ASCENSION

"The Mind Freed" starts ethereally, double bass separating two different piano sounds; a tonic ballad on a catchy melodic tune that makes you forget the voices with a finale smelling good of Mike OLDFIELD's work. "To Watch the Course of the Stars" continues prolonging the spatial, cottony atmosphere of limbo to excess; besides the majestic side of this short piece, it is the reminiscence of KITARO's solemn pads that comes back to my memory. "The Memory of Everything" for the haunting fruity and hypnotic melody, musical oxymoron; guitar harmonies a little redundant during the first beat. The break with an incursion of KING CRIMSON from the 80s and the legendary bass of Tony LEVIN; the piano comes back to flirt with the spleen guitar, letting you travel on a space-time where you took your time.

"To Love Only What Happens" follows the mood with a jazzy interlude, trumpet and bells for a languid introspective moment. "No Greater Harmony" goes on a contemplative space, bucolic with these wind instruments bringing harmony and wisdom; the repetitive acoustic guitar used as a hypnotic note, hints of OLDFIELD again which is a good notion; the flutes halfway through amplify this comparison, the electric guitar too; the final rise more solemn to brighten the ears. "To Keep an Untroubled Spirit" now on a guitar arpeggio, the kind of melody easy to remember with its dose of ambient. Markus makes the melody rise, Simon uses his pads to give weight, relief to the easy crescendo until the reverberation; then "Throw Open the Windows of Your Soul" for the last title; the aura of 'Tubular Bells' always present. The melody flows, making us really forget the vocals with this variation of notes; there is the nebulous atmosphere of VOLLENWEIDER in it which provokes freshness and incursion into the world music "electroni-symphoni-melodic" with drawers. "Ascension (Bonus Track) cover of the album "The Songs of Distant Earth", laconic, danceable, between ambient prog, world, epic and reminiscence.

THE LACONIC has released an album that we must take the time to listen to, paradoxical in these new times; more concept than album, more epic, full of feeling than prog. Origin on profilprog.