LIGHT OF DAY, DAY OF DARKNESS

I have been listening to this album (in its entirety) more than 10 spins already. Everytime I listen to it, I thought that I would be getting bored because the duration is very very long . 60 minutes plus! The whole album contains only one song. My prediction was not wrong especially when I found there were some repeating riffs and chords from this album. Quite strange to me that the repetition would make me bored and stop playing the CD .. but it has never happened to me as I always successfully completed the whole song even though on some occasion I had to pause due to mandatory breaks like a time for pray (to perform Muslim's shalat). But after that I usually continued the album until it really completed. Another strange thing is that I always want to spin again after the whole album is completely listened to. The more I spin the album, I come to think that this album must be something special which could have created magic into my ears and my mind. I salute the band on this!

Composition.

I think on composition, this album has perfected itself that it could produce a stream of music with good melody (not that catchy, actually) in such away throughout the passages of music the band has inserted great subtleties which enhance the nuance of the song. It's quite obvious there are combination of acoustic guitar fills, string orchestration and soft guitar riffs which then accompany vocal line, delivered in metal fashion. The arrangement has been made in such a way that from one segment to another, there are practically obvious distinction of textures even though the rhythm section (most of the time delivered through guitar riffs) are pretty much the same or similar. Usually, I listen to this album with decent stereo set but this time while writing a review, I put my Sennheizer headphone .. wow .. it's a nice stream of music I am hearing now.

On harmonies, I can say that the music produces balanced sounds of voice, guitar riffs, acoustic guitar, and string section while drumming is performed in variety of style from power metal double bass drum pedal in fast tempo and sometimes it takes a break in slower beats. The last thing on composition is on structural integrity. I know that this one track album sounds like one straight style but .. if you look into greater details, there are curved lines in its transition pieces which make it very clear that this is definitely a progressive music genre, for sure! There is major break at approximately in the middle of the track where there is practically silent segment followed with female chanting. It's a great break, I would say.

Musicianship

I truly admire Tchort's songwriting skills because from this definitely long track he could create the song that moves smoothly and not being interupted abruptly by any segment which might destroy the whole spirit of the music. The album is composed, written and arranged - both musically and lyrically - by Tchort . As he said it "Light of Day... is musically dedicated to my son, Damien Aleksander for bringing joy, inspiration and meaning to my life, and lyrically dedicated to Christian and Christopher Botteri - on an everlasting mental and emotional journey. This is my musical legacy - Tchort.

On band meber's virtuosity in performing their respective instruments, I do not find that this album demonstrates clearly any member's technical skills. It sounds to me that the whole music is pretty far away from musician's ego in performing their long solo part, for example. So, this is an album to enjoy regardless the virtuosity is technically high or just mediocre. It does not matter to me, because the band has successfully created excellent melody, rhythm section and grooves in a balanced mood. I don't see any musician's ego (I believe there was) demonstrated here.

Overall, each musician plays their role excellently in a balanced way.

On production, this album was crafted beautifully during studio recording because the sonic quality is really excellent as well.

Overall, this is a grandiose work by Green Carnation and I finally decide the this album deserves four stars+ rating. Keep on proggin' ..!

Peace on earth and mercy mild - GW

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