Day 3: Planet P Project – 1931- (Go Out Dancing) First, If you watched MTV in the early 1980s, you may recall that P3 had some of the first videos in heavy circulation – “Why Me?” and “Static” were synth-based electronic prog, and Tony Carey – composer and primary performer of the P3 material, followed it up with one of the deepest concept albums of the Cold War – “Pink World”, which gave us “A Letter from the Shelter” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6Nfbk_hLsE) and is maybe one of the great under-appreciated albums of the 1980s. Those albums had such a depth of awareness and compositional sense that even when some of the synth tones used were… very 80s… the structure of the music holds it together beautifully. I spent many years wishing that Tony Carey would release more P3 material, and wondering if it would hold up. And then, in 2005, this album made it onto my radar, and I snapped it up. The album is simply cinematic in scope. It draws a strong and unsubtle analogy between the politics of 1930s Germany and the politics of the new millennium. If you come into this album with any sense of history, it’s gonna hurt – and P3 feeds every note into supporting that criticism. Go Out Dancing comprises a trilogy of albums released between 2005 and 2009, which, as a whole very much show that it’s been obvious where we’re headed, how we got here, and what its going to mean if we don’t change course. It also shows that it was obvious to anyone who cared to watch. If, as Shelley wrote “Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world”, then perhaps some few musicians are its prophets. Also, I really wish Tony would write a book titled “The Art of Making Compressors Your Gimp.” I’m going to tag in my left-wing comrades Meredith White and and Trinyan MacLellan on this one.