Sonic Travelogue – Progression By Failure

France’s Progression by Failure provides the Sonic Travelogue for a steady run!!   So yesterday i almost put off my run until today because it was supposed to be a whole lot warmer. The forecast said that today’s high was going to be 77! So far it is nowhere near that temperature. One reason not to put off the run today was that I have to work at Target 5:30 to 11:15 pm and I had half-day’s work for Lippincott, that was made a longer by the wet soil in the woods that tried to swallow the backhoe. The bottom line is that I didn’t put of the run yesterday and I’m glad I didn’t! The run was over the same  3.1 mile course that I’ve run the last two times out.Yesterday though the wind was really light and it didn’t really bother me. My overall pace 10:54 per mile, was a little slower than earlier in the week.(10:40),but the splits were interesting!! Mile 1 – 10:57 (seemed faster than that) Mile 2 – 10:49 Mile 3 – 10:48 Mile 0.12 – 11:41 – (slowing to see when to stop the clock) The good thing is that the last two miles were faster, not by much, than the first mile!! That’s a big improvement over the early runs where I was struggling on the last mile or two!! The soundtrack of the run was provided by the French symphonic progressive rock band Progression by Failure and their latest album Sonic Travelogue. I first…

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A not so good day – but some good music from Progression by Failure

POk so obviously the problem I had yesterday i.e. no power to my computer has not been resolved. it is clear from the fact that I am writing my first post of the day at 11:20 pm! Of course it didn’t help that I somehow wiped out this website this morning and when it was restored this afternoon it was restored back to March 8th! Anyway the new site is socialstudious.us and will be the home for politics, and the rest of the social sciences! I will try to keep this site for mysteries, music and family! Because I spent much of the day worrying about whether this site would be restored, I didn’t listen to much music . I did listen briefly to a band Progression by Failure. I first listened a few days ago and liked what I heard, From the Progarchives: Progression By Failure is a project by a young french compositor named Nicolas PIVETEAU. He was born in 1981 and starts to play keyboards at 10 years old. He also plays guitar and drums. This project is a vision of the progressive music, a large panorama between power & emotions. The songs are made of beautiful melodies, power riffs & light atmospheres, without what the author considers cliches of standard progressive music. Of course, Progression By Failure is influenced by modern Prog Rock, but also by metal & pop. The songs are written as a tribute to Prog bands like Spock’s Beard (Memories From The Future) &…

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