NOSTRADAMUS 2.0 - RETURNITY

Thirty-five years and fifth studio album only for SOLARIS, that's something to mark the spirits and also its territory, that of symphonic progressive rock which therefore owes as much to classical music as to rock music. SOLARIS discs are always difficult to obtain, faith of chronicler, even if it is a little simpler than thirty years ago... I will not repeat the history of the Magyar group for you, you will find everything you need here.

For connoisseurs, from the first minutes of "Returnity", the river piece which opens the album and which displays no less than thirty-four minutes, we recognize the SOLARIS leg whether it is by the flute of Attila KOLLAR or the guitar multiplied by Csaba BOGDAN, sometimes metallic, sometimes melodic; of course Robert ERDESZ's keyboards are no exception but above all provide the symphonic foundation of this "Nostradamus 2.0", Doctor Robert is not a character who is used to pulling the cover to him.

The six episodes of this peplum correspond to six dates for which I have not necessarily found historical traces; for December 2, 1942, we have the first nuclear chain reaction; for April 26, 1986, a recent date of sinister memory, the explosion of the CHERNOBYL nuclear power plant; for June 30, 1905, place to Albert EINSTEIN who sends to the German magazine "Annalen der Physik" his manuscript with the following question "Can we run after a light ray and catch it?" In this case, what would we see?

1969: September 2 is the birth of the ancestor of the Internet and July 20, of course, are the first steps of man on the moon!!! Thank you gentlemen ARMSTRONG, ALDRIN and COLLINS ..... And with all that in mind, well the listener does not see the piece pass, all in his thoughts and his dreams that he is! We will add at the conclusion of this historical unfolding, "Deep Blue" on May 11, 1997, it was the first time that a computer beat a human being in a game of chess and not just any chess since it was about Garry Kasparov.

Admittedly, the unfolding of this chronicle is more like a history lesson than an in-depth study of the music of SOLARIS, but that was the minimum to understand the approach of our Hungarian friends; conclusion, the music of SOLARIS goes very well with our time and what is happening there, if you like progressive music with a symphonic tendency, with here very rare sung passages it's simple, go for it.