THE COMPLETE RECORDINGS 1974-1978

Kyrie Eleison is a progressive rock band from Austria formed in 1973 and lasted until 1978 when they disbanded. This 3 CD compilation (limited edition of 1000 copies) gathered all band recordings across the years, 2 studio albums and one live release with unrelease pieces and never featured on theose studio albums. The music is almost Genesis clone, Nursery cryme era, but manage in places to have some good moments. So, I will begin with their first album released in 1974 named The blind windows suite. Well here music is from Deep Purple fame , Wallenstein more on heavy prog side but with some symphonic arrangements, not realy bad overall, but the sound production is a total disaster. The compositions are enough lenghty , some of them almost 16 min, where Kyrie Eleison tries to make some intristing chops, but not very often succeded, anyway some good mellotron are interluded with guitars on some traks. For the first album 2.5 stars. Second release in their live album recorded in 1975, here are some psychedelic atmosphere combined with symphonic prog moments, not bad , but nothing realy something tot talk about, hardly 3 stars . Their third album and second studio album released in 1976 named The fountain beyond the sunrise is by far their best album from all the recordings, much more symphonic , much more mature, the compositions are well crefted, the sound is better, they gone in a good direction by for some resons never made it . This album very in Genesis style, features some good keybords arrangements, but the low point is the voice. So, overall I will give 3 stars , this compilation shows what this band offers in mid to late '70's, not a very strong band , but has some good compostions thst for sure. The cover art shown here is aswell from their second release The fountain beyond the sunrise, excellent btw, one of the best I've seen from prog zone, is a pitty that the music is not on same level. 3 stars.