AN A-BOMB TO WAKE UP
I Am Above On The Left
•RIO/Avant-Prog
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Studio Album, released in 2006 Songs / Tracks Listing 1. The elephants will never come back (5:54) - Alexei Taroutz / guitar
Artwork: Angeline Terekhova \ Alexey Taroutz and to Quinino for the last updates Edit this entry |
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I AM ABOVE ON THE LEFT An A-Bomb To Wake Up ratings distribution
(17 ratings)
Essential: a masterpiece of progressive rock music(41%)
Excellent addition to any prog rock music collection(18%)
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Collectors/fans only (12%)
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PROG REVIEWER

First of all, do never listen to this album if you care for your mental state. I’m serious now. It can cause some major disorder within your head; it can turn you into some kind of trance-possessed freak; it may blow your mind easier than any other thing which lasts lesser than 45 minutes. I won’t dare to call this music because I’ve used to call music some other sounds not these ones! I won’t dare to treat these tracks as “songs”, because they’re not! It feels like all album was improvised, but it’s played so tightly despite some loose places (including long pauses within tracks with amplifier noises) that I won’t believe it’s improvised. Or maybe then IAMABOVEONTHELEFT is a some kind of octopus-like monster, playing two guitars and rhythm-section at once. You need examples? I doubt we have them, sir. Okay, let’s say MESHUGGAH plays CRIMSON’s “The Great Deceiver” boxset. No, wait, NIRVANA jams over early Stravinsky’s stuff. Ermm…maybe, it is THE MARS VOLTA has ridden of Cedric and their sax player and plays instrumental avant-death-metal?
Now check those videos on YouTube. Then rush on RAIG web-site and purchase your copy of IAMABOVEONTHELEFT (there are few dozens left as long as I know). The band is on a hiatus – mainly due to lack of attention – so it’s in your hands if they will go on. Make the future!!!
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Sound is noisy, almost metallic in moments, explosive,dirty and even industrial. But possibly most interesting element of all this quite uncomfortable music is it contains some dramatic, melodic,almost theatrical atmosphere. American math rock, Russian classical music and Japanese brutal noise avant mixed in one and brewed on irrational Russian land. I can perfectly see this album as excellent soundtrack to modern version of Dostoevsky's "Idiot" on theatrical scene.
One of the best noisy avant-prog album, released east from Eastern Europe,I ever heard.
Latest members reviews
This is something that lies between KING CRIMSON and SLEEPYTIME GORILLA MUSEUM. It
might seem to be somewhat chaotic and disordered, even annoying at first take, but it
improves with each next approach. At second take this is pretty weird and fascinating music, with elements of avant-guarde, met
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Report this review (#306390) | Posted by groon | Sunday, October 24, 2010 | Review Permanlink
This is complicated and explosive. This is innovation and progression. Entirely instrumental, this album could easily make musicians
stand openmouthed, wondering just how such music is written. No matter how chaotic they seem, all the compositions are dense
and carefully structured. There are no
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Report this review (#143548) | Posted by raigor | Thursday, October 11, 2007 | Review Permanlink
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