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THE IMPERIAL HOTEL

The Samurai Of Prog

 

Crossover Prog

3.99 | 216 ratings

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Ovidiu
5 stars THE IMPERIAL HOTEL is the third album of the great band THE SAMURAI OF PROG,the guys have already released 2 excellent albums with cover songs!!This time,we have on this album only original compositions from the guys ,but the title track is in fact a composition of the Brit symphonic progressive band ENGLAND,from 1975!Robert Webb,the mastermind behind ENGLAND is giving here a serious hand on the new interpretation,and everything sound excellent in 2014 with a track composed almost 40 years ago!The first thing about this album is the amazing look,it's absolutelly stunning-a gorgeous digipack,with a massive 40 pages booklet conceived by Ed Unitsky and a cd which fits perfectly well inside the digipack,packed like a classic vinyl,in an envelope!The sensational artwork is breathtaking,very coloured and impressive,with great photos and all the informations about the musicians and the album !Musically speaking,we have al album of almost 1 hour of vintage prog rock,extremelly well composed and masterfully played by amazing musicians!The title track is a 28 minutes monster composition,very diverse and catchy,with plenty of musical twists and unexpected moments!All the guys in the band are on top of their technical skills,without being too demonstrative,just efficient and proud to deliver such high class prog rock!We have here influences from prog rock giants like YES....GENESIS....GENTLE GIANT...or more modern prog icons like THE FLOWER KINGS or SPOCK'S BEARD or ECHOLYN...great vocal harmonies a la Yes...and also a marvelous vintage sound,with a Rickenbacker bass guitar in front and great old school organ sound!Also,the drum sound is marvelous,all the sound is very organic and shows the unique fascination of this type of music!The mix is just perfect,it captures all what it has to,a great sound of the instruments and a production which puts in evidence the unique flavour of vintage prog rock.This album proves at 100 % that old school prog still has many things to offer to his fans and the charm of this music is timeless!Definitelly ,a musical triumph for TSOP,and the promise to have from this extremelly talented musiciand,great albums in the future!It seems that only sky is the limit for THE SAMURAI OF PROG!I dare to say that THE IMPERIAL HOTEL is almost a masterpiece album,everything is close to perfection-both music and look,presentation of the album!4.75 stars for me....rounded to 5!
Ovidiu | 5/5 |

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