Hello, enclosed a review about Caladan's Moon debut album. Thanks for publishing it ! Thierry
SPORTOUCHE, lyrics-music-voice-flute, announces a new record called The
Sleeper Has Awakened, featuring 8 tracks (i.e. 36:41) from a new band
called CALADAN’S MOON featuring the drummer-bassist-guitarist Kenneth
ASPESLÅEN from Norwegian rock band BLUE LYNX and composer-keyboardist
Stephen-Gilbert RIVERA from AZURETH, COSMIC SINGULARITY who also mixed
and mastered the album.
‘On The Prowl’ 4:42 and ‘Olga’ 5:04 show a beautiful instrumental
introduction but as soon as the vocals arrives, they weaken the
composition and the orchestra. ‘The Wind’ 5:04 and ‘Beacon of Truth’
7:45 with Stephen-Gibert RIVERA’s uniqueness, powerful and supreme
with his keyboards whose symphonic sounds are illustrated in these
welcome poems which are well interpreted.
We hear the solar force of the very structured Hammond organ which
radiates the score. Kenneth ASPESLÅEN gives us happiness on ‘Beacon of
Truth’ in his vision with his memorable and technical solos in a
progressive rock finery. This song, with a more instrumental part, is
nice. I invite you to listen to the other four tracks, ‘Intermission’
2:52, ‘Orphan Elf’ 6:33, ‘Carpe Diem’ 2:37, ‘Feline’ 3:24. Always
featuring amazing instrumental introductions as on those eight tracks.
(***) Marie MESMER (Highlands magazine - France)
------------- Progressively yours,
Thierry
http://aciddragon.eu
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