GORDIAN KNOT

Gordian Knot



Gordian Knot is a progressive rock/metal band directed by bass guitarist Sean Malone. At times its shifting lineup has included Steve Hackett of Genesis, Bill Bruford of King Crimson and Yes , Ron Jarzombek from Watchtower and Spastic Ink as well as Jim Matheos of Fates Warning, several of Malone's former bandmates from Cynic and John Myung from Dream Theater.


The music of Gordian Knot is a highly professional mélange of progressive rock and -metal, Fusion, instrumental music ? la Robert Fripp's Guitar Craft (replacing the clean guitar sound with distorted sounds) and his solo-work (compare e.g. Gordian Knot's song "Grace" with Fripp's "Evening Star"). Gordian Knot manage to incorporate several overlapping layers of complex melodies and harmonies into a unified whole without sounding overly complex or "forced". That is, the complexity is never an end in itself.

The music of Gordian Knot also relies heavily on diatonic guitar-melodies (although sometimes encompassing later-resolved dissonances to add a Jazz-Fusion-like flavour). The interaction between the various instruments (all played by accomplished instrumentalists is flawless, allowing for communication of various melody-lines, harmonies and rhythms between guitar(s), bass and -concerning rhythms- even drums.

Also, Gordian Knot cannot be categorized without disregarding certain aspects of their music. For example the piece "Komm, suesser Tod, komm sel'ge" is a transcription of a piece of the same name by Johann Sebastian Bach, while some other of their pieces, most notably "Grace", have a distinct classical, even "baroque" Bach-like flavour, being made up of an interplay between various diatonic, peaceful-sounding melody-lines from the bass and guitar(s) - without drifting off into the often corny, showy neo-classical style.

Other songs, such as "Muttersprache" (German for "mother tongue") or "Code/Anticode" work with on-beat/off-beat, almost counterpoint-like interplay between two guitars and/or the rhythm- and melody-section, incorporating jazz-chords and dissonant intervals to create tension and form the basis for a mixture of jazz-fusion and progressive rock/metal.

Discography
Gordian Knot (1999)
Emergent (2003)

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incerc sa fac si eu rost de formatie. nu o stiam, dar din cate vad nu prea e loc de ''slabut''. Hackett, Myung, Jarzombek, Matheos si in special pt mine Bill Bruford, care e tatic, sunt dovada ca trebuie sa ii gasesc imediatamente. sper sa fie pe torrent...

Piotr Buendia a scris:

incerc sa fac si eu rost de formatie. nu o stiam, dar din cate vad nu prea e loc de ''slabut''. Hackett, Myung, Jarzombek, Matheos si in special pt mine Bill Bruford, care e tatic, sunt dovada ca trebuie sa ii gasesc imediatamente. sper sa fie pe torrent...

nici nu stii ce ai pierdut, pana acum!!..cred ca acest proiect este apoteotic pentru ceea ce inseamna fuziunea jazzului cu metalul!!sunt 2 albume, le gasesti pe torente!!...sunt fabulosi..
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Primul il am si eu, inca din '99. Am facut rost de el in primul rand pentru Myung. Dar tin minte ca nu m-a impresionat prea mult... ce-i drept nici nu cred ca l-am ascultat foarte atent de cele 2-3 ori cand l-am bagat in playlist.
Insa aprecierile tale m-au facut curios si o sa-l reiau candva zilele astea la o auditie.

Tot pe atunci aparea si primul Platypus, pe care l-am "luat" (in format mp3) tot datorita prezentei unor membri DT... dar nici pe asta nu l-am gustat in mod deosebit.

probabil ca Emergent este albumul meu preferat dintre toate albumele auzite de mine pana in prezent...cel putin in momentul acesta, ca maine este posibil sa imi schimb optinea

GK trebuie ca este unul dintre proiectele mele "all-time favourite", pe de o parte, prin prisma participantilor, si pe de alta parte, din cauza produselor in sine. Maiestrie extrema, un admirabil melanj de melodie si tehnica, pe langa care numele mari participante sunt abia "cireasa de pe tort"

Khron a scris:

GK trebuie ca este unul dintre proiectele mele "all-time favourite", pe de o parte, prin prisma participantilor, si pe de alta parte, din cauza produselor in sine. Maiestrie extrema, un admirabil melanj de melodie si tehnica, pe langa care numele mari participante sunt abia "cireasa de pe tort"

foarte corect...."cireasa pe tort""... este o expresie nemaintalnita!!!@!!

sar"mana domnule KronX!!!!

Lumea ar fi un loc mai intunecat fara contributia King Crimson...

foarte corect...insa si fara GK este la fel de saraca!!