SHINGETSU LIVE 25-26 JULY 1979

Shingetsu

Symphonic Prog

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Oh, man!! The most classic and beautiful japanese prog LIVE!! If you really like symphonic prog, you have to get this album. With some influences of Genesis, the truth is that Shingestsu sounds very different to any other band. Long melancholic passages forwarding slowly through the magnificient voice of Makoto Kitayama (a kind of oriental Peter Gabriel) 'till they reach beautiful explosions of symph prog thanks to the excellent work on keyboards by Akira Hanamoto. Every song sounds really good and all of them are my favourites... I want to give them 10*, but I can't. Maybe with 5 it's enough... a masterpiece...

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Posted Wednesday, July 27, 2005 | Review Permalink

Mellotron Storm
PROG REVIEWER

The music here is very much in the Gabriel-era GENESIS mode complete with the singer changing into different costumes on stage. This is a live recording from July of 1979 not long after their debut album was released. There is a fair amount of mellotron on here as well. The big disappointment is with the sound quality here, it's poor, very muddy.The vocals seem really low in the mix and honestly I never would have purchased this cd if i'd known it would sound like this. It completely takes away from my enjoyment of it. Too bad because this is melodic, lush and quite impressive from what I can take from this show.

2 stars because of the sound quality. I should have got their debut album instead.

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Posted Monday, June 15, 2009 | Review Permalink

Squire Jaco

This is my first exposure to the band Shingetsu, and it's a very pleasant surprise indeed. Their music is clearly in the style of mid-70's Genesis, but very unique and interesting in its own right. Since their studio cd's are hard to find, this live cd is not only fairly affordable, but sort of a nice "best of" to boot.

Sound quality? Not great. But not terrible. And these songs are generally fantastic, so you may tend to overlook the shortfalls on crisp sound engineering. The lead singer has often been compared to Peter Gabriel, but I suspect that it's for his stage antics more than his voice - he's got a great voice, but PG it ain't. Typical of other Nippon bands, the musicians are all very accomplished, and really cook on some of these songs.

This just missed my 4-star rating grade, but there's some great and different shtuff here for the curious and hungry prog lover. Another worthy find for sure; expand thy horizons. 3-1/2 stars.

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Posted Thursday, August 20, 2020 | Review Permalink

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