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3.17 | 20 ratings | 2 reviews | 5% 5 stars Write a review Buy TASAVALLAN PRESIDENTTI Music

Studio Album, released in 2006 Songs / Tracks Listing 1. Take Six (5:01) 2. Last Night (6:05) 3. Chesterfield Blue (7:11) 4. Don't Ask Why (4:40) 5. Climb The Ladder (5:43) 6. The Maze (5:16) 7. Dance (7:24) 8. Five Leaves Left (5:50) 9. Blast From The Past (4:33) Total Time: 54:43 Line-up / Musicians - Frank Robson / vocals, keyboards - Jukka Tolonen / guitar - Juhani Aaltonen / saxophone, flute - Heikki Virtanen / bass - Vesa Aaltonen / drums Releases information Artwork: Kari Rissanen. CD Presence Records ‎- PRECD 002 (2006, Europe) Thanks to Pirkka for the addition and to Quinino for the last updates Edit this entry

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TASAVALLAN PRESIDENTTI Six Complete ratings distribution

Essential: a masterpiece of progressive rock music (5%)

Excellent addition to any prog rock music collection (40%)

Good, but non-essential (45%)

Collectors/fans only (10%)

Poor. Only for completionists (0%)

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Review by Matti
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I bought this CD last year but haven't listened to it more than three times. The problem, I guess, is in me rather than in the quality of the music, which is high, no doubt. TP has a strong reputation as the leading Finnish progressive band (founded already in the 60's), and while WIGWAM, its best known rival, took a pop-oriented path in mid-70's, TP has kept the course on jazz-oriented, blues-flavoured rock focusing on instrumental skills. For example guitarist Jukka Tolonen and flute/saxophone player Juhani Aaltonen are both among the most respected musicians of their fields here. Six Complete was long awaited new studio album of the legendary group, and it received quite fair welcome (though not very visibly as far as I see).

But do not expect very PROGRESSIVE sounding album. The British-born vocalist Frank Robson sounds even bluesier than almost 30 years ago, and also the compositions seem to be relatively straight-forward bluesy jazz-rock stuff. What I personally miss is the more emotional, delicate side to the music, as well as the clearer progressive structure to the songs. Funny, if the old TP reminds me of the bluesy side of PROCOL HARUM here and there (not only in the voices of Robson and Brooker), this album left me the similar disappointment as Harum's Wells on Fire, especially in the sense that the compositions don't make a big impression on me.

My favourite is - sadly the only instrumental track - 'Dance', which gives Junnu's flute a central role. But on the whole I tend to get bored each time I try to listen to this album from start to end. I'm just not very much into bluesy rock in general. If you are, you most likely enjoy this.

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