AQUAPLANAGE
Aquaplanage
•Symphonic Prog
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Studio Album, released in 2008 Songs / Tracks Listing
Released on Cheeky Features , catalogue # CFR-001 Thanks to debrewguy for the additionEdit this entry |
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AQUAPLANAGE Aquaplanage ratings distribution
(35 ratings)
Essential: a masterpiece of progressive rock music(9%)
Excellent addition to any prog rock music collection(51%)
Good, but non-essential (29%)
Collectors/fans only (11%)
Poor. Only for completionists (0%)
AQUAPLANAGE Aquaplanage reviews
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PROG REVIEWER

The CD starts quite well with the 15 minute epic Ode To Grey Morning it´s a kind of a more progressive version of Jethro Tull (guitarrist Robert Illesh´flute here sounding a lot like Ian Anderson´s). Not overtly original, but good anyway. Then comes the very different Sands Of Time, where the band takes an almost totally arabic structure to new heights. Great crossover prog! But I must say that the sensation I had was that those tracks were played by two completely different bands. This feeling remains with the next tune, Natures Sunday, a more slow, bluesy song. Good, but a bit awkward.
Next are two instrumentals: Solara is a keyboards only track that sounds more like a big introduction than proper song, just a 5 minute filler. Aquaplanage is a better efford with some nice acoustic guitar fills. Not very outstanding, but nice. Then the band suddenly turns to a more popish sound with Heaven´s Gate. Good AOR stuff, but it sits oddly with the more progressive material of the first part. After that we have A Song To Stand Above, probably the weakest in the whole CD. It sounds like Yes in its worst times. Theme is another instrumental that has some nice sounds, but in the end goes nowhere. One Star finishes the album with a simple, acoustic pop tune.
I found very hard to rate this album. As I said above, those guys are good and have a great potential, but they are far from having their own sound. I guess Aquaplanage is not enough for a full 3 star rating. 2,5 is more fitting. Promising, but with a long way to go yet.
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SPECIAL COLLABORATOR Errors and Omissions Team

Aqua, means water (in whatever language) and indeed, words that people imagine, calmness, peace. And that's what this, what describes this album best. Leading instrument is piano and again, it absolutely perfectly fits. Either piano, or harp playing at dawn of the day.
Heaven's Gate, I really like guitars here. And in next song (the one with long name), there is classic rock combined with prog in quite a unique way (bands usually tries to avoid these connections, as they're mostly fatal, when they don't succeed.
4(+), mostly for those, who likes melancholic prog music with many calm parts. And these that tries to rock aren't too harsh, don't worry. Can there be genre relaxing prog ? (relaxing like you can chill out while listening it and prog like you're chilling out while listening music with certain quality inside)
Latest members reviews
First fifteen minutes was really annoying for me, I can't find something good or interesting on first track. I've written it somewhere and I must write it again, maybe my hearing is failing, but there was almost nothing for my musical soul. This strange feelings hit me almost all the first half of t
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Report this review (#251309) | Posted by Colourful | Tuesday, November 17, 2009 | Review Permanlink
This album deserves at least one review. I like what I heard at the beginning of the album. The band
definitely has some skill in the vocal department. The second song on the Album, The Sands of
Time, is perhaps one of the more Arabic prog song I've ever heard. Oh sure, they've all tried
to do th
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Report this review (#215271) | Posted by axeman | Wednesday, May 13, 2009 | Review Permanlink
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