UNENDING ASCENDING SPECIAL EDITION-LIVE

This Special Edition album features all eight tracks from 2023's 'Unending Ascending' and incorporates five live tracks to make it seem like a live production, available digitally until the time of writing; no doubt, die-hard fans of this unclassifiable band will have gotten their hands on it under their 80s raincoat, the era of innovative ska. The bonus track 'Musica Per Aprire La Mente, Musica Per Aprire Il Cuore' is the best live track on this album. For the eight tracks, the spotlight goes to the languid Crimsonian 'Ship of Ishtar,' magnified by the bewitching voice of Saskia Maxwell, in fact the vocal engine inspired by the DEAD CAN DANCE or even COCTEAU TWINS. An album that has brought nothing since the death of its founding father, which maintains the legend of a band apart for many fans who remained attached to their sound of the 70s and who will die with an epitaph of said band on their tombstone for sure. An album with an Indian atmosphere, psychedelic above all and quite far from the Canterbury movement that it is supposed to represent. The most 'painful' pieces are those with wind instruments which upset by assaulting the ear.

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