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Ricochet 
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 Posted: September 06 2007 at 15:35 |
I've got a nice good news, I've listened to Diapasao and will reviewed it. I mostly liked it. 
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erik neuteboom
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Posted: September 06 2007 at 15:44 |
That's good news Ricochet and a perfect example of an unknown new progrock band on Prog Archives that deserves more attention  By the way, you will be pleased with the work on the Grand piano I presume!
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Atkingani
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Posted: September 06 2007 at 15:44 |
 Ricochet wrote:
I've got a nice good news, I've listened to Diapasao and will reviewed it. I mostly liked it. |
Do it tomorrow, honoring the Brazilian Independence Day (Sept, 7th)... 
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bhikkhu
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Posted: September 06 2007 at 15:46 |
In what way did Riverside change their sound? I liked "Out of Myself" and "Second Life Syndrome."
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erik neuteboom
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Posted: September 06 2007 at 15:59 |
Bhikkhu, I read some reviews about the new Riverside album in which the authors told about feelings of disappointment but I cannot remember details .. 
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Ricochet
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Posted: September 06 2007 at 16:00 |
oh noes! 
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bhikkhu
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Posted: September 06 2007 at 16:04 |
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Atkingani
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Posted: September 06 2007 at 17:00 |
Ricochet wrote:
oh noes!
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Nevermind, it's OK... DIAPASÃO is fine indeed!
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erik neuteboom
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Posted: September 06 2007 at 17:38 |
Atkingani, you can be proud of Tarkus, I just got the news that their just released DVD is awesome (two keyboard players and a splendid female singer), I hope to receive it soon and write some euphoric lines about it
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Atkingani
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Posted: September 06 2007 at 17:44 |
erik neuteboom wrote:
Atkingani, you can be proud of Tarkus, I just got the news that their just released DVD is awesome (two keyboard players and a splendid female singer), I hope to receive it soon and write some euphoric lines about it |
Yep, Erik, TARKUS are a good band (although I thought at first they were a clone band) and except for the singer, band members are all veterans. 
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Prog-jester
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Posted: September 07 2007 at 02:15 |
erik neuteboom wrote:
Bhikkhu, I read some reviews about the new Riverside album in which the authors told about feelings of disappointment but I cannot remember details .. |
It's their weakest for sure . Simple songs, the same old melodic lines and lyrics, no improvement, rather a step back to OOM or even something like BLACKFIELD (don't take it as offense please everybody  ). SLS was their peak.
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erik neuteboom
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Posted: September 07 2007 at 04:23 |
Prog-jester, is this Riverside their epitaph: "SLS was their peak"  .....?
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erik neuteboom
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Posted: September 07 2007 at 05:58 |
Today I have changed the lay-out of the first page (I love to look at cover pictures  )and the forthcoming days I will update the database with the reviews that I published the previous weeks. Thanks for joining, more than 3000 views in one month and so many pleasant and supportive posts
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Norbert
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Posted: September 07 2007 at 08:14 |
Neverness is not in the Arcives yet, as I see. 
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avestin
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Posted: September 07 2007 at 09:13 |
Mar De Robles have released an exciting, dynamic and rich sounding mostly instrumental album (guitar and sax lead) called Indigena a few months back.
Can be heard here:
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erik neuteboom
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Posted: September 07 2007 at 14:13 |
Avestin, I am curious to that new Mar De Robles album. By the way, I have visited your Recommendations thread and mentioned Neverness
Norbert, I hope Neverness will soon be on Prog Archives, what a stunning new unknown progrock band 
Here is my weekend recommendation:
(LA) TORRE DELL ALCHIMISTA — Neo (****)
- Since their eponymous debuut album from 2001, this Italian band has turned from a five piece formation into a quartet, on this new CD accompanied by guest musicians on flute traverse, violin, saxophone and guitar. The last years La Torre Dell’ Alchimista has performed on several festival like Nearfest 2002 in the USA and The Gouviea Art Rock Festival 2005 in Portugal, I notice this has boosted their experience and compositorial skills if you compare Neo with their debut CD.
- The new album contains seven compositions (running time around 50 minutes), most sound fluent, melodic and accessible, especially the parts with vocals. I had to get used to the vocals in the first song but gradually I started to appreciate the singer and in the end I was pleased with his contributions. La Torre Dell’Alchimista their sound is drenched with a ‘vintage’ keyboards like mainly the Hammond organ (with obvious hints from Keith Emerson and Rick van der Linden during Trace) but also synthesizers (like the Minimoog), the Fender Rhodes electric piano, the Mellotron (often the violin-section) and the Grand piano. The interplay between the instruments is wonderful and colours this album very tastefully like the ‘Liturgic organ’ and violin in Medusa, a sensitive piano and violin in Risveglio Procreazione E Dubbio pt. I and flute traverse with Fender Rhodes piano and fluent synthesizer flights with intense violin in de final song Risveglio Procreazione E Dubbio pt. II. Two tracks deliver solo pieces on Grand piano: sparkling and compelling in Idra and dreamy, quite romantic in L’Amore Diverso. But I am most impressed by the lush keyboard sound featuring bombastic Hammond organ, majestic Mellotron waves and lots of fat sounding synthesizers, almost every track contain exciting keyboard work, this reminds me of fellow Seventies Italian prog legend Rustichelli & Bordini (bombastic use of Hammond and Moog) and Trace (fast Hammond runs and a wide range of vintage keyboards).
- La Torre Dell’Alchimista has made a lot of progress on their new album and especially the vintage keyboard aficionados will be delighted!
I hope you like it
Edited by erik neuteboom - September 07 2007 at 14:14
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jimmy_row
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Posted: September 07 2007 at 22:45 |
erik neuteboom wrote:
Here is my weekend recommendation:
(LA) TORRE DELL ALCHIMISTA — Neo (****)
- Since their eponymous debuut album from 2001, this Italian band has turned from a five piece formation into a quartet, on this new CD accompanied by guest musicians on flute traverse, violin, saxophone and guitar. The last years La Torre Dell’ Alchimista has performed on several festival like Nearfest 2002 in the USA and The Gouviea Art Rock Festival 2005 in Portugal, I notice this has boosted their experience and compositorial skills if you compare Neo with their debut CD.
- The new album contains seven compositions (running time around 50 minutes), most sound fluent, melodic and accessible, especially the parts with vocals. I had to get used to the vocals in the first song but gradually I started to appreciate the singer and in the end I was pleased with his contributions. La Torre Dell’Alchimista their sound is drenched with a ‘vintage’ keyboards like mainly the Hammond organ (with obvious hints from Keith Emerson and Rick van der Linden during Trace) but also synthesizers (like the Minimoog), the Fender Rhodes electric piano, the Mellotron (often the violin-section) and the Grand piano. The interplay between the instruments is wonderful and colours this album very tastefully like the ‘Liturgic organ’ and violin in Medusa, a sensitive piano and violin in Risveglio Procreazione E Dubbio pt. I and flute traverse with Fender Rhodes piano and fluent synthesizer flights with intense violin in de final song Risveglio Procreazione E Dubbio pt. II. Two tracks deliver solo pieces on Grand piano: sparkling and compelling in Idra and dreamy, quite romantic in L’Amore Diverso. But I am most impressed by the lush keyboard sound featuring bombastic Hammond organ, majestic Mellotron waves and lots of fat sounding synthesizers, almost every track contain exciting keyboard work, this reminds me of fellow Seventies Italian prog legend Rustichelli & Bordini (bombastic use of Hammond and Moog) and Trace (fast Hammond runs and a wide range of vintage keyboards).
- La Torre Dell’Alchimista has made a lot of progress on their new album and especially the vintage keyboard aficionados will be delighted!
I hope you like it
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Seconded
This is one of my top 10 of the year; very bombastic and loaded with Emersonian hammond organ pyrotechnics (perhaps even too much).
It's somewhere in between ELP and Banco; I can't see anyone with an interest in the former not liking this album.
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Norbert
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Posted: September 08 2007 at 05:43 |
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The thread is in the Recommedations section now OK, but at first it was strange, when I did'nt see it in the Prog Lounge on the first page.
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erik neuteboom
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Posted: September 08 2007 at 10:06 |
Well Norbert, Easy Livin' had removed it to the Blog section but I didn't agree and asked him to put it in this section and also my new thread My Progrock Specials Database. It was OK to him, in fact you can consider these threads as recommendations.
Today Hans from Progwalhalla send me an e-mail in which he promises to borrow me the following items:
- new CD by Glass Hammer featuring Jon Anderson
- new 2-CD by The Flower Kings
- new Riverside album
- Trion-Pilgrim
- Little Atlas-Hollow
- re-releases Solstice albums Silent Dance (including bonus CD with 1983 live tracks),
New Life (also extra CD with live recordings), Circles with 4 bonustracks and the
fourth release is a DVD/CD (live concert from 1998)
At this moment I am listening to the Riverside EP, to me it sounds good, it's more similar to SLS than I had expected after reading the comments and reviews and I am looking forward to see Riverside on the Symforce Festival on September 15th.
Today I also received the Tarkus live DVD, you will hear from me soon
By the way, Avestin and I are preparing a Senogul interview, we hope to publish it in the forthcoming months, these guys deserve it, what a stunning eponymous second CD 
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bhikkhu
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Posted: September 08 2007 at 15:55 |
I checked out the new Neverness album, and it is great! Why haven't they been offered as a submission before? In any case, I'm on it now. Also looking at Obscura, and they seem to be a good case for admission also.
Man, it just boggles my mind why people want to constantly debate the latest well known proto/related submission, when there is all this great prog out there. 
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The forthcoming days I can expect a parcel with the Tarkus (Brazil) DVD and the Riverside EP, I am very curious about their new sound, not everybody seems to be pleased with it. About Riverside, on September 15th they will perform in Holland during the Symforce Festival in Tilburg, one day later I have organized an After Party with PA members from mainly Holland but also Miguel (Lelnsomniac) from Portugal and Martin (Alucard) from France, unfortunately the USA is a bit too far for an 'open invitation' 
