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[Nicky007]

NP  Explorers Club:  Fading Fast 

I'm just preparing my prog evening here in Vangede Library, my local library. This is a great way to start a listening spell, with this wonderful piece, one of my absolute faves.

We'll also hear DT Take Away My Pain, The Spirit Carries On, Van Halen Once, Sparks Never Turn Your Back On Mother Earth (for a bit of lovely retro), Guns N' Roses November Rain (great video), Royal Hunt The Mission & Dreamline, Stride Imagine, and lastly Arcturus Shipwrecked Frontier Pioneer (just to get a taste of real metal) - no Outworld or Bal-Sagoth, don't wanna chase'm away

- Nicky

[Nicky007]

NP  Arcane Roots:  Blood & Chemistry  (on repeat)

Man, this band is so good. Cap, I can't thank you enuff

Here's a great song from the album, guys:

Arcane Roots:  Triptych   www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-DLaueRF2M

This is surprisingly Arcane Roots' debut album. They're very ambitious, all over the place, and do it all super !

- Nicky

[Bupie]

Kompendium - Beneath The Waves

[Teunis]

Frequency Drift - Over

[Bupie]

Touchstone - Oceans Of Time

[Teunis]

jp: Ayreon - The Theory Of Everything (more and more impressed after each listening )
np: Eden Shadow - Phases (on progstreaming.com, not impressed. Music not bad, but the singing ... )

[Bupie]

Transatlantic - Kaleidoscope

[Nicky007]

NP  Red Dragon Cartel:  Deceived 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1zPls_cYc0

New band formed by Jake E. Lee

- Nicky

[Teunis]

Airbag - The Greatest Show On Earth
Subsignal - Paraiso

[Teunis]

Huis - Despite Guardian Angels

[Teunis]

Riversea - Out Of An Ancient World

[Nicky007]

NP:  Bal-Sagoth:  Ultima Thule

There's somethin about this band ... that really comes home with me 

- Nicky

[Teunis]

Arena - Contagion Max

[Teunis]

Comedy Of Errors - Fanfare & Fantasy
Synaesthesia - Synaesthesia

[Teunis]

Cosmograf - When Age Has Done Its Duty

[PH]

JP
Kaipa - "Notes From The Past"
Kaipa - "Keyholder"

NP
Kaipa - "Mindrevolutions"


Nicky, this is actually very Yes-y.

[Teunis]

Neal Morse - ?
Subsignal - Paraiso (cd 2; Live In Mannheim)

[Bupie]

PP DeeExpus - King Of Number 33

Liking it more and more. Well worth the extra-tries afetr disappointing first listens. Me happy 

NP Transatlantic - Kaleidoscope

Still too soon to have a clear opinion but already enjoying it a lot.

[Bupie]

NP Kerry Livgren - Collector's Sedition - Director's Cut

[Nicky007]

Nicky, this is actually very Yes-y.

Mindrevolutions is actually the Kaipa-album that I have, Paxi. It didn't really do it for me when I gave it some spins five years ago. And again I had qualms about the Swenglish

Non-native-speakers in English should really work harder at it. Might work for other NNS's, but with picky people like me

But I'll revisit ....

I'll admit that there's quite a lot of noodling on the early Yes-albums. But with Yes I'm willing to put up with it, cuz I know their entire evolution, and I see the strokes of genius in it. They started this type of prog experimental style, and they own it, so to speak. With other suc experimental Groups I'm not so indulgent.


NP  Van Halen:  Once

www.youtube.com/watch?v=I19X-m3vWnk

Just delved properly into the lyrics. They'r extraordinary! Basically it's about that when something appears (once) it never disappears "Once present, never past". So terse, so simple - so poetic

The music, of course, is ineffable

- Nicky

[PH]

Mindrevolutions is actually the Kaipa-album that I have, Paxi. It didn't really do it for me when I gave it some spins five years ago. And again I had qualms about the Swenglish

I have to admit that "Mindrevolutions" is the least of the first three albums of revived Kaipa (2002-). The first album in the Roine trilogy (as I like to call them) is "Notes From The Past" (2002) and this is a really nice album. Very true to the early Kaipa melodies (1974-1979) yet with an updated sound. I think (but I might be wrong) that most people in the Room could like this album. The second album in the Roine trilogy is "Keyholder" which is more noodling and longer songs. It's all very technically challenging. "Mindrevolutions" is (as I said) the last in the Roine trilogy and to me seems like the leftovers from the other two albums. Only the epic title track is interesting. The other songs don't do it for me either really.

After these three albums Roine quit (I'm not really sure why, but I think (!!) it has to do with Hans Lundin being a bit of a control freak). The next three albums have Per Nilsson (of Scar Symmetry) on guitars. There's not really a big change of style, but I guess you can say it sounds a bit more heavy (but faaaar from being metal!). I do miss Roine's wah-style playing and his bluesy feeling a bit. The first post-Roine album is "Angling Feelings" (2007) and this is a nice album but I think "In The Wake Of Evolution" (2010) is a bit better overall. "Vittjar" (2012) I need to listen to a bit more to give an opinion.

[Teunis]

Subsignal - Touchstones (takes a few more listenings to 'get it' than 'Paraiso' which was love at first hearing)

[Nicky007]

NP  Sepultura:  Roots

Sounds quite different from everything else I'v heard so far - but

Seems like life is pretty harsh out in the Amazon Forest

- Nicky

[PH]

I'm listening to a few Lee Abraham songs on YouTube (this one for instance) and I am liking what I hear.
He has a new album out (so it seems) and there are quite a few interesting names that he has worked with either in the past or on his new album:
- Karl Groom (Threshold)
- Declan Burke (Frost*, Darwin's Radio)
- Steve Thorne
- John Mitchell
- Jem Godfrey

Lee is formerly of Galahad (I have two albums by this band, but I was not overwhelmed with enthusiasm, but Lee does not play on these albums).
Anyone here who knows more about this artist?

[Nicky007]

JP  U2:  The Singles

Nice   but after ten of these singles I needed something more ballsy:

NP  Bal-Sagoth:  Ultima Thule

This is the group that preoccupies me most these days 

- Nicky