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THE ECHO OF A DISTANT PAST

Drowning Steps

Crossover Prog


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4 stars 1. The Source of Imagination starts acoustically, ambient synth, low sound; an old organ from yesteryear comes to throw confusion on this cinematic intro, yes it's fashionable; in short it's emphatic and I like it right away, rare at home, come on I'll do it again but shh 2. Gold Through My Eyes brings the material that every prog dreams of listening to; the rhythm, the mysterious part, the breaks with various solos; the piece to listen to to get an idea, grandiloquent piano and synth, a sound that will flirt with the end of the 70s until the beginning of the new millennium, enjoyable what! 3. Where Is My Life acoustic guitar, Floydian atmosphere, ethereal vocal Wilsonian atmosphere, the vibrant, haunting, soaring ballad with a reverberant sound; a musical anthem on a sensitive crescendo that risks giving goosebumps; an airy finale grandiloquent by its phonic presence, superb.

4. The Inner Silence with a strange unfolding, between ambient and danceable, on one side a slow air of the 70s with a marshmallow tendency, when it is soft and creamy; on the other side a funky air to withdraw from the embrace of his fiancée who embraces you, paradox; the solemn piano amplifies the notion of grandiloquence that we often find in the different titles; a finale that FLOYD would not deny if he had continued 5. Affected ouh là le vent s'est s'installere; another ethereal climate with piano and wind instrument to throw confusion on this solemn piece, again yes, hold on proven reminiscence on the Parisian KWOON on the post rock genre 6. The Echo of a Distant Past for the intro more cinematic than me you die! A latent atmosphere that rises, rises before the vocal delivery, the Cello behind, hey it smells of ANATHEMA, I understand my enjoyment; we move to the second with a muscular riff invaded by deliquescent synth notes, it comes close to the work of Steve WILSON in a good way; in short it smells good of memories of many of the aforementioned groups, ah I forgot the guitar solo also holds up, expressive, melancholic, progressive, in short the slap of this group that came out of almost nowhere. Originaly on PP.

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