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Prog-jester 
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Joined: June 05 2005 Location: Love Beach Status: Offline Points: 5863 |
 Posted: September 18 2007 at 15:09 |
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Thanks for info, Assaf. It seems that my Russian Prog Specialist duties have been violated! 
Eric, DISENs sound like a mix between 80s Crimso and some Psych/Kraut Rock, but as any Russian band they're very MELODIC and won't scare you away with their experimental side I hope  . Their debut album is available for free download via their site, check the info on PA on them.
Just added the first ALSO EDEN review - couldn't prevent myslef from rounding the rating to 5, this is truly wonderful band, the very Neo-Prog for me!! Edited by Prog-jester - September 18 2007 at 15:10 |
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jimmy_row
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Joined: July 11 2007 Location: Hibernation Status: Offline Points: 2601 |
Posted: September 18 2007 at 15:50 |
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jimmy_row
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Joined: July 11 2007 Location: Hibernation Status: Offline Points: 2601 |
Posted: September 18 2007 at 15:57 |
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Quick question: Is the Beardfish keyboard player you're talking about also the lead singer (Rikard Sjoblom) or have they added a new member?
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erik neuteboom
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Joined: July 27 2005 Location: Netherlands Status: Offline Points: 7659 |
Posted: September 18 2007 at 16:12 |
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As a temporary Neo-Prog specialist (
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Thanks Avestin and Jimmy Row for the info
 Jimmy Row, as I remember the keyboardplayer also did the vocals and quite well, almost without a Skandinavian accent.
Next weekend we have our Progwalhalla evening (one in 2-3 months), I hope to receive a bunch of new progrock CD's from Hans, like the new Little Atlas.
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Rivertree
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Honorary Collaborator / Band Submissions Joined: March 22 2006 Location: Germany Status: Offline Points: 17624 |
Posted: September 18 2007 at 18:06 |
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Great - the last one Wanderlust is really an outstanding effort ... |
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erik neuteboom
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Joined: July 27 2005 Location: Netherlands Status: Offline Points: 7659 |
Posted: September 18 2007 at 18:47 |
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Thanks for posting Rivertree, I am very curious to Little Atlas,
here is my mid-week recommendation:
WILLIAM GRAY - Living Fossils (*****)
 - This is an Argentine musical project featuring 10 musicians and focussing on three subjects: an album, an audio-visual show and a multi-media website (still under construction). The story on this concept album is about a person called Virgilio who is walking on the streets of Buenos Aires and lives between sane and insanity. During my first listening session I got more and more excited, this is a very alternating and captivating blend of different styles, from compelling and bombastic with some progmetal climates (evoking Ayreon), powerful Hammond runs and fiery guitar to mellow pieces with classical piano and violin, impressive church-organ intro's or folky oriented songs with acoustic guitar and warm English vocals, what a splendid musical adventure! I give you some of the many highlights on this CD. First Darkest Side: it starts compelling and bombastic with heavy guitar riffs, orchestral keyboards, violin and fiery guitar, then a mid-tempo with fluent Hammond runs, wonderful violin-Mellotron and powerful guitar followed by a short mellow part with melancholical violin play and in the end a slow rhythm with sensitive guitar and violin. Then the track Fading Points: lots of shifting moods and great ideas with bombastic interplay between Hammond and heavy guitar, blended with sparkling classical piano and heavy guitar runs, very exciting and dynamic! Another great composition is Urban Battle II: after a church-organ intro the atmosphere is compelling with fat guitar riffs and powerful Hammond waves along fiery guitar runs. The parts with dreamy piano, violin and the distinctive bandoneon turn the music into a very captivating experience. Finally the song Urban Battle III: the climate is bombastic with progmetal hints featuring great keyboard work (church-organ, Hammond, Mellotron) and thundering drums. The final track from this breathtaking album is in Argentine style delivering a tango atmosphere with piano and bandoneon, how beautiful with a very moving, melancholical undertone! I am sure that many progheads will be delighted about this excellent debut CD! HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!! Info: http://www.williamgray.com.ar/eng_album.html Edited by erik neuteboom - September 19 2007 at 07:24 |
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erik neuteboom
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Joined: July 27 2005 Location: Netherlands Status: Offline Points: 7659 |
Posted: September 20 2007 at 06:09 |
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Hello fellow progheads, I have two interesting albums
by new bands that are (still) not on Prog Archives:
BOOTCUT – De Fluff (***1/2)
 - As a huge Hammond freak I got more and more impressed during the Beardfish gig on the first Symforce Festival, that young guy Rikard Sjöblom (who also plays guitar and sings) knows how to play the Hammond organ (I was told by other Hammond freak ‘Herman The Mellotron Man’), what a wonderful sound and how enthousiastic he performs! When a friend told me that Rikard his other musical project Bootcut was planned to play later that day I was on the first row half an hour before the show! Well, that gig was great and halfway I decided to sneak quickly a Bootcut CD on the Beardfish merchandising stand.
Bootcut has released 3 albums and this one entitled De Fluff is the second (from 2004). The band is a duo featuring Rikard Sjöblom (Hammond B3 organ, Nord Electro2 and ARP Pro Solist synthesizer) and Petter Diamant (drums and percussion) with additional musicians on woodwind – and brass instruments, guitar and contrabass. In general the 12 melodic and accessible compositions sound fluent and swinging with strong echoes from jazz (Bootcut often played in jazz clubs) but also rock and blues. Their music often brings late Sixties and early Seventies bands to my mind like The Spencer Davis Group (after Eddie Hardin had replaced Stevie Windwood who had just founded Traffic), Hardin & York (also a Hammond/drums duo), Brian Auger and Trace. And of course late Sixties fellow Swedish band Hansson & Karlson but less complex, less soloing and more keyboard variation like the synthesizer in Quintus Quest, the clavinet in Funck The Living Dead and the Fender Rhodes electric piano in the bluesy Istället För Att Jag Kom Till Skogen Kom Skogen Till Mig. Although Rikard plays less self-indulgent, we can enjoy some swirling and propulsive work like in Fresh Free Fruit (funky sound), Funck the Living Dead, Hang Em High and especially in Crazy Cookie where he freaks out, goose bumps! The interplay between Rikard and Petter is strong and often dynamic. In some songs we can welcome guest musicians on guitar, flute, trombone and saxophone, it give the music a pleasant extra dimension. A funny track is the final song Mutta, a swinging blend of organ, guitar and Turntables (by D-Cuts), that sound of playing LP’s with the hand, quite original in prog! This is a very tasteful CD that will please the Hammond organ freaks. OAKSENHAM – Conquest Of The Pacific (***1/2)
 - This is the debut album by the Armenian six piece band Oaksenham (including players on keyboards, violin and flute) that consists of experienced musicians who played in pivotal Armenian formations and founded Oaksenham in 2001. The additional guest musicians use a wide range of instruments, from harp and bassoon to oboe, French horn and clarinet. While reading about all those instruments and the tracklist that contains two Gentle Giant covers and a piece with music based upon Ian Anderson (Jehtro Tull), I got a strong idea about the music by Oaksenham. And indeed, Oaksenham their instrumental ‘conservatory prog’ is a tasteful and melodic blend of Classic Prog (like Gentle Giant, Yes and Jethro Tull) and classicl -, chamber – and folk music. It reminds me of bands like Gryphon and After Crying: the one moment a powerful bass, Hammond organ and fiery guitar are blended with French horn, clarinet or trombine, the other moment you hear flute and harpsichord or a harp intro, followed by a slow rhythm with Hammond organ runs, sensitive electric guitar and flute. I am delighted about the composition Water Spark in which a captivating contrast between heavy guitar riffs and a folky flute, accompanied by organ runs, twanging guitar, flute and powerful bass, what a lush instrumentation! Not every proghead will be pleased with this kind of music but if you love music like Gentle Giant, Gryphon and After Crying, this is a band to check out. I hope to tell you soon about Little Atlas (Hollow), Abigails Ghost (Porcupine Tree inspired), Officina Meccanica (La Follia Del Mino Di Fuoco) and New Trolls (Concerto Grosso Seven)
Edited by erik neuteboom - September 20 2007 at 06:28 |
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Norbert
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Joined: October 20 2005 Location: Hungary Status: Offline Points: 2506 |
Posted: September 20 2007 at 09:30 |
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Living Fossils has been upgraded to 5 stars recently for the thread?
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erik neuteboom
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Joined: July 27 2005 Location: Netherlands Status: Offline Points: 7659 |
Posted: September 20 2007 at 10:07 |
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It's my party, Norbert |
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Dirk
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Joined: August 11 2005 Location: Netherlands Status: Offline Points: 1043 |
Posted: September 20 2007 at 12:13 |
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Living Fossils is a very good album 4.5 stars for me. Next week at the Progwalhalla meeting i'll probably get De Profundis from After crying.It'll be my second album from this country after Mars chronicles from Solaris.
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avestin
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: September 18 2005 Status: Offline Points: 12625 |
Posted: September 20 2007 at 12:23 |
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Fantastic album!
I love that one. If you get the chance also try and get Overground Music and though less mentioned but one I find to be also of high quality - Show
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Dirk
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Joined: August 11 2005 Location: Netherlands Status: Offline Points: 1043 |
Posted: September 20 2007 at 14:11 |
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^Yes i can also get Overground Music and Show. I'll pick them up next if i like De Profundis.
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Prog-jester
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Joined: June 05 2005 Location: Love Beach Status: Offline Points: 5863 |
Posted: September 20 2007 at 15:23 |
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Thanks for reminding me of AFTER CRYING - I have most of their stuff and it's quite a possibility to refresh my impressions and share my thoughts on this wonderful band in reviews
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johnobvious
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Joined: May 11 2006 Location: Nebraska Status: Offline Points: 1361 |
Posted: September 20 2007 at 20:29 |
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I have Show from AC and really like it. So I got Struggle for Life, the 2CD version, and found it pretty underwhelming. Don't even know if their older stuff is available in the States.
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Biggles was in rehab last Saturday
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erik neuteboom
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Joined: July 27 2005 Location: Netherlands Status: Offline Points: 7659 |
Posted: September 21 2007 at 05:00 |
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Well, fellow progheads, looking at the positive After Crying
atmosphere, here is my review about their outstanding DVD:
AFTER CRYING — Live (****)
 - Halfway the Nineties I had my first musical encounter with the unique Hungarian formation After Crying when I got their album De Profundis as a promo CD while working for Dutch progrock paper Background Magazine. To me it still sounds as their most captivating progrock effort since their debut album Overground Music from 1990. A few years ago I witnessed a concert in The Netherlands (only 60 spectators, what a shame!), the lion’s share of the tracklist con be found back on this exciting live DVD, taken from a Periferic Music Festival in the Hungarian capital Budapest, late 2004. After Crying their sound is not very accessible, you have to be up to the blend of classical, prog like Seventies King Crimson and ELP and the frequent explorations in avant-garde and experimental, often captivating but also often complex! The band succeeds to make impression from the very first second: excellent and versatile musicians and varied and captivating compositions, supported by a wonderful light show and a great sound. A few examples of their exciting and alternating music: fiery guitar, Emersonian keyboards and trumpet in Viaduct, a swirling and virtuosic piece feautring two musicians on one keyboard in Burlesque, a dynamic solo on cello in Stonehenge, a Latin-American atmosphere delivering keyboards, trumpet and strong soli on keyboards and guitar in the swinging Life Must Go On, a great duel between cello and guitar in Cello-Guitar Duet, followed by short compositions that contain soli on piano, drums and trumpet. At least half of the track list features the pleasant Hungarian voice of Zoltan Batky-Valentin (via the menu you can subtitle it into English), his vocals fit perfect to the sound of After Crying. Again, this is not very easy music to experience (for me sometimes a bit too avant-garde and experimental) but in general I was carried away by this After Crying live performance! Edited by erik neuteboom - September 21 2007 at 05:02 |
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erik neuteboom
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Joined: July 27 2005 Location: Netherlands Status: Offline Points: 7659 |
Posted: September 22 2007 at 18:28 |
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Next week I will receive the new Black Bonzo album, I have heard nothing but very positive stories
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Ricochet
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: February 27 2005 Location: Nauru Status: Offline Points: 46301 |
Posted: September 23 2007 at 09:47 |
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If the album wouldn't actually be an absolute rarity (I myself took it from a website, due to the fact that I had to listen to its music, in order to approve the band's addition), I would wholeheartedly recommend to you to search and purchase the classic Heavy Rock/Prog/Psych/Concept band MAMMUT and their sole, self-titled, album. It sounds pretty good, for both the heavy rock taste and the progressive state of art.
(I also reviewed it...) |
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avestin
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: September 18 2005 Status: Offline Points: 12625 |
Posted: September 23 2007 at 10:39 |
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Raffaella and David from the Heavy Prog team have done a quick and well done job at adding this Argentinian band DEFORMICA* who present us an interesting mix of instrumental prog with several points of reference (I seem to recognize some NeBeLNeST there, but that might be due to the mutual KC influence).
Here's what Raffaella wrote in their bio here in PA and I think it's a good description:
"Hailing from Buenos Aires, Argentina, DEFORMICA are a young five-piece band playing a highly energetic, King-Crimson-inspired, yet original brand of progressive rock, with echoes of avant-garde, fusion, and even modern psychedelia. Their debut album, "H", was released in 2006 for the independent label Viajero Inmovil, gaining recognition in the prog community for its complex, intriguing musical approach.
" http://www.deformica.com.ar/ |
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Raff
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: July 29 2005 Location: None Status: Offline Points: 24429 |
Posted: September 23 2007 at 10:43 |
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Thanks for the mention, Assaf!
 The bio is way too short, but there was no further info to be had on the band. If anyone here should know something more about Deformica, we'd be very happy to add it to the existing bio. |
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Angelo
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Posted: September 23 2007 at 11:22 |
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Erik - nice review on Bootcut. The album's been in my car CD player ever since we saw the gig at Symforce. I'm glad we were there...
At the end of the review, you refer to the turntable player in Mutta - which reminds me of something else. Dutch band Palinckx also use turntables in combination with rock and exoctic instruments, have you ever heard them? Some samples and two live tracks are available on their web site http://www.palinckx.nl Edited by Angelo - September 23 2007 at 11:23 |
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ISKC Rock Radio
I stopped blogging and reviewing - so won't be handling requests. Promo's for ariplay can be sent to [email protected] |
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