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Phoenix

Prog Folk

3.91 | 91 ratings

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Marty McFly
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What can you expect from album that starts like your local band's soundcheck of instruments few minutes before their gig is supposed to start ?

Actually a lot, because Preludiu - A oilor slowly moves into more clever arrangement with some kind of flute instrument in harmony with quite psychedelic Heavy sound. Even it may sound overcombined, it works very well. With third song, band is finally in their "home" territory, folkier sounds. Romanian language sounds like mix of soft France and little bit of Eastern languages (no offense to native speakers, I'm just trying to make comparison by similarity).

This release isn't British type of folk, clean and soft, this is very dense combination of Heavy sounds and Prog Folk, maybe even depressive for some, but I can understand. After all, in my country the course took similar way. The longest track Negru Voda - Balada is violin driven frenzy with some very nice guitar solos, even maybe too repetitive.

This album is really heart-warmed, it shines (even it's quite dark light) with spontaneous originality and it's combining of Heavy, Psychedelic and Folk Prog is very unique.

4(+), one of these gems where you either have to have love for "weird" albums, or be part of "them" like me. OK, I'm also in group one.

Marty McFly | 4/5 | 2010-6-12

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