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FENOMEN

Fenomen

 

Jazz Rock/Fusion

3.97 | 18 ratings

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Mellotron Storm
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3 stars 3.5 stars. FENOMEN are a four piece Jazz band out of Turkey who released this album back in 2006. They have since become a five piece and released another studio album in 2018 called "Bridges". When I think of this nation musically I will always think of SIDDHARTHA and that classic 1998 release that I consider myself very fortunate to own. Got it before that band was on this site. Turkey isn't exactly a land of freedom and when your government's best friends are Russia and Iran well I'm thankful I live nowhere near there. So no there's not a lot of bands listed on this site from Turkey and the majority of those who are are Psychedelic bands. A couple of other bands I'm big on from Turkey are GEVENDE and NEMRUD. Jazz seems to be rare from that country and these guys have a following there because of that and they are excellent musicians too. There's up to 14 guests on here adding lots of horns, strings plus classical guitar, vocals and more.

I really feel that this album is front loaded big time with the first four tracks being my favourites and feeling like it goes downhill(when it comes to my tastes) after that. So impressed with that rhythm section and heaviness early on before the guest horns and strings arrive. Yes I'm thinking easily 4 stars after those 4 songs but then things change style-wise and with all the guests on here suddenly becoming more prominent. There are a couple of ethnic instruments used on "A Sea View From Datca" but other than that you wouldn't know they were from this area of the World. Again though those first four tracks are so impressive with the power on display especially from the rhythm section but the guitar certainly lights up the proceedings before being more in that Jazz style later.

Most seem to love this album so take my thoughts with a grain of salt.

Mellotron Storm | 3/5 |

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