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SCATTERED PAGES

For Your Pleasure

 

Neo-Prog

2.02 | 4 ratings

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1 stars This duo from Berlin was found as a studio project in 1991 by multi-instrumentalist Lutz Meinert and Greek guitarist Georgios Zikidis.Meinert even established his own independent label Madvedge Records to release For Your Pleasure's works.The first one saw the light in 1993 under the title ''Scattered pages''.

The duo claimed to be influenced by Progressive Rock and Folk Rock, but the cruel truth is that the only thing recalling these types of music is the voice of Meinert, the color of which is somewhere between PETER GABRIEL and IAN ANDERSON.Otherwise ''Scattered pages'' is only a Pop/Melodic Rock effort, except if you think programmed drums and additional instruments, plastic keyboards and heartfelt lyrics are part of the genre.For its vast majority this album runs through standard song-based ideas with forgettable tunes and a totally pale sound with an 80's flavor, far from anything trully progressive.Only two or three tracks have some nice electrified moves, interesting guitar solos and decent acoustic textures, that nevertheless plagiarize the music of JETHRO TULL.The rest of the material is closer to 80's GENESIS, that means digitalized Pop/Rock music, that additionally sounds worst than any of the albums of the British trio during the 80's.Trying desperately to offer some more adventurous music through their poppy tunes, For Your Pleasure have chosen to deliver fake orchestral passages and thin organ sounds, the result being more than cheap.But the worst part is the presence of some cheesy tracks with a syrupy atmosphere and funky moves in the instrumental sections, absolutely dull and unlistenable stuff, even if you respect Pop music.

I am afraid this is only a scattered version of Prog music, given up to colorless Pop packages.The only thing that reaches a decent level is some of the guitar moves of Zikidis, the whole other material being on the wrong side of Prog music.Skip it.

apps79 | 1/5 |

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