TURBULENCE - LIVE IN POLAND (DVD)

I have seen this fine band a few times and still remember vividly one time when I was invited to join the band after a concert on a dinner. During that dinner I discovered that bass player Steve Gee had seen Genesis performing The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway. I am a 'Lamb Freak' so asked him to tell his experiences. Gradually more and more people on table got involved and eventually everybody was talking enthousiasticly about "the Peter Gabriel dummie", "Slipperman", "the slide-show" and "Rael", an unforgettable evening! Back to the music by Landmarq, I know this band from the very first beginning because they were on the label of SI Music, part of SI Magazine I worked for at about five years. On this DVD four members of the original line-up (the debut CD Solitary Witness is from 1992) are still Landmarq musicians and female singer Tracy Hitchings joined the band in 1998. You can hear that while listening and watching Turbulence Live In Poland because the band sound tight, inspired and they play with pleasure. From the first moments on this DVD there is also a great atmosphere and the concert is filmed very tasteful with lots of good shots on interesting musical and visual moments. I am (still) delighted about guitarist Uwe D'Röse his performance, this man has such a wonderful flowing and emotional sound, especially on the intro in Solitary Witness (soaring and sensitive), the mid-part of Calm Before The Storm (powerful and propulsive) and lots of great soli and riffs in most of the tracks. I was stunned by Tracy her powerful and inspired voice, she sings a bit theatrical but that matches with her 'progrock vamp presentation'! On the bonus video (five tracks) I enjoyed Between Sleeping And Dreaming (live recorded on The Whitchurch Festival in 2000) and Dancing On Stones - Why Am I Standing featuring a Nineties Tracy, the song Killing Fields (recorded in my home country Holland in Uden, 1993) with the original singer Damian Wilson (what a very distinctive voice, even Rick Wakeman was impressed!) and Janison Egde - Beneath The Boy (also recorded in my home country Holland on the annual Progfarm Festival) including a flashy syntesizer solo. The bonus audio contains a great and exciting instrumental medley (live recorded in Belgium,1998) with the tracks Killing Fields , Cutting Room, Ta'Jiang en Narovlya, Uwe D'Röse on his best! Other extras are an interview, the band history and a photo galery along lots of other items.

Personally I am a bit more in the early Landmarq era but if you like Landmarq or you are up to melodic, tasteful and modern neo-prog, this DVD is yours!