Kyrie Eleison is a progressive rock band from Austria formed in 1973 and lasted until 1978
when they disbanded. This 3 CD compilation (limited edition of 1000 copies) gathered all
band recordings across the years, 2 studio albums and one live release with unrelease
pieces and never featured on theose studio albums. The music is almost Genesis clone,
Nursery cryme era, but manage in places to have some good moments. So, I will begin with
their first album released in 1974 named The blind windows suite. Well here music is from
Deep Purple fame , Wallenstein more on heavy prog side but with some symphonic
arrangements, not realy bad overall, but the sound production is a total disaster. The
compositions are enough lenghty , some of them almost 16 min, where Kyrie Eleison tries to
make some intristing chops, but not very often succeded, anyway some good mellotron are
interluded with guitars on some traks. For the first album 2.5 stars. Second release in their live
album recorded in 1975, here are some psychedelic atmosphere combined with symphonic
prog moments, not bad , but nothing realy something tot talk about, hardly 3 stars . Their third
album and second studio album released in 1976 named The fountain beyond the sunrise is
by far their best album from all the recordings, much more symphonic , much more mature,
the compositions are well crefted, the sound is better, they gone in a good direction by for
some resons never made it . This album very in Genesis style, features some good keybords
arrangements, but the low point is the voice. So, overall I will give 3 stars , this compilation
shows what this band offers in mid to late '70's, not a very strong band , but has some good
compostions thst for sure. The cover art shown here is aswell from their second release The
fountain beyond the sunrise, excellent btw, one of the best I've seen from prog zone, is a pitty
that the music is not on same level. 3 stars.
b_olariu |3/5 |
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