INTO THE WILD

MARQUETTE, band formed by keyboardist drummer Markus Roth and assisted by talented guitarist Sebastian Schleicher of Amberfield, complex orchestral group often with prog metal, metal prog symphonic, retro-prog and jazzy orientations! This 2nd album combines the best of his two previous groups Horizontal Ascension (melodic prog) and Force of Progress (an unprecedented fusion of progressive metal and jazz), an album of which was released at the start of the year, and brings vocal space to certain tracks. The symphonic has its part and makes the link between metal and pure progressive rock. "No Answer" sets the tone by unifying prog metal and jazzy in a remarkable way. "Seven Doors" is one of the two great pieces that may take you far into the prog metal regions, instruments ranging from violin to violin. intimate drawers; Pink Floyd and Camel ring at the corner of the ears; the Philip Glass sound from the start bewitching, the break at 11 minutes with this sinister violin, austere and beautiful at the same time and the sax will not leave you indifferent. "Criminal Kind" denotes with the addition of a voice and jazzy cool tune with an Eric Serra boosted bass. "Alexander Supertramp" changes shape again with a soaring mythological oriental synth and a heavy and surly metal riff. "Sensuality" with this whispered voice in intro leads to an energetic jazzy-progressive incursion. "Portrait of Men" and a second sung title, more jerky phrasing on a raw nursery rhyme, intimate almost funky rock that may explain a little the intellectual excesses of the hero Christopher McCandless in search of the Atman. We are very much in the tradition of a Dream Theater with softer, even ethereal sequences. "Into The Wild" takes place a great and long final progressive instrumental epic like a great journey, an initiatory rite (ah this aria at 4'45 '' why I see GENESIS there !!) where flute, piano, trumpet create a climate made memories going as far as bossa nova at one point; the suite starting with an enlightened and lively composition made of nods to a number of dinosaur groups; At no time have I felt a length in this song and in this album of more than an hour. Neoprog or instrumental artrock with jazzy but very progressive touches, Marquette is a very good group in a vein to be explored, mixing power and varied breaks on a well-known basis to avoid too confusing listening; I was won over and amazed by this simple and innovative genre.