ALMOST PURE INSTRUMENTAL

Well usually After Crying show their grandeur live on stage and such a great impact as well, more than whatever album they have recorded in the recent years in their Studio Records (their production is anyway so fertile)!!...nevertheless it could be a mistake to give immediately your opinion about their talent, regarding of their long experience too,without examining some of their "collections" concerning the early period and always extracted by their Studio Recordings,like the present one (including their magnificent instrumental "Aqua" from "Fold Es Eg"): that is an excellent sample from their first footages,but it has got also such a particular care for their previous album "6", released in 1997, which is more recent!!Normally the production is not always perfect, cause their budget is not so high; but it depends on the kind of hardware used during their "on-line" executions,being often directly connected to the mixer-bench;while in their normal recordings their music is treated like that one produced by a classic orchestra, and this detail can make their job more difficult, above all in the interplay with the electrical instruments and drums as well, when they use a cello and an acoustic piano too, or by alternating such instrumentation with the electrical one...however it never minds,especially if you start appreciating their mix of symphonic music, avant-garde jazz, enriched with a lot of "Crimsonian" moods, during their stunning performances live.In this case you will stand listening to them, and to me that's enough,despite of the discontinuity concerning the quality recording.If you like this one, you will love also their following live experience (performed in a theatre in Budapest) in the period before the issue of "Show", and witnessed in the splendid "Bootleg Symphony".

Check it out, along with Elso Evtized (another good collection)!!For example albums like "Fold Es Eg", "De Profundis" (not represented here) and "6", from their Studio Records, show their huge versatility and are suitable to represent them in a different dimension!!