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YES-2-5-ROGER-ROGER

Dice

 

Crossover Prog

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alainPP
3 stars DICE is a German progressive rock band who started play in 1974. Their first album was released in '79 and second in '97! Since then, a new album almost every year, so 21 to date more than a few lives. It throws as they say. I do know that since 2010 and "Eternity's Ocean" distills a neo-prog rock with orchestral half long repetitive sequences. I had then ranked in a good group of second class; it is the fourth that I have, and with time I realize that their master PINK FLOYD is still present in their dreams before dialing. Peter and Christian Vietel NOVE form the backbone from their origin. Question and its orientation, we can also think HAWKWIND, ELOY, JETHRO TULL, STEELY DAN BARCLAY JAMES HARVEST even TANGERINE DREAM. Well,

"Roger Roger Dreamscene 20" starts the ball rolling with a spacey intro of 5 minutes in the atmosphere of the flamingo, with a psychedelic organ at will, good preamble to warm us and dive with "Alive In The Galaxy" and evocative title : do not forget your spacesuit anyway. ELOY RPWL and also had to go through it. The title gives pride to the guitar and its various convolutions; it's melodic, a bit repetitive at first. "It's Coming Now" share in an atmosphere reminding me immediately with its large TANGERINE DREAM "Cyclone" and the introduction of a vocal part. It includes a long crescendo drawer with guitar on every floor, a bit like extension to the pieces of the "Live" to BARCLAY JAMES HARVEST! more nervous moments one would have liked. It is of course the melodic rock without too many waves. "Living Day To Day" from a very different genre with jazzy crossing (the fashion at the moment) and a groovy style, funkier, a little rhythm like that Pharrell Williams has been out with the title " Happy. " It's soft, the atmosphere takes you on galactic waves again with three or four developments in the limpid guitar, sweet and crystalline. The bass and drums help keep the basic rhythm and could give a little change, but the label melodic rock is there. The more stylized development synth allows an opening different spatiotemporal. "Black Stars", perhaps the most beautiful for me, growing a fight between guitar and synth giving a little more energy, creativity under; Voice is still monotone, but the guitar has its little one notes in the treble. It is not yet a furious solo but a melancholy and melancholy solo, somewhat in the vein of what was LANDS END, great band and too unknown. "CyberSky" closes the album with a more industrial piece. again we feel it here, in addition to guitar, aware of the basic and repetitive electronic music as did so TANGERINE DREAM in its second cycle, with research melodic pop- rock. Still this little regret not having more energy swings. My metal-prog profile redoing surely surface! great band and too unknown. "CyberSky" closes the album with a more industrial piece. again we feel it here, in addition to guitar, aware of the basic and repetitive electronic music as did so TANGERINE DREAM in its second cycle, with research melodic pop-rock. Still this little regret not having more energy swings. My metal-prog profile redoing surely surface! great band and too unknown. "CyberSky" closes the album with a more industrial piece. again we feel it here, in addition to guitar, aware of the basic and repetitive electronic music as did so TANGERINE DREAM in its second cycle, with research melodic pop-rock. Still this little regret not having more energy swings. My metal- prog profile redoing surely surface!

Between psyche atmosphere soothed and turns instrumentals, DICE has in my opinion the DICE. It's melodic, guitar is omnipresent voice almost swallowed up in the soundtrack of Peter solos. DICE is symphonic, the space-rock, psychedelic, maybe even some neo, crossover, the Berlin school also but surely melodic! DICE is spellbinding discs where you can travel from near and far with them. DICE does not surprise but do not disappoint either. The group could do still better in this universe diversified.

alainPP | 3/5 |

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