CALIBRATED COLLISION COURSE
Galadriel
•Neo-Prog
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Studio Album, released in 2007 Songs / Tracks Listing 1. Blind Hostage (5:53) - Jesús Filardi / lead vocals, keyboards, arrangements CD Musea - FGBG 4790.AR (2007, France) Thanks to Grendelbox for the additionand to Quinino for the last updates Edit this entry |
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GALADRIEL Calibrated Collision Course ratings distribution
(26 ratings)
Essential: a masterpiece of progressive rock music(12%)
Excellent addition to any prog rock music collection(23%)
Good, but non-essential (23%)
Collectors/fans only (27%)
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GALADRIEL Calibrated Collision Course reviews
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SPECIAL COLLABORATOR Prog-Folk Team

In a word, the sound here is chaotic in a perhaps deliberately unsettling manner. The musical disharmony matches the ceaseless diatribes about how we're all going to hell in a handbasket through society's overconsumption of resources be they comestible or of entertainment value. As if these weren't about as subtle as a hammer laying into a mosquito, add in news clips about global warming and, well, news clips, and you get the idea. It might have worked as a multimedia presentation, or as 5 minutes of filler in a green documentary, but one tuneless and tedious hour amounts to a jaw dropping overbite, if I can understate the case.
Points of comparison are thankfully hard to come by, but QUEEN with a correspondence school PHD comes to mind, as well as the Quebecois crossover group KAOS MOON, but GALADRIEL has neither the lofty fluffiness of the former nor the instinct for restraint and melody of the latter. Apart from the first couple of minutes of "Leap Of Faith", this CD forges one pigheaded and irreversible collision course with sanity.
PROG REVIEWER

Anyway, is that all there is to say about Calibrated Collision Course ? Actually yes because the strange and chaotic vocals and also music are coming back in each song and are the key feature of this release. It will have something to do with the idea behind the lyrics that mainly handle the chaotic state of our planet nowadays, at least according to Galadriel. I have to say I'm getting curious for the other releases by this band: do they sound the same or did Galadriel leave the neo path just recently ? They appeared on the scene about twenty years ago and their previous release was twelve years ago so I haven't got a clue but I will check some day.
This is for sure no standard neo prog so beware if you're interested. If you like something completely different go for this one but if you like it standard leave it. Hard to rate this album, I give two stars because I will not play this for my pleasure in the future and then I usually give two. Still it's not a complete disaster in my opinion. Check the streamsong here on PA I would suggest. It will give a pretty good idea.
SPECIAL COLLABORATOR Honorary Collaborator

Shifty, fragmented compositions with some passages firmly placed in neo-progressive territories and other with distinct jazz and funk tinges to them, some mainstream-oriented escapades with more of a genereic pop expression to them as well. Nothing new or innovative, but nothing truly bad either. The passages with instrumental layers residing somewhere in between harmonic and disharmonic are much more problematic though - neither fish nor fowl as far as I'm concerned. Add in a lead vocalist with a voice like Peter Gabriel seemingly trying to sing in the same manner as Jon Anderson (on a lower register obviously) and bombastic backing vocals used both way too often as well as outside of most normal perceptions of when they are appropriate, and the end result is taxing, and not in a good way.
Some folks will love this stuff, but it is a release that will appeal to a very select few. And I'm not amongst those charmed by this experiment, obviously.
Latest members reviews
A forerunner album I'd say. Perhaps the most interesting, innovative and shocking prog album of the 21st century until now. It breaks not only rules, laws and traditions of neo-prog but also of prog in toto. It does not meet the requirements and standards as of 1970s' so of 2000s' prog, and it's dif
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Report this review (#1007259) | Posted by proghaven | Sunday, July 28, 2013 | Review Permanlink
Galadriel began in the late '80s as a classic symphonic band from Spain. Despite its
limited production values, Muttered Promises from an Ageless Pond is a classic. With
some changes in the line-up, and vocalist Jesus Filardi taking a more dominant role, the
band released Chasing the Dragonf
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Report this review (#385874) | Posted by usa prog music | Monday, January 24, 2011 | Review Permanlink
This is an excellent album from Galadriel. Far better than the previous one Mindscaper. Galadriel
definitely made a step in professionalism and quality (of factor ten!).
Compositions are intelligent, emotional and well executed. The presence of Andy Sears at the backing
vocals leads to sophisti
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Report this review (#247045) | Posted by pwawrzyn | Thursday, October 29, 2009 | Review Permanlink
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