TELIOF

If not truly unique then at least wonderfully adventurous music is what's presented here; where even brief compositions lasting less than 2 minutes can incorporate segments with a great variety of different styles.

Actually, few of the compositions presented stay within one type of music; they are all swirling, wandering creations floating from on style to another or; in most cases; blending elements from a variety of different styles into a whole. The styles most often visited in these compositions are folk music, classical symphonic music, jazz, fusion, symphonic progressive rock and a few different types of art rock. More genres can probably be added by the truckload though, depending on what types of music you're familiar with and how narrow you define your music.

Anyhow, we're served highly melodic songs, with harmonizing as well as dissonant elements; quite a few times served at the same time. The compositions are constantly changing and evolving, yet always manage to create a strong feeling of being one creation rather than a patchwork of different segments thrown together; this a direct result of highly skilled and well planned use of instruments and melodic fragments taking the song forward yet maintaining elements from one or more previous parts.

Highly recommended to followers of progressive rock as well as those who enjoy truly adventurous music.

In the few and small presentations available for Teliof, the style gets full prog mentions, towards the giant looking figures of the (still!) incredibly influencial 70s "timeless state", plus a more special orientation being pointed out at multi-instrumentalist and harmony-enchanter Mike Oldfield. If I concur somehow with the names of Yes or Genesis being predominantly in Is It?'s health - except the symph-like mood I've mentioned - I can tell you that the Mike Oldfield-Teliof connection excited me along some leitmotif-ed flows, some concept frgmentation and to a naturality best undivulged that much without having been specifically heard being details the icon resorted to (or through which he resisted along) many times, and to which Teliof adapts. Besides this, we're talking a soft originality.

The album's well mixed, could have been a little better overall. The movement of music, concept, free attitude and smiling reflections is a good placed motto for otherwise even darker, but even more treatcharous things. The epic evolves as the greatest and as the most inspired, being abundent in misplaced combinations and in melodies of all kind of articulations: mellow to threaded, experimental to calmly performed by the text, mind motivations and flowerly light forms, guitar exuberance or instrumentality's expanding role availing everything, charm of a deep singular sound compensating with the rush into unexpected swifts & swirls & shifts, vocal interventions (with a bit of joke in them) to the plastic side of playing in one piece, design and desire mixed with the state, itself, of an epic rising the level to much higher perspective. The long shot of It Is (answering almost to the entire wish of this journey's imagination) is terrific for such an altruist music embrace. The rest of the album (actually, everything that presents itself before the great effort) is a gentle move of similar influenced motives, going from the shortest signs to the large but mainly sostinanto intentions. Good music minutes, from a fluent they believe we exist and a vigorous Candy Rehab to limpy strange feelings in Piece Of Cake or Die For Us. There is a notable wrong effect in small heavy protuberance art incompatible lyricism, plus there is the times you get anything but manner from paraphrasings of expressions, nonetheless the music stays by nothing featureless.

Music collage, improvising "rehabs", mix of style (for which Teliof are more than enough prepared and focused), symphaty and bit of avant probations. Teliof and Is It? gained the worth of an attention to me, I recommend it also to those interested. Thumbs up.