HEMISPHERES

Rush needs only 4 songs and 36 minutes to show their love for progressive rock. After a hard rock beginning they started to introduce more and more progressive elements in their music starting from Caress Of Steel (with the long suites The Necromancer and Fountain Of Lamneth) and specially with 2112, often considered the definitive the passage from hard rock to progressive rock.

A Farewell To Kings was an album with unusual atmospheres and melodies for Rush thanks to a new line- up including synthesizer and new percussion such as bells and glockenspiel...

Hemispheres is another album of pure progressive hard rock with the same complex compositions that made A Farewell To Kings a masterpiece, once again with using synth and strange percussion. The suites Cygnus X-1 - Book II that continues the story begun in the last track of the last album, is maybe too repeatitive in the first 12 minutes with a series of regular riffs and synth inserts repeated but then we're struck by a space part excellently played with synthesizers and a good outro with acoustic guitars. Circumstances is a hard rock oriented track with an excellent prog part with glockenspiel notes and a precious synthesizer solo. The Trees begins with classical guitar followed by more powerful guitar riffs and a good instrumental part with a melodic synth solo and a guitar solo too. And we're forced to talk about La Villa Strangiato as one of the greatest instrumental masterpiece! A several music lesson that will be followed by many rock musician! An atmospheric intro with a flamenco- like classical guitar and delicated synth melodies is followed by a succession of complex guitar riffs and solo, changes of tempo (typical of prog-rock style) and several jazz and fusion influences. It's the rightest epilogue for an album that will be surely remember in the history of prog music. To have this masterpiece is not a choice, is a MUST! (but to have Rush complete discography is a must too!!)

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