HELDON IV - AGNETA NILSSON

Heldon

Progressive Electronic

3.72 | 66 ratings

From Progarchives.com, the ultimate progressive rock music website

Mellotron Storm
Prog Reviewer

This was a hard one to get into. It's very experimental with loads of electronics, and the songs mostly crawl slowly along.

"Perspective I" is a dark and slow moving track with lots of mellotron, synths and electronics. The percussion is heard throughout, although it stops 6 1/2 minutes in and returns a couple of minutes later. The song ends with wave after wave of sound. "Perspective II" has these high pitched sounds while other sounds come and go in the background. Not a fan. At least it's only 3 minutes long. "Perspective III" is very repetitive with electronics as Pinhas creates some noise with his guitar. This goes on for 10 minutes before the song speeds up to end it. "Bassong" is interesting in that Pinhas doesn't take part in it. This song was composed by Michel Ettori the guitarist for WEIDORJE, who also plays the guitar on this song. Also Gerard Prevost from ZAO is featured on bass. As the title suggests the bass is prominant with gently played guitar helping out. This is the only song these two men play on. It's a beautiful track,but not Zeuhl as I had hoped.

"Perspective IV" is the final track and was a side long suite at over 21 minutes originally. Patrick Gauthier plays minimoog on this one, which is his only contribution to the album. Pinhas dedicates this song to him though. This is experimental at times especially the first section where it's dark with different sounds coming and going. The second part is more traditional as the guitar, bass and drums provide some of the best music on the album in my opinion. Minimoog comes in before this section ends. The drumming in the final section is very impressive. The song just stops abruptly.

I could see a lot of people having a hard time with this release. It has really grown on me though.The excellent guitar on both "Perspective III" and "Perspective IV" give us a hint to what is coming in HELDON's future releases.

Mellotron Storm | 4/5 | 2007-11-24

MEMBERS LOGIN ZONE

As a registered member (register here if not), you can post rating/reviews (& edit later), comments reviews and submit new albums.

You are not logged, please complete authentication before continuing (use forum credentials).

Share this HELDON review

Social review comments () BETA

Review related links

Send comments to Mellotron Storm
Report this review (#152470)
Buy HELDON music online with PA partners
Show all HELDON MP3/Stream
Go to HELDON page for videos, full discography with ratings, reviews and much more
Go to Heldon IV - Agneta Nilsson page for more details, where to buy and ratings/reviews
Search the Forum for HELDON related discussions