Which documentary series included an episode discussing the album including songs composed by Gedy Lee and Alex Lifeson with lyrics by Neil Peart telling a story set in a dystopian future?
2112 (song) "2112" (pronounced twenty-one twelve) is a side-long title track from Canadian rock band Rush's 1976 album of the same name. The overture and the first section, "Temples of Syrinx", were released as a single and have been featured in most of Rush's setlists since. The "sci-fi" sounds in the beginning of the song were created using an ARP Odyssey synthesizer and an Echoplex tape delay. On the "2112 / Moving Pictures" episode of the documentary series "Classic Albums", producer Terry Brown states the synth intro is composed of various parts played by Hugh Syme that were put together in a collage. Since 1997, when any parts of the song are performed live, they are transposed down one full step, as heard on every live album and DVD from "Different Stages" forward.
Phantom of Aleppoville "Phantom of Aleppoville" is a song composed by English artist Benjamin Clementine. It his first new music since his debut album at "At Least for Now". The song was written, recorded and produced by Clementine and follows his January 2017 collaboration with Gorillaz on "Hallelujah Money". Accompanied by a video shot by photographer Craig McDean and filmmaker Masha Vasyukova, Clementine composed "Phantom of Aleppoville" after being affected by the writing of pioneering British psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott. He wrote extensively about children who have experienced bullying in the home and at school, discovering that while the trauma was naturally not comparable in scale to that suffered by children displaced by war, its effects followed similar patterns. Seeing in Winicott's writing a mirror of his own childhood experiences, Clementine chose the title – the "little city of Aleppo" – to symbolise a place where children encounter such bullying. Says Clementine, "Aleppoville is a place where many are bullied if not all, but no one understands nor see why; Phantom."