Jem's awesome Jingle/Promo for the Celebr8 Festival

[Pedro]

The mighty Bert just posted on the social nets :-
Want to hear the first chord from the new Frost* album?
Want to hear what Jem thinks about Celebr8?

//http://t.co/v3RnlY1N

Check out the background music too...kind of familiar....

[turbo]

Dam it i must have that album now, now i tell you now NOW NOW

[E.S.]

I suggest waiting until the release date, or it will be a kind of short album.

But it IS a good chord though.

[Pedro]

Yep, sounds jolly expensive.

[JakeWorrell]

I for one am disappointed in the direction Jem has taken this first chord and shall not be buying the new album.


 


Can. Not. Wait  

[Mikey]

I for one am disappointed in the direction Jem has taken this first chord and shall not be buying the new album.


 


Can. Not. Wait  

Shirley a chord going from left to right across the screen is the right direction, even if backwards !!

Or am I still in the musical stone-age? Perhaps chords can travel vertically in a perpendicular way. Maybe? Purple did this.

Bring on ***  

[RacingHippo]

Pygmy Hippo said of that chord: "That's so expensive it needs its own bank account!"

As for the album itself, I can't help thinking that the opening chord is rather a stylistic clash with the main body of the work, with its jaunty plinky-plonky-piano reworkings of Frost* classics.
But who am I to question the genius of JemFrodfreyfromfrost*?

[E.S.]

That's a bit tricky, actually.

Jemgodfreyfromfrost
Jemgodfreyfromfrost
Jemgordfeyformfost
Fremgodfreyfromjost
Fremjodfreyfrofromst
Jeffgrodeyrforfomst
Fremfromfreyfromfrost

Tongue twister.

[Rook]

I, for one, am concerned by the brevity of this so called "first chord", and worry that it is indicative of a more "song oriented" direction for the new album. I don't listen to prog for "songs"! If this is not the introduction to the first part of a suite of a twenty something minute odd time widdle fest, I am not buying the album. In fact, I shall write to Mr Rick Wakeman to express my dissatisfaction.

/R

[MarkOneMusic]

I, on the other hand thought the chord imbued a meta-structure laden with optimism containing within itself a roadmap towards a utopian future yet at the same time hinting at a melancholic longing for a halcyon past, and within it's poly-harmonic progression a clear reflection of an intent to expand the boundaries of human understanding with a sub-contextual element that resonates with the celestial realm.

Oh, and also fluffy kittens.

[danofmayz]

Only one word for the first chord! "Biscuity"!  :mrgreen:

[JimD]

Played this yesterday on my laptop but missed out most of the background music due to diddy speakers.  Very cool - the "Joanna" version of Toys is great fun.

"The first chord" reminded me of "Weightless" by Thomas Dolby, a huge fave of mine (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xczeaQa5bpw) so I'm already looking forward even more than I was to the new stuff.

[davejd]

I for one, am waiting for the difficult second chord

[Dave M]

Brilliant to hear His Royal Highness of Madcaptomfoolery on such good form ... how I miss those Frost reports, they were the highlight of my week (how sad is that)  

[sawtooth]

It sounds to me like the start-up chime for a very, very expensive computer...