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Circe Link and Christian Nesmith

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Printed Date: November 23 2024 at 12:10
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Topic: Circe Link and Christian Nesmith

Posted By: Fischman
Subject: Circe Link and Christian Nesmith
Date Posted: September 04 2024 at 19:07

Circe Link, along with Christian Nesmith (son of Monkee Michael Nesmith) has quite a following of youtubers who eat up their tasteful and varied covers. These are overwhelmingly simple acoustic jaunts brought to new life by Nesmith's arrangements and acoustic guitar along with Circe Link's unique but lovely vocals. They had released a few albums of original material, mostly of an indie-pop flavor, which I've also enjoyed even if that's not a favored genre for me.

Among their popular covers were two songs by Yes, so I know they had some appreciation for prog, but even those numbers were stripped down and simplified. So imagine my surprise when they started doing totally legit prog from the more intricate end of the prog spectrum! Adding to the surprise is that it's not the prog-folk one would expect an acoustic based indie-pop outfit to migrate to, but rather serious symphonic prog!

The new album, Arcana, just released this month, should solidify their inclusion on this site.

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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: September 04 2024 at 20:07

It's rather good, and I don't even like a lot of modern Symph. Will there be a physical disc ?

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Posted By: Easy Money
Date Posted: September 04 2024 at 20:14

Sounds good, I'm sure Michael would have been proud. The Monkees were kind of artsy now and again, definitely an under rated group due to their dubious beginnings.
Micky's still around and still singing, but I guess having him do some harmonies would seem like a gimmick.

Posted By: circelink
Date Posted: September 07 2024 at 08:57

Thanks for the kind words, we strive to create music that discerning ears will appreciate!

Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: September 07 2024 at 09:56

^Great vocals! All in all quite a lovely mini epic.

-it was the Mike Nesmith namedrop that made me click on this topic - so Fischman's false advertisment really worked:)

Posted By: Fischman
Date Posted: September 12 2024 at 22:38

Sorry about the name slip!
I'm actually old enough to have grown up with the Monkees, so have some mercy!
Anyway, header has been corrected (not sure how I screwed up the header when I had it right in the body of the post).

Posted By: WordsWatcher
Date Posted: October 10 2024 at 21:04

If you love the "Arcana" album, you'll be blown away by their 2021 "Cosmologica." Pure symphonic prog at its best. It's got it all; blistering guitar runs, spectacular keyboard solos, heavenly harmonies, and all the tropes that make Symphonic Rock what it is.