming concerts ›

Revislate (IT), 2Days Prog + 1 Festival

Berlin (GER), Krake Festival 2022

Syracuse (IT), Ortigia Festival

Brussels (BE), Le Botanique

Amsterdam (NL), Q-Factory

Brighton (UK), Chalk

Southampton (UK), Engine Rooms

London (UK), Roundhouse

Exeter (UK), Phoenix

Bristol (UK), Trinity Centre

Answered by Edgar Froese

Bianca Froese-Acquaye

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