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FINISTERRE
Harmony of the spheres
CD - MMP 422 A/B
Double
CD compilation of all unreleased tracks including rare live tracks,
demos, covers from 1993 to 1999. With an incredibly rich booklet. For
any real Finisterre fan!
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OUTSIDE
Freedom
CD - MMP 423
Retour
par la grande porte de nos néoprogueux à la française.
Beaucoup de progrès, il ont trouvé un son : plus moderne,
beaux solos de guitare, climats très nuancés (nappes claviers,
piano ), chant anglais, développements instrumentaux extra ,
à découvrir !
One of the best neoprog records from France!
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APRYL
Alorconfusa
CD
- MMP 424
Songs
coming out of the years 1999-2001 formed "Alorconfusa". It
contains the first part of our work about animals. "Hesperia",
"Ghe-pardo", "Tarta-ruga" and "Nelle Vesti
di Adìa": each of them brings to our eyes the idea of figuration
or of creation in the world of animals. These songs ask your attention
for many minutes, while we develop our work conveying our feeling about
creatures' reality -seen inseparably in their bodies as in their souls-
and at the same time about the knowledge coming from an intense emotion,
seen as the highest circumstance. These are our suggestions...you are
the listeners...
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GARDEN WALL
Forget the colours
CD - MMP 425
The
music that is presented on "Forget the Colours" clearly shows
that, unlike most of the contemporary Progressive Rock performers, Garden
Wall continue to transform their style well into the 2000s. So, the
mighty Garden Wall are back with an album, which, both stylistically
and structurally, is different from any of the band's previous albums
that, in their turn, are in many ways different among themselves as
well. However, "Forget the Colours" is radically different
from anything that was created by the band before. This time, these
very talented Italians discovered a new area of Prog-Metal where only
Alessandro's expressively aggressive and theatrically dramatic vocals
can be recognized (not always, though). In short, the best definition
of music that is presented on this album would probably be a blend of
Prog-Metal and Fifth Element. Have you ever heard Prog-Metal, most of
the compositional canvas of which were based on the laws of Avant-garde
Academic Music with its very unstable structures, seemingly dissonant
arrangements, atonalities, etc? All of this, being, in addition, mixed
with the elements of Techno-Metal, Art-Rock, RIO, Jazz-Fusion, Waltz,
and even some of one quaint Folk music, is present on the new Garden
Wall album. All those who are open-minded and adventurous enough to
appreciate the creation of such bands as Thinking Plague and Watchtower,
Mekong Delta and Happy Family, Doctor Nerve and Finnegan's Wake, etc
will love this album to death.
Vitaly "Progressor" M. June 10, 2002 |
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DJORDJE ILIJIN
Zabranjeno Prisluskivanje
CD - MMP 426
Reissue of the solo album
originally released in 1983 by the yugoslavian leader of the band TAKO.
The music is in the same vein of his band, melodical beauty, richness
of arrangements and development of the themes which marry at the same
time delicacy and energy.
With 4 bonus tracks.
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LA MASCHERA DI CERA
La Maschera di Cera
CD - MMP 428
"The Wax Mask"
are a five piece who use vocals, piano/mellotron/organ/moog/'clavicembalo'/VCS
3 synths (notice all analog synths?), flute, bass/acoustic guitar and
drums. This just sounds 'right'; they just sound like a lost classic
Italian band. Conditionally recommended I can't stop listening to this
CD and thinking to myself, this CD might just have the same effect on
the prog genre as Anglagard had in the mid-90's. I really think it might
be the best Italian prog release since Locand Delle Fate's Forse....
album! Big statement, for sure. But right now that's just how I feel
about it.
Brian Worthing
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