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1The Gates Of Delirium begins just after the very long double album 'Tales' with we are dreamlike sunshine and a bit of showoff; in short this title is not to be taken lightly, it has all the symphonic rock in its range, it has a Patrick Moraz who will show that he also has talent and that if you don't know that Wakeman was not not there well you don't realize it; well Jon is always intoxicating with his voice, after a few dozen listens you get used to it; listen on the same range as we are, would there be a repeat, would there be a little shortness of breath? 7 mins and Chris is delivering, the crazy break starts; at one point we enter into musical cacophony, you know like with MAGMA not to mention them... we have the impression that the sound is deconstructed, that it no longer has any meaning, and then it starts again like if nothing had happened; a big bluff, Steve uses his handle sparingly finally with Patrick who puts keyboard lines in packs of 12, we are at the limit of saturation, it squirts, we are in another world... go 14 mins and yet another break, bucolic, dreamlike, Yes, soaring, we find musical wandering, we find bliss; 16 mins yes you remember it, this sound coming from elsewhere, the beauty, better than we are from the sun... we are the sun! Beauty has a price, soon soon... it took all this time before to have the musical altman, one of the moments when you say to yourself that we can't do better, I'm still trembling , I'm going over it again, I'm sitting down, I'm thinking, it hasn't aged a bit soon oh soon Jon had the extra trick to make it melt... well we're near the sun so it's obvious; ah this guitar which rises, which reverberates, it feels like a lake with a wave coming towards you; what other group made me vibrate like that... GAZPACHO, RIVERSIDE, MARILLION, DREAM THEATER... good Steve with his pedal steel sends you to the firmament, how to chronicle this piece in its time, impossible too many emotions

2 Sound Chaser avant-garde jazzy atmosphere, confusing atmosphere, it's bursting, a little fuzzy country, in short for a specialist... and then this guitar which attacks you... and then the sky which falls apart and then this air, this air who comes from there; the hypnotic moment, a moment of solitude with the group playing in front of you...a singular title which shows the instrumental quality in the vein of a crimsonian 'Red'; well the end needed acid to get over it in one go, it felt like a trip out (no I didn't try!!); cornelian and confusing, yessian 3 To Be Over for the interlude ah well no after that it's over..well the outro the title which ends the album and this western sound which can refer to Oldfield to Townsend to Buaas YES go see it came out well After! A variation where Jon seems absent, where the instruments create a musical wall; let's be honest, a musical ode which suffers from the gates but which highlights the dexterity of said musicians, is this enough the question is asked; anyway these 2 titles go by quickly, and make me want to dive back into the gates!

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