Down by the Riverside - Progressive Rock Music Forum

Love Riverside, Lunatic Soul is a hit and miss with me.

Open some threads, start some discussion, no worries. Smile

I love both, but probably prefer Lunatic Soul. Wasteland is my favourite Riverside album because it is closest to Lunatic Soul, and Fractured is my favourite Lunatic Soul album because it is closest to Riverside. I thought it was possibly just my imagination that in 2017/18 the two projects seemed to be moving closer to each other, but this was confirmed in at least two interviews I read with Mariusz, where he noted that he was aware of it, and was intending the next Lunatic Soul and Riverside releases to drift away from each other once more, as they were getting too close.

It’s also worth checking out his three solo releases created during lockdown. The third and final album in the trilogy is probably the most accessible entry point, as it has considerable Lunatic Soul vibes: https://mariuszduda.bandcamp.com/album/interior-drawings

There’s also two great releases (one studio and one live) from Meller Golyzniak Duda.

And, although I prefer the following Indukti release, the debut full length from the band, S.U.S.A.R. is probably the better known, because of the presence of Duda on vocals.

There are more, of course, but these are the “main” Duda releases, I think. 🤔

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Yes, amazingly consistant, without falling into a rut.

Listen to "Love, Fear and the Time Machine" (my personal favorite of theirs) next to "Wasteland" and it's hard to beleive these two albums are from the same band.

Hugh Manatee wrote:

Lunatic Soul is at least as good as Pineapple Tree and as far as I'm concerned Riverside prog all over Dream Theater.

You mean Pineapple Thief or Porcupine Tree?

yet you still have time!

I adore Riverside.

I'm a big Riverside fan, have all their records and a few CDs. Their albums are all very consistent, Love Fear is a big departure from their original sound. I still spin it but it may be too melancholy for me, Wasteland was a good return to a heavier sound. I'm hoping that continues, if we want melancholy then Lunatic Soul for sure, I don't need it from both bands.

I started listening to them around 2006 with SLS, their albums since then have been auto-buy.

nick_h_nz wrote:

It’s also worth checking out his three solo releases created during lockdown. The third and final album in the trilogy is probably the most accessible entry point, as it has considerable Lunatic Soul vibes: https://mariuszduda.bandcamp.com/album/interior-drawings

I listened to the Lockdown trilogy. A little bit Tangerine Dream, a little bit ambient Eno. I certainly agree that "Interior Drawings" is the most accessible of the three and I particularly liked "How to Overcome Crises" mostly because I was pleased to hear a little bit of vocals slip in.

Edited by Hugh Manatee - December 13 2021 at 17:33

I should have been a pair of ragged claws
Scuttling across the floors of uncertain seas

Thank you for another reminder of my fogheadedness.

I look forward to my mistakes being referred to quite regularly.

I do have an annoying tendency towards imperfection.

I should have been a pair of ragged claws
Scuttling across the floors of uncertain seas

AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

I guess my annoying thing is I skip around and don't read threads on here in a chronological order.

Don't sweat it. I am guilty of the same affliction. Sometimes my enthusiasm to post overrides due diligence.

At any rate, I considered editing my OP when it was pointed out initially but that would make that post redundant, and thinking about all the paradigm stretching implications of that course of action gave me a head ache, so I just left it all to fate and the gods.

I shake my fist at fate and the gods.

Edited by Hugh Manatee - December 13 2021 at 19:59

I should have been a pair of ragged claws
Scuttling across the floors of uncertain seas

I'm quite/very fond of Riverside's first two albums, and Lunatic Soul's debut album.

Riverside's first album was in fact one of those which started my fondness of Metal.

How much Riverside has been mention on PA forums can you for instance see in this Polish thread

http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=127824

My very much welcome to you on PA forums, and again thank you very much for your participation in the "South and Far East Asia" thread.

quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond

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