NIGHT DREAMS & WISHES

"Night Dreams & Wishes" has been released as MODERN-ROCK ENSEMBLE's second full-length album in September, 2019. The director of MRE Andrew NAZARENKO says this album was produced as sorta progressive rock suite in collaboration with international musicians. His words made me have great expectations, and notified me the creation cannot betray us.

At first "Overture" has mysterious power giving you dreams and wishes, maybe due to Vladimir's fascinating keyboard works. Grandeur in the beginning, speedy, quirky explosive riffs in the middle, an incredible battle of guitars and drums ... all are pretty tasty. A short interlude "Barocco Scherzo" is another addiction, where wind instruments and horn sections form mystic musical stories. "Insomnia" is melodic instability (makes sense really, because it's one of my clitical issues). Sounds like they say this splendid uneasiness might be real "hardships" before experiencing dreamy dreams.

Maybe as everyone mentions, "Dark Kingdom & The Evil King" suite should be one of their masterpieces here. Weird synthesizer-based infernal earth rumblin', complicated / supreme guitar-oriented visualization, quiet harmonies featuring guitars, keys, and a flute ... lots of sound elements merged together like a silky veil of an Angel, but they never forget rock-ish mainstream. Neo-Prog-ish hard / a tad metallic sound waves with brilliant keyboard hints in Part 2 will be much appreciated by Art Rock fans (of course also my love). Needless to say, their rhythm section should be the core of Ensemble and greatly support all around as a strict framework. And another fantasy comes in the latter of Part 3 ... as if we would get immersed in kinda Heavenly moment after getting over tough, heavy, dark trial ground.

Finally you can have a future hope in "Wake Up" filled with fresh cool atmosphere. This track is crazy comfortable. Acoustic guitar whispers with slapping bass sounds and electric birdsongs drive you into cool clean air and delightful sunshine. Obvious activity and vitality you can possess in "Final / Outro" full of vivacious, enjoyable rock structure, and the newer day comes ...

Sometimes surprising various musical / melodic elements come up one after another, but this opus can be called as a wonderful storytelling based upon superb instrumental techniques. You can imagine all of MRE players have strong intention and energy for this creation.