Rushfan4's New CD Thread 9 - Roswell Six

2 months later, but I finally finished reading the book this morning.  That is what happens when you only read in 10-15 minutes stints once or twice a week.   Anyhow, I found the book to be an entertaining read.  I was left wanting more, and fortunately there is/will be a sequel available to provide more.  I am looking forward to seeing where Mr. Anderson takes the story.  Now that I have finished the book I am revisiting the CD.  I wish that my ears were better at picking up the sung words so that I could follow along with their story as I listen, but I don't seem to be capable of doing so.  (One of my biggest problems with most of the music that I love).  I will have to resort to following along to the words in the booklet, which means finding an hour to lock myself in a room by myself with no distractions, which is mostly always easier said than done.  Anyhow, hopefully I will be able to do so shortly (hopefully sooner than the additional 2 months it took me to read the book).  And if it all goes well, maybe, just maybe, a review will follow.

Liking it, especially Barricade!!

ok, we now have 3 songs in full and shorter samples of all songs on our site at http://www.progrockrecords.com/shop/view.php?id=222

there are a variety of pre-sale offers that you can see by going to http://www.progrockrecords.com/artists/view.php?id=116

To address an earlier comment about 'breaking new ground', I saw this on a number of reviews and it really kind of had me puzzled.  We in no way ever said anything about the music breaking new ground, the music was the tool for telling the story, and we talked a lot about instrumentation to use and such, like avoiding contemporary instruments, but doing it all on a Lute and skin drums wasn't practical, so we went with Eriks strengths with writing and instruments.  So the 'breaking new ground' was sort of a false expectation.  The idea was to have the music help tell the story and take you away.

Now, that all said, the new album is radically different than the first album with Henning Pauly doing the music.  Give it a listen and see what you think.

rushfan4 wrote: jampa17 wrote: I only have the chance to listen to 4 tracks of the album at their myspace site, because I don't have enough money right now to spend in an import... my comic book geekeness is leaving me poor... but what I have heard is quite interesting, less bussy than Ayreon in the musical approach. I find very interesting the vocal colors, which are very different but merged very well...   I hope I get enough money to buy the album, like it seems the art is interesting... Is it digipack or regular cd artwork? I never really went through a comic book geekiness phase.  I'm not really sure why since I fit the bill.  Anyhow, my copy is regular CD artwork. I'm not aware if there is a digipack version or not.

TheGazzardian wrote: Alright - I have now gone through it once. It was pretty enjoyable. I enjoy the whole bombastic concept album/metal guitar undertones/melodic theatric music. Stuff like Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Pictorial Wand, Jesus Christ Superstar, etc... and this stuff fits into that mould. So it's pretty much a guarantee I'm going to like it to some extent. I don't think it's the strongest I've heard in this style of music but I still enjoyed it.

Alright - I have now gone through it once. It was pretty enjoyable. I enjoy the whole bombastic concept album/metal guitar undertones/melodic theatric music. Stuff like Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Pictorial Wand, Jesus Christ Superstar, etc... and this stuff fits into that mould. So it's pretty much a guarantee I'm going to like it to some extent. I don't think it's the strongest I've heard in this style of music but I still enjoyed it.

I only have the chance to listen to 4 tracks of the album at their myspace site, because I don't have enough money right now to spend in an import... my comic book geekeness is leaving me poor... but what I have heard is quite interesting, less bussy than Ayreon in the musical approach. I find very interesting the vocal colors, which are very different but merged very well...

You know, Scott, if you had to listen to a slew of 'prog-by-numbers' albums for reviewing purposes as I do, you might eventually come to dislike the whole approach. Personally, I have given very high ratings (both here and on Progressor) to albums that were not exactly ground-breaking, but had a certain quality that lifted them well above the run-of-the-mill crowd. An example of this is Martin Orford's The Old Road, whose review you can read here on PA as well. Unfortunately, very few albums manage to achieve that quality.

I think I would sum the album up as a PA 3 Star, "Good but non-essential".

I keep wanting to like this album as I'm a huge sci fi fan and a pretty big norlander fan.  it's not bad, but has failed to really capture me.  i'm giving it a break for now, and will come back to it in a week or so and will report whether a little time has made a difference.