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DE PROFUNDIS

After Crying

 

Symphonic Prog

3.67 | 147 ratings

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Gatot
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3 stars "De Profundis" is After Crying's fourth album which was not much different in style with their previous three albums. This might seem like a survival album after the main composer Csaba Vedres laft the band. For me personally, the music of After Crying resembles an image of excellent crafts represented by neat arrangements of churning violin and cello, as well as horn section. You might have considered the band has been heavily influenced by King Crimson but it's quite different one in another way because in most of King Crimson album there. If you are familiar with After Crying albums, you might be wondering why this album lacks melodies as well of haunting atmosphere through out the album. This is not the kind of music your mind can easily follow.

Enjoying this album is not an easy ride for me at all. It starts quite hard for me to digest and discern the messages that the band was trying to make. In a sense, this is a concept album reputedly about a dying gangster looking back at his life. It is also a realization of the symphonic sound that was formulating in the second half of Föld és ég. I believe that it was a tough call for the band on how they should compose the music at this album, especially knowing that the composer left the band.

The opening track "Bevezetes" (3:39) sets the overall tone of the album with female choirs which remind me to the music of Enigma. The soft keyboard work at background creates good texture of the music. "Modern Idök" (7:36) sounds like free-form translation of symphonic and classical music with great string sections and powerful horn section. This trademark has become a unique characteristic of After Crying. Look at Manok Tanca (5:00) which works really well.

Overall, this is an album that at first spin you should pay attention to the music until you find of value of segments that you think are great. Even though the art work reminds me to the art work of Lizard (King Crimson) I presume that this is not on purpose.

Peace on earth and mercy mild - GW

Gatot | 3/5 |

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